North Carolina
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This Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the history, culture, and legal frameworks of North Carolina. It encompasses a diverse range of collections highlighting the state's historical developments, governance, and contributions to the broader American context.
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Item Open Access 1860-61 N.C. Sess. Laws 219–20, Priv. Laws, ch. 180, § 1(General Publisher, 1860)Granted the town of Wilmington the authority to levy and collecy taxes annually on all pistols, dirks, Bowie-knives, or sword-canes if worn about the person at any time during the year, as well as all pistol galleries.Item Open Access 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 202, Priv. Laws, ch. 123, § 18(General Publisher, 1868)Granted the Board the power to levy and collect taxes on all pistols, except when part of stock in trade. Also on all dirks, Bowie-knives, and sword-canes if worn on the person at any time during the year. Tax not to exceed one dollar.Item Open Access 1881 N.C. Sess. Laws 731, ch. 40, § 43(General Publisher, 1881)the Board of Aldermen]1 shall have power to make ordinances to prohibit or control the firing of fire-arms, fire crackers, torpedoes and other explosive material, and to govern the sale thereof in the cityItem Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 63, Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 19(General Publisher, 1866)Granted the Board of Aldermen the power to levy a fifty dollar tax on every pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, sword-cane, or any other deadly weapon worn upon the person except a pocket knife without special permission from the aldermen.Item Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 69-70, Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 30.(General Publisher, 1866)That the said board of aldermen shall have power to make from time to time, ordinances, rules and regulations concerning the firing of fire-arms, and all explosions in said city, the pace and speed at which horses may be driven or rode through the streets, the arrangements of stove-pipes in buildings, the mode in which fire shall be kept, or carried through the city, the manner in which powder and other explosive and inflammable substances may be kept and soldItem Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 22, Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 64.(General Publisher, 1866)That they may prohibit and prevent, by penalties, . . . and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun-powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city."Item Open Access 1862-1863 N.C. Sess. Laws 60, Priv. Laws, Adj. Sess., ch. 49, § 9.(General Publisher, 1862)[T]hey may prohibit and prevent by practices the riding or driving of horses or other animals at a speed greater than six miles an hour, within the city; and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city.Item Open Access 1871-1872 N.C. Sess. Laws 113, Priv. Laws, ch. 72, § 4.(General Publisher, 1871)That any person who shall willfully . . . shoot or discharge any gun or other firearms within the limits thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before any justice of the peace of the county of Pasquotank, shall be fined at the discretion of the court and be moreover liable to the company for the damage done by such act.Item Open Access 1885 N.C. Sess. Laws 382, Pub. Laws, ch. 207, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1885)That nothing in section two thousand eight hundred and thirty-four of The Code shall be so construed as to prevent the farmers in Pamlico county from shooting larks, doves and partridges on their own premises, when the same are doing injury to their crops.Item Open Access 1885 N.C. Sess. Laws 1010, Priv. Laws, ch. 103, § 6.(General Publisher, 1885)That it shall be a misdemeanor for any one to fire off a gun or pistol in the limits of the incorporation while occupied in worship