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 Ordinances of the City of Richmond, Ch. 62, Concerning Powder, §1-7.(General Publisher, 1869)Not more than fifty pounds of powder shall be transported in the city at one time, except by a military company, or in a vehicle constructed as the Engineer of the city shall prescribe.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 The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington, Virginia Page 87, Image 107 (1892)(General Publisher, 1869)If any person sell, barter, give or furnish, or cause to be sold, bartered, given or furnished to any minor under sixteen years of age, cigarettes, or pistols, or dirks, or bowie knives, having good cause to believe him or her to be a minor under sixteen years of age, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars."Item Open Access THE CODE OF THE CITY OF LYNCHBURG, VA 116 (Thomas D. Davis ed., 1887)(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, other fire-arm, fireworks, or popcrackers without written consent of the mayor, or fire any cannon within one hundred yards of any dwelling-house. Violators fined not less than one dollar but no more than ten dollars.Item Open Access 1902 Ordinances of the City of Norfolk, Va., at 262, ch. 62, § 561 (passed 1899).(General Publisher, 1899).No person shall discharge a fire arm or bring any dog in the park.Item Open Access Ordinances of the City of Norfolk, with the Amended Charter and an Appendix, at 115–16, ch. 33, § 1 (1894).(General Publisher, 1894)No person shall keep, in any house or store, any quantity of gunpowder exceeding two kegs or vessels thereof, of the weight of twenty-five pounds each,Item Open Access Ordinances of the City of Norfolk, with the Amended Charter and an Appendix, at 60, ch. 8, § 1 (1894).(General Publisher, 1894)If any person carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars, and such pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slungshot, or any weapon of the like kind, may be seized by an officerItem Open Access 1889-90 Va. Acts 118, ch. 152, § 1(General Publisher, 1890)Banned the sale, barter, transfer, giving, or furnishing, or cause to be sold to any minor under sixteen pistols, dirks, Bowie knives. Violators fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access The Code of Virginia: With the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of Virginia 377, tit. 52, ch. 184, § 3780 (1887)(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, razor, slungshot, or any weapon of the like kind. Punishable by fine of $20-100 and forfeiture of the weapon.