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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.Georgia - MaconStart date: 1830

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    A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 45-46 (S. Rose & Co. 1862)
    (1862)
    Required gunpowder to be stored in a public magazine, limited retail storage, authorized seizure of improperly stored powder, established a bonded magazine keeper, set storage fees, and required recordkeeping, inspections, and public auction of unclaimed powder to recover fees.
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    A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 47 (S. Rose & Co. 1862)
    (1862)
    Nuisances § 5: It shall not be lawful for any person to fire a gun, pistol, or any other fire arms, within§three hundred yards of any house, except in cases of military parade; nor shall any person burn rockets, crackers, or any kind of fire works within the limits of the city. Any person so offending shall be fined in§a sum not exceeding twenty dollars."
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    A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 48 (1858)
    (1858)
    § 5:§It shall not be lawful for any person to fire a gun, pistol, or any other fire arms, within three hundred yards of any house, except in cases of military parade; nor shall any person burn rockets, crackers, or any kind of fireworks within the limits of the city. Any person so offending shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.
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    A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia 60 (S. Rose & Co. 1862)
    (1862)
    Ordinance Against Carrying Deadly Weapons: That any white person who shall violate the Statutes of the State of Georgia now in force, relative to carrying about his or her person any deadly weapon mentioned in said Statutes, within the limits of the City of Macon, shall, for each offence, on proof thereof before the Mayor of said city, be fined by said Mayor in a sum of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the common Jail of Bibb county or the Guard House of said city, for any period not exceeding one month, or both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the discretion of the Mayor. And any slave or free person of color who shall carry about his or her person any deadly weapon of any description-such as are manufactured for purposes of offence or defence-within the limits of said city, shall be punished by whipping and imprisonment in the Guard House of said city, at the discretion of the Mayor-the whipping not to exceed seventy-five lashes, and the imprisonment not to exceed thirty days."
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    Charter and Ordinances of the City of Macon 38 (1853)
    (1853)
    § 5: Prohibited the discharge of a gun, pistol, or any other fire-arms within three hundred yards of any house. Also prohibited burning rockets, crackers, or any kind of fireworks within the limits of the city. Violators fined not exceeding twenty dollars.