thorized and empowered to hire the sum of seventy City of Provi- thousand dollars for the purpose of purchasing certain land and buildings on Eddy street adjoining the city yard, and to issue its notes and bonds, or either there- for, for such time, and in such amounts, as may be fixed by the city council thereof. SEC. 2. The city council shall annually appropriate, until said notes and bonds are paid in full, besides a sum to pay the interest thereon, a sum to be placed as a sinking fund, sufficient for the redemption of said notes and bonds when due, and all premiums arising from the sale of said notes and bonds shall be placed to the credit of said sinking fund. AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE TO HIRE Passed Oct. 2, THE SUM OF FIFTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR THE PUR- SECTION 1. The city of Providence is hereby au- thorized and empowered to hire the sum of fifteen thousand dollars to be used toward the erection of a building at Roger Williams Park, said building to be used as a casino, and not to cost more than thirty thousand dollars, and to issue its notes for said fifteen thousand dollars, for such time, and in such amounts, as may be fixed by the city council thereof. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 1421 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS, PASSED AT THE JANUARY SESSION, A. D. 1895, OF SECTION 1. Section 17 of Chapter 1421 of the Pub- lic Laws, passed at the January session, A. D. 1895, entitled "An act to Establish the City of Central Falls," is hereby amended so as to read as follows: "SEC. 17. The qualified electors resident in each ward, shall, on the Tuesday next after the first Mon- day in November, in each year, give in their votes in their respective wards for a mayor, one alderman, two common councilmen (said alderman and common coun- cilmen to be residents of such wards), and also for a warden and ward clerk: Provided, however, that the first ward shall be entitled to three councilmen. The term of office of each of said officers shall commence on the first Monday in January in each year, following said election, and they shall hold their respective offices for one year and until their successors are elected SEC. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage, port, municipal election in, when to be held. Newport shall on the Tuesday next after the first Mon- City of New- SEC. 2. Section 5 of said act is hereby amended so "SEC. 5. The board of canvassers of said city of SEC. 3. Section 11 of said act is hereby amended "SEC. 11. Annually hereafter the municipal elec- tion in said city shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November." SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here- SECTION 1. The city council of the city of Newport are hereby authorized and empowered to acquire either condemnation by purchase or condemnation or partly by purchase and partly by condemnation the whole or any part of that certain tract of land situated in the said city of Newport, and bounded, southerly on Wellington avenue, easterly on the easterly line of Merchant street, extended to tide water, northerly on the harbor or salt water, and westerly on the westerly line of Halidon avenue, extended to tide water; and to con- demn from time to time portions of the said land as required by said city for the purposes of a public park. SEC. 2. The city council of said city shall, within six months from the date of the passage of the resolu- such description and statement with each of such persons, personally, or at their last and usual place of abode in this state with some person living there, and, in case any of such persons are absent from this state, and have no last and usual place of abode therein occupied by any person, such copy shall be left with the persons, if any, in charge of or having possession of such land taken of such absent persons, and another copy thereof shall be mailed to the address of such absent persons, if the same is known to said officer, and after filing of such description and statement the city clerk of said city shall cause a copy of such description and statement to be published in some newspaper or newspapers published in said city at least twice a week for three successive weeks. If any party shall agree with said city for the price of the land so taken, the same shall be paid to him forthwith by said city. SEC. 3. Any owner of, or person entitled to, any estate in or interested in any part of the land so taken, who cannot agree with said city for the price of the land so taken, or for the compensation for any interest he may have therein, may, within three months after personal notice of said taking, or if he have no personal notice, may within one year from the filing of the description and statement referred to in section two of this act, apply by petition to the common pleas division of the supreme court, in the county of Newport, setting forth the taking of his land, and praying for an assessment of damages by a jury. Upon the filing of said petition the said court shall cause twenty days notice of the pendency thereof to be given to said city by serving the mayor of said city with a certified сору thereof, and may proceed after such notice to the trial thereof, and such trial shall determine all questions of fact relating to the value of such land and the amount thereof, and judgment shall be entered upon the verdict of such jury, and execution shall be issued therefor. In case of conflicting claims to such land by any two or more petitioners, said court may set down the petitions of such petitioners for trial at the same time by |