Sec. 1. […] That if any person or persons (excepting persons in military array, discharging cannon or fire arms in some public display or commemoration of some extraordinary event) shall hereafter discharge any cannon, carronade, blunderbuss, swivel, musket, fowling-piece, rifle, pistol or other fire arms, within the limits of said city; or if any person or persons shall hereafter fire any squib or squibs, or crackers, or other fire works of any description whatever, in any of the streets, alleys, or market spaces, or on the public commons of said city, every person so offending, shall, for every such offence, on conviction thereof before the mayor, forfeit and pay to the city of Cincinnati, any sum not exceeding two dollars, nor less than one dollar, with costs of prosecution.