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Start date: 1870Category: search.filters.subject.TRANSFER, MANUFACTURE & STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER

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    The New York City Consolidation Act, as in Force in 1891, at 209 (1891)
    (1890)
    Gunpowder and other explosives. Sale thereof regulated, § 455: No person shall manufacture, have, keep, sell, or give away any gunpowder, blasting powder, gun-cotton, niro-glycerine, dualin, or any explosive oils or compounds, within the corporate limits of the city of New York, except in the quantities limited, in the manner, and upon the conditions herein provided, and under such regulations as the board of fire commissioners shall prescribe
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    William G. Bishop, Charter of the City of Brooklyn 192, § 15-16 (1877)
    (1877)
    Ordinances of the City of Brooklyn § 16: No person shall carry, or cause to be carried, any gunpowder through any street, lane or alley in the city, unless the same be secured in tight casks, kegs or cases, well headed and hooped; and said casks, kegs or cases shall be put into and entirely covered with a bag or case sufficiently to prevent any said gunpowder from being spilled or scattered, under the penalty of forfeiture of the gunpowder and a fine of fifty dollars for every violation of the provisions of this act.
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    1900 N.Y. Laws 1174
    (1900)
    Ch. 494, § 1: A person who makes or keeps gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, or any other explosive or combustible material, within a city or village, or carries such materials through the streets thereof, in a quantity or manner prohibited by law or by ordinance of the city or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor. A person who manufactures gunpowder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, liquid or compressed air or gases, except acetylene gas and other gases used for illuminating purposes, naptha, gasoline, benzine [sic] or any explosive articles or compounds or manufactures ammunition, fireworks or other articles of which such substance are component parts in a cellar, room or apartment of a tenement or dwelling house or any building occupied in whole or in party by persons or families for living purposes, is guilty of a misdemeanor