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their respective cities and towns as they shall deem expedient; to be enforced by the destruction of the animal, or by pecuniary alties not exceeding five dollars, to be recovered by action of debt, or by complaint and warrant, to such use as such city council or town council may prescribe.

SEC. 2. The town council of any town may impose such yearly tax upon every person in their town who shall own or keep any dog, for every dog owned or kept, as they shall judge proper; and also make such laws to prevent damage being done to flocks of sheep and cattle as they may deem necessary.

SEC. 3. When any person shall have any sheep or cattle worried, torn or killed by any dog, he shall recover his damages against the owner of such dog, in an action on the case, with costs of suit; and if afterwards any damage be done by such dog to any sheep or cattle, the owner of such dog shall pay to the party aggrieved, double the damages; to be recovered in manner as aforesaid; and an order shall be made by the court before whom such second recovery shall be had, for killing such dog, and the same shall be done accordingly by the officer who shall be charged therewith.

SECTION 1. Any person who shall take, kill or destroy any lark, robin, wood duck, grey duck or black duck, between the first day of February and the first day of September, or shall kill or expose for sale, any quail, partridge or woodcock, between the first day of January and the twentieth day of September; or any snipe between the first day of May and the twentieth day of September; or shall take, kill or destroy any grass plover, between the first day of February and the first day of August; or shall take, kill, or destroy any grouse, or heath-hen, between the first day of January and the first day of November; or shall, within the respective times aforesaid, sell, buy or have in his possession, any of the said birds, taken or killed as aforesaid, shall forfeit, for each such bird, two dollars.

SEC. 2. Any person who shall take, kill or destroy any swallow or box martin, between the first day of May and the first day of October, shall forfeit for every such bird two dollars.

SEC. 3. Any person who shall, between the first day of February

and the first day of September, shoot at or kill any bird, upon land not owned or occupied by himself, and without permission from the owner or occupant thereof, shall forfeit and pay to the owner or occupant thereof five dollars for the first offence, and ten dollars for every subsequent offence, in addition to the damage sustained.

SEC. 4. All forfeitures recovered by virtue of the first, or second sections hereof, shall enure to the complainant, and all actions for the recovery of the same, shall be commenced within three months from the commission of the offence, and not afterwards.

SECTION 1. Each and every owner and each and every person having the charge of any vessel, scow, boat or raft of any kind, which shall be made fast to any stake or buoy which has been or shall be placed, at the expense of the United States, for the security and direction of vessels, either in Providence river or in any part of Narragansett bay, or the waters thereof north of Kinnimicut point, or in Warren river, and each and every person who shall in any way injure or destroy any of the said stakes and buoys placed as aforesaid, shall forfeit not exceeding ten dollars, nor less than three dollars; two thirds thereof to the use of the United States, in order to replace such stake or buoy, and the other third to the person who shall sue for the same.

SEC. 2. For any offence aforesaid committed in Providence river or in any part of Narragansett bay or the waters thereof north of Kinnimicut point, the action may be brought in the county of Providence or Kent, and the part of the forfeiture belonging to the United States as aforesaid for such offence, shall be paid to the collector of the district of Providence; and for any offence aforesaid committed in Warren river, the action may be brought in the county of Bristol, and the part of the forfeiture belonging to the United States as aforesaid for such offence shall be paid to the collector of the district of Bristol; and all forfeitures that may accrue under the section next preceding shall be sued for within six months after they shall accrue.

SEC. 3. Every person who shall make fast any ship, vessel,

scow, boat or raft of any kind to the buoy on the shoal south of Kinnimicut point, or to the stakes on said point, or to the flagstaff on the half-way rock or to any stake which has been or may be placed at the mouth of Bristol harbor, or to any of the moorings of said buoys, and the master or owner of such ship, vessel, scow, boat or raft, shall forfeit not exceeding twenty dollars, nor less than five dollars; to be recovered in the county of Kent, Bristol or Providence; one third thereof to the use of the person who shall sue for the same, and the other two thirds to be paid to the collector of the customs within whose district the offence shall be committed, for the use of the United States.

SEC. 4. The captain, owner or owners of every ship or vessel that shall, by running against or otherwise, injure the beacon on Castle Island at the entrance of Bristol harbor, or any buoy placed or hereafter to be placed, at the expense of the United States, in any of the waters of the Narragansett bay south of Kinnimicut point, or the stakes on said point, or in any way injure, destroy or remove the chains or anchors by which they are or shall be moored, shall forfeit not exceeding thirty six dollars, nor less than twelve dollars; provided the same is done intentionally or negligently, to be recovered in the county of Kent or Newport; and to be distributed, paid and appropriated in the manner herein before pointed out.

SECTION 1. The governor may appoint some suitable person to execute the office of commissioner of pilots for the waters of this state known as the Pawtucket river, who shall hold his office for the term of one year from the day of his appointment, and until some one is appointed in his stead, or until he is otherwise removed.

SEC. 2. The said commissioner shall in his discretion grant branches or commissions for pilots on said river, to such persons as shall sustain a satisfactory examination, and shall produce evidence of good moral character, and shall understand the waters of said river, as well as how to work in a seamanlike manner any kind of vessel commonly used in navigating said river.

SEC. 3. The commissioner may, upon satisfactory evidence of misconduct, carelessness or neglect, suspend any such pilots for such length of time as to him shall seem proper, or he may revoke his branch or commission altogether.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of all persons receiving branches or commissions as aforesaid, to place and maintain at their own proper and joint expense, a sufficient number of stakes or buoys along said river, to enable them to navigate vessels up and down the same by night as well as by day.

SEC. 5. Any person injuring or removing any of said buoys or stakes, shall be fined twenty dollars for each offence, one half thereof to the use of the complainant and the other to the use of the state.

SEC. 6. The rates of pilotage for eacn trip, including both ways, shall be as follows, viz.:

For every vessel laden with coal, the quantity being seventy tons or less, four dollars; the quantity being more than seventy tons and less than one hundred and twenty-five tons, five dollars; the quantity being one hundred and twenty-five tons or more, six dollars.

For every vessel laden with lumber, six dollars.

For every vessel laden with other merchandise, five dollars.

SEC. 7. In case any of said pilots shall offer his services to navigate any vessel up or down said river, such vessel not having any of said pilots on board, and the master of such vessel shall refuse to accept the services so offered, said vessel shall be liable to pay full pilotage in the same manner as if the pilot had been accepted.

CHAPTER 86.

OF WRECKS AND SHIPWRECKED GOODS CAST UPON BLOCK ISLAND.

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15. Compensation to be allowed by general treasurer to commissioner for services and expenses.

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16. Liability of commissioner for neglect. 17. Commissioner may appoint a deputy; duties of deputy.

SECTION 1. The governor, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, shall appoint in the town of New Shoreham, a commissioner of wrecks and shipwrecked goods, who shall be removable at the pleasure of the governor.

SEC. 2. The said commissioner shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of his duty, and shall give bond therefor to the general treasurer, with sufficient sureties, to the acceptance of said general treasurer, in the sum of five thousand dollars; and any person having a claim against any such commissioner for any breach or neglect of his official duty, may have a remedy therefor by a suit on his bond, to be prosecuted in the name of the general treasurer. SEC. 3. He shall, immediately on receiving information of any shipwreck, or of the finding of any shipwrecked goods or property of any kind in value to the amount of twenty dollars or more, upon the shore of the island of Block Island, repair to the place where the said property may be found, and in case the same shall not be in the custody of any owner or agent, he shall take charge thereof, and shall preserve and secure the same for the owner.

SEC. 4. The commissioner in such case may employ as many persons as he shall think necessary to assist in preserving the property, and he may appoint guards to secure the property, and may suppress all tumults and disorders.

SEC. 5. If any person shall disobey any lawful order of the commissioner, given in discharging the duties of his office, he shall forfeit for every such offence, not more than twenty dollars, to be recovered in an action in the name of the commissioner, to the use of the town of New Shoreham.

SEC. 6. The said commissioner shall, on every such occasion, take an inventory of all the property that shall come into his possession; and when required by the owner of the property or his agent, or by any insurance company or underwriter, or other person interested in said property, he shall make oath to the truth of such inventory, and shall deliver a copy thereof, together with all the said property, to the owner, agent or other person lawfully authorized to receive it: Provided, that there shall be paid, or secured to be paid, to the commissioner, a reasonable compensation for his services and expenses, and such custom-house duties and other charges, if any, as he shall have paid or become liable to pay upon or for the property in question.

SEC. 7. If the commissioner and the other party shall not agree on the sum so due the commissioner, the case may be submitted to three arbitrators for settlement, one of said arbitrators shall be chosen by the commissioner, one by the other party, and the third by the two already selected; they shall be citizens of this state, and, unless objection is raised by the commissioner or the other party, resident voters of the town of New Shoreham. If objection