Chapter XVII

PAPER MONEY TROUBLES.--ESTABLISHMENT OF BANKS.--PROTECTION OF HOME
INDUSTRIES.--PROPERTY QUALIFICATIONS FOR SUFFRAGE.

Issue of paper money, 131

Clerk of the Assembly first elected from outside
the House, 131

Arts of peace resumed, 132

New militia laws enacted, 132

Laws concerning trade, 133

Troubles occasioned by paper money, 134

1715. Banks established in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, 134

Paper money question carried into election, 134

Improvements in Newport, 136

Criminal code, 136

1716. School-houses built in Portsmouth, 136

Punishment of slander, 137

Indian lands taken under the protection of the Colony, 137

Law concerning intestates, 137

1719. First edition of the laws printed, 138

Boundary troubles, 138

Industry of the Colony protected by loans and
bounties, 138

1724. Freehold act passed, 139

1723. Pirate captured, 139

Evidences of the progress of the Colony, 139

1727. Death of Governor Cranston, 141