1901 N.C. Sess. Laws 338-39, Priv. Laws, An Act to Amend the Charter of the Town of Laurinburg, ch. 124, § 14.
That among the powers conferred upon the Commissioners are the following: . . . to control the manner in which dynamite, blasting powder, gunpowder and other explosives and highly inflammable and dangerous substances may be stored and sold[.]