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Fireworks. The making and selling of fireworks and squibs, or throwing them about in the street, was declared to be a common nuisance by the repealed 9 Wm. 3, c. 7. See also (English) Metropolis Police Act (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47), s. 54, and 9 & 10 Vict. c. 25. By 23 & 24 Vict. c. 139, 24 & 35 Vict. c. 130, and 25 & 26 Vict. c. 98, provisions were made for regulating the manufacture, sale, and use of firework, but these have now been repealed, and the law relating to this subject amended by the (English) Explosives Act, 1875 (amended by the Explosives Act, 1923). Any person throwing, casting, or firing any fireworks in or into any highway, street, or public place is liable to a penalty not exceeding 5l. (s. 80 of the Act of 1875). And see SQUIBS.