1851 N.M. Laws 114, An Act Incorporating the City of Santa Fe, § 7.
"The board of common councilors shall have power to pass By-Laws and Ordinances . . . to prohibit the firing of fire-arms . . . to regulate and prescribe the quantities and places in which gun-powder or other dangerous combustible[s] may be kept[.]"
Laws of the Territory of New Mexico: Passed by the First Legislative Assembly in the City of Santa Fe; at a Session Begun and Held on the Second Day of June, A.D. 1851; and at a Session Begun and Held on the First Day of December, A.D. 1851; to which are Prefixed the Constitution of the United States, and the Act of Congress Organizing New Mexico as a Territory (Santa Fe, NM: James L. Collins & Co., 1852), 114. An Act Incorporating the City of Santa Fe, § 7. Approved July 4, 1851.