Laws and Ordinances of the City of New York app. at 1 (1793)
| dc.coverage.spatial | New York - New York City | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T13:33:39Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:22:37Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:32:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1786 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act to prevent the Firing of Guns and other Fire-Arms within this State, on certain days therein mentioned: If any person or persons, of what age, sex, or quality whatsoever, from and after the said first day of June next, shall fire and discharge any gun, pistol, rocket, cracker, squib or other fire-work, in any street, lane or ally, garden or other inclosure, or from any house, or in any other place where persons frequently walk, to the southward of Fresh-Water; that then every such person or persons so offending, and being thereof convicted before on or more justice or justices of the peace for the said city and county of New York, either by the confession of the party or parties so offending, or the oath of one or more witness or witnesses, (which oath the said justice or justices of the peace is and are hereby empowered and required to administer) shall, for every such offense, forfeit the sum of twenty shillings... | |
| dc.description.lawtext | An ACT to prevent the Firing of Guns and other FireArms within this State, on certain Days therein mentioned. Paffed 22d April, 1785. WHEREAS great Dangers have arisen, and Mischief been done by the pernicious Practice of firing Guns, Pistols, Rockets, Squibs and other Fire-Works, on the Eve of the last Day of December, and firft and ſecond Days of January; for Prevention whereof for the future, Be it Enacted by the People of the State of NewYork, reprefented in Senate and Aſembly, and it is hereby Enacted by the Authority of the same, That if any Perfon or Perfons whomfoever, fhall fire or diſcharge any Gun, Pistol, Rocket, Squib or other Firework, within a Quarter of a Mile of any Building, on the faid Eve or Days before mentioned, every fuch Person or Persons so offending, and being thereof convicted before any Juftice of the Peace of the City or County where such Offence shall be committed, either by the Confession of the Party or Parties fo offending, or the Oath of any one credible Witness, shall, for every such Offence, forfeit the Sum of Forty Shillings, with Costs of Suit, to be levied by Distress and Sale of the Offender's Goods and Chattels, by Warrant under the Hand and Seal of the faid Juftice before whom fuch Conviction or Convictions shall be had as aforefaid; the one Moiety of which Forfeiture, to be applied to the Use of the Poor of the Town or Place wherein fuch Offender shall be convicted, and the other Moiety to the Use of the Person or Persons who shall prosecute for the same; and for Want of sufficient Distress whereon to levy the same, every such Justice is hereby empowered and required by Warrant under his Hand and Seal, to commit every such Person or Persons, so as aforefaid offending, to the common Gaol of the County wherein the said Forfeiture shall arise, there to remain without Bail or Mainprife, for the Space of one Month, unless such Forfeiture or Forfeitures be sooner paid. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4732 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://perma.cc/XUH4-2K2L | |
| dc.subject | DISCHARGE | |
| dc.title | Laws and Ordinances of the City of New York app. at 1 (1793) |