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    The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Providence, Together with the Acts of the General Assembly Relating to the City, at 89, An Act Regulating the Storage, Safe Keeping and Transportation of Gunpowder in the Town of Providence, § 2 (1854)
    (General Publisher, 1821)
    That is shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell any gunpowder which may at the time be within the town of Providence in any quantity, by wholesale or retail, without first having obtained from the town council of said town a license to sell gunpowder; and every such license shall be written or printed, and signed by the president of said council or their clerk, on a paper upon which shall be written or printed a copy of this act
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    1902 R.I. Pub. Laws 67, An Act in addition to chapter 40 of the General Laws, Entitled “Of the Town Council”: § 1.
    (General Publisher, 1902)
    Town councils and city councils may from time to time make and ordain all ordinances and regulations for their respective towns, not repugnant to law, which they may deem necessary for the safety of their inhabitants from the manufacture, storage, keeping, having in possession, transportation, sale, or use of gunpowder, gun-cotton, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, nitro-gelatine, lyddite, chlorate of potash, picric acid, sodium calcium carbide, acetylene gas, gasoline gas, and any and all other explosives and explosive chemicals; and may prohibit the manufacture, storage, keeping having in possession, transportation , sale , or use by any and all persons or persons of any or all said substances and gases in their respective towns, unless a license for the same shall be first obtained from the town council or board of aldermen, which license shall be for the term of one years from the date thereof unless sooner revoked by order of said town council or board of aldermen.
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    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.

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