Act of Feb. 3, 1818, § 2, 1817 Miss. Laws, 1st sess., 219, 220 (Andrew Marschalk 1818).
"...That said president and select men, shall and may, from time to time, pass ordinances to regulate the keeping, carting and transporting gun powder or other combustible or dangerous materials..."
Acts Passed at the First Session of the First General Assembly of the State of Mississippi (Natchez, MS: Andrew Marschalk, 1818), 220. Supplemental to “An Act to Erect the Town of Natchez into a City, and to Incorporate the Same,” § 2. Approved February 3, 1818.
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