The second Saturday and the following Sunday of June in each and every year shall be set aside as days to be known as “Gaspee Days” to commemorate the 1772 burning of the British schooner HMS Gaspee. The days are to be observed by the people of this state with appropriate exercises in public places.
R.I. Gen. Laws § 25-2-38
Gaspee Days
P.L. 1995, ch. 208, § 1.
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