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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 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 The Charter and Code of the Ordinances of Yazoo City 174, ch. 20, § 299 (1908).(General Publisher, 1906)Any student or pupil in any public school of this city, who shall carry into such school any weapon of the kind mentioned or described in section 293, concealed, in whole or in part, or any professor, teacher, or instructor in such school who shall knowingly suffer or permit any such weapon to be carried into such school, concealed, as aforesaid, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof in the city court, shall be punished as provided in section 293.Item Open Access The Charter and Code of the Ordinances of Yazoo City 174, ch. 20, § 298 (1908).(General Publisher, 1906)Any father who shall knowingly suffer or permit any son under the age of sixteen years to have or to own, or to carry concealed, in whole or in part, any weapon the carrying of which concealed is prohibited, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined not less than twenty dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or may be imprisoned not more than sixty days in the county jail, or both.Item Open Access The Charter and Code of the Ordinances of Yazoo City 174, ch. 20, § 297 (1908).(General Publisher, 1906)It shall not be lawful for any person to sell, give, or lend to any minor or person intoxicated, knowing him to be a minor or in a state of intoxication, any deadly weapon, or other weapon the carrying of which concealed is prohibited, or pistol cartridge; and, on conviction thereof, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than two hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding ninety days, or both.Item Open Access The Charter and Code of the Ordinances of Yazoo City 173-74, ch. 20, § 296 (1908).(General Publisher, 1906)Every merchant or dealer or pawnbroker that sells bowie knives, dirk knives, pistols, brass or metallic knuckles, or slungshots, or pistol or rifle cartridges, shall keep a record of all sales of such weapons and cartridges sold, showing the description of the weapon and kind and caliber of cartridges so sold, the name of the purchaser, and the description of weapons and the quantity of cartridges and date of sale. This record to be opened to public inspection at any time to persons desiring to see it. The dealer who violates this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than seven dollars and fifty cents nor more than twenty-five dollars.Item Open Access The Charter and Code of the Ordinances of Yazoo City 170-71, ch. 20, § 293 (1908).(General Publisher, 1906)Any person who carries concealed, in whole or in part, any bowie knife, dirk knife, butcher knife, pistol, brass or metallic knuckles, slungshot, sword, or other deadly weapon of like kind or description, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than one hundred dollars, and all costs, or be imprisoned in the county jail not more than ninety days, or both, in the discretion of the court.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.