The General Statutes of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations

of justices of supreme court, 596.

of notaries public, 598.

of probate courts, 598-600.

for recording and certifying, 593.

of secretary of state, for certifying under seal of state, 600.
chargeable by secretary of state, for state, 600.

of sheriffs and their deputies, constables and town sergeants, 596-598.
of witnesses, 595.

for entry of cases and for juries collectable for use of state, 595, 596.

for entry of actions when to be paid, 594.

what to be and for whose use, 595.

for entry of case in court common pleas not to be charged on liquor information, 193. of justice courts civil and criminal, 592, 593.

for attendance of party in justice courts, 592.

in supreme court and common pleas, 594.

taxable in criminal process for state, 600.

for keeping personal property attached, how allowed, 598.

extra, allowed to officers seizing gambling implements, 558.

extra, allowed in liquor cases, 193.

extorting more than legal on part of state or town officers, how punishable, 538. FEMALE, writs against on contract to be summons; when attachment may issue against, 453-462.

executions against, when not to issue against body, 492.

enticing virtuous, into house of prostitution, how punishable, 553.

enticing into house of prostitution, search-warrant for how issued, 553.

visitors, board of, to institutions where women are imprisoned, 589.

spirituous and intoxicating liquors not to be sold to, 186.

FEME COVERT. Sce Married Women.

FENCE, what are lawful, 219.

height of, 219.

for partition, how and where built, 219.

how maintained, 219, 220

disputes regarding, to be settled by fence viewer, 220, 221.

agreements regarding partition fences, to be recorded in town clerk's office, 220.
public, penalty for injuring, 542.

private, penalty for injuring, 546, 547.

lawful, broken through by cattle, &c., remedy by impounding, 224.

by action, 225.

viewers of, when elected by towns, 94.

powers and duties of, 220, 221.

fees of, 221; liabilities, 221.

FERRETS, use of forbidden in hunting hares and rabbits, 204, 205
FERRYMAN, one to each ferry exempt from jury duty, 430.
and from militia duty,' 602.

on post-road exempt from militia duty, 601.

FIELD-DRIVERS, when and how elected, 96; powers of, 96.

FIGHTING, by arrangement in or out of state, parties, seconds, surgeons, &c., how punishable, 540.

parties and their assistants, to be arrested and held without warrant, 540.

FIGHTING-BIRDS OR ANIMALS, penalty for, 207.1

encouraging or keeping place for, how punished, 559.

FINES, for what amounts recoverable, by what process, for whose benefit, and in what courts,

574.

and costs may be worked out at jail by appellant committed for want of recognizance, 483. against jurors, how collected, and disposition of, 433.

under nuisance act recoverable by complaint and warrant, 170.

under scollop fishing act recoverable by complaint and warrant, 287.

etc., from militia, to be paid to paymaster general, and to form military fund, 624.

and forfeitures for killing certain birds, to enure to complainant, 204.

and forfeitures due United States for injuring stakes and buoys, to whom to be paid, 208, 209.

forfeitures, and penaltics, officers receiving and refusing to pay over, how punishable, 538,

539.

or imprisonment, court to select which, and amount of fine and term, 566, 567. FIRE, penalty for raising false alarm of, 543.

incendiary, punishment for setting, 544.

punishment for setting, to defraud insurers, 544.

causing in woods, how punishable, 544.

FIRE-ARMS, penalty for discharging across public ways, 197.

discharging except on own land in certain limits on week-days, 197, 198. penalty for discharging on Sunday, 198.

discharging at certain seasons, near baiting place for pigeons, how punished, 547. FIRE-ENGINE COMPANIES, how may organize as corporations, 323. See Voluntary Asso

ciations.

and similar companies members of, when exempt from jury duty, 430.

clerk of, to return members to town clerk, 430.

penalty for neglect, 430, 431.

members of fire departments exempt, how far, from militia duty, 602.

FIRE TEST OF PETROLEUM, KEROSENE, AND COAL OIL, to be 110° Fahrenheit,

245.

FIREWOOD, cord of to measure how much, 249.

penalty for fraudulent sale by cord, 250.

FIRE WORKS, sale of, forbidden, 198.

penalty for, 198.

FIRKINS FOR BUTTER, to be branded how, penalty for omission, 247, 248.

FISH, to be introduced, cultivated, and protected by commissioners of inland fisheries, 288. regulations of inland fisheries, to be filed in town clerk's office, and published, 288. penalty for catching in or near stocked pond, and for three years, 288, 289.

for manure sold by measure, to be measured how, 250.

not to be taken by persons living out of the state to be carried away in vessels and smacks, 285.

penalty, 285.

not to be taken from private ponds, or from fresh water, except by hook and line, 285. offal, and articles and substances poisonous to fish, not to be thrown into tide water; penalty, 289.

oil, vessel making, or dressing fish in public waters, liable to what penalty, 289.

oil making, penalty for, in other than designated place, 169.

packers of, when elected by towns, 93.

duties, powers, and fees of, 233, 234.

pickled, how to be packed, assorted, branded, and inspected, 233, 234.

penalty, for selling without inspection, 233.

pot weir or net of another, robbing or drawing, how punished, 547.

fishermen coming from fishing trips, may sell or reship without packing in barrels and

half barrels, 233.

FISHERY, rights of, secured (Constitution of Rhode Island), 19.

FIXTURES of machinery, where taxed, 103.

FLOWAGE of lands permitted to owners of mills and mill-dams, 215.

of water caused by mill-dams, damages for how determined, 216, 217.

FLOWAGE-Continued.

actions for, how brought and how prosecuted, 216, 217.

by dams, actions for, not to abate, when, 217, 218.

FOOD, penalty for adulterating or selling adulterated, 556.

FORCIBLE ENTRY AND DETAINER, proceedings in and forms of process; effect of judg ment, 527-529.

certiorari lies in, but no appeal in, 529.

FOREIGN ATTACHMENT, service of writs in, 458.

when shares of corporations attached, what officer of corporation to make oath, and where, 460.

on foreign insurance companies, who to make affidavits in, 313, 314.

oath of trustce in, how made, and his ret rn, 460.

remedy for refusal to make return, 461.

trustee in, may be examined by parties, how, 460, 461.

trustee in, may deliver up specific articles of defendant to officer, 461. rights and duties of one or more in foreign attachments, 461, 462. cases if unanswered to be continued, when pleas may be put in, 466. FOREIGN INSURANCE COMPANIES. Sce Insurance Companies, Foreign. FORFEITURE of adulterated drugs and medicines, 255, 256.

of articles of unlicensed hawkers and peddlers, 268.

of boats and tackle for violation of oyster laws, 276, 277, 280, 281, 283, 284, 285, 286.

of bank charter by diminution of capital stock, 295.

by its removal or by its establishment of discount agency, 295.

of bank charter if circulation exceeds 65 per cent. of paid stock, 296.
and destruction of gambling implements, 558.

of horse raced for bet or wager, 559.

of fighting animals and birds, 207.

of liquors illegally kept, 188, 192.

of adulterated liquors, 252.

of false and unsealed weights and measures, 273.

of personal property, by what process to be made, and in what courts, 574.

personal property forfeited, when and how may be sold, 575.

may be delivered to complainant when, on his giving what bond, 576. incurred not affected by repeal in chapter 261, unless forfeiture mitigated, 631.

of estate, no conviction nor sentence to work, 565.

FORFEITURES, PECUNIARY, to be made by what process, for whose benefit, and in what

courts, 574.

proceedings in, 575, 576.

how may be sued for by towns and cities when given them, 574. FORGERY, counterfeiting brand of inspector of liquors to be, 253.

of bank-bills provable by experts, 550.

how punished, 549, 550.

FORNICATION, how punishable, 553.

between persons of prohibited kinship for marriage, how punished, 553. between two persons either of whom is married, to be adultery in both, 552. FOWLS, injured by dogs, damage for and recovery, 200, 202.

FRACTIONAL BANK-BILLS, issue of forbidden; penalties, 296, 297. FRANCHISES OF CORPORATION may be sold under executions, 292. how redeemed after sale, 292.

purchaser of has remedy, and not corporation, for injury to franchises, 292.

also his assignee, 292.

sale of, not to change duties of corporation, 292.

FRAUDS, STATUTE OF, 443.

FREEHOLDERS, settlement of, 149.

FRIENDS, clerks of society of to report marriages, 181.

to record their names and residence in town clerk's office, 182.

society of, marriages among members may be celebrated according to their own rites, 326.

FRIENDS- Continued.

members of society of exempt from militia duty, also others having conscientious scruples

against bearing arms, 602.

FRUITS may be peddled from carts and baskets without license, 269.

FUGITIVES FROM JUSTICE from other states, how arrested and held, 569, 570.

recognizance required of, and how bailable, 569, 570.

to be discharged if executive warrant does not issue, when, 570. FUND, military, formed from fines, &c., how may be disbursed, 624. for schools. See School Fund.

FURIOUS and lunatic persons, process for confining, 160.

GAMBLERS, who are common gamblers and how punishable, 557, 558.
common, forfeits license as rum keeper, seller, or other, 558.
competent witnesses in prosecutions under gambling act, 558, 559.
GAMBLING house, enticing another into, how punishable, 558.
illegal houses for, common nuisances, 170.

implements, how forfeited on complaint and destroyed, 558.

places how may be abated, within three miles of militia training, 614.

GAME LAWS, for protection of game, 203–205.

GARNISHEE PROCESS. See Foreign Attachment.

GAUGERS OF CASKS, when elected by towns, 94.

GAUGERS FOR CITY OF PROVIDENCE, appointment of, and powers, 275.

GAUGING CASKS, rules for, fees, penalty for person doing if not gauger, for selling without, 274, 275.

GEESE, provisions of, pound act may be extended to by towns, 223.

GENERAL ASSEMBLY, sessions of, when and where held (Constitution of Rhode Island), 22,

30.

powers of (Constitution of Rhode Island), 22, 23.

members of, to take no fee nor be counsel before (Constitution of Rhode Island), 22.
when to fill vacancies in case of no popular election (Constitution of Rhode Island), 26.
acts of, where kept, how printed, records of state, 58.
confirmation of grants heretofore made by, 353.
procedure relative to petitions to, 63.

civil officers to be annually elected by, 66, 67, 278.
military officers to be annually elected, 606, 607.
senators in congress elected by, how and when, 66.

may appoint special commission to examine banks and saving banks, 298.

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