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 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 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 . . .Item Open Access Theodore Harris, Charter and Ordinances of the City of San Antonio. Comprising All Ordinances of a General Character in Force August 7th, at 220 (1899), Ordinances of the City of San Antonio, Ordinances, ch. 22, § 4(General Publisher, 1899)Prohibited drawing in a threatening manner a pistol, gun, knife, sword cane, club or any other instrument or weapon that may cause death.Item 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).Item Open Access 1933 Tex. Gen. Laws 219-20, 1st Called Sess., An Act Defining “Machine Gun” and “Person”; Making It an Offense to Possess or Use Machine Guns. . . , ch. 82, §§ 1-4, 6(General Publisher, 1933)Prohibited possession of a machine gun; punishable by imprisonment up to 10 years. Prohibited selling, leasing, giving, bartering, exchanging, or trading a machine gun; punishable by imprisonment for 2 months to 10 years.Item Open Access 1919 Tex. Gen. Laws 297-98, An Act to Preserve, Propagate, Distribute, and Protect the Wild Game, Wild Birds, Wild Fowl of the State . . . , ch. 157, § 42.(General Publisher, 1919)It shall be unlawful for any citizen of this State to hunt outside of the county of his residence with a gun without first having procured from the Game, Fish and Oyster Commissioner or one of his deputies or from the County Clerk of the County in which he resides a license to hunt, and for which he shall pay to the officer from whom he secures such license the sum of two ($2.00) dollars. . . Any person hunting any game or birds protected by the laws of the State, and who shall refuse to show his license herein provided for to any sheriff . . . on demand shall be deemed guilty of a violation of the provisions of this law, and any person violating any of the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined in a sum of not less than ten (10.00) dollars nor more than one hundred (100.00) dollars.