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Item Open Access 1837 Del. Laws 166, An Act To Prevent the Discharge Of Fire-arms In the Village of Camden, Kent County, And For Other Purposes Therein Mentioned, ch. 123, § 1(General Publisher, 1837)Prohibited discharge of any gun, "ordnance," musket, fowling-piece, fuse, or pistol within the village of Camden. Also prohibited the use of bonfires, firecrackers, squibs, or throwing any fireballs or rockets within one quarter of a mile of the village center. §2 and §3 had separate punishments between whites and minorities. Whites who violate the law are punished with a fine not less than one nor exceeding five dollars. Minorities who could not pay the same fine immediately upon conviction, the offender shall be jailed for one month, unless the fine is paid sooner.Item Open Access 1845 Del. Laws 10, A Supplement To The Act Entitled “An Act To Survey, Lay Out And Regulate the Streets Of Smyrna and for Other Purposes,” ch. 12, § 2(General Publisher, 1845)Imposed a duty on commissioners, justices of the peace, and constables to extinguish and prevent bonfires in the streets, lanes, and alleys. The duty also included the suppression and preventing discharge of guns, pistols, crackers, squibs, or fire-balls in the town limits.Item Open Access 1841 Del. Laws 198, A Supplement to the Act Entitled “An Act for Establishing the Boundaries of the Town of Dover, and for Other Purposes Therein Mentioned, § 2(General Publisher, 1841)Placed a duty on commissioners, justices, and constables to suppress, extinguish, and prevent bonfires in the public square of Dover. Also required the suppression and preventing of discharge of guns, firecrackers, squibs within the town limits.Item Open Access 1852 Del. Laws 664, An Act To Incorporate the Town of Camden and for Other Purposes, ch. 652, § 3(General Publisher, 1852)Authorized the elected commissioners to regulate the discharge of guns or pistols.Item Open Access Revised Statutes: The State of Delaware, to the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-Two, Inclusive: To Which Are Added the Constitutions of the United States and of This State: The Declaration of Independence: And an Appendix; &c, &c. (Dover, DE: Samuel Kimmey, 1852), 215–216. Title Tenth—Of Corporations, Chapter 73—Of the city of Wilmington, § 27.(General Publisher, 1852)Authorized the city council to regulate the storage of gunpowder.Item Open Access DEL. REV. STAT tit. 10, ch. 73, § 27 (1852).(General Publisher, 1852)to provide for the weighing of hay, and for the measuring, or weighing, of coal, lime, grain, or any other matter sold in the said city; to regulate the storage of gunpowder, or any other dangerously combustible matter.Item Open Access Rev. Stats. of the State of Del. to the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Fifty-two, 333 (Dover, Delaware 1852) § 13(General Publisher, 1852)Authorized the justices of the peace to arrest and bind to surety all affrayers, breakers and disturbers of the peace, and all who go armed offensively to the terror of the people, or are otherwise disorderly and dangerous. Note as of 10/26: Duke left out a significant, material portion of this law. Affrayers, breakers and disturbers of the peace was not included on Duke's page.Item Open Access A Further Supplement to an Act Entitled “An Act to Prevent the Use of Fire-arms by Free Negroes and Free Mulattoes and for Other Purposes, § 1, 9 Del. Laws 552 (1843)(General Publisher, 1843)Repealed laws allowing the Justice of the Peace to license or permit a “free negro or free mulatto” to have, use, or possess a gun or fowling piece.Item Open Access 1841 Del. Laws 430, An Act Concerning Fees, ch. 368, § 1(General Publisher, 1841)Set payment for Justices of the Peace to receive 25 cents for each license issued to “negroes” to keep a firearm.Item Open Access 1832 Del. Laws 208, A Supplement to an Act to Prevent the Use of Firearms by Free Negroes and Free Mulattoes, and for Other Purposes, ch. 176, § 1(General Publisher, 1832)Prohibited “free negroes and free mulattoes” from having, owning, keeping, or possessing any gun, pistol, sword, or warlike instrument without permission of five or more citizens of the neighborhood.
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