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REGULATIONS RELATIVE TO THE SALE AND USE OF EXPLOSIVES, | 
FIREWORKS AND REVOLVERS 
Manchester, June 22, 1910. 
To whom it may concern: 
The undersigned is in receipt of 
the following communication from 
the Chief of the State Police: 
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 
office of the Detective and Fire In- 
spection Department of the Dis- 
trict Police, State House. 
Boston, Mass., June 10, 1910. 
To the Chief of the Fire Depart- 
‘ment of the Town of Manchester : 
Dear Sir: You have been designat- 
ed in the following act to grant per- 
mits for the keeping, storage, sale or 
use of fireworks and firecrackers in 
accordance with regulations from 
time to time adopted and prescribed 
by the Detective and Fire Inspec- 
tion Department of the District Po- 
lice. 
Office of the Chief of District Po- 
lice, Boston, Mass., June 10, 1910. 
To whom it may concern: 
In pursuance of chapter 565 of the 
Acts of 1910, I hereby designate the 
‘following named officials to grant 
permits for the keeping, storage, sale 
and use of fireworks and firecrack- 
ers in accordance with the rules and 
regulations from time to time estab- 
lished by the Detective and Fire In- 
spection Department of the District 
Police; in the city of Boston and 
other cities and towns having such 
an official, the fire commissioner; in 
any other city or town having one, 
the chief of the fire department; and 
in a town not having such an official, 
the chairman of the board of select- 
» men. 
(Signed) J. H. Whitney, 
Chief of the District Police. 
Respectfully yours, 
' (Signed) Jophanus H. Whitney, . 
Chief of the District Police. 
Blanks for applications for any of 
the above named purposes may be 
obtained from the undersigned. 
James Hoare, 
Chief of the Fire Department. 
CHAPTER 7. 
Keeping and Sale of Fireworks and 
Firecrackers at Retail. 
Section 36. Applications for per- 
mits for the keeping and sale at re- 
tail of fireworks and firecrackers 
shall be made in writing, and must 
_ give the following information :— 
(a) Name of person or persons by 
whom the permit is desired. 
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(b) Situation of premises where 
goods are to be kept or sold. 
(c) Kind of building. 
(d) Nature of business in which 
applicant is engaged insaid premises. 
(e) Quality and deseription of 
fireworks. 
Section 37. No retail permits will 
be granted for the sale or keeping 
of fireworks or firecrackers, other 
than the small firecrackers, in any 
building or premises— 
(a) Where paint, oils or varnishes 
are manufactured or kept for use 
or sale. 
(b) Where dry goods of any kind 
or other light material of a combus- 
tible nature are kept for sale, ex- 
cepting flags, paper lanterns, paper 
balloons or decorations, provided the 
said excepted goods shall be kept in 
covered boxes until delivered, or 
while such fireworks are kept for 
sale. 
(c) In a earpenter’s shop or drug 
store or building where kerosene or 
any other product of petroleum is 
sold, or any building in which other 
explosives, petroleum, or-any of its 
products, coal oil, camphene, burn- 
ing fluid or other products or eom- 
pounds containing any of said sub- 
staness are kept or sold. 
(d) Any building or place, where 
tar, pitch, rosin, hay, cotton or hemp 
is mauufactured, stored or kept for 
sale. 
Section 38. From June 10 to July 
10, or during such part of the time 
as the permit may cover, any official 
designated to grant permits may, in 
his discretion, require any person 
holding a retail permit to keep fire- 
works for sale to keep a competent 
person in front of his store during 
business hours to prevent any one 
from entering therein with a hghted 
cigar, pipe or cigarette, and to take 
such cther precautions against fire 
as may be possible. 
Section 39. From June 10 to July 
10 in every year a permit may be 
granted to keep for sale at retail fire- 
works and firecrackers in a building’ 
in the following amounts: of com- 
mon fireworks, as defined in section 
1 (a) of these regulations, not more 
than 200 pounds at any one time; of 
specia: fireworks as defined in sec- 
tion 2 (a), not more than 100 pounds 
at anv one time. This shall not in- 
elude the small firecracker, of which 
100 boxes may be kept, nor the toy 
torpedo, of which 50 cases may be 
kept, ror the single toy paper cap, 
of which 25 cases may be kept. 
Section 40. From July 10 to June 
10 following, fireworks and fire- 
crackers kept for sale in a building 
at any one time on a retail permit 
shall not exceed one-third of. the 
amount named in the preceding see- 
tion. 
Section 41. All fireworks kept in 
retail stores, excepting toy torpedoes 
and single paper caps, shall be kept 
in boxes with tightly closed covers 
until delivered to purchaser or while 
such fireworks are kept on premises. 
Section 42. No rermit shall be 
granted to keep for sale at retail any 
fireworks or firecrackers in any 
building used in part as a tenement, 
lodging or apartment house, or used 
in» part for school or factory pur- 
poses. or where people are accus- 
tomed to assemble. 
Section 43. No smoking shall be 
allowed about the premises where 
such sales are permitted, nor shall 
any person expose any of said fire. 
works or firecrackers for sale out- 
side of the walls of a building, nor 
in any door or window, and safety 
matches, only shall be sold or use on 
such premises. 
Section 44. No torpedo larger 
than three-fourths of an inch in 
diameter shall be kept or sold. Tor- 
pedoes must: be packed with sawdust 
in paper cartons and these in wooden 
cases. 
“moTION 45, All persons to whom 
retail permits are issued shall place 
and keep in a convenient part of the 
premises where fireworks or fire- 
erackers are kept for sale at least 6 
nails of water to be used in case of 
fire. 
Section 46. All premises for which 
said permits are issued must be 
lighte} by gas or electricity where 
such conveniences are to be had, and 
sneh lights must be protected with 
glass or wire globes or sereens. 
This nrobibits the use of revolvers 
on the street. 
AOTS OF 1910. CHAPTER 565 
An Act to prohibit the Sale of Cer- 
tain Pistols and Exnulosives and to 
authorize the Making of Regula- 
tions relative to Fireworks and 
‘Firecrackers. 
Be it enacted, etc., as follows: 
Section 1. It shall be unlawful 
for anv verson to sell or keep for sale 
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