Texas
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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Texas. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Texas. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Texas.
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Item Open Access 1839 Tex. Gen. Laws 172, An Act Concerning Slaves, § 6(General Publisher, 1839)Prohibited any “slave” from carrying firearms or weapons without the consent of his master.Item Open Access 1839 Tex. Gen. Laws 214, An Act To Incorporate The City Of Austin, § 7(General Publisher, 1839)That the Mayor and Counsel shall have full power and authority ... to prevent gunpowder being stored within the city and suburbs in such quantities as to endanger the public safety. . .Item Open Access 1836 Tex. Gen. Laws 54-55, An Act to Provide for the National Defense by Organizing the Militia, § 1.(General Publisher, 1836)That every citizen so enrolled and notified, shall within ten days thereafter provide himself with a good musket, a sufficient bayonet and belt, six flints, knapsack and cartridge box, with twenty-four suitable ball cartridgesItem Open Access Revised Ordinances of the City of Victoria Texas, at 75, Revised Penal Ordinances: Discharging Firearms, § 1 (1899)(General Publisher, 1899)If any person shall discharge any gun, pistol or firearm of any description on or across any public square, street or alley, or elsewhere within the corporate limits of the City of Victoria, whether the premises on or across which such fire arm is discharged be public or private he shall be fined in any sum not to exceed ten dollars.Item Open Access 1871 Tex. Gen. Laws 14, An Act To Incorporate The Town Of Millican, County of Brazos, Art. 10(General Publisher, 1871)That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to fire any pistol, rifle, shot gun, or other kind of firearms, within the limits of the town of Millican, and any person violating this act shall be fined not less than five nor more then twenty-five dollars...Item Open Access Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of Mckinney Page 13, Image 14 (1899) Ordinance No. 20(General Publisher, 1899)If any person in the limits of the city of McKinney shall carry on or about his person, saddle, or in his saddle bags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear or knuckles made of any metal or of any hard substance Bowie knife or any other knife manufactured or sold for the purposes of offense or defense, he shall be punished by fine not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars.Item Open Access Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of Mckinney. Revised Page 40, Image 41 (1899)(General Publisher, 1899)That it shall be unlawful for any person, firm or corporation to have or keep stored within the limits of the city of McKinney, at any one time, more than four kegs either of blasting powder or gun powder nor a greater amount of any other high explosive than is reasonably necessary for one day’s business and none of the same shall be kept within the corporate limits of the city of McKinney for wholesale purposes at all.Item Open Access Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney Page 16, Image 17 (1899) [Ordinances of the City of McKinney,] Ordinance No. 26(General Publisher, 1899)Be it ordained by the city council of the city of McKinney: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to fire or shoot any gun, pistol, firecracker or any kind of fireworks or pyrotechnics in the corporate limits of the city of McKinneyItem Open Access Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney, Texas, Primary Sources Page 5, Image 6 (1899) Ordinances of the City of McKinney, Disturbance of the Peace, § 1.(General Publisher, 1899)That if any person shall go into or near any public place, or into or near any private house and shall use loud and vociferous or obscene, vulgar or indecent language or swear or curse, or yell or shriek or expose his person or rudely display any pistol or other deadly weapon in a manner calculated to disturb the inhabitants of such public place or private house, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1901 Tex. Gen. Laws 53-54, Spec. Sess., An Act to Incorporate the City of Fort Worth and to Grant a New Charter to Said City, ch. 7, § 140.(General Publisher, 1901)The city council shall also have and possess the following express powers. . . To prohibit and restrain, or to regulate the firing of firecrackers, guns and pistols . . .