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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 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.”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 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 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 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 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 stateItem 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 Miss. Rev. Stat. 453, ch. 19, tit. 10, art. 2, § 3, Miss. Rev. Statutes (1836)(General Publisher, 1836)No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, rockets, squib, cracker, or other firework, within a quarter of a mile of any building, on the twenty-fifth day of December, on the last day of December, on the first day of January, or on the twenty-second day of February, in any year; nor on the fourth day of July or such other day as shall at any time be celebrated as the anniversary of American independenceItem 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.