Minnesota
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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Minnesota. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Minnesota. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Minnesota.
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Item Open Access Ordinances of the City of St. Paul, Minn., ch. 21, § 1(General Publisher, 1858)Prohibited the keeping, sale, or giving away of gun powder or gun cotton “in any quantity” absent payment of $5 to the City Treasurer and written permission of the authorities. Authorized any person to “keep for his own use” no more than 1 pound of gun powder or gun cotton at any one time. Punishable by a fine not to exceed $50 per offense.Item Open Access W.P. Murray, City Attorney, The Municipal Code of Saint Paul: Comprising the Laws of the State of Minnesota Relating to the City of Saint Paul, and the Ordinances of the Common Council; Revised to December 1, 1884, pg. 39, no. 19 (1884)(General Publisher, 1884)To provide for the receipt, storage, transportation, safe keeping and dealing and traffic in gun powder, gun cotton, petroleum, kerosene or other dangerous, explosive or inflammable oils or substances within said city, or within one mile of the corporate limits thereof, and to provide for the summary condemnation or destruction of any of said articles as may be kept, stored, dealt in, transported through or received in said city, contrary to such ordinance s said city may enact for the safety of life and property therein.]Item Open Access Henry John Horn, (Editor), The Charter and Ordinances of the City of St. Paul, Together with Legislative Acts Relating to the City, and the State Constitution, in an Appendix 113 (1858), ch. 21, §§ 1–5(General Publisher, 1858)Prohibited the keeping, sale, or giving away of gun powder or gun cotton “in any quantity” absent payment of $5 to the City Treasurer and written permission of the authorities. Authorized any person to “keep for his own use” no more than 1 pound of gun powder or gun cotton at any one time. Punishable by a fine not to exceed $50 per offense.Item Open Access General Statutes of the State of Minnesota in Force January 1, 1889, at 1006 (Vol. 2, 1888), Making, Selling, etc., Dangerous Weapons, §§ 333-34(General Publisher, 1888)Prohibited manufacturing, selling, giving, or disposing of a slungshot, sandclub, or metal knuckles, or selling or giving a pistol or firearm to a minor without magistrate consent. Also prohibited carrying a concealed slungshot, sandclub, or metal knuckles, or a dagger, dirk, knife, pistol or other fire-arm, or any dangerous weapon.Item Open Access Keeping Gunpowder Unlawfully, The Penal Code of the State of Minnesota, § 323 (1885).(General Publisher, 1885)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 prohibited by law, or by ordinance of the city or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor. And a person who, by the careless, negligent or unauthorized use or management of gunpowder or other explosive substance, injures, or occasions the injury of, the person or property of another, is punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one (1) year."Item Open Access THE PENAL CODE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA TO TAKE EFFECT JANUARY 1, A. D. 1886, at 127 (1885) §333(General Publisher, 1885)Prohibited the manufacture, sale, keeping for sale, offering, giving, or disposing any slung-shot, sand-club, or metal knuckles. Also prohibited the sale of any pistol or firearm to minors.