Washington
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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Washington. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Washington. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Washington.
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Item Open Access 1854 Wash. Sess. Laws 80, An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments, and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, ch. 2, § 28.(General Publisher, 1854)Every person who shall assault and beat another with a cowhide or whip, having with him at the time a pistol, or other deadly weapon, shall on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year, nor less than three months, and be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.Item Open Access 1854 Wash. Sess. Laws 80, An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments, and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, ch. 2, § 30.(General Publisher, 1854)Prohibited exhibiting, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, a pistol, Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to $500.Item Open Access 1859 Wash. Sess. Laws 107-08, An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishment, and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, ch. 2, §§ 14-15, 23.(General Publisher, 1859)§ 14. If either party to a duel be killed, the survivor shall be deemed guilty of murder in the second degree. § 15. If any person shall, by previous appointment made within, fight a duel without this territory, and in so doing shall inflict a mortal wound upon any person, whereof the person so injured shall die, such person so offending shall be deemed guilty of murder in the second degree, within any county in this territory. § 23. Every person who shall accept such challenge, or who shall knowingly carry or deliver any such challenge or message, whether a duel ensue or not, and every person who shall be present at the fighting of a duel with deadly weapons, as an aid, or second, or who shall advise, encourage, or promote such duel, shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the penitentiary, not more than five years nor less than six months.Item Open Access 1859 Wash. Sess. Laws 108-109, An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishment and the Proceeding in Criminal Cases, ch. 2, § 28.(General Publisher, 1859)Every prison [sic] who shall assault and beat another with a cowhide or whip, having with him at the time a pistol or other deadly weapon, shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year nor less than three months, and be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.Item Open Access 1859 Wash. Sess. Laws 109, ch. 2, § 30(General Publisher, 1859)Prohibited exhibiting, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, a pistol, Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to $500.Item Open Access 1861-1862 Wash. Sess. Laws 22, An Act to Incorporate the City of Walla Walla, art. 5, § 3, pt. 22.(General Publisher, 1862)To regulate the storage of gunpowder, pitch, tar, rosin and all other combustible materials, . . . in shops, stables and other places. To prevent, remove or secure any fire-place, stove, chimney, oven, boiler, or other apparatus which may be dangerous in causing fire.Item Open Access 1862 Terr. of Wash. Stat. 284, ch. 2, § 30(General Publisher, 1862)Prohibited displaying any pistol, Bowie-knife, or other dangerous weapon to a crowd of two or more pesons in a rude, angry, or threatening manner.Item Open Access 1867 Terr. of Wash. Stat. 116, An Act to Incorporate the City of Vancouver, ch. 1, § 32, pt. 16.(General Publisher, 1867)To regulate the storage and sale of gunpowder, or other combustible material, and to provide, by all possible and proper means, against danger or risk of damage by fire arising from carelessness, negligence or otherwise.Item Open Access 1869 Wash. Sess. Laws 203, An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments And Proceedings In Criminal Cases, ch. 2, § 31.(General Publisher, 1869)Every person who shall assault and beat another with a cowhide or whip, having with him at the time a pistol or other deadly weapon, shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the county jail not more than one year nor less than three months, and be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars.Item Open Access 1869 Wash. Sess. Laws 202, An Act Relative to Crimes and Punishments and Proceedings in Criminal Cases, ch. 2, §§ 22-23.(General Publisher, 1869)§ 22. Every person who shall engage in a duel with any deadly weapon, although no homicide ensue, or shall challenge another to fight a duel, or shall send or deliver any written or verbal message, purporting or intending to be such challenge, although no duel ensue, shall be imprisoned, on conviction thereof, in the penitentiary, not more than ten years, nor less than one year.Item Open Access 1869 Wash. Sess. Laws 203–04, ch. 2, § 32(General Publisher, 1869)Prohibited exhibiting, in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, a pistol, Bowie knife, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to $500.Item Open Access 1873 Wash. Sess. Laws 186, ch. 2, § 34(General Publisher, 1873)Prohibited displaying any pistol, Bowie-knife, or other dangerous weapon to a crowd of two or more pesons in a rude, angry, or threatening manner. Violators fined up to five hundred dollars and up to one year in jail.Item Open Access Walla Walla City Ordinance No. 2. An Ordinance Defining Offenses and Fixing the Punishment Thereof, §27 (16 Aug., 1878).(General Publisher, 1878)No person shall carry any concealed weapons within the corporate limits of the City of Walla Walla, and any person convicted thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than five or more than twenty-five dollars;Item Open Access 1881 Wash. Code 181, Criminal Procedure, Offenses Against Public Policy, ch. 73, § 929(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the carrying of “any concealed weapon.” Punishable by fine up to $100 or imprisonment up to 30 days.Item Open Access Richard A. Ballinger (Editor), Ballinger’s Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1956, § 7082 (Vol. 2, 1897)(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited exhibiting a dangerous weapon in a manner likely to cause terror. Punishable by fine up to $25.Item Open Access 1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 76, An Act to Confer a City Govt. on New Tacoma, ch. 6, § 34, pt. 15(General Publisher, 1881)Authorized New Tacoma to regulate transporting, storing, or selling gunpowder, giant powder, dynamite, nitroglycerine, or other combustibles without a license, as well as the carrying concealed deadly weapons, and the use of guns, pistols, firearms, firecrackers.Item Open Access 1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 121-22, An Act to Incorporate the City of Port Townsend, ch. 2, § 21.(General Publisher, 1881)The City of Port Townsend has power to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy, and . . . to regulate the transportation and keeping of gunpowder, or other combustibles, and to provide or license magazines for the same[.]Item Open Access William Lair Hill, Ballinger’s Annotated Codes and Statutes of Washington, Showing All Statutes in Force, Including the Session Laws of 1897, at 1956 (Vol. 2, 1897)(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited exhibiting a dangerous weapon in a manner likely to cause terror. Punishable by fine up to $25.Item Open Access 1881 Wash. Sess. Laws 93, An Act to Incorporate the City of Dayton, chap. 2, § 20.(General Publisher, 1881)The city of Dayton shall have power to prevent injury or annoyance from anything dangerous, offensive, or unhealthy, and . . . to regulate the transportation, storing and keeping of gunpowder and other combustibles and to provide or license magazines for the same[.]Item Open Access An Ordinance Relating to Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, Olympia City Council, Ordinance No. 152, § 5 (Washington, 1882).(General Publisher, 1882)That any person or persons who shall fire or explode any fire crackers boom5 torpedoes, or any other explosives within the City of Olympia without first obtaining Permission from the City Council shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars of or by imprisonment for not less than one nor more than ten days, or by both such fine and imprisonment Provided that this section shall not apply to using fire works on5 the public squares, The [???]6 and Marshville Bridges and all boats or crafts upon the waters of the sound within the corporate limits of the City..."