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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.Item Open Access 1880 Miss. Laws 21, ch. 6, § 7(General Publisher, 1880)Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.Item Open Access 1878 Miss. Laws 27, 29, ch. 3, §§ 8, 12(General Publisher, 1878)Mandated tax assessors to have prepared lists of taxable items, including pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.Item Open Access 1876 Miss. Laws 131, 134, ch. 104(General Publisher, 1876)Allowed the Auditor of Public Accounts to create assessment rolls for property subject to taxation, including pistols, dirks, bowie knives, and sword canes.Item Open Access 1871 Miss. Laws 819–20, ch. 33, art. 3, § 1(General Publisher, 1871)Imposed property tax on pistols, dirks, Bowie knives, and sword canes.Item Open Access 1867 Miss. Laws 412, ch. 317(General Publisher, 1867)Imposed property tax on several arms. Every pistol has more than one barrel or revolver, two dollars. On every single barrel pistol, one dollar. On each rifle, shotgun, army gun, fifty cents. On each and every Bowie-knife, sword-cane, or dirk, two dollars.Item Open Access 1867 Miss. Laws 327-28, ch. 249, § 1.(General Publisher, 1867)[A] tax of not less than five dollars or more than fifteen dollars shall be levied and assessed annually by the board of Police of Washington county upon every gun and pistol which may be in the possession of any person in said county,Item Open Access 1854 Miss. Laws 49–50, ch. 1, § 1(General Publisher, 1854)Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife, Arkansas toothpick, sword cane, and dueling or pocket pistol.Item Open Access Anderson Hutchinson, Code of Mississippi: Being an Analytical Compilation of the Public and General Statutes of the Territory and State, with Tabular References to the Local and Private Acts, from 1798 to 1848: With the National and State Constitutions, Cessions of the Country by the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians, and Acts of Congress for the Survey and Sale of the Lands, and Granting Donations Thereof to the State, pg. 182, ch. 8, § 1 (1848)(General Publisher, 1844).A tax of two dollars on each dueling or pocket pistol, except such as are kept for sale by merchants, artisans, or kept for use by military companies. . . ]