SEC. 18. All complaints for offences against the two sections next preceding, shall be made within ten days after the committing thereof, and not after. SEC. 19. All the professors of the Sabbatarian faith or of the Jewish religion, and such others as shall be owned or acknowledged by any church or society of said respective professions, as members of, or as belonging to such church or society, shall be permitted to labor in their respective professions or vocations on the first day of the week; but the exception in this section contained shall not confer the liberty of opening shops or stores on the said day for the purpose of trade and merchandise, or of lading, unlading or fitting out of vessels, or of working at the smith's business, or at any other mechanical trade in any compact place, except the compact villages in Westerly and Hopkinton; or of drawing seines, or fishing or fowling in any manner in public places, and out of their own possessions; and in case any dispute shall arise respecting the persons entitled to the benefit of this section, a certificate from a regular pastor or priest of any of the aforesaid churches or societies, or from any three of the standing members of such church or society, declaring the person claiming the exemption aforesaid to be a member of, or owned by, or belonging to such church or society, shall be received as conclusive evidence of the fact. SEC. 20. Every person who shall be convicted of wilfully interrupting or disturbing any town or ward meeting, any assembly or people met for religious worship, or any public or private school, or any meeting lawfully and peaceably held for purposes of moral, literary or scientific improvement, either within or without the place where such meeting or school is held, shall be imprisoned not exceeding one year, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars. SEC. 21. Every person who shall be convicted of secretly disinterring, digging up, removing or carrying away, any human body from its place of sepulture, or of knowingly concealing any such body so dug up or carried away shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten years, or fined not exceeding one thousand dollars. SEC. 22. Every person who shall be convicted of wilfully and maliciously destroying, mutilating, defacing, covering over, injuring or removing any tomb, monument, gravestone or other structure or thing placed or designed for a memorial of the dead, or any fence, railing, curb, tree, shrub or other thing intended for the protection or for the ornament of any tomb, monument, gravestone or other structure before mentioned, or of any inclosure for the sepulture of the dead, shall be imprisoned not exceeding ten months, or fined not exceeding five hundred dollars. SEC. 23. Every person who shall be convicted of cruelly using, beating, tormenting, overloading or overdriving any horse, ox or other animal, whether belonging to himself or another, shall be fined not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor less than ten dollars. SEC. 24. On complaint made to any justice of the peace, magistrate or court exercising the jurisdiction of justice of the peace, against any person, charging him with a violation of the next pre ceding section, the complainant shall be required to enter into a like recognizance as is required when complaint is made against any person for threatening to commit any crime or offence against the person and property of another; and upon the giving of such recognizance, the justice, magistrate or court to whom such complaint is made, shall forthwith issue his warrant, directed and returnable in the same manner as a warrant issued on a complaint for threatening to commit a crime or offence. SEC. 25. Every person convicted upon such complaint, may be sentenced by the justice, magistrate or court to pay a fine not exceeding twenty dollars; but if it shall appear to such justice, magistrate or court that such fine is inadequate to the offence, the like course shall be taken with the accused as though he were complained of for an offence beyond the jurisdiction of the justice, magistrate or court trying the same. SECTION 1. Every person who shall be convicted of knowingly selling any kind of diseased, corrupted or unwholesome provisions, whether for meat or drink, without making the same known to the buyer, shall be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or fined not exceeding two hundred dollars. SEC. 2. Every person who shall be convicted of fraudulently adulterating for the purpose of sale, any substance intended for food, or any wine, spirits, malt liquor or other liquor intended for drinking, with any substance injurious to health, shall be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or fined not exceeding two hundred dollars. SEC. 3. Every person who shall be convicted of fraudulently adulterating for the purpose of sale, any drug or medicine, in such a manner as to render the same injurious to health, shall be imprisoned not exceeding six months, or fined not exceeding two hundred dollars. SECTION CHAPTER 218. OF OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC POLICY. 1. Setting up, promoting, drawing, &c., of lotteries and devices in nature of, and selling lottery policies, &c., how to be punished. 2. Sale of lottery tickets, or certificates in nature of, how. 3. Notes, obligations given for lottery tickets, &c., void. 4. Purchasers of lottery tickets, &c., to recover their money paid for them, &c. 5. Keeping place for gambling, or suffering same to be kept on his premises, dealing, &c., at faro, or other banking game, how to be punished. 6. Innholder, &c., license, in such case, to be declared void. 7. Enticing, &c., another to visit gambling place for gambling, how to be punished. 8. Complaint, &c., for keeping gambling SECTION implements, and proceedings for forfeiture of same. 9. Such implements to be destroyed, when 10. Recognizance for costs in such case, 14. Horse to be forfeited if started for bets 15. Of encouraging dog-fights and betting thereon, how to be punished. 16. Bills, bonds, notes, &c., given for money won in gambling and betting, and for money lent for such purposes, void. SECTION 1. If any person shall, directly or indirectly, set up, put forth, carry on, promote or draw, publicly or privately, any lottery, chance, game or device of any nature or kind whatsoever, or by whatsoever name the same may be called, for the purpose of exposing, setting for sale or disposing of any moneys, houses, lands, merchandise or articles of value; or shall sell or expose to sale lottery policies, purporting to be governed by the drawing of any public or private lottery or shall sign or indorse any book, document or paper whatsoever, for the purpose of enabling others to sell or expose to sale lottery policies, he shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be imprisoned not exceeding two years, or fined not exceeding two thousand dollars. SEC. 2. If any person shall sell or expose to sale any ticket, or certificate in the nature of a ticket, or share in any ticket or certificate in the nature of a ticket, in any lottery set up within or without this state, he shall be fined for every such ticket, certificate or share of such ticket or certificate by him sold or exposed to sale, not exceeding fifty dollars. SEC. 3. All notes, obligations, securities or promises whatsoever, given for the purchase of any lottery ticket or certificate, lottery policy, or of any document or paper, taken or received for the purpose of enabling others to sell or dispose of lottery tickets or lottery policies shall be null and void. SEC. 4. The purchaser or receiver of any lottery ticket or certifi cate in the nature of a lottery ticket, or share in either, whether the same shall have been paid for in money, or however received, even though by way of gift, for the purpose of enabling the seller or giver of the same to dispose of any article or piece of property real, personal or mixed, shall recover back the amount by him paid, or the value at which, according to the proof, the ticket or certificate may be reckoned in the transaction, as the case may be, from the person of whom the ticket or policy was purchased or received, in an action on the case for money had and received. SEC. 5. If any person shall keep or suffer to be kept any building, room, booth, shed, tent, arbor, or any other place in any city or town of this state, or in any vessel, boat or raft upon any of the waters of the Narragansett bay, to be used or occupied for the purpose of gambling or playing at any game or games of chance of any kind whatever, for money or other valuable consideration; or shall keep, exhibit, or suffer to be kept or exhibited upon his premises or under his control, any cards, dice, table, bowls, wheel of fortune, shuffle board or billiard table, or any device, implement or apparatus whatever, to be used in gambling or playing at any game or games of chance for money or other valuable consideration; or if any person shall be guilty of dealing "faro,” or banking for others to deal "faro," or acting as look-out, game-keeper or assistant for the game of "faro," or any other banking game where money or property is dependent on the result, he shall be taken and held as a common gambler, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned not exceeding two years, or be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars. SEC. 6. If such person be a tavern-keeper, innholder, retailer or keeper of any other house or place of public resort which is licensed, his license shall in addition be declared null and void by the court in which he shall be convicted. SEC. 7. If any person shall upon any pretext whatever, invite, entice, persuade or induce any other person to visit any house, room, or other place kept for the purpose of gambling, with the intent that such other person shall at such place engage in gam bling or playing at any game of chance for money or other valuable consideration, he shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than twenty dollars. SEC. 8. Complaint may be made, or an information filed by the mayor or city marshal of any city, the president of any town council, or any town sergeant within the city or town, respectively, where such officer shall reside, setting forth that the complainant has reason to believe, and does believe, that cards, dice, bowls, wheels of fortune, shuffle boards or other gambling implements or apparatus, and which shall be described in such complaint as nearly as may be, are kept or suffered to be kept, to be used in gambling or playing at any game or games of chance, for money or other valuable consideration, in any building, room, tent, booth, or any other place within the county in which the compaint is made or information filed, or in any vessel, boat or other craft upon any of the waters of Narragansett bay, and in such com plaint or information particularly described, and such proceedings had thereon for the forfeiture of such gambling implements or apparatus as is by law prescribed for forfeiture of personal property, under penal statutes. SEC. 9. Upon final judgment of forfeiture of such implements or apparatus, either in the original or appellate court, or upon forfeiture of the recognizance given by the claimant to prosecute his appeal according to law, the court or justice shall order in writing, such implements and apparatus to be destroyed by any officer authorized to serve the criminal process of such court or justice; which officer shall make return of his doings upon such order to said court or justice as in other cases. SEC. 10. No officer complaining or informing as aforesaid, shall be required at the time of making such complaint to enter into recognizance, or in any way to become liable for the costs that may accrue thereon, or for any damages on account of such seizure. SEC. 11. In addition to the fees allowed by law, the officer who shall make service of any warrant for the seizure of any gambling implements or apparatus under the provisions of this chapter shall be allowed therefor the sum of one dollar; for the removing of any gambling implements or apparatus so seized to a place of safety, one dollar and all necessary expenses incurred in such removal; which fees shall be included in the bill of costs and taxed by the justice or court. SEC. 12. In any prosecution for an offence, and in any action or proceeding whatever, under the provisions of this chapter, any person playing at the game in relation to which the prosecution, action or proceeding may be instituted, though the party prosecuting, suing or complaining, shall be a competent witness for the advancement of such prosecution, action or proceedings, and may be compelled to answer as to any matter relating thereto. SEC. 13. If any person shall make any bet, or lay any wager of any kind upon any horse, to start or run therefor, he shall be fined one hundred dollars. SEC. 14. If any person shall knowingly suffer or permit any horse belonging to him to start or run for any bet or wager, he shall forfeit his horse starting or running as aforesaid, for the use of the state. SEC. 15. If any person shall cause or encourage the fighting of any dog with another, or a dog with any other animal without reasonable cause, or shall make any bet, or lay any wager of any kind upon the result of such fight, he shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars or be imprisoned not exceeding three months. SEC. 16. All bills, bonds, notes, judgments, mortgages, deeds or other securities, as well as promises, given or made for money, lands, houses or other property, or article, or piece of property, real or personal or mixed, won at any game, or by betting at any game, or by betting at any race or fight, whether the same be between man or beast, or man and beast, or for the repayment of any money knowingly lent for such gaming or betting, shall be utterly |