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 1887 Tex. Gen. Laws 7, ch. 9(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited any person from carrying on his person, saddle, or in his saddlebags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword cane, spear, or knuckles made of any metal or any hard substance, Bowie knife, or any other kind of knfie manufactured or sold for purposes of offense of defense.Item Open Access 1889 Tex. Gen. Laws 33, tit. 9, ch. 4, art. 338(General Publisher, 1889)Prohibited any person from carrying any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, or knuckles mde of any metal or hard substance, Bowie knife, or any other knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense. Violators fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or both.Item Open Access 1909 Tex. Spec. Laws 270, ch. 7, § 18(General Publisher, 1909)Power to prevent and suppress riots, affrays, noise, breach of the peace, assaults, disturbances or disorderly assembly in any public or private place within the limits of said city, and to provide punishment therefor; to prohibit and restrain the firing of guns, and pistols in the city limits, and to prohibit and restrain the carrying of pistols.Item Open Access Charter of the City of Dallas, § 84, DALLAS, CHARTER OF THE CITY (John F. Worley 1899).(General Publisher, 1899)The city council shall have full power and authority by ordinance to regulate, control and prohibit the carrying of firearms and other weapons within the city limits, and is hereby empowered to provide and inflict the same punishment therefor as is now or hereafter may be provided by the State law against persons unlawfully carrying weapons.”Item Open Access George Washington Paschal, A Digest of the Laws of Texas: Containing Laws in Force, and the Repealed Laws on Which Rights Rest Page, at 1321-22, An Act to Prohibit the Carrying of Firearms on Premises or Plantations of Any Citizen Without the Consent of the Owner, Art. 6510. (Vol. 2, 1873)(General Publisher, 1873)It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to carry firearms on the enclosed premises or plantation of any citizen, without the consent of the owner or proprietor, other than in the lawful discharge of a civil or military duty, and any person or persons so offending shall be fined a sum not less than one nor more than ten dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail not less than ten days, or both, in the discretion of the court or jury before whom the trial is had.Item Open Access George Washington Paschal, A Digest of the Laws of Texas: Containing Laws in Force, and the Repealed Laws on Which Rights Rest, at 1322-24, An Act to Regulate the Keeping and Bearing of Deadly Weapons, Art. 6512. (Vol. 2, 1873)(General Publisher, 1871)Any person carrying on or about his person, saddle, or in his saddle-bags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass-knuckles, bowie-knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured or sold for the purpose of offense or defense, unless be has reasonable grounds for fearing an unlawful attack on his person, and that such ground of attack shall be immediate and pressing; or unless having or carrying the same on or about his person for the lawful defense the state, as a militiaman in actual service, or as a peace officer or policeman, shall be guilty of a misdemeanorItem Open Access Ordinances of the Council of the City of Dallas and Annual Reports of City Officers from October 1st, 1886 to June 25th, 1888, at 80, An Ordinance Prohibiting and Punishing the Unlawful Carrying of Arms, § 1 (1888)(General Publisher, 1887)Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Dallas, that if any person in the City of Dallas shall carry on or about his person, saddle, or in his saddle-bags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, slungshot, sword- cane, spear, or knuckles made of any metal or hard substance, bowie knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense, he shall be punished by fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars and shall be confined in the city prison not less than twenty nor more than sixty days.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 Ordinances of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, 1873-1884, at 206, An Ordinance in Regard to Carrying Deadly Weapons, § 1 (1885)(General Publisher, 1873)That it shall be unlawful for any person to carry about his person any pistol, Bowie knife or other deadly or unlawful weapon while within the corporate limits of this cityItem Open Access Theodore Harris, Charter and Ordinances of the City of San Antonio. Comprising All Ordinances of a General Character in Force August 7th, 1899, at 183-184, Concealed Weapons, § 1 (1899)(General Publisher, 1899)If any person, within the corporate limits of the city of San Antonio, shall carry on or about his or her person, saddle, or in his saddle bags, any pistol, dirk, dagger, sling shot, sword cane, spear, or knuckles made of any metal or any hard substance, bowie knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense, he or she shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) nor more than two hundred dollars ($200.00).