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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    The Charter and Code of the Ordinances of Yazoo City 173-74, ch. 20, § 296 (1908).
    (General Publisher, 1906)
    Every merchant or dealer or pawnbroker that sells bowie knives, dirk knives, pistols, brass or metallic knuckles, or slungshots, or pistol or rifle cartridges, shall keep a record of all sales of such weapons and cartridges sold, showing the description of the weapon and kind and caliber of cartridges so sold, the name of the purchaser, and the description of weapons and the quantity of cartridges and date of sale. This record to be opened to public inspection at any time to persons desiring to see it. The dealer who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than seven dollars and fifty cents nor more than twenty-five dollars.
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    1900 Miss. Laws 51-52, ch. 49, § 1.
    (General Publisher, 1900)
    The auditor of the public accounts shall, by the first day of February in each year, furnish the clerk of the board of supervisors of each county with three copies of blank assessment rolls, and counties having two judicial districts shall be furnished with four copies; said roll shall be made of good paper, neatly and substantially bound and properly ruled and headed for the assessment of personal property and polls, in which to enter the following items: . . . sixteenth column, number of guns over one; seventeenth column, number of pistols, bowieknives, dirks or sword canes[.]