1838 Iowa Acts 449
| dc.coverage.spatial | Iowa [Territory] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:12:53Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T01:40:44Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:41:01Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1838 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act to Prevent Disasters on Steam Boats, Navigating the Waters Within the Jurisdiction of the Territory of Iowa, §§ 11-12: Required the master and officers of a steam boat carrying gun powder to store the same in the safest part of the vessel, separate from articles likely to create combustion and would not require carry of any lighted lamp, torch, or candle. Also required persons bringing gun powder onto the boat to inform the master and officers. Violators fined not more than one hundred dollars. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 11. It shall be the duty of the master, and officers, of any steam boat carrying gunpowder, as freight, to store the same in the safest part of the vessel, and separate and apart from articles liable to spontaneous combustion, and where, in discharging the cargo, it will not be necessary to carry any lighted lamp, torch, or candle, and the master and officers failing to comply with the provisions of this section, shall forfeit one hundred dollars each, for every time the same shall be so neglected, which may be recovered by action of debt, the one-half to the person who shall sue for the same, and the other half to the use of the county, and shall, moreover, be liable for all damages which may happen to any person by reason of such neglect or failure. Sec. 12. It shall not be lawful for any person, or persons, to put, or keep any gun powder on any steam boat, without first giving the master, or officers, notice thereof, and any person, or persons, so offending, shall be liable to pay the sum of one hundred dollars, to and for the use of any person who may sue for the same, in an action of debt, before any court having jurisdiction thereof, and, moreover, the person or persons so offending, shall be liable for all damages, which may happen to any person thereby. | |
| dc.description.summary | Required the master and officers of a steam boat carrying gun powder to store the same in the safest part of the vessel, separate from articles likely to create combustion and would not require carry of any lighted lamp, torch, or candle. Also required persons bringing gun powder onto the boat to inform the master and officers. Violators fined not more than one hundred dollars. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3839 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Statute_Laws_of_the_Territory_of_Iow/7HJGAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA449&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | GUNPOWDER - TRANSPORTATION | |
| dc.title | 1838 Iowa Acts 449 |