or weasel, while hunting for or after any hare or rabbit, or who shall For having ferbe associated in hunting for hares or rabbits with others who shall rets or weasels while hunting have in their possession, or under their control, any ferret or weasel, rabbits or shall be fined not exceeding five dollars for every such offence. hares.

13. Expenses of care of birds or ani-
mals seized, how paid.

14. Penalty for training, &c., birds or
animals to fight.

15. Penalty for attending exhibition
of fighting of birds or animals.

7. Duty of certain officers to prosecute violations of this chapter. SECTION 1. Whoever shall overdrive, overload, drive when overloaded, overwork, torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, cruelly beat, mutilate, or cruelly kill, or cause, or procure, to be so overdriven, overloaded, driven when overloaded, overworked, tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten, mutilated, or cruelly killed, any animal; and whoever, having the charge or custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, shall inflict unnecessary cruelty upon the same, or shall unnecessarily fail to provide the same with proper food, drink, shelter, or protection from the weather, shall, for every such offence, be punished by imprisonment in jail, or state work-house, or house of correction, not exceeding one year, or by fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

Penalty for overdriving,

and other cruel treatment of

animals.

SEC. 2. Every owner, possessor, or person having the charge or Same subject. custody of any animal, who shall cruelly drive or work the same when unfit for labor, or cruelly abandon the same, or who shall carry the same, or cause the same to be carried, in, or upon, any vehicle, or otherwise, in an unnecessarily cruel or inhuman manner, or knowingly and wilfully authorize or permit the same to be subjected to unnecessary torture, suffering, or cruelty, of any kind, shall be punished for every such offence in manner provided in section one. SEC. 3. No railroad company, in the carrying or transportation of Transportation animals, shall permit the same to be confined in cars, after the same of animals by shall have been so confined for a period of twenty-eight consecutive hours, without unloading the same for rest, water, and feeding, for a period of at least five consecutive hours, unless prevented from so

railroad; when to be unloaded, fed, &c.

unloading by storm or other accidental causes. In estimating such confinement, the time during which the animals have been confined without such rest on connecting roads from which they are received, shall be included; it being the intent of this chapter to prohibit their continuous confinement during the period of twenty-eight hours, except upon contingencies herein before stated. Animals so unloaded shall be properly fed, watered, and sheltered during such rest, by the owner or person having the custody thereof, or, in case of his default in so doing, then by the railroad company transporting the same, at the expense of said owner or person in custody thereof, and said company shall, in such case, have a lien upon such animals, for food, care, and custody furnished, and shall not be liable for any detention of such animals authorized by this chapter. Any company, owner, or custodian of such animals, who shall fail to comply with the provisions of this section, shall, for each and every such offence, be liable for, and forfeit and pay, a penalty of not less than one nor more than five hundred dollars: Provided, however, that when animals shall be carried in cars in which they can and do have proper food, water, space, and opportunity for rest, the foregoing provisions in regard to their being unloaded, shall not apply.

SEC. 4. Any person found violating the laws in relation to cruelty to animals, may be arrested and held without warrant, provided that such arrest or detention without a warrant shall not continue longer than six hours; and the person making an arrest, with or without a warrant, shall use reasonable diligence to give notice thereof to the owner of animals found in the charge or custody of the person arrested, and shall properly care and provide for such animals until the owner thereof shall take charge of the same: Provided, the owner shall take charge of the same within sixty days from the date of said notice. And the person making such arrest shall have a lien on said animals, for the expense of such care and supervision.

SEC. 5. Whenever complaint is made on oath or affirmation to any magistrate authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases, that the complainant believes, and has reasonable cause to believe, that the laws in relation to cruelty to animals have been or are being violated in any particular building or place, such magistrate, if satisfied that there is reasonable cause for such belief, shall issue a search-warrant, authorizing any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, or police officer, to search such building or place; but no search shall be made after sunset, unless specially authorized by the magistrate, upon satisfactory cause shown.

SEC. 6. In this chapter the word "animal" or "animals" shall be held to include all brute creatures, and the words "owner," "person," and "whoever," shall be held to include corporations as well as individuals, and the knowledge and acts of agents of and persons employed by corporations in regard to animals transported, owned, or employed by or in the custody of such corporations, shall be held to be the acts and knowledge of such corporations.

SEC. 7. Every sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, and police officer shall prosecute all violations of the provisions of this chapter, which shall come to his notice or knowledge, and fines and forfeitures collected upon or resulting from the complaint or information of any officer or agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, under this chapter, shall enure and be paid over to said society, in aid of the benevolent objects for which it was incorporated.

SEC. 8. The several justice courts shall have concurrent jurisdic

tion with courts of common pleas, over all offences under this act, Concurrent and to the full extent of the penalties therein specified; parties de- jurisdiction of fendant, however, having the same right to appeal from the judgment over offences. justice courts of said justice courts, as is now provided by law in other criminal

cases.

Of forfeiture of

birds or animals seized.

SEC. 9. If any maimed, sick, infirm, or disabled animals shall be Penalty for abandoned to die, by any owner or person having charge of the same, abandoning sick, &c., anisuch person shall, for every such offence, be punished in the same als. manner provided in section one. SEC. 10. Any officer authorized to serve criminal process may Of proceedings, enter any place, building, or tenement, where there is an exhibition to prevent fighting of of the fighting of birds or animals, or where preparations are being birds or animade for such an exhibition, and without a warrant arrest all persons mals. there present, and take possession of the birds or animals engaged in fighting, and of all birds and animals there found and intended to be used or engaged in fighting; such persons shall be kept in custody in jail or other convenient place not more than twenty-four hours, Sundays and legal holidays excepted; at or before the expiration of which time, such persons shall be brought before a justice court or court of common pleas, and proceeded against according to law. SEC. 11. After the seizure of any birds or animals, as provided in the preceding section, application shall be made to a justice court, or court of common pleas, for a decree of forfeiture of the same; and if, upon the hearing of such an application, it shall be found and adjudged that the same, at the time of said seizure, were engaged in fighting at an exhibition thereof, or were owned, possessed, or kept by any person with the intent that the same shall be so engaged, they shall be adjudged forfeit, and any officer authorized to serve criminal process shall sell the same in such manner as the court shall order, and pay the proceeds of such sale after the payment of costs, including costs of seizure and keeping of said birds or animals, and of the sale thereof as aforesaid, to the use of the state: Provided, that when such seizure and application for decree of forfeiture shall be made by, or result from, the complaint or information of any officer or agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the proceeds of such sale shall be paid over to said society. Should it be found and adjudged that any such birds or animals are of no use or value, the same shall be set at large, or otherwise disposed of, as the court may direct. The claimant shall be allowed to appear in the proceedings upon any such application. Any of such birds or animals not adjudged forfeit, shall be delivered to the owner thereof.

feiture.

SEC. 12. Any claimant aggrieved by any decree of such court of appeal from may, within five days after the entry of such decree, and before exe- decree of forcution thereof, appeal therefrom to the court of common pleas or supreme court then next to be held in the county.

SEC. 13. The necessary expenses incurred in the care and disposing of such birds or animals may be allowed and paid in the same manner that costs in criminal prosecutions are paid.

SEC. 14. Whoever shall own, possess, keep, or train any bird or animal, with the intent that such bird or animal shall be engaged in an exhibition of fighting, shall be fined not exceeding fifty dollars. SEC. 15. Whoever shall be present at any place, building, or tenement where preparations are being made for an exhibition of the fighting of birds or animals, with intent to be present at such exhibition, or shall be present at such exhibition, shall be punished by fine not exceeding ten dollars.

Expenses of care, &c., of such animals, &c., how paid. Penalty for training, &c.,

bird or animal to fight. Penalty for attending, &c., exhibition of fighting of birds or ani

mals.

Penalty for making vessel, &c., fast to any

stake or buoy in certain rivers, &c.

Action for such offence, when and where to be brought.

Penalty for making fast

vessel, &c., to certain stakes, &c.;

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 made fast to any stake or buoy which has 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 not exceeding ten dollars, nor less than three dollars; two thirds thereof to the use of the United States, in order to replace such stake or buoy, and the other third to the person who shall sue for the same.

SEC. 2. 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 brought 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 brought 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 Providence; and for any offence aforesaid committed in Warren River, the action may be brought 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 the section next preceding, shall be sued for within six months after they shall accrue.

SEC. 3. 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 Point, or to the stake on said point, or to the flag-staff on the halfway 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 not exceeding twenty dollars, nor less than five dollars; to be penalty, where recovered in the county of Kent, Bristol, or Providence; one third

and to whose

use recovered.

Penalty for running against or in

thereof to the use of the person who shall sue 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. 4. The captain, owner, or owners of every ship or vessel that shall, by running against or otherwise, injure the beacon on Castle Island, at the entrance of Bristol harbor, or any buoy placed or here

after 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 not exceeding thirty-six dollars, nor less than twelve dollars: Provided, the same is done intentionally or negligently; to be recovered in the county of Kent or Newport; and to be distributed, paid, and appropriated, in the manner hereinbefore pointed out.

juring, beacons, buoys, stakes, &c., south of Kin

&c.

SECTION 1. The governor shall appoint three persons to be com- Commissioners missioners of pilots, who shall hold their offices for the period of three of pilots, how appointed. years; except that the commissioners first appointed under this chapter shall hold their offices as follows: one for one year, one for two years, and one for three years. Whenever a vacancy occurs, an appointment shall be made for the remainder of the term.

commissions to

SEC. 2. The commissioners shall grant commissions as pilots in Commissioners and for the several ports, waters, and harbors within the state, to may grant such number of persons as shall, upon examination, prove competent pilots. and trustworthy, as they may deem necessary.

SEC. 3. Every pilot shall take charge of all registered vessels en- Duties of pilots. tering the ports or waters of this state, or going out of the same, except fishing vessels and coastwise vessels, other than whaling vessels, vessels sailing from one port to another, within the state, and not in completion of a voyage from a place out of the state; and passenger steam vessels regulated by United States laws, and carrying a United States pilot.

SEC. 4. Every vessel inward bound, other than those included in Vessels liable the exception in the preceding section, and excepting also coastwise for pilotage vessels, shall pay to the first pilot offering his services, the regular fee, when. pilotage fee; but coastwise vessels not taking a pilot shall be exempt therefrom; provided, however, that no vessel shall be obliged to take a pilot or to pay pilotage if she is bound into the harbors of Newport, Bristol, and Warren, unless a commissioned pilot shall offer his services before such vessel passes the line from Point Judith to Brenton's Reef light-boat.