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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 This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Missouri's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.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 Adam B. Chambers, The Revised Ordinances of the City of Saint Louis, Revised and Digested by the Fifth City Council during the First Session, Begun and Held in the City of St. Louis, on the Second Monday of May, A. D. 1843. with the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Missouri, and the City Charter Page 304, Image 305 (1843) [Ordinances of Kansas City,] Misdemeanors, § 10.(General Publisher, 1843)Every person who shall discharge any cannon or other ordinance, or fire off any carbine, fusil, rifle, musket, gun, pistol, or other arms, or set off any squib or cracker, or fly any kite in the air, within the city, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. This section shall not apply to the firing of salutes by any military corps, or to the firing of salutes upon any occasion of general public interest.Item Open Access Chas. H Tillson, The Ordinances of the City of St. Louis, State of Missouri, Digested and Revised by the Common Council of Said City, in the Years 1860 & 1861: With the Constitution of the United States and the State of Missouri, and the Various Charters of the City of St. Louis Page 513, Image 513 (1861) Misdemeanors, § 8(General Publisher, 1861)Hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol, or colt, or slung-shot, or cross-knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, or dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, within the city of St. LouisItem Open Access THE REVISED ORDINANCES OF THE CITY OF SAINT LOUIS, REVISED AND DIGESTED BY THE FIFTH CITY COUNCIL 304 (1843)(General Publisher, 1843)Prohibited the discharge of any cannon, ordinance, carbine, fusil, rifle, musket, gun, pistol, or other arms within city limits. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item 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. 414, An act concerning free negroes and mulattoes, §§ 2-3(General Publisher, 1854)Prohibited any “free negro or mulatto” from possessing or carrying any firelock, or weapon of any kind, or any ammunition without license from a Justice of the Peace.Item Open Access 1845 Mo. Laws 306, An Act To Restrain Intercourse With Indians, § 4.(General Publisher, 1844)No person shall sell, exchange or give, to any Indian, any horse, mule, gun, blanket, or any other article or commodity whatever, unless such Indian shall be traveling through the state, and leave a written permit from the proper agent, or under the direction of such agent in proper person.Item Open Access 1840 Mo. Laws 193-94, An Act To Incorporate The Rural Cemetery Association, § 7.(General Publisher, 1840)Any person who shall willfully . . . shoot or discharge any gun or other fire arms within the said limits, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, or any other court of competent jurisdiction within the county of St. Louis, be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than fifty dollars, according to the nature and aggravation of the offence[.]