Rhode Island Constitution|Section 10.

                                                
Section 10. Charter certificates -- Signing -- Recordation 
	-- Deposit -- Judicial notice. -- Duplicate certificates shall be made 
	setting forth the charter adopted and any amendments approved and the same 
	shall be signed by a majority of the canvassing authority; one of such 
	certified copies shall be deposited in the office of the secretary of state 
	and the other after having been recorded in the records of the city or town 
	shall be deposited among the archives of the said city or town and all 
	courts shall take judicial notice thereof.