Delaware
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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 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 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.Item Open Access 1863 Del. Laws 365, An Act to Amend Chapter 55 of the Revised Code of the State of Delaware, Entitled “For The Protection Of Fish, Oysters and Game,” chap. 328, § 10(General Publisher, 1863)Prohibited hunting in the state by anyone who is not a citizen of Delaware. Prohibited the hunting of any fish, wild goose, wild duck, or other wild fowl. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars. Any boat or vessel, apparell, furniture, gun, decoy geese, or decoy ducks shall be forfeited.Item Open Access 1863 Del. Laws 332, An Act in Relation to Free Negroes and Mulattoes, ch. 305, § 7(General Publisher, 1863)Prohibited any “free negroes and free mulattoes” from possessing a gun, pistol, sword, or any other warlike instrument, punishable by fine or imprisonment.