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Item Open Access 1838 Fla. Laws 70, An Act To Incorporate the City of Key West, § 8(General Publisher, 1838)Granted the common council of Key West the authority to regulate the safe storage of gun powder.Item Open Access John P. Duval, Compilation of the Public Acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, Passed Prior to 1840, at 423 (1839), An Act to Prevent any Person in this Territory from Carrying Arms Secretly(General Publisher, 1839)Prohibited the concealed carrying of “any dirk, pistol, or other arm, or weapon, except a common pocket- knife.” Punishable by fine of $50-500 or imprisonment for 1-6 months.Item Open Access Fla. Const., Art. I, § 21 (1838)(General Publisher, 1838)Provided a right to keep and bear arms for “the free white men of this State.”Item Open Access 1838 Fla. Laws 36, ch. 24(General Publisher, 1838)Required prospective vendors of dirks, pocket pistols, sword canes, or Bowie knives to pay an annual two-hundred dollar tax. Individuals who wish to carry the previously listed weapons are required to pay a ten dollar tax.Item Open Access No. 24. An act in addition to An Act, (approved January 30th, 1835,) entitled An Act to prevent any person in this Territory from carrying arms secretly, §1 (10 Feb., 1838).(General Publisher, 1838)it shall not be lawful for any person or persons in this Territory to vend dirks, pocket pistols, sword canes, or bowie knives, until he or they shall have first paid to the treasurer of the county in which he or they intend to vend weapons, a tax of two hundred dollars per annum, and all persons carrying said weapons openly shall pay to the officer aforesaid a tax of ten dollars per annum;Item Open Access Compilation of the Public Acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, Passed Prior to 1840 423 (1839), ch. 860(General Publisher, 1835)Prohibited the concealed carry of arms of any kind whatsoever. Also prohibited the carry of any dirk, pistol, or other arm, or weapon.Item Open Access An Act concerning patrols, in Compilation of the Public Acts of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Florida, Passed Prior to 1840, at 65 (John P. Duval ed., 1839)(General Publisher, 1833)Prohibited “any slave, free negro, or mulatto” from keeping any firearm in the home.Item Open Access Act of Feb. 17, 1833, ch. 671, 1833 Fla. Acts pp. 26, 30(General Publisher, 1833)Declared a duty of white patrols to search "negro houses or other suspected places for firearms. Violators punished by whipping, not to exceed thirty-nine strikes.Item Open Access Act of Jan. 31, 1831, 1831 Fla. Acts p. 30(General Publisher, 1831)Barred any "free negro or mulatto" from keeping or carrying a firelock, or military or other weapons, powder, or lead without obtaining a license. Licenses may be withdrawn at any time.