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Item Open Access 1837-1838 Tenn. Pub. Acts 200, An Act to Suppress the Sale and Use of Bowie Knives and Arkansas Tooth Picks in this State, ch. 137, § 1.(General Publisher, 1837)That if any merchant, . . . shall sell, or offer to sell . . . any Bowie knife or knives, or Arkansas tooth picks . . . such merchant shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof upon indictment or presentment, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not less than one month nor more than six months.Item Open Access 1837-38 Tenn. Pub. Acts 200-01, An Act to Suppress the Sale and Use of Bowie Knives and Arkansas Tooth Picks in this State, ch. 137, § 2(General Publisher, 1837)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed Bowie knife, Arkansas tooth pick, or other knife or weapon. Punishable by fine of $200-500 and imprisonment for 3-6 months.Item Open Access 1837-1838 Tenn. Pub. Acts 201, ch. 137, § 4(General Publisher, 1837)Prohibited the stabbing or cutting of another person with any knife or weapon known as a “Bowie knife, Arkansas tooth pick, or any knife or weapon that shall in form, shape or size resemble a Bowie knife,” regardless of whether the person dies. Punishable by imprisonment for 3-15 years.Item Open Access 1837-1838 Tenn. Pub. Acts 200, ch. 137, § 1.(General Publisher, 1837)Prohibited any merchant from selling a Bowie knife or Arkansas tooth pick. Punishable by fine of $100-500 and imprisonment for $1-6 months.Item Open Access 1836 Tenn. Comp. Stat. 325, Felonies, 1829—Chapter 23, § 56(General Publisher, 1836)If any person within this state shall fight a duel, or shall deliberately and maliciously challenge, by word or writing, any other person, to fight with sword, pistol, or other deadly weapon, or shall deliberately and maliciously invite another verbally, or by writing, to meet him in this state, or elsewhere, with a view or intent to challenge or fight; or if any person so challenged, shall deliberately and maliciously accept the said challenge, in either case, such person so deliberately and maliciously giving or receiving, or sending any such challenge, and being convicted thereof, shall be sentenced to imprisonment, at hard labor in the penitentiary, for a term not less than three nor more than ten years: Provided always, that no person who shall be verbally challenged, shall be a competent witness to prove the fact of such verbal challenge, against any person who may be indicted for the same.Item Open Access 1836 Tenn. Comp. Stat. 496, Misdemeanors, 1835—Chapter 58, § 2(General Publisher, 1835)Prohibited any “free person” from selling, loaning, or giving any gun, pistol, sword, or dirk to “any slave.”Item Open Access Tenn. Const., Art. I, § 26 (1834)(General Publisher, 1831)Establishes the right to keep and bear arms for the “free white men of this State.”Item Open Access Acts 1741, c. 24, § 40 in 1 Statute Laws of the State of Tennessee of a Public & General Nature, 314 (1831)(General Publisher, 1831)Prohibited any “slave” from being armed with a gun, sword, club, or other weapon without a certificate from a court.Item Open Access 1825 Tenn. Priv. Acts 306, An Act to Amend an Act Passed at Murfreesboro, October 20, 1821, Incorporating Winchester and Reynoldsburgh, ch. 292 § 3.(General Publisher, 1825)That said mayor and aldermen may, and shall, have power and authority to make any rules and laws regulating the police of said town and the inhabitants thereof, to restrain and punish drinking, gaming, fighting, breaking the sabbath, shooting and carrying guns, and enact penalties and enforce the same, so that they do not conflict or violate the constitution of this State, and are consistent with the laws of this state.Item Open Access 1836 Tenn. Comp. Stat. 100, Arms, 1825—Chapter 19, § 1(General Publisher, 1825)When any sheriff, coroner, or constable, shall know of his own knowledge, or upon the representation of any person, or if he or they, shall have good reason to suspect, any person of being armed with the intention of committing a riot or affray, or the wounding or killing any person, it shall be the duty of all such officers, immediately to arrest all such persons so suspected, and return them before some justice of the peace, whose duty it shall be, upon proof being made, that there was reasonable ground to suspect such person or persons for being armed, with intent to disturb or commit a breach of the peace, to bind such person or persons in a bond with two or more good and sufficient securities, in a sum of not less than two hundred and fifty dollars, and not exceeding two thousand dollars, conditioned for his or their good behavior and peaceable deportment for the term of twelve months thereafter