An Act to Regulate the Keeping of Gunpowder in the County of Hamilton, §§ 1–3, 1833 Ohio Laws 118, 118 (David Smith 1834) (Law Passed 1834).

"AN ACT to regulate the keeping of gunpowder in the county of Hamilton.

    Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Ohio, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of the county of Hamilton, to examine on or before the first day of May next, all buildings wherein any gunpowder may be kept or stored by a greater quantity than one keg within said county and without the corporate limits of the city of Cincinnati; and if upon examination said commissioners shall be of the opinion that the lives or property of the citizens, or any of them, shall be in any ways^[1] endangered by the construction or management of any such magazine or powder warehouse, it shall be the duty [of]^[2] such commissioners forthwith to notify all such owner or owner thereof, by leaving with him or them a written notice setting forth the facts on which their opinions are predicated.
    Sec. 2. That it is hereby made the duty of all such owner or owners, if so required by the notice aforesaid, to proceed within twenty days thereafter, to erect or construct such magazines or warehouses as in the opinion of the said commissioners will best secure the citizens or their property from the damages that might result from explosions, in such place and in such manner and of such materials as may be directed by the said commissioners, which direction it is hereby made their duty to give in writing, when called for by any person now owning any such powder house, or that may hereafter wish to erect any such powder house in the county of Hamilton as aforesaid.
    Sec. 3. That if any or persons shall keep in his, her or their store, any gunpowder by a greater quantity than one keg in any building of any description other than such as may be directed by the said commissioners, he, she, or they or any of them shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and collected in the same manner as is provided for in the act for the punishment of certain offices therein named: Provided, that all prosecutions under the provisions of this act shall be by indictment."