ART. 82.] RIOTS. 585

shall be evidence of misbehavior, and upon conviction thereof,
the said clerk or register shall be removed from office, which
shall thereupon be filled as prescribed by the Constitution; and
such failure on the part of any clerk or register, shall amount
to a forfeiture of the commission to which he would otherwise
be entitled.

148. All lands and tenements belonging to any person indebted
to this State, after the commencement of suit against him, shall
be liable to execution on any judgment or decree which may be
rendered against him in such suit, in whatsoever hands or pos-
session the said lands or tenements may be found.

ARTICLE LXXXII.
Riots.

SEC. 1. If in any county or incorporated town or city of this
State, any church, chapel or convent, any dwelling house, any
house used or designed by any person or any body corporate as
a place for the transaction of business or deposit of property,
any ship, ship-yard or lumber-yard, any barn, stable or other out
house, or any articles of personal property, shall be injured
or destroyed, or if any property therein shall be taken away,
injured or destroyed by any riotous or tumultuous assemblage
of people, the full amount of the damage so done shall be
recoverable by the sufferer or sufferers by suit at law against the
county, town or city within whose jurisdiction such riot or
tumult occurred.

2. No such liability shall be incurred by any county, incorpo-
rated town or city, unless the authorities thereof shall have had
good reason to believe that such riot or tumultuous assemblage
was about to take place, or, having taken place, shall have had
notice of the same in time to prevent said injury or destruction,
either by its own police or with the aid of the citizens of such
county, town or city, it being the intention of this article
that no such liability shall devolve on such county, town
or city, unless the authorities, having notice, have also the
ability of themselves, or with their own citizens, to prevent
said injury.