The Rhode-Island Republican. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1809-1841, 1836-03-02

that purpose.
SEC. 8. And be IL further enacted,
That if any person or persons shall here
after presume to make and execute any
deed or other conveyance of any estate
with dishonest intent, only TO qualify
the person or persons to whom such deed
or other instrument shall be made, 10 be
voter or voters, or shall take any prom
Use or assurance for reconveying such es-
tate to him or them, or 10 any other per-
son for his or their use and benefit and
shall be suspected of having made and
executed such deed or other conveyance,
with the intent aforesaid, which suspicion
shall be openly communicated to the mod
orator or warden of any town or ward
meeting by any freemen there present,
vote of such person or persons so suspect
ed shall not be received for any officer or
offices, unless he or they first purge him.
self or themselves of such sus icion by
oath or affirmation, TO be administered to
him or them by the moderator or warden
of the town or ward meeting, in the form
following, to wit:
You - do solemniy swear Tor af-
frm) that the conveyance, by you m ade
to - is just, true and honest con-
veyance, and that you did intend
thereby to rest in the said -
such an estate as is expressed in the said
instrument, for the consideration therein
mentioned and that you have not re-
ceived, and do not except any promise or
assurance of any nature or kind whatso-
ever for the reconveying of the said es-
tate, and that you do not expect any re-
conveyance of the same either TO your
self or to any other person for your use
and this declaration YOU make and give
without any evasion, or mental rescrva-
ton whatsoever, so help you Color,
this affirmation you make and give upon
the peril of the penalty of perjury: Pro-
rided dt,odys, that whenever any dispute
may arise respecting any persons resi-
dence, or other rights under this act, the
moderator or warden shall have authori-
ty TO examine under oath the person Of
fering to vote, anil other persons who may
be present, respecting the same.
Seq. And Le ii further enacted,
That whenever any moderator or warden
Of any town or ward meeting, shall be
suspected Of not being legally qualified
with sufficient estate or of fraudulent
| practices in procuring himself 10 pe quail
flied or for having made and executed
any deed or other conveyance TO any per-
son or persons, with an intent to qualify
him or them in a fraudulent manner, 1t
shall and may be lawful for any freemen
of said town or city, to challenge the vote
of said moderator or warden; which vote
shall not be received for any officer, ex-
cept such moderator or warden shall first
take the oath or affirmation herein before
directed to be taken by other persons
whose votes shall be challenged for the
like causes; which oath or affirmation
| shall be administered to the moderator by
the town clerk, and to the warden by the
ward clerk, in the respective towns. and
cities of this State.
SEC. 10. And be il further enacted,
That if any person or persons making or
receiyil O any deed or other conveyance
for the purpose mentioned in the eighth
section of this act, shall be thereof con-
vcted before the Justices of the Supreme
Judicial Court within and for this State,
who ale hereby empowered, upon indict-
ment. to enquire into the same, such per-
con or persons shall be declared, by said
court, to be utterly incapable, forever
thereafter, of sustaining any office, and
of voting for any officer in this State:
and that if any person or persons shall be
prosecuted for making or receiving such
/ f-o.,I..I.,t I..I afnrp-
said, they seyerally shall be allowed to
purge themselves Of said crime by oath
or affirmation before said court : and if
he or they shall refuse so to do, he or
they shall be adjudged guilty by said
court, and sentence shall be given accor-
dinghy: and the form of the oath or nfiir-
nation to be- administered to the person
or persons who made and executed such
suspected fraudulent deed or conveyance
shall be the same prescribed in the eighth
section Of this act /: aud the following
shall be the form of the oath or afhrma-
ton to be administered to the person or
persons who received such suspected
fraudulent deed or conveyance, to wit:
Yon -, do solemnly swear Tor afiirm)
that you were really and truly possessed
in your own right of the estate OF which
a conveyance has been made to you by
-, according TO the tenor of sand con-
veyance aud by virtue of the same: and
that you held and improved the said es-
tate, .o your own use, benefit and behoof,
and at the date Of said conveyance and
that you liase not at any time given any
promise of assurance, of any kind or ua-
ture whatsoever, that you would reconvey
other person or persons in his or their
behalf; and this declaration you make
and give, without any evasion, cquiyoca-