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End date: 1905Category: search.filters.subject.GUNPOWDER - STORAGE

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    W.G. Armstrong, The Ordinances and Charter of the City of Jeffersonville 15-17 (1855)
    (1855)
    § 3, pt. 10: Prohibited storing more than twenty-five pounds of gun powder.
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    1847 Ind. Acts 93
    (1847)
    Ch. 61, § 8, pt. 4: An Act to Reduce the Law Incorporating the City of Madison, and the Several Acts Amendatory thereto into One Act, and to Amend the Same: Authorized the town of Madison to regulate and license the keepers of gunpowder and other explosive compounds
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    1847 Ind. Acts 93
    (1847)
    An Act to Incorporate the City of Jeffersonville, and the Several Acts Amendatory Thereto Into One Act, and to Amend the Same, chap 77, § 49, pt. 8: Granted the city of Jeffersonville the authority to regulate and license the keepers of gunpowder and other explosive compounds
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    Edgar A. Brown & William W. Thornton, Revision of 1904: The General Ordinances of the City of Indianapolis 425-26 (1904)
    (1895)
    §§ 1255-58 (12-15): The Chief Fire Engineer shall search any building in the compact portion of the city where there shall be cause to suspect the keeping of gunpowder in quantities over twenty-five pounds. Violators shall have powder seized, fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars. Owners of said buildings shall be fined not less than one nor more than ten dollars for every day such gunpowder shall be stored or kept.
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    1879 Ind. Acts 210
    (1879)
    An Act To Amend the Thirtieth Section of an Act Entitled "An Act Granting The Citizens Of The Town Of Evansville, In The County Of Vanderburgh," pt. 9: Granted the city council the authority to regulate the keeping and conveying of gunpowder and all other combustible and dangerous materials, including the use of candles and lights in barnes and stables.
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    1901 Ind. Acts 206
    (1901)
    Public Comfort and Health, § 4077: Allowed the cities with populations of more than thirty thousand and less than thirty six and a half thousand in population to regulate the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzene, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, giant powder, petroleum, gasoline, or gas, or other explosive or combustible material which may seem dangerous
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    1852 Ind. Rev. Stat. 485-86
    (1852)
    Granted the board of trustees for new incorporated towns to regulate the storage of gun powder and other dangerous materials.