The Revised Ordinances of the City of Portland 22 (1848)

SECTION 1. No person not licensed to keep and sell gunpowder shall keep or have in his shop, store, dwelling house or other tenement, at any one time, a larger quantity of gunpowder than one pound. SECTION 2. No person licensed to keep and sell gunpowder shall have or keep in his store, shop, dwelling house or in any other tenement or place whatever at any one time, a larger quantity of gunpowder then twenty-five pounds. SECTION 3. Every person licensed to keep and sell gunpowder shall provide himself with a strongly made copper chest or box with a copper cover well secured, with hinges and a lock of the same material, and the keg or canister in which said powder may be, shall be kept in said copper chest or box, which shall at all times be placed near the outer door of the building in which it is kept, in convenient place to remove in case of fire. SECTION 4. No person shall haul unto, or lay at any wharf in the city, any vessel having on board a quantity of gunpowder exceeding twenty-five pounds, or receive gunpowder on board exceeding twenty-five pounds, without first having obtained a permit from the mayor and aldermen, and said permit shall designate the wharf at which said powder may be landed, or received on board. SECTION 5. No gunpowder shall be transported to or from any vessel, store, powder house or other building or place in the city, except in a covered wagon, cart or sled, the body of which vehicles shall be constructed for that purpose of wood and copper only. And the mayor and aldermen shall appoint one or more suitable person or persons, whose duty it shall be to transport all gunpowder in the city that may be require , and who shall have custody of the wagon or other vehicle provided for that purpose; and who shall receive such compensation therefor as the mayor and aldermen may establish. Provided, That nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the transportation through the city of any quantity not exceeding three kegs of twenty-five pounds each, at one time, if the same be well secured in a bag or bags. And provided further, that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the owners of powder mills from sending powder to the powder house on the city farm, in their own carriages—entering the city by the road that passes over the creek near the alms house, proceeding up Bramhall's hill, so called, to Vaughan street, along Vaughan street, Bracket street, and the western promenade to the city powder magazine.