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Start date: 1840End date: 1879

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    1875 Va. Acts 109, ch. 100, § 12
    (General Publisher, 1875)
    If any person shall, at any time, either in the night or day-time, shoot at wild fowl in any county bordering . . . with any gun which cannot be conveniently discharged from the shoulder at arm’s length without a rest, or have such gun in his possession on a boat, a justice of any such county shall require such gun to be surrendered, and shall order it to be destroyed, and shall fine the offender ten dollars.
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    The Ordinances of the City of Richmond, Ch. 62, Concerning Powder, §1-7.
    (General Publisher, 1869)
    Not more than fifty pounds of powder shall be transported in the city at one time, except by a military company, or in a vehicle constructed as the Engineer of the city shall prescribe.
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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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    The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington, Virginia, at 108, ch. 70, § 1 (1892)
    (General Publisher, 1873)
    If any person, in any street or public alley, shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol or other fire-arms, or play bandy, or throw snow balls, stones or other missiles, or discharge arrows from a bow or cross-bow, he shall be fined not less than one dollar nor more than five dollars.
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    The Charter and General Ordinances of the Town of Lexington, Virginia Page 87, Image 107 (1892)
    (General Publisher, 1869)
    If any person sell, barter, give or furnish, or cause to be sold, bartered, given or furnished to any minor under sixteen years of age, cigarettes, or pistols, or dirks, or bowie knives, having good cause to believe him or her to be a minor under sixteen years of age, shall be fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars."
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    1879–80 Va. Acts 104, ch. 5, § 4, pt. 19
    (General Publisher, 1879)
    To direct the location of all buildings for storing gun-powder or other combustible substances; to regulate the sale and use of gunpowder, fire-crackers, fire-works, kerosene oil, nitroglycerine . . . the discharge of firearms
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    1877 Va. Acts 305, ch. 7
    (General Publisher, 1877)
    Prohibited any person carrying a gun, pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other dangerous weapon to a place of public worship while meeting for religious purposes. Violators fined not less than twenty dollars, and may be held without warrant for three hours by a "conservator of the peace."
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    1878 Va. Acts 301, Carrying Concealed Weapons, ch. VI, § 7
    (General Publisher, 1877)
    If a person habitually carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, or any weapon of the like kind, he shall be fined not more than fifty dollars.
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    An Act for Raising the Revenue for the Next Fiscal Year, § 2, ALEXANDRIA GAZETTE, Jun. 15, 1876, at 2 (Alexandria, Virginia).
    (General Publisher, 1876)
    Imposed a 10 dollar tax on shooting galleries
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    1875 Va. Acts 164, ch. 162
    (General Publisher, 1875)
    Approved a property tax on all males over the age of twenty-one on the aggregate value of all rifles, muskets, and other firearms, Bowie-knives, and all weapons of a similar kind.

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