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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.
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Harry Toulmin, The Statutes of Mississippi Territory, Revised and Digested by the Authority of the General Assembly 593 (Natchez, 1807)
(General Publisher, 1807)
Prohibition for people to purchase and trade guns and hunting articles with “any Indian.”
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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.
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George Poindexter, The Revised Code of the Laws of Mississippi: In Which are Comprised All Such Acts of the General Assembly, of a Public Nature, as were in Force at the End of the Year 1823: with a General Index Page 608, Image 612 (1824)
(General Publisher, 1824)
Said president and selectmen may pass ordinances to regulate the keeping, carting and transporting gunpowder, or other combustible or dangerous materials, and, the use of lights in stables, to remove or prevent the construction of any fireplace, hearth or chimney, stoves, ovens, boilers, kettles or apparatus used in any house, building, manufactory or business which may be dangerous in causing or promoting fires; to appoint one or more officers, at reasonable times, to enter into and examine all dwelling houses, lots, yards and buildings, in order to discover whether any of them are in a dangerous state
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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[.]
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Miss. Const. art. III, § 12
(General Publisher, 1817)
Declared every citizen has a right to bear arms in defence of himself and the State.

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