North Carolina
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Item Open Access 1860-61 N.C. Sess. Laws 219–20, Priv. Laws, ch. 180, § 1(General Publisher, 1860)Granted the town of Wilmington the authority to levy and collecy taxes annually on all pistols, dirks, Bowie-knives, or sword-canes if worn about the person at any time during the year, as well as all pistol galleries.Item Open Access 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 202, Priv. Laws, ch. 123, § 18(General Publisher, 1868)Granted the Board the power to levy and collect taxes on all pistols, except when part of stock in trade. Also on all dirks, Bowie-knives, and sword-canes if worn on the person at any time during the year. Tax not to exceed one dollar.Item Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 63, Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 19(General Publisher, 1866)Granted the Board of Aldermen the power to levy a fifty dollar tax on every pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, sword-cane, or any other deadly weapon worn upon the person except a pocket knife without special permission from the aldermen.Item Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 69-70, Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 30.(General Publisher, 1866)That the said board of aldermen shall have power to make from time to time, ordinances, rules and regulations concerning the firing of fire-arms, and all explosions in said city, the pace and speed at which horses may be driven or rode through the streets, the arrangements of stove-pipes in buildings, the mode in which fire shall be kept, or carried through the city, the manner in which powder and other explosive and inflammable substances may be kept and soldItem Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 22, Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 64.(General Publisher, 1866)That they may prohibit and prevent, by penalties, . . . and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun-powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city."Item Open Access 1862-1863 N.C. Sess. Laws 60, Priv. Laws, Adj. Sess., ch. 49, § 9.(General Publisher, 1862)[T]hey may prohibit and prevent by practices the riding or driving of horses or other animals at a speed greater than six miles an hour, within the city; and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city.Item Open Access 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 96, 101-102, Priv. Laws, ch. 79, § 25(General Publisher, 1869)The commissioners may prevent by penalties the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gunpowder or other explosive materials in the streets or corporate limits.Item Open Access 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 407-08, Pub. Laws, ch. 167, § 7.(General Publisher, 1868)Every person who commits any assault upon the person of another, with any deadly or dangerous weapon, or who unlawfully shoots or attempts to shoot at another with any kind of fire-arms, with intent to injure any person, without intent to kill such person or to commit any felony, shall be punished upon conviction, by imprisonment in the State’s prison not exceeding five years.Item Open Access 1868-69 N.C. Sess. Laws 59-60, Pub. Laws, ch. 18, § 1.(General Publisher, 1868)[I]f any person or persons whomsoever shall be known to hunt in this state on the Sabbath with a dog or dogs, or shall be found off of their premises on the Sabbath, having with him or them a shot-gun, rifle or pistol, he or they shall be subject to indictment; and, upon conviction, shall pay a fine not to exceed fifty dollars at the discretion of the Court, two-thirds of such fine to enure to the benefit of the free public schools in the County of which such convict is a resident, the remainder to the informant.Item Open Access 1866-67 N.C. Sess. Laws 103, Pub. Laws, ch. 72, § 14(General Publisher, 1867)Property tax of one dollar on every dirk, Bowie knife, pistol, sword cane, dirk cane, and rifle cane. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by forfeiture of the weapon.