SEC. 19. Any person indicted under either of the two next preceding sections, may plead a former conviction or acquittal of the same offence, in the state or country in which such duel was fought; and such plea, if admitted or established, shall bar all further proceedings against such persons for the same offence within this state.

SEC. 20. Every person who shall mingle any poison with any food, drink or medicine, with intent to kill or injure any person, and every person who shall wilfully poison any spring, well, or reservoir of water, with such intent, and shall be thereof convicted, shall be imprisoned for life, or for any term of years.

SEC. 21. If any person shall maliciously threaten to accuse another of any offence, or shall by any written or printed communication threaten any injury to the person or property of another, with intent thereby to compel the person so threatened to do any act against his will, or with intent to extort money or any pecuniary advantage, and shall be thereof convicted, he shall be imprisoned not exceeding two years, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 22. Every person who shall be convicted of making an assault, with intent to commit murder, robbery, rape, burglary, or the abominable and detestable crime against nature, shall be imprisoned not exceeding twenty years, nor less than one year.

SEC. 23. Every person who shall be convicted of pulling out or putting out an eye of another voluntarily, maliciously, and of purpose, or of cutting off or otherwise disabling any limb or member of any other person, maliciously, and of purpose, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, nor less than one year.

SEC. 24. Every person who shall be convicted of making an assault, or battery, or both, shall be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 25. Every person who shall be convicted of transporting or carrying, or of causing to be transported or carried, by land or water, any citizen of this state, or any other person lawfully residing or inhabiting therein, to any place without the limits of this state, without his consent or voluntary agreement, except in order to remove such person from one part of the state to another part of the same, or for the purpose of defending the same in time of war, agreeably to law, or except such person be sent by due course of law, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than one year. SEC. 26. Every person who shall be convicted of arson

shall suffer death, or be imprisoned for life, or for any term not less than ten years.

SEC. 27. Every person who shall be convicted of wrongfully or maliciously burning or otherwise destroying any dwelling-house or other building whatever, the burning whereof shall not be arson at common law, or any ship or vessel, dam, lock, bridge or flume, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years.

SEC. 28. Every person who shall be convicted of maliciously and wilfully burning, or otherwise destroying any stack of corn, hay, grain, straw, cornstalks or husks, any flax, or fence, or fencing stuff, any pile or parcel of boards, timber or other lumber, or other property, except such the burning or destroying whereof is provided for in the two sections next preceding, shall be imprisoned not exceeding two years, or be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 29. Every person who shall wilfully burn any building or any goods, wares or merchandize, or other chattels, which shall at the time be insured against loss by fire, with intent to injure the insurer, whether such person be the owner of the property or not, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, nor less than two years.

SEC. 30. The preceding four sections shall severally extend to a married woman who shall commit either of the offences therein described, though the property burned or destroyed shall belong partly or wholly to her husband.

SEC. 31. If any person shall set or cause any fire to be set in the woods in any part of this state, to run and spread at large, at any time of the year, under any pretence whatsoever, he shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year.

SEC. 32. Every person who shall be convicted of burglary, shall be imprisoned for life, or for any term not less than five years.

SEC. 33. Every person who shall be convicted of breaking and entering any bank, shop, office or warehouse, not adjoining to or occupied with a dwelling-house, any meetinghouse, church, chapel, court-house, town-house, college, academy, school-house, library or other building erected for public use, or occupied for any public purpose, or any ship or vessel, in the night time, with intent to commit murder, rape, robbery or larceny, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years.

SEC. 34. Every person who shall be convicted of stealing any money, goods or chattels, any note of the treasurer of this state for the payment of money, any bank bill, any certificate

of any bank, or of any public officer or corporation, securing the payment of money to any person or certifying the same to be due, any order entitling any person to money or other article, any bill of exchange, bond, warrant, obligation, bill or promissory note, for the payment of money, or other valuable property, any record or paper belonging to any public officer, any writ, warrant or other legal process, any book account, any receipt for money, or other article paid or delivered, any adjustment or document of any kind, relating to the payment of money or delivery of any article, any indenture of apprenticeship, any deed, covenant, indenture or assurance whatever, respecting any property real or personal, any lottery ticket, or part or share of any lottery ticket authorized to be sold in this state, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 35. Every person who shall be convicted of fraudulently receiving any stolen money or other article, knowing the same to be stolen, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and be subject to the like imprisonment and penalty as is in the next preceding section prescribed for stealing the same, although the person who stole the same may not have been prosecuted or convicted therefor.

SEC. 36. Every person who shall falsely personate or represent another, and in such assumed character shall receive any money or other article whatever intended to be delivered to the party so personated, with intent to convert the same to his own use, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished accordingly.

SEC. 37. Every person who shall be convicted of obtaining from another designedly by any false pretence in writing or by any privy or false token, and with intent to defraud, any money or other article, or of obtaining with such intent the signature of any person to any written instrument, the false making whereof would be punishable as forgery, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars.

SEC. 38. Every person who shall be convicted of cutting out the tongue or otherwise dismembering any beast, wilfully or maliciously; or wilfully or maliciously killing or wounding any beast of another; or wilfully or maliciously administering poison to, or exposing any poisonous substance with intent that the same should be taken or swallowed by any beast of another; shall be imprisoned not exceeding two years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars;

and shall moreover be liable to the owner of such beast for treble damages, to be recovered by action of trespass.

SEC. 39. Every person who shall be convicted of clandestinely taking and carrying away any corn, grain or fruit, out of any field, garden or orchard, of the value of five dollars or more; or of maliciously rooting up, cutting down or otherwise injuring or destroying any tree, root, fruit or vegetable, growing in any garden, field, orchard, highway, common or public square; or who shall maliciously or wantonly in any way injure or deface any building not his own, or break the glass or any part of it in any such building; or shall maliciously injure any fence on or enclosing lands not his own, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding two hundred dollars. And every magistrate within the proper county shall have jurisdiction over either of the offences in this section mentioned, when the value of the property taken or destroyed shall not exceed the sum of twenty dollars; and may sentence the offender to imprisonment not exceeding thirty days, or to be fined not exceeding twenty dollars.

SEC. 40. Every person who shall be convicted of robbing or drawing any fish-pot, weir or net belonging to any other person, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars.

SEC. 41. Every person who shall be convicted of entering any dwelling-house in the night time, or of breaking and entering in the day time any dwelling-house or other building, or any ship or vessel, with intent to commit murder, rape, robbery, arson or larceny, shall be imprisoned not exceeding five years, or be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 42. The officer who shall apprehend any person as principal or as accessory in any robbery or larceny, shall secure the property alleged to be stolen, and shall be answerable for the same, and he shall annex a schedule thereof to his return, and upon conviction of the offender, the stolen property shall be restored to the owner.

SEC. 43. If any officer, agent, clerk or servant, or person to whom any money or other property shall be entrusted for any specific purpose, shall embezzle or fraudulently convert to his own use, or shall take or secrete with intent to embezzle and fraudulently convert to his own use, any money or other property which shall have come into his possession or shall be under his care or charge, by virtue of such employment, or for such specific purpose, shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and may be tried, sentenced and punished, as for any other larceny.

SEC. 44. If any officer, agent or servant of any incorporated bank shall embezzle or appropriate to his own use, any monies, goods, effects or funds of any such bank, with intent to cheat or defraud the same, or any person whomsoever, he shall be deemed guilty of larceny, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not exceeding five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for a term not exceeding five years.

SEC. 45. Whenever any person shall be convicted of maliciously placing upon any rail road any thing calculated or designed to hinder or impede the safe passage of any locomotive engine or car over such rail road, or of maliciously doing any other act, matter or thing so calculated or designed, with intent to interrupt or impede the safe passage of such locomotive engine or car, he shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years nor less than one year, or fined not exceeding ten thousand dollars.

SEC. 46. If any persons to the number of twelve or more, being armed with clubs or other weapons, or if any number of persons consisting of thirty or more, shall be unlawfully, routously, riotously or tumultuously assembled, any justice of the peace, sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant or constable, shall among the rioters, or as near to them as he can safely come, command silence while proclamation is making, and shall openly make proclamation in substance as follows:

The State of Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations. By virtue of the laws of said state, in relation to routs, riots and tumultuous assemblies, I am directed to charge and command, and do accordingly charge and command all persons being here assembled, immediately to disperse themselves and peaceably to depart to their habitations or to their lawful business, upon the pains inflicted by said laws: God save the state.

And if such persons assembled as aforesaid shall not forthwith disperse themselves, it shall be lawful for every such officer to command sufficient aid and to seize, arrest and secure in custody all such persons, so that they may be proceeded against according to law; and if any such persons shall be killed or wounded by reason of their resisting the persons endeavoring to disperse or seize them, the said justice, sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant, constables and their assistants, shall be indemnified and held guiltless.

SEC. 47. If any person being commanded by such justice, sheriff, deputy sheriff, town sergeant or constable as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect to afford the assistance re