Rhode Island
Permanent URI for this repositoryhttps://dspace.d106.bravog.com/handle/123456789/21
Welcome to the Rhode Island Community
The Rhode Island Community serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the history, culture, and legal developments within Rhode Island. This community gathers collections representing various jurisdictions, historical periods, and sectors, providing valuable resources for researchers, students, and professionals.
Browse
9 results
Search Results
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 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 1885 R.I. Pub. Laws 271, ch. 524, § 1(General Publisher, 1885)Regulated deliveries of gunpowder or other explosive material not marked with a description of contents. Punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or not more than five years imprisonment.Item Open Access 1883 R.I. Acts 157, ch. 374, § 1(General Publisher, 1883)No person shall sell to any child under the age of fifteen years, without the written consent of a parent or guardian of such child, any cartridge or fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a component part, or any gun, pistol or other mechanical contrivance arranged for the explosion of such cartridge or of any fulminate.Item Open Access 1880 R.I. Pub. Laws 110, ch. 806, § 3(General Publisher, 1880)Any tramp who shall willfully[1] and maliciously injure any person where such offence is not now punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or who shall be found carrying any firearm or other dangerous weapon, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than three years.Item Open Access PROVIDENCE, STATUTES OF THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND RELATING TO THE CITY AND ORDINANCES OF THE CITY, ch. 5, § 105 (Riverside Press 1875).(General Publisher, 1874)He may also arrest without a warrant any person reasonably suspected of having committed a felony, or seen committing a breach of the peace, or being unduly armed with a dangerous weapon, and also night-walkers.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.