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 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 The Great Woods of Lynn and Other Public Parks of the Town in 1903, Being the 15th Annual Report of the Park Commissioners of Lynn, Massachusetts 81 (1903)(General Publisher, 1903)[I]t is forbidden … to discharge or carry firearms, except by members of the police force in the discharge of their duties.Item Open Access Annual Report of the Park Commissioners of the City of Lynn for the Year Ending December 20, 1892, at 45 (United States: Whitten & Cass 1893(General Publisher, 1892)Prohibited discharge or carry of firearms, except for members of the police force.Item Open Access Report of the Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Springfield, Mass., Park Ordinances (1891)(General Publisher, 1891)To throw stones, balls, or other missiles; to discharge or carry firearms, firecrackers, torpedoes, or fireworks; to make fires; to play musical instruments; to have any intoxicating beverages; to sell, offer, or expose for sale any goods or wares; to post or display signs, placards, flags or advertising devices; to solicit subscriptions or contributions; to play games of chance, or to have possession of instruments of gambling; to make orations, harangues, or loud outcries; to enter into political canvassing of any kind; to utter profane, threatening, abusive, or indecent language, or to do any obscene or indecent act; to bathe or fish; to solicit the acquaintance of, or follow, or otherwise annoy other visitorItem 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 Office of Park Commission, New Bedford, Mass., Park Ordinances (1902)(General Publisher, 1902)3. To throw stones, balls or other missiles; to discharge or carry firearms, firecrackers, torpedoes or fireworks; to make fires, to play musical instruments; to have for sale or otherwise any intoxicating liquors or beverages; to sell or offer for sale any goods or wares; to post or display signs, placards, flags or any advertising devices whatsoever; to play games of chance or to have possession of instruments of gambling; to utter profane, threatening, abusive or indecent language; to make orations or loud outcries; to in any manner annoy other visitors.Item Open Access Rules and Regulations Governing the Public Parks within the City of Lowell,, at 58 (1903)(General Publisher, 1903)It is forbidden to throw stones, balls or other missiles; to discharge or carry firearms, fire crackers, torpedoes or fire-worksItem Open Access Appendix A, Rules and Regulations Governing the Public Parks within the City of Haverhill (1905)(General Publisher, 1905)It is forbidden . . . 9. To throw stones, balls or other missiles; to discharge or carry firearms, torpedoes, firecrackers or fireworksItem Open Access HAVERHILL, MUNICIPAL REGISTER OF THE CITY, ch. 40, § 1 (F. P. Stiles 1897) (Passed 1896).(General Publisher, 1897)No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, revolver or other fire-arms within the compact part of the city, under a penalty for every such offence, not exceeding twenty dollars; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to the use of such weapons at any military exercise or review, or in the lawful defence of the person, family, or property of any citizen.Item Open Access Revised Ordinances of the City of Fitchburg Approved February 7, 1893, with the City Charter, the Rules and Orders of the City Council and of Each of the Two Branches, the Special Statutes, a List of General Statutes Adopted or Accepted, Together with an Index, at 179 Fitchburg Revised Ordinances. §§ 75-76 (1893)(General Publisher, 1893)No person shall sell or keep for sale, within the limits of the city of Fitchburg, any toy pistol, toy cannon, or any other such article in which explosive compounds of any kind are used, or of which such compounds form a part. § 76. No person shall have, use, explode, fire off or discharge, within the limits of the city of Fitchburg, any toy pistol, toy cannon, or any other such article in which explosive compounds of any kind are used, or of which such compounds form a part.