Government of the State of Rhode Island, THE NEWPORT DIRECTORY, 1856-’57  ----------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Rhode Island USGenWeb Project. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE NEWPORT DIRECTORY, 1856-’57  WILLIAM H. BOYD, COMPILER AND PUBLISHER, 229 BROADWAY, NEW YORK.  Government of the State of Rhode Island STATE ELECTION FIRST WEDNESDAY OF APRIL GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETS AT NEWPORT LAST TUESDAY IN MAY, And Adjourns to Meet at Providence. -------------•--•--•----------- CIVIL GOVERNMENT FOR 1856 Wm. W. Hoppin, Providence, Governor Anderson C. Rose, N. Sheroham, Lieut. Governor John R. Bartlett, Providence, Sec. of State Charles Hart, Providence, Attorney Gen. Samuel A. Parker, Newport, Gen. Treasurer  THE SENATE. Composed of Thirty-one Member--one from each town. Salary $1.00  His Excellency Wm. W. Hoppin, President, Ex-Officio His Honor Anderson C. Rose, Senator, Ex-Officio John R. Bartlett, Esq., Secretary, Ex-Officio Charles F. Brownell, Exq., of Providence, Clerk Jerome B. Kinball, Esq., Engrossing Clerk  SENATORS.  Barrington--W. H. Allen  Bristol--Wm. H. S. Bayley  Burrillville--Stephen Eddy  Charlestown--William Foster  Coventry--Lawton S. Johnston  Cranston--Elkanah Ingalls  Cumberland--Gladding O. Thompson  East Greenwich--Caleb M. Alvord  Exeter--Alex. S. Hopkins  Foster--Thos. M. Remington  Goucester--Smith Peckham  Hopkinton--Lester Crandall  Jamestown--Oliver R. Armstrong Johnston--Alfred Anthony Little Compton--Nathaniel Church Middletown--Augustus Peckham Newport--Joseph Anthony  New Shoreham--Hiram D. Ball North Kingston--Henry Sweet North Providence--Jonathan C. Kenyon Portsmouth--John Tallman  Providence--Benjamin T. Eames Richmond--Simeon Babcock  Scituate--Ira Cowee  Smithfield--Stephen N. Mason South Kingstown--John S. Clarke  Tiverton--Oliver Chase  Warren--Thos. G. Turner  Warwich--John H. Clarke  Westerly--Enoch B. Pendleton  West Greenwich--Thomas T. Hazard  COURTS.  Circuit Court--Benj. R. Curtis, of Massachusetts, Circuit Judge; John Pitman, of Providence, District Judge; John t. Pitman, of Providence, Clerk. Meets at Newport and Providence on the 15th of June and November respectively.  District Court--John Pitman, District Judge; John t. Pitman, Clerk; George H. Browne, District Attorney; Francis C. Gardiner, Marshal. Meets at Newport on the 2d Tuesday in May and 3d Tuesday in Octover, and at Providence on the 1st Tuesdays in Februay and August.  Supreme Court--Hon. samuel Ames, of Providence, Chief Justice; Hon. Alfred Bosworth, of Warren, Hon. Sylvester G. Shearman, of Kingstown, Hon. George A. Brayton, of Warwick, Asso. Justices.  Newport County--Court sits at Newport 1st Monday in March and 4th Monday in August. John W. Davis, Clerk; Wm. Douglas Lake, of Newport, Sheriff; robert Seatle, Newport, William Hint, Joseph R. Plummer, Tiverton and Little Compton, Alfred Card, New Shoreham, Deputy Sheriffs.  Court of Common Pleas--Sylvester G. Shearman, one of the Associates Justices of the Supreme Court to hold the Common Pleas.  Newport County--Sits at Newport on the 3d Monday in May and the 4th Monday in November. John W. Davis, Clerk; residence 150 Thames street. Magistrates and Justices’ Courts--Court of Justice in the City of Newport sits every Tuesday and Freday. Robert Dennis, William Gilpin, James A. Green. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The House is coposed of Seventy-tow Members. Salary $1.00 per day.  Hon. Benjamin Fessenden, of Cumberland, Speaker Sullivan Ballou, Exq., of Smithfield, and Charles C. Van Zandt, Esq., of Newport, Clerks  REPRESENTATIVES.  Barrington--William H. Smith  Bristol--William H. Church, John B. Munro Burrillville--Thomas A. Babbitt, Smith Mowry Charlestown--John W. Money  Coventry--Amos Fiske, Thomas Whipple Cranston--Mason Cornell, William F. Waterman Cumberland--Darwin M. Cook, Nathaniel C. Dana, Peleg W. Lipitt, James C. Molten  East Greenwich--Ray C. Greene  Exeter--William G. Rose  Foster--Joseph Wells  Gloucester--Reuben A. Clemence, William S. Potter  Hopkinton--Harris Lamphear  Jamestown--Samuel E. Weeden  Johnston--Abram L. Atwood, Granville S. Williams  Little Compton--Oliver C. Brownell  Middletown--William B. Howland  Newport--Clarke Burdick, Henry Bedlow, George B. Knowles, Seth W. Macy, Samuel S. Peckham  New Shoreham--Luther B. Dickens North Kingstown--Jeremiah Carpenter, John Remington  North Providence--Obadiah Brown, Lewis Fairbrother, Stephen R. Swan, James L. Wheaton  Portsmouth--George Manchester  Providence--Welcome Angell, Charles Anthony, Jesse Brown jr., George L. Clarke, Joseph F. Gilmore, Thomas A. Jenckes, John P. Knowles, Charles H. Parkhurst, Josiah Seagrave jr., Josiah Simmons, Benjamin F. Thurston, Samuel B. Wheaton  Richmond--Stephen C. Armstron Scituate--Charles Jackson, Pardon A. Phillips Smithfield--Lysander Flagg, Ansel Holman, Henry G. Pearce, Nathaniel Spaulding, Wm. P. Steere, Jeremiah J. Young  South Kingstown--Augustus Durfee, Daniel Rodman  Tiverton--Frederick A. Boomer, Edward Gray jr., Allan Hart  Warren--William L. Baker, Henry H. Luthe Warwich--William A. Corey, Alexander Allen, Christopher Spencer, William Sprague  Westerly--John E. Weeden  West Greenwich--George Dawley  COMMISSIONERS.  Appointed by other States to take testimony to be used, and acknowledgment of Deeds to be recorded in said States-- William H. Cranston, for New York; William Gilin, for Massachusetts, Maryland, and South Carolina.  PUBLIC NOTARIES.  William g. Borden, Nathan N. Buffington, Frederick A. Boomer, Joshua coggeshall, John W. Davis, Joseph N. Davis, Samuel Dunn, William Gilpin, George W. Ellery, Oliver Hicks, Wm. D. Lake, Eleazer Trevett, William P. Sheffield, Charles C. Vanzandt, Lemuel B. Rose.  JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.  Robert Dennis, William Gilpin, James A. Greene, Benjamin B. Howland, James Horswell, George C. Shaw, James G. Topham, Charles C. Van Zandt.  PRISON, 11 Marlborough Street; Henry Taggart, keeper.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------