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Item Open Access 1911 Fla. Laws 268-69, An Act Regulating the Manner of Catching Fish in the Fresh Water Lakes and Streams of Leon County, and Providing Punishment for Violations of this Act, ch. 6283, § 1(General Publisher, 1911)Prohibited fishing in the freshwater lakes and steams of Leon county with any seine, net, basket, trap, gun speer or gig. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1899 Fla. Laws 280 § 33(General Publisher, 1899)Granted the city council the authority to regulate the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, resin, saltpeter, gun-cotton, coal oil, and all other combustibles, explosives, and inflammable materials. Also the use of lights, candles, lamps, and steam pipes in all stables, shops, and other places.Item Open Access 1913 Fla. 117, An Act to Regulate the Hunting of Wild Deer etc., § 8(General Publisher, 1913)Prohibited hunting wild game with automatic guns.Item Open Access 1905 Fla. Laws 87, An Act to Amend Sections . . . of the Revised Statutes of 1892, Relating to Breaking and Entering a Dwelling House. . ., Chap. 5411, § 2434(General Publisher, 1905)Enhanced the sentence of anyone breaking and entering a dwelling house or structure within the curtilage of the dwelling house with intent to commit a felony, or gaining such such intent after entering, and is armed with a dangerous weapon, nitroglycerine, dynamite, gunpowder, or other high explosive, or takes possession of such items, or assaults any person inside. Violators punished by life in prison, or for such term of years as may be determined by the court.Item Open Access 1901 Fla. Laws 262, § 33.(General Publisher, 1901)That the Council shall have power . . . to regulate or suppress the sale and use of fire-crackers and all other fire-works, toy pistols, air-guns and sling shots; to regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, rosin, saltpetre, gun-cotton, coal-oil and all other combustibles, explosives and inflammable materialItem Open Access 1901 Fla. Laws 57, ch. 4928.(General Publisher, 1901)Amended 1893 Fla. Laws 71, ch. 4147 to include licensing for carrying concealed handguns. Violators fined one hundred dollars or jailed for thirty days.Item Open Access 1899 Fla. Laws 93, An Act for the Better Protection of Passengers on Railway Trains in the State of Florida, ch. 4701, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1899)Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, or other firearm on any passenger train. Also prohibited reckless handle of any firearm or other weapon in the present of any other person on a train carrying passengers. Violators punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both at discretion of the court.Item Open Access 1897 Fla. Laws 59, An Act to Punish the Improper Exhibition of Dangerous Weapons, chap. 4532, § 1(General Publisher, 1897)Prohibited brandishing any dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword-cane, gun, pistol, or other deadly weapon in a rude, careless, angry, or threatening manner not in self defense. Violators shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollar, or both.Item Open Access 1895 Fla. Laws 14(General Publisher, 1895)No merchant, store-keeper or dealer shall keep for sale or sell pistols, Springfield rifles, repeating rifles, bowie knives or dirk knives, without first paying a license tax of ten dollars; Provided, Said pistols, Springfield rifles, repeating rifles, bowie knives or dirk knives, shall not be sold to minors.Item Open Access 1893 Fla. Laws 71, ch. 4147(General Publisher, 1893)Required a license to carry a Winchester or other repeating rifle. Licenses to cost a one hundred dollar bond. Violators shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or sixty days in jail.