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Item Open Access Vt. Const., ch. 1, § XV(General Publisher, 1777)Declared a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state.Item Open Access 1779 Vt. Acts & Resolves 59, An Act for Forming and Regulating the Militia; and for Encouragement of Military Skill, for the Better Defense of This State.(General Publisher, 1779)That every listed soldier and other householder, shall always be provided with, and have in constant readiness, a well fixed firelock, the barrel not less than three feet and a half long, or other good firearms, to the satisfaction of the commissioned officers of the company to which he doth belong, or in the limits of which he dwells; a good sword, cutlass, tomahawk or bayonet; a worm, and priming wire, fit for each gunItem Open Access VERMONT STATE PAPERS, BEING A COLLECTION OF RECORDS AND DOCUMENTS, CONNECTED WITH THE ASSUMPTION AND ESTABLISHMENT OF GOVERNMENT BY THE PEOPLE OF VERMONT; TOGETHER WITH THE JOURNAL OF THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY, THE FIRST CONSTITUTION, THE EARLY JOURNALS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, AND THE LAWS FROM THE YEAR 1779 TO 1786, INCLUSIVE 307 (1823).(General Publisher, 1779)Required every listed soldier and other householder to be provided and have in constant readiness: a firearm, blade weapon, gunpowder, bullets, and cleaning equipment.Item Open Access An Act for the Punishment of Divers Capital and Other Felonies, § 4, 1787 Vt. Acts & Resolves (George Hough & Alden Spooner 1787).(General Publisher, 1787)That whoever shall be guilty of Burglary, by breaking open any dwelling-house, or shop, wherein are deposited goods, wares, or merchandize, or shall commit Robbery, if in the perpetration of said crimes the person or persons committing the same shall be guilty of any personal abuse or violence, or shall be so armed with any dangerous weapon as clearly to indicate their violent intentions; such persons found guilty as aforesaid, and being thereof convicted before the Supreme Court, shall suffer death.Item Open Access 1818 Vt. Acts & Resolves 64-65, An Act Regulating and Governing the Militia of This State, § 42.(General Publisher, 1818)No noncommissioned officer, private or citizen shall unnecessarily fire a gun, single musket or pistol, in any public road, or near any house or place of parade, on the evening preceding, on the day or evening of the same, on which any troop company, battalion or regiment shall be ordered to assemble for military dutyItem Open Access 1837 Vt. Acts & Resolves 38, An Act for Regulating and Governing the Militia of This State, ch. 9, art. 20.(General Publisher, 1837)Every non commissioned officer and private, who shall neglect to keep himself armed and equipped as provided by this act, or who shall, at any time of examination, or any company training, in the month of June, be destitute, or appear unprovided with the arms and equipments herein directed, excepting as before excepted, shall pay a fine not exceeding seventy-five cents for a gun, and twenty-five cents for each and every other article, in which he shall be delinquent; or if he shall appear with his arms in an unfit condition, he shall be fined not exceeding seventy-five cents, at the discretion of his commanding officer.Item Open Access 1849 Vt. Acts & Resolves 26(General Publisher, 1849)Prohibited the manufacture, sale, giving, or disposing of any instrument or weapon usually known as a slungshot, and prohibited the carrying any slungshot or similar weapon. Violators guilty of misdemeanor, punishable by fine not exceeding five hundred but not less than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding two years.Item Open Access Acts & Resolves of Vermont, 25, no. 24, An Act to Prevent Traffic in Intoxicating Liquors for the Purpose of Drinking, §15 (1852).(General Publisher, 1852)It shall be the duty of any sheriff, sheriff's deputy, constable, selectman, or grand juror, if he shall have information that any intoxicating liquor is kept or sold in any tent, shanty, hut or place of any kind for selling refreshments in any public place, except dwelling houses, on or near the ground of any cattle show, agricultural exhibition, military muster or public occasion of any kind, to search such suspected place without warrant, and if such officer shall find upon the premises any intoxicating liquor, he shall seize and apprehend the keeper or keepers of such place, and take them, with the liquor so found and seized, forthwith, or as soon as conveniently may be, before some justice of the peace of the town in which the same was foundItem Open Access 1865 Vt. Acts & Resolves 213, No. 141, § 10(General Publisher, 1865)Authorizing Village of Rutland to appoint fire wardens to inspect the mfr and keeping of gun powder, lime, ashes, matches, lights, fireworks, and other combustibles; authorized said fire wardens to order the persons mfring or keeping the gun powder to keep in a specified manner if they deem the mfr or keeping unsafe.Item Open Access 1876 Vt. Acts & Resolves 357, No. 192, § 10, pt. 8.(General Publisher, 1876)To regulate the manufacture and keeping of gunpowder, ashes and all other dangerous and combustible material.Item Open Access 1878 Vt. Acts & Resolves 30, No. 14, § 3(General Publisher, 1878)Any tramp, who shall enter or attempt to enter any dwelling-house or premises against the will of the owner or occupant thereof, or having entered any house or premises, shall persist in remaining therein against the will of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall kindle any fire in any outbuilding, school-house, or any other public or unoccupied building, or on the land of any person, or in the public highway adjoining the lands of such person between the first days of May and the first days of December in each year, without the consent of the owner or occupant thereof, or shall be found carrying any firearm or other dangerous weapon, or who shall threaten to injure any person or the property of any person, real or personal, shall be punished by imprisonment at hard labor in the state prison, or state work-house, for a term not exceeding two years, or by a fine payable to the treasurer of the State not exceeding one hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution.Item Open Access 1894 Vt. Stat. 918, tit. 32, ch. 225, § 5155 (Passed 1895)(General Publisher, 1882)A person who has in his possession a toy pistol for the explosion of percussion caps or blank cartridges, with intent to sell or give away the same, or sells or gives away, or offers to sell or give away the same, shall be fined not more than ten nor less than five dollars; and shall be liable for all damages resulting from such selling or giving away, to be recovered in an action on the case.Item Open Access 1884 Vt. Acts & Resolves 74, An Act Relating To Traps, § 1(General Publisher, 1884)Prohibited the setting of any spring gun trap. Punishable by a fine of $50-500 and liability for twice the amount of any damage resulting from the trap.Item Open Access 1885, Laws of the University of Vermont State Agricultural College, ch. 6, §§ 4 & 9 (The Free Press Association).(General Publisher, 1885)Sec. 4: Rooms shall be held by students subject to the condition that all rules, for securing quiet, order, and cleanliness in the rooms, halls, and premises, are strictly observed. Any violation of these rules, either by themselves or visitors, shall subject the occupants to forfeiture of their right to the room. Self-boarding in any of the rooms; the keeping of a dog or cat; cutting or splitting wood in the rooms or halls; shouting, or throwing anything, from the windows; pasting pictures on or otherwise injuring the walls; loud and boisterous noises in the rooms or halls; playing on musical instruments during recitation hours or after ten o'clock at night; gatherings of students in the rooms after the same hour; the keeping of fire-arms or gunpowder except under direction of the Military Instructor; bringing into the rooms any fermented or distilled liquors; are prohibited. Sec. 9. No student shall use gun powder or fire-arms in the buildings, or on the adjacent grounds of the University, except under direction of the Military Instructor. No smoking shall be allowed in any of the halls or public rooms of the University; nor shall any intoxicating drinks be brought upon the University premises.”Item Open Access 1890 Vt. Acts & Resolves 83, No. 82, § 19, pt. 15(General Publisher, 1890)Granted the village the power to restrain the use of firecrackers, rockets, squibs, and toy pistols in the villageItem Open Access 1891 Vt. Acts & Resolves 95, ch. 8(General Publisher, 1891)Prohibited the carry of any firearms, dirk knife, bowie knife, dagger, or other dangerous or deadly weapon shall while "a member of and in attendance upon any school." Violators fined not exceeding twenty dollars.Item Open Access Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Village of Bradford. 1890 Page 12-13, Image 13-14 (1891) Ordinances of the Village of Bradford, § 11.(General Publisher, 1891)The Trustees may grant licenses, for one year or less, to keep gun powder or gun cotton or other explosives for sale, if in their opinion the public safety is not endangered thereby. Said gun powder or gun cotton or other explosive shall be kept in close tin canisters which shall only be opened in the day time.Item Open Access Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Village of Northfield Page 20, Image 20 (1894) [Ordinances of the Village of Northfield,] By-Laws, Article XVII, Shooting with Firearms, § 1.(General Publisher, 1894)No person shall be allowed to shoot with fire-arms at a mark or otherwise, unless upon his own premises, and then in such a manner that the range of his shot shall be confined to his own grounds, under a penalty of five dollars for each offence. Provided that any person may shoot blank charges upon days of public celebration.Item Open Access Leon G. Bagley, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Rutland, Together with Extracts from Certain State Laws Applicable to the Affairs of the City. Also the Rules and Order of Business of the City Council and of the Board of Aldermen, and a Register of Municipal Officers, at 153, ch. 20, § 19 (1894)(General Publisher, 1894)No person shall, except in the performance of some duty required by law, discharge any gun, pistol, or other fire arm loaded with ball or shot, or with powder only, or squibs, or fire-crackers, serpent, or other preparation whereof gun-powder or other explosive substance is an ingredient, or which consists wholly of the same, within the principal inhabited parts of the city, or within twenty-five rods of any dwelling-house therein, nor shall make any bonfire in or upon any street, lane, common or public place within the city, except by authority of the city council.Item Open Access Leon G. Bagley, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Rutland, Together with Extracts from Certain State Laws Applicable to the Affairs of the City. Also the Rules and Order of Business of the City Council and of the Board of Aldermen, and a Register of Municipal Officers, at 193, ch. 22, § 40 (1894)(General Publisher, 1894)No person shall keep in any building or place within the city, excepting in such magazine or place of storage as may be provided by or under the direction of the city council, any greater quantity than twenty-five pounds of gunpowder, nitro-glycerine or other like compound for a longer period than twenty-four hours.