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Item Open Access 1851 Terr. of N.M. Laws 10, An Act Incorporating the City of Santa Fe, § 7.(General Publisher, 1851)The board of common councilors shall have power to pass By-Laws and Ordinances . . . to prohibit the firing of fire-arms . . . to regulate and prescribe the quantities and places in which gun-powder or other dangerous combustible[s] may be kept[.]Item Open Access 1852 Terr. of N.M. Laws 66-69, An Act Prohibiting the Carrying a Certain Class of Arms, within the Settlements and in Balls, § 1(General Publisher, 1853)That each and every person is prohibited from carrying short arms, such as pistols, daggers, knives, and other deadly weapons, about their persons concealed, within the settlements, and any person who violates the provisions of this act, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding ten dollars, nor less than two dollars, or shall be imprisoned for a term not exceeding fifteen days nor less than five days.Item Open Access 1852 Terr. of N.M. Laws 66-69, An Act Prohibiting the Carrying a Certain Class of Arms, within the Settlements and in Balls, § 3(General Publisher, 1852)Required those giving balls or fandangos to remove individuals armed with fire arms or other deadly weapons when liquor is sold.Item Open Access 1853 N.M. Laws 406, An Act Prohibiting the Carrying of Weapons Concealed or Otherwise, § 25(General Publisher, 1853)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed pistol, Bowie knife (cuchillo de cinto), Arkansas toothpick, Spanish dagger, slungshot, or any other deadly weapon.Item Open Access 1858-1859 N.M. Laws 68, ch. 26, § 7(General Publisher, 1858)Prohibited any person to transfer to “any slave any sword, dirk, bowie-knife, gun, pistol or other fire arms, or any other kind of deadly weapon of offence, or any ammunition of any kind suitable for fire arms.”Item Open Access 1859 N.M. Laws 94–96, An Act prohibiting the carrying of Weapons, concealed or other-wise, § 3.(General Publisher, 1859)That it shall be the duty of the sheriffs, their deputies, or constables, to arrest and take all persons who shall be found with deadly weapons of the class and description mentioned in the first section of this act, and present them to some justice of the peace, or other authority, to be examined; and it shall also be the duty of the judges of the district courts to cause, at the first term to be held in each county, the sheriffs and their deputies to take an oath that they will truly and faithfully comply with the provisions of this act, and that they will arrest at all times every person who shall violate any of the provisions of this act.Item Open Access 1859 N.M. Laws 94–96, An Act prohibiting the carrying of Weapons, concealed or other-wise, § 4.(General Publisher, 1859)Be it further enacted: That if any person in any baile or fandango, or in any public assembly of whatever class or description it may be, shall fire off or discharge any firearm of the class mentioned in the first section of this act, or shall cut or wound any person with any description of deadly weapon mentioned in the first section of this act, in any baile or fandango, or in any other public assembly, and any death shall result from said cut or wound so given, the person who shall so wound or cut, on conviction, shall be considered guilty of murder in the first degree, and shall suffer the penalty of death in the said first degree.Item Open Access 1859 N.M. Laws 94–96, An Act prohibiting the carrying of Weapons, concealed or other-wise, §§ 1-2.(General Publisher, 1859)Prohibited the carry, concealed or openly, of any pistols, Bowie-knives, cuchillo de cinto, arkansas toothpick, Spanish dagger, slung-shot, or any other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than fifty dollars but no more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1864-1865 Terr. of N.M. Laws 406-08, ch. 61, § 25.(General Publisher, 1864)It shall be unlawful for any person to carry concealed weapons on their persons, or any class of pistols whatever, bowie knife (cuchillo de cinto), Arkansas toothpick, Spanish dagger, slungshot, or any other deadly weapon, of whatever class or description that may be, no matter by what name they may be known or called, under the penalties and punishment which shall hereinafter be described.Item Open Access 1869 N. M. Laws 72, ch. 32, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1869)Prohibited the carry of deadly weapons. Deadly weapons shall be defined as all classes of pistols, revolver, repeater, derringer, or any other kind of pistol, Bowie-knives, daggers, poniards, butcher knives, dirks, "all weapons in which cuts can be give or by which wounds can be inflicted by thrusting," sword-canes, slung-shots, and any other kinds of deadly weapons.Item Open Access 1882 N.M. Gen. Laws 312-13, ch. 61, Deadly Weapons. Act of 1869, Ch. 32, §§ 1-3.(General Publisher, 1869)Prohibited the carry of deadly weapons, including pistols, revolvers, derringers, repeaters, any other class of pistol, Bowie-knives, daggers, poniards, butcher knives, dirk-knives, cutting weapons, sword-canes, sharp-pointed canes, slung-shots, any other kind of deadly weapon. Punishable by not less than ten but no more than fifty dollars or not less than ten nor more than fifty days in jail or both.Item Open Access 1882 N.M. Gen. Laws 313, ch. 61, Deadly Weapons. Act of 1869, Ch. 32, § 4.(General Publisher, 1882)Any person who shall draw a deadly weapon on another, or who shall handle a deadly weapon in a threatening manner at or towards another, in any part of this Territory, except in the lawful defense of himself, his family, or his property, or by order of legal authority, upon conviction thereof before the proper tribunal, shall, for each offense, be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than seventy-five dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than twenty days or more than sixty days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the jury trying the case. § 5. Any person who shall draw or use any deadly weapon in any ball, dance, or other public gathering of the people, or near where any election authorized by law is being held in any part of the Territory, except it be in the lawful defense of himself, his family, or his property, or in obedience to legal authority, shall, upon conviction before the proper tribunal, be punished by a fine not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offense, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than one month nor more than three months for each offense, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the jury trying the cause.Item Open Access 1887 N.M. Laws 55, ch. 30, § 1(General Publisher, 1887)That any person who shall hereafter carry a deadly weapon, either concealed or otherwise, on or about the settlements of this territory, except it be in his or her residence, or on his or her landed estate, and in the lawful defense of his or her person, family or property, the same being then and there threatened with danger, or except such carrying be done by legal authority, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than fifty dollars, nor more than three hundred, or by imprisonment not less than sixty days, nor more than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the same.Item Open Access 1887 N.M. Laws 56, ch. 30, § 2(General Publisher, 1887)Any person who shall draw a deadly weapon or another, or who shall handle a deadly weapon in a threatening manner, at or towards another, in any part of this territory, except it be in the lawful defense of himself, his family or his property, or under legal authority, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor in the county fail or territorial penitentiary not less than three months nor more than eighteen months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the same.Item Open Access 1887 N.M. Laws 56, ch. 30, § 3(General Publisher, 1887)Any person who shall unlawfully assault or strike at another with a deadly weapon, upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor in the county jail or territorial penitentiary, not exceeding three years, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the same.Item Open Access 1887 N.M. Laws 56, ch. 30, § 4(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited unlawfully drawing, flourishing, or discharging a rifle, gun, or pistol within the limits of any settlement in the territory. Also prohibited the same in any saloon, store, public hall, dance hall, or hotel. Violators punished by fine not more than one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment not more than three years, or both fine and imprisonment.Item Open Access 1887 N.M. Laws 56, ch. 30, § 5(General Publisher, 1887)Any person being armed with a deadly weapon, who shall, by words, or in any other manner, insult or assault another, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, not more than three hundred dollars, or by imprisonment at hard labor in the county jail or territorial penitentiary for not less than three months, nor more than one year, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court or jury trying the same.Item Open Access 1887 N.M. Laws 57, ch. 30, § 8(General Publisher, 1887)Defined “deadly weapons” as including pistols, whether the same be a revolved, repeater, derringer, or any kind or class of pistol or gun; any and all kinds of daggers, Bowie knives, poniards, butcher knives, dirk knives, and all such weapons with which dangerous cuts can be given, or with which dangerous thrusts can be inflicted, including sword canes, and any kind of sharp pointed canes; as also slungshots, bludgeons or any other deadly weapons.Item Open Access 1887 N.M. Laws 57, ch. 30, § 9(General Publisher, 1887)Persons traveling may carry arms for their own protection while actually prosecuting their journey and may pass through settlements on their road without disarming; but if such travelers shall stop at any settlement for a longer time than fifteen minutes they shall remove all arms from their person or persons, and not resume the same until upon eve of departure.Item Open Access 1909 N.M. Laws 333-34, ch. 117, § 8.(General Publisher, 1909)That villages incorporated under this act shall have the power by ordinance, to prevent the presence within their limits of anything dangerous, offensive, unhealthy or indecent and to cause any nuisance to be abated; to regulate the transportation, storage and keeping of gun-powder and other combustibles and explosives, oils, gasoline and other articles which may endanger the property of such village[.]