Georgia
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The Georgia Collection serves as a comprehensive repository for academic and historical research related to the state of Georgia. It encompasses a wide range of materials, including scholarly studies, historical documents, and curated collections that highlight the cultural, social, and legal developments within the region.
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Item Open Access 1875 Ga. Laws 189, An Act to Prevent the Shooting or Firing of Guns or Pistols in the Village of Vineville, in the County of Bibb, ch. 181, § 1(General Publisher, 1875)Prohibited the discharge, firing, shooting of any gun or pistol within three hundred yards of any public road through the village of Vineville.Item Open Access 1866 Ga. Laws 27-28, An Act to Authorize the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Camden, Glynn and Effingham Counties to Levy a Special Tax for County Purposes, and to regulate the same, §§ 3-4(General Publisher, 1866)Allowed these three counties to collect a tax of one dollar per gun or pistol, musket, or rifle over the number of three owned or kept on any plantation.Item Open Access P. G. Rhome, By-Laws of the Corporation of Crawfordville, Georgia. Ordained January 20th, 1849 Page 8 (1849)(General Publisher, 1849)Prohibited shooting or discharging any pistol, gun, rifle, or other fire-arms within the corporate limits. Violators fined not less than twenty-five cents nor more than one dollar on the first offense. Upon the second offense, violators fined ot less than one dollar, nor more than two dollars, at the commissioners discretion.Item Open Access Nuisances, § 5. MACON, A COMPILATION OF THE ORDINANCES (S. Rose & Co. 1862)(General Publisher, 1862)“SEC. 5. It shall not be lawful for any person to fire a gun, pistol, or any other fire arms, within three hundred yards of any house, except in cases of military parade; nor shall any person burn rockets, crackers, or any kind of fire works within the limits of the city. Any person so offending shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.”Item Open Access Ordinance Against Carrying Deadly Weapons, MACON, A COMPILATION OF THE ORDINANCES (S. Rose & Co. 1862).(General Publisher, 1862)That any white person who shall violate the Statutes of the State of Georgia now in force, relative to carrying about his or her person any deadly weapon mentioned in said Statutes, within the limits of the City of Macon, shall, for each offence, on proof thereof before the Mayor of said city, be fined by said Mayor in a sum of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the common Jail of Bibb county or the Guard House of said city, for any period not exceeding one month, or both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the discretion of the Mayor. And any slave or free person of color who shall carry about his or her person any deadly weapon of any description—such as are manufactured for purposes of offence or defence—within the limits of said city, shall be punished by whipping and imprisonment in the Guard House of said city, at the discretion of the Mayor—the whipping not to exceed seventy-five lashes, and the imprisonment not to exceed thirty days.”Item Open Access A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia, and of the Ordinances, Passed by the City Council of Macon, to the 14th February, 1858, Now of Force Page 48, § 5(General Publisher, 1858)It shall not be lawful for any person to fire a gun, pistol, or any other fire arms, within three hundred yards of any house, except in cases of military parade; nor shall any person burn rockets, crackers, or any kind of fireworks within the limits of the city. Any person so offending shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of Macon (1853) Page 38, § 5(General Publisher, 1853)Prohibited the discharge of a gun, pistol, or any other fire-arms within three hundred yards of any house. Also prohibited burning rockets, crackers, or any kind of fireworks within the limits of the city. Violators fined not exceeding twenty dollars.Item Open Access Ch. 42—Powder, §§ 462-464, ATLANTA, CODE OF THE CITY 164 (J. P. Harrison 1879)(General Publisher, 1879)The council shall have the discretion to grant or refuse a license. Salesmen of gunpowder shall have a sign saying they are licensed to sell. Also prohibited burning rockets, crackers, or any kind of fire-works in Atlanta.Item Open Access Ch. 42—Powder, §§ 461, ATLANTA, CODE OF THE CITY 164 (J. P. Harrison 1879)(General Publisher, 1879)In order to receive a license, all petitioners shall give the names of three neighbors who approve of the sale of gunpowder. Petitioners shall pay a one thousand dollar bond and security.Item Open Access Ch. 42—Powder, §§ 460, ATLANTA, CODE OF THE CITY 164 (J. P. Harrison 1879)(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited the sale of gunpowder without obtaining a license from the clerk of the council. The license would expire after one year. Violators fined one hundred dollars and costs of trial for each and every day the party violated the ordinance, or imrpisoned not more than thirty days in the station house or common jail of Fulton County.
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