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Revised Ordinances and Charter of the City of Laramie, Wyo., with Constitutional Provisions and Legislative Enactments Governing the Same Page 200-201, Image 206-207 (1900) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

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[Ordinances of Laramie, Gunpowder and Explosives, § 12. No person shall keep at his place of business or elsewhere within this city, a greater quantity of gunpowder, gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powder or other explosives than twenty-five pounds at one time; and the same shall be kept in tin or copper canisters or cases not exceeding five pounds in each, and in a position remote from fires, lighted lamps and candles, and from which they may be easily removed in case of fire; and no person or persons shall weigh or sell any gunpowder or gun cotton on after the lighting of lamps in the evening, unless in sealed canisters or cases; and no person shall be allowed to keep nitro-glycerine in any part of said city. A violation of any of the provisions of this section shall subject the offended to a fine of not less than ten nor exceeding fifty dollars. § 13. It shall be lawful for the chief of the fire department, when he shall have cause to suspect that any gunpowder, gun cotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powder or other explosives 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 gunpowder, gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine, dynamite, giant powder or other explosives are concealed or kept as aforesaid. Any person who shall obstruct or hinder 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 no tless than ten dollars, nor more than fifty dollars.]