It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:

SECTION 1. Section 30-4-3 of the General Laws in Chapter 30-4 entitled "Independent Military Organizations" is hereby amended to read as follows:

30-4-3. Allowances for maintenance of armories. -- The general assembly shall annually appropriate such a sum as it may deem necessary for the purpose of heating, lighting, and repairing the armories of the independent chartered military organizations of the state, which sum shall be apportioned as follows:

(1) For the artillery company in the town of Newport, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(2) For the Kentish guards, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(3) For the train of artillery in the town and county of Bristol, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(4) For the naval militia battalion in their armory afloat, the U.S.S. Providence, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500);

(5) For the Glocester light infantry in the town of Glocester, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500); and

(6) For the Pawtuxet rangers in the city of Cranston, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500) . {ADD ; and ADD}

{ADD (7) For the Varnum Continentals in the town of East Greenwich, twenty-five hundred dollars ($2,500).

(8) For the Federal Blues in the town of Warren, twenty-five

hundred dollars ($2,500). ADD}

SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.