Virginia
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The Virginia Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the diverse regions, history, and developments within Virginia. Here, you'll find Collection that represent various jurisdictions and sectors, providing a valuable resource for researchers, students, and professionals.
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Item Open Access 1875 Va. Acts 109, ch. 100, § 12(General Publisher, 1875)If any person shall, at any time, either in the night or day-time, shoot at wild fowl in any county bordering . . . with any gun which cannot be conveniently discharged from the shoulder at arm’s length without a rest, or have such gun in his possession on a boat, a justice of any such county shall require such gun to be surrendered, and shall order it to be destroyed, and shall fine the offender ten dollars.Item Open Access The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington, Virginia, at 108, ch. 70, § 1 (1892)(General Publisher, 1873)If any person, in any street or public alley, shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol or other fire-arms, or play bandy, or throw snow balls, stones or other missiles, or discharge arrows from a bow or cross-bow, he shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars.Item Open Access 1879–80 Va. Acts 104, ch. 5, § 4, pt. 19(General Publisher, 1879)To direct the location of all buildings for storing gun-powder or other combustible substances; to regulate the sale and use of gunpowder, fire-crackers, fire-works, kerosene oil, nitroglycerine . . . the discharge of firearmsItem Open Access 1877 Va. Acts 305, ch. 7(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited any person carrying a gun, pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon to a place of public worship while meeting for religious purposes. Violators fined not less than twenty dollars, and may be held without warrant for three hours by a "conservator of the peace."Item Open Access 1878 Va. Acts 301, Carrying Concealed Weapons, ch. VI, § 7(General Publisher, 1877)If a person habitually carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.Item Open Access An Act for Raising the Revenue for the Next Fiscal Year, § 2, ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE, Jun. 15, 1876, at 2 (Alexandria, Virginia).(General Publisher, 1876)Imposed a 10 dollar tax on shooting galleriesItem Open Access 1875 Va. Acts 164, ch. 162(General Publisher, 1875)Approved a property tax on all males over the age of twenty-one on the aggregate value of all rifles, muskets, and other firearms, Bowie-knives, and all weapons of a similar kind.Item Open Access 1875 Va. Acts 102, ch. 124(General Publisher, 1875)Prohibited the carry of any gun, pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon into places of public worship without sufficient cause.Item Open Access General Ordinances of the City of Winchester, Ordinance XXI. Gunpowder. To be kept in metallic canisters in limited quantities (3 March, 1875).(General Publisher, 1875)It shall not be lawful for any person or persons or firm, for any purpose whatsoever, to store or keep within the limits of this city a larger quantity of powder than twenty-five pounds. All powder shall be kept well secured in a close tin or other metallic canister ; provided that larger quantities may be kept in such magazine or other place as the council may provide or designate for the storage of powder, subject to such regulations and charges as the council may prescribe.Item Open Access 1874–1875 Va. Acts 282– 83, ch. 239, § 6, sched. B(18)(General Publisher, 1874)Included the value of all “rifles, muskets, and other fire-arms, bowie-knives, dirks, and all weapons of a similar kind” in list of taxable personal property.