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Item Open Access The Charter and Code of the Ordinances of Yazoo City 174-75, ch. 20, § 300 (1908).(General Publisher, 1906)If any person, having or carrying any dirk, dirk knife, sword, sword-cane, or any deadly weapon, or other weapon the carrying of which concealed is prohibited, shall, in the presence of three or more persons, exhibit the same in a rude, angry, or threatening manner, not in necessary self-defense, or shall in any manner unlawfully use the same in any fight or quarrel, the person so offending, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than seven dollars and fifty cents nor more than five hundred dollars, or be imprisoned not exceeding ninety days, or both. In prosecutions under this section, it shall not be necessary for the affidavit or indictment to aver, nor for the city to prove on the trial, that any gun, pistol, or other firearm was charged, loaded, or in condition to be discharged."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.Item Open Access Volney Erskine Howard, The Statutes of the State of Mississippi of a Public and General Nature, with the Constitutions of the United States and of this State: And an Appendix Containing Acts of Congress Affecting Land Titles, Naturalization, &c, and a Manual for Clerks, Sheriffs and Justices of the Peace Page 675-76, § 54 (1840)(General Publisher, 1840)Prohibited duelingItem 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.