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Item Open Access 1799 Miss. Laws 113, A Law for The Regulation of Slaves(General Publisher, 1799)Prohibited any “Negro or mulatto” from carrying gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon. Also prohibits a “negro or mulatto” from possessing a gun, weapon, or ammunition.Item Open Access 1799–1800 Miss. Laws 44(General Publisher, 1799)Prohibited any “Negro or mulatto” from carrying gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon. Also prohibits a “negro or mulatto” from possessing a gun, weapon, or ammunition.Item Open Access 1804 Miss. Laws 90-91, An Act Respecting Slaves, § 4(General Publisher, 1804)Prohibited any “Slave” from keeping or carrying any gun, powder, shot, club, weapon, or ammunition.Item Open Access 1814 Terr. of Miss. Laws 16, An Act To Authorize The Governor Of Mississippi Territory, To Accept Of The Services Of Citizens Exempted From Militia Duty, § 2(General Publisher, 1814)Immediately on the governor’s acceptance of any number of volunteers, by virtue of this act, each private shall proceed to provide himself with a good rifle, musket or shot gun with four flints, twenty rounds of powder, ball, or buckshot, best suited to his gun, together with the most convenient accoutrements. The commissioned officers shall be armed with swords; and the arms and accoutrements of all such volunteers shall be exempted from executions in payment of debts and their persons, when on service, free from arrest in civil cases.Item Open Access 1818 Miss. Acts 220, Supplemental to an Act to erect the town of Netchez into a city, and to incorporate the same, § 2.(General Publisher, 1818)That said president and select men, shall and may, from time to time, pass ordinances to regulate the keeping, carting and transporting gun powder or other combustible or dangerous materials[.]Item Open Access 1833 Miss. Law 231, An Act To Amend An Act Entitled An Act To Incorporate The Town Of Gallatin . . . , ch. 98, § 3.(General Publisher, 1833)That every person who shall willfully run any horse or fire any gun or pistol within said corporation, shall for the first offence, pay the sum of five dollars, and for the second offence, shall pay ten dollars, and double that for any other offence, to be recovered before the President of the Selectmen of said town; Provided, That no person shall be liable to the penalties for shooting, when the same may be accidental or necessary.Item Open Access 1837 Miss. Laws 736-37, An Act To Prevent The Evil Practice Of Dueling In This State And For Other Purposes, § 5.(General Publisher, 1837)Prohibited the use of any rifle, shotgun, sword cane, pistol, dirk, dirk knife, Bowie knife, or any other deadly weapon in a fight in which one of the combatants was killed, and the exhibition of any dirk, dirk knife, Bowie knife, sword, sword cane, or other deadly weapon in a rude or threatening manner that was not in necessary self-defense. Punishable by liability to decedent and a fine of up to $500 and imprisonment for up to 3 months.Item Open Access 1839 Miss. L. 385-86, ch. 168, § 5(General Publisher, 1839)Authorized the town of Emery to enact restrictions on the carrying of dirks, Bowie knives, or pistols.Item Open Access 1840 Miss. L. 181, ch. 111, § 5(General Publisher, 1840)Authorized the town of Hernando to enact restrictions on the carrying of dirks, Bowie knives, or pistols.Item Open Access 1841 Miss. Laws 52, ch. 1, § 1(General Publisher, 1841)Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife.Item Open Access 1850 Miss. Laws 43, ch. 1, § 1(General Publisher, 1850)Imposed an annual property tax of 50 cents on each Bowie knife.Item Open Access 1854 Miss. Laws 49–50, ch. 1, § 1(General Publisher, 1854)Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife, Arkansas toothpick, sword cane, and dueling or pocket pistol.Item Open Access 1856-1857 Miss. L. 36, ch. 1(General Publisher, 1856)Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife, dirk knife, or sword cane.Item Open Access 1856–1857 Miss. Laws 35 - 36, § 3, art. 10(General Publisher, 1856)Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife, dirk knife, or sword cane.Item Open Access 1857 Rev. Code of the Stat. Laws of the State of Miss. 610, § 48, art. 229.(General Publisher, 1857)f any person shall be found hunting with a gun, on the Sabbath, he shall, on convicted thereof, be fined not less than five, nor more than twenty dollars.Item Open Access 1861–62 Miss. Laws 134, ch. 125 (Dec. 19, 1861)(General Publisher, 1861)Prohibited any Sheriff or Tax-Collector to collect from any tax payer the tax previously assessed upon any Bowie-knife, sword-cane, or dirk-knife. None of the above items shall be given to tax assessors as taxable property.Item Open Access 1867 Miss. Laws 327-28, ch. 249, § 1.(General Publisher, 1867)[A] tax of not less than five dollars or more than fifteen dollars shall be levied and assessed annually by the board of Police of Washington county upon every gun and pistol which may be in the possession of any person in said county,Item Open Access 1867 Miss. Laws 412, ch. 317(General Publisher, 1867)Imposed property tax on several arms. Every pistol has more than one barrel or revolver, two dollars. On every single barrel pistol, one dollar. On each rifle, shotgun, army gun, fifty cents. On each and every Bowie-knife, sword-cane, or dirk, two dollars.Item Open Access 1871 Miss. Laws 819–20, ch. 33, art. 3, § 1(General Publisher, 1871)Imposed property tax on pistols, dirks, Bowie knives, and sword canes.Item Open Access 1871 Rev. Code of the Stat. Laws of the State of Mississippi 559-60, ch. 58, art. 13, §§ 2531-2535.(General Publisher, 1871)Every person, who shall challenge another to fight a duel, or who shall send, deliver, or cause to be delivered, any written or verbal messages, purporting or intended to be such challenge, or who shall accept any such challenge or message, or who shall knowingly carry or deliver any such message or challenge, or who shall be present at the time of fighting any duel with deadly weapons, either as second, aid or surgeon, or who shall advise or give assistance to such duel, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than three hundred dollars, nor exceeding one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned, not less than six months, int eh county jail, or by both such fine and [i]mprisonment. . . . § 2534. If any person shall be guilty of fighting in any village, city, town or other public place, and shall in such fight use any rifle, shot-gun, sword, sword-cane, pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, dirk-knife, or any other deadly weapon, or if any person shall be second or aid in such fight, the person so offending shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned, not less than three months, or punished by both such fine and imprisonment; and if any person shall be killed in such fight, the person so killing the other, may be prosecuted and convicted as in other cases of murder.