Alexander McKinstry, The Code of Ordinances of the City of Mobile, with the Charter, and an Appendix 118 (1859)

§ 124. It is not lawful for any person to discharge any charged in gun, pistol, fowling-piece, or fire-arm, or discharge, any rocket, fire-cracker, squib, or other fireworks, in any street, court, yard, lot, walk, or public highway, or from the door of any house or building, or near any house or any inhabited part of the city, on any pretext, under a penalty of five dollars, and if a slave fifteen lashes unless his employer pay the fine.