Chapter 086
2022 -- S 2494
Enacted 06/15/2022

A N   A C T
TO AMEND THE LANGUAGE OF THE LEASE OF THE BENEFIT STREET ARMORY BETWEEN THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND THE PROVIDENCE MARINE CORPS OF ARTILLERY

Introduced By: Senator Walter S. Felag

Date Introduced: March 01, 2022

It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
     SECTION 1. This act shall authorize the department of administration to amend a certain
lease dated June, 1852, recorded in the Land Evidence Records of the city of Providence in book
128 on page 73 between the state of Rhode Island and the Providence Marine Corps of Artillery,
their successors, and assigns, leasing a portion of the Benefit Street Armory for the use of the
Providence Marine Corps of Artillery, their successors, and assigns, for a term of one thousand
(1,000) years.
     SECTION 2. The department of administration shall amend the lease as follows:
     Now, therefore, the said state of Rhode Island by the said Stead, Rathbone, Blodgett, Isaac
and Nathaniel Greene in pursuance of the power in them vested as aforesaid for and in consideration
of a certain conveyance of real estate made by said Providence Marine Corps of Artillery to said
state of Rhode Island bearing even date herewith does hereby demise and lease unto the said
Providence Marine Corps of Artillery, their successors, and assigns the following described
premises to wit: That portion of the state arsenal so called situated in the city of Providence which
said Providence Marine Corps of Artillery now occupies, consisting of the hall and entire room
upon the street to be held to the sole and exclusive use, to include the right to use the hall for events
in its discretion, to promote the arsenal, and/or grant a sublease of space in the arsenal, as deemed
appropriate by the Providence Marine Corps of Artillery, their successors, and assigns the south
tower of said building to be held to the exclusive use of said Providence Marine Corps of Artillery
their successors and assigns as a flag and storage room and for other purposes.
     SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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