Pennsylvania
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The Pennsylvania Collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic and research materials focusing on the historical, cultural, and legal developments within Pennsylvania. This Collection houses collections that reflect various jurisdictions, historical periods, and sectors, offering valuable insights for researchers, students, and professionals.
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Item Open Access By-Laws and Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh, and the Acts of Assembly Relating Thereto; with Notes and References to Judicial Decisions Thereon, and an Appendix, Relating to Several Subjects Connected with the Laws and Police of the City Corporation, at 28-29, ch. 703, § 1 (1828)(General Publisher, 1774)Prohibited on any thirty-first day of December, or first or second day of January, in every year, wantonly, and without reasonable occasion, discharge and fire off any hand-gun, pistol or other fire-arms, or shall cast, throw or fire any squibs, rockets or other fire-works, within the inhabited parts of this province, to the disturbance of any of his majesty’s subjects there inhabiting and beingItem Open Access A Digest of the Ordinances of the Corporation of the City of Philadelphia, at 87, Firing of Guns, &c., Act of April 9, 1760, § 7. (1828)(General Publisher, 1760)No person whatsoever shall presume to shoot at, or kill with a fire arm, any pigeon, dove, partridge, or other fowl, in the open streets of the city of Philadelphia, or in the gardens, orchards and inclosures, adjoining upon and belonging to any of the dwelling-houses within the limits of the said city, or suburbs thereof, or any of the boroughs or towns within this province,Item Open Access 1725 Pa. Laws 31, An Act For The Better Securing Of The City Of Philadelphia From The Danger Of Gunpowder, § 2.(General Publisher, 1725)No person whatever within the precincts of the city of Philadelphia aforesaid, nor within Two Miles thereof, shall, from and after the Time the Powder Store aforesaid is so erected and finished presume to keep in any House, Shop, Cellar, Store, or Place of the said City, nor within Two Miles thereof, other than the Powder Store aforesaid, any more or greater Quantity, at any one Time, than Twelve Pounds of Gun-powder, under the Penalty of Ten Pounds for every such Offence.Item Open Access 3 Stat. at Large of Pa. 253-254, ch. 245, § IV(General Publisher, 1721)Restricted the firing of guns or other firearms within the city. Violators fined five shillings or two days jail time.Item Open Access 1782 Pa. Acts 193, ch. 101, § 5(General Publisher, 1779)Authorized the liutenant or sub-liutenant to disarm those who have not taken an oath of allegianceItem Open Access 9 Stat. at Large of Pa. 347, ch. 836, § 4 (1903)(General Publisher, 1779)Prohibited firearm possession for people “disaffected to the liberty and independence” of the state, empowered officers to disarm any person who did not take an oath.Item Open Access 9 Stat. at Large of Pa. 336-37, ch. 833, § 9 (1903)(General Publisher, 1779)That if any person within this commonwealth shall challenge the person of another to fight at sword, pistol, rapier or other dangerous weapon, such person so challenging shall forfeit and pay for every such offense (being lawfully convicted by the testimony of one or more credible witnesses, or by the confession of the party offending,) the sum of five hundred pounds, or suffer twelve months imprisonment without bail or mainpriseItem Open Access 9 Stat. at Large of Pa. 91, ch. 750, § 32, pt. 9 (1903)(General Publisher, 1777)Any officer or private man found drunk when under arms, shall be suspended from doing duty in the battalion, company or troop on that day, and be fined at the discretion of a General or Regimental Court-Martial.Item Open Access 9 Stat. at Large of Pa. 348, ch. 836 (1903)(General Publisher, 1777)Required an oath of allegiance; refusal of which punishable by disarming.Item Open Access 1776 PA. CONST., Declaration of Rights, § XIII(General Publisher, 1776)Declared a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state.
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