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An Ordinance to Amend the Ordinances Against Firing Explosives, SOUTH BRANCH INTELLIGENCER, Mar. 12, 1869 at 2 (Romney, West Virginia).

| | 1869

"New laws of the town of Romney.
An Ordinance to amend the Ordinances against firing explosives.
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Other Militia Not to Parade, etc., Ch. 24—Relating to the Militia, § 13 in Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia (1889).

| | 1889

        "Sec. 13. The West Virginia National Guard shall consist of not exceeding twenty companies of infantry, which divided into regiments, shall constitute the West Virginia National Guard, and it shall not be lawful for anybody[sic] of men what...

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WHEELING LAWS AND ORDINANCES, Act of Apr. 12, 1881 at 204, 206 (1891).

, | | 1881

"OFFENSES.
(Passed April 12th, 1881. )
AN ORDINANCE in relation to offenses and to repeal an ordinance entitled " An ordinance in rela...

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Act of June 5, 1925, ch. 3, § 7(b), 1925 W.Va. Acts (First Extraordinary Sess.) 24, 30-32.

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"(b) It shall be unlawful for any person to carry, transport, or have in his possession any machine gun, sub-machine gun, and what is commonly known as a high powered rifle, or any gun of a similar kind or character, or any ammunition therefor...

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Act of June 5, 1925, ch. 3, § 7(a), 1925 W.Va. Acts (First Extraordinary Sess.) 24, 24-30.

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    "Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia: That section seven of chapter one hundred and forty-eight…be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:   

    Section 7(a). If any person, without a state...

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1915 W.Va. Acts 404, Reg. Sess., Municipal Charters, An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections . . . Concerning the Charter of the City of Phillipi . . . , ch. 11, § 16, pt. 25.

| | 1915

To regulate the keeping, handling and transportation of explosives and dangerous combustibles within the municipality; and to regulate or prohibit the use of fire crackers, sky rockets, toy pistols, air rifles or guns, within the said municipality.

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1909 W.Va. Acts 479-80, An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections . . . Relating to the Protection and Preservation of Certain Animals, Birds, and Fishes and of Forests and Streams, ch. 60, § 19.

| | 1909

The carrying of any uncased gun in any of the fields or woods of this state, by any person not having the lawful right to hunt, pursue or kill game, birds or animals in such fields or woods shall, as to such person, other than the bona fide owner, or o...

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1905 W.Va. Acts 70, An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Chapter 99 . . . Entitled “An Act to Amend the Charter of the City of Bluefield, in the County of Mercer,” and to Define the Powers Thereof . . . , ch. 3, § 46.

| | 1905

The council shall have power to pass ordinances prohibiting the firing of guns, crackers, roman candles, sky-rockets, or any other fireworks, or the throwing of fire balls, or the firing of any other combination of gunpowder or other combustible or dan...

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Act of Jan. 24, 1901, ch. 144, § 18, W.Va. Acts 314, 320-21.

| | 1901

Powers and Duties of the Council.

18. The council of said city shall have power there-in to lay off, vacate, close, open, alter, curb, pave, and keep in good repair, roads, streets, alleys, sidewalks, cro...

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1901 W.Va. Acts 197, An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections Two and Thirteen of Chapter Sixty-Two of the Code of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Nine, ch. 89, § 1.

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13. No person shall shoot in the public road at any time, nor when shooting on the lands of another shall discharge any firearms on any lawn, pleasure ground or orchard or other ground which is directly appurtenant to or within gunshot of an occupied d...

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Act of Feb 16, 1899, ch. 4, § 28, W.Va. Acts 14, 24.

| | 1899

"28. The council of said city shall have power there-in to lay off, vacate, close, open, alter, grade, and keep in good repair the roads, streets, alleys, pavements, sidewalks, cross-walks, drains and gutters therein for the use of the citizens or of t...

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1891 W. Va. Code 915, Of Offences Against the Peace, ch. 148, § 7.

| | 1891

If a person carry about his person any revolver or other pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of like kind or character, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and ...

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1889-1890 W. Va. Acts 173, Extra Sess. 1891, An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Section Eleven of Chapter Sixty-Two of the Code, Relating to the Protection of Birds and Game.

| | 1890

11. . . . And it shall be unlawful for any person by the use of any swivel or pivot gun, or any other than the common shoulder gun, or by the aid of any push boat, or sneak boat, used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill, wound or destroy, or to pursu...

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1882 W. Va. Acts 421–22

| | 1882

If a person carry about his person any revolver or other pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slung shot, billy, metalic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of like kind or character, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and f...

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J. Nelson Wisner, Ordinances and By-Laws of the Corporation of Martinsburg: Berkeley Co., West Virginia, Including the Act of Incorporation and All Other Acts of a Special or General Nature Page 76, Image 76 (1875) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1876

[Ordinances of Martinsburg,] An Ordinance in Relation to Pistol Galleries, § 1. Be it ordained by the Council of the Corporation of Martinsburg, That no pistol gallery, in which air guns or pistols, or guns or pistols in which are fired powder, is...

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J. Nelson Wisner, Ordinances and By-Laws of the Corporation of Martinsburg: Berkeley Co., West Virginia, Including the Act of Incorporation and All Other Acts of a Special or General Nature Page 26, Image 26 (1875) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1875

[Ordinances of Martinsburg, An Ordinance to Prevent Certain Improper Practices Therein Specified,] § 12. It shall not be lawful for any person to keep in any shop, store, warehouse or other house or building within this town, without the special p...

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J. Nelson Wisner, Ordinances and By-Laws of the Corporation of Martinsburg: Berkeley Co., West Virginia, Including the Act of Incorporation and All Other Acts of a Special or General Nature Page 25, Image 25 (1875) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1875

[Ordinances of Martinsburg, An Ordinance to Prevent Certain Improper Practices Therein Specified,] § 3. If any person shall fire or discharge within such parts of the town which are or shall be laid out into lots, or within two hundred yards of sa...

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1870 W. Va. Code 703, For Preventing the Commission of Crimes, ch. 153, § 8.

| | 1870

If any person go armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear violence to his person, family, or property, he may be required to give a recognizance, with the right of appeal, as before provided, and like proceedings shall ...

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Of Offenses against the Peace, ch. 148, § 7, 1870 W. Va. Code 691, 692.

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"7. If any person, habitually, carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, or weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined fifty dollars. The informers shall have one half of such fine."

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