Exhibit 24-A
                                                    to Form S-3


                     THE NARRAGANSETT ELECTRIC COMPANY
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Certified Copy of Vote re:
First Mortgage Bonds.     
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VOTED:      That this Company execute one or more registration
______      statements under the Securities Act of 1933 with reference to the
            proposed issue and sale of up to $50 million of the New Bonds;
            that the officers of this Company, and Robert King Wulff, and
            Craig L. Eaton, as attorneys-in-fact for the Company, are
            severally authorized, in the name and on behalf of the Company, to
            execute and file such registration statement and to execute and
            file such amendment or supplement thereto as the officer or
            officers or the attorney-in-fact so acting deem advisable; and
            that the principal executive officer or officers, the principal
            financial officer, the principal accounting officer, and the
            Directors of the Company are authorized to execute such
            registration statement and any such amendment or supplement
            thereto.


      I, Thomas G. Robinson, hereby certify that I am Secretary of The
Narragansett Electric Company; that the foregoing is a true copy from the
records of votes duly passed at a meeting of the Directors of said Company duly
held March 28, 1995, at which meeting a quorum was present and acting
throughout; and that said vote remains in full force and effect without
alteration.

      A T T E S T:

                                        s/ Thomas G. Robinson

                                        _____________________________
                                                    Secretary



Date:  July 19, 1995