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The Missouri Repository serves for historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the state of Missouri. This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Missouri's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.
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Item Open Access Henry S. Geyer, A Digest of the Laws of Missouri Territory. Comprising: An Elucidation of the Title of the United States to Louisiana 374 (1818)(General Publisher, 1818)Prohibited “slave or mulatto” from carrying a gun, powder, shot, club or other weapon and from possessing a gun or ammunition.Item Open Access Militia, in Henry S. Geyer, Digest of the Laws of Missouri Territory, at 281, § 4 (1818).(General Publisher, 1818)Each militia man shall provide himself, with-in one month from the date of his enrollment with a good musket, a sufficient bayonet and belt, or a fusil, two spare flints, a knapsack and pouch with a box there-in to contain twentyfour cartridges suited to the bore of his musket or fusil, each cartridge to contain a pro-per quantity of powder and ball: or a good rifle, knap-sack, pouch and powder horn with twenty balls suited to the bore of his rifle, and a quarter of a pound of powe-derItem Open Access The Acts of Assembly Incorporating the City of St. Louis, and the Ordinances of the City, Which are Now in Force, pg. 35, No.1, ch. 22, § 1 (1828)(General Publisher, 1823)Be it ordained by the Mayor and board of Aldermen of the city of St. Louis, That no store or shopkeeper, or other person or persons, shall keep, at the same time, in any house, shop, store, cellar or warehouse, or in any boat, more than thirty pounds of gunpowder, within the limits of the City.Item Open Access 1822 Mo. Laws 41-42, An Act To Incorporate Inhabitants Of The Town Of St. Louis, § 12.(General Publisher, 1822)The Mayor and Board of Aldermen, shall have power by ordinance, to . . . regulate . . . the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, rosin, hemp, cotton and other combustible materials[.]Item Open Access 1835 Mo. Rev. Stat. 312, An Act to Restrain Intercourse with Indians, § 2.(General Publisher, 1835)IF any person shall induce any Indian to come within this state fro the purpose of trade, or otherwise than is hereinafter permitted, or shall purchase or receive of any Indian the way of trade or otherwise, a horse or gun, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars.Item Open Access 1834 Mo. Laws 536-37, An Act to Organize Govern and Discipline the Militia, ch. 423, art. 11, pt. 5.(General Publisher, 1834)Every non-commissioned officer and private, appearing without being armed and equipped as the law directs, at any parade or rendezvous, shall be sentenced to pay the following fines, namely: For want of a sufficient sword and belt, if belonging to the artillery or light artillery, and for want of a sufficient musket with a steel rod, or rifle, if belonging to a company of light infantry, grenadiers, riflemen or infantry, one dollarItem Open Access Mo. Const. of 1820, art. XIII, § 3(General Publisher, 1820)Declared that the right of the People to bear arms in defence of themselves and of the state shall not be questioned.