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An Act for the preservation of Stakes and Buoys within the waters of this State, and for other purposes.

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1. No vessel or raft to be made fast to any stake or buoy placed by the United States in Narragansett bay, north of Kinnimicut point, or in Providence or Warren river-penalty not more than ten dollars, nor less than three dollars.

2. No vessel or raft to be made fast to the buoy south of Kinnimicut point, the stake on that point, the flag staff on half-way rock, stakes at the mouth of Bristol harbor, or to any moorings

of said buoys, under penalty of not more than twenty dollars, or less than five dollars.

3. Captain and owner of any vessel injuring the buoys at the north or south end of Goat Island, at the entrance of Bristol harbor, or other buoys south of Kinnimicut point, or stakes on that point, or the chains or anchors by which they are moored, liable to a penalty of not more than thirty-six dollars, or less than twelve dollars.

It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

SECTION 1. Each and every owner and each and every person having the charge of any vessel, scow, boat or raft of any kind, which shall be hereafter made fast to any stake or buoy which hath been or shall be placed, at the expense of the United States, for the security and direction of vessels, either in Providence river or in any part of Narragansett bay, or the waters thereof north of Kinnimicut point, or in Warren river, and each and every person who shall in any way injure or destroy any of the said stakes and buoys placed as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding ten dollars, nor less than three dollars; to be recovered by an action of debt, two-thirds thereof to the use of the United States, in order to replace such stake or buoy, and the other third to the informer who shall prosecute for the same. For any offence aforesaid committed in Providence river or in any part of Narragansett bay or the waters thereof north of Kinnimicut point, the action may be tried and determined before any justice of the peace in the county of Providence or Kent, and the part of the forfeiture belonging to the United States as aforesaid for such offence, shall be paid to the collector of the district of Providence; and for any offence aforesaid committed in Warren river, the action may be tried and determined before any justice of the peace in the county of Bristol, and the part of the forfeiture belonging to the United States as aforesaid for such offence shall be paid to the collector of the district of Bristol; and all forfeitures that may accrue under this section shall be prosecuted for within the term of six months after they shall accrue.

SEC. 2. Every person who shall make fast any ship, vessel, scow, boat or raft of any kind to the buoy on the shoal south of Kinnimicut, or to the stakes on said point, or to the

flag staff on the half-way rock, or to any stake which has been or may be placed at the mouth of Bristol harbor, or to any of the moorings of said buoys, and the master or owner of such ship, vessel, scow, boat or raft, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty dollars, nor less than five dollars; to be recovered by action of debt before any justice of the peace in the county of Kent, Bristol or Providence; one third thereof to and for the use of the person who shall sue and prosecute for the same, and the other two-thirds to be paid to the collector of the customs within whose district the offence shall be committed, for the use of the United States.

SEC. 3. The captain, owner or owners of every ship or vessel that shall by running against either of the buoys at the north and south end of Goat Island, or at the entrance of Bristol harbor near Castle Island, or shall otherwise injure the beacon on said island, or any other buoy placed or hereafter to be placed, at the expense of the United States, in any of the waters of the Narragansett bay south of Kinnimicut point, or the stakes on said point, or in any way injure, destroy or remove the chains or anchors by which they are or shall be moored, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding thirty-six dollars, nor less than twelve dollars; to be recovered by an action of debt before any court proper to try the same in the county of Kent or Newport; to be distributed, paid and priated in the manner herein before pointed out.

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An Act in relation to Lotteries and Lottery Tickets.

1. Lotteries prohibited.

2. Selling and purchasing lottery tickets prohibited.

3. Purchaser may recover back purchase money.

4. Obligations given for tickets void.

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5. Transfer and acceptance of tickets pro-
hibited.

6. Penalties in this act how recovered.
7. Act not to extend to lotteries now
granted, or to sales of tickets by licen-
ses now in force.

It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

SECTION 1. No person shall directly or indirectly set up or put forth any lottery, by whatever name the same may be called: if any person shall offend against the preceding provision, he shall forfeit and pay as a fine a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than fifty dollars.

SEC. 2. If any person shall sell or purchase any ticket in any lottery set up in this state, or in any other state in the United States, he shall forfeit and pay as a fine for every such offence the sum of twenty dollars.

SEC. 3. The purchaser of any lottery ticket shall and may recover back the amount which he paid for the same, of the person from whom the same was purchased, in an action on the case for money had and received.

SEC. 4. All obligations and securities given for the purchase of any lottery ticket are, and are hereby declared to be null and void.

SEC. 5. Every person who shall sell or purchase, give away or accept, or in any way dispose of to or receive from another any lottery ticket, shall forfeit and pay as a fine the sum of twenty dollars for every offence.

SEC. 6. Penalties incurred under this act shall be recovered by indictment.

SEC. 7. Nothing in this act shall be deemed or construed to refer to or include any transfer of any lottery ticket, or any obligation or security given for any lottery ticket, in any lottery now granted by the general assembly, or sold by virtue of any license, by any licensed vender of lottery tickets, during the continuance of any such license.

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An Act to prevent Trespasses.

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1. Penalty for cutting trees, &c., without 2. Method of proceeding in convicting leave how recovered. offenders-parties may be sworn.

It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

SECTION 1. If any person shall cut, destroy or carry away any tree, timber, wood or underwood whatever, lying or growing on the land of any other person, without leave of the owner thereof, he shall for every such trespass pay the party injured twice the value of any tree so cut, destroyed or carried away; and for the wood or underwood, treble the value thereof; which several penalties, forfeitures and damages, shall and may be recovered by action of trespass before any justice of the peace in the county, if the penalty or damage exceed not the sum of twenty dollars; but if it be above that value, then before the court of common pleas in the same county.

SEC. 2. In case any dispute shall arise upon any action brought as aforesaid, where the plaintiff shall charge the defendant in trespass with cutting, destroying, or carrying away any particular tree, parcels of timber, wood or underwood, off or from any such land as aforesaid, or of being aiding or assisting therein, then and in such case, if the plaintiff or his

agent or attorney shall make oath that there have been cut, destroyed or carried away, such and so many trees, parcels of wood or underwood, as mentioned in the writ, and that he suspects the defendant to have committed the said trespass, although the plaintiff or his agent or attorney may not be able to produce any other evidence thereof than such circumstances as render it highly probable in the judgment of the justice or such other court before whom the trial is, then and in such case, unless the defendant shall acquit himself upon oath, to be administered to him by the court or justice who shall try the cause, the plaintiff shall recover against the defendant damages and costs; but if the defendant shall acquit himself upon oath as aforesaid, the court or justice before whom the trial is, shall enter up judgment for the defendant, to recover against the plaintiff double his costs occasioned by such prosecution.

An Act regulating the Assessing and Collecting of Taxes.

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6. Real estates to be assessed either to owners or occupants.

Executions obtained in such suits to
run against real estate of collectors.
Sheriff's may adjourn sales of estates
so attached, in certain cases.
Estate of such collector being insuffi-
cient, an alias execution to issue
against his sureties.

7. Assessors to distinguish in the tax bills those persons who give in lists, also, the taxes assessed on real estate. 8. Penalty for making tax bill contrary to previous section.

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9. Assessors to give tax bill to town clerk,
and he to send copy to general treasu-23.
rer-he to annex his warrant to col-
lector.

10. Person refusing to pay tax may be
committed to jail.

11. Person removing, collector may follow
him to another town.

12. Collector may remove property dis-
trained and sell in any other town.
13. Taxes on unimproved lands to be lev-
ied out of the lands-mode of selling
the same.

14. Collector may cite the debtor, &c., of
absent person before justice of the
peace, to pay such person's tax out of

his debt.

15. Such debtor, &c., refusing to appear, justice of the peace to grant warrant of distress against the debtor, &c.

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Town treasurer refusing to deliver delinquent collector's bond to general treasurer for suit, liable to have his estate taken to make up deficiency. Sales of real estates, and deeds of same, under this act, regulated.

Town taxes to be assessed, &c., like state taxes.

Warrants to collect tax to be in force
till tax is collected.

25. Fees of assessors, collectors, &c.
26. Towns refusing to assess a state tax,
to be fined.

Houses for public worship, schools,
&c., exempted from taxation.

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No other property not ceded to United States nor belonging to this state exempt from taxation.

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When a town tax is ordered, town may elect assessors and collectors of it.

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Towns to have preference for taxes due from insolvents, in certain cases. Personal property held in trust, where to be taxed.

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It is enacted by the General Assembly, as follows:

SECTION 1. When any tax is ordered to be assessed and levied on the inhabitants of this state or any estates within the same, the secretary of state, for the time being, shall forthwith send a copy of the act imposing such tax unto each one of the town clerks, to be immediately delivered to the assessors of taxes for their respective towns.

SEC. 2. The assessors of each town shall assess and apportion the same on the inhabitants of such town, and the rateable estates within the same, by the time expressed in such act of assembly; and they shall, three weeks before they assess or apportion the same, set up three notifications under their hands, or advertise in one newspaper printed in the town, three successive weeks, requiring each of the inhabitants of their town to bring in unto them in writing and under his hand, an exact list of the rateable estate, with a particular description of each parcel thereof, and the value of each parcel, by such time as shall be therein prescribed, and to make oath to the same before any one of said assessors, who are hereby empowered to administer to the same; which oath shall be in the following form, to wit: You do solemnly swear, (or

affirm,) that the account or list now exhibited by you contains, to the best of your knowledge and judgment, a true and full account of all your rateable estate: so help you God; (or this affirmation you make and give upon peril of the penalty of perjury.)

SEC. 3. Whosoever shall refuse or neglect to render and give in an account of his rateable estate as required in the preceding section, if he be overtaxed, shall have no remedy for the same.

SEC. 4. The assessors shall, before they apportion the tax among the inhabitants, make a list containing the value of each person's rateable estate by him given in, and likewise the value of all such persons estate, according to the best judgment and estimate of the assessors, who neglect or refuse to give in an account thereof, agreeably to law; and the assessors shall cast the rateable estates and thereby find how much per centum it will be, and they shall apportion the tax accordingly.

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