The General Assembly convened at Newport, on the last Tuesday in May, (being the 26th) 1863, in conformity with the provisions of the third section of Article 4, of the Constitution, as amended by the elec tors on the first Tuesday of November, 1854, and adjourned on Friday, May 29, following, to meet again at Providence, on the second Monday in January, 1864. ACTS AND RESOLVES PASSED AT THE MAY SESSION, 1863. [The Chapters are numbered continuously from the Revised Statutes.] CHAPTER 471. AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF TITLE XXII., CHAPTER 146, OF It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Military and may admin SECTION 1. Any conveyance of lands being within this State, or any instrument relating thereto, when naval officers executed without the limits of the State, and within the ister oaths. United States, by any person in the military or naval service of this State or of the United States, may be acknowledged before any Colonel or Lieutenant Colonel or Major of a regiment, holding a commission from the Governor of this State; or before any officer in the Navy of the United States, holding the rank of a Commander, or any officer above that grade; and such Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel or Major may take the depositions of any person in the military service of the United States; and any such Commander or officer of any higher grade may take the deposition of any person in the naval service of the United States; which deposition shall be taken in the same manner and with the same effect as if they had been taken before a civil magistrate authorized by law to take depositions. |