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Item type:Item, Massillon Rev. Ordinances, at 50-51, ch. 10, §§ 129-130 (1880).(1880)That whoever carries any pistol, bowie knife, dirk, or other dangerous weapon, concealed on or about his person, shall be fined not more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than thirty days, and for a second offense, fined not more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not more than three months, or both.Item type:Item, Ordinances of the City of Sandusky, Ohio, at 131-32, Shooting Within Certain Limits, An Ordinance to provide for the punishment of certain offences named therein, §§ 1-2 (1887)(1884)That it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to fire or discharge any gun, cannon or other fire arm, within the following limits of said city, to-witItem type:Item, An Ordinance to Prevent and Punish Certain Misdemeanors, §§ 1-4, General Ordinances of the Incorporated Village of Clifton (1874).(1874)Be it ordained by the Council of the Incorporated Village of Clifton, That it shall be unlawful, except for persons in military array, or to enforce the laws, or in defence of persons or property, to discharge any description of fire-arms within the corporate limits of the village. Also prohibited the killing of certain birds with a firearm.Item type:Item, 1872 Cleveland Gen. Ordinances 102, An Ordinance to Prevent the Careless Use of Fire-Arms(1872)That any person who shall discharge, without injury to any other person, any fire-arm while intentionally without malice aimed at or toward any such person, shall be subject to a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the work house not exceeding thirty days, or both, at the discretion of the court.Item type:Item, Codified Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, at 60, ch. 23, §§1-3 (1877).(1877)§No person shall fire any cannon, gun, rifle, pistol or fire-arms of any kind, or fire or explode any squib, rocket, cracker, Roman candle, or other combustible fireworks within the city.Item type:Item, Codified Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, at 37, Ch. 10, §12, pt. 6 (1877)(1877)No person shall discharge any fire arms within the cemeteries, except at military funerals."Item type:Item, 1880 Ohio Rev. Stat. 1655, tit. 1, ch. 8, § 7007 (vol. 2, 1879)(1880)Whoever plays bullets along or across any street, in any municipal corporation, or runs any horse, shoots or fires any gun or pistol at a target, within the limits of any municipal corporation, shall be fined not more than fifty nor less than five dollars.]Item type:Item, 1883 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 222, An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Toy Pistols in the State of Ohio, § 1 (vol. 80)(1883)That it shall be unlawful for any firm, company or person in the state of Ohio, to sell or exhibit for sale any pistol manufactured out of any metallic or hard substance, commonly known as the "toy pistol"; to a minor under the age of fourteen years; any firm company or person violating the provisions of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars, or be imprisoned not less than ten days nor more than twenty days, or both, and shall be liable to a civil action in damages ot any person injured by such sale.Item type:Item, 1889 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 164, An Act to Amend Section 2669 of the Revised Statutes, as Amended April 22, 1885, § 1 (vol. 84)(1889)The council of the city or village may provide by ordinance for licensing all exhibiters of shows or performances of any kind, not prohibited by law, hawkers, peddlers, auctioneers of horses and other animals on the highways or public grounds of the corporation, venders [sic] of gun powder and other explosives, taverns and houses of public entertainment, and hucksters in the public streets or markets, and in granting such license, may extract and receive such sum of money as it may think reasonable[.]Item type:Item, 1884 Supplement to the Revised Statutes of the State of Ohio, at 633, Licenses, § 24(1884)All vendors of gunpowder shall pay a license fee of fifteen (15) dollars per annum. All keepers or owners of gunpowder magazines shall pay a license fee of one hundred (100) dollars per annum.Item type:Item, 1886 Gen and Local Acts of the State of Ohio 100, ch. 4, § 3079 (vol. 83)(1886)if any person shall temporarily erect any stand, booth, or other structure for the purpose of exposing for sale, giving, bartering, or otherwise dispose of any spirituous or other intoxicating liquors whatsoever, at or within a distance of one mile from any such parade or encampment, he may be put immediately under guard, and kept at the discretion of the commanding officer, and such commanding officer may turn over such person to any police officer or constable of the city, township or town wherein such duty, parade or drill, encampment or meeting is held, for examination or trial before any court of justice having jurisdiction of the place."Item type:Item, 1880 Ohio Rev. Stat. 1633, tit. 1, ch. 5, § 6892 (vol. 2, 1879)(1880)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by a fine of up to $200 or imprisonment for up to 30 days for the first offense, and a fine of up to $500 or imprisonment for up to 3 months for the second offense.Item type:Item, 1877 Ohio Laws 278, ch. 8, § 60 (vol. 74)(1877)Whoever, except in case of invasion by a foreign enemy, or to suppress insurrection or a mob, or for the purpose of raising the body of a person drowned, or for the purpose of blasting or removing rock, fires any cannon, or explodes at any time more than four ounces of gunpowder, upon any public street or highway, or nearer than ten rods to the same, shall be fined not more than fifty nor less than five dollars.Item type:Item, 1879 Gen. and Local Laws of the State of Ohio 191-92, An Act to define and suppress tramps, § 2 (vol. 76)(1879)That any tramp who shall enter any dwelling-house, or shall enter the yard or enclosure about any dwelling-house, against the will or without the permission of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall not, when requested, immediately leave such place, or shall be found carrying any fire-arms or other dangerous weapons, or shall do or threaten to do any injury to any person, or shall do or threaten to do any injury to the real or personal estate or property of another, shall, upon conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary not less than one year nor more than three years.Item type:Item, 1874 Ohio Gen. and Local Laws 148, An Act to Protect Certain Birds and Game, and to Protect Land Owners and Punish Trespassing upon Improved or Enclosed Land, and to Repeal Certain Statutes Therein Designated, § 2 (vol. 71)(1874)And it shall be unlawful for any person, by the aid or use of any swivel or punt gun, or any other than the common shoulder gun, or by the aid or use of any push boat or sneak boat, used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill or wound, or destroy or to pursue after, with such intent upon the waters, bays, rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any cover to which wild fowl resort, within the state of Ohio, any wild goose, wild duck, or brant.Item type:Item, 1878 Gen. and Local Laws of the State of Ohio 199, div. 3, ch. 3, § 1, pt. 14 (vol. 75)(1878)To regulate the transportation and keeping of gunpowder, and other explosive and dangerous combustibles, and to provide or license magazines for the same.Item type:Item, Gen. Acts and Local Laws of the State of Ohio 125, An act for the protection of certain birds and game, § 3 (vol. 58, 1861)(1861)And it shall also be unlawful for any person at any time after the passage of this act, by the aid or use of any swivel, punt gun, big gun (so called), or any gun other than the common shoulder gun or by the aid or use of any punt boat, or sneak boat used for carrying such gun to catch, kill, wound, or destroy, or to pursue after, with intent to catch, kill, wound or destroy, upon any of the waters, bays, rivers, marshes, mud flats, or any cover to which wild fowl resort within the state of Ohio, any wild goose, wood-duck, teal, canvas-back, blue-bill, or other wild duck.