Montana
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This collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic research, historical documentation, and case studies related to Montana. It focuses on the historical evolution, cultural developments, and legal frameworks within the state of Montana. This collection offers valuable resources for scholars, researchers, and individuals interested in the rich heritage and historical significance of Montana.
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Item Open Access 1864 Mont. Laws 355, An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons in the Cities and Towns of This Territory, § 1(General Publisher, 1864)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed “any pistol, bowie -knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon” within any town or village in the territory. Punishable by fine of $25-100.Item Open Access 1864 Mont. Laws 355, § 1 [Deadly weapons](General Publisher, 1865)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than twenty-five but no more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1864 Montana Acts 182 § 35(General Publisher, 1864)Prohibited dueling and killing a person with a rifle, shotgun, pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, small sword, backsword, or other dangerous weapon. Violators guilty of murder in the first degree.Item Open Access 1874 Mont. Laws 46, An Act to Prevent Parties from Shooting within the Limits of Towns and Private Enclosures, § 1 (1873)(General Publisher, 1873)That it shall be unlawful for any person to fire any gun, pistol or any fire-arm, of whatever description, within the limits of any town, city, or village in this territory, or within the limits of any private enclosure which shall contain a dwelling house.Item Open Access 1879 Mont. Laws 359, ch. 4, § 23(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited dueling and killing a person involved with a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, small-sword, back-sword, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by death by hanging.Item Open Access 1885 Mont. Laws 74-75, Deadly Weapons, An Act to Amend § 62 of Chapter IV of the Fourth Division of the Revised Statutes, § 1(General Publisher, 1885)Prohibited possessing, carrying, or purchasing a dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon, and from using the weapon in a threatening manner or in a fight. Punishable by fine of $10-100 and/or imprisonment for 1-3 months.Item Open Access 1887 Mont. Laws 549, Criminal Laws, § 174(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited the carrying of a any pistol, gun, knife, dirk-knife, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault a person. Punishable by fine up to $100 or imprisonment up to 3 months.Item Open Access 1887 Mont. Laws 68, Extraordinary Session, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled An Act Concerning the Storage of Gunpowder, § 2.(General Publisher, 1887)No person, company, or corporation shall store, deposit or keep within the limits of any city, town or village, gunpowder, nitroglycerine, guncotton, dynamite, and other dangerous or powerful explosives exceeding fifty pounds, and no magazine or storehouse where such explosives are stored or kept, shall hereafter be located nearer than one-half mile from such city, town or villageItem Open Access 1888 Mont. Comp. Stat. 513, ch. 4, § 66.(General Publisher, 1888)It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of any city, town or village in this territory, to bear concealed upon his person any dirk, dagger, pistol, revolver, or other deadly weapon.Item Open Access 1903 Mont. Laws 135-36, An Act to Amend Section 908 of Chapter I Title VIII Part IV Division I of the Civil Code of Montana, and to Repeal Section 689 of the Penal Code, ch. 66, § 1.(General Publisher, 1903)If any railroad corporation within this State shall . . . transport within this State on any of its passenger cars, any oil of vitrol, gun powder, Lucifer matches, nitro glycerine, glynon oil, nytroleum or blasting oil, or nitrates oil, or powder mixed with any such oil, or fiber saturated therewith, or duolin or giant powder, or blasting powder, or any other goods in a dangerous nature . . . shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,Item Open Access 1903 Mont. Laws at 49 Ch. 35, § 3(General Publisher, 1903)Prohibited entering 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 exhbition of any kind, or into a ball room, socila party, or social gathering, or to any election precinct or any place of registration, on the day or days of any election or registration, where people of the State are collected to register or vote on any election. Prohibited weapons included pistol, other firearms, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword cane, knuckles, or Bowie knife. Violators punished by not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1907 Mont. Laws 260, ch. 107, § 1(General Publisher, 1907)Any person who enters a building belonging to another with intent to commit a felony or other crime by the use of nitro glycerine, dynamite, gun powder or other high explosives or who commits a burglary by the use of such explosives is guilty of burglary with explosives. § 2 Burglary with explosives is punishable by imprisonment in State Prison for not less than fifteen years, and not more than forty years.Item Open Access 1913 Mont. Laws 53, An Act to Provide that Aliens Shall Pay a Gun License, and Providing a Penalty for Failure to Obtain License; to Provide for and Regulate the Duties of the Game and Fish Warden and His Deputies, and to Provide for the Disposition of the Fines so Collected, ch. 38, § 1(General Publisher, 1913)Required noncitizens to obtain a license (costing $25) from the Game and Fish Warden before possessing a firearm; license valid for one year; provision does not apply to: (1) individuals who have purchased hunting license; (2) state residents owning at least 160 acres of land; (3) settlers on public land beginning to acquire land under federal law; or (4) persons engaged in tending or herding sheep or other animals.Item Open Access 1913 Mont. Sess. Laws 53, An Act to Provide that Aliens Shall Pay a Gun License, and Providing a Penalty for Failure to Obtain License; to Provide for and Regulate the Duties of the Game and Fish Warden and His Deputies, and to Provide for the Disposition of the Fines so Collected, ch. 38, § 1.(General Publisher, 1913)No person not a bona fide citizen of the United States shall own or have in his possession, in the State of Montana, any gun, pistol or other firearm without first having obtained from the Game and Fish Warden a license therefor, which said license shall cost the owner of said firearm the sum of Twenty-five ($25) Dollars, and shall expire one year from date of issuance thereof;Item Open Access 1917 Mont. Laws 179-80, ch. 109, § 2.(General Publisher, 1917)It shall be unlawful for any person at any time to hunt, trap, kill, capture, chase or molest any game animals or game birds whatever within the limits of said game preserve, or to discharge any firearms or to create any unusual disturbance tending to frighten or drive away any game animals or any game birds within said preserve;Item Open Access 1918 Mont. Laws 6-7,9, ch. 2, §§ 1, 3, 8.(General Publisher, 1918)Within thirty days from the passage and approval of this Act, every person within the State of Montana, who owns or has in his possession any fire arms or weapons shall make a full, true, and complete verified report upon the form hereinafter provided to the sheriff of the County in which such person lives, of all fire arms and weapons which are owned or possessed by him or her or are in his or her control, and on sale or transfer into the possession of any other person such person shall immediately forward to the sheriff of the County in which such person lives the name and address of that purchaser and person into whose possession or control such fire arm or weapon was delivered. § 3. Any person signing a fictitious name or address or giving any false information in such report shall be guilty of misdemeanor, and any person failing to file such report as in this Act provided, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. § 8. For the purpose of this Act a fire arm or weapon shall be deemed to be any revolver, pistol, shot gun, rifle, dirk, dagger, or sword.Item Open Access Chapter 22—Concealed Weapons, §§ 526-534 in Codified Ordinances of the City of Anaconda (1905)(General Publisher, 1905)It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of the City of Anaconda to carry or wear under his clothes or concealed about his person, any pistol, revolver, slung-shot, cross-knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, bowie knife, dirk knife or dirk, razor or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Also provided licensure requirements and other information regarding concealed carryItem Open Access Concealed Weapons, Ordinance No. 4 of The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Helena, § 1 (1883)(General Publisher, 1883)No person shall in this city wear under his clothes, or concealed on or about his person, any pistol or revolver, except by special permission from the mayor; nor shall any person wear under his clothes, or concealed on or about his person, any slung shot, cross knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or any bowie knife, razor, billy, dirk, dirk-knife or dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item Open Access Laws, Memorials, and Resolutions of the Territory of Montana, passed at the Seventh Session of the Legislative Assembly, begun at Virginia City, Monday, December 4, 1871, and Concluded January 12, 1872, at 562, ch. 63, § 1(General Publisher, 1872)It shall be the duty of any keeper of the arsenal, military stores, ammunition, arms and ordnance belonging to this territory . . . to report to the governor in writing the amount of such military stores and ammunition, and a list and description of such arms and ordinance in his possession and within his knowledgeItem Open Access Laws, Memorials, and Resolutions, of the Territory of Montana, Passed at the Seventh Session of the Legislative Assembly, Begun at Virginia City, Monday, December 4, 1871, and Concluded January 12, 1872, at 279, ch. 4, § 59 (1872)(General Publisher, 1872)If any person shall assault and beat another with a cowhide, stick, or whip, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with an attempt to intimidate and prevent the person assaulted from defending himself, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the territorial prison not less than one nor more than ten years.