give a notification to the town sergeant to notify the town council to meet at a time and place therein named; who upon such notification are required to meet, and are hereby fully empowered to inquire, either by the oath of such poor person, or otherwise, in what town he was last legally settled; and upon the best information they can obtain, to adjudge and determine to what town he lawfully belongs within this state, or in which he was last legally settled; which being done, the town council shall make an order under their seal, to be signed by their clerk, for the removal of such person to such town; which order being directed and given to the town sergeant or one of the constables of such town, he shall proceed forthwith to remove such person and such of his family, if any he hath, as by law ought to be removed with him, to the town or place to which he is adjudged by such order to belong, and there deliver him to one of the overseers of the poor of such town, and leave an authentic copy of the order with the said overseer; and if such overseer shall refuse to accept such poor person, he shall forfeit the sum of fifty dollars; to be recovered by an action of debt by the town treasurer of the town from which such poor person was sent, to and for the use of said town.

SEC. 9. If any overseer of the poor of any town in this state to which such poor person shall be removed as aforesaid, shall think his town aggrieved at the determination and order of the town council for the removal of such person, it shall be lawful for him in behalf of his town, to appeal to the next supreme court to be holden in the county in which the town from which such poor person was removed lies; and the party appealing shall file reasons of appeal in the clerk's office of the court to which the appeal shall be brought, twenty days before the sitting of said court; and the clerk of said court shall forthwith send a copy of such reasons of appeal to one of the overseers of the poor of the town from which such poor person was removed, who upon receipt of such copy is hereby fully empowered to appear at the court where the appeal is brought, and to defend and maintain said order of the town council; which court shall have full power upon hearing the cause, to confirm or reverse such order as to them shall appear agreeable to law, which judgment shall be final; and in case the said order shall be confirmed, the town which appealed shall pay the whole cost of court, in which shall be included the charges of removing such poor person; and in case the said order shall be reversed, then the town from which such poor person was removed shall pay the cost of

the court, and also the charges that the town to which he was removed shall have been at for his support between the time of the removal and the determination of the appeal; and such poor person shall be removed back to said town at the proper cost and charges thereof, which shall be levied by an execution against the town treasurer of such town.

SEC. 10. The town sergeant or constable who shall be charged with an order for the removal of any poor person as aforesaid, shall have power to go into any town for putting such order into execution; and shall make return upon said order to the town council who granted the same, at their next meeting, which shall be lodged in the clerk's office; and he shall give copies thereof to any person who shall desire them, and shall take the same fees therefor as in other cases; and in case any town sergeant or constable shall refuse or neglect to put such order in execution when delivered to him, he shall, for every such refusal or neglect, forfeit the sum of twenty dollars; to be recovered by the town treasurer, before any justice of the peace in said town, to and for the use of said town; and the town sergeant or constable who shall remove any poor person as by this act is directed, shall be allowed and paid at the discretion of the town council, for his trouble, out of the treasury of the town from which such poor person shall be removed.

SEC. 11. It shall be in the power and at the discretion of every town council, to refuse any bond or certificate which may be offered for keeping their town indemnified from charge, by any person who shall come into it of bad fame and reputation, or such as the town council shall judge unsuitable persons to become inhabitants thereof; and upon their refusal to accept the bond or certificate offered, to proceed in manner as aforesaid to remove such person out of such town for whom bond or certificate may have been tendered and not accepted.

SEC. 12. If any person who has been or may hereafter be removed by an order of removal from any town in this state to any other town therein, shall voluntarily return to the town from which he was so removed without leave first obtained of the town council of such town for so doing, and the town council of such town shall subsequently cause such person to be again removed to the same town, the town to which such person shall have been so subsequently removed shall pay to the town the costs of every such subsequent removal, not exceeding twenty cents per mile; to be recovered in an action of the case, in the name of the town treasurer of the

town to which such person shall have been removed, before any court proper to try the same: provided, however, that eight days notice of the intention of such second removal shall be previously given through the post-office by the overseer of the town where such pauper may be, to the overseer or overseers of the poor of the town in which such person shall be legally settled, for the purpose of giving such town an opportunity to remove such person in its own manner at its own proper expense; or such person may be fined by the town council not exceeding seven dollars, to and for the use of such town.

SEC. 13. The respective town councils shall have power in their discretion to remove, as aforesaid, all persons not settled in their respective towns who are of bad fame and reputation, or such as said town council shall determine to be unsuitable persons to become inhabitants thereof, though such persons shall not at the time of such removal have become or shall not then be likely to become chargeable to such town.

SEC. 14. If any person in any town in this state shall admit into his house or possessions, any person who has been removed or ordered to depart, as in this act is provided, from such town by the town council thereof, or shall wilfully suffer or permit any person to occupy or reside in his house or possessions, after notice of such removal or order of departure given by the town sergeant or any one of the constables of such town by order of the town council thereof, such person shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars for every such of fence; to be sued for and recovered by the town treasurer of such town in an action of debt, before any court of competent jurisdiction, for the use of such town.

SEC. 15. If any person shall bring and leave any poor and indigent person in any town in this state, wherein such pauper is not lawfully settled, unless by an order of removal made by a town council in this state, knowing him to be poor and indigent, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for every such offence; to be sued for and recovered in an action of debt by the town treasurer, to and for the use of such town.

SEC. 16. If any master or other person having charge of any vessel, shall bring into and land or suffer to be landed in any place within this state, any person before that time convicted in any other state or in any foreign country of any infamous crime, or of any crime for which he hath been sentenced to transportation, knowing of such conviction or having reason to suspect it; or any person of a notoriously dissolute, infamous and abandoned life and character, knowing him

to be such, he shall, for every such offence, pay as a fine the sum of four hundred dollars, to and for the use of the state; to be recovered by indictment before any court of competent jurisdiction.

SEC. 17. The master or any other person having the charge of any vessel arriving at any place within this state with any passengers on board, from any port in any other of the United States or from any country without the United States, shall, within twenty-four hours after the arrival of such vessel, make report in writing under his hand, of all such passengers, their names, nation, age, character and condition, so far as shall have come to his knowledge, to the overseer or overseers of the poor of the town at which such vessel shall arrive ; and every such master or other person who shall neglect to make such report, or who shall wittingly and wilfully make a false one, shall, for each offence, forfeit the sum of one hundred dollars; to be sued for and recovered by action of debt by the town treasurer, to and for the use of such town.

SEC. 18. If any Indian of the Narragansett tribe shall reside in any town in this state, and shall become or be likely to become chargeable to such town, it shall be lawful for any one of the overseers of the poor and the town council of such town, to cause such Indian to be removed to the said tribe in the manner provided for the removal of a pauper by the eighth and tenth sections of this act, and there deliver him to a member of the council of said tribe, and leave an authentic copy of the order of removal with such member; and if such member shall refuse to accept such Indian, he shall forfeit the sum of twenty dollars, to be recovered in like manner and for the same use as is provided in the said eighth section of this act; and if the council of said tribe shall think the said tribe aggrieved at the determination and order of the town council for the removal of such Indian, it shall be lawful for them in behalf of said tribe, to appeal to the same court and in same manner as is provided in the ninth section of this act; and the said court shall have the same power in the premises as is there provided; and if any Indian who shall be sent out of any town agreeably to this act, shall voluntarily return thither again without leave first obtained of the town council for so doing, he shall forfeit the same penalty and be subject to the same punishment as is prescribed in the twelfth section of this act.

SEC. 19. If any person shall reside in any town in this state not being legally settled in that or in any other town in this state, who shall become or be likely to become chargea

ble to the town where such person shall reside, or who shall in the opinion of the town council of such town be a person of bad fame and reputation, and an unsuitable person to become an inhabitant thereof, it shall and may be lawful for such town council, upon complaint of any one or more of the overseers of the poor of such town, to order such person to depart from and out of such town, within such time as the said town council in their discretion may appoint; and if the person so ordered shall not depart from such town within the time appointed as aforesaid, or having so departed shall voluntarily return thither without leave first obtained from the town council for so doing, such person shall be fined by the town council not exceeding seven dollars, to and for the use of said town; and in default of paying the same at the time appointed by the said town council, shall be committed to the work-house, bridewell or asylum, if any there be in that town, to be there kept in close confinement, or to labor; or the town council may bind out such person to service to any citizen of the United States, for any term of time not exceeding one year.

SEC. 20. Whenever the town council of any town shall adjudge any person residing therein to be of bad fame and reputation, or to be an unsuitable person to become an inhabitant of such town, and shall order him to be removed therefrom, such person shall not by his thereafter acquiring or becoming seized or possessed of any real estate in such town, gain any settlement in such town.

SEC. 21. Before any town council shall make an order of removal or an order to depart under the thirteenth or nineteenth sections of this act, they shall cause the persons against whom such order is to be made, to have notice that the overseer or overseers of the poor of such town have made such complaint against him, with intent to obtain such order; which notice shall be served by the town sergeant or any constable of such town, by reading the same in the presence and hearing of such person, or by leaving a true and attested copy thereof at his usual place of abode; and such person shall have a right to be heard, and to have his allegations and his testimony weighed by such council, before any order be made against him.