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an upper House, the council, and a lower House of Delegates from the people......May, 1696 Yearly meeting of Friends established at Newport......1700 Boundary with Connecticut established......May 12, 1703 Two sloops, manned by 120 men, Capt. John Wanton, capture a French privateer with its prize, a sloop loaded with provisions captured the day before near Block Island......June, 1706 Colony of Rhode Island first issues paper money (£ 5,000), to defray the expenses of war......Aug. 16 1710 Latin school in Newport opened by Mr. Galloway......1711 First quarantine act, against small-pox......1711 First edition of the laws of Rhode Island printed in Boston......1719 Thirty-six pirates, captured by Captain Solgard, of British ship Greyhound, off the southeast coast of Long Island, are brought to Newport, tried, and twenty-six sentenced and hanged on Gravelly Point, opposite the town......July 12, 1723 Property qualification for suffrage established, requiring a f