Bill to regulate Importation of Arms, Gunpowder and Ammunition into Ireland

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25 ÄfarcÄ 1330. 

(Ireland.) 

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B L To regulate the Importation of Arms, Gun-powder, and Ammunition into Ireland, and the making, selling, and keeping of Arms. 

Note.—The 
Words printed in Ãœa/ics are proposed to be inserted 

in the Committee. 

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HJ ^ <I& IM d5 51 & it is expedient that provision should be made Preambie. 

for the further and more effectual attainment of the purposes of an Act made in the third year of the reign of His present Majesty, for regulating the importation of Arms, Gunpowder and Ammunition into Ireland, and the making, removing, selling and keeping of Arms, Gunpowder and Ammunition in Ireland, which will expire at the end of this present Session of Parliament; B<0 it tgerefote d&liatteö, by The KIN G's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, THAT from and after the commencement of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person to import or bring into Ireland any cannon, mortar, ordnance, blunderbuss, gun, pistol or other arms, or any lock, stock, barrel, or other part of any gun, pistol or other arms, or any sword, sword-blade, bayonet, pike, pike head, spear, spear head, weapon of war, or any part of any such weapon, or any instrument serving the purposes of any such weapon, or any cannon balls, musket balls or pistol balls, or any gunpowder, brimstone, saltpetre, or other material or ingredient used in the making of gunpowder, or any military accoutrements, without having first obtained a license for that purpose, pursuant to the directions of this Act, under the hand of the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors of Ireland, or his or their Chief 182. 
A Secretary, 

Act 3 Geo. 
4. 
c. 
4. 
as to Importation of Arms, &c. 
will expire with the pre-sent Session. 

No Ordnance, Arms, Gun-powder, &c. 
shall be im-ported with-out license from Lord Lieutenant or Chief Secre-tary of Ire-land under this Act. 
(SGeo. 
4. 
c.4.