In Re the Legislative Adjournment
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
The General Assembly of Rhode Island met at Newport pursuant to the Constitution, on the last Tuesday in May, 1893, i. e. May 30. After the two Houses had organized, the House of Representatives sent an invitation to the Senate to join it in grand committee in order to count and to declare the votes cast for general officers, and to elect general officers in case of a failure to elect by the electors.
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The General Assembly of Rhode Island met at Newport pursuant to the Constitution, on the last Tuesday in May, 1893, i. e. May 30. After the two Houses had organized, the House of Representatives sent an invitation to the Senate to join it in grand committee in order to count and to declare the votes cast for general officers, and to elect general officers in case of a failure to elect by the electors. June 1, 1893, the Senate by resolution declined this invitation, because, ‘ ‘ since the organization of the House, that body, to the knowledge of the members of the Senate, had unseated certain…
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OP THE COURT.
To the Honorable Franklin P. Owen, Speaker of the House of Representatives :
We have received from you a resolution, purporting to have been passed by the House of Representatives, propound ing certain questions of law upon which we are requested to give our opinion.
Before proceeding to specifically consider said questions, we feel called upon to say, that from the character and tenor thereof we must infer that prior to the passage of the resolution submitting said questions to us, the General Assembly had been prorogued by His Excellency the Governor.
This being so, and…
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