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Item Open Access 1896 R.I. Pub. Laws 371, tit. 14, ch. 110, § 1(General Publisher, 1896)Every person who shall discharge any rifle, gun, musket, blunderbuss, fowling-piece, pistol, air-gun, spring-gun or other contrivance arranged to discharge shot, bullets, arrows, darts, or other missiles, in or across any road, street, square or lane shall be fined not less than three dollars nor more than twenty dollars.Item Open Access 1896 R.I. Pub. Laws 372, tit. 14, ch. 110, § 4(General Publisher, 1896)Every person who shall sell, expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, use or explode, or shall use or explode any fire cracker containing any explosive other than gunpowder, shall be fined not more than twenty dollars.Item Open Access Ordinances of the Town of North Kingstown an Ordinance Establishing the Ordinances of the Town of North Kingstown, and Prescribing the Time When They Shall Go into Effect, at 6, ch. 6, § 1.(General Publisher, 1896)Every person who shall play at ball, or any other game or sport, throw stones or other missiles, discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire-arms, fire any torpedo, fire-cracker, or other noisy missile in any public place, street, or highway in this town, shall, on conviction thereof, pay a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than five dollars, for every such offense.Item Open Access 1893 R.I. Pub. Laws 231, ch. 1180, § 1(General Publisher, 1893)Prohibited the carrying of any dirk, Bowie knife, butcher knife, dagger, razor, sword cane, air-gun, billy, metal knuckles, slungshot, pistol, or firearm of any description concealed upon his person.Item Open Access 1896 R.I. Gen. Laws 1010, tit. 30, ch. 283, § 25(General Publisher, 1893)Whenever any person shall be arrested charged with any crime or misdemeanor, or for being drunk or disorderly, or for any breach of the peace, and shall have concealed upon his person any of the weapons mentioned in section twenty-three, such person, upon complaint and conviction, in addition to the penalties provided in section twenty-four, shall be subject to a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, and the confiscation of the weapon so found.Item Open Access 1892 R.I. Pub. Laws 14, An Act In Amendment Of Chapter 92 Of The Public Statutes, Entitled “Of Firearms And Fireworks, §§ 1, 3(General Publisher, 1892)Every person who shall discharge any rifle, gun, musket, blunderbuss, fowling piece, pistol, air gun, spring gun, or other contrivance arranged to discharge shot, bullets, arrows, darts, or other missiles in or across any road, street square, or lane shall be fined not less than three dollars nor more than twenty dollars.Item Open Access 1890 R.I. Acts 17, ch. 897, § 6 (Special Session, June 1890)(General Publisher, 1890)Every person who shall at any time of year, take, kill or destroy any quail or partridge, by means of any trap, snare, net or spring, or who shall construct, erect, set, repair, maintain or tend any trap, snare, net, or spring for the purpose of taking, killing or destroying any quail or patridge, or who shall shoot any water fowl by means or by the use of any battery, swivel, punt or pivot gun, shall be fined for each offence, twenty dollars. Provided, however, that at such seasons as the taking, killing or destroying of such birds is prohibited by this chapter, any person may snare on his own land.Item Open Access 1885 R.I. Pub. Laws 271, ch. 524, § 1(General Publisher, 1885)Regulated deliveries of gunpowder or other explosive material not marked with a description of contents. Punishable by a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars or not more than five years imprisonment.Item Open Access 1883 R.I. Acts 157, ch. 374, § 1(General Publisher, 1883)No person shall sell to any child under the age of fifteen years, without the written consent of a parent or guardian of such child, any cartridge or fixed ammunition of which any fulminate is a component part, or any gun, pistol or other mechanical contrivance arranged for the explosion of such cartridge or of any fulminate.Item Open Access 1880 R.I. Pub. Laws 110, ch. 806, § 3(General Publisher, 1880)Any tramp who shall willfully[1] and maliciously injure any person where such offence is not now punishable by imprisonment in the state prison, or who shall be found carrying any firearm or other dangerous weapon, shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison not more than three years.