Mississippi
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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Mississippi. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Mississippi. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Mississippi.
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Item Open Access 1814 Terr. of Miss. Laws 16, An Act To Authorize The Governor Of Mississippi Territory, To Accept Of The Services Of Citizens Exempted From Militia Duty, § 2(General Publisher, 1814)Immediately on the governor’s acceptance of any number of volunteers, by virtue of this act, each private shall proceed to provide himself with a good rifle, musket or shot gun with four flints, twenty rounds of powder, ball, or buckshot, best suited to his gun, together with the most convenient accoutrements. The commissioned officers shall be armed with swords; and the arms and accoutrements of all such volunteers shall be exempted from executions in payment of debts and their persons, when on service, free from arrest in civil cases.Item Open Access Harry Toulmin, The Statutes of Mississippi Territory, Revised and Digested by the Authority of the General Assembly 593 (Natchez, 1807)(General Publisher, 1807)Prohibition for people to purchase and trade guns and hunting articles with “any Indian.”Item Open Access 1804 Miss. Laws 90-91, An Act Respecting Slaves, § 4(General Publisher, 1804)Prohibited any “Slave” from keeping or carrying any gun, powder, shot, club, weapon, or ammunition.Item Open Access 1799–1800 Miss. Laws 44(General Publisher, 1799)Prohibited any “Negro or mulatto” from carrying gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon. Also prohibits a “negro or mulatto” from possessing a gun, weapon, or ammunition.Item Open Access 1799 Miss. Laws 113, A Law for The Regulation of Slaves(General Publisher, 1799)Prohibited any “Negro or mulatto” from carrying gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon. Also prohibits a “negro or mulatto” from possessing a gun, weapon, or ammunition.Item Open Access 1840 Miss. L. 181, ch. 111, § 5(General Publisher, 1840)Authorized the town of Hernando to enact restrictions on the carrying of dirks, Bowie knives, or pistols.Item Open Access 1839 Miss. L. 385-86, ch. 168, § 5(General Publisher, 1839)Authorized the town of Emery to enact restrictions on the carrying of dirks, Bowie knives, or pistols.Item Open Access George Poindexter, The Revised Code of the Laws of Mississippi: In Which are Comprised All Such Acts of the General Assembly, of a Public Nature, as were in Force at the End of the Year 1823: with a General Index Page 608, Image 612 (1824)(General Publisher, 1824)Said president and selectmen may pass ordinances to regulate the keeping, carting and transporting gunpowder, or other combustible or dangerous materials, and, the use of lights in stables, to remove or prevent the construction of any fireplace, hearth or chimney, stoves, ovens, boilers, kettles or apparatus used in any house, building, manufactory or business which may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires; to appoint one or more officers, at reasonable times, to enter into and examine all dwelling houses, lots, yards and buildings, in order to discover whether any of them are in a dangerous stateItem Open Access Anderson Hutchinson, Code of Mississippi: Being an Analytical Compilation of the Public and General Statutes of the Territory and State, with Tabular References to the Local and Private Acts, from 1798 to 1848: With the National and State Constitutions, Cessions of the Country by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, and Acts of Congress for the Survey and Sale of the Lands, and Granting Donations Thereof to the State, pg. 182, ch. 8, § 1 (1848)(General Publisher, 1844).A tax of two dollars on each dueling or pocket pistol, except such as are kept for sale by merchants, artisans, or kept for use by military companies. . . ]Item Open Access 1841 Miss. Laws 52, ch. 1, § 1(General Publisher, 1841)Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife.