OFFICERS- Continued.

what, to be elected by town councils, 96.

of school district, what and how chosen, 118.

special, to be appointed to complain of truancy, 131.

school, appointed under Title IX, to take what oath, 131.

tenure of office of, 131.

penalties for neglect of duty, 131.

forbidden to take fees for introduction or sale of school books, &c., 132.

of asylums and poor-houses, to report cases of confinement, 151.

committing persons on treasonable or political offences, jurisdiction to run through state, 535, 536.

obstructing, how punishable, 537.

if voluntarily or negligently suffer escape, how punishable, 537.

how punishable for extortion, 538.

persons falsely assuming to be, how punishable, 538.

receiving fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and refusing to pay over, how punishable, 538,

539.

arresting thief, to secure stolen property, and make schedule, and be responsible for it, 547.

duty of, to obey judicial writs, 495.

agreement with for enlargement or ease of prisoner, void, 502.

to give copies of process of detention when demanded, and within six hours, 512.
penalty, 512.

of other states, how protected in transit; obstructing, how punished, 570.

serving process, civil or criminal, to note items of their fees upon it, 598.

on petition, may be allowed pay for keeping personal property attached on mesne process,

598.

allowed what, to remunerate aid and assistance employed, 598.

of attorney-general, special remuneration of, 598.

connected with tax system, liable to what penalties, 113.

oath and engagement of. See Oath.

of militia, how elected, 607, 608.

commissioned, penalty for neglect of duty, 622.

how recoverable, 622.

non-commissioned, penalty for neglect of duty, 622-624.

how recoverable, 622-624.

OILS, what to be deemed winter pressed, what summer strained, and what tight pressed oils,

244.

what whale oil, 244.

penalties for selling adulterated, 244.

ONIONS, 50 pounds to be a bushel, 248.

ORDER of removal of paupers, when and how made, 155.

of school committee on town treasurer, how drawn, and to whom payable, 126.

of cattle commission, form of making, 179.

on general treasurer, not exceeding twenty dollars, may be drawn by governor, 57.
in militia, how to issue and be distributed, 614.

for courts-martial, forms of, 625, 626.

ORDINANCE of towns not to cover acts punished by statute of state, 99.

of town, expenses of process under, not to be paid by state, 99.

ORIGINAL PROPRIETORS of common lands may choose certain officers, 323, 324. powers of, 324.

OVERSEERS OF POOR, when elected by towns, 94.

powers and duties of, 150 sq.

may bind out what children, where, 151, 341.

may bind out as apprentices what poor adults, 341.

complaints regarding such binding, 342.

to complain of paupers not settled in town, 155.

OVERSEERS OF POOR- Continued.

may call special meeting of town council to hear complaints for removal, 155.
when may prosecute in bastardy cases, 158.

to receive report of immigrants brought into state, 153.

to sue for penalty if no report, when, 154.

may require security for immigrants, how and when, 154.

OWNER of goods, who to be deemed in favor of purchaser and pledgee, when, 261. true, of goods consigned may recover same and price from whom, 262.

of land sold for taxes, how and when may redeem, 109.

of premises on which is common nuisance, right of entry without process, 171.
of premises liable for billiard or bagatelle table or bowling alley tax, 196, 197.
and harborers of dogs liable for damage done by them, 199, 203.

OWNERSHIP of more than one, how may be averred in indictments and other criminal process, 562.

OYSTER, free and common fisheries of, when oysters not to be taken from or sold from, 276.

dredges forbidden, and penalty, 276.

under-rakes, when allowed, 276.

amount of which may be taken daily, 276.

penalties for violation, 276.

when may be taken, 277.

penalty for injuring oyster-beds, 276, 277.

oysters for planting, not to be taken, when, 277.

only citizens may take, 277.

new beds to be protected by buoys, and fishing on forbidden, 277.

penalties for violating oyster law, 277.

private and several fisheries of, land may be leased for, how, when, and by whom, 278, 280. private beds to be platted, 280.

growing on private personal property, 280.

to be taken from where, 281.

provisions for protecting property in, 281.

how many may be taken daily from Trustan Pond, South Kingstown, 281.

OYSTER HOUSES, license for, 183.

what not to be sold by, 184.

when held disorderly house, 183.

penalties, 183, 184.

PACKERS OF FISH, when elected by towns, 93.

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

PALMER'S RIVER, dams and weirs prohibited above Kelly's Bridge; seines and nets prohibited, when, penalty, 283.

PARADE GROUNDS, for militia, may be marked out and defended, how, 613, 614.

intruders on, how punished, 623.

PARDON, PETITIONS FOR, to be presented to governor, 57.

may be conditional, 57.

PARTIES TO ACTION ON EXECUTOR'S OR ADMINISTRATOR'S BOND, who may be, 401, 402.

PARTITION OF ESTATES may be made by probate courts, 336.

when, 391.

procedure in, 391, 392.

appointment and duties of commissioners to divide, 391, 392.

mode of proceeding and of dividing in, 392.

expenses of, when may be included in those of administration, 395.

held in common by devise, how made, 392.

undevised acquired subsequent to will, how made, of dower lands after widow's death, 392. when person interested and refuses to pay ratable expense, warrant of distress to issue, 392, 393.

may be made of estates for life or years, or in fee and between such estates, 519.

PARTITION OF ESTATES—Continued.

may be made between tenants in possession and in reversion or remainder, 519, 521. effect of, 532.

procedure in, at law, 519, 523.

venue of actions of, 519.

shares in may be set off in common, 521.

PARTITION, court to appoint person to represent interests of persons not in being, when, 521,

522.

record of decree and plat to carry title without conveyance, 523.

costs in, how to be apportioned, 479, 522.

PARTITION FENCES, how and where built, 219.

how maintained, 219, 220.

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

agreements regarding, to be recorded in town clerk's office, 220.

PARTNER OF DISSOLVED COPARTNERSHIP may compromise with creditors for his own share of debt, 258.

effect of such compromise, 258.

evidence of, memorandum to be taken from creditor, 258.

copartners may call on compromising partner for contribution, when, 258, 259. PARTNERSHIPS, LIMITED, how formed, certificate required and form of, 259. renewal of, 260.

capital of, not to be reduced, 260.

preferences in assignments by, forbidden, 260.
how to be sued and to sue, how dissolved, 261.

PARTRIDGE not to be killed, when, penalty, 204.

PATENT ARTICLES, provisions regulating licenses for peddling, 269.

PATENT MEDICINES, how far excepted from act of medicines and poisons, 255.
PATIENCE ISLAND exempt from highway act, 145.

exempt from militia service, 602.

PAUPERS, settlement of, rules determining, 148.

kindred of, liable for support, mode of enforcement, 150, 152.
penalty for bringing into town where not settled, 153.

into state by vessel, to be reported, 153, 154.

to be removed to town taking bond from importer for, 154.

towns to support, 149.

under care of overseers of the poor, 150, 152.

towns neglecting to provide for, how compelled by supreme court, 152.

penalty for, 152.

how and when removed from towns in which not settled, 155, 156, 157.
appeals from order of removal, 155.

liability of town for absent, when accrues, 157.

insane, to be sent to state asylum, 164.

not to be confined in town asylum more than five days, 165.

institutions for, rules of discipline in, 151.

may be bound out as apprentices, how, 341.

burial of, 152.

when may be sent to state almshouse, 152.

and lunatics, under general charge of superintendent of state charities and corrections,

589.

vagabonds, and drunkards to be stricken from militia rolls, 602.

PAWCATUCK RIVER, weirs and pounds forbidden in, obstructions to channel forbidden, penalties, 286, 287.

nets, when forbidden, 286.

owner of land along, liable for violations committed by servant, &c., with his privity, 287. fishing and obstruction regulations of, a compact with state of Connecticut, 286. PAWTUCKET RIVER, commissioner to stake channel of, appointment and duties, 211. penalty for fastening to or injuring stakes and buoys in, 211.

PAWTUXET, persons quarantined at Providence not to enter village of, 177.
PAWTUXET FALLS BRIDGE, care of, 145.

penalty for fastening boat to or removing stones from, 145.

what towns to have care of, 145.

two persons to care for; one appointed by Warwick, one by Cranston, 145.
PAYMENT OF DEBTS OF WARD by guardian, order of precedence in which to be done,

337.

of insolvent estates of decedents, 386, 387.

of fares, penalty for fraudulent evasion of, 548.

PEACE, recognizances to keep in case of threats, 422.

to be certified to clerk of common pleas, 422.

in other cases, and certification of to clerk of common pleas, 425, 426.
PEDDLERS AND HAWKERS, license required by, 268.

penalty for neglect, 268.

license, how issued and transferred, 269.

may sell what articles without license, 269.

writs and warrants against, how served, 269, 270.

PENALTIES AND FORFEITURES incurred, not affected by repeal in chap. 261, unless pen-

alty mitigated, 631.

and pecuniary forfeitures, how may be sued for by town or city, when given them, 574.
and pecuniary forfeitures, recoverable by what process, for whose benefit, and in what
courts, 574.

PERISHABLE ARTICLES taken under attachment may be sold, when, 459, 460.
seized for forfeitures may be sold, when, 575.

PERJURY, how punishable, 536.

false swearing to be, where oath or affirmation required, 536.
false affidavit on writ served by arrest or attachment, to be, 454.

subornation of, how punishable, 536.

inciting to, how punishable, 536.

allegations, how made in indictments for and for subornation or incitement to, 562.
witness suspected of, may be compelled to recognize, how, 564.

PERKINS' INSTITUTION for blind, at South Boston, provisions for educating poor at, 167.
PERSON, word, in statutes, includes copartnerships and bodies corporate and politic, 69.

stealing from the, how punished, 545.

PERSONAL ACTIONS, in what county to be brought, 443.

PERSONAL PROPERTY, where taxed, 103.

what is for purposes of taxation, 104.

what free from distraint for taxes, 110.

in hands of executors, administrators, and trustees, where taxable, 104.

mode of levy on, for taxes, 110.

what machinery is, except for taxation. Partition of personalty in machinery, how made,

347.

shares in corporations to be, 291.

provisions governing testamentary disposition of, 374.

distribution of, in case of intestacy, 390.

mortgaged, redeemable and in possession of mortgagor, may be attached on writ and exe
cution, 460, 495.

mortgage of such, how redeemable by plaintiff and sale of how made, 460, 495.

writs of attachment how served on, 457.

inventory of, when attached, 457.

attached may be surrended to owner on bond for judgment or for restitution, 457, 459.
may be followed by collector of taxes into other towns, 110.

and removed for sale, 110.

how sold under execution, 495.

PETAQUAMSCUTT RIVER, fishing in regulated, penalty, 283.

nets, &c., allowed for smelting in, when, 283.

also gill nets for bass, when and where, 283.

PETITIONS for pardon, 57.

to general assembly, mode of notice, 63.

continuance of, 63.

for divorce, by whom to be signed, 334.

in what court jurisdiction over vested, 334.

for new trials where and when to be filed and when grantable, 488, 489.

if granted and case not entered how former judgment to be affirmed, 489.

to supreme court or common pleas, remedy for over assessment of taxes, 107.

PETIT JURY to be charged in supreme court, 407.

in court of common pleas, 409; (Constitution of Rhode Island,) 27.

PETROLEUM, kerosene, and coal oil, fire-test of, inspection of, how may be stored, penalties, 245, 246.

PHARMACISTS, registrar of, who to be, 254.

duties of, 254.

registered, who may be, 253, 254.

privileges of and fees to be paid by, 254–256.

penalties for assuming to be, 255.

practising, who deemed to be, 254.

practising assistant, who deemed to be, 253, 254.

PHARMACY, state board of, constitution, 254.

how appointed, 254.

organization of, 254.

duties, 254-256.

graduates in, who deemed to be, 253, 254.

PHONOGRAPHIC CLERK to report trials, &c., how appointed and duties of, 428, 473. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, penalty on for violating provisions relative to contagious

disease, 175.

to report births and deaths, 181.

penalty for neglect, 182.

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

may dispense medicines exempt from medicine and poison act, if not keeping store, 255. exempt from jury duty, 430.

exempt from military duty, 602.

of state's prison, appointment of and duties, 583-586.

forbidden to receive pay for signing certificates of military inability, 618, 619; penalty,

623.

PICKEREL, when not to be caught, 285; penalty, 285.

PICKLED FISH, how to be packed, assorted, and branded, 233, 234.

penalty for selling without inspection, 233.

PIGEONS, penalty for discharging fire-arms at certain seasons near baiting places for, 547.
PIGS, penalty for keeping in other than designated place, 169.

not to be kept within one hundred feet of district school, 132.
injured by dogs, damages for and recovery, 200-202.

PILOTS, how commissioned, 209; duties of, 209.

fees of, 209, 210; accounts when and how rendered, 210.

penalty for acting as, when commissioned pilot can be had, 210.
lien of, on vessels for, how long, 210.

complaints by or against, 210.

commissioners how appointed, 209; duties of, 209, 210.
compensation of, 210.

PINE BOARDS, how surveyed, graded, and marked, 236.

PLANK, inspectors and surveyors of, how appointed, 96.

bonds of, 97; duties and liabilities, 235, 238.

PLATES of dissolved bank to be destroyed in presence of state auditor and treasurer, 301. to be surrendered to supreme court or common pleas, 551.

penalty for neglect, 551.

PLATFORM SCALES to be sealed, 273.

penalty for using unsealed, 273, 274