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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.New Jersey - TrentonStart date: 1840

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    City of Trenton, N.J., Charter and Ordinances 390 (1903)
    (1903)
    An Ordinance providing for the government and protection of public parks and squares of the city of Trenton, 8: Prohibited carry of firearms or shooting birds in "said park" or squares, or within fifty yards thereof, or throwing stones or other missiles therein.
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    Ordinances of the Common Council of the City of Trenton; with the Acts of the Legislature Relative to Said City 80 (1842)
    (1842)
    An Ordinance Concerning the Firing of Guns, & c.: If any person or persons shall fire, discharge, or let off any gun, pistol, squib, or other fire-work within this city, within two hundred yards of any dwelling-house, stable, or any other building, or any hay or grain stack, every such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted before any one of the magistrates of this city, either by his own view, by the confession of the offender, or by the oath or affirmation of one credible witness, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of one dollar,
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    Charter and Ordinances of the City of Trenton 185 (1875)
    (1842)
    An Ordinance concerning Nuisances, 1: No merchant, storekeeper, or other person whatever, shall keep, at any one time, more than fifty pounds of gunpowder on the premises used or occupied by him, within the thickly built and inhabited parts of the city, under the penalty of fifty dollars."