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The District of Columbia Repository is dedicated to preserving historical, academic, and cultural materials related to Washington, D.C. This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore the city's development, governance, culture, and its significant contributions to the nation's history.

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The Compiled Statutes in Force in the District of Columbia including the Acts of the Second Session of the Congress 1887-'89, William Stone Albert & Benjamin G. comps., 178 1894 (Act of July 20, 1871)
(General Publisher, 1871)
It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to carry or have concealed about their persons any deadly or dangerous. weapons, such as daggers, air-guns, pistols, bowie-knives, dirk- knives, or dirks, razors, razor-blades, sword-canes, slung-shots, or brass or other metal knuckles, within the District of Columbia;
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An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, Aug. 10, 1871, reprinted in Laws of the District of Columbia: 1871-1872, Part II, 33 (1872) (Dist. of Col., An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, 1871, ch. XXV)
(General Publisher, 1871)
Prohibited the carrying or having concealed “any deadly or dangerous weapons, such as daggers, air-guns, pistols, Bowie knives, dirk-knives, or dirks, razors, razor-blades, sword-canes, slungshots, or brass or other metal knuckles.” Punishable by forfeiture of the weapon and a fine of $20-50.
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An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Firearms, Ordinances of the Corporation of Georgetown (1859).
(General Publisher, 1859)
it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to have about their persons any concealed deadly or dangerous weapons, such as daggers, pistols, bowie-knives, dirk-knives, colt, slung-shots, or brass or other metallic knuckles, within the limits of this Corporation
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1 William B. Webb The Laws of the Corporation of the of Washington Digested and Arranged under Appropriate in Accordance with a Joint Resolution of the City 418 (1868), Act of Nov. 18, 1858.
(General Publisher, 1858)
It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to carry or have concealed about their persons any deadly or dangerous weapons, such as dagger, pistol, bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, colt, slungshot, or brass or other metal knuckles within the City of Washington
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“Ordinances of the Corporation of Georgetown, 1801, October 24th, Sect. 2”, The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848 50 (New York, 1848)
(General Publisher, 1801)
Prohibited “any servant or slave” from shooting any gun or other firearms.
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An Ordinance to prevent shooting with guns, or other fire-arms. Georgetown, D.C. (1801).
(General Publisher, 1801)
[I]t shall not be lawful for any person to shoot with any gun, or other fire-arm, within any of the inhabited parts of Georgetown or its additions; and if any person shall, contrary to this ordinance, shoot any gun or other fire-arm, such person shall forfeit and pay five dollars for every offence, to be recovered as other fines are now by law recoverable, the one half to the use of the Corporation, and the other half to the use of the informer.

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