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The Tennessee Repository serves for historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the state of Tennessee. This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Tennessee's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.
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Item Open Access Tenn. Pub. Acts 327, An Act To Repeal The Charter Of The Town Of Waverly, In Humphreys county, And to Incorporate Said Town And Define Its Rights, Powers, etc., §10(General Publisher, 1899)Granted the town the authority to regulate the manufactories dangerous in causing or producing fires. Also allowed the town to prevent and suppress the sale of firearms and the carrying of concealed weapons.Item Open Access Claude Waller, Digest of the Ordinances of the City of Nashville, to Which are Prefixed the State Laws Incorporating, and Relating to, the City, with an Appendix Containing Various Grants and Franchises, at 364-65 (1893), Ordinances of the City of Nashville, § 738(General Publisher, 1893)Prohibited the carrying of a pistol, Bowie knife, dirk knife, slungshot, brass knucks, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $10-50 for a first offense and $50 for subsequent offenses.Item Open Access Claude Waller, Digest of the Ordinances of the City of Nashville, to Which are Prefixed the State Laws Incorporating, and Relating to, the City, with an Appendix Containing Various Grants and Franchises Page 346-347, Image 354-355, § 652 (1893)(General Publisher, 1893)If any person or persons shall fire any gun or pistol, cast, throw or fire any squib, rocket, cracker, or other combustible fire-works within the limits of the corporation, every such person, for every such offense, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five dollarsItem Open Access William K. McAlister (Editor), Ordinances of the City of Nashville, to Which are Prefixed the State Laws Chartering and Relating to the City, with an Appendix, 340–41 (1881), ch. 108, § 1(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the carrying of pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, slungshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly weapon. Punishable by fine of $10-50 for a first offense and $50 for subsequent offenses.Item Open Access 1899 Tenn. Session Laws 780(General Publisher, 1899)Provided however, That it shall be lawful for any person to hunt quail or partridges in said counties with a gun, between the first day of November and the first day of January of each year. But it is further provided, that it shall not be lawful to hunt upon the inclosed lands of another with a gun, as above mentioned, until written permission is first obtained from the owner or owners of such inclosed lands.Item Open Access 1895 Tenn. Pub. Acts 129-30, An Act to Incorporate the City of South Fulton, in Obion County Tennessee . . . , ch. 85, § 3, pt. 14.(General Publisher, 1895)To regulate the storage of gunpowder, tar, pitch, resin, saltpeter, gun cotton, coal oil, and all other combustibles, explosive or inflammable material, and the use of lights, candles, lamps, stove pipes, steam pipes, and chimneys in all storehouses, dwellings, outhouses, shops, stables, and other places, and to regulate and suppress the use and sale of fire crackers or fireworks of all kinds, toy pistols, air guns, or target guns.Item Open Access Tenn. Pub. Acts (1879), ch. 186, as codified in Tenn. Code (1884)(General Publisher, 1884)Prohibited the carrying, “publicly or privately,” of any dirk, razor, sword cane, loaded cane, slungshot, brass knuckles, Spanish stiletto, belt or pocket pistol, revolver, or any kind of pistol.Item Open Access 1883 Tenn. Pub. Acts 17, A Bill to Be Entitled An Act to Prevent the Sale, Loan or Gift of Pistol Cartridges in This State, ch. 13.(General Publisher, 1883)[I]t shall be unlawful for any person or persons to buy or sell or give away any pistol cartridges in this state.Item Open Access Chapter XII, Article III: Offenses Affecting Public Safety, undated, reprinted in Digest of the Acts Repealing the Charters of Certain Municipal Corporations…and the Ordinances of the Taxing District of Shelby County, Tennessee 188, 189 (C.W. Heiskell ed., 1882).(General Publisher, 1882)To carry concealed on or about the person any pistol, bowie-knife, dirk or other deadly weapon. Or to carry any pistol, slung-shot, dangerous knife, or any other deadly weapon of like character at all or in any manner, except in self-defense or while executing some law, or to carry through the streets or other public place in the District, any loaded gun. Also prohibited the discharge of firearms