W.B. Hvland, Wilmington City Code: The Ordinances of the City of Wilmington, Delaware 688-89 (1885)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Delaware - Wilmington | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T04:28:18Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T14:37:19Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T00:00:57Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1885 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Required supplying retailers to be in kegs, not more than twenty-five pounds, carefully enclosed in good bags, or by putting a sheet of canvas under and around the kegs. When transporting gunpowder the carriage shall contain no more than ten kegs as described above. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | SECTION 1. If any person shall deposit, keep or have in any house, store or building, or in any place within this city, a greater quantity than fifty pounds of gunpowder, every such person shall be guilty of a common nuisance, and, upon conviction thereof, shall forfeit and pay a fine of ten dollars, and an additional fine of five dollars for each quarter cask, or quantity of said town may, five pounds so deposited, kept or had, above the said quantity of fifty pounds. [...] SEC. 2. For the purpose of supplying retailers of gunpowder within the City of Wilmington, it shall and may be lawful to introduce the same in kegs, containing not more than twenty-five pounds each, carefully enclosed in good bags, or by putting a sheet of canvas under and around the said kegs, sufficient to prevent the gunpowder from scattering from the said carriage, wagon or other vehicle in which it is conveyed, and no one carriage or other vehicle shall contain, at any one time, more than ten of the above described kegs of gunpowder, and if any gunpowder shall be brought into this city, except in the manner and in the quantity herein set forth, and contrary to the provisions of this ordinance, the person or persons owing the said gunpowder, and the person or persons, so conveying the same shall, for each and every such offense, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, one moiety to be paid into the city treasury and the other moiety to the person informing and prosecuting the offender to conviction. Provided, That this section shall not extend to that part of the Christiana river included within the city limits; vessels loaded with powder being free to pass in said river along the city front. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited the storage of gunpowder in quantities greater than fifty pounds. Required supplying retailers to be in kegs, not more than twenty-five pounds, carefully enclosed in good bags, or by putting a sheet of canvas under and around the kegs. When transporting gunpowder, the carriage shall contain no more than ten kegs. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3465 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Wilmington_City_Code/M3ZC4IaakIEC?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA689&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | GUNPOWDER - STORAGE | |
| dc.subject | GUNPOWDER - TRANSPORTATION | |
| dc.title | W.B. Hvland, Wilmington City Code: The Ordinances of the City of Wilmington, Delaware 688-89 (1885) |