North Dakota
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Item Open Access 1863 Dakota Terr. Sess. Laws 93, 95-96, ch. 15, § 18(General Publisher, 1863)If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or 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.”Item Open Access 1863 Dakota Terr. Sess. Laws 47, 49, ch. 4, §§ 9-10(General Publisher, 1863)…Sec. 9. Every person who shall break and enter any dwelling house in the night time, with intent to commit the crime of murder, rape, robbery, larceny, or any other felony, or after having entered with such intent, shall break any such dwelling house in the night time, any person being then lawfully therein, and the offender being armed with a dangerous weapon at the time of such breaking, or entering, or so arming himself in such house, or making an actual assault on any person lawfully therein, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than twelve years, nor less than four years. Sec. 10. Every person who shall break and enter any dwelling house in the night time, with such intent as is mentioned in the last preceding section, or who, having entered with such intent, shall break such dwelling house in the night time, the offender not being armed or arming himself in such house with a dangerous weapon, nor making an assault upon any person then being therein, shall be punished by imprisonment in the territorial prison not more than five years, nor less than two years.”Item Open Access 1877 Terr. of Dakota Rev. Codes 794, Penal Code, ch. 38, § 455(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited the manufacture, sale, giving, or disposing of any instrument or weapon usually known as a slungshot, or similar weapon.Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1877 Terr. of Dakota Rev. Codes 794, Penal Code, ch. 38, § 456(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited the carry of any slungshot or weapon of similar kind. Violators guilty of a felony.Item Open Access 1877 Terr. of Dakota Rev. Codes 794, Penal Code, ch. 38, § 457(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited the concealed carry of any firearms, or any sharp or dangerous weapon "as is usually employed in attack or defense of the person." Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1877 Terr. of Dakota Rev. Codes 771, Penal Code, ch. 23, § 294(General Publisher, 1877)Duel Defined. A duel is any combat, with deadly weapons, fought between two persons by previous agreement or upon a previous quarrel. § 295. Punishment for Fighting. Every person guilty of fighting any duel, although no death or wound ensues, is punishable by imprisonment in the territorial prison not exceeding ten years.Item Open Access 1877 Terr. of Dakota Rev. Codes 798, Penal Code, ch. 39, § 495(General Publisher, 1877)Every person who willfully discharges any species of firearms, air-gun or other weapon, or throws any other missile in any public place, or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1883 Rev. Code of the Terr. of Dakota 684, Penal Code, § 457(General Publisher, 1883)Prohibited the concealed carry of any fire-arms or any sharp or dangerous weapon usually employed in attack or defense of the person. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1883 Rev. Code of the Terr. of Dakota 684, Penal Code, § 456(General Publisher, 1883)Prohibited the carry or use of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a slung-shot. Violators guilty of a felony.Item Open Access Ordinances, ch. 1, tit. 1, § 4, THE BOTTINEAU PIONEER, Dec. 13, 1888, at 4 (Bottineau, North Dakota)(General Publisher, 1888)It shall be unlawful, within the limits of this village, to fire off or discharge any gun, fire-arm, fire-works or fire-crackers, except at such times and places as the president of the village trustees may expressly permit and direct; and any person who shall violate any provisions of this section shall be punished by a fine of not less than one dollar nor more than ten dollars, and costs of prosecution."Item Open Access Ordinances, ch. 1, tit. 1, § 3, THE BOTTINEAU PIONEER, Dec. 13, 1888, at 4 (Bottineau, North Dakota)(General Publisher, 1888)Any person found armed within the corporate limits of the village of Bottineau with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive or dangerous weapons, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person or to his family or property, shall, upon conviction before said justice, be punished by a fine not exceeding ten dollars, or by imprisonment in the village jail not exceeding term of thirty days.Item Open Access 1891 N.D. Laws 193-94, ch. 70, § 1(General Publisher, 1891)Prohibited the setting of any gun or gun trap to be discharged at certain animals.Item Open Access 1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1299, Penal Code, ch. 43, § 7358(General Publisher, 1895)Every person who willfully discharges any species of firearm, air gun or other weapon or throws any missile in any public place or in any place where there is any person to be endangered thereby, although no injury to any person shall ensue, is guilty of a misdemeanor.]Item Open Access 1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1289, Penal Code, ch. 40, § 7290(General Publisher, 1895)Every person who makes or keeps gunpowder, saltpeter, gun-cotton, nitroglycerine or dynamite or any compound of the same, or any fulminate or substance which is intended to be used by exploding or igniting the same, in order to produce a force to propel missiles or to rend apart substances, within any city, town or village, and any person who carries any of such explosives through the streets thereof, in any quantity or manner prohibited by law or by any ordinance, by law or regulation of said city, town or village, is guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1293, Penal Code, ch. 40, §§ 7312-13(General Publisher, 1895)Prohibited the carrying of any slungshot or similar weapon, and the concealed carrying of any firearm or any “sharp or dangerous weapon.”Item Open Access 1895 N.D. Rev. Codes 1259, Penal Code, ch. 18, § 7094(General Publisher, 1895)Setting Spring Gun, Trap or Device. Every person who sets any spring or other gun or trap or device operating by the firing or exploding of gunpowder or any other explosive, and leaves or permits the same to be left, except in the immediate presence of some competent person, shall be deemed to have committed a misdemeanor; and the killing of any person by the firing of a gun or other device so set shall be deemed to be manslaughter in the first degree.Item Open Access 1899 N.D. Rev. Codes 1533-34, Penal Code, ch. 72, § 7, pt. 5.(General Publisher, 1899)Every person who either . . . at any time kills or shoots any wild duck, goose, crane or brant with a swivel gun or other guns except such as is commonly shot from the shoulder, or in hunting such birds makes use of any artificial light or battery . . . Is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county, is punishable by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars for each of the birds mentioned in subdivisions 1, 2, 3, or 4 of this section, so shot or killed or nest or eggs so destroyed[.]Item Open Access 1901 N.D. Laws 133-34, ch. 106, § 1, pts. 5, 6.(General Publisher, 1901)Every person who either . . . 5. Shall at any time catch or kill any of the birds permitted to be killed by this act at any time in any other manner than by shooting them with a gun held ot the shoulder by a person discharging the same; or 6. Shall at any time set, lay or prepare any traps, snare, net, bird line, medicated, drugged or poisoned food or grain, or swivel gun or any contrivance or device whatever with intent to catch, take, or kill any of the birds in this act mentioned, whether the same are caught or not . . . is guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county, is punishable by a fine of not exceeding ten dollars . . . for each violation of subdivisions 5 or 6 of this section[.]Item Open Access 1905 N.D. Laws 103, ch. 62, art. 4, § 47, pt. 50.(General Publisher, 1905)To regulate and prevent the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, coal oil, benzine [sic], turpentine, hemp, cotton, nitroglycerine, petroleum or any of the products thereof, and other combustible or explosive material[.]Item Open Access 1907 N.D. Laws 179, ch. 124, § 1.(General Publisher, 1907)Any person who with intent to commit any crime, breaks into or enters a building and commits or attempts to commit a crime by the use of nitro-glycerine, dynamite, gunpowder or any other high explosive, is guilty of a felony. Any violation of this act is punishable by imprisonment in the penitentiary of this state for not less than twenty years, and not more than forty years.