Oregon

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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Oregon. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Oregon. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Oregon.

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1845-64 Or. Gen. Laws 530-31, ch. 43, § 524-25
(General Publisher, 1864)
If any person shall challenge another to fight a duel, or transmit the message for another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
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1845-64 Or. Gen. Laws 531, ch. 43, § 527
(General Publisher, 1864)
If any person shall assault, or assault and beat another with a cowhide, whip, stick or like thing, having at the time in his possession a pistol, dirk or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate and prevent such other from resisting or defending himself, such person upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one, nor more than ten years.
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1854 Or. Terr. Stat. 220, ch. 16, § 17
(General Publisher, 1853)
If any person shall go armed with dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault, injury, or other violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complaint of any other person, having reasonable cause to fear an injury, or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.
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1854 Or. Terr. Stat. 257, ch. 37, An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Arms and Ammunition to Indians, §§ 1-3.
(General Publisher, 1853)
Prohibited any “white citizen” to sell, barter, or give any kind of firearm or ammunition to “an Indian.”
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1862 Or. Spec. Laws 9, An Act to Incorporate the City of Albany, § 6.
(General Publisher, 1862)
[To] regulate the storage of gun powder and other combustible materials, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in shops, stables and other places[.]
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1868 Or. Gen. Laws 18-19, An Act to Protect the Owners of Firearms, §§ 1-2.
(General Publisher, 1868)
Every white male citizen of this state above the age of sixteen years, shall be entitled to have, hold, and keep, for his own use and defense, the following firearms, to wit: either or any one of the following-named guns, and one revolving pistol: a rifle, shot-gun (double or single barrel), yager, or musket; the same to be exempt from execution, in all cases, under the laws of Oregon. § 2. No officer, civil or military, or other person, shall take from or demand of the owner any fire-arms mentioned in this act, except where the services of the owner are also required to keep the peace or defend the state.
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1872 Or. Laws 26, An Act for the Protection of Game and Fish, § 6.
(General Publisher, 1872)
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, at any time, to place, or use, in any of the streams or rivers of this State, any drugs, charms, or powder, or to use any giant blasting or gun powder, or other explosive material, for the purpose of catching, killing or destroying fish; and any person violating the provision of this section, shall be fined twenty dollars for the first offence, double that sum for the second and treble that sum for the each succeeding offense, to which may be added imprisonment for any time not exceeding ninety days.
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1878 Or. Laws 136, Special Laws, An Act to Incorporate the Town of Independence, in the County of Polk, and State of Oregon, § 4.
(General Publisher, 1878)
[T]o regulate the storage of gunpowder and other combustible material, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in shops, halls and other places[.]
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1885 Or. Laws 263-64, An Act to Incorporate the City of Junction and Repeal An Act Entitled “An Act to Incorporate the City of Junction;” approved October 20, 1872, § 6.
(General Publisher, 1885)
[The] Mayor and common council . . . shall have exclusive power within the corporate limits of said city . . . to regulate . . . the discharge of firearms or other preparation of gunpowder or combustibles of any kind[.]
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1885 Or. Laws 33, An Act to Prevent Persons from Carrying Concealed Weapons and to Provide for the Punishment of the Same, §§ 1-2
(General Publisher, 1885)
Prohibited the concealed carry of any revoler, pistol, or other firearm, or any knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or metal knuckles, or any instrument which could inflict injury upon another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten dollars but no more than two hundred dollars, and/or jailed not less than five days but no more than one hudnred days.
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1887 Or. Code 977-78, tit. 2, ch. 8, § 1969 (Vol. 1)
(General Publisher, 1887)
Prohibited the concealed carry of any revolver, pistol, or other fire-arm any knfe, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, metal knuckles, or any instrument which could inflict injury.Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punished by fine not less than ten but no more than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than five but no more one hundred days, or both.
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1893 Or. Laws 29-30, An Act to Punish the Pointing of Firearms at a Human Being, § 1.
(General Publisher, 1893)
It shall be unlawful for any person over the age of sixteen years, with or without malice, purposely to point or aim any pistol, gun, revolver, or other firearm, within range of said firearm, either loaded or empty, at or toward any other person, except in self-defense. And any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be fined in any sum not less than ten dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail not less than ten days nor more than six months, or both.
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1893 Or. Laws 79, An Act to Prevent a Person from Trespassing upon Any Enclosed Premises or Lands Not His Own Being Armed with a Gun, Pistol, or Other Firearm, and to Prevent Shooting upon or Ffom the Public Highway, §§ 1-3.
(General Publisher, 1893)
It shall be unlawful for any person, other than an officer on lawful business, being armed with a gun, pistol, or other firearm, to go or trespass upon any enclosed premises or lands without the consent of the owner or possessor thereof. § 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to shoot upon or from the public highways. § 3. It shall be unlawful for any person, being armed with a gun or other firearm, to cause, permit or suffer any dog, accompanying such person, to go or enter upon any enclosed premises without the consent of the owner or possessor thereof; provided; that this section shall not apply to dogs in pursuit of deer or varmints.
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1895 Or. Laws 95, An Act for the Protection of Game, Fish and Wild Fowl of the State of Oregon, and to Provide for the Appointment of a Fish and Game Warden, § 16.
(General Publisher, 1895)
Every person who shall use any batteries or swivel or pivot-gun, or any other gun than one to be held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, either from the shore or on a boat, raft or other device, on the Columbia river, or on any other lake or river in the state of Oregon, at any time, for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as hereinafter provided.
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1901 Or. Laws 221, An Act to Provide for the Preservation and Protection of Forests, Game, Wild Fowls, Song Birds, Trout, and Other Game Fish . . . , § 11.
(General Publisher, 1901)
It shall be unlawful to use any battery, swivel or pivot gun, or other gun than one to be held in the hands and fired from the shoulder, either form the shore or on a boat, raft or other device, on the Columbia River, or any lake or river in the State of Oregon, at any time for the purpose of shooting wild ducks, geese, swan or other water fowl.
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1903 Or. Laws 309-10, An Act to Regulate and Prohibit the Sale, Barter, Exchange, or Gift of Explosives, Firearms or Other Articles of a Like Kind, to Children Under the Age of Fourteen Years, and to Punish the Violation of the Provisions of this Act. §§ 1-2.
(General Publisher, 1903)
It shall be unlawful to sell, exchange, barter, or give to any child, under the age of fourteen years, any explosive article or substance, other than an ordinary firecracker, containing ten grains of gunpowder; or to sell, exchange, barter, or give to any such child any firearms, or other device of a like kind, ordinarily used or ordinarily capable of being used in discharging gunpowder in a greater quantity than ten grains; and it is herby made unlawful in any event to sell, exchange, barter, or give to any child, under the age of fourteen years, any instrument or apparatus, the chief utility of which consists in the fact that it is used, or is ordinarily capable of being used, as an article or device to increase the force or intensity of such explosive, or to direct or control the discharge of any such explosive
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1903 Or. Special Laws 106, An Act to Incorporate the City of North Bend, and to Provide a Charter Therefor . . . , § 27, pt. 23.
(General Publisher, 1903)
To regulate the transfer of gunpowder, dynamite, nitro-glycerine, and other combustibles and explosives through the streets or alleys of the city[.]
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1903 Or. Special Laws 31, An Act to Incorporate the City of Portland, ch. 3, art. 4, § 73, pt. 36.
(General Publisher, 1903)
To regulate or prevent the storage, manufacture, and sale of dangerous, explosive, or combustible materials, including gunpowder, dynamite, giant powder, calcium carbide, nitro-glycerine, oil, and gas, and to provide for the inspection of the same; to prevent, by all proper means, all risks of injury or damage by fire arising from negligence, or otherwise[.]
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1903 Or. Special Laws 31, An Act to Incorporate the City of Portland, ch. 3, art. 4, § 73, pt. 38.
(General Publisher, 1903)
To regulate and prohibit the use of all guns, pistols, and firearms, missle [sic] weapons, firecrackers, bombs and detonators of all description[.]
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1903 Or. Special Laws 34, An Act to incorporate the city of Portland, ch. 3, art. 4, § 73, pt. 56.
(General Publisher, 1903)
To prohibit the carrying of deadly or dangerous weapons in a concealed manner