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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 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 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 Ordinance No. III: Crimes and Misdemeanors, GREENVILLE TIMES, Dec. 31, 1881, at 2 (Greenville, Mississippi). § 8(General Publisher, 1881)That it shall not be lawful for any person to carry, concealed in whole or in part, any bowie-knife, dirk-knife, brass or metal knuckler, pistol, slung-shot, or other deadly weapon, (unless the party so carrying such weapon shall be threatened with, or have good and sufficient cause to apprehend an attack, or traveling, or setting out on a journey, or peace officer in the discharge of his dutyItem Open Access Ordinance No. III: Crimes and Misdemeanors, GREENVILLE TIMES, Dec. 31, 1881, at 2 (Greenville, Mississippi). § 6(General Publisher, 1881)That it shall be unlawful to fly kites, play ball, throw missiles, or discharge any fire-arms, or other explosives, (except fireworks on national holidays) or cause dogs to fight in the streets of the town, or do any act to injure property, public or private, or make any noise on t h streets likely to frighten horses or mules, or alarm or injure persons, or impede the free passage of vehicles or persons, or to discharge any fire-arms within the town, unless in self-defense or defense of his property, or while in the legal execution of some law or ordinance;