An Act to Prevent Certain Disorders in the Town of Bristol, § 3, 1820 R.I. Pub. Laws 31, 31–32 (Jones & Wheeler*).
"AN ACT to prevent certain disorders in the town of Bristol.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly, and by the authority thereof it is enacted...
...Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall, at any time hereafter, fire any gun or pistol in any of the streets, roads, lanes, buildings, or from any of the walls or fences thereto contiguous, and within the compact part of said town, without justifiable cause, such person or persons shall upon complaint and conviction thereof as aforesaid pay a fine not less than two dollars nor more than four dollars for the first offense and the sum of four dollars for each and every subsequent offense, to be paid and appropriated as aforesaid."
At the General Assembly of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Begun and Holden, by Adjournment, at Providence, Within and for Said State, on the Third Monday of February, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty, and in the Forty-Fourth Year of Independence (Providence, RI: Jones & Wheeler, 1820)*, 31–32. An Act to Prevent Certain Disorders in the Town of Bristol, § 3. Passed February 26, 1820.
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