W. Selden Gale et al., Revised Ordinances of the City of Galesburg 69 (1896)

Section 1. The keeping for sale or selling of gunpowder, without a license therefor, is prohibited, and no license shall be issued allowing the keeping in store of more than twenty-five pounds of gunpowder at any one time, unless kept in some secure magazine or fire-proof powder-house, located at least one hundred feet from any other occupied building, and when kept in a store or place for retail, it shall be kept in tin or other metallic canisters or cases, and in a part of the building remote from any fire, lamp, candle or burning matter liable to produce explosion, and whoever shall violate this section, or any provision of it, shall be subject to a penalty of twenty dollars. Sec. 2. Every person licensed to sell gunpowder shall keep a sign with the words "Gunpowder for Sale," in plain letters, in some conspicuous place in the front of the building where such powder is kept. And no sales of gunpowder, except in unopened cans shall be made after night, and any person convicted of violation of any of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a penalty of ten dollars. Sec. 3. Whoever shall bring or cause to be brought into the city any gunpowder concealed in any box or other package marked as containing other articles, shall be subject to a penalty of twenty-five dollars. Sec. 4. The carrying of gunpowder through the streets or other public places in a careless or negligent manner, or the remaining with such powder in any public place longer than necessary for the transportation of the same from one place to another, shall subject the party offending to a penalty of not less than five dollars. Sec. 5. In case any building with gunpowder in it takes fire, the occupant or keeper thereof shall at once remove such powder to some safe place, and if unable to do so he shall at once notify the mayor, or such officer or person as may be in command at the fire, of the location and quantity of such powder, and on failure to comply with the provisions of this section the party offending shall be subject to a penalty of fifty dollars. Sec. 6. It shall not be lawful for any person to manufacture within the city limits any explosive material or compound to be used for any purpose, the manufacture of which would be dangerous to life or property, under the penalty of fifty dollars and the further penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every day such explosive material shall be manufactured after notice to discontinue from the mayor. Sec. 7. It shall not be lawful to store or keep in any building, or other place, within the city, or convey through any street, alley or public place in the city, any dynamite, nitro glycerine, or other explosive material or compound, other than gunpowder, unless a permit in writing for such purpose be first obtained from the mayor, under a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every offense, and a further penalty of twenty-five dollars for each day during which such explosive material, or compound, may remain stored, kept or deposited in the city. Sec. 8. Whoever shall, in the frequented streets or other inhabited part of the city, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol, or other fire-arm, or shall set off, fire or explode any torpedo, fire-cracker, fire-ball, rocket or other fire-works whatever, or shall make or kindle any bonfire, save as herein permitted, shall be subject to a penalty of not less than three dollars. But the discharge of fire-arms, the setting off or exploding fire-works and the making of bonfires upon national holidays, and in the celebration of other public and general events, or the discharge of firearms by the members of a military company when on parade, and under orders of a commanding officer, or by any city officer or other person in the discharge of any duty or lawful act, and not tending to endanger the safety of any person or property, shall not be deemed a violation of this section. It shall be the duty of any person desirous of using and firing a cannon or other fire-works, or making bonfires on lawful occasions, to procure the special consent of the mayor or city marshal as to the time and place therefor, that the same may be done with the least interruption or danger. Sec. 9. No person shall within the city, sell, loan or furnish to any minor, except the parent or guardian of such minor, any gun, pistol, fowling piece or other fire-arms, or any pistol or toy of any sort for the explosion of percussion caps, under a penalty of not less than five dollars.