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Item Open Access An Ordinance Assessing Taxes for the City of Wheeling, WHEELING DAILY INTELLIGENCER, April 7, 1856, at 2 (Wheeling, West Virginia).(General Publisher, 1856)On every license to keep a pistol gallery, seventy-five dollars.”Item Open Access Code of West Virginia Comprising Legislation to the Year 1870, ch. 148, p. 692(General Publisher, 1868)Prohibiteed habitually carrying concealed any pistol, dirk, Bowie-knife, or weapon of the like kind. Violators fined fifty dolars.Item Open Access W. Va. Code, ch. 153, §8 (1868)(General Publisher, 1868)Required any person going armed with any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon to post a surety once a complaint was filed, having cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace. Appeals provided for the accused.Item Open Access W. Va. Code, ch. 153, §8(General Publisher, 1870)Prohibited any person going armed with a deadly or dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear violence. Individuals accused may be required to post a surety.Item Open Access W. Va. Code ch. 148, § 7 (1870)(General Publisher, 1870)Prohibited the habitual conceal carry of any pistol, dirk, Bowie-knife, or weapon of like kind. Violators fined fifty dollars, informants receiving half the fine.Item Open Access J. Nelson Wisner, Ordinances and By-Laws of the Corporation of Martinsburg: Berkeley Co., West Virginia, Including the Act of Incorporation and All Other Acts of a Special or General Nature, at 76, An Ordinance in Relation to Pistol Galleries, § 1 (1875)(General Publisher, 1875)Be it ordained by the Council of the Corporation of Martinsburg, That no pistol gallery, in which air guns or pistols, or guns or pistols in which are fired powder, is used, shall be established or carried on within the limits of the Corporation of Martinsburg by any person or persons, until the person or persons desiring to establish or carry on the same shall first obtain from the Mayor, attested by the Clerk of the Corporation, a permit authorizing the person or persons therein named to prosecute said business, and designating the place at which the same is to be carried on.Item Open Access J. Nelson Wisner, Ordinances and By-Laws of the Corporation of Martinsburg: Berkeley Co., West Virginia, Including the Act of Incorporation and All Other Acts of a Special or General Nature, at 25, An Ordinance to Prevent Certain Improper Practices Therein Specified, § 3 (1875)(General Publisher, 1875)If any person shall fire or discharge within such parts of the town which are or shall be laid out into lots, or within two hundred yards of said limits, any cannon, gun, pistol or fire-arms, or any cracker, squib, rocket or fire-works, except it be in case of necessity, or in the discharge of some public duty, or at a military parade by order of the officer in command, or with the permission of the Mayor or Council of the town, such person for every such offence shall forfeit any pay to the town not less than one nor more than five dollars.Item Open Access J. Nelson Wisner, Ordinances and By-Laws of the Corporation of Martinsburg: Berkeley Co., West Virginia, Including the Act of Incorporation and All Other Acts of a Special or General Nature, at 26, An Ordinance to Prevent Certain Improper Practices Therein Specified, § 12 (1875)(General Publisher, 1875)It shall not be lawful for any person to keep in any shop, store, warehouse or other house or building within this town, without the special permission or authority from the Council, a greater quantity of gun or rock powder at any one time than twenty-five pounds; and every person offending against the provision of this section shall forfeit and pay to the town a fine of not less than five nor more than ten dollars.Item Open Access WHEELING LAWS AND ORDINANCES, Act of Apr. 12, 1881 at 204, 206 (1891).(General Publisher, 1881)It shall be unlawful for any person to carry any slung shot, colt, or knucklers of lead, brass or other metal or material, or to carry about his person, hid from common observation, any pistol, dirk , bowie knife, or weapon of the like kind, without a permit in writing from the mayor so to do. It shall also be unlawful for any person or persons to sell or give away to a person not of age, any slung shot, colt, or knuckler or knucklers of lead, brass or other metal or material, or any pistol, dirk, bowie knife or weapon of the like kind."Item Open Access 1882 W. Va. Acts 421–22, ch. 135, § 1(General Publisher, 1882)Prohibited the carrying of a pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, razor, slungshot, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Also prohibited selling any such weapon to a minor. Punishable by fine of $25-200 and imprisonment of 1-12 months.Item Open Access 1882 W. Va. Acts 421-22; W. Va. Code, ch. 148, § 7(General Publisher, 1882)Prohibited the carrying of a pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, razor, slungshot, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Also prohibited selling any such weapon to a minor. Punishable by fine of $25-200 and imprisonment of 1-12 months.Item Open Access W. Va. Code, ch. 148, §7 (1887)(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited the carry of any revolver or other pistol, dirk, Bowie-knife, razor, slung-shot, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of like kind or character. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars.Item Open Access Other Militia Not to Parade, etc., ch. 24—Relating to the Militia, § 13 in Acts of the Legislature of West Virginia (1889) § 13.(General Publisher, 1889)The West Virginia National Guard shall consist of not exceeding twenty companies of infantry, which divided into regiments, shall constitute the West Virginia National Guard, and it shall not be lawful for anybody[sic] of men whatsoever, other than the regularly organized National Guard or militia or the troops of the United States, to associate themselves together as a military company or organization, or to parade in public with arms, in any city or town in the state, without the license of the governor therefor, which may at any time be revoked, nor shall it be lawful for any city or town to raise or appropriate any money towards arming, equipping, uniforming, or in any way supporting or sustaining or providing drill rooms or armories, for any such bodies of men.Item Open Access 1890 W. Va. Acts 173, ch. 14(General Publisher, 1890)And it shall be unlawful for any person by the use of any swivel or pivot gun, or any other than the common shoulder gun, or by the aid of any push boat, or sneak boat, used for carrying such gun, to catch, kill, wound or destroy, or to pursue with such intent upon any of the waters, bogs . . . or any cover to which wild fowl resort within this State, any wild goose, wild duck or brant.Item Open Access 1891 W. Va. Code 915–16, ch. 148, § 7(General Publisher, 1891)If a person carry about his person any revolver or other pistol, dirk, bowie knife, razor, slung shot, billy, metallic or other false knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon of like kind or character, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and fined not less than twenty-five nor more than two hundred dollars, and may, at the discretion of the court, be confined in jail not less than one nor more than twelve months; and if any person shall sell or furnish any such weapon as is hereinbefore mentioned to a person whom he knows, or has reason, from his appearance or otherwise, to believe to be under the age of twenty-one years, he shall be punished as hereinbefore providedItem Open Access Act of Feb 16, 1899, ch. 4, § 28, W.Va. Acts 14, 24.(General Publisher, 1899)to regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide for the regular building of houses or other structuresItem Open Access 1901 W.Va. Acts 197, An Act to Amend and Re-Enact Sections Two and Thirteen of Chapter Sixty-Two of the Code of One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-Nine, ch. 89, § 1.(General Publisher, 1901)No person shall shoot in the public road at any time, nor when shooting on the lands of another shall discharge any firearms on any lawn, pleasure ground or orchard or other ground which is directly appurtenant to or within gunshot of an occupied dwelling house. The penalty for violating this section shall be a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment not more than twenty days, or both, at the discretion of the court, and pay the cost of the prosecution.Item Open Access Act of Jan. 24, 1901, ch. 144, § 18, W.Va. Acts 314, 320-21.(General Publisher, 1901)to regulate the keeping of gun powder and other inflammable or dangerous substances; to provide in or near the city places of burial of the dead, and to regulate the interment therein…”Item Open Access 1905 W. Va. Acts 70, ch. 3, § 46.(General Publisher, 1905)The council shall have power to pass ordinances prohibiting the firing of guns, crackers, roman candles, sky-rockets, or any other fireworks, or the throwing of fire balls, or the firing of any other combination of gunpowder or other combustible or dangerous material within the city. . .Item Open Access 1909 W.Va. Acts 59, ch. 2, art. 4, § 7.(General Publisher, 1909)[T]o regulate or prohibit the keeping of gun powder and other combustible or dangerous articles[.]