Transportation of gunpowder, dynamite, or other explosives

Any person who causes more than five pounds of gunpowder, or any amount of dynamite or other dangerous explosive, to be transported upon water, by railroad, or otherwise shall have the word ‘‘Gunpowder,’’ ‘‘Dynamite,’’ or other name of the explosive marked in large letters upon each package so transported. Gunpowder, dynamite, or other dangerous explosive transported in violation of said provision shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture by any officer who may execute a criminal warrant, under warrant for that purpose, issued by any officer who may issue such first-named warrants, one-half of the same to go to the informer, the other half to go to the military fund of the state, after public sale by order of the officer issuing the warrant, or one of like authority. (Laws 1831; Cobb’s 1851 Digest, p. 850; Code 1863, §§ 1412, 1413; Code 1868, §§ 1469, 1470; Code 1873, §§ 1463, 1464; Code 1882, §§ 1463, 1464; Civil Code 1895, §§ 2291, 2292; Civil Code 1910, §§ 2745, 2746; Code 1933, § 18-317.)