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 Discharging Guns Prohibited, An Ordinance in Relation to Streets, Ordinances of the City of Charlestown, Ordinance No. 10, §32 (1870).(General Publisher, 1870)No person shall, except in the performance of some duty required by law, discharge any gun, pistol, or other firearm, loaded with balls or shot, or with powder only, within the city.Item Open Access Municipal Register of the City of Lawrence 1870, 185 Concerning Fires § 4 (1870).(General Publisher, 1870)The city council may order that no gunpowder shall be kept within the city, except in tight casks or canisters; that not more than fifty pounds thereof shall be kept in any building within twenty-five rods of any other building, or if within ten rods, then not more than twenty-five pounds; nor more than one pound in any place, unless in copper, tin or brass canisters holding not more than five pounds each, and closely covered.Item Open Access William A. Richardson, Supplement to the General Statutes of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Containing the General Laws from the Passage of the General Statutes to the Year 1872, Inclusive, with the Amendments to the Constitutions of the State and the United States at 836-837, An Act to Aid in the Preservation of Birds, Birds’ Eggs, And Deer. § 6 (Vol. 1, 1873)(General Publisher, 1870)Whoever, at any season of the year, takes, kills or destroys any game birds by means of traps, snares, nets or springs; or shoots at or kills any water fowl, by the use of any battery, swivel, or pivot gun, shall forfeit for each such offence twenty-five dollars: provided that between the first day of October and the first day of January in any year, any person may on his own premises, or for his own personal use and not for sale, take or kills by means of traps or snares any of the birds known as ruffed grouse or partridges.Item 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 City Ordinances of Springfield, MA, No. 44. An Ordinance for the Prevention of Injurious Practices in the Streets, §21 Firearms, not to be discharged in streets, &c., except, &c. (1871).(General Publisher, 1871)Sect. 21. No person shall discharge any gun, pistol or other firearm in any of the streets, highways, public squares or commons in the city ; provided, this section shall not apply to the use of such weapons in the lawful defense of the person, family or property of any one, or in the performance of any duty required by law, nor to the firing of a salute of cannon or artillery by permission of the mayor and aldermen.Item Open Access City Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Fall River, with Special Statutes Relating to the City, and an Appendix Page 158, Image 162 (1887) Ordinance so the City of Fall River, Streets Use. Revised Ordinance. Discharge of Firearms. § 20.(General Publisher, 1887)No person shall, except in the performance of some legal duty, discharge any gun, pistol or firearm in any street or public place, or within fifty rods of any dwelling house.Item Open Access City of Boston Dep’t of Parks Twelfth Ann. Report of Bd. of Comm’rs for 1886, at 86, § 3 (1887)(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibits the discharge or carry of firearms. Also prohibited the discharge of fireworks, playing of musical instruments, possession of intoxicating beverages, “or otherwise annoy other visitors” within the parks of Boston.Item Open Access Annual Report of the Park Department, Boston Department of Parks (1887) Park Ordinances p.86 § 3(General Publisher, 1886)Prohibited carry of firearms, throwing stones, or other missiles within the parks of the city.Item Open Access The Revised Ordinances of 1885 of the City of Boston, as Passed and Approved December 14, 1885. (With Amendments Thereto, Passed and Approved, to May 1, 1886): Being the Ninth Revision. To Which are Added the Revised Standing Regulations of the Board of Aldermen. 9th Rev. p. 172 Ordinances of the City of Boston. Of Fire-Arms, Bonfires, and Brick-Kilns. § 4 (1886)(General Publisher, 1885)No person shall sell to any child under the age of sixteen years without the written consent of a parent or guardian of such child, any cartridge or fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a component part, or any gun, pistol, or other mechanical contrivance arranged for the explosion of such cartridge, or of any fulminate. But the provisions of this section shall not apply to paper caps of which the only component parts are chlorate of potash and sulphide of antimony, nor to any appliance for exploding the same. The provisions of this section shall be inserted in every license granted for the sale of gunpowder.