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1839 Laws Of Middlebury College, ch. 7, §§ 1, 11.

, , | , | 1839

"CHAPTER VII.
OF CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS.

    1. If any student shall be guilty of blasphemy, or robbery, fornication, theft, forgery, duelling, or any other crime f...

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1885 Laws of the University of Vermont, ch. 4, § 4234; ch. 6, §§ 4, 9.

, , , | , | 1885

"CHAPTER IV.
OF STUDENTS AS UNDER CIVIL LAW.


    In all matters relating to good order and quietness: to the reatment of property public or private: and in general to the rights and obligations of ci...

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Act of February 26, 1915, No. 205, §§ 1-2, Vt. Acts & Resolves 344, 344.

, | | 1915

"It is hereby enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Vermont:

SECTION 1. Section 5733 of the Public Statutes is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 5733. A person who uses a slungshot, black jack, brass knuckles or ...

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Acts & Resolves of Vermont, 25, no. 24, An Act to Prevent Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors for the Purpose of Drinking, §15 (1852).

| | 1852

"Sec. 15. It shall be the duty of any sheriff, sheriff's deputy, constable, selectman, or grand juror, if he shall have information that any intoxicating liquor is kept or sold in any tent, shanty, hut or place of any kind for selling refreshments in a...

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Quoted in Brief of Amicus Curiae Patrick J. Charles at App. 13, N.Y. State Rifle & Pistol Ass’n, v. City of New York (Ordinances of the City of Barre, Vermont)

, | | 1895 CHAPTER 16, SEC. 18. No person, except on his own premises, or by the consent and permission of the owner or occupant of the premises, and except in the performance of some duty required by law, shall discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire arm loaded wi...

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1923 Vt. Acts and Resolves 127, An Act to Prohibit the Use of Machine Guns and Automatic Rifles in Hunting, § 1.

| | 1923

A person engaged in hunting for game who uses, carries, or has in his possession a machine gun of any kind or description, or an automatic rifle of military type with a magazine capacity of over six cartridges, shall be fined not more than five hundred...

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1919 Vt. Acts and Resolves 136, An Act to Regulate the Transportation of Dynamite, Gunpowder and Other Explosives by Common Carriers, § 1.

| | 1919

It shall be unlawful to transport, carry or convey from one place in this state to another place in this state, any dynamite, gunpowder, or other explosive on any vessel or vehicle of any description operated by a common carrier, which vessel or vehicl...

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1912 Vt. Acts and Resolves 306, An Act . . . Relating to Firearms, §§ 1-2.

| | 1912

§ 1. A person, other than a parent or guardian, who sells or furnishes to a minor under the age of sixteen years a firearm or other dangerous weapon, shall be fined not more than fifty dollars nor less than ten dollars. This section shall not appl...

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1912 Vt. Acts and Resolves 310, An Act to Prevent the Manufacture Sale or Use of Gun silencers, §1.

| | 1912

A person who manufactures, sells, or uses, or possesses with intent to sell or use, an appliance known as or used for a gun silencer shall be fined twenty-five dollars for each offense. This act shall not prevent the use or possession of gun silencers ...

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1912 Vt. Acts and Resolves 261

| | 1912

. . . and provided further that a person violating the prohibition against setting a spring gun or other device the object of which is to discharge a firearm shall be fined not more than five hundred dollars nor less than fifty dollars, and shall also ...

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1908 Vermont Session Laws 132, § 1.

| | 1908

No person shall at any time hunt, shoot, pursue, take or kill any of the wild animals, wild fowl or birds of this state, nor use a gun for hunting the same, without having first procured a license therefor as hereinafter provided, and then only during ...

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Leon G. Bagley, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Rutland, Together with Extracts from Certain State Laws Applicable to the Affairs of the City. Also the Rules and Order of Business of the City Council and of the Board of Aldermen, and a Register of Municipal Officers Page 153, image 160 (1894) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1894

Ordinances of the City of Rutland, [Of injurious Practices in Streets and Public Places,] § 19. No person shall, except in the performance of some duty required by law, discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire arm loaded with ball or shot, or with...

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Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Village of Northfield Page 20, Image 20 (1894) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1894

[Ordinances of the Village of Northfield,] By-Laws, Article XVII, Shooting with Firearms, § 1. No person shall be allowed to shoot with fire-arms at a mark or otherwise, unless upon his own premises, and then in such a manner that the range of his...

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Leon G. Bagley, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Rutland, Together with Extracts from Certain State Laws Applicable to the Affairs of the City. Also the Rules and Order of Business of the City Council and of the Board of Aldermen, and a Register of Municipal Officers Page 193, Image 200 (1894) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1894

Ordinances of the City of Rutland, [Storage,] § 40. No person shall keep in any building or place within the city, excepting in such magazine or place of storage as may be provided by or under the direction of the city council, any greater quantit...

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Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Village of Northfield Page 19-20, Image 19-20 (1894) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1894

Regulations for Handling Explosives, Artcle XV., § 1. No person shall at any time keep within the limits of said Village, any powder, or guncotton, without a written license, signed by a majority of the trustees, who shall have discretionary power...

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Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Village of Bradford. 1890 Page 12-13, Image 13-14 (1891) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1891

Ordinances of the Village of Bradford, § 11. The Trustees may grant licenses, for one year or less, to keep gun powder or gun cotton or other explosives for sale, if in their opinion the public safety is not endangered thereby. Said gun powder or ...

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Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Village of Bradford Page 14, Image 15 (1890 ) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1890

[Ordinances of the Village of Bradford] By-laws, Miscellaneous, § 6. Any person who shall fire any cannon, swivel gun, pistol, torpedo, squib, cracker, or throw any fire ball, in any street, alley or lane, except by permission of the trustees, sha...

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1884 Vt. Acts & Resolves 74, An Act Relating To Traps, § 1

| | 1884

A person who sets a spring gun trap, or a trap whose operation is to discharge a gun or firearm at an animal or person stepping into such trap, shall be fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, and shall be further liable to a pers...

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Barber, Orion M. The Vermont Statutes, 1894: Including the Public Acts of 1894, with the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitutions of the United States, and the State of Vermont Page 918, Image 935 (1895) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1882

A person who has in his possession a toy pistol for the explosion of percussion caps or blank cartridges, with intent to sell or give away the same, or sells or gives away, or offers to sell or give away the same, shall be fined not more than ten nor l...

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1865 Vt. Acts & Resolves 213, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled “An Act to Incorporate the Village of Rutland,” Approved November 15, 1847, § 10.

| | 1865

. . . and said fire wardens may inspect the manner of manufacturing and keeping gun-powder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, fire-works of all kinds, and other combustibles, . . . and a majority of said fire-wardens may, if they deem the same to be danger...

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1837 Vt. Acts & Resolves 38, An Act for Regulating and Governing the Militia of This State, ch. 9, art. 20.

| | 1837

Every non commissioned officer and private, who shall neglect to keep himself armed and equipped as provided by this act, or who shall, at any time of examination, or any company training, in the month of June, be destitute, or appear unprovided with t...

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1818 Vt. Acts & Resolves 64, § 42

| | 1818

That no non-commissioned officer, private or citizen shall unnecessarily fire a gun, single musket or pistol in any public road or near any house, or place of parade,on the evening preceding, on the day or evening of the same, on which any troop compan...

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