1788-1801 Ohio Laws 42, An Act for Suppressing and Prohibiting Every Species of Gaming for Money or Other Property, and for Making Void All Contracts and Payments Made in Furtherance Thereof,§ ch. 13, § 4.
| dc.coverage.spatial | Ohio | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T16:54:28Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:54:51Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1788 | |
| dc.description.abstract | [I]f any person shall presume to discharge or fire,§or cause to be discharged or fire, any gun or other fire arms at any mark or object, or upon any pretence whatever, unless he or she shall at the same time be with such gun or fire-arms a the distance of at least one quarter of a mile from the nearest building of any such city, town, village or station, such person shall for every such offense, forfeit and pay to the use of the county in which the same shall be committed, a sum not exceeding five dollars, nor less than one dollar. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 4. Be it enacted, That if any person shall presume to discharge or fire, or cause to be discharged or fired, any gun or other fire arms at any mark or object, or upon any pretence whatever, unless he or she shall at the same time be with such gun or fire-arms at the distance of at least one quarter mile from the nearest building of any such city, town, village or station, such person shall for every such offense, forfeit and pay to the use of the county in which the same shall be committed, a sum not exceeding five dollars, nor less than one dollar. And if any person being within a quarter of a mile of any city, town, village or station as aforesaid, shall at the same time wilfully discharge or fire any gun or fire-arms, or cause or procure the same to be discharged or fired, at any time after the setting of the sun and before the rising of the same, he or she so offending, shall in like manner forfeit and pay to the use aforesaid, a sum not exceeding five dollars, nor less than one dollar. | |
| dc.description.summary | The law prohibited firing a gun at a mark or for any other purpose within one-quarter mile of the nearest building in a city, town, village, or station, punishable by a $1–$5 fine. It also separately prohibited firing a gun at night within that quarter-mile zone, with the same penalty. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4992 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://heinonline-org.libproxy.uwyo.edu/HOL/Page?collection=ssl&handle=hein.ssl/ssoh0273&id=42&men_tab=srchresults | |
| dc.subject | DISCHARGE | |
| dc.title | 1788-1801 Ohio Laws 42, An Act for Suppressing and Prohibiting Every Species of Gaming for Money or Other Property, and for Making Void All Contracts and Payments Made in Furtherance Thereof,§ ch. 13, § 4. |