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Start date: 1840End date: 1859

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    The Charters and Ordinances of the City of Richmond, with the Declaration of Rights, and Constitution of Virginia, at 227, An Ordinance Concerning Nuisances Other Than in the Streets, § 11 (1859)
    (General Publisher, 1859)
    If any person shall sell, or expose for sale in this city, any torpedos, popcrackers, squibs, or other fire-works, of any kind whatever, except in packages containing each at least one hundred, or shall without permission in writing from the mayor, discharge, or set off, in any street or alley of the city, any balloon, rocket, torpedo, popcracker, fireworks or any combination of gunpowder, or any other combustible or dangerous material; or if any person shall, except under the fortieth section of the ordinance concerning streets, without necessity fire or discharge in this city any cannon, gun, pistol, or other fire-arms of any kind, or shall make therein any unusual noise, whereby the inhabitants thereof may be alarmed, or raise or fly a kite in this city, or if any auctioneer shall use any bell or herald to notify the public of any sale, except of real property, every such person herein offending, shall pay a fine of not less than one nor more than twenty dollars.
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    Revised Ordinances of the Corporation of Winchester, with the Act of Incorporation and Certain Other Acts of the General Assembly Concerning the Town of Winchester, and the Constitution of Virginia, at 78, Ordinance no. 21, § 3 (1856)
    (General Publisher, 1856)
    Any person who shall fire a gun, pistol or other firearm within this Corporation, except in case of necessity in the discharge of a public duty, or at military parade by order of the officer in command, shall for each offense forfeit the sum of one dollar.
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    1847–48 Va. Laws 129, ch. 14, § 16.
    (General Publisher, 1848)
    If any person shall go armed with any offensive or dangerous weapon without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury, or violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may be required to find sureties for keeping the peace for a term not exceeding twelve months, with the right of appealing as before provided.
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    1847–48 Va. Acts 110, ch. 7, § 8
    (General Publisher, 1847)
    Created a fine for habitual conceal carrying of any pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, or weapon of the like kind. Fifty dollars
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    1847–48 Va. Acts 67, ch. 79, § 1
    (General Publisher, 1846)
    That if any person shall unlawfully shoot at another in any public square ... with intent in so doing to maim, disfigure, disable or kill such person, or to do him some other bodily harm, ... every such offender, his aiders and abettors, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor. and shall on conviction, be punished by imprisonment in the common jail for a period not less than six months nor more than three years...

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