SEC. 41. Any defects in any such complaint and warrant, indictment, information or other proceeding, either of form or substance, may be amended either by the justice, or court exercising the jurisdiction of a justice, or other court, before whom the action, complaint and warrant, indictment, information or other proceeding is originally brought, may be pending.

SEC. 42. All cases of appeal, under the provisions of this chapter, from the judgment or sentence of a justice of the peace, or court exercising the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, and all informations and questions arising under the same, or under any complaint and warrant filed or made under the provisions of this chapter, shall, in the court of common pleas or in the supreme court, be conducted and argued by the attorney-general, in behalf of the state; and in every such case in said courts, in which the appellant, or defendant or person answering any information or complaint, shall be required to pay costs, the sum of six dollars shall be taxed in the bill of costs for the services of the attorneygeneral; for which sum, the clerk of said court, or other officer to whom such costs may be paid, shall account; and no costs in any such case shall be remitted or reduced.

SEC. 43. In addition to the fees now allowed by law, the justice of the peace or court exercising the jurisdiction of a justice of the peace, shall be entitled to receive for taking any bond under the provisions of this chapter, the sum of fifty cents; any officer required thereby to complain or inform against any liquors seized under the same, shall be entitled to be allowed three dollars for so complaining or informing; and no entry in the court of common pleas shall be charged or paid on any such information; the officer serving the warrant or process of seizure of any liquors shall be allowed for the same, one dollar; and for removing of any liquors so seized, to a place of safety, all expenses by him incurred in the removal, care and custody of said liquors, and the sum of one dollar said fees shall be included in the bill of costs and taxed against the defendant.

SEC. 44. All payments or compensations for liquors sold in violation of law, whether in money, labor or personal property, shall be held and considered, as between the parties to such sale, to have been received in violation of law, without consideration, and against equity and good conscience: and in any action either at law or equity touching such money, labor or personal estate, the purchaser and also the seller of such liquors may be a witness for either party, and although a party to such action.

SEC. 45. If any person not authorized under this chapter, shall sell any ale, wine, rum or other strong or malt liquors, or mixed liquors as aforesaid to any person, he shall be liable for all injuries which such person may commit while in a state of intoxication arising from drinking the liquors sold as aforesaid, in an action on the case in favor of the person injured.

SEC. 46. No action of any kind shall be had or maintained in any court of this state, for the possession or value of any liquors held, purchased or sold, contrary to the provisions of this chapter.

SECTION 1. No person shall for pay exhibit any theatrical performance, or rope or wire dancing, or other show or performance, without a license from the town council of the town in which such exhibition may be given, unless such exhibition shall be given in a hall licensed as hereinafter provided.

SEC. 2. The town council of the town where any such exhibition shall be desired to be given, may license such exhibition, and subject the same, in such license, to such regulations and restrictions, as such town council may prescribe.

SEC. 3. Said town council may grant a license, for a term not exceeding one year, under such restrictions and regulations as they shall think proper, to the owner of any house, room, or hall in the town, for the purpose of permitting exhibitions therein, which license shall be revocable at the pleasure of said town council.

SEC. 4. Said town council may appoint constables or other proper officers at the expense of such person, or owner of such hall as aforesaid, to attend any such exhibition, whose duty it shall be to preserve order, and to execute the orders of said council.

SEC. 5. Any person who shall permit any such exhibition, in any house, room, or hall, to him belonging, or under his control, without a license being first had for such exhibition or house, room or hall, as herein provided, shall forfeit fifty dollars for each offence; and every person acting or performing in any such exhibition, without such license therefor, or for said house, room or hall, as aforesaid, being first had, shall forfeit two hundred dollars. SEC. 6. Said town council shall demand and receive of every person to whom a license shall be granted under the provisions of the first section of this chapter, a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars nor less than one dollar; and, of the owner of any house, room or hall, licensed as aforesaid, such sum as such council shall deem proper.

SEC. 7. All sums received for licenses, as aforesaid, shall be paid, one half thereof to the town treasurer for the use of the town, and the other half thereof to the general treasurer for the use of the state.

CHAPTER 80.

OF BOWLING-ALLEYS, BILLIARD TABLES AND SHOOTING GAL

SECTION

LERIES.

1. Bowling-alleys in compact parts of towns except Providence prohibited under penalty.

2. Pistol or rifle gallery in compact part of Newport prohibited; penalty.

3. Town council to define limits.

4. Penalty for neglect to comply with orders of town councils.

SECTION

5. Owner of premises deemed keeper of bowling-alley or billiard table.

6. Regulations relating to bowling-alleys in Providence.

7. Town councils to collect tax for keep-
ing bowling-alleys, &c.

8. Tax, of whom to be collected.
9. How collected and appropriated.

SECTION 1. Any person who shall keep any bowling-alley, in the compact part of any town, except the city of Providence, shall be fined two hundred dollars for the first offence, and five hundred dollars for the second offence.

SEC. 2. Any person who shall keep any pistol gallery, rifle gallery, or other building or inclosure where fire-arms are used for practising in firing with ball or shot, in the compact part of the city of Newport, shall be fined two hundred dollars for the first offence, and five hundred dollars for each subsequent offence.

SEC. 3. The town council of each town shall define the limits of the compact part of such town; which limits shall be taken and deemed to comprehend the compact part of such town within the meaning of this chapter.

SEC. 4. The keeper of any bowling-alley or billiard table who shall refuse or neglect to comply with any order or decree relating thereto which any town council shall be authorized to make, shall be fined fifty dollars.

SEC. 5. The owner or occupier of the premises on which any bowling-alley or billiard table is situated, shall be deemed and taken as the keeper of such bowling-alley or billiard table within the meaning of the provisions of this chapter.

SEC. 6. The board of aldermen of the city of Providence may regulate bowling-alleys in said city, and make orders as to the manner of building the same, and the hours during which they may be used; and in case of any such order being disobeyed, they may issue their warrant directed to the city sergeant or to any constable, commanding him to take up and destroy any bowlingalley which may be kept in violation of any such order; and it shall be the duty of any city sergeant or constable to whom any such warrant may be delivered, forthwith to execute the same.

SEC. 7. The town council of each town shall assess, levy and collect a tax, not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor less than twenty-five dollars, per annum, on any person who shall own or keep a billiard table for public use and profit in such town for each billiard table by him kept; and a tax not exceeding twenty-five

dollars, nor less than five dollars, per annum, on any person who shall own or keep a bowling-alley in such town except in the city of Providence, for each bowling-alley by him kept: and a tax not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum on any person who shall own or keep a bowling-alley in said city of Providence for each bowling-alley by him kept, and a tax not exceeding two hundred dollars per annum on any person who shall own or keep a pistol gallery, rifle gallery, or other building or inclosure referred to in the second section hereof.

SEC. 8. The town council may assess, levy and collect the tax aforesaid, for any billiard table or bowling-alley, on any person who shall own or occupy the house or building in which such billiard table or bowling-alley shall be kept.

SEC. 9. Such taxes shall be collected in the manner prescribed for the collection of town taxes, and appropriated, the one half thereof to the use of the town in which such tax shall be collected, and the other half to the use of the state.

SECTION 1. If any person shall fire any rifle, gun, musket, blunderbuss or pistol, in or across any road, street, square or lane, he shall be fined not less than three dollars nor more than twenty dollars.

SEC. 2. If any person shall make a bonfire in any public street, road, square or lane, without special permission from the town council of the town in which the same shall be made, he shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars.

SEC. 3. If any person shall fire any rifle, musket, fowling-piece, pistol or other small arms, not being under military duty at the time, within the limits of any town in the state on the first day of the week, except upon land owned or occupied by him, or by permission of the owner or occupant of the land on and into which he may shoot, he shall be fined not exceeding ten dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding ten days.

SEC. 4. If any person shall fire any rifle, musket, fowling-piece,

pistol or other small arms, not being at the time under military duty, on any other day of the week than Sunday, except upon land owned or occupied by him, or by permission of the owner or occupant of the land on or into which he may shoot, within the following limits, viz.: the city of Providence, excepting the public waters and the public rivers therein; such parts of the towns of Cranston and Johnston as are contained within the following limits, to wit: beginning on the Pawtuxet road, at the Providence line; thence running southerly on said Pawtuxet road until it comes to the cross road leading to the Cranston road; thence northerly and westerly with said cross road and Cranston road until it comes to the road which leads over Rockyhill to Johnston meeting-house; thence northerly with said last-mentioned road until it meets the Johnston road near Johnston meeting-house; thence easterly with said Johnston road until it comes to the line of Providence, to the place of beginning; or on land within one mile from the state house in the town of Bristol; and the whole town of North Providence; he shall be fined five dollars for the first offence, and ten dollars for every subsequent offence.

SEC. 5. If any person shall sell, offer for sale, enkindle or use, or suffer to be sold, offered for sale, enkindled or used by his wife, children or servants or other persons whomsoever, any rocket, cracker, squib or other fire-works of a combustible nature ordinarily used for exhibition or amusement, unless he shall previously obtain special license from the town council of the town, and for the purpose of exhibition on a suitable occasion, he shall be fined ten dollars for each offence.

SEC. 6. If any person shall fire any gun, rifle, musket or blunderbuss in any road, street, lane or tavern, or other public house, after sun-setting and before sun-rising, he shall be fined five dollars for the first offence, and seven dollars for every subsequent offence.

SEC. 7. No complaint for a violation of any of the provisions of this chapter shall be sustained unless the same shall be brought within thirty days after the commission of the offence, and all fines for such violations shall enure one half thereof to the complainant and the other half to the state.

SECTION 1. The city councils of any cities, and the town councils of any towns may make such ordinances concerning dogs in