The Rhode Island American, And General Advertiser

THE AMERICAN:
PROVIDENCE,
Tuesday, February 16, 1819.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

Yesterday was appointed for the meeting of the Honourable General Assembly in Bristol; but as there was not, probably, a quorum present, the business of the session will commence to-day. Besides applications for eight new Banks, and the election of a Secretary of State, several subjects of general interest will claim attention. An important bill relative to the insolvent system, we learn, will be reported by the committee instructed at a previous session to consider the subject; and we are not without hope that the Assembly will make such change or modification in the system, as shall furnish additional security against fraud, and relieve themselves from the tedious and burdensome duty of adjudicating the claims of insolvent petitioners. With the intelligent and thinking part of the people, it is becoming a subject of no trifling complaint, that the time and the attention of our legislators are, necessarily, so much employed in the disposal of private business, that the cardinal interests of the State do not receive the consideration to which they are so eminently entitled. The bills reported at the last session relative to ferries, chartered companies, taxing Banks, and the establishment of a State Prison, will probably be disposed of at the present session.