1784 N.Y. Laws 627
| dc.coverage.spatial | New York | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T13:33:29Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:22:31Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:32:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1784 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act to Prevent the Danger Arising from the Pernicious Practice of Lodging Gun Powder in Dwelling Houses, Stores, or Other Places within Certain Parts of the City of New York, or on Board of Vessels within the Harbour Thereof, ch. 28: It shall not be lawful [sic] for any merchant, shopkeeper, or retailer, or any other person, or persons whatsoever, to have or keep any quantity of gun powder exceeding twenty-eight pounds weight, in any one place, less than one mile to the northward of the city hall of the said city, except in the public magazine at the Fresh-water, and the said quantity of twenty-eight pounds weight, which shall be lawfull [sic] for any person to have and keep at any place within this city, shall be seperated [sic] into four stone jugs or tine canisters, which shall not contain more than seven pounds each, on pain of forfeiting all such gunpowder, | |
| dc.description.lawtext | That from and after the passing of this act, it shall not be lawfull for any merchant, shopkeeper, or retailer, or any other person, or persons whatsoever, to have or keep any quantity of gun powder exceeding twenty-eight pounds weight, in any one place, less than one mile to the northward of the city hall of the said city, except in the public magazine at the Fresh-water, and the said quantity of twenty-eight pounds weight, which shall be lawfull for any person to have and keep at any place within this city, shall be seperated into four stone jugs or tine canisters, which shall not contain more than seven pounds each, on pain of forfeiting all such gunpowder, and the sum of fifty pounds for every hundred weight, and in that proportion for a greater or lesser quantity, and upon pain of forfeiting such quantity which any person may lawfully keep as aforesaid, and which shall not be seperated as above directed, with full costs of suit to any person or persons, who will inform and sue for the same by any action, bill, or information, in any of the courts of record, in this city, who are hereby impowered, and required, to give special judgment in such action bills or informations, to be brought by virtue of this act, as well for the recovery of the value of such gunpowder in specie, as for the penalty aforesaid, besides costs, and to award, effectual execution thereon, provided always that all suits, actions, or prosecutions to be brought, commenced, or prosecuted, against any person or persons, for any thing done in pursuance of this act, shall be commenced and prosecuted without willful delay, within two callender months next after the fact was committed, and not otherwise."\ | |
| dc.description.summary | Keeping or storing more than twenty-eight pounds of gunpowder in any location less than one mile north of New York City Hall is prohibited unless kept in the public magazine at Fresh-water. Any allowed quantity up to twenty-eight pounds must be separated into four stone jugs or tin canisters capped at seven pounds each. Violators face the forfeiture of all gunpowder, a fine of fifty pounds per hundredweight, and court costs, with all enforcement actions required to be brought without willful delay within two calendar months of the offense. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4721 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Laws_of_the_State_of_New_York/0N8TAAAAYAAJ?q=&gbpv=1#f=false | |
| dc.subject | GUNPOWDER - STORAGE | |
| dc.title | 1784 N.Y. Laws 627 |