Connecticut
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The Connecticut Collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic and research materials focusing on the historical, cultural, and legal developments within Connecticut. This community 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 Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: May 1745-May 1763, Annals, at 8 (1745)(General Publisher, 1745)Prohibited any scholar from keeping or discharging a gun or pistol in the College.Item Open Access A By-Law in relation to the Firing of Guns and Pistols, ch. 26 (1835) in The By-Laws of the City of New London, with the Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut Relative to Said City(General Publisher, 1835)Prohibited the discharge of any gun or pistol within the limits of the city. Violators fined two dollars. Minors who discharge guns or pistols, or explode fireworks, shall be held liable with the fine recoverable from the parent or guardian.Item Open Access Charter and By-Laws of the City of New Haven, June, 1865 Page 92-93.(General Publisher, 1865)That hereafter no person or persons shall, within the limits hereafter described, either directly or indirectly, sell and deliver any gunpowder, or have, store, or keep any quantity of gunpowder greater than one pound weight, without having obtained a license for that purpose from said Court of Common Council, in the manner herein prescribed.Item Open Access 1845 Conn. Acts 10, An Act Prohibiting the Firing of Guns and Other Fire Arms in the City of New Haven, chap. 10(General Publisher, 1845)Prohibited the discharge of any gun or other firearm of any knd within the city limits of New Haven. Violators fined seven dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding thirty days.Item Open Access Charter and By-Laws of the City of New Haven, November, 1840 Title XI - Gunpowder Page 15(General Publisher, 1827)Prohibited, directly or indirectly, selling or delivering any gunpowder, or to have, store, or keep any quantity of gunpowder greater than one pound weight. The Court of Common Council shall have the power to license the sale, having, storing, and keeping gunpowder up to seven pounds in weight, and stored in a tin canister.Item Open Access THE CHARTER AND BY-LAWS OF THE CITY OF MERIDEN 135 (1875)(General Publisher, 1869)Prohibited the discharge of any pistol, gun, cannon, or other fire-arm with the limits of the city. Violators forfeit the weapon and fined five dollars.Item Open Access 1836 Conn. Acts 105, ch. 1, § 20(General Publisher, 1836)Authorizing the local court of common counsel to prohibit and regulate the storage of gun powder.Item Open Access An Act Incorporating the Cities of Hartford, New Haven, New London, Norwich and Middletown, 1836 Conn. Acts 105 (Reg. Sess.), chap. 1, § 20(General Publisher, 1836)Authorizing the local court of common counsel to prohibit and regulate the storage of gun powder.Item Open Access 1864 Conn. Acts 95, An Act In Addition To And In Alteration Of “An Act Relating To The Militia,” chap. 73, § 8.(General Publisher, 1864)It shall be the duty of the quartermaster general to provide a suitable armory for each company of active militia, upon a certificate from the adjutant general, that such company has organized according to law, and has made requisition for an armory, through the commanding officer of said company, as a drill room and place to preserve its arms and equipments; and also to provide for the expenses of cleaning and keeping in good repair the said arms and equipments, in such manner as he may prescribe.Item Open Access 1862 Conn. Acts 76, An Act In Addition To “An Act to Provide For the Organization And Equipment Of A Volunteer Militia, And To Provide For the Public Defense,” chap. 68, § 34(General Publisher, 1862)Required brigade inspectors to annual inspect armories and gun houses of the companies belonging to their brigades. Inspectors shall also inspect the rooms occupied by regimental bands.