Sam Kimble Revised Ordinances of the City of Manhattan and Rules of the Council Page 49, Image 50 (1887); § 12

Abstract

Any person who shall within this city carry concealed on his person a pistol, bowie knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon, or who shall discharge any firearm, rocket, powder, fireworks, or any other dangerously combustible material In any stree, lot, ground, alley, except for the killing of obnoxiousanimals on ones own premises, or for the killing of birds for scientific purposes, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.