[30] Cf. letter written in 1681: New England Register, XXXI. 75–6. Cf. also Arnold, History of Rhode Island, I. 240.
[31] The text of this act is lost (Col. Rec., IV. 34; Arnold, History of Rhode Island, II. 31). The Acts of Rhode Island were not well preserved, the first being published in Boston in 1719. Perhaps other whole acts are lost.
[32] E.g., it was expended to pave the streets of Newport, to build bridges, etc.: R.I. Col. Rec., IV. 191–3, 225.
[33] Ibid., IV. 55–60.
[34] Patten, Reminiscences of Samuel Hopkins (1843), p. 80.
[35] Hopkins, Works (1854), II. 615.
[36] Preamble of the Act of 1712.
[37] R.I. Col. Rec., IV. 131–5, 138, 143, 191–3.
[38] R.I. Col. Rec., IV. 471.
[39] Arnold, History of Rhode Island, II. 304, 321, 337. For a probable copy of the bill, see Narragansett Historical Register, II. 299.