By-Laws of the City of New Haven 15 (1840)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Connecticut - New Haven | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T03:51:34Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T14:13:03Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-16T23:37:03Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1827 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Title XI - Gunpowder: Prohibited, directly or indirectly, selling or delivering any gunpowder, or to have, store, or keep any quantity of gunpowder greater than one pound weight. The Court of Common Council shall have the power to license the sale, having, storing, and keeping gunpowder up to seven pounds in weight, and stored in a tin canister. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | BE it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of New Haven, in Court of Common Council convened, 1st. That hereafter no person or persons shall, within the limits hereafter described, either directly or indirectly sell and deliver any gunpowder, or have, store or keep any quantity of gunpowder greater than one pound weight, without having obtained a license for that purpose from said Court of Common Council, in the manner hereinafter prescribed. Provided that nothing in this by-law contained shall be construed to prevent any person or persons from having or keeping in his or their possession a greater quantity of powder than one pound weight, during any military occasion or public celebrations, while acting under any military commander, and in obedience to his orders, or under permission and authority thereof, first had and obtained of the Mayor or some one of the Aldermen of said City. Provided also, That any person or persons purchasing gunpowder, shall be allowed between the rising and setting of the sun, sufficient time to transport the same from any place without said limits, through said limits to any place without the same. 2d. The Court of Common Council aforesaid shall have power, on application to them made, to grant and give any meet person or persons a license to sell gunpowder, and for that purpose to have, store, and keep gunpowder in quantity not exceeding at any one time seven pounds weight, and that well secured in a tin canister or canisters, and at such place or places within said limits and for such term of time, not exceeding one year, as said Court shall deem fit; which license shall be signed by the Clerk of said Court, and shall be in the form following, viz. Whereas the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the City of New Haven, in Court of Common Council convened, have approved of ------, as a suitable and proper person to keep, store, and sell gunpowder within the City of New Haven: We do therefore give license to said ------, to sell gunpowder (describe the place) and for the purpose aforesaid, to have, keep, and store in said building any quantity of gunpowder not exceeding at any one time seven pounds weight, until the --- day of ---. For which license the person receiving the same shall pay the Clerk twenty-five cents; and the same shall be by said Clerk recorded at full length. And before any license shall be given as aforesaid, the person or persons receiving the same shall pay on each license to the Clerk aforementioned, for the use of said City, a sum after the rate of five dollars per annum. 3d. Before any person shall proceed to sell or to store or keep gunpowder by virtue of any such license so given as aforesaid, such person shall put in a conspicuous place upon the front part of the building in which such powder is to be stored or "sold, a sign, with the following words plainly and legibly inscribed thereon, viz. "Licensed to keep Powder," and shall continue the same during the time he shall keep, store, or sell gunpowder in said building. 4th. The limits within which no person shall keep, store, or sell gunpowder, as is provided for in this by-law, shall be and are included within the following lines: Beginning on the west side of the harbor at the southernmost part of Hotchkiss' wharf, so called, and running in a direct line from thence to the southwesterly corner of Hotchkiss' rope-walk; thence in a direct line to the barn of Daniel Punderson, in Yorkshire quarter; thence in a direct line to the late dwelling-house of Benjamin Brown; thence in a direct line to the dwelling-house of Glover Mansfield, in second quarter; thence in a direct line to the dwelling-house now or lately owned by Ithiel Town, in Neck Lane, so called; thence in a direct line to a point on Mill River, twenty rods north of the new bridge landing to Fair Haven; thence in a direct line to the Steamboat wharf on the Toll Bridge, or Tomlinson's Bridge so called; thence in a direct line to a point twenty rods south of the south-easternmost part of Union Wharf; and thence in a direct line to the place of beginning. 5th. That no person or persons shall put or receive or have any quantity of gunpowder on board of any steamboat for transportation therein in any of the waters within the limits of said city. 6th. If any person shall sell, keep, or store any gunpowder within the limits aforesaid, contrary to the true intent and spirit of this by-law, or without complying with all the pre-requisites enjoined thereby; or if any person or persons shall put or receive, or have on board of any steamboat for transportation on any of the waters within the limits of said City, any quantity of gunpowder, such person or persons shall forfeit and pay the sum of thirty-four dollars, one half to him who shall give information, and the other half to the use of the City. 7th. All suits and actions grounded on this by-law shall be instituted and pursued by the Attorney for said City, and the sums received, exclusive of costs, shall be paid, one moiety thereof to the treasury of said City, and the other to the person who shall have first given information to said Attorney; but if there be no such informer, the whole shall be paid to the treasurer of the City. 8th. Be it further ordained, That the by-law entitled, "A by-law relative to the storing of gunpowder," passed on the 9th and approved on the 14th November, 1831, be and the same is hereby repealed. | |
| dc.description.summary | The ordinance prohibits selling, storing, or possessing more than one pound of gunpowder within specified city limits without a license from the Common Council, with limited exceptions for military or transit; allows licensed individuals to store up to seven pounds under strict conditions, including fees and signage; bans transporting gunpowder on steamboats within city waters; defines the regulated area; imposes fines for violations (shared between the city and informers); assigns enforcement to the city attorney; and repeals a prior gunpowder by-law. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3349 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/By_laws/ofJOAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA15&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | TRANSFER, MANUFACTURE & STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER | |
| dc.title | By-Laws of the City of New Haven 15 (1840) |