Ordinance No. III: Crimes and Misdemeanors, GREENVILLE TIMES, Dec. 31, 1881, at 2 (Greenville, Mississippi). § 6

Abstract

That it shall be unlawful to fly kites, play ball, throw missiles, or discharge any fire-arms, or other explosives, (except fireworks on national holidays) or cause dogs to fight in the streets of the town, or do any act to injure property, public or private, or make any noise on t h streets likely to frighten horses or mules, or alarm or injure persons, or impede the free passage of vehicles or persons, or to discharge any fire-arms within the town, unless in self-defense or defense of his property, or while in the legal execution of some law or ordinance;