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Item Open Access Slaves, in Laws of the Arkansas Territory 521 (J. Steele & J. M’Campbell, Eds., 1835)(General Publisher, 1835)Prohibited any “slave or mulatto” from keeping or carrying a gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon.Item Open Access J. Steele (Editor), Laws of the Arkansas Territory 521 (1835), § 3 [Slaves](General Publisher, 1804)Prohibited any "slave or mulatto" from keeping or carrying a gun, powder, shot, club or other weapon of offensive or defensive nature. Violators shall be sentenced to lashes not exceeding thirty-nine.Item Open Access Ord. July 15, 1869; Ch. Dig., Sec. 426(General Publisher, 1869)Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, gun, fowling piece, pistol, or fire-arms of any description. Violators fined not less than two but no more than ten dollars.Item Open Access An Ordinance Concerning Slaves, and Free Negroes and Mulattos, § 1, ARKANSAS GAZETTE, Jan. 12, 1836, at 1 (Little Rock, Arkansas).(General Publisher, 1836)That no slave or free negro or mulatto whatsoever shall keep or carry, within the limits of said City, any gun, pistol or other fire arm of any kind whatsoever, or any knife, dirk, club or any weapon of offence or defence whatsoever, or any powder, balls or shot; and that any and every such weapon, and any and all such ammunition found in the possession or custody of any negro or mulatto, may be seized by any person,Item Open Access An Ordinance to Prevent the Firing of Guns, and Running of Horses, &c., §§ 1-2, THE ARKANSAS ADVOCATE, Mar. 7, 1832, at 4 (Little Rock, Arkansas).(General Publisher, 1832)Be it ordained by the Mayor and Town Council of the town of Little Rock, That if any free person shall wantonly fire or shoot off any gun, pistol, or other fire arms, within the bounds of the corporation of the town of Little Rock; or if any person shall run, gallop or canter, any horse, mare, gelding, mule, jack or jenny, through any of the public squares, streets or alleys, of said town, he or she, if free, shall on conviction before the Mayer of the town, forfeit and pay for each offence a sum not exceeding ten dollars, and shall moreover stand committed until the same be paid together with the attendant costs; and if a slave be guilty of any of the above offences, he or she shall, for each offence, receive on his or her bare back, ten stripes or lashes, to be well laid on by the town constable.Item Open Access ARK. CONST. of 1868, art. I, § 5 (retained in 1874 Ark. Const.).(General Publisher, 1868)Provided the people a right to keep and bear arms for their common defenseItem Open Access 1868 Ark. Acts 218, Acts of the General Assembly of Arkansas, § 13(General Publisher, 1868)Any person who draws a pistol, gun, or any other deadly weapon on any other person or citizen for the purpose of frightening or intimidation from lawful acts when not justified in self-defense. Violators guilty of a high misdemeanor, fined not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars, and imprisoned for twelve months.Item Open Access 1868 Ark. Acts 218, Acts of the General Assembly of Arkansas, § 12(General Publisher, 1868)Any person who threatens or draws a pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon upon a sheriff or other officer executing a civil or criminal process shall be deemed guilty of a felony, imprisoned in the pentitentiary not less than one nor more than five years.Item Open Access Josiah Gould, A Digest of the Statutes of Arkansas, Embracing All Laws of a General and Permanent Character in Force at the Close of the Session of the General Assembly of 1856: Together with Notes of the Decisions of the Supreme Court upon the Statutes, and an Appendix Containing Forms for Justices of the Peace Page 374-75(General Publisher, 1855)Prohibited hunting with a gun with intent to kill game or shoot for amusement on the Sabbath day. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.Item Open Access Revised Statutes of the State of Arkansas, Adopted at the October Session of the General Assembly of Said State, A.D. 1837, in the Year of Our Independence the Sixty second, and of the State of Second Year Page 587 § 18(General Publisher, 1838)Provided that every gun, rifle, weapon of any kind, ammunition found in the possession of any "free negro or mulatto" not having a license may be seized and violators fined not exceeding twenty dollars.