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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 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 William C. Heacock, ed., Compiled Ordinances: Town of Albuquerque (Albuquerque, NM: John Knox, 1887), 81-2. Chapter 21—Deadly Weapon, § 1.(General Publisher, 1887)It shall be unlawful for any person to carry a deadly weapon, either concealed or unconcealed, within the limits of the town of Albuquerque, unless the same be carried in lawful defense of himself, his family or his property, the same being at the time threatened with danger, or unless by order of legal authority, or unless such person be a regularly authorized officer of the law in the discharge of his official duty.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 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.