...similarly has governed its citizens' fishing rights with the following clause in its Bill of Rights: "The people shall continue to enjoy and freely exercise all the rights of fishery and the privileges of the shore, to which they have been heretofore entitled under the charter and usages...

...people shall continue to enjoy and freely exercise all the rights of fishery and the privileges of tt-.a shore, to which they have been heretofore entitled under the charter and usages of this State." In Jackvony v. Powel, 67 RI 218, 21 A2d 554 (1941), the Rhode Island Supreme Court defined "the privileges...

...17 of the Constitution of the State of Rhode Island, which was adopted in 1843, provides as follows: "The people shall continue to enjoy and freely exercise all the rights of fishery, and the privileges of the shore, to which they have been Newport — A men en The Honorable Senator Bumpers...

...shall be liberally construed, and shall not be deemed to be i public use of private property. SEC 17. The people shall continue to enjoy and freely exercise all the rights of fishery, and the privileges of the shore, to which they have been heretofore entitled under the charter and usages...

...continue to enjoy and freely exercise oil (be rights of fishery, and (he privileges of the shove, to wuich they have been heretofore entitled under the charter and usages of this state, including but not limited to Fishing from the shore, the gathering of seaweed, leaving the shore to...

...conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people." RI CONST, art. I, § 17, providing, "[t]he people shall continue to enjoy and freely exercise all the rights of fishery, and the privileges of the shore, to which they have been heretofore entitled under the charter an usages...

...State v. Cozzens,295 the court referred to the Rhode Island Constitution, Article 1 and found that, "the people shall continue to enjoy and freely exercise all the rights of fishery and the privileges of the shore to which they have been heretofore entitled under the charter and usage...

...lands. A provision that acknowledges the public trust doctrine was included in the state constitution: The people shall continue to enjoy and freely exercise all the rights of fishery, and the privileges of the shore, to which they have been heretofore entitled under the charter and usages...

...inviolate. SEC. 16. Private property shall not be taken for public uses, without just compensation. SEC. 17. The people shall continue to enjoy and freely exercise all the rights of fishery, and the privileges of the shore, to which they have been heretofore entitled under the charter and usages...