An Act to Prohibit Shooting or Firing Off Guns, near the Road or High-Way, on Boston Neck, MASS. GEN. LAWS (B. Green 1714) (Law Passed 1713).

"An Act to Prohibit Shooting or Firing off Guns, near the Road or High-way, on Boston Neck.

WHEREAS the Limbs and Lives of several persons, have been greatly Endangered in Riding over Boston Neck, by their Horses throwing of them; being Affrighted and Starting, at the Firing of Guns by Gunners that frequent there after Game.

For Preventing whereof for the Future:

    Be it Enacted by His Excellency the Governour, Council and Representatives, in General Court Assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That no person or persons from and after the Publication of this Act, may presume to Discharge or Fire off any Gun upon Boston Neck, within Ten Rods of the Road or High-way leading over the same, on pain of Forfeiting and Paying the Sum of Twenty Shillings, for each Gun so Fired or Discharged: One Moiety thereof to be to and for the use of the Poor in the said Town of Boston; and the other Moiety to him or them that shall Inform, Complain, and Sue for the same: To be Recovered before the Court of General Sessions of the Peace within the County, or before any one or more of Her Majesties Justices of the Peace out of Court. And for the better Conviction of persons Offending against this Act; it shall be Lawful to and for any Freeholder to Arrest and take into Custody any Gun so Fired off, and render the same to one of the next Justices in Boston, in order to its being produced at the time of Trial.^[1]"