Georgia

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The Georgia Collection serves as a comprehensive repository for academic and historical research related to the state of Georgia. It encompasses a wide range of materials, including scholarly studies, historical documents, and curated collections that highlight the cultural, social, and legal developments within the region.

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    1866 Ga. Laws 27-28, An Act to Authorize the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Camden, Glynn and Effingham Counties to Levy a Special Tax for County Purposes, and to regulate the same, §§ 3-4
    (General Publisher, 1866)
    Allowed these three counties to collect a tax of one dollar per gun or pistol, musket, or rifle over the number of three owned or kept on any plantation.
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    P. G. Rhome, By-Laws of the Corporation of Crawfordville, Georgia. Ordained January 20th, 1849 Page 8 (1849)
    (General Publisher, 1849)
    Prohibited shooting or discharging any pistol, gun, rifle, or other fire-arms within the corporate limits. Violators fined not less than twenty-five cents nor more than one dollar on the first offense. Upon the second offense, violators fined ot less than one dollar, nor more than two dollars, at the commissioners discretion.
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    Nuisances, § 5. MACON, A COMPILATION OF THE ORDINANCES (S. Rose & Co. 1862)
    (General Publisher, 1862)
    “SEC. 5. It shall not be lawful for any person to fire a gun, pistol, or any other fire arms, within three hundred yards of any house, except in cases of military parade; nor shall any person burn rockets, crackers, or any kind of fire works within the limits of the city. Any person so offending shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.”
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    Ordinance Against Carrying Deadly Weapons, MACON, A COMPILATION OF THE ORDINANCES (S. Rose & Co. 1862).
    (General Publisher, 1862)
    That any white person who shall violate the Statutes of the State of Georgia now in force, relative to carrying about his or her person any deadly weapon mentioned in said Statutes, within the limits of the City of Macon, shall, for each offence, on proof thereof before the Mayor of said city, be fined by said Mayor in a sum of not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the common Jail of Bibb county or the Guard House of said city, for any period not exceeding one month, or both fined and imprisoned as aforesaid, in the discretion of the Mayor. And any slave or free person of color who shall carry about his or her person any deadly weapon of any description—such as are manufactured for purposes of offence or defence—within the limits of said city, shall be punished by whipping and imprisonment in the Guard House of said city, at the discretion of the Mayor—the whipping not to exceed seventy-five lashes, and the imprisonment not to exceed thirty days.”
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    A Compilation of the Acts of the Legislature Incorporating the City of Macon, Georgia, and of the Ordinances, Passed by the City Council of Macon, to the 14th February, 1858, Now of Force Page 48, § 5
    (General Publisher, 1858)
    It shall not be lawful for any person to fire a gun, pistol, or any other fire arms, within three hundred yards of any house, except in cases of military parade; nor shall any person burn rockets, crackers, or any kind of fireworks within the limits of the city. Any person so offending shall be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty dollars.
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    Charter and Ordinances of the City of Macon (1853) Page 38, § 5
    (General Publisher, 1853)
    Prohibited the discharge of a gun, pistol, or any other fire-arms within three hundred yards of any house. Also prohibited burning rockets, crackers, or any kind of fireworks within the limits of the city. Violators fined not exceeding twenty dollars.
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    Ga. Const. of 1868, art. I, § 14
    (General Publisher, 1868)
    Provided that a well-regulated militia was necessary to the security of a free people, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. However, the legislature has the power to prescribe by law the manner in which arms may be worn.
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    R. H. Clark, The Code of the State of Georgia Page 873 (1867) § 4443
    (General Publisher, 1866)
    Prohibited deliberately challenging or accepting a duel with a sword, pistol, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than five hundred dollars and imprisoned for any time not exceeding six months.
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    Richard H. Clark, The Code of the State of Georgia Page 859 (1861) § 4413
    (General Publisher, 1861)
    Prohibited carrying concealed any pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, bowie-knife or any other kind of knife manufactured for the purposes of offense or defense. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor fined and imprisoned at the courts discretion.
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    Ga. Code §4413 (1861)
    (General Publisher, 1861)
    Prohibited conceal carry of any pistol, dirk, sword-cane, spear, Bowie-knife, or any other kids of knives manufactured for offense or defense. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor

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