Georgia
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The Georgia Community serves as a comprehensive repository for academic and historical research related to the state of Georgia. It encompasses a wide range of materials, including scholarly studies, historical documents, and curated collections that highlight the cultural, social, and legal developments within the region.
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Item Open Access 1777 Ga. Const., arts. 33-34(General Publisher, 1777)Granted the governor title of captains general and commander-in-chief over all militia, military, and naval forces belonging to the state of Georgia. Also specified that commissions continue during good behavior.Item Open Access 1833 Ga. Laws 226, 228, § 7(General Publisher, 1833)Prohibition for “any free person of colour” to own, use, or carry any firearms.Item Open Access 1847 Ga. Laws 138, An Act To Incorporate The Evergreen Cemetery Company Of Bonaventure, § 5(General Publisher, 1847)Prohibited shooting or discharging any gun or other firearms within the cemetary limits. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1851-1852 Ga. Laws 269, no. 165(General Publisher, 1852)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense or defense.Item Open Access 1860 Ga. Laws 56, An Act to add an additional Section to the 13th Division of the Penal Code, making it Penal to Sell to or Furnish Slaves or Free Persons of Color, with Weapons of Offence and Defence; and for other Purposes therein mentioned, § 1(General Publisher, 1860)Prohibited any person from selling or furnishing to any “minor, or slave, or free negro” “any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, brass-knucks, slungshot, colt, cane-gun, or other deadly weapon, which is carried concealed.”Item Open Access 1860 Ga. Laws 56, No. 63, § 1(General Publisher, 1860)Prohibited the sale or furnishing of any gun, pistol, Bowie knife, slungshot, sword cane, or other weapon to a “slave or free person of color.” Punishable by fine up to $500 and imprisonment up to 6 months.Item Open Access 1866 Ga. Laws 27-28, An Act to Authorize the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Camden, Glynn and Effingham Counties to Levy a Special Tax for County Purposes, and to regulate the same, §§ 3-4(General Publisher, 1866)Allowed these three counties to collect a tax of one dollar per gun or pistol, musket, or rifle over the number of three owned or kept on any plantation.Item Open Access 1870 Ga. Laws 421, title XVI, no. 285, § 1(General Publisher, 1870)Prohibiting carrying “any dirk, bowie-knife, pistol or revolver, or any kind of deadly weapon, to any court of justice, or any election ground or precinct, or any place of public worship, or any other public gathering in this State, except militia muster-grounds."Item Open Access 1875 Ga. Laws 189, An Act to Prevent the Shooting or Firing of Guns or Pistols in the Village of Vineville, in the County of Bibb, ch. 181, § 1(General Publisher, 1875)Prohibited the discharge, firing, shooting of any gun or pistol within three hundred yards of any public road through the village of Vineville.Item Open Access 1876 Ga. L. 112, ch. 128(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the transfer of any pistol, dirk, Bowie knife, or sword cane to a minor.Item Open Access 1878-79 Ga. Laws 142, An Act for the Protection of Birds and Game in the County of Bibb, § 1(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited hunting between April 1 and October 1 in the County of BibbItem Open Access 1880–81 Ga. Pub. Laws 154, An Act to make Penal the Intentional Pointing, or Aiming of Fire-arms at Another, whether Loaded or Unloaded, § 1(General Publisher, 1880)Prohibited pointing a gun or pistol, loaded or unloaded, at another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.Item Open Access 1882 Ga. Laws 131, An Act to Prevent the Discharge of Fire-arms on the Public Highways of this State and within Fifty Yards of the Same; to make such an act a Misdemeanor, and Prescribe a Punishment Therefor, § 1(General Publisher, 1882)Prohibited wantonly discharging a gun or pistol between the "dark and daylight" on any of the public highways or within fifty yards of such public highways.Item Open Access 1882–1883 Ga. Laws 37, ch. 18, § 2, pt. 18(General Publisher, 1882)Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item Open Access 1882–1883 Ga. Laws 48–(General Publisher, 1883)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any “pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie-knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense and defense.”Item Open Access 1882-83 Ga. L. 37, ch. 18(General Publisher, 1882)Imposed $25 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item Open Access 1882-83 Gal. L. 48-49, ch. 94(General Publisher, 1882)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any “pistol, dirk, sword in a cane, spear, Bowie-knife, or any other kind of knives manufactured and sold for the purpose of offense and defense.”Item Open Access 1884 Ga. Laws 30, ch. 457(General Publisher, 1884)Required disclosure of guns, pistols, Bowie knives, and "such articles" for property tax purposes.Item Open Access 1884–1885 Ga. Laws 23, ch. 52, § 2, pt. 18(General Publisher, 1884)Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, or Bowie knives.Item Open Access 1886 Ga. L. 17, ch. 54(General Publisher, 1886)Imposed $100 occupational tax on dealers of pistols, revolvers, dirks, Bowie knives, and “pistol or revolver cartridges.”