...ordering, managing, and dispatching of the affairs of the said Governor and Company, and their successors; and from time to time, to make, ordain, constitute...such laws, statutes, orders and ordinances, forms and ceremomes of government and magistracy, as to them shall seem meet, for the good and welfare of the...

...power to pass the act of January, 1832. The general power given in the charter to the legislature, "from time to time to make, ordain, constitute, or...ordinances, forms and ceremonies of government and magis4racy as to them shall seem meet, ' ' without limitation, is broad enough to cover the whole ground...

...constitute snch offices and officers, and to grant such needful commissions as they shall think fit;" " and from time to time to make, ordain, constitute, or repeal, such lavs, statutes, orders and ordinances, forms and ceremonies of government, and magistracy, as to them...

...and condemnations," with many other powers. Now it is respectfully suggested and urged that the power "to make, ordain, constitute, or repeal such laws, .statutes, orders, and ordinances, 1'ormsand ceremonies of government and magistracy, as to them shall seem meet, ' ' granted to the legislature...

...and delegates were constituted a general assembly with power to establish offices, choose officers, and "from time to time to make, ordain, constitute...ordinances, forms and ceremonies of government and magistery as to them shall seem meet for the good and welfare of the said company and for the government...

...committee seem to consider that the power conferred by the charter upon the legislature of the colony " from time to time to make, ordain, constitute, or...repeal such laws, statutes, orders, and ordinances, Ibrms, and ceremonies of government and magistracy as to them shall seem meet for the good and welfare...

...to meet together as the general assembly. The assembly was to have the power "to elect and institute or repeal such laws, statutes, orders and ordinances, forms and ceremonies of government 3. Conley, "Rhode Island," in The Encyclopedia of Colonial and Revolutionary America, ed. John Mack...