An Act to Incorporate the Town of Ripley in the County of Brown, § 4, 1850 Ohio Laws 406, 407-8 (Scott and Bascom).
"AN ACT
To incorporate the town of Ripley, in the county of Brown...
...Sec. 4. That the said town council of Ripley shall have power to ordain and establish laws and ordinances for the government of said town, and to alter, amend and repeal the same at their discretion, and by such laws and ordinances, to provide for the safety, peace, and good order of the inhabitants of said town...to regulate the sale of gunpowder therein..."
Acts of a Local Nature Passed by the Forty-Eighth General Assembly of the State of Ohio, Begun and Held in the City of Columbus, December 3, 1849, and in the Forty-Eighth Year of Said State, vol. 48 (Columbus, OH: Scott and Bascom, 1850), 407-8. An Act to Incorporate the Town of Ripley in the County of Brown, § 4. Passed March 20, 1850.