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Att[sic] A Generall[sic] Assembly Held for ye Colony at Newport, R.I. GEN. LAWS (Sidney S. Rider & Burnett Rider 1896) (Law Passed 1679).

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  • 1679
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 “Att A Generall Assembly held for y Colony at Newport ye 6th of may 1679...

    ...And be it Further Enacted by the authority aforesaid 
   
That if any person or Persons Shall presume to sport game or play att any manner of game or games or Shooting out of any gun or Shall Sett tipling & drinking in any Tauern alehouse Ordinary or Vitling house one ye first day of ye Week more than Necessety Requireth & Upon Examination of ye fact it Shall be judged by any justice of ye Peace & ye Person or Persons so offending as aforesaid Upon Conviction before one justice of Peace Shall by ye said justice of ye Peace be Sentenced for every ye aforesaid offences to Sett in ye Stocks three hours or pay five shillings in money for ye use of ye Poor of ye Town or place where ye Offences was Committed...”

Laws and Acts of Her Majesties Colony of Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations Made from the First Settlement in 1636 to 1705 (Providence, RI: Sidney S. Rider & Burnett Rider, 1896), 31. Att[sic] a Generall[sic] Assembly Held for ye Colony at Newport y 6th of May 1679. Passed 1679.