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 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 Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Galveston, and All Ordinances in Force to April 2d, 1872, at 94, art. 418, § 26. (1873)(General Publisher, 1872)Every keeper of a pistol or rifle gallery, a tax of twenty-five dollarsItem Open Access 1879 Tex. Crim. Stat. tit. IX, Ch. 4, Art. 320(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited carry of a pistol, other firearm, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass-knuckles, bowie-knife, or any other kind of a knife manufactured and sold for the purposes of offense and defense into any church, religious assembly, school room, or other place where persons are assembled for amusement or for educational or scientific purposes, or into any circus, show, or public exhibition of any kind, or into a ball-room. Violators fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars and shall forfeit the weapon.Item Open Access Revised Ordinances of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, 1873-1884, at 113-14, An Ordinance defining and punishing affrays and Disturbances of the Peace, § 2 (1885)(General Publisher, 1879)If any person shall go into any public place, or into or near any private house, or along any public street or highway near any private house, and shall use loud and vociferous, or obscene, vulgar, or indecent language, or swear or curse, or expose his person, or rudely display any pistol or other deadly weapon in such public place, or upon such public street or highway, or near such private house, in a manner calculated to disturb the inhabitants thereof, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1876 Tex. Gen. Laws 29, An Act To Incorporate The City Of Galveston And to Grant A New Charter, Tit. 7, Art. II, § 108(General Publisher, 1876)To direct, control and prohibit the keeping and management of houses, or any building for the storing of gun-powder and other combustible, explosive or dangerous materials, within the city; to regulate the keeping and conveying of the same, and the use of candles and other lights in stables and other like houses.Item Open Access Tex. Const. of 1876, Art. I, § 23(General Publisher, 1876)Declared every citizen to have the right to bear arms in defense of themselves or the state, but the legislature shall have power to regulate the bearing of arms to prevent crime.Item Open Access 2 A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF TEXAS: CONTAINING THE LAWS IN FORCE, AND THE REPEALED LAWS ON WHICH RIGHTS REST, FROM 1754 TO 1874, at 1323 (George W. Paschal ed., 4th ed. 1874).(General Publisher, 1874)Prohibited any person from carrying a pistol, other firearm, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass-knuckles, bowie-knife, or any other kind of knife manufactured and sold for offense or defense into any church, religious assembly, school room, other place where persons are assembled for amusement, educational, or scientific purposes, or into a ball-room, social party, or social gathering, or any election precinct on the day of election, or places of muster or other public duty, or to any other public assembly. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not les than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars with forfeiture of the weapon on first offense. Further offenses may also be imprisoned not more than ninety days.Item Open Access 2 GEORGE WASHINGTON PASCHAL, A DIGEST OF THE LAWS OF TEXAS: CONTAINING LAWS IN FORCE, AND THE REPEALED LAWS ON WHICH RIGHTS REST. CAREFULLY ANNOTATED. 1322 (3d ed. 1873)(General Publisher, 1873)Prohibited entry into any church, religious assembly, school-room, or other place where persons are assembled for educational, literary, or scientific purposes, or into a ball room, social party, or other social gathering, composed of ladies and gentlemen, or to any election precinct on the day of an election, where people may be mustered for public duty or public assembly while armed with a Bowie-knife, dirk, butcher-knife, or any firearms known as a six-shooter, gun, or pistol of any kind. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor and fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars at the discretion of the court.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 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.
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