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52 Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly, 1755-1756, at 457 (1935)
(1756)
And be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that as much Gunpowder and lead as can conveniently be spared Shall be taken out of the Publick Magazine and transmitted in due proportions and as the Same may be needed first to the Colonels and Commanding Officers of the Frontier Counties of this Province then to the Colonels and Commanding Officers of the other Counties respectively to be distributed by them in just and equal Proportions to and among the Persons under their Command so as that no more than one pound of Gunpowder and three pounds of Lead be delivered to any one Person and in Case that after such Distribution any Surplus shall remain the Said Colonels or Commanding Officers are hereby required to retain and keep the Same in their Possession to be disposed of as hereinafter directed And be it further Enacted that if any private Man of the Militia of this Province shall in the Course of his Duty by the Command of his Superiour Officer expend any part of the Quantity of Powder and Lead by this Act directed to be brought by every Person to the Place of Muster it Shall and may be lawful for such Superiour Officer and he is hereby required to deliver to such Person a certificate of the Number of Charges so expended directed to the Colonels and Commanding Officers of the County in which Such Person resides and such Colonels and Commanding Officers or any of them in whose hands any Surplus shall be as aforesaid shall immediately on such Certificates being produced deliver to Such Person the Quantity of Gunpowder and Lead therein Mentioned. Provided always that no Gunpowder shall at any Time be expended in training unless by the Order and Direction of the Colonel or Commanding Officer of the County.
Charter of the City of Covington 148-49 (1864)
(1864)
Banned powder magazines, limited household gunpowder storage, and required licenses and safety measures for gunpowder sales.
1890 S.D. Sess. Laws 72
(1890)
Art. 5, § 1, pt. 53: To regulate and prevent the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, resin, coal, oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitro-glycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bonfires; also to regulate and restrain the use of fire works, fire crackers, torpedoes, roman candles, sky rockets, and other pyrotechnic displays.
1862 Or. Spec. Laws 8-9, An Act to Incorporate the City of Albany, § 6.
(1862)
[To] regulate the storage of gun powder and other combustible materials, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in shops, stables and other places[.]
1903 Haw. Terr. Sess. Laws 55
(1903)
Ch. 8, § 25: Granted the Board of Supervisors of each county the jurisdiction and power to adopt rules and regulations for the keeping and storing of powder, Hercules powder, giant powder, kerosene, coal oil, benzoin, naptha, or other explosive or combustible materials.
1884 Wyo. Terr. Sess. Laws 134
(1884)
[T]o regulate the storage of gun-powder, kerosene and other dangerous material[.]
1919 Wyo. Sess. Laws 17
(1919)
It shall be unlawful for any person or company to store any gunpowder or any other explosive material at a less distance than one thousand feet from any house or habitation, when more than fifty pounds are at the same place; but it shall be unlawful to place or to keep any powder or other explosive material, in any house or building occupied as a residence, or in any outbuilding pertaining thereto.
1907 Wyo. Sess. Laws 96
(1907)
To regulate and prevent the transportation and storage of gunpowder or other explosive or combustible articles. . .
1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 315
(1883)
The powers conferred upon the said council to provide for the abatement or removal of nuisances, shall not bar or hinder suits, prosecutions or proceedings in the courts according of law. Depots, houses or buildings of any kind, wherein more than twenty-five pounds of gun powder are deposited, stored or kept at any one time . . . within the limits of said city are hereby declared and shall be deemed public or common nuisances.
Ordinances of the City of Kenosha, Ordinance no. 8, §1 & §5 (1858)
(1858)
That no person shall fire or discharge any cannon, rifle, gun, pistol, or fire arms of any description, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, cracker, or other thing containing powder or other combustible or explosive material in any street, alley, or public ground within this city south of a line running through Lemon street from the lake to the west line of the corporation, and east of West Main Street. § 5 No person shall be allowed to keep any gunpowder in any occupied building within the limits of this city without permission of the council;— and no person shall keep in any such building a greater quantity than ten pounds; which shall be kept in a close tin canister or canisters.
1919 Wis. Sess. Laws 281–82
(1919)
to regulate the storage of gunpowder and other dangerous materials
1909 W. Va. Acts 59
(1909)
Ch. 2, art. 4, § 7: [T]o regulate or prohibit the keeping of gun powder and other combustible or dangerous articles[.]
J. Nelson Wisner, Ordinances and By-Laws of the Corporation of Martinsburg 26 (1875)
(1857)
The ordinance prohibited storing more than 25 pounds of gunpowder or rock powder in any building without special permission from the town council. Violators were subject to a $5–$10 fine.
W.Va. Acts 14, 24.
(1899)
Act of Feb 16, 1899, ch. 4, § 28: To regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide for the regular building of houses or other structures
1901 W. Va. Acts 314, 320-21
(1901)
Act of Jan. 24, 1901, ch. 144, § 18: To regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide in or near the city places of burial of the dead, and to regulate the interment therein
Charter and Ordinances of the City of Olympia: Also General Laws of Washington Territory, Relative to the Government of Incorporated Cities and Towns 90 (1886)
(1886)
Prohibited storing gunpowder, dynamite, or nitroglycerine within Olympia’s fire limits or within 300 yards of another’s dwelling, subject to a 50-pound gunpowder exception. Violations were misdemeanors punishable by $25–$100 fines.
1883 Wash. Sess. Laws 161
(1883)
An Act to Incorporate the City of Ellensburgh, Ch. 2, § 20: The city of Ellensburg shall have power to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy . . . to regulate the transportation storing and keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles and to provide or license magazines for the same[.]
1861-1862 Wash. Sess. Laws 22
(1862)
An Act to Incorporate the City of Walla Walla, Art. 5, § 3, Pt. 22: To regulate the storage of gunpowder, pitch, tar, rosin and all other combustible materials, . . . in shops, stables and other places. To prevent, remove or secure any fire-place, stove, chimney, oven, boiler, or other apparatus which may be dangerous in causing fire.
1907 Wash. Sess. Laws 636
(1907)
Ch. 241, § 29, pt. 21: To regulate or prohibit the loading or storage of gunpowder and combustible or explosive materials in the city, or transporting the same through its streets or over its waters.
1651 Va. Acts 365
(1651)
Articles At The Surrender Of The Country, art. 13: That all ammunition, powder and arms, other than for private use shall be delivered up, security being given to make satisfaction for it.
An Ordinance, for the Government of the Powder Magazine of this City, and for other purposes (1828)
(1828)
That no person or persons within the City of Richmond, shall retain in his, her or their possession at any time, more than twenty-five pounds of Powder.
1901-02 Va. Acts 526
(1902)
Ch. 467, § 35, pt. 8: To direct the location of all building for storing gunpowder, fire-crackers, or other fireworks manufactured or prepared therefrom, kerosene oil, nitroglycerine, camphene, burning fluid, or other combustible material; to regulate the exhibition of fireworks, the discharge of fire-arms, the use of candles and lights in barns, stables, or other buildings, and to regulate or restrain the making of bonfires in streets and yards.
1901 Va. Acts 203, Extra Session, ch. 189, § 13.
(1901)
The council shall have, subject to the provisions of this act, the control and management of the fiscal and municipal affairs of the town; of all property, real and personal, belonging to said town; and may make such ordinances, orders, and by-laws and regulations as it may deem necessary to carry out the following powers, which are hereby conferred on it . . . to regulate or prevent the storing of gunpowder
Ordinances of the City of Norfolk 115-16 (1894)
(1894)
Ch. 33, § 1: No person shall keep, in any house or store, any quantity of gunpowder exceeding two kegs or vessels thereof, of the weight of twenty-five pounds each,
The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Richmond tit. 7, ch. 46, § 12 (1869)
(1869)
Concerning Nuisances Not in Streets: No person, firm or incorporated company shall keep in any house in the city any loaded shell or shot, or any explosive material of any sort, not authorized by ordinance. And any person, firm or incorporated company violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars; and each day on which the same is so kept in the city shall be a distinct offence and punishable as such."
General Ordinances of the City of Winchester, Ordinance XXI (1875).
(1875)
Gunpowder. To be kept in metallic canisters in limited quantities: "It shall not be lawful for any person or persons or firm, for any purpose whatsoever, to store or keep within the limits of this city a larger quantity of powder than twenty-five pounds. All powder shall be kept well secured in a close tin or other metallic canister ; provided that larger quantities may be kept in such magazine or other place as the council may provide or designate for the storage of powder, subject to such regulations and charges as the council may prescribe."
Laws of the University of Vermont State Agricultural College, ch. 6, §§ 4, 9 (1885)
(1885)
Sec. 4: Rooms shall be held by students subject to the condition that all rules, for securing quiet, order, and cleanliness in the rooms, halls, and premises, are strictly observed. Any violation of these rules, either by themselves or visitors, shall subject the occupants to forfeiture of their right to the room. Self-boarding in any of the rooms; the keeping of a dog or cat; cutting or splitting wood in the rooms or halls; shouting, or throwing anything, from the windows; pasting pictures on or otherwise injuring the walls; loud and boisterous noises in the rooms or halls; playing on musical instruments during recitation hours or after ten o'clock at night; gatherings of students in the rooms after the same hour; the keeping of fire-arms or gunpowder except under direction of the Military Instructor; bringing into the rooms any fermented or distilled liquors; are prohibited. Sec. 9. No student shall use gun powder or fire-arms in the buildings, or on the adjacent grounds of the University, except under direction of the Military Instructor. No smoking shall be allowed in any of the halls or public rooms of the University; nor shall any intoxicating drinks be brought upon the University premises."
Leon G. Bagley, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Rutland 193 (1894)
(1894)
Ch. 22, § 40: No person shall keep in any building or place within the city, excepting in such magazine or place of storage as may be provided by or under the direction of the city council, any greater quantity than twenty-five pounds of gunpowder, nitro-glycerine or other like compound for a longer period than twenty-four hours.
Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Village of Bradford 12-13 (1891)
(1891)
Provided that the trustees may grant revocable licenses to store and sell specified quantities of gunpowder, gun cotton, or other explosives under strict storage, signage, location, and inspection regulations, with unlicensed possession of excess amounts subject to a daily five-dollar fine.
1876 Vt. Acts & Resolves 357
(1876)
No. 192, § 10, pt. 8: To regulate the manufacture and keeping of gunpowder, ashes and all other dangerous and combustible material.
1901 Utah Laws 139
(1901)
To regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzene, turpentine, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other places, and the building of bonfires.
1888 Utah Terr. Laws 166
(1888)
To adopt such rules and regulations within their respective counties, except within municipal corporations, with regard to the keeping and storing of every kind of gun powder, [H]ercules powder, giant powder, or other combustible material, as the safety and protection of the lives and property of individuals may require.
Compiled Laws of the Hawaiian Kingdom 86-87 (1884)
(1884)
Of the Safekeeping of Gunpowder § 354: Granted the Minister of the Interior the authority to make regulations on the storing, keeping, and transportation of gunpowder in the Kingdom. Prohibited the violation of these regulations.
1839 Tex. Gen. Laws, at 214
(1839)
An Act To Incorporate The City Of Austin, § 7: That the Mayor and Counsel shall have full power and authority ... to prevent gunpowder being stored within the city and suburbs in such quantities as to endanger the public safety. . .
Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 40 (1899)
(1899)
That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to have or keep stored within the limits of the city of McKinney, at any one time, more than four kegs either of blasting powder or gun powder nor a greater amount of any other high explosive than is reasonably necessary for one day's business and none of the same shall be kept within the corporate limits of the city of McKinney for wholesale purposes at all.
1901 Texas Spec. Laws 74
(1901)
§§ 169–170: The city council may also regulate or prohibit and prevent the carrying on of work and manufactures that are dangerous in promoting or causing fires, and may prohibit the building or erection of cotton presses and sheds, or may restrict the same to such limits as are prescribed by ordinance; and may regulate or prohibit and prevent the use of fireworks and firearms, or the keeping and management of houses or other structures or places for storing gunpowder, dynamite, or other combustible, explosive, or dangerous material or substances within the city, and may regulate the keeping and conveying of the same.
1876 Tex. Gen. Laws 29
(1876)
An Act To Incorporate The City Of Galveston And to Grant A New Charter, Tit. 7, Art. II, § 108: To direct, control and prohibit the keeping and management of houses, or any building for the storing of gun-powder and other combustible, explosive or dangerous materials, within the city; to regulate the keeping and conveying of the same, and the use of candles and other lights in stables and other like houses.
The Revised Laws of the City of Nashville 49 (1850)
(1850)
An Act to Reduce the Several Acts Incorporating the Town of Nashville in one act, and to Amend the Same, § 6: The Mayor and Aldermen shall have power, by ordinance within the city – ]25th. To regulate the storage of gun-powder, tar, pitch, rosin, salt-petre, gun-cotton, and all other combustible material, and the use of lights, candles and stove-pipes in all stables, shops, and other places.
1867 Tenn. Pub. Acts 26
(1867)
An Act To Amend The Charter Of The City Of Memphis, And For Other Purposes, pt. 20: Allowed the city to regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactories dangerous in causing or producing fires. Also allowed the city to regulate storage of gunpowder, gun cotton, and other cumbustible or explosive materials.
1895 Tenn. Pub. Acts 129–30
(1895)
An Act to Incorporate the City of South Fulton, in Obion County Tennessee . . . , ch. 85, § 3, pt. 14: To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, saltpeter, gun cotton, coal oil, and all other combustibles, explosive or inflammable material, and the use of lights, candles, lamps, stove pipes, steam pipes, and chimneys in all storehouses, dwellings, outhouses, shops, stables, and other places, and to regulate and suppress the use and sale of fire crackers or fireworks of all kinds, toy pistols, air guns, or target guns.

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