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Item Open Access 11 Stat. at Large of Pa. 209, ch. 1059, §§ 1-2 (1782)(General Publisher, 1783)all gun-powder brought into the port of Philadelphia should be deposited in a certain powder house therein described, under the penalty of ten pounds for every offense: And Whereas another powder house or magazine hath been erected in the said city in the public square on the south side of Vine street, between the Sixth and Seventh streets from Delaware at the public expenseItem Open Access 1725 Pa. Laws 31, An Act For The Better Securing Of The City Of Philadelphia From The Danger Of Gunpowder, § 2.(General Publisher, 1725)No person whatever within the precincts of the city of Philadelphia aforesaid, nor within Two Miles thereof, shall, from and after the Time the Powder Store aforesaid is so erected and finished presume to keep in any House, Shop, Cellar, Store, or Place of the said City, nor within Two Miles thereof, other than the Powder Store aforesaid, any more or greater Quantity, at any one Time, than Twelve Pounds of Gun-powder, under the Penalty of Ten Pounds for every such Offence.Item Open Access 1763 Pa. Laws 306, An Act to prohibnit the Selling of Guns, Gun-Powder, or other Warlike Stores, to the Indians, § 1(General Publisher, 1763)Prohibited the giving, selling, bartering guns, ammunition, or warlike equipment to “any Indian,” punishable by fine or imprisonment.Item Open Access 1776 PA. CONST., Declaration of Rights, § XIII(General Publisher, 1776)Declared a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state.Item Open Access 1776 Pa. Laws 11, An Ordinance Respecting the Arms of Non-Associators, § 1(General Publisher, 1776)Authorized officers to collect all arms in the hands of “non associators”. -Item Open Access 1782 Pa. Acts 193, ch. 101, § 5(General Publisher, 1779)Authorized the liutenant or sub-liutenant to disarm those who have not taken an oath of allegianceItem Open Access 1791 Pa. Laws 105, ch. 1573, § 1, in Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania from 1682 to 1801 (Vol. 14, 1791–1793)(General Publisher, 1791)That it shall and may be lawful for the owners of gun-powder not deposited , or to be deposited, in the said magazine, the square to the south of Vine street, to remove and deposit the same in the said new magazine; and all gun-powder brought into the city of Philadelphia, from and after the first day of July next, shall be deposited and kept in the said new magazine subject to the regulation contained in the said first recited act.Item Open Access 1794 Pa. Laws 764, An Act Providing For The Inspection of Gunpowder chap. 337(General Publisher, 1794)Required gunpowder intended for sale in Philadelphia to be sold in "good and tight" kegs of varying weights, quality timber,at least twelve hoops, a hole bored, and marked on the barrel. Powder shall be inspected using a pendulum powder proof.Item Open Access 1822, By-Laws, Rules and Regulations of the…Company for Erecting a Permanent Bridge over the River Schuylkill, at 89, Rules and Regulations, pt. 14.(General Publisher, 1822)No guns or other firearms shall be discharged on or near the bridge. And the toll collectors and watchmen are hereby authorized and required to take every legal measure to bring offenders to justice, who, in violation of this regulation and the laws of the Commonwealth, thus annoy passengers and endanger the bridge. A uitable reward will be given, when such offenders are convicted as the law directs.Item Open Access 1847 Pa. Laws 266, No. 208, § 1.(General Publisher, 1847)That if any person shall open any tomb or grave in the lands of the cemetery of Laurel Hill cemetery company of Philadelphia . . . or shall shoot or discharge any gun or other fire arms within said limits shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. . .Item Open Access 1848 Pa. Laws 182, No. 147, § 13(General Publisher, 1848). and if any person shall be guilty of carrying any lighted cigar . . . or who shall discharge any pistol or gun, or any fire arms on or near said bridge, so that the said bridge, by possibility, be set on fire, or injured by said cause, he or she so offending shall forfeit and pay to the said corporation, the sum of five dollars for every such offence. . .Item Open Access 1851 Pa. Laws 382, No. 239, § 4.(General Publisher, 1851)That any person who shall willfully and maliciously carry any pistol, gun, dirk knife, slung shot, or deadly weapon in said borough of York, shall be deemed guilty of a felonyItem Open Access 1868 Pa. Laws 321, No. 288, § 2, pt. 6.(General Publisher, 1868)To regulate, by ordinances . . . the storage, sale of gun powder, fire works and other inflammable or dangerous articles, and the location of refineries.Item Open Access 1871 Pa. Laws 142, No. 148, § 20(General Publisher, 1871)To pass ordinances providing for the punishment of discharging fire-arms of any description, rockets, gun-powder and fireworks in the streets of the city or in the immediate vicinity of anybuilding.Item Open Access 1873 Pa. Laws 735–36, No. 810, § 1(General Publisher, 1873)Prohibited the carry of any pistol, dirk-knife, slung-shot, or deadly weapon within city limits.Item Open Access 1874 Pa. laws 91, Ferries and Bridge Companies, § 31, cl. 5(General Publisher, 1874)If any person . . . shall discharge any pistol, or gun, or any fire-arms on or near said bridges, he, she or they so offending shall forfeit and pay to the said company the sum of five dollars each. . .Item Open Access 1875 Pa. Laws 33, No. 38, § 1(General Publisher, 1875)Prohibited concealed carry of any firearms, slung-shots, billys, dirk-knives, razors, or any other deadly weapon with intent to maliciously do injury to any another personItem Open Access 1875 Pa. Laws 48, no. 52, § 1(General Publisher, 1875)That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to erect, place or have any booth, stall, tent, carriage, boat, vessel, or any other place whatever, for the purpose of selling, giving, or otherwise disposing of any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors, or cider, or any fermented liquors whatsoever, or any admixtures thereof, or any liquid compounded or composed, in whole or part, of alcohol, or any other intoxicating drink whatever, (except as hereinafter excepted,) within three miles of the place of holding any soldiers’ encampment or re-union in this state, during the time of holding such encampment or re-union."Item Open Access 1876 Pa. Laws 105, No. 77, § 4(General Publisher, 1876)No person shall, at any time, kill any wild duck or goose with any device or instrument known as a swivel or punt gun, or with any gun other than such guns as habitually are raised at arm’s length and fired from the shoulder or shall use any net, device, instrument, or gun other than such gun as aforesaid, with intent to capture or kill any such wild duck or goose, under a penalty of ten dollars.Item Open Access 1881 Pa. Laws 111, No. 124, § 1(General Publisher, 1881)makes any person, “who shall knowingly and willfully sell or cause to be sold, to any person under sixteen years of age, any cannon, revolver, pistol or other such deadly weapon, ... shall, in every such case, be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding three hundred dollars.”