R.I. Gen. Laws § 35-6-14: Payments for compensation of jurors.

The state controller, based upon a statement exhibited to him or her by the jury commissioner to the supreme court director of finance, may draw an order on the general treasurer in favor of the jury commissioner for a sum certain to pay the jurors for their travel and attendance at any session thereof in any of the state courts that may require juries, which sum shall be accounted for by the jury commissioner at the time of transmitting to the supreme court director of finance the accounts named in § 35-6-13.