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1699 N. H. Acts and Laws ch. 1
(General Publisher, 1699)
Prohibited riding or going armed offensively to cause fear or affray of the people.
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2 LAWS OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: PROVINCE PERIOD 285 (Albert Stillman Batchellor ed., 1904) (enacted 1718).
(General Publisher, 1718)
Required every "householder" to have a musket, bandoliers, cartridge box, bullets, powder, cleaning tools, and a sword. Penalty of six schillings for each arm and two schillings for each other defect.
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1759 Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire in New England 63, An Act About Powdr Money, § 1
(General Publisher, 1759)
That every foreign ship or vessel above thirty tons, coming into any port or part of this province from over the sea to trade or traffick [sic], all or the major part of the owners whereof are not actually inhabitants of this province, shall, every voyage they make, pay two shillings in money per ton, or one pound of good gunpowder
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1761 Temp. Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of New-Hampshire in New-England, at 1-2
(General Publisher, 1759)
And every justice of the peace within this province, may cause to be stayed and arrested, all affrayers, rioters, disturbers or breakers of the peace, or any other who shall go armed offensively, or put his Majesty's subjects in fear, by menaces or threatening speeches
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1759 N.H. Laws 115-16, An Act in Addition to the Act for Regulating the Militia.
(General Publisher, 1759)
No person or persons whatever in any town or garrison within this province, shall during the time of war, or of keeping a military watch in such town or garrison, presume to discharge or shoot off any gun or guns after sun-setting, or before the sun's-rising
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Acts and Laws of His Majesty’s Province of New Hampshire 9–10 (1771), ch. 6, § 2
(General Publisher, 1771)
Prohibited gathering in numbers of twelve or more and being armed with clubs and other weapons, or any group numbering thirty or more, from unlawfully, riotously, or tumultuously assembling
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An Act for the Punishing of Criminal Offenders, 1771 N. H. Acts and Laws ch. 6, §5, p. 17
(General Publisher, 1771)
Prohibited going "armed offensively."
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8 Documents and Records Relating to the State of New Hampshire During the Period of the American Revolution from 1776-1783 at 15-16 (nathaniel Bouton ed.1874), Jan 12, 1775.
(General Publisher, 1775)
Requiring each firearm sold in the colony to possess certain specifications and pass inspection involving the safe firing of the gun.
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1786 N.H. Laws 383-84, An Act to Prevent the Keeping of Large Quantities of Gun-Powder in Private Houses in Portsmouth, and for Appointing a Keeper of the Magazine Belonging to Said Town.
(General Publisher, 1786)
That if any person or persons, shall keep in any dwelling-house, store or other buildings, on land, within the limits of said Portsmouth, except the magazine aforesaid, more than ten pounds of gun-powder at any one time, which ten pounds shall be kept in a tin canister properly secured for that purpose, such person or persons shall forfeit the powder so kept,
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1786 N.H. Laws 409-10, An Act for Forming and Regulating the Militia within this State, and for Repealing All the Laws Heretofore Made for that Purpose, § 7.
(General Publisher, 1786)
[E]very non-commissioned officer and soldier, both in the alarm list and training band, shall be provided, and have constantly in readiness, a good musket, and a bayonet fitted thereto, with a good scabbard and belt, a worm, priming-wire and brush, a cartridge-box that will hold at least twenty-four rounds, six flints, and a pound of powder, forty leaden balls fitted to his gun, a knap sack, a blanket, and a canteen that will hold one quart.
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1793 N.H. Laws 464-65, An Act to Prevent the Keeping of Large Quantities of Gun-Powder in Private Houses in Portsmouth, and for Appointing a Keeper of the Magazine Belonging to Said Town.
(General Publisher, 1793)
That if any person or persons, shall keep in any dwelling-house, store or other building on land, within the limits of said Portsmouth, except the magazine aforesaid, more than ten pounds of gun-powder at any one time, which ten pounds shall be kept in a tin canister, properly secured for the purpose, such person or persons shall forfeit the powder so kept to the firewards of said Portsmouth to be laid out by them in purchasing such utensils as they may judge proper for the extinguishing of the fire;
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1795 N.H. Laws 525, An Act in Addition to an Act, Entitled, “An Act for Regulating the Militia within this State."
(General Publisher, 1795)
[E]very free, able bodied, white male citizen of this state, resident therein, who is, or shall be of the age of sixteen years and under forty years of age, under such exceptions as are made in said act, shall be enrolled in the militia, and shall in all other respects be considered as liable to do the duties of the militia in the same way and manner, as those of the age of eighteen years and upwards. Also prohibited the discharge of firearms by non-officers or private soldiers
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N.H. Laws 74, An Act To Regulate The Keeping And Selling, And Transporting of Gunpowder, chap. 61, §5
(General Publisher, 1811)
Banned sale or offer for sale of gunpowder in the night time, between sunsetting and sunrising; banned also dealing out any gunpowder at night.
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1820 N.H. Laws 861, An Act for Forming, Arranging and Regulating the Militia, § 44, art. 15.
(General Publisher, 1820)
If any non-commissioned officer or private shall come on to any parade with his musket, rifle, or pistol loaded with powder and ball, slugs or shot, he shall for such offence forfeit not less than two nor more than ten dollars[.]
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An Act to Provide for the Appointment of Inspectors and Regulating the Manufacture of Gunpowder, 1820 N.H. Laws 907, ch. 24, §§ 1-9
(General Publisher, 1820)
Authorized the creation of "inspector of gunpowder" for public powder magazines and powder manufactories. Required gun powder manufactured in the state to be composed of certain qty/quality of materials. Authorized inspection of gunpowder. Bans sale of gunpowder not up to standards.
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1824 N.H. Laws 191-92, An Act to Establish a System of Police in the Town of Portsmouth, and for Other Purposes, ch. 34, § 4.
(General Publisher, 1824)
That if any person or persons shall within the compact part of the town of Portsmouth, that is to say, within one mile of the courthouse, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, pistol or other fire arms, or beat any drum, (except by command of a military officer, having authority therefor) or fire or discharge any rockets, squibs, crackers, or any preparation of gunpowder, (except by the permission of the police officers, or of a major part of them first had in writing) . . . every such person, for every such act shall be taken and deemed to be an offender against the police of Portsmouth, and shall be liable to the penalties hereinafter expressed.
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An Act to Regulate the Keeping and Selling, and Transporting of Gunpowder, 1825 N.H. Laws 74, § 4
(General Publisher, 1825)
Banned transport or carry from town to town, or place to place, any gunpowder for the purpose of peddling or selling by retail.
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An Act to Regulate the Keeping and Selling, and Transporting of Gunpowder, 1825 N.H. Laws 74, § 5
(General Publisher, 1825)
Banned sale or offer for sale by retail any gunpowder in any highway, or in any street, lane, or alley, or on any wharf, or on parade or common.
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An Act to Regulate the Keeping and Selling, and Transporting of Gunpowder, 1825 N.H. Laws 74, § 2
(General Publisher, 1825)
Requiring storage of less than 75 pounds of gunpowder in tin cannister or other noncombustible vessel(s).
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An Act to Regulate the Keeping and Selling, and Transporting of Gunpowder, 1825 N.H. Laws 74, § 3
(General Publisher, 1825)
Banned transport or carry of gunpowder through the compact part of any town or village in any cart, wagon, or ther open carriage in quantities over 100 pounds at one time.