Colorado
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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Colorado. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Colorado. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Colorado.
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Item Open Access 1862 Colo. Sess. Laws 56, § 1 [Concealed weapons](General Publisher, 1862)Prohibited the concealed carrying in any city, town, or village any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Punished by fine of $5-35.Item Open Access 1867 Colo. Sess. Laws 229, § 149(General Publisher, 1867)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon within any city, town, or village in the territory. Punishable by fine of $5-35. Exempted sheriffs, constables, and police officers when performing their official duties.Item Open Access The Revised Statutes of Colorado: as Passed at the Seventh Session of the Legislative Assembly, Convened on the Second Day of December, A.D. 1867. Also, the Acts of a Public Nature Passed at the Same Session, and the Prior Laws Still in: Together with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Organic Act, and the Amendments Thereto Page 606(General Publisher, 1868)Authorized the board of trustees of every town to provide regulations for the storage of gunpowder, gun-cotton, nitro-glycerine, tar, pitch, resin, and other combustible or inflammable materials, and to prescribe the places and manner of storing the same.Item Open Access Thomas M. Patterson, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Denver, as Adopted Since the Incorporation of the City and Its Organization, November, 1861, to the First Day of February, A.D., 1875, Revised and Amended, Together with an Act of the Legislature of the Territory of Colorado, in Relation to Municipal Corporations Page 135(General Publisher, 1875)Prohibited the keeping in a place of business or elsewhere within Denver, any gun powder or gun cotton exceeding twenty-five pounds at one time. The same shall be lept in tin or copper canisters or cases not exceeding five pounds. Violators fined not less than ten nor exceeding one hundred dollars.Item Open Access Thomas M. Patterson, The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Denver, as Adopted Since the Incorporation of the City and Its Organization, November, 1861, to the First Day of February, A.D., 1875, Revised and Amended, Together with an Act of the Legislature of the Territory of Colorado, in Relation to Municipal Corporations, Page 78(General Publisher, 1875)Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, fire arms, or fire or explode any squib, cracker, or other thing containing powder or other combustible or explosive material. Violators fined not less than one nor more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1876 Colo. Sess. Laws 304, § 154(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the carrying with intent to assault another any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon.Item Open Access COLO. CONST. OF 1876, art. II, § 13(General Publisher, 1876)That the right of no person to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall be called in question; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to justify the practice of carrying concealed weapons.Item Open Access William M.Clark, General Laws of the State of Colorado: Comprising that Portion of the Revised Statutes of Colorado, and the General Acts of the Subsequent Legislative Assemblies of Colorado Territory for the Years 1870, 1872, 1874, and 1876, Still Remaining in Force, and the General Laws Enacted at the First Session of the General Assembly of the State of Colorado, Convened November 1, 1876, Together with the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Amendments Thereto, the Enabling Act, the Constitution of the State of Colorado, and the Proclamation of the President of the United States Declaring the Admission of the State Page 485(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited killing, ensnaring, or trapping an elk, deer, antelope, mountain sheep, or any game whatsoever on the property of another withot the consent of the owner. Also prohibited entering another's property with a gun for the purpose of hunting without the consent of the owner. Violators fined not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access Edward O. Wolcott, The Ordinances of Georgetown [Colorado] Passed June 7th, A.D. 1877, at 100, § 9(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by a fine of $5-50.Item Open Access An Act Concerning the Enrollment and Organization of the Militia of the State, prescribing the District and Number and Rank of the Officers thereof, and Defining the Duties of Such Officers, Article VIII, §23 Unlawful Armed Assemblage (8 Feb. 1879)(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited any body of men whatsoever, other than the national guard or regularly organized militia, or federal US troops, from associating as a militia or to parade in public with arms. Nor shall any city or town raise or appropriate any money towards arming, equipping, or supporting any such bodies of money.Item Open Access Ordinance no. 4, For the Security of Persons and Property, § 1, GREELEY, ORDINANCES OF THE TOWN (G. A. Webb 1879).(General Publisher, 1879)That no person shall fire or discharge any cannon, rifle, gun, pistol or fire arms of any description, or fire, explode or set off any squib, cracker, or anything containing powder, or other combustible or explosive material, in any street, alley or public ground in this town, within one-half mile of the centre of Lincoln Park, without permission of the Board of Trustees, or the written permission of the Mayor of said town, which permission shall limit the time of such firing, and be subject to be revoked at any time after it has been granted...Item Open Access 1881 Colo. Rev. Stat. p. 229 § 149(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any firearms, any pistol, Bowie knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon.Item Open Access 1881 Colo. Sess. Laws 74, § 1(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Violators punished by jail term no less than ten but not more than thirty days and fined not less than fifty but no more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access Colo. Rev. Stat 1774, § 248 (1881)(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any firearms, any pistol, revolver, Bowie knife, dagger, slingshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly weapon, unless authorized by chief of police.Item Open Access General Ordinances of the City of Aspen, §§ 152, ASPEN DAILY TIMES, Jul. 27, 1886, at 3-6 (Aspen, Colorado).(General Publisher, 1886)If any person shall, within this city, fire or discharge any cannon, gun, fowling piece,, pistol, or fire-arms of any description, or fire, explode or set off any squib, cracker or other thing containing powder or other combustible or explosive material, without permission from the mayor (which permission shall limit the time of such firing, and shall be subject to be revoked by the mayor or city council at any time after the same has been granted), every such person shall, on conviction, be fined in a sum not less than one dollar nor more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access General Ordinances of the City of Aspen, §§ 125, ASPEN DAILY TIMES, Jul. 27, 1886, at 3-6 (Aspen, Colorado).(General Publisher, 1886)No person shall keep at his place of business or elsewhere within this city, a greater quantity of gun powder or gun cotton than fifty pounds at one time, and the same shall be kept in tin or copper canisters containing not to exceed ten pounds in each.Item Open Access General Ordinances of the City of Aspen, §§ 183, ASPEN DAILY TIMES, Jul. 27, 1886, at 3-6 (Aspen, Colorado).(General Publisher, 1886)Whenever any policeman shall make an arrest it shall be the duty of the jailer, deputy jailer, or person in charge of the city jail, to take from the person so arrested the weapon or weapons found upon him or her at the time of such arrest, and to retain the same until he, or she, or they, shall have paid whatever fine and costs, if any, there shall have been adjudged against them.Item Open Access Isham White, The Laws and Ordinances of the City of Denver, Colorado, at 369, § 10 (1886)(General Publisher, 1886)Prohibited the carrying of any slungshot, colt, or metal knuckles while engaged in any breach of the peace. Punishable by a fine of $25-300.Item Open Access General Ordinances of the City of Aspen, §§ 182, ASPEN DAILY TIMES, Jul. 27, 1886, at 3-6 (Aspen, Colorado).(General Publisher, 1886)If any person shall, within the corporate limits of the city of Aspen, have, concealed upon his person any pistol, bowie-knife, dagger, slung-shot, billy, dirk-knife, brass or metal knuckles, or other deadly weapon, he or she shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court, or be imprisoned in the city jail at hard labor not less than five nor more than ten days, in the discretion of the court, or both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court, for every such offense.Item Open Access General Ordinances of the City of Aspen, §§ 293, ASPEN DAILY TIMES, Jul. 27, 1886, at 3-6 (Aspen, Colorado).(General Publisher, 1886)No gun, weapon or explosive shall be used in any shooting gallery, of a size to endanger life or limb, or to frighten horses, or to cause any annoyance to the people of the vicinity in which such gallery is situated, and all such galleries shall be securely enclosed and have protection and planking, or other obstructions sufficient to arrest any projectile in and about such galleries..."