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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 1871 Del. Law 605, § 14(General Publisher, 1871)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, pistols, fireworks, or throwing fireballs within the town limits.Item Open Access 1871 Del. Law 620, § 14(General Publisher, 1871)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, pistols, fireworks, or throwing fireballs within the town limits.Item Open Access 1871 Del. Law 138, § 17(General Publisher, 1871)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, pistols, fireworks, or throwing fireballs within 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 1871 Del. Law 160, § 13(General Publisher, 1871)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, pistols, fireworks, or throwing fireballs within the town limits.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 Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, of Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-two, as They Have since been Amended, Together with the Additional Laws of a Public and General Nature, Which Have been Enacted since the Publication of the Revised Code of Eighteen Fifty-Two, to the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Seventy-Four; to Which are Added, the Constitution of the United States and of This State, the Declaration of Independence, and Appendix Page 249 § 5(General Publisher, 1874)Prohibited the discharge of a gun or pistol with any town, village, or within a mile of a town center, or within one mile of a "mill-dam" near a public road. Violators fined five dollars and jailed until the fine is paid.Item Open Access 1865 Del. Laws 930, An Act to Prevent the Loading of Gunpowder Within Certain Distances of Railroads, chap. 554, § 1(General Publisher, 1865)Prohibited loading gun powder into any rail cars within one hundred yards of the track used for carrying passengers.Violators fined one thousand dollars and imprisoned six months.