Note 109 — Chapter XVII · A CENTURY AND A QUARTER OF DIVORCE LEGISLATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1776-1903

Rhode Island, in Pub. Laws (1902), 41, has provided that no divorce from the bond of marriage shall be granted "unless the defendant shall, in accordance with the rules adopted by the court, have been personally served with process, if within the state, or with personal notice duly authenticated, if out of the state, or unless the defendant shall have entered an appearance in the cause; or unless it shall appear to the satisfaction of the court that the petitioner does not know the address nor the residence of the defendant and has not been able to ascertain either after reasonable and due inquiry and search for six months," in which case the court may authorize publication. For the former law see Pub. Stat. (1882), 428; superseded by Gen. Laws (1896), 635. Cf. Stat. of N. H. (1891), 497.