final judgment with effect, or in default thereof to pay the costs that may accrue thereon, such justice shall issue his warrant to seize the article or articles so offered for sale; together with all other prohibited merchandise then in the immediate possession of the person complained of, with the packs, packages, carriage and horse, or other vehicle upon or in which the same shall have been transported; and to summon such person to appear before him and show cause why all such property should not be adjudged forfeited; and if upon trial it shall appear that such complaint is true, then all such property so seized shall be forfeited.

SEC. 4. The general treasurer may grant and issue, to any person he may deem suitable, a license for offering for sale and for selling as a hawker and peddler, watches, jewelry, gold or silver ware, or articles manufactured of German silver, upon the payment of the sum of two hundred dollars for the use of the state; and a license for offering for sale and for selling any other goods, wares or merchandise whatever, upon payment of the sum of one hundred dollars, for the use of the state.

SEC. 5. The sum of one dollar shall be paid to the general treasurer for his trouble, for each license, by the person applying there

for.

SEC. 6. The general treasurer shall, at the time of issuing such license, enter upon a list kept for that purpose, the name of the person so licensed, the kind of license, and the time of the expiration of such license; and shall also furnish to any person who may request it, a statement copied from said list of all such licenses as may be or may have been in force in any year designated by the person requesting such statement; and every such license shall continue in force for and during the term of one year from the granting thereof, and no longer; and shall authorize only the person named therein, to sell and offer for sale as aforesaid.

SEC. 7. If any person selling or offering for sale as a hawker or peddler, any goods, wares or merchandise whatever, shall, after being by any inhabitant of this state, or any person having a license under this chapter, distinctly requested to show his license, neglect or refuse for the space of ten minutes, to show a license then in force according to the provisions of this chapter, and allow the same to be read, every such person, if sued or prosecuted under this chapter, shall be adjudged to pay all the costs of such suit or prosecution, although it shall appear on trial that he had a license duly issued and in force at the time of the alleged offence.

SEC. 8. The general treasurer may upon proper reasons shown, authorize the transfer to any one person, of any license granted in conformity to the provisions of this chapter. Such transfer shall be made at the office of the general treasurer; and there shall be paid to the general treasurer at the time of making the same the sum of two dollars for his trouble in attending to such transfer.

SEC. 9. Any person who shall go from place to place in any town or city in this state, exhibiting samples of his goods, wares and merchandise, and bargaining for the same by samples, or taking orders for the same, to be afterwards delivered according to

samples, shall be deemed to be a hawker and peddler within the meaning of this chapter.

SEC. 10. The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to any person selling religious books and publications in behalf of bible, tract, or other religious or, moral societies, for the purpose of promoting religious or moral improvement, and which are sold for that purpose and not for pecuniary profit.

SEC. 11. Nothing in this chapter contained shall be construed to require any inhabitant of this state to procure a license to enable him to peddle any article manufactured with his own hands, or to prevent the inhabitants of the state from vending without license, tow cloth, knit stockings, gloves and mits, and all other articles of household manufacture made and manufactured in this state.

SECTION 1. Every petty chapman, jobber, trader, or other person, not an inhabitant of, and not assessed for taxes in the town in which he would establish himself for transacting business in the sale of any kind of merchandise, shall, previous to the exposing for sale any such merchandise, obtain from the town council of such town a license therefor, which license the said town council is hereby required to grant for one year, or for any shorter period of time that may be applied for; said person paying for said license such sum, not exceeding two hundred dollars, as said town council shall deem reasonable and just; one half thereof to the use of the state, and the other half thereof to the use of the town in which said license may be granted.

SEC. 2. No person who, by virtue of this chapter, shall have been licensed for one full year, and shall have prosecuted the business for which such person was licensed during the whole of that time, shall be required to have or apply for any further license for the continuance of such business or trade other than may be required of all dealing in the same articles, by the general laws of

the state.

SEC. 3. Every person violating any of the provisions of this chapter, shall forfeit two hundred dollars, one half thereof to the use of the state, and the other half to the use of the town where such offence may be committed; to be recovered in the name of the town treasurer.

SECTION 1. Interest in the rendition of judgments, and in all business transactions where interest is secured or paid, shall be computed at the rate of six dollars on a hundred dollars for one year, unless a lower rate is expressly stipulated.

SEC. 2. Whenever any person for the recovery of any debt or damages, shall be sued upon any instrument hereafter made, and shall allege by special plea that a higher or greater interest than the rate aforesaid was taken, or was therein or thereby secured or agreed for, the court shall and may admit the defendant as a legal witness, upon the issue joined in such action or suit, to testify relative to the nature and circumstances of such agreement; and shall also, on motion of the plaintiff, admit such plaintiff as a legal witness in like manner; and if on the whole evidence, such agreement shall be found usurious, the plaintiff shall have judgment for the principal sum, lawfully due, with legal interest thereon, with

costs.

SEC. 3. Nothing in this chapter shall extend to the letting of cattle, or other usages of the like nature in practice among farmers, or to maritime contracts among merchants, as bottomry, insurance, or course of exchange, as heretofore used.

SECTION 1. When any foreign bill of exchange is or shall be drawn or indorsed within this state for the payment of any sum of

money, and such bill is, or shall be returned from any place or country without the limits of the United States, protested for nonacceptance or non-payment, the drawer or indorser shall be subject to the payment of ten per cent. damages thereon and charges of protest, and the bill shall carry an interest of six per cent. per annum from the date of the protest.

SEC. 2. It shall be lawful for any person having a right to demand any sum of money upon a foreign protested bill of exchange as aforesaid, to commence and prosecute an action for principal, damages, interest and charges of protest against the drawers or indorsers, jointly or severally, or against either of them separately; and judgment shall and may be given for such principal, damages and charges, and interest upon such principal after the rate aforesaid, to the time of such judgment, together with costs of suit.

SEC. 3. When any inland bill of exchange shall be drawn or indorsed within this state for the payment of any sum of money without the same, and such bill shall be protested for non-acceptance or non-payment, the drawer or indorser shall be subject to the payment of five per cent. damages thereon, and charges of protest, and the bill shall carry an interest of six per cent. per annum from the date of the protest.

SEC. 4. All bills of exchange drawn at sight, which shall be due and payable in this state, shall be deemed to be due and payable on the day of presentation without grace.

SEC. 5. When any persons or bodies corporate, by themselves, or by any person by them lawfully authorized for the purpose, shall make or sign any promissory note, whereby such persons or body corporate, shall promise to pay to any other person or body corporate, any sum of money or specific article mentioned in such note, the same shall be taken and construed to be by virtue thereof, due and payable to such person or body corporate; and such person or body corporate, may maintain an action for the same against the person or body corporate who shall have made the same.

SEC. 6. A note made as aforesaid, containing a promise for the payment of money only, made payable to order or bearer, shall be assignable or indorsable over in the same manner as bills of exchange are or may be, according to the custom of merchants; and the assignee or indorsee of such negotiable note may maintain an action against the maker of such note, or any prior indorser, for the recovery of the money due thereon.

SEC. 7. The fourth day of July, or when that day falls on the first day of the week, the day following it, Christmas day, the first day of January, and such other days as the governor or general assembly of the state, or the president or congress of the United States, may appoint, as days of thanksgiving, or days of solemn fast, shall be holidays.

SEC. 8. It shall be lawful to require payment of all notes, checks and bills of exchange due and payable on such holidays, to be made on the secular day next previous thereto - and in default of such payment, the same may be protested, and such protest shall be as valid as if made on the day on which such check, note or bill of exchange became due by its own terms.

SECTION 1. The set of standard weights and measures received from the secretary of state of the United States, shall be the authorized public standards, by which all weights and measures shall be tried, proved and sealed, and shall be placed, subject to the control of the general assembly, from time to time, in the keeping of such professor in Brown university as the said corporation shall designate as agent to take charge of the same.

SEC. 2. If any sealer of weights and measures shall seal the same otherwise than according to the standard provided in the preceding section, he shall be fined not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars.

SEC. 3. Whenever any commodity shall be sold by the hundred weight it shall be understood to mean the net weight of one hundred pounds avoirdupois, and all contracts concerning goods sold by weight shall be construed accordingly.

SEC. 4. Every public or town weigher of goods or commodities, shall weigh the same according to the provisions of the next preceding section, and make his certificate accordingly.

SEC. 5. If any such weigher shall offend against the provisions of the next preceding section, he shall forfeit ten dollars.

SEC. 6. Every person who shall keep hay-scales or platform balances for public use, shall cause the same to be tried and sealed, -if in the cities of Providence or Newport or either of the towns of Bristol or Warren, at least once in every six months, and if in any other place at least once in every year, by a sworn sealer of weights and measures.

SEC. 7. Every person who shall keep hay-scales or platform balances for public use, or who shall weigh or suffer to be weighed in such scales or balances any article of merchandise, unless said scales or balances shall have been tried and sealed, as provided for in the preceding section, shall forfeit twenty dollars.

SEC. 8. Whenever the owner or keeper of any such hay-scales, or balances shall apply to the president of the town council, (or to any person by him appointed for the purpose,) of any town in which the office of sealer of weights and measures, shall from any cause be vacant, to try said scales or balances, and to seal the same