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Item Open Access How Firearms May Be Used and what Quantity of Gun Powder May Be Kept, Ordinances of the City of Kenosha, Ordinance no. 8, §1 & §5 (1858).(General Publisher, 1858)That no person shall fire or discharge any cannon, rifle, gun, pistol, or fire arms of any description, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, cracker, or other thing containing powder or other combustible or explosive material in any street, alley, or public ground within this city south of a line running through Lemon street from the lake to the west line of the corporation, and east of West Main Street. § 5 No person shall be allowed to keep any gunpowder in any occupied building within the limits of this city without permission of the council;-- and no person shall keep in any such building a greater quantity than ten pounds; which shall be kept in a close tin canister or canisters.Item Open Access 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 370, ch. 152, ch. 6 [sic], § 8, pt. 17.(General Publisher, 1883)To prohibit, restrain or regulate the discharge of fire-arms and the explosion of gunpowder and guncotton, and the firing of firecrackers and fireworks of any kind within the city.Item Open Access 1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 841, ch. 184, tit. 12, § 162(General Publisher, 1883)Any person who shall be found in or upon any street, alley or public ground within said city, or within any saloon, shop, store, grocery, hall, church, school house, barn, building or other place within said city . . . shall use toward or in the presence of another, violent or insulting language or be guilty of any breach of the peace, or firing of any gun or pistol, or fighting or threatening to fight, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding twenty-five ($25) dollars and costs of prosecution, or imprisonment in the county jail not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of Milwaukee, and Amendatory Acts, Together with a List of Officers and Rules and Regulations of the Common Council, at 126, An Ordinance for the Prevention of Fire, § 3 (1852)(General Publisher, 1852)No person shall fire or set off any squib, cracker, or gun-powder, or fire-work, or build any bonfire within one hundred feet of any building in this city, under the penalty of five dollars for each and every offence; and the Mayor, Marshal or any Aldermen or Fire Warden may restrain or prohibit any fire work or bonfire in any part of the city, whenever, in their opinion there shall be danger therefrom.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council, at 177, Ordinance no. 14, § 19 (1888)(General Publisher, 1888)It shall be unlawful for any person to use firearms or to shoot off a gun or pistol or to hunt game or birds within the limits of any cemetery in the city of La Crosse; or to rob or disturb birds’ nests therein, or to enter any cemetery except by the gate, and then only at such times as the same may be open to the public; or to enter the same as a thoroughfare in going from one place to another. Any person violating any provisions of this section, shall upon conviction, be fined in a sum not more than ten dollars, and in case of a second conviction shall be imprisoned not more than sixty days nor less than ten days.Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, with the Rules of the Common Council, at 202, Ordinance no. 27 (1888)(General Publisher, 1881)No person shall fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol or firearms of any description, or fire, explode or set off any squib, cracker or other thing containing powder or other combustible or explosive material, or set off or exhibit any fireworks within the limits of the city of La CrosseItem Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of La Crosse, at 202, Ordinance no. 27 (1888)(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited discharge of any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, firearms, squibs, cracker, any of other thing containing powder or explosive material, or set off any fireworks. Violators fined not less than one but no more than twenty-five dollars.Item Open Access Ch. 6—Miscellaneous Ordinances, Art. 7—Fire Arms, Fire Works And Cannons, §§ 258-261 in The Municipal Code of Berlin (1890).(General Publisher, 1890)Any person who shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece, or other fire arm, within the limits of the City of Berlin except in the necessary defense of his person or property, shall pay a fine of not less than one dollar, nor more than ten dollars for each offense. Any person who shall sell, loan or furnish to any minor, any gun, pistol, fowling piece or other firearm within this City, shall pay a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than twenty-five dol ars[sic] for each such offense.