BE it Enacted by this General Assembly, and by the Au­thority thereof it is hereby Enacted, That the New Con­stitution proposed for the United States, passed on the 17th of September, A. D. 1787, by the GENERAL CONVENTION held at Philadelphia, be submitted to the People of this State, represented in a STATE CON­VENTION, for their full and free Investigation and Deci­sion, agreeably to the Resolve of the said Convention: That it be recommended to the Freemen of the several Towns, quali­fied to vote in the Election of Deputies to the General Assem­bly, to convene in their respective Towns, in legal Town-Meet­ing, on the Second Monday in February next; and then to choose the same Number of Delegates as they are entitled to elect Deputies, to represent them in the said Convention: And that the said Convention be holden at South-Kingstown, on the First Monday in March next.

And be it further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That the said Convention be and hereby is empowered, and fully au­thorized, finally to decide on the said Constitution, as they shall judge to be most conducive to the Interests of the People of this State: And that the said Convention cause the Result of their Deliberations and Proceedings, relative to the aforesaid Consti­tution, to be transmitted to the PRESIDENT of the United States of America, as soon after the Rising thereof as may be.

It is Voted and Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be and he is hereby requested, to transmit a Copy of this Act to the President of the said United States immediately.

It is Ordered, That the Secretary cause Copies [...]ereof to be transmitted to each Town-Clerk in the State, without the least Delay.