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 1871 Pa. Laws 142, No. 148, § 20(General Publisher, 1871)To pass ordinances providing for the punishment of discharging fire-arms of any description, rockets, gun-powder and fireworks in the streets of the city or in the immediate vicinity of anybuilding.Item Open Access A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Philadelphia from the Year 1701 to the 21 Day of June, 1887, at 513, Commissioners of Fairmount Park, art. VII, § 57, pt. 2 (Frank F. Brightley, Kay & Brother, 1887)(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited carry of firearms, shooting of birds, or throwing stones or missiles within fifty yards of Fairmount Park.Item Open Access Acts of Assembly Relating to Fairmount Park, at 18, § 21 (1868, Philadelphia).(General Publisher, 1868)No persons shall carry fire-arms, or shoot birds in the Park, or within fifty yards thereof, or throw stones or other missiles therein.Item Open Access Laws of the City of Johnstown, Pa., Embracing City Charter, Act of Assembly of May 23, 1889, for the Government of Cities of the Third Class, General and Special Ordinances, Rules of Select and Common Councils and Joint Sessions, at 86, General Ordinance no. 2, § 12 (1897)(General Publisher, 1889)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, razor, dirk, Bowie knife, blackjack, handy billy, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $5-50.Item Open Access 1873 Pa. Laws 735–36, No. 810, § 1(General Publisher, 1873)Prohibited the carry of any pistol, dirk-knife, slung-shot, or deadly weapon within city limits.Item Open Access A Revised Edition of Acts of Assembly and Ordinances Relating to the Borough of Gettysburg, at 62-63, Div. 5, § 9 (1887)(General Publisher, 1887)That no person shall keep or have in their possession or cause to be kept within said borough, rock or gun powder, gun or explosive cotton, or other combustible matter likely to prove dangerous, unless the same is preserved carefully and without danger to the citizens in a safe magazine constructed and used solely for that purpose and at a distance of at least 500 feet from any dwelling, and the person offending against this section shall, upon conviction before the burgess or any Justice of the Peace, pay a fine and penalty of twenty dollars. To be collected as all such fines are now by law collectible.Item Open Access 1868 Pa. Laws 321, No. 288, § 2, pt. 6.(General Publisher, 1868)To regulate, by ordinances . . . the storage, sale of gun powder, fire works and other inflammable or dangerous articles, and the location of refineries.Item Open Access A Digest of the Laws of Pennsylvania: From the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred to the Sixth Day of July, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-Three, at 423-24, Crimes, pt. 6, § 113 (11th ed., Vol. 1, 1885)(General Publisher, 1883)Any person who shall knowingly and willfully sell or cause to be sold to any person under sixteen years of age, any cannon, revolver, pistol or other such deadly weapon, or who shall knowingly and willfully sell, or cause to be sold, to any such minor, any imitation or toy cannon, revolver or pistol so made, constructed or arranged as to be capable of being loaded with gunpowder or other explosive substance, cartridges, shot, slugs or balls and being exploded, fired off and discharged, and thereby become a dangerous or deadly weapon, or who shall knowingly and willfully sell, or cause to be sold to any such minor, any cartridge, gunpowder or other dangerous and explosive substance, shall in every such case, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1881 Pa. Laws 111, No. 124, § 1(General Publisher, 1881)makes any person, “who shall knowingly and willfully sell or cause to be sold, to any person under sixteen years of age, any cannon, revolver, pistol or other such deadly weapon, ... shall, in every such case, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.”Item Open Access A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of the City of Philadelphia, at 462, Bureau of Corrections, pt. 3, § 80 (1887)(General Publisher, 1879)Any tramp who shall enter any dwelling-house, against the will or* without the permission of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall kindle any fire in the highway, or on the land of another, without the owner’s consent, or shall be found carrying any fire-arms or other dangerous weapon, with intent unlawfully to do injury or intimidate any other person, which intent may be inferred by the jury trying the case, from the facts that the defendant is a tramp, and so armed, or shall do, or threaten to do, any injury, not amounting to a felony, to any person, or to the real or personal estate of another, shall, upon conviction, be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be sentenced to undergo an imprisonment by separate or solitary confinement at labor for a period not exceeding three years."
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