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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 W.B. Hvland, Wilmington City Code. The Ordinances of the City of Wilmington, Delaware. Also, the Original Borough Charter, the Charter of the City of Wilmington, and the Acts of the Legislature, Now in Force Relating to the City Page 689 § 2(General Publisher, 1885)Required supplying retailers to be in kegs, not more than twenty-five pounds, carefully enclosed in good bags, or by putting a sheet of canvas under and around the kegs. When transporting gunpowder the carriage shall contain no more than ten kegs as described above.Item Open Access W.B. Hvland, Wilmington City Code. The Ordinances of the City of Wilmington, Delaware. Also, the Original Borough Charter, the Charter of the City of Wilmington, and the Acts of the Legislature, Now in Force Relating to the City Page 688 § 1(General Publisher, 1885)Prohibited the storage of gunpowder in quantities greater than fifty pounds. Violators considered a public nuisance. Violators shall pay a fine of ten dollars, along with five dollars for each quarter cask, or quantity of twenty-five pounds kept above fifty pounds.Item Open Access Revised Statutes of the State of Delaware, of Eight 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 Ninety-Three; to Which are Added the Constitutions of the United States and of this State, the Declaration of Independence, and Appendix Page 987 (1983) § 3(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited intentionally pointing a gun, pistol or other firearm at or twoard any person at any time or place. Violators fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars plus costs of prosecution. Should death result to any person by discharge while so-pointed, violators shall be guilty of manslaughter when it shall not amount to murder, and shall be punished accordingly.Item Open Access 1881 Del. Laws 987, An Act Providing for the Punishment of Persons Carrying Concealed Deadly Weapons, ch. 548, § 1(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the carrying of concealed deadly weapons or selling deadly weapons other than an ordinary pocket knife to minors. Punishable by a fine of $25-200 or imprisonment for 10-30 days.Item Open Access 1881 Del. Laws 716, ch. 548, § 1(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the carrying of concealed deadly weapons or selling deadly weapons other than an ordinary pocket knife to minors. Punishable by a fine of $25-200 or imprisonment for 10-30 days.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.