Rhode Island
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This collection is dedicated to the historical, cultural, and legal documentation of Rhode Island. It includes research, case studies, and historical materials that highlight the state's significant contributions to regional development, societal evolution, and legal frameworks over time.
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Item Open Access An Act for the More Effectual Suppression of Drinking Houses and Tippling Shops, §10, Acts & Resolves of the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island (1853).(General Publisher, 1853)It shall be the duty of any mayor, alderman, city marshal, city or town sergeant, constable or police officer, of any city or town, if he shall have information that any ale, wine, rum, or other strong or malt liquors, or any mixed liquors as aforesaid, are kept for sale or sold in any tent, shanty, hut or place of any kind for selling refreshments in any public place, on or near the ground of any cattle show, agricultural exhibition, military muster or public occasion of any kind, to search such suspected placeItem Open Access The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Providence, with the Acts of the General Assembly Relating to the City, at 60, Ordinances of the City of Providence, Fire-arms. An Ordinance in Relation to the Firing of Guns, Pistols and other Fire-arms, § 1 (1835)(General Publisher, 1835)No person shall fire any gun, pistol, rifle or other fire-arm, in any street or lane, or on any public wharf, or on any public lands within said city, after sunrise and before sunsetItem Open Access The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Providence, with the Acts of the General Assembly Relating to the City, at 60, An Act to Prevent the Firing of Guns within Certain Limits, § 1 (1835)(General Publisher, 1835)That if any person shall fire or discharge any musket, rifle, fowling piece, blunderbuss or other small arms, not being at the time under military duty, within the following limits viz: the whole city of Providence, excepting the public waters and public rivers therein; also such parts of the town of Cranston and Johnston as are contained with the following limits to wit: beginning in Pawtuxet road at the Providence line, thence running Southerly on said Pawtuxet road, until it comes to a cross road heading to Cranston . . . , except upon land owned or occupied by him, or except on other days than the first day of the week, by permission of the owner or occupant of the land, on, and into which he may shoot, he shall pay as a fine the sum of five dollars for the first offence, and ten dollars for every subsequent offence; to be recovered by action of debt before any justice of the peace within the county in which said offence may be committed, by any person who may sue for the same with cost of suitItem Open Access The Charter of the City of Newport, R. I., and the Special State Laws Relating Thereto, Together with the Ordinances for the Government of the City, at 39, An Act providing in case of fire breaking out in the town of Newport an for the purposes therein mentioned, § 12 (1858)(General Publisher, 1858)Prohibited ships with more than 5 barrels of gunpowder on board from entering the harborItem Open Access 1857 R.I. Rev. Stat. 204–05, ch. 80, § 2(General Publisher, 1857)Prohibited shooting ranges & galleries in the “compact part” of the city of Newport. Violators fined two hundred dollars for the first offense, and five hundred dollars for every subsequent offense.Item Open Access 1857 R.I. Rev. Stat. 614, tit. 34, ch. 236, § 9(General Publisher, 1857)No non-commissioned officer or private shall unnecessarily, or without orders from his superior officer, come on to any place of parade with his musket, rifle or pistol loaded with balls, slugs, shot or other dangerous substance, or shall so load with same while on parade.Item Open Access 1851 R.I. Pub. Laws 204, ch. 80, § 2 (Jan. Sess. 1857)(General Publisher, 1851)Banned shooting galleries (or any building or enclosure) where firearms are used for practicing firing ball or shot from the "compact part of the town of Newport"; authorized the town to collect a tax on shooting galleries.Item Open Access 1844 R.I. Pub. Laws 503 § 1(General Publisher, 1844)Required all white males aged eighteen to forty-five years old to be enrolled in the militia except idiots, lunatics, common drunkards, paupers, vagabonds, and persons convicted of any infamous crime.Item Open Access 1843 R.I. Sess. Laws 13, An Act to Regulate The Militia, § 38(General Publisher, 1843)No non-commissioned officer or private, shall unnecessarily, or without orders from his superior officer, come on to any place of parade, with his musket, rifle, or pistol loaded with balls, slugs, shot, or other dangerous substance, or shall so load the same while on parade.Item Open Access 1840 R.I. Pub. Laws 3, 17, An Act to Regulate the Militia, § 46(General Publisher, 1840)If any non-commissioned officer or private shall become a pauper, vagabond, or common drunkard, or be convicted of any infamous crime, he shall be forthwith disenrolled from the militia.”