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Item Open Access 1878 S.C. Acts 724, No. 602(General Publisher, 1878)It shall not be lawful for any person on the Counties of Horry, Marion, Darlington, Clarendon, Chesterfield, Georgetown, Marlboro, and Williamsburg to fish with nets or gigs, or set traps, or shoot fish with any kind of gun, in any of the fresh water rivers, creeks, lakes or other streams in said Counties, between the first day of May and the first day of September in any year hereafter.Item Open Access 1873 S.C. Rev. Stat. 710, ch. 138, § 7(General Publisher, 1873)Whoever shall challenge another to fight at sword, pistol, rapier, or any other dangerous weapon, or who shall accept any such challenge, shall, for every offense, on conviction thereof, be deprived of the right of suffrage, and be disabled forever from holding any office of profit or honor under this State, and shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding two years, at the discretion of the Court.Item Open Access 1873 S.C. Rev. Stat. 404, ch. 77, § 21(General Publisher, 1873)That it shall not be lawful for any non-resident of this State to use a gun, set a trap or decoy, or to employ any other device for killing or taking deer, turkeys, ducks or other game, not to set a trap, seine, or net, or draw or use the same, or any other contrivance for taking or killing fish, within the territorial limits of this State.Item Open Access 1870 S. C. Acts p. 403, no. 288, §4(General Publisher, 1870)Granted "Trial Justices" the authority to arrest all "affrayers, rioters, disturbers and breakers of the peace, and all who go armed offensively to the terror of the people." Including those who make threatening speeches, dangerous person, and disorderly persons.Item Open Access 1867 By-Laws of the University of South Carolina, Regulations of the Faculty, at 35-37, § 6 (W. W. Deane).(General Publisher, 1867)Students are strictly forbidden to visit bar-rooms, grog-shops, or disorderly houses; or to use, or bring within the precincts of the University, any intoxicating liquors; or to have about their persons, or keep in their rooms, any deadly weapon, which may be secretly carried: upon pain of admonition, suspension, or report for expulsion, at the discretion of the Faculty. Any student who shall be guilty of any atrocious or infamous offence, who shall fight a duel, or give or accept a challenge to fight a duel, or who shall carry any challenge to fight a duel, or act as a second to those who shall give or accept a challenge, shall be forthwith suspended from the University, and reported for expulsion.”Item Open Access A Handbook of Politics for 1868 at 36, Order of General Sickles, Disregarding the Code, January 17, 1866 - General Order No. 1, § 16 (1868 Philip & Solomons).(General Publisher, 1866)The constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed; nevertheless this shall not be construed to sanction the unlawful practice of carrying concealed weapons, nor to authorize any person to enter with arms on the premises of another against his consent. No one shall bear arms who has borne arms against the United Stales, unless he shall have taken the amnesty oath prescribed in the proclamation of the President of the United States, dated May 20, 1865, or the oath of allegiance, prescribed in the proclamation of the President, dated December 8, 1863, within the time prescribed therein. And no disorderly person, vagrant, or disturber of the peace, shall be allowed to bear arms."Item Open Access Acts of the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina (Columbia, SC: Julian A. Selby, 1866), at 14-15, §§ 34-44(General Publisher, 1865)Prohibited any “[p]ersons of color” from being a part of the militia and from keeping a firearm, sword, or other military weapon without permission.