“Sec. 206. No person shall have, keep, or cause or permit to be kept, any quantity of gunpowder, exceeding thirty pounds in weight, in any building, dwelling house, store, storehouse, manufactory or other building, within the limits of the city, that is within one hundred feet of any other building, under a penalty of fifty (50) dollars for each offense.
No person shall convey or cause to be conveyed any gunpowder through any street or highway in the city in any cart, wagon, wheelbarrow or other mode of conveyance, unless said gunpowder be secured in tight casks, kegs or cases, well headed and hooped, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each offense.
Sec. 207. No cart, wagon or other vehicle, while employed in conveying gunpowder, shall be suffered to stop in any street or highway or in any other place, except at the place of loading or unloading, under a penalty of ten dollars for each offense to be forfeited and paid by the owner or driver thereof severally and respectively.
Sec. 208. No person shall keep for sale or shall store in any building or place, within the limits of the city, that is within five hundred feet of any other building, any camphene, spirit gas, burning fluid, kerosene or other dangerous or explosive materials exceeding forty gallons in quantity, under penalty of ten dollars for every day such materials shall be permitted to remain after notice to remove the same.”
Full Text: 1896, Rahway, NJ, Title 27
Revised Code of General Ordinances of the City of Rahway, N. J.: In Force October 1, 1896 (Rahway, NJ: The Mershon Company, 1896), 48-49. Title 27—To Regulate the Keeping and Conveying of Gunpowder and Other Dangerous Materials, §§ 206-208. (Undated.)