The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . ance in public life was as a membfthe Providence Common Council, an office to vhe was elected January 30, 1877. He was continufthe Council through successive reelections unary, 18S5, when he declined to again accept the h(He was president of the council during the years1882-83-84, and served on important regular, spiand joint committees. A special committee of ^he was chairman was one to decide upon the fututhe Providence Reform School. The report ofcommittee brought about the abolishment of the scand the establishment of th
The history of the state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations . ance in public life was as a membfthe Providence Common Council, an office to vhe was elected January 30, 1877. He was continufthe Council through successive reelections unary, 18S5, when he declined to again accept the h(He was president of the council during the years1882-83-84, and served on important regular, spiand joint committees. A special committee of ^he was chairman was one to decide upon the fututhe Providence Reform School. The report ofcommittee brought about the abolishment of the scand the establishment of the Sockanosset SchoolBoys and the Oaklawn School for Girls, at the iInstitution at Cranston. As president of the Coihe was ex-ofificio member of the Providence , and in all the demands his office madehim he shirked none, and retired after eight jservice, rich in the esteem of his contemporaries oflegislative branch of the city government, and oiwith vihom he came into official relation. Mr. Woods was a member of the State Lesisia antatam m. €iUtngl)a6t. BIOGRAPHICAL from Providence, serving from May, 1881, to May,1887, as representative, and as a member of the Senatefrom December, 1891, until May, 1892, and from April,1894, for three full terms of one year each. He waschairman of the House Committee on Judiciary duringthe sessions of 1884-85, 1885-86, 1886-87. In the Senatehe was chairman of the judiciary committee in 1892,and of the committee on education during his otherthree terms. In both branches of the State Legislaturehe was a member of many committees, regular andspecial, and in committee and on the floor did yeomanservice in advancing legislation towards final the special committees upon which he servedwas one of which he was chairman, to investigate andreport to the House of Representatives upon the ad-ministration of criminal law in the State. He waschairman of the joint special committee of the House,appointed in .April, 1886. to consider
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