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CHAPTER XII.

OF THE STORING AND KEEPING OF GUNPOWDER AND

FIREWORKS.

§ 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons, Gunpowder. except as hereinafter provided, to have or keep any quantity of gunpowder in any houce, store, building, or other place in the city of New York, to the northward of a line running through the centre of Sixty-second street, from the North to the East river.

Magazines.

§ 2. It shall be lawful for the Mayor to grant licenses Licenses for for the erection of magazines for the storage of gunpowder in this city, to the northward of Sixty-second street, but no more than six such magazines shall at any time be licensed or permitted. Such magazines shall be erected in such convenient places as may be designated by the respective licenses therefor, and shall be placed remote from any dwelling, and shall be built in accordance with plans and specifications to be approved by, and under the direction of the Superintendent of Repairs and Supplies, who shall have authority to prescribe the materials of which such magazines shall be composed, and the manner in which the same shall be constructed. Such magazines, shall, at all times, be subject to the authority and direction of the Common Council, who may make all such rules and regulations in respect thereto as they may deem the public interests require, and they may, at any time, revoke any such license, or cause such magazines, or any of them, to be removed from place to place.

§ 3. Nothing in this ordinance contained shall apply to Arsenal. the storing and keeping of gunpowder in the State Arsenal in Fifth avenue, above Sixty-fourth street.

Penalties.

Fireworks.

Ibid.

§ 4. Every person storing any gunpowder in the portion of the city of New York, in the first section of this chapter specified, (except in such licensed magazines,) without the license provided by the second section of this chapter, and any person who shall or may, in pursuance of any license granted under the said last mentioned section, store. or keep any gunpowder in any such magazine or place, and shall not in all respects fully comply with the lawful directions of the Superintendent of Repairs and Supplies, or of the Common Council, as provided by this chapter, shall forfeit and pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each day during which any such gunpowder shall be so stored or kept, contrary to the provisions of this chapter; and when any person or persons shall have obtained any such license as is provided for in the said second section of this chapter, and shall, in any respect, fail to comply with the said directions of the said Superintendent of Repairs and Supplies, or the said Common Council, such person shall, from the time of any such failure to comply therewith, be deemed to have violated the provisions of this chapter, and shall be subject to its penalty, in the same manner as if no such license had been granted.

§ 5. No person or persons shall store any fireworks, of any kind or description, other than Chinese fire-crackers, within the fire limits of the city of New York, except as is hereinafter provided.

§ 6. Fireworks, excepting colored pot and lance wheels, and other works of brilliant colored fires, not exceeding in value one thousand dollars, may be kept for retailing within the fire limits, from the tenth day of June to the tenth day of July of each year, and no longer, on a written permission; such permission to be granted by the Chief Engineer of the Fire Department.

pro- Seizure.

§ 7. If any fireworks are kept in violation of the visions of this chapter, the same may be seized or taken by any police officer of the said city, upon the order of the Mayor, of a captain of police, or any one of the fire wardens; and the same shall be kept by such Mayor, captain or fire warden, upon whose order the same were taken, at some suitable place, beyond the fire limits, and sold at public auction, within one week after such taking; three days' notice of the time and place of such sale shall be given to the person or persons from whose possession the same were taken, and the proceeds, after deducting expenses of conveyance, storage and sale, shall, within one one week after the sale, be paid over by the person ordering the seizure, to the Treasurer of the Fire Department Fund, for the use and benefit of the said fund.

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Firing on the
Battery.

Ibid.

Firing at Castle Garden.

Firing in the
Parks.

Penalties.

CHAPTER XIII.

OF THE FIRING OF FIRE-ARMS, CANNONS AND FIREWORKS.

§ 1. Every cannon or piece of artillery that shall hereafter be discharged or fired off upon the Battery, shall be placed at the easterly end thereof, as near to the flagstaff as practicable, and in the immediate rear of the paved walk fronting the water, and shall be ranged and pointed in the direction and toward Governor's Island.

§ 2. No cannon or piece of artillery shall be discharged or fired off upon the Battery, except at the place, and ranging in the manner provided in the first section of this chapter.

§3. No cannon or piece of artillery shall be discharged or fired off upon the premises of Castle Clinton or Garden, except on the westerly side thereof; and the same shall only be discharged or fired off in the direction and toward the westerly shore of the Hudson river.

§ 4. No cannon or piece of artillery shall be discharged or fired off in the Park (except on the Fourth day of July, and then only cannon not over six pounds calibre) Washington square, or Union square, nor in any street, lane, avenue, or public place in the city of New York, south of Twenty-third street, except as is provided in the foregoing sections of this chapter.

§ 5. Any person or persons, commander or other officer, or private of any artillery or other military company, troop of horse, corps, regiment, battalion, brigade or division, who shall violate any or either of the provisions of this chapter of these ordinances, or shall cause or permit the same to be done, shall severally forfeit and pay the

sum of fifty dollars for each discharge or firing off of any piece of artillery, to be paid into the city treasury for the use of the city.

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on Sundays.

§ 6. No tavern-keeper, keeper of a public house, garden Firing arms or place of resort, nor any other person, shall suffer or permit any person to practice with or fire off any pistol, gun, fowling-piece or other fire-arms, in or upon his or her premises, nor shall suffer or permit any pistol gallery, erected in his or her house, or upon his or her premises, to be used for the purpose of practicing with any pistol gun, fowling-piece or other fire-arms, upon the first day of the week, called Sunday, under the penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, to be sued for and recovered from the person keeping such public house, tavern, public garden, pistol gallery, place of resort or premises; and also the further penalty of fifty dollars for each offense, to be sued for and recovered from the person firing off or practicing with a pistol, gun, fowling-piece or other fire-arms; and in case such person so offending shall be an apprentice, such penalty shall be sued for and recovered from the master of such apprentice, or in case such person so offending shall be a minor and not an apprentice, the same shall be sued for and recovered from the father of, or in case of the death of the father, then from the mother or guardian of such minor.

works.

§ 7. No person shall fire, discharge or set off in the city Firing Fireof New York, any rocket, cracker, torpedo, squib, balloon, or other fireworks, or thing containing any substance in a state of combustion, under the penalty of five dollars for each offense.

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§ 8. No person shall sell, or expose for sale, nor fire, selling and discharge or set off, in the city of New York, any fire- re-works.

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