The Literary echo, and Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1851-1854, 1854-03-23
Eaws of RHODE 1slano.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PRO.
VIDENCE PLANTATIONS.


cerning crimes and punshments."
Il is enacted By the General Assembly as
JollO,os:
Section l. Any Justice of the.P Peace
within his county, or Court exercising
the jurisdiction of Justice of the Peace
therein, before whom any person shall
be convicted of any crime or offence
within the jurisdiction of such Justice
or Court to try and determine, may, in
addition to the punishment prescribed
by law, require such person to enter
into recognizance with such sufficient
surety, and in such sum as the Justice
or Court shall direct, conditioned to keep
the peace towards all the people of this
State for certain time thereafter, not
exceeding eleven months and upon the
refusal or neglect Of such person to COM
ply with such requirement, the same
course shall be pursued as is provided,
on neglecting to comply with sentences
in cases Of threats.
Sec. 2. Every recognizance taken
in pursuance of the first section of this
act, shall be certified to the Clerk of the
Court of Common Pleas, next to be
holden in the same county, and filed by
the Clerk of said Court in the papers of
his said Office; and in case any person
under such recognizance shall fail to
perform the condition thereof, his default
shall be recorded, and process shall is
sue against the persons bound in such
recognizance, or such of them as the
General Assembly shall direct
Sec 3. Any person who shall be
surety in any such recognizance shall
have the same power and authority over
his principal as is provided in other
cases, by the one hundroth and seven
tieth section Of the the act to which this
is an amendment.
Sec. 4. All property, money or
estate taken or detained as evidence, in
any criminal cause, shall be subject to
the order of the Court, before which the
complaint or indictment shall be brought
Or pending.
Sec. 5. If any defendant charged
with the commission of any crime or
offence, after arrest upon complaint, or
after indictment found, shall have es-
capped, the Court before which any such
complaint or indictment shall bepend-
ing, may after the lapse of q reasonable
time return and restore any property or
estate held as aforesaid, to the owner
thereof
Sec. g.. This act shall 20 into effect
from and after its passage, and all acts
or parts of acts inconsistent herewith
are hereby repealed.
True copy-Attest:
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
AN ACT to repeal and expunge the pro-
test, declaration and resolutions passed
at a Special Session of the General
Assembly, in March, A. D. 1914.
II is enacted By the General assembly as
folloUs:
The protest, declaration and resolu.
tions passed by the General Assembly
at their March Session in 1914 ,denounc
ing Samuel Steerc, Olney Ballou, Oti
Wood, Cyrus Brown, Levi G. Eaton
George G. Carr, Anson Potter, Isaa,
Wilkinson, Eddy Keech, Gladding o
Thomas Buffum, Ariel Ballou, Femme
Brown, William Latham, Joseph T
Sisson, Jonathan Cole, Niles Westcott
and Richard Mowry, for exercising tn
right of petition to Congress, be and tn
same are hereby repealed and annulled
and the Secretary of State is directed t.
expunge the same from the records O
State, by drawing heavy black line
around each page of the same, and b,
writing upon the face of each page tn
words Expunged by order of the Gen
eral Assembly at their Session held b
adjournment in January, A. d. 1894
And the Secretary of State is hereb,
instructed to send a copy Of the fore
going to each of the Governors of tb
several States in the Union.
True copy-Attest:
A. POTTER, Sec'ry.
AN ACT to enlarge the powers Of tn
School Committees.
IL IS enaeted By tie General Assem5lv a
JollO,cs
Section /. Any school or asylum in
ccorporated by, or receiving aid from tn,
State, either by direct grant or by ex
emption from taxation, shall be liable I,
be examined or visited by the Schoo
Committee of the town or city in whicl
such institution is situated, wheneve
the committee shall see fit.