That no person or persons, from and after the publication of this act, shall presume to discharge or fire off any cannon laden with shot, from any wharf or vessel [in certain parts of the harbor] … on pain of forfeiting the sum of fifteen pounds for each [unknown – shot?] fired or discharged; one Moiety of said penalty to be to and for the use of the Poor of said town of Boston, and the other Moiety to him or them who shall inform, complain and sue for the same, to be recovered by the Action Bill, Plaint or information, before any of his Majesty’s Courts of Record within the County of Suffolk, and upon Refusal thereof such person shall suffer three months Imprisonment without Bail or Mainprize.

That no person shall from and after the Publication of this Act discharge any gun or pistol, charged with shot or ball, in the town of Boston, or in any part of the Harbor between the Castle nd said Town, on pain of forfeiting forty shillings each gun or pistol so fired or discharged, to be recovered before one or more of his Majesty’s Justices of the Peace for the County of Suffolk, and disposed of in Mannor as aforesaid, or shall suffer ten Days Imprisonment. And for the more effectual conviction of any person or persons so offending, it shall be lawful for any person to seize and take into custody any gun so fired off, and deliver the same to one of the next Justices of the Peace in said Town of Boston, in order to its being produced at Time of Trial.

That this law shall not be construed or understood as to prevent soldiers in their common training days with leave and by order of the commission officers of the company to which they belong, or other persons at other times with the leave of one or more of the field officers of the regiment in Boston, from firing at a Mark or target for the exercise of their skill and judgment, provided it be done at th elower end of the common; nor from firing at a mark from the several batteries in the town of Boston, with the leave of the captain general, and no where else.