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Item Open Access Ordinance no. 25, OXFORD EAGLE, Jul. 7, 1898, at 2 (Oxford, Mississippi)(General Publisher, 1898)Any marshal or night-watchmen who fails or refuses to report, arrest, or bring to trial anyone who has violated any ordiannce of the town shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and fined twenty-five dollars.Item Open Access Ordinance no. 12, § 2, OXFORD EAGLE, Jul. 7, 1898, at 2 (Oxford, Mississippi)(General Publisher, 1898)Prohibited brandishing deadly weapons in a rude, angry, or threatening manner.Item 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;Item Open Access Item Open Access 1898 Miss. Laws 86, ch. 68(General Publisher, 1898)Amended 1896 Miss. Laws 109–10, ch. 104 to prohibit the conceal carry bowie knives, dirks, butcher knives, pistols, metal knuckles, slingshots, sword, or other deadly weapons of like kind. Violations deemed a misdemeanor and fined not less than twenty-five dollars but no more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1896 Miss. L. 109-10, ch. 104(General Publisher, 1896)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed Bowie knife, dirk, butcher knife, pistol, brass or metallic knuckles, slingshot, sword, or other deadly weapon “of like kind or description.”Item Open Access R. H. Thompson, The Annotated Code of the General Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi 327, § 1030 (1892)(General Publisher, 1892)Prohibited students in any university, college, or school from carrying, bringing, receiving, owning, having on campus, college, or school grounds, or within two miles thereof, any weapon of which concealed carry is prohibited. Also includes teachers, instructors, or professors from knowingly suffer or permit those weapons to be carried. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both.Item Open Access 1892 Ann. Code of the Gen. Stat. Laws of the State of Miss. 367, ch. 29, § 1247(General Publisher, 1892)If any person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any toy pistol, or cartridges or caps, or other contrivance by which such pistols are fired or made to cause an explosion, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished by fine not less than five dollars nor more than twenty five dollars or imprisonment in the county jail not less than three days nor more than thirty days, or both.Item Open Access 1892 Miss. Laws 194, 198, ch. 74(General Publisher, 1892)Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including guns(more than one), pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.