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Revised Ordinances of the City of Victoria Texas Page 75, Image 77 (1899) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

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1899

[Ordinances of the City of Victoria,] Revised Penal Ordinances: Discharging Firearms, § 1. If any person shall discharge any gun, pistol or firearm of any description on or across any public square, street or alley, or elsewhere within the corporate limits of the City of Victoria, whether the premises on or across which such fire arm is discharged be public or private he shall be fined in any sum not to exceed ten dollars. § 2. Exceptions. The provisions of the foregoing section shall not be construed to apply to gunsmiths discharging fire arms brought to them for repairs, or to training guns or pistols of their own make, when done with the permission and at a place approved by the City Marshal; nor shall parties shooting in galleries licensed by the city come within the meaning of the preceding article. § 3. If any person shall discharge any gun, pistol or fire arm of any description as alarm for fire, or upon the discovery of any fire, or during the progress of any fire, he shall be fined in any sum not to exceed twenty-five dollars.