Ordinance No. 32, art. 3, § 10: Offenses Against Public Convenience, in The Daily Morning Alaskan, June 18, 1903, at 2
| dc.coverage.spatial | Alaska [Territory] - Skagway | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-06-12T23:19:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1903 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prohibited storing explosives within town limits or one mile thereof without written permission. Authorized storage was strictly limited, labeled, secured, and subject to inspection; violations carried fines, jail time, or both. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Written permission | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Section 10. Every person, company or corporation who shall have, keep or store within the limits of the town of Skagway, or within one mile thereof, any gunpowder, blasting powder, guncotton, giant powder, dynamite, gasoline or any other explosive substance, chemical, or compound whatever, having an explosive power equal to or greater than that of gunpowder, except as hereinafter provided, shall, upon conviction thereof, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not more than two hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the municipal jail not more than ninety days, or by both such fine and imprisonment; provided, that if any such person, company or corporation shall first obtain from the council permission in writing to so keep such prohibited articles within the town; but such permission shall not authorize the keeping of more than fifty pounds anywhere within five hundred feet of any building used or occupied as a place of living or as a dwelling house. When kept within five hundred feet of any such dwelling house or place of residence no more than fifty pounds shall be authorized to be kept in any one place, and the same shall be kept in an air-tight metal vessel marked with the name of the substance in plain Roman letters not less than three inches high and of proportionate width, which vessel shall at all times be kept conspicuously in view and convenient for removal from the premises where kept; provided further, that any of said substances, when authorized to be kept within the limits of the town, or within one mile thereof, shall be kept in a substantial building of wood, stone or brick, which building shall have printed thereon in a conspicuous place so the same may be readily seen from any point of view or approach, the following words, "DANGER, POWDER," the same to be in large, plain Roman letters not less than twenty inches high and of proportionate width. And it shall be the duty of the marshal or chief of police to visit upon the premises of any person, company or corporation whom he has good reason to believe are violating the provisions of this section, and if he finds any such violations to arrest any such person or persons. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/6029 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | Sourced from the Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn87062035/1903-06-18/ed-1/?sp=2&st=image&r=0.387,-0.065,0.502,0.267,0 | |
| dc.rights | CC0 1.0 Universal | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | |
| dc.subject | GUN POWDER | |
| dc.title | Ordinance No. 32, art. 3, § 10: Offenses Against Public Convenience, in The Daily Morning Alaskan, June 18, 1903, at 2 |
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