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The Texas Repository serves for historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the state of Texas. This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Texas's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.
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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 1871 Tex. Gen. Laws 14, An Act To Incorporate The Town Of Millican, County of Brazos, Art. 10(General Publisher, 1871)That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to fire any pistol, rifle, shot gun, or other kind of firearms, within the limits of the town of Millican, and any person violating this act shall be fined not less than five nor more then twenty-five dollars...Item Open Access Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Galveston, and All Ordinances in Force to April 2d, 1872, at 94, art. 418, § 26. (1873)(General Publisher, 1872)Every keeper of a pistol or rifle gallery, a tax of twenty-five dollarsItem Open Access An Ordinance Prohibiting the Unlawful Carrying of Arms, DAILY DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 29, 1880, at 4 (Austin, TX) §3(General Publisher, 1880)Any person violating §§ 1-2 above may be arrested without a warrant, and any policeman who shall fail to or refuses to arrest such person on his wn knowledge or upon information, shall be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars.Item Open Access An Ordinance Prohibiting the Unlawful Carrying of Arms, DAILY DEMOCRATIC STATESMAN, May 29, 1880, at 4 (Austin, TX) §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1880)Prohibited the carry on or about his person, saddle, or saddle bags in the city hall any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, brass knuckles, Bowie-knife, or other kind of knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense.Item Open Access 1889 Tex. Gen. Laws 36, Malicious Mischief, ch. 40, art. 683b(General Publisher, 1889)That any person who shall willfully or maliciously throw a stone or other missile or fire a gun or pistol at or into any coach or passenger car of a moving railway train, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum of not less than twenty-five dollars and not more than one thousand dollars.Item Open Access 1889 Tex. Gen. Laws 33, tit. 9, ch. 4, art. 338(General Publisher, 1889)Prohibited any person from carrying any pistol, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, sword-cane, spear, or knuckles mde of any metal or hard substance, Bowie knife, or any other knife manufactured or sold for purposes of offense or defense. Violators fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not less than ten nor more than thirty days, or both.Item Open Access An Act to Amend Militia Law, Chapter 16 [H. B. No. 515] in General Laws of the State of Texas Passed at the Regular Session of the Twenty-First Legislature (1889). Article 3294(General Publisher, 1889)And it shall not be lawful for any body of men whatsoever, other than the regularly organized volunteer guard, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to parade in public with arms in any part of the state, without the license of the governor therefor.