"CHAP. VII.
HIGH OFFENCES AND MISDEMEANORS.
76. High offences may be punished at the discretion of the Faculty with any of the College punishments...
The following are deemed high offences:
"10th. No student shall keep a servant, nor shall he keep fire arms, or any deadly weapon whatever. He shall bring no gun-powder upon the College premises; nor shall horses or dogs be kept by students for their private use or pleasure."
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"CHAPTER VI.
MISDEMEANORS AND CRIMINAL OFFENCES.
1. For either of the following offences, Students may be punished by any of the college censures, at the discretion of the Immediate Government, v...
"13. No student shall keep a dog, or fire arms, or gunpowder. He shall not carry, keep, or own at the College, a sword, dirk, sword-cane, or any deadly weapon; nor shall he use fire arms without permission from some member of the Faculty."
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"7. And be it further Ordained, That no person or persons within the City of Richmond, shall retain in his, her or their possession at any time, more than twenty-five pounds of Powder. And every person who shall retain more than the said quantity in hi...
"ART. 16. Whoever shall fire a gun or other kind of fire-arms near any other inhabited place ; whoever shall fire at pigeons, or shall kill or wound any domestic animal, while hunting or fowling on another person's land, shall, in every such case, be f...
"ARTICLE 27. It shall not be lawful to fire off any cannon or other piece of artillery, or fire arms of any kind, on board of any ship, steam-boat, or other craft within the port of Orleans, except from day-break to the hour of retreat ; that is to say...
No Student shall, within the precincts of the University, introduce, keep or use any spirituous or vinous liquors, keep or use weapons or arms of any kind, or gunpowder, keep a servant, horse or dog, appear in school with a stick, or any weapon, nor, ...
Sec. 55. Be it further enacted, that if any slave shall wilfully and maliciously shoot at any free white person with a gun or other instrument, with intent to kill such person, or if any slave shall wilfully and maliciously wound any free white person ...
Sec. 1. Be it enacted . . . If any male Indian, of the years of discretion, venture to roam or ramble beyond the boundary lines of the reservations which have been assigned to the tribe or nation to which said Indian belongs, it shall and may be lawful...
. . . [I]f any person shall hunt by fire light in the night time, with a gun or other firearms beyond his own enclosure, such person shall on conviction, be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty five dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding one month, at t...
Crimes. § 25. If any person shall challenge another, or shall accept a challenge to fight with sword, pistol, rapier or other dangerous weapon, every person so challenging or accepting such challenge, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not e...
A By-Law Relative to the Storage and Sale of Gunpowder. Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the city of New Haven, in Court of Common Council assembled, 1st. That hereafter no person or persons shall, within the limits hereafte...
[Ordinances of Pittsburgh, PA. An Additional Ordinance “for the suppression of nuisances and enforcing useful regulations within the city of Pittsburgh.”, . . . § 2. That if any person shall fire off or discharge wantonly and without r...
That is any negro or mulatto slave shall join, or be willingly present at any riot, rout or unlawful assembly, or shall commit an assault and battery upon any white person, or shall without special permission of his or her master or mistress, presume t...
An ordinance forbidding the firing of Guns, prohibiting Fireworks in certain cases, and to prevent damage by fire, § 1. Be it ordained by the Mayor, Aldermen and Common Council of the City of Boston, in City Council assembled, That no person shall...
That said mayor and aldermen may, and shall, have power and authority to make any rules and laws regulating the police of said town, and the inhabitants thereof, to restrain and punish drinking, ramingn[sic], fighting, breaking the sabbath, shooting an...
§ 3. Be it enacted, That said mayor and aldermen may, and shall, have power and authority to make any rules and laws regulating the police of said town and the inhabitants thereof, to restrain and punish drinking, gaming, fighting, breaking the sa...
Ordinances of the City of Cincinnati, An Ordinance to Prevent Accidents from the Firing of Cannon or Other Guns on Boats, in Front of the City of Cincinnati, § 1. Be it, and it is hereby ordained, by the City Council of the city of Cincinnati, Tha...
[I]f any person or persons shall sell or offer for sale by retail any gunpowder in any highway, or in any street, lane, or alley, or on any wharf, or on parade or common, such person so offending shall forfeit and pay for each and every offence a sum n...
An Act of 1825, § 1. When any sheriff, coroner, or constable, shall know of his own knowledge, or upon the representation of any person, or if he or they, shall have good reason to suspect, any person of being armed with the intention of committin...
Summary of Private and Local Acts[, Port Gibson] . . . . Said president and selectmen may pass ordinances to regulate the keeping, carting and transporting gunpowder, or other combustible or dangerous materials, and, the use of lights in stables, to re...
[Ordinances of the City of Schenectady,] XI. And be it further ordained, That if any person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rocket, cracker, squib or other fire works, in any street, lane or alley, or in any yard, garden or other enclosure, or...
Crimes and Punishments. § 52. And be it further enacted, that if any person shall challenge the person of another, or shall accept any such challenge, to fight at sword, pistol, rapier, or other dangerous weapons, such person, so challenging or ac...
[An Ordinance for the Suppression of Nuisance, and for the regulation of drivers of carriages and horses, in and through the streets, lanes and alleys, within the incorporated part of the township of the Northern Liberties, and for enforcing useful reg...
