An Ordinance Concerning the Storing and Carriage of Gunpowder, §§ 1-3, PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND, ORDINANCES OF THE TOWN (Nickerson & Sibley 1874).

“AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE STORING AND CARRIAGE OF GUNPOWDER…

…It is ordained by the Town Council of the town of Pawtucket as follows:
    Section 1. No person or persons shall be permitted to have, keep or store, within any compact part of this town, more than five pounds of gunpowder in any building or buildings without license from the town council of said town, setting forth the location, and what kind of buildings the same are or shall be kept in, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each and every day such person or persons shall keep or suffer to be kept said powder without license as aforesaid.
    Sec. 2. No person having charge of any vehicle containing more than twenty-five pounds of powder, shall allow the same to stop or stand in any street or highway in the compact part of this town, except to load and unload, under a penalty of twenty dollars for each offence.
    Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of the chief of police to immediately remove or cause to be removed any vehicle containing more than twenty-five pounds of powder which shall be found standing in the compact part of said town.”