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Item Open Access 1839 Tex. Gen. Laws 172, An Act Concerning Slaves, § 6(General Publisher, 1839)Prohibited any “slave” from carrying firearms or weapons without the consent of his master.Item Open Access 1839 Tex. Gen. Laws 214, An Act To Incorporate The City Of Austin, § 7(General Publisher, 1839)That the Mayor and Counsel shall have full power and authority ... to prevent gunpowder being stored within the city and suburbs in such quantities as to endanger the public safety. . .Item Open Access 1836 Tex. Gen. Laws 54-55, An Act to Provide for the National Defense by Organizing the Militia, § 1.(General Publisher, 1836)That every citizen so enrolled and notified, shall within ten days thereafter provide himself with a good musket, a sufficient bayonet and belt, six flints, knapsack and cartridge box, with twenty-four suitable ball cartridgesItem Open Access Tex. Const., Art. I, § 13 (1869)(General Publisher, 1869)Declared everyone shall have the right to keep and bear arms, subject to regulations as the legislature "may prescribe."Item Open Access George Washington Paschal, A Digest of the Laws of Texas: Containing Laws in Force, and the Repealed Laws on Which Rights Rest. Carefully Annotated 3rd ed., at 1321, An Act to Prohibit the Discharging of Firearms in Certain Places Therein Named, Art. 6508a (Vol. 2, 1873)(General Publisher, 1867)It shall not be lawful for any person to discharge any gun, pistol, or firearms of any description whatever, on, or across any public square, street, or alley, in any city or town in this stateItem Open Access 1866 Tex. Gen. Laws 210, An Act To Prohibit The Discharging Of Fire Arms In Certain Places Herein Named, chap. 170, § 1(General Publisher, 1866)It shall not be lawful for any person to discharge any gun, pistol, or fire arms of any description whatever, on, or across any public square, street, or alley, in any city or town in this state; Provided this act shall not be so construed as to apply to the "outer town," or suburbs, of any city or town.Item Open Access George Washington Paschal, A Digest of the Laws of Texas: Containing Laws in Force, and the Repealed Laws on Which Rights Rest. Carefully Annotated, at 1321, An Act to Amend Article 382, Title XI, Chapter 3 of the Penal Code. Art. 6509 (Vol. 2, 1873)(General Publisher, 1866)if any one or more persons shall, in any public place, by loud and vociferous talking, swearing, or rudely displaying any pistol, or other deadly weapon, so as to disturb the inhabitants of the place in the prosecution of their lawful business, any person engaged in such disturbance shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars.Item Open Access Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897. Austin’s Colonization Law and Contract; Mexican Constitution of 1824; Federal Colonization Law; Colonization Laws of Coahuila and Texas; Colonization Law of State of Tamaulipas; Fredonian Declaration of Independence; Laws and Decrees, with Constitution of Coahuila and Texas; San Felipe Convention; Journals of the Consultation; Proceedings of the General Council; Goliad Declaration of Independence; Journals of the Convention at Washington; Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation; Declaration of Independence; Constitution of the Republic; Laws, General and Special, of the Republic; Annexation Resolution of the United Sates; Ratification of the same by Texas; Constitution of the United States; Constitutions of the State of Texas, with All the Laws, General and Special passed thereunder, Including Ordinances, Decrees, and Resolutions, with the Constitution of the Confederate States and the Reconstruction Acts of Congress., at 1140, An Act Amendatory of an Act to punish certain offences committed on Sunday, § 3 (Vol. 5, 1898)(General Publisher, 1863)That any person or persons who shall engage in hunting game, either with gun or dogs, or otherwise, on Sunday, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollarsItem Open Access Hans Peter Mareus Neilsen Gammel, The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897. Austin’s Colonization Law and Contract; Mexican Constitution of 1824; Federal Colonization Law; Colonization Laws of Coahuila and Texas; Colonization Law of State of Tamaulipas; Fredonian Declaration of Independence; Laws and Decrees, with Constitution of Coahuila and Texas; San Felipe Convention; Journals of the Consultation; Proceedings of the General Council; Goliad Declaration of Independence; Journals of the Convention at Washington; Ordinances and Decrees of the Consultation; Declaration of Independence; Constitution of the Republic; Laws, General and Special, of the Republic; Annexation Resolution of the United Sates; Ratification of the same by Texas; Constitution of the United States; Constitutions of the State of Texas, with All the Laws, General and Special passed thereunder, Including Ordinances, Decrees, and Resolutions, with the Constitution of the Confederate States and the Reconstruction Acts of Congress., at 121, An Act Authorizing the Corporate Authorities of the Town of Dangerfield, Fairfield and Springfield, to tax ten pin alleys, billiard tables and pistol galleries, § 1(Vol. 5, 1898)(General Publisher, 1860)That the corporate authorities of the Town of Dangerfield, in Titus county, Fairfield, in Freestone county, and Springfield in Limestone county, Texas, be and they are hereby authorized to levy a tax, of not more than five hundred dollars per annum, on ten pin alleys, billiard tables or pistol galleries, to be paid before any such alley, table or gallery is put in operation.Item Open Access Tex. Penal Code arts. 611–12 (enacted Aug. 28, 1856), in 1 A DIGEST OF THE GENERAL STATUTE LAWS OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: TO WHICH ARE SUBJOINED THE REPEALED LAWS OF THE REPUBLIC AND STATE OF TEXAS (Williamson S. Oldham & George W. White, comp.) 458 (1859)(General Publisher, 1859)If one commits a killing with a Bowie-knife or dagger that would render a homicide manslaughter, that killing shall be deemed a murder.