General Laws of Rhode Island: Revision of 1909

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E.L. Freeman Company, printers to the state, 1909 - Law - 1408 pages

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CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES	1

CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE	17

ARTICLES OF AMENDMENT	35

TITLE I	61

Of the rights and qualifications of voters	68

Of towns	75

Of the election of representatives in the congress of the United	142

TITLE III	154

Of protection to life from fire in certain buildings	467

Of the inspection of buildings to prevent fires	473

Of diminishing danger to life in case of fire	474

Of the board of fire commissioners of the city of Providence and of the inspection of places within said city where dangerous ar ticles are manufactur...	477

Of fire inquests and fire marshals	478

Of firearms and fireworks	480

Of dogs	482

Of birds	490

TITLE IV	160

Of the tenure of office and of the qualifications of certain officers	175

Of the state board of accountancy and of certified public account	179

TITLE VI	188

TITLE VII	204

TITLE IX	242

Of the arms the seal and the flag of the state	263

Of the board of education	264

Of the commissioner of public schools	266

Of the appropriation for public schools	268

Of the powers and duties of towns and of the town treasurer and town clerk relating to public schools	270

Of the powers and duties of school committees	273

Of teachers	276

Of the pensioning of school teachers in this state	277

Of legal proceedings relating to public schools	278

Of the normal school teachers institutes and lectures	279

Of truant children and of the attendance of children in the public schools	280

General provisions relating to public schools	283

General provisions to secure a more uniform high standard in the public schools of this state	285

Of enabling towns to condemn land for school purposes	286

Of the Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts	288

Of state beneficiaries at the Rhode Island School of Design	291

Of factory inspection	292

Of the state census	297

Of the commissioner of industrial statistics	299

Of free employment offices	300

TITLE XI	302

Of repairing highways and bridges	313

Of the construction improvement and maintenance of state roads	322

Of the state sidepath commission and in relation to sidepaths and cycle paths	325

Of registering automobiles motor cars and motor cycles and for licensing operators thereof	327

Of travelling on highways and of guideposts	335

Of width of tires upon vehicles using the highways of the state	338

Of certain bridges	339

Of the construction of ditches and drains	340

Of franchises in highways	341

TITLE XII	343

Of the settlement of paupers	344

Of the support and discipline of paupers	345

Of keeping out and removing paupers	349

Of the maintenance of bastard children	354

TITLE XIII	357

the indigent insane	358

cessive and dangerous use of alcohol and poisonous drugs	369

TITLE XIV	370

Of the Judah Touro ministerial fund	372

Of provision for the education of deaf blind and imbecile children	373

Of the Rhode Island Institute for the Deaf	374

Of the State Home and School for Children	376

Of the establishment maintenance management and control of the Rhode Island School for the FeebleMinded	379

Of the Rhode Island Soldiers Home	382

Of burial of honorablydischarged soldiers	386

Of appropriations for the Prisoners Aid Association	388

Of nuisances	389

Of the suppression of certain nuisances	393

Of the regulation of offensive trades in cities	396

Of regulations for the prevention of infectious and contagious diseases	398

Of nuisances caused by smoke	404

Of the board of trustees for the state sanatorium	405

Of the regulation of the practice of barbering	407

Of quarantine	411

Of the state board of health	415

Of the protection of health in hotels and boardinghouses	417

Of sanitary accommodations in foundries	418

Of the prevention of pollution of the sources of the water supply of certain cities and towns	419

Of contagious disease among cattle	420

Of the Rhode Island state board of agriculture	422

Of the registration of births death and marriages	429

Of licensed houses	435

Of the suppression of intemperance	437

Of shows and exhibitions	456

Of bowling alleys billiard tables and shooting galleries	459

Of pawnbrokers	461

Of private detectives	465

Of ferrets weasels hares gray squirrels and deer	495

Of cruelty to animals	497

Of wrongs to children	501

Of the support of delinquent neglected or dependent children	505

Of licensing and regulating the receiving boarding and keeping of infants	507

Of stakes and buoys	508

Of pilots and pilotage	510

Of the protection of navigation	512

Of wrecks and shipwrecked goods	519

Of sea weed	525

Of the protection of certain religious meetings	526

Of watermills	527

Of municipal watersupply	529

Of the inspection of milldams and reservoirs	532

Of windmills	535

Of fences	536

Of pounds	540

Of animals doing damage and of foxes	542

Of estrays	546

TITLE XVII	547

Of the inspection of hides and leather	553

Of the inspection of lime	554

Of the inspection of fish	555

Of the inspection and survey of lumber	557

Of the inspection of hoops	562

Of the inspection of scythestones	563

Of the inspection of saleratus soda and cream of tartar	565

Of the sale of cotton	567

Of thread	568

Of the sale of oils	569

Of the inspection sale and keeping of inflammable and explosive fluids	570

Of the weight of neatcattle	572

Of the sale of butter potatoes onions berries nuts and shelled beans	573

Of milk	575

Of vinegar	580

Of the sale of firewood and charcoal	582

Of the sale of fish for manure	583

Of the assay of liquors	584

Of medicines and poisons	586

Of hay and straw	592

Of commercial fertilizers	593

Of the sale of concentrated commercial feedingstuffs	599

TITLE XVIII	607

Of itinerant venders	624

Of weights and measures	631

Of gauging	638

TITLE XIX	648

TITLE XX	676

Of certain fisheries	687

Of the fisheries in Pawcatuck river	696

General provisions for the protection of fisheries	702

Of manufacturing corporations	718

TITLE XXII	797

TITLE XXIII	835

TITLE XXIV	845

Of the Indian tribe	867

TITLE XXVII	910

TITLE XXVIII	933

TITLE XXIX	947

Of the reporter and reports of the supreme court	959

TITLE XXX	994

ment	1003

TITLE XXXI	1053

TITLE XXXII	1099

TITLE XXXIV	1177

TITLE XXXV	1194

TITLE XXXVI	1243

Of offences against the public peace and property	1254

TITLE XXXVII	1300

Of fugitives from justice and protection of officers of adjoining	1312

TITLE XXXVIII	1320

Of the board of female visitors to institutions where women	1340

TITLE XL	1361

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Title	General Laws of Rhode Island: Revision of 1909
Author	Rhode Island
Contributor	Rhode Island. Commission to Arrange and Consolidate the Statutes
Publisher	E.L. Freeman Company, printers to the state, 1909
Original from	the University of Michigan
Digitized	Feb 6, 2012
Length	1408 pages

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