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Pennsylvania

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.Pennsylvania - PittsburghStart date: 1790

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    By-Laws and Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh 73 (1828)
    (1816)
    Ch. 2, §§ 1-3 : That no shop-keeper or other person or persons, shall keep, at the same time, in any house, shop, cellar or warehouse, or other apartment, or in any boat within the said city, more than thirty pounds weight of gun-powder. § 2. That the aforesaid quantity of gun-powder allowed to be kept within the city, shall be deposited in a place by itself, separate from other goods and commodities, and shall be secured by lock and key, or in some other safe manner. § 3. That no person shall carry or convey in any dray, cart, wagon or other carriage, any greater quantity of gun-powder than thirty pounds weight, at any one time, in or through the city, without securing the same in a good bag or bags, or within a canvas or other safe covering completely around the said powder, sufficient to prevent the same from scattering from the said carriage.
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    By-Laws and Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh 188 (1828)
    (1827)
    Ch. 103, § 2: That if any person shall fire off or discharge wantonly and without reasonable cause, any gun, pistol, fowling piece, or any other fire-arms, at any place or from any house, within the city, or in any of the streets, alleys or highways of the said city, such person shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of five dollars.
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    By-Laws and Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh 99 (1828)
    (1816)
    Ch. 16, § 1: That if any person or persons shall, within the said city, beat a drum, or without lawful authority, ring any public bell, after sunset, or at any time except in lawful defence of person or property, discharge any gun or fire arms, or play at or throw any metal or stone bullet, or make a bon-fire, or raise or create any false alarm of fire, he, she or they so offending, shall for every such offence, on conviction thereof, forfeit and pay the sum of four dollars32…
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    W.W. Thomson, A Digest of the Acts of Assembly Relating to and the General Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh 496 (1893)
    (1893)
    Prohibited carry of firearms, shooting or throwing of stones, or setting snares within the limits of the park or within one hundred yards thereof.