SEC. 2. There shall be annexed to such ordinances suitable penalties not exceeding, for any one breach thereof, a fine of ten dollars, or, instead of such fine, the offender may be committed for a period not exceeding one year to any such institution of instruction, or suitable situation, as may be provided for that purpose under the authority given in the section next preceding: Provided, that no child shall be sent to any place used for the reception of criminals, or to any reform school.

SEC. 3. Such ordinances and by-laws shall not take effect until approved by the commissioner of public schools.

SEC. 4. The several towns, availing themselves of the provisions of this chapter shall appoint, at their annual town meetings, or annually by their town councils, three or more persons, who alone shall be authorized to make the complaints, in case of violation of said ordinances or by-laws, to the justice of the peace, or court which, by said ordinances shall have jurisdiction in the matter; and said persons thus appointed shall alone have authority to carry into execution the judgment of said justice or court.

SECTION 1. No person shall be excluded from any public school in the district to which such person belongs, if the town is divided into districts, or if not so divided, from the nearest public school, on account of being over fifteen years of age, nor except by force of some general regulation applicable to all persons under the same circumstances, and in no case on account of the inability of himself, his parents, guardian or employer, to pay any rate bill, tax

or assessment whatever.

SEC. 2. All school officers appointed under the provisions of this title, except the moderator of a district meeting, shall take an engagement before some judge, senator, justice or warden, notary, town clerk, member of the town council, or chairman or clerk of the school committee, to support the constitution of the United

States, the constitution and laws of this state, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their several offices, so long as they continue therein.

SEC. 3. The clerk of the district may take the engagement in open district meeting, before the moderator, or any magistrate present, and the clerk's record that any district officer has been duly engaged, shall be prima facie evidence thereof; and all district school officers may be engaged by the clerk of the district.

SEC. 4. If any school officer shall not take such engagement within a reasonable time, he shall be fined one dollar, but all acts of such officers otherwise lawful, shall be valid from the time of their election or appointment.

SEC. 5. All officers under the provisions of this title shall, without a new engagement, hold their offices until the time of the next annual election or appointment for such office, and until other persons are appointed in their places.

SEC. 6. Any officer who shall make any false certificate, or appropriate any public school money to any purpose not authorized by law, or who shall refuse for a reasonable charge to give certified copies of any official paper, or to account or deliver to his successor, any accounts, papers or money in his hands, or shall wilfully or knowingly refuse to perform any duty of his office, or violate any provisions of any law regulating public schools, except where a particular penalty may be prescribed, shall be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, and shall besides be liable to suit for damages by any person injured thereby.

SEC. 7. Any such officer refusing to account or to deliver over any accounts, papers or moneys to his successor in office, shall, in addition to the foregoing penalty, be liable to a suit therefor to be brought by such successor.

SEC. 8. Any school or asylum incorporated by or receiving aid from the state, either by direct grant or by exemption from taxation, shall be liable to be examined or visited by the school committee of the town or city in which such institution is situated, whenever the committee shall see fit.

SEC. 9. Any such institution refusing to admit such committee, when requested, shall be fined one hundred dollars; and their exemption from taxation shall thereafter cease and be determined.

SEC. 10. If any person shall keep any swine, of any description, in any pen or other inclosure, or who shall keep or suffer to be kept any other nuisance within one hundred feet of any district school-house, or within one hundred feet of any fence inclosing the yard of any such school-house, he shall be fined twenty dollars, one half thereof to and for the use of the school district in which said offence is committed, and the other half thereof to and for the use of the state.

SEC. 11. In the construction of this title, except in the construction of the seventieth chapter thereof and the eighth and ninth sections of this chapter, the word town shall include the city of Providence only so far as to entitle said city to a distributive share

of the public money, upon making a report to the commissioner in the same manner as the school committees of other towns are required to do.

SEC. 12. The public schools in said city shall continue as heretofore to be governed according to such ordinances and regulations as the proper city authorities may from time to time adopt.

TITLE XIV.

Of Internal Police.

CHAPTER 72. Of nuisances.

CHAPTER 73. Of the suppression of certain nuisances.

CHAPTER 74. Of regulations for the prevention of infectious and contagious diseases.

CHAPTER 75. Of quarantine.

CHAPTER 76. Of the registration of births, deaths and marriages.

CHAPTER 77. Of licensed houses.

CHAPTER 78. Of the suppression of intemperance.

CHAPTER 79. Of shows and exhibitions.

CHAPTER 80. Of bowling-alleys, billiard tables and shooting galleries.

CHAPTER 81. Of fire-arms and fireworks.

CHAPTER 82. Of dogs.

CHAPTER 83. Of birds.

CHAPTER 84. Of stakes and buoys.

CHAPTER 85. Of pilots and pilotage in Pawtucket river.

CHAPTER 86. Of wrecks and shipwrecked goods cast upon Block Island. CHAPTER 87. Of sea-weed.

SECTION

5. Penalty for slaughtering in such places
after notice.

6. Towns liable for damages consequent
upon the withdrawal of such right.
7. Farmers may slaughter their cattle on
their own premises.

SECTION

8. Town councils may prohibit burials in compact parts of town.

9. Town councils may designate places for the manufacture of any article or substance.

SECTION 1. If nuisances or other causes injurious to the health of the inhabitants of any town, shall not be removed by the person permitting or erecting the same, pursuant to any order or regulation of the town council of the town, it shall be the duty of the town council thereupon to adopt such measures as they shall deem effectual for the removal of such nuisances, or other causes injurious to the health of the inhabitants as aforesaid, at the proper charge and expense of the person erecting or permitting the same. SEC. 2. The sheriff, his deputies, and the town sergeants and constables of the several towns, shall execute all such precepts and orders as shall be to them directed by said town councils for carrying into execution the provisions of the section next preceding.

SEC. 3. The town councils of the several towns shall have power to designate and establish the place or places where the business of slaughtering cattle and other animals shall be carried on, which place or places, when so designated and established, shall vest in the occupant or owner thereof, a right to the use and occupancy of said place or places for the purposes aforesaid, until the same be withdrawn or suspended in the manner hereinafter provided.

SEC. 4. Whenever in the judgment of the town council of any town, the convenience or health of said town requires that the right of slaughtering, as provided in the section next preceding, should be withdrawn or suspended, the said town council may suspend or withdraw said right, first giving to the owner or occupant of such place or places, two months notice in writing of the intention to suspend or withdraw the same.

SEC. 5. Any person who shall, after such notice has been given as aforesaid, commence or continue to exercise or carry on the business of slaughtering cattle or other animals, in such place or places, shall be fined fifty dollars for every day during which he shall continue to exercise or carry on the business aforesaid.

SEC. 6. In case of the suspension or withdrawal by any town council of the said right to slaughter cattle or other animals, the said town shall be liable to the person to whom such right has been granted, for any loss or damage consequent upon the withdrawal or suspension of said right, to be recovered at a special court of common pleas, in the manner provided by law, for cases within the jurisdiction of said court.

SEC. 7. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive any farmer, not engaged or concerned in the business of slaughtering cattle or other animals, from erecting or continuing to use any building on his premises, for the purpose of slaughtering his own cattle or other animals from time to time as before accustomed to do.

SEC. 8. Town councils of the several towns shall have power to prohibit burials in the compact or thickly populated parts of any town, and to make such by-laws and ordinances relating to the same, and the use of grounds for burials in such localities as they may think necessary for preserving the health of such neighborhood, and to enforce such ordinances in the manner provided in the first and second sections of this chapter.

SEC. 9. The provisions of the third, fourth and fifth sections of this chapter shall extend to the place of any manufacture of, or of working in, any article, product or substance: Provided that prior to any action of the town council under this section, public notice of the pendency of any petition therefor shall be given in such mode and for such time as said council shall prescribe.

SECTION 1. All buildings, places or tenements used as houses of ill fame, resorted to for prostitution, lewdness, or for illegal gaming, and all grogshops, tippling-shops, or buildings, places, or tenements used for the illegal sale or keeping of intoxicating liquors, or where intemperate, idle, dissolute, noisy or disorderly persons are in the habit of resorting, are hereby declared to be common nuisances, and are to be regarded as such.

SEC. 2. Any person keeping or maintaining any such common nuisance shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned not less than sixty days nor more than one year, such person to be proceeded against by indictment.

SEC. 3. It shall not be necessary to prove an actual sale of intoxicating liquors in any building, place or tenement, in order to establish the character of such premises as a common nuisance, but the notorious character of any such premises, or the notoriously bad or intemperate character of persons visiting the same, or the keeping of the implements or appurtenances usually appertaining to grogshops, tippling-shops, or places where intoxicating