Commercial and agricultural progress, 128 1709. First printing press set up at Newport, 129 Internal improvements, 130 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 CHAPTER XVIII. CHANGE OF THE EXECUTIVE.--ACTS OF THE ASSEMBLY.--GEORGE BERKELEY'S RESIDENCE IN NEWPORT.--FRIENDLY FEELING BETWEEN THE COLONISTS AND THE MOTHER COUNTRY. New Governor elected, 142 State of affairs in England, 142 1728. Revision of the criminal code, 143 Laws for the encouragement and regulation of trade, 144 1727. Earthquake, 145 1723-1724. Division of the Colony into counties, 146 George Berkeley, 146 Establishment of Redwood Library, 147 Laws concerning charitable institutions, Quakers and Indians, 147 1730. New census taken, 148 1731. New bank voted, 149