GUN i 
eeuicn ore omer maker o unpowder, who fhall 
keep any 20 edb of any mill or engine 
for the aking ona a gunpowder, or of any drying, corn- 
ing, or dufting-houfe, or any adjoining magaz - 
houfe belon to it, fhall f sl. for every week 
- whic uch charcoal os im fo kept. No ripe 
of them; or — — other city, borough, or 
town, or one mile thereof; or within two miles of 
any of the king’s thee or ie of king’s apeuades ; 
or half a mile of any parifh church ; or in any other part of 
Great Britain, except in mills or other places which, at the 
commencement of ee aét, thall be ufed — the mel 
d to be 
d the allowed ae 
pro awful for any perfon to 
keep, for the ufe of any noes or , allie, any quantity, 
se ae goo/bs. in any m ufe with 
“ of fuch mine or colliery. However, it 
— _ - juftices in feffions, from time to time, 
or having fuch mills and o 
pat so agen os for keeping unlimited quantities of _— 
within London or Weftmintter, 
powder in places, not being wi 
or any limits fiore: ae and the juftices, upon due 
application, and by due procefs of law, chide the act ftates, 
may be ordered uae: the court of king’s bench to grant fuch 
licenfe, No perfon thall carry oe one time more than 
25 barrels of gunpowder é in any waggon, cart, or other car- 
po ed or more than 200 barrels in rr mens lato 
dca an. 1 gun- 
pre il be fcattered in the paflage; and each barrel hall 
more than 1 enpordee and when con- 
syed by land fll be ent clofed in a leathern G> or 
called faltpetre ; na carriage 
all be covered with a edaguns covering of ink 
, tarpaulin, gunpowder fhall be 
&e. ; and no carrjed in 
‘that hath not a clofe deck, which fhall be 
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rabowe 2 rear a 
Then ue 
painted the 
beet 
g their annual ema or sone 
ie ne fent a the arsape of _ Brae and militia 
POWDER, a material 
Goxrowne, in alae raphy, a river-on the welieen fhore’ 
of Maryland, th e chief branches of which unite above J 
pa, and rr ta themfelves- aa Chefapeak bay, about’ 
12 cor Its falls prevent its being” 
navigable for more than a few miles. 
Gunrowner Neck, a peninfula near - the head of Chefa- 
peak bay, formed by Gunpowder river and Bush river. 
ao NSHOT Wovunps receive their name from the man- 
which they are produced. In Surgery, they are cafes 
hich cannot be ftudied with too great attention, the mo- 
of warfare, and the martial times in which we live, 
making thefe injuries numerous beyond conception. As the 
invention (as fome have faid) of caapowder did not happen till 
the fourteenth century, and this fubftance was not applied to 
the eat of wor irons fire-arms till alater period, gun 
and ac may be confidered as forming rather @ new 
branch of fur ancient writers, who have left us 
valuable remarks on many furgical fubjects, are totally filent 
on that w engages our prefent notice, and we mutt turn 
to the pages of very modern anthors for what is to be looked’ 
upon as the beft and moft accurate information 
Gunfhot wounds, fays Mr paced aie made by the pro- 
jection of hard obtufe bodies, the teft number of which 
are mufket-balls ; 
ftones from ramparts in 
fea engagements, can 
fuch wounds as are made with 
The latter cafes are e'tiods which will generally demand wd 
ever u ent be required by gunfhot 
A prea fince serene As clafled all thefe vari- 
ous kinds of i oe ao 2 and the place is poorest 
neceflary in ncerning fort of mifchief 
occafioned by ied © eunvicedic iplinters, te. rei be 
eee in the enfuing columns. 
ter obferves, that all gunthot wounds wilt come 
lefinition of accidents. They are a recent vio- 
5 but t ygieee become the 
ope asa 
tonic aroun to gi 
bladder rset the ball entering and eee in that vifcus, 
and confumption: from wounds of 
ngs, which, how: 
gery ee 
ty depending on 
ody, ‘and the natu 
