1818 Miss. Laws 220
Abstract
Supplemental to an Act to erect the town of Netchez into a city, and to incorporate the same, § 2: That said president and select men, shall and may, from time to time, pass ordinances to regulate the keeping, carting and transporting gun powder or other combustible or dangerous materials[.]
Summary
Allowed the town of Netchez to regulate the storage of gun powder.
Law Text
SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said president and select men, shall and may, from time to time, pass ordinances to regulate the keeping, carting and transporting gun powder or other combustible or dangerous materials, and the use of lights and candles in livery and other stables, to remove or prevent the construction of any fire place, hearth, chimney, stoves, ovens, boilers, kettles or apparatus, used in any house, building, manufactory or business which may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires, to appoint one or more officers at reasonable times, to enter into and examine all dwelling houses, lots, yards, enclosures, and buildings of every description, in order to discover whether any of them are in a dangerous state, and to cause such as may be dangerous, to be put in a safe and secure condition, to regulate and prevent the carrying on of manufactories dangerous in causing or promoting fires [...]
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Categories
GUNPOWDER - STORAGE, GUNPOWDER - TRANSPORTATION