Massachusetts
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The Massachusetts Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the history, culture, and regional developments within Massachusetts. This Collection provides a valuable resource for researchers, students, and professionals exploring the historical significance and cultural evolution of this prominent state.
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Item Open Access 1866 Mass. Acts 219, An Act Concerning The Militia, § 184(General Publisher, 1866)Section 184. It shall not be lawful for any body of men whatsoever, other than the regularly organized corps of the volunteer militia, the troops of the United States, and the ancient and honorable artillery company, and the veteran artillery association of Newburyport, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to parade in public with arms in any city or town of this Commonwealth, without the license of the governor thereof, which may at any time be revokedItem Open Access The Municipal Register Containing the City Charter and Ordinances, Together with the Rules and Orders of the City Council and a List of the past and Present City Officers of the City of Newburyport at 130, Ordinance No. 14, An Ordinance for the Prevention of Certain acts in the Streets and on the Public Grounds of the City § 15 (1869)(General Publisher, 1869)No person shall fire any rocket, squib, cracker, or other thing formed of gunpowder or other explosive substance, in whole or in part; nor make any bonfire of tar barrels or any other substances, nor, except in the performance of some duty authorized by law, discharge any field piece, gun or other firearm in or upon any street or other way, or upon any wharf or landing within the city.Item Open Access 1866 Mass. Acts 197, An Act Concerning The Militia, § 120(General Publisher, 1866)A soldier who unnecessarily or without order from a superior officer comes to any parade with his musket, rifle or pistol loaded with ball, slug or shot, or so loads the same while on parade, or unnecessarily or without order form a superior officer discharges the same when going to, returning from or upon parade, shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty dollars.Item Open Access Records Of The Colony Of New Plymouth In New England Page 242, Image 253 (1861)(General Publisher, 1861)It is enacted by the Court that no Indians that are servants to the English shall be permitted to use guns for fowling or other exercise; as being judged that it may prove prejudicial in time to the English; and therefore that no one shall be permitted so to do on pain of forfeiting every such gun so used to the use of the Colony.Item Open Access 1859 Mass. Gen. Stat. 107, ch. 13, § 113(General Publisher, 1859)A soldier who unnecessarily, or without order from a superior officer, comes to any parade, with his musket, rifle, or pistol, loaded with ball, slug, or shot, or so loads the same while on parade, or unnecessarily, or without order from a superior officer, discharges the same when going to, returning from, or upon parade, shall forfeit not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, to be recovered on complaint of the clerk, one-half to his use and one-half to the use of commanding officer.Item Open Access 1 The General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Enacted December 28, 1859, to Take Effect June 1, 1860 (2d ed., William A Richardson & George P. Sanger, eds.) 255 (1873)(General Publisher, 1859)Appointed six individuals in each county for proving of musket barrels and pistols. Proven arms are stamped by the appointed officials.Item Open Access 1856 Mass. Acts 86, An Act to Incorporate the Proprietors of Oak Grove Cemetery, ch. 154 § 6(General Publisher, 1856)Any person who shall . . . discharge any gun or other fire-arms, within the said limits, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, or other court of competent jurisdiction, shall be punished by a fine not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars...Item Open Access 1859 Mass. Gen. Law, ch.194, § 2 as codified in 1873 Mass. Gen. Stat. 816, ch. 164 § 11(General Publisher, 1850)Enhanced the sentence of anyone carrying slung-shot, metallic knuckles, billies, or other dangerous weapons while committing a criminal offense or arrested upon warrant of a magistrate. Violators fined not exceeding fifty dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one year.Item Open Access 1850 Mass. Gen. Law, ch.194, § 2 as codified in 1873 Mass. Gen. Stat. 816, ch. 164 § 11(General Publisher, 1850)Prohibited the manufacture or sale of slung-shots or metallic knuckles. Violators fined not less than fifty dollars or imprisoned not exceeding six months.Item Open Access 1850 Mass. Acts ch. 194, §1, p. 401(General Publisher, 1850)Anyone arrested and armed with any dangerous weapon, of the kind usually called a slung-shot, shall be punished by a maximum fine of fifty dollars or imprisonment not exceeding one year.