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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 Laws for the Government of the City of Raleigh, Containing All Legislative Enactments Relative Thereto, and the Ordinances of the Board of Commissioners Now in Force: From the First Act of Incorporation to 1854, at 63, § 6 (1854)(General Publisher, 1854)No person shall discharge any gun or other fire-arms within any of the streets or public squares of the city, or upon any lot of the same, (excepting his own lot,) on pain of forfeiting four dollars for every such offence. Or, if the offence be committed in the night, the offender shall forfeit twenty-five dollarsItem Open Access 1871-1872 N.C. Sess. Laws 113, Priv. Laws, ch. 72, § 4.(General Publisher, 1871)That any person who shall willfully . . . shoot or discharge any gun or other firearms within the limits thereof shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction before any justice of the peace of the county of Pasquotank, shall be fined at the discretion of the court and be moreover liable to the company for the damage done by such act.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 1869-70 N.C. Sess. Laws 234-35, Priv. Laws, ch. 23, § 32(General Publisher, 1870)That it shall not he lawful for any person to discharge fire-arms within the bounds of said town, except on muster days or other service, and persons offending against this regulation shall be fined not more than five dollars, or imprisoned not to exceed ten days; but double this penalty shall be enforced if the offence be committed in the night; one half to the informer the other half to the town."