Pennsylvania Archives 1713, The Act for the Better Government of the City of Philadelphia (1713), This Act inflicts 5s penalty on persons riding a gallop and 10s for persons trotting, with Drays or their Teams in the streets, and 5th for suffering a Dog or a Bitch going at large; or firing a Gun without license, or if a Negro be found in any disorderly practices or other Misbehaviors may be whipped 21 lashes for any one offence or committed to prison, which words “other misbehaviors,” are very uncertain and give very arbitrary power where the punishment is great. [(Summary …

[An Act of 9th of February, 1750-51, § 1. If any person or persons whatsoever, within any county, town or within any other town or borough in this province, already built and settled, or hereafter to be built and settled , not hitherto restricted nor provided for by our laws, shall set on fire their chimneys to cleanse them, or shall suffer them or any of them to take fire, and blaze out at the top, or shall fire any gun or other fire arm, or shall make or cause to be made, or sell or utter, or offer to …

[An Act for Preventing Accidents that may Happen by Fire, § IV. And whereas much mischief may happen by shooting of guns, throwing casting and firing of squibs, serpents, rockets, and other fire-works, within the city of Philadelphia, if not speedily prevented: Be it therefore enacted, That if any person or persons, of what sex, age, degree or quality soever, from and after publication hereof, shall fire any gun or other fire-arms, or shall make, or cause to be made, or sell or utter, or offer to expose to sale, any squibs, rockets or other fire works, or shall cast, …

That if any persons or persons whatsoever, within any county town, or within any other town or borough, in this province, already built and settled, or hereafter to be built and settled . .. shall fire any gun or other fire-arm, or shall make or cause to be made, or sell or utter, or offer or expose for sale, any squibs, rockets or other fire-works, … within any of the said towns or boroughs without the Governor’s special license for the same, every such person or persons, so offending shall be subject to the like penalties and forfeitures, and to …

[Ordinances of the District of Southwark,] An Act for the More Effectual Preventing [of] Accidents, etc. § 1. Be it enacted, That if any person shall fire any gun or other fire-arm, or shall make, or cause to be made, or sell or utter, or offer to expose to sale, any squibs, rockets or other fire-works, or shall cast, throw or fire any squibs, rockets or other fire-works, within any of the said towns or boroughs, without the Governor’s special license for the same, every such person or persons, so offending, shall be subject to the like penalties and forfeitures, …

That if after the publication of this act any person or persons shall on any thirty-first day of December or first or second day of January in every year, wantonly, and without reasonable occasion, discharge and fire off any hand-gun, pistol or other fire-arms, or shall cast throw or fire any squibs, rockets or other fire-works, within the inhabited parts of this province, to the disturbance of any of his Majesty’s subjects there inhabiting and being, every such person so offending, and being thereof convicted . . . shall for every such offense forfeit . . . ten shillings . …

A Supplement to an Ordinance Entitled “An Ordinance for the Suppression of Nuisances, and Enforcing Useful Regulations within the City of Philadelphia,” passed 9th July 1821, § 1. If any person shall throw, cast or fire any squib, rocket or other fire-works in or into any of the streets, lanes or alleys of the city of Philadelphia, every such person shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of five dollars. § 2. If any person shall fire off or discharge, wantonly and without any reasonable cause, any gun, pistol, fowling-piece or other fire-arms, at any place or …

[An Ordinance for the Suppression of Nuisance, and for the regulation of drivers of carriages and horses, in and through the streets, lanes and alleys, within the incorporated part of the township of the Northern Liberties, and for enforcing useful regulations therein.] § 8. And be it further ordained and enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person or persons shall fire, or discharge any cannon, or piece of artillery, or small arms, or prove any pistol, gun, musket barrels, or cannon, or illuminate, or cause to be illuminated, any house within the regulated parts, incorporated as aforesaid, in said …

[Ordinances of Pittsburgh, PA. An Additional Ordinance “for the suppression of nuisances and enforcing useful regulations within the city of Pittsburgh.”, . . . § 2. That if any person shall fire off or discharge wantonly and without reasonable cause, any gun, pistol, fowling piece, or any other fire-arms, at any place or from any house, within the city, or in any of the streets, alleys or highways of the said city, such person shall forfeit and pay for every such offence the sum of five dollars. § 3. That if any person shall, without any reasonable cause, allow or …

Ordinances [of the District of Penn, PA], Ordinance of July 14, 1851, An Ordinance Providing for the Appointment of a Captain of the Watch, and the establishment of a Nightly Watch in the District of Penn. § 1. Be it ordained, etc. That from and after the passage of this ordinance, there may or shall be erected a sufficient number of watch houses, in such parts and places in the district as the commissioners may determine. § 2. That there shall be appointed a captain of the watch, and a sufficient number of able bodied men as watchmen, as may …

[Ordinances of the City of Allegheny, Fire Arms, Fire and Squibs, § 1. Any person who shall fire off, or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece, or other fire-arms, within the limits of the city of Allegheny, unless the same be in defense of person or property, shall forfeit and pay a fine of not less than $1.00 nor more than $4.00, upon conviction.]

To pass ordinances providing for the punishment of discharging fire-arms of any description, rockets, gun-powder and fireworks in the streets of the city or in the immediate vicinity of anybuilding.