1840 Mo. Laws 193-94
| dc.coverage.spatial | Missouri | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T02:28:19Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T14:35:00Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T02:46:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1840 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act To Incorporate The Rural Cemetery Association, § 7.: Any person who shall willfully . . . shoot or discharge any gun or other fire arms within the said limits, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, or any other court of competent jurisdiction within the county of St. Louis, be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence[.] | |
| dc.description.lawtext | § 7. Any person who shall willfully destroy, mutilate, deface, injure or remove any tomb, monument, grave-stone or other structure placed in the cemetery aforesaid, or any fence, railing or other work for the protection or ornament of any tomb, monument or grave-stone, or other structure aforesaid, or of any cemetery lot within the limits of the cemetery aforesaid, or shall willfully remove, destroy, cut, break or injure any tree, shrub or plant within the limits of said cemetery, or shall shoot or discharge any gun or other fire arms within the said limits, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, or other court of competent jurisdiction within the county of St. Louis, be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence; and such offender shall also be liable in an action of trespass, to be brought against him in any court of competent jurisdiction, iii the name of the Rural Cemetery Association, to pay all such damages as have been occasioned by his unlawful act or acts, which money, when recovered, shall be applied by the said corporation, under the direction of the board of trustees, to the reparation and restoration of the property destroyed or injured as above, and members of the said corporation shall be competent witnesses in such suits. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited firing guns in cemeteries. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4404 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyHathi | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.a0001947423&seq=199 | |
| dc.subject | DISCHARGE | |
| dc.title | 1840 Mo. Laws 193-94 |