The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1853-03-03
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Providence Plantations.
In General assembly, Jan. Session, 1868
AN ACT in relation to the salary of the
Commissioner of Public Schools.
II is enacted by the General Assembly as
foiiotcs. @
Section l. The salary of the Com
missioner Of Public Schools shall be
eight hundred dollars per annum, pay
able out of the General Treasury.
True copy-attest,
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
AN ACT in relation to the sentence of
criminals during the pendency of
sentence under prior conviction.
1t is enacted by the General assembly as
foliO,cs:
Section l. Whenever any person
shall be convicted Of any offence punish
able by Imprisonment, such person being
at the time under sentence of imprison-
ment on former conviction, the court
passing such subsequent sentence may,
and they are hereby empowered to SEN
tence said person to the term of impris-
ment provided by law, to commence at
the expiration of the term of imprison-
ment under any former sentence.
True copy-attest:
A. POTTER, Secr'y.
AN ACT to enable the town of North
Providence to appoint Commissioners
of Highways.
H,s enacted by the General assembly as
follotcs:
Section l. The town of North Prov
idence is hereby authorized at their an
nual town meeting for the choice Of
town officers, to choose such number of
Commissioners of Highways as they shall
t see fit.
Sec. g. Such Commissioners of High
r ways shall have all the powers and dutIe,
of the Surveyors of Highways, as now
J., defined by law, and may be clothed with
f such additional powers with respect to
c the repairing of the highways as the
e town by bye laws or town ordinances
J. shall see fit to prescribe.
IS True copy-attes
h A. POTTER, Secr'y.
D AN ACT in addition to the act entitled
J. can act to revise and amend the sew.
- eral acts in relation to the election o
civil officers"
is 1t is enacted by the General assembly a
a foliotos:
q Section \. All town meetings il
, . Newport for any Of the purposes men
re toned in the twenty ninth section of tn
70 act to which this act is in amendment
,e shall be opened at eight o'clock in tn
d morning and closed at eight o'clock il
,e the evening.
70 Sec. 3. So much of the act aforesaic
,e as is inconsistent herewith, is hereby re
it pealed. True copy-attest,
r. A. POTTER, Secr'y.
AN ACT in addition to the act entitle,
or "an act concerning crimes and pun
so ishments."
sh 1t is enacted by the General assembly a
n follons.
me Section l. Ever person who shall /
est convicted of maliciously firing, betwee
o,o the first days of April and November
any year, any gun, musket, blunderbu
ID. or pistol, within eighty rods of any bal
d. ing place not his own property, and az
Die tual ly used, in the proper season there
lie for, for the batting and netting of will
er pigeons, shall be fined not exceedin
be twenty dollars nor less than five dollars
ed Sec. 2 Every person who shall b
x. convicted Of strewing or placing an
it powder or birthstone or other sulphuror
ir- substance upon any batting place not h
he own property, or Of burning thereon an
rs. Of said substances saturated with tar {
in turpentine, shall be fined not less tina
FIVE or more than twenty dollars.
Sec. 3. All fines and penalties und
the proceeding sections of this act sha
at be recovered by like processes as is pr
10 scribed in the act to which this is in a.
dition. True copy-attest:
- A. POTTER, Secr'y.
al AN ACT in amendm mt of an act ent
III III tied "an act in amendment of an a
W no entitled an act for the preservation
Vu ~. oysters and other shell-fsh within tb
'he State"
md nj, sno.,.d h., u. c.,.ro, a..s,,,,,,
be foiiocs:
'ou Section l. Any person convicted
of taking and carrying away oysters fro