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Item Open Access 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,Item Open Access 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 soldiersItem Open Access 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;Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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."Item Open Access 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