CHAPTER 593. Passed April 30, AN ACT IN RELATION TO MAIN DRAINS AND COMMON SEW1886. ERS IN THE TOWN OF EAST PROVIDENCE. Town council of East Providence author ized to lay main drains or common sewers. Of assessments upon abutting estates. Portion of expense to be paid by the town. Commissioners of assessments, etc. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. The town council of the town of East Providence, whenever they shall adjudge it to be necessary, are hereby authorized to lay and make main drains and common sewers in any of the streets of said town, the cost and expense of which shall be paid in manner hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. Whenever any such main drain or common sewer shall be constructed, an assessment shall be made upon all estates abutting upon that portion of the street in which such main drain or common sewer shall be located, and at a rate not exceeding fifty cents for each front foot of such estates upon such streets and not exceeding one cent for each square foot of such estates between such street and a line not exceeding one hundred and fifty feet distant from and parallel with the line of such street; provided, however, that where any estate is situated between two streets, the area upon which such assessment of not exceeding one cent for each square foot is made, shall not extend to more than one half the distance between such streets; and provided, also, that where any estate is situated at the corner of two streets, or is otherwise so situated as to be assessed for the expense of making a sewer in one of such streets, that portion of such estate assessed for a sewer in one of such streets shall not be liable to be assessed upon its area for the cost of constructing a sewer in the other of such streets, but only for its frontage upon such street. SEC. 3. All the cost and expense of constructing any such main drain or common sewer, in excess of the proceeds of the assessments aforesaid, shall be paid out of the treasury of said town. SEC. 4. Said town council may provide by ordihow appointed, nance for the appointment of a board of three commissioners, who shall hold their office during the pleasure of the council, and who shall make all of the assessments aforesaid, and at such rates not exceeding the sewer act. rates limited in section two as they shall in their discre- East Providence tion. to report assess SEC. 5. Said commissioners shall make a report in Commissioners writing to the town council of all assessments made un-menis. der the authority of this act, which assessments, after being confirmed by said council shall be certified to the assessors of taxes of said town by the council clerk, and said clerk shall also within ten days after such confirmation give notice to the owners of the estates so assessed of such assessment by advertisement in some public newspaper published in said town or in such other manner as the town council may direct. Whenever the Notice to own- ers of estates Assessments to sewer assessments so certified, shall have been con- SEC. 6. No estate or portion thereof, shall be assessed for the construction of any sewer under the provisions of this act, unless such estate or some portion thereof, shall abut and be bounded upon the street in which said sewer shall have been constructed. Apportioned for three years, when. the land, etc. No estate to be assessed unless streets where with sewer. SEC. 7. When any such assessment shall be made of connecting upon any land for the expense of constructing any such A East Providence Of abatement from assessment. Town to pay cost of constructing sewers, in advance of assessments. No sewers to be made until ap propriation voted. sewer, the owner of the land so assessed shall have the right to connect such land with such sewer under such general rules and regulations as said town council shall prescribe. SEC. 8. The town council may abate from any assessment made as aforesaid, on irregular shaped lots such portion thereof as they may deem proper. SEC. 9. The said town shall in the first instance pay all the costs and expenses that may be incurred in constructing such main drains and common sewers in advance of the assessments to be made therefor as provided in this act, but as fast as such assessments shall be paid, the proceeds therefrom shall be applied in payment of such costs and expenses. SEC. 10. No main drain or common sewer shall be made under the provisions of this act until an appropriation of money for the construction thereof shall be made by the town in town meeting duly called and notified. SEC. 11. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. 1886. CHAPTER 594. Passed April 30, AN ACT IN AMENDMENT OF CHAPTER 475 OF THE PUBLIC LAWS ENTITLED "AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE BURIAL OF ANY HONORABLY DISCHARGED SOLDIER OR SAILOR WHO SHALL HEREAFTER DIE WITHOUT LEAVING MEANS TO DEFRAY NECESSARY FUNERAL EXPENSES." Funeral expenses, and headstone for person dying at in Cranston, how paid for. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. Nothing in chapter 475 of the Public Laws passed at the January Session, 1885, shall be constate institutions strued to require the town treasurer of the town of Cranston to pay any money to meet the funeral expenses of, or the erection of any headstone for any person who shall have died at any of the state institutions in said Cranston, unless admitted or committed from said town, but the treasurer of the town or city from which said person was admitted or from which he has been committed shall be liable for and shall pay the funeral expenses and for the erection of a headstone as provided in said chapter 475. PUBLIC LAWS PASSED AT THE MAY SESSION, 1886, AND THE ADJOURNMENT THEREOF IN JUNE, 1886. CHAPTER 595. AN ACT IN RELATION TO THE ELECTION OF CERTAIN It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: Passed May 27, 1886. Cranston: ed on one ballot. SECTION 1. The legal voters of the town of Cranston shall at their annual meetings for the election of cers to be elect town officers elect a moderator, town clerk, town council, town treasurer and justices of the peace; provided, that the election of said town officers shall be by ballot, either written or printed, and provided also that the names shall all be placed on one ballot. Polls to be kept SEC. 2. At the said annual meetings of the legal open how long. voters of said town the polls shall be kept open from the hour of nine o'clock, A. M. to five and one-half o'clock, P. M. to elect what officers. SEC. 3. The town council of said town shall and Town council may hereafter at their meeting next following the annual election choose and elect so many town officers as by law of the state are or shall be required, excepting such as are directed by this act to be otherwise elected. SEC. 4. The town council elected as herein before Number of provided shall consist of seven members, and all the officers of said town shall hereafter be elected according to the provisions of this act, and officers so elected shall Town officers, have all the authority and be subject to all the duties powers of. appertaining by law to their several offices. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here with are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect immediately. town council. election and Passed May 27, 1886. Manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors prohibited. CHAPTER 596. AN ACT FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF INTEMPERANCE. It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: SECTION 1. No person shall manufacture or sell or suffer to be manufactured or sold, or keep or suffer to be kept on his premises or possessions or under his charge for the purposes of sale and delivery within this state, any ale, wine, rum, or other strong or malt or intoxicating liquors or any mixed liquors, a part of which is ale, wine, rum or other strong or malt or intoxicating liquors to be used as a beverage. Wherever to include what. the words intoxicating liquors shall be used in this act it shall be deemed to include ale, wine, rum, or other strong or malt liquors, or any mixed liquors, a part of which is ale, wine, rum, or other strong or malt liquors. Words "intoxi. cating liquors Of importers of liquor. Pharmacists, etc., may sell for SEC. 2. Importers of liquor of foreign production imported under authority of the laws of the United States may own, possess, keep or sell such liquor in the original casks or packages in which it was imported, and in quantities not less than those in which the laws of the United States require such liquors to be imported, and when sold such liquor shall be as pure and unadulterated as when imported. SEC. 3. Persons authorized by chapter 131 of the what purposes. Public Statutes to sell medicines and poisons may sell the liquors enumerated in the first section of this act for artistic and mechanical and medicinal purposes only and not to be drunk on the premises of the seller. But no such liquors shall be sold to a minor except as hereinafter provided. Of sales for medicinal pur poses. SEC. 4. Sales of liquor for medicinal purposes under authority of section 3 of this act shall be made only upon and in accordance with a written prescription or prescriptions from a medical practitioner, but no such liquor shall be sold to a minor without a written request For mechanical from his parent or guardian, and sales of liquor for me or artistic purposes. chanical or artistic purposes shall be made only upon receipt of a written statement signed by the party purchasing, of the use to which the same is to be applied; provided that nothing in this act shall be construed to |