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1901 Va. Acts 203, An Act to Incorporate the Town of La Crosse, Mecklenburg County, Virginia, ch. 189, § 13.

| | 1901

The council shall have, subject to the provisions of this act, the control and management of the fiscal and municipal affairs of the town; of all property, real and personal, belonging to said town; and may make such ordinances, orders, and by-laws and...

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1901 Fla. Laws 262, § 33.

| | 1901

That the Council shall have power to prohibit and suppress all gambling houses, bawdy houses and disorderly houses; any exhibition, show, circus, parade or amusement contrary to good morals, and all obscene pictures and literature; to regulate, restrai...

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1901 Id. Sess. Laws 117, 120, § 37.

| | 1901

The Council of Boise City has full power and authority within Boise City . . . To regulate the storage and sale of gunpowder, dynamite, giant powder, nitro-glycerine, oil and other combustible material, and prevent their manufacture in the city, and to...

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1901 Conn. Pub. Acts 602, § 20.

| | 1901

The warden and burgesses, when assembled according to law, shall have power to make, alter, repeal, and enforce such bylaws, orders, ordinances, and enactments as they deem suitable and proper, not inconsistent with this resolution or contrary to the l...

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1901 Ind. Acts 206, Public Comfort and Health, § 4077.

| | 1901

For the purpose of this paragraph jurisdiction is given such city four miles form the corporate limits . . . To regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzene, turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, gian...

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1901 Texas Gen. Laws 41: §98.

| | 1901

The city council may also regulate or prohibit and prevent the carrying on of work and manufactures that are dangerous in promoting or causing fires, and may prohibit the building or erection of cotton presses and sheds, or may restrict the same to suc...

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1901 Utah Laws 139: 60.

| | 1901

To regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzene, turpentine, nitroglycerine, petroleum, or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material, and the use of lights in stables, shops and other...

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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.

| | 1900

[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 twen...

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1900 N.Y. Laws 1174, An Act to Amend the Penal Code, Relative to the Manufacture of Gunpowder and Other Explosives, ch. 494, § 1.

| | 1900

Keeping gunpowder unlawfully. – A person who makes or keeps gunpowder, nitro-glycerine, or any other explosive or combustible material, within a city or village, or carries such materials through the streets thereof, in a quantity or manner prohi...

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1900 Md. Laws 287-88, General Powers, § 181.

| | 1900

The Common Council shall have power to pass all such ordinances, not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this State, as it may deem necessary to the good government of the town . . . to regulate or prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, res...

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Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of Mckinney. Revised Page 40, Image 41 (1899) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1899

[Ordinances of the City of McKinney,] Storing of Gun Powder and Other Explosives. Be it ordained by the city council of the city of McKinney: That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to have or keep stored within the limits of the ...

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1897 Neb. Laws 162, An Act To Amend . . . Compiled Statutes of 1895 for the Government of Cities, ch. 14, § 24, pt. 38.

| | 1897

To . . . regulate and prevent the transportation of gun powder or other explosives or combustible articles, tar, pitch, rosin, coal, oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, dynamite, petroleum, or any other productions thereof and...

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Ordinances of the Borough of Shamokin, Pa. Page 71-72, Image 78-79 (1896) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1896

Ordinances of the Borough of Shamokin, PA, An Ordinance Regulating the Storage of Coal, Oil, Benzene and Other Inflammable Oils and Regulating the Hauling and Storage of Gun Powder and other Explosives in the Borough of Shamokin, § 3. That no pers...

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1895 Tenn. Pub. Acts 129-30, An Act to Incorporate the City of South Fulton, in Obion County Tennessee . . . , ch. 85, § 3, pt. 14.

| | 1895

To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, saltpeter, gun cotton, coal oil, and all other combustibles, explosive or inflammable material, and the use of lights, candles, lamps, stove pipes, steam pipes, and chimneys in all storehouses, d...

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The General Ordinances of the City of Indianapolis. Containing also, Acts of the Indiana General Assembly so far as they Control Said City, to which Prefixed a Chronological Roster of Officers fro, 1832 to 1895 and Rules Governing the Common Council. Revision of 1895 Page 230, Image 312 (1895) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1895

Laws and Ordinances [of the City of Indianapolis], § 12. The Chief Fire Engineer is hereby required to search any building standing in a compact portion of the city, and in which there shall be cause to suspect the keeping of gun-powder in a quant...

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