A. McMicken, City Attorney, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins, Carbon County, Wyoming Page 96-97, Image 97-98 (1893) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

"Revised Ordinances of the City of Rawlins, [Precautionary Regulations,]

§ 13. That no person shall keep at his place of business or elsewhere within the city a greater quantity of gun powder or gun cotton than fifty pounds at one time, and the same shall be kept in tin or copper canisters or cases, containing not to exceed five pounds each, and in a situation remote from fires, lighted lamps and candles; and no person shall sell or weigh any gun powder or gun cotton after the lighting of lamps in the evening, unless in sealed canisters or cases. Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.

§ 14. It shall be lawful for the mayor, City Trustee, city marshal, police officers or fire-wardens, when any of them shall suspect that any gun powder or gun cotton is concealed or kept within the city in violation of the provisions of this Ordinance, to search any place in said city for the purpose of determining whether any gun powder or gun cotton is kept as aforesaid. Any person who shall obstruct or hinder any such officer making search in the execution of his duties under this section, shall forfeit and pay to said city for each offense a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars."