1774 Pa. Laws 411, An Act To Suppress The Disorderly Practice Of Firing Guns, etc., On The Times Therein Mentioned, § 1

"That if after the publication of this act any person or persons shall on any thirty-first day of December or first or second day of January in every year, wantonly, and without reasonable occasion, discharge and fire off any hand-gun, pistol or other fire-arms, or shall cast throw or fire any squibs, rockets or other fire-works, within the inhabited parts of this province, to the disturbance of any of his Majesty's subjects there inhabiting and being, every such person so offending, and being thereof convicted... shall for every such offense forfeit... ten shillings... (or) be committed to prison for the space of five days..."