An Ordinance to Establish a Magazine, and Regulate the Sale of Powder, §3, General Ordinances of the City of Cleveland (1856).

"Section. 3. No person shall keep within the city, any quantity of gunpowder exceeding twenty-five pounds, or of gun cotton exceeding five pounds, for a longer period than twenty-four hours, except in the powder magazine; and said twenty-five pounds shall be kept in tin or copper canisters, neither of which shall contain over seven pounds and shall be labelled “gunpowder,” and be kept near the front or rear entrance of every building in which it is contained."

1856, OH, An ordinance to establish a magazine, and regulate the sale of powder, §3

Standing Rules of Order of the Cleveland City Council, with a Catalogue of the Mayors and Councils of the City of Cleveland, from its Organization, April, 1856, to April, 1871, and Officers of the City Government for 1872 (Cleveland, OH: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., 1872), 128. NB: An unusual feature of this source is that it has within it another, separate, work and title page. The bibliographic details of which are as follows: WM. C. Bunts and Geo S. Kain, General Ordinances of the City of Cleveland, in Force July 1, 1872 (Cleveland, OH: Fairbanks, Benedict & Co., 1872), 128. An Ordinance to Establish a Magazine, and Regulate the Sale of Powder, §3. Passed 10 Jan., 1956.