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Item Open Access Harry Toulmin, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama . . . 627 (1823)(General Publisher, 1805)Prohibited any “slave” from keeping or carrying any gun, powder, shot, club, weapon, or ammunition.Item Open Access Ala. Const. art. I, § 23(General Publisher, 1819)Declared every citizen has a right to bear arms in defence of himself and the State.Item Open Access Ala. Const. art. I, § 23(General Publisher, 1819)Declared every citizen has a right to bear arms in defense of himself and the State.Item Open Access A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: Containing all the Statutes of a Public and General Nature, in Force at the Close of the Session of the General Assembly, in January, 1833. To Which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; the Act to Enable the People of Alabama to Form a Constitution and State Government, &c.; and the Constitution of the State of Alabama. With an Appendix, and a Copious Index Page 201, Fire Hunting § 1 (1822)(General Publisher, 1822)Prohibited hunting with fire at night-time. Punishable by a fine of fifty dollars. Only construed to "embrace persons hunting deer with a gun and fire at night."Item Open Access A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama: Containing all the Statutes of a Public and General Nature, in Force at the Close of the Session of the General Assembly, in January, 1833. To Which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; the Act to Enable the People of Alabama to Form a Constitution and State Government, &c.; and the Constitution of the State of Alabama. With an Appendix, and a Copious Index Page 201, Fire Hunting § 1 (1822)(General Publisher, 1822)Prohibited hunting with fire at night-time. Punishable by a fine of fifty dollars. Only construed to "embrace persons hunting deer with a gun and fire at night."Item Open Access Digest of the Laws of the State of Ala. 391-92 (1833), sec. 7(General Publisher, 1833)Prohibited any “slave” from keeping or carrying any gun or ammunition without permission from a justice of the peace.Item Open Access Digest of the Laws of the State of Ala. 391-92 (1833), sec. 7(General Publisher, 1833)Prohibited any “slave” from keeping or carrying any gun or ammunition without permission from a justice of the peace.Item Open Access 1837 Ala. Acts 7, §§ 1, 2(General Publisher, 1837)Imposed tax of $100 on any person selling, giving, or disposing of any Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick. Failure to pay the tax was subject to penalty of perjury.Item Open Access 1837 Ala. Acts 7, §§ 1, 2(General Publisher, 1837)Imposed tax of $100 on any person selling, giving, or disposing of any Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick. Failure to pay the tax was subject to penalty of perjury.Item Open Access ACTS PASSED AT THE CALLED SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA 7 (Tuscaloosa: Ferguson & Eaton, 1837) (June 30, 1837).(General Publisher, 1837)§1 Mandated that any person carrying a Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick who cuts or stabs another, causing them to die, shall be adjudged as a crime of murder, with the offender having held malice aforethought. §2 that any person selling a Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick shall pay a tax of one hundred dollars.Item Open Access John W.A. Sanford, The Code of the City of Montgomery, Prepared in Pursuance of an Order of the City Council of Montgomery (1861) Pages 7-9 § 6(General Publisher, 1837)Granted the mayor and aldermen the power and authority to assess, levy, and collect annual taxes on pistol galleries.Item Open Access 1839 Ala. Acts 67, § 1(General Publisher, 1839)Prohibited the concealed carrying of “any species of firearms, or any bowie knife, Arkansas toothpick, or any other knife of the like kind, dirk, or any other deadly weapon.” Punished by a fine of $50-100 and imprisonment not to exceed 3 months.Item Open Access 1841 Ala. Acts 148 - 49, Of Miscellaneous Offences, ch. 7, § 4(General Publisher, 1841)Prohibited the concealed carrying of “a bowie knife, or knife or instrument of the like kind or description, by whatever name called, dirk or any other deadly weapon, pistol or any species of firearms, or air gun,” unless the person is threatened with an attack or is traveling or “setting out on a journey.” Punished by a fine of $50-100.Item Open Access 1841 Ala. Laws 148–49,(General Publisher, 1841)Prohibited the concealed carrying of “a bowie knife, or knife or instrument of the like kind or description, by whatever name called, dirk or any other deadly weapon, pistol or any species of firearms, or air gun,” unless the person is threatened with an attack or is traveling or “setting out on a journey.” Punished by a fine of $50-100.Item Open Access Clement Comer Clay, Digest of the Laws of Alabama: Containing all the Statutes of a Public and General Nature, in Force at the Close of the Session of The General Assembly, in February, 1843. To Which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; the Act to Enable the People of Alabama to Form a Constitution and State Government, &c.; and the Constitution of the State of Alabama Page 416 § 31(General Publisher, 1843)Prohibited assault and battery of another with a cowhide, stick, or whip while in possession of a pistol or other deadly weapon with the intent to intimidate another to prevent the person from defending himself. Violators are imprisoned not less than two nor more than twenty years.Item Open Access Clement Comer Clay, Digest of the Laws of Alabama: Containing all the Statutes of a Public and General Nature, in Force at the Close of the Session of The General Assembly, in February, 1843. To Which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence; the Constitution of the United States; the Act to Enable the People of Alabama to Form a Constitution and State Government, &c.; and the Constitution of the State of Alabama Page 413 § 8(General Publisher, 1843)Prohibited fighting or discharging a firearm or air-gun in any city, town, or miltiia muster, or public assembly. Violators fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisoned not exceeding six months, or both at the discretion of the judge.Item Open Access 1848 Ala. Acts 121–22, An Act To Prevent the Storage of Gun-powder in Larger Quantities Than One Hundred Pounds Within the City of Mobile, § 1(General Publisher, 1848)Prohibited any person or persons from receiving, keeping, or storing in any building within three miles of the Mobile River or Bay, gun-powder, gun-cotton, or other explosive material in larger quantities than one hundred pounds.Item Open Access 1851-52 Ala. 3, ch. 1(General Publisher, 1851)Tax of $2 on “every bowie knife or revolving pistol.”Item Open Access Ala. Code §3274 (1852)(General Publisher, 1852)Prohibited the concealed carry of a pistol, or any other firearms, while not being theatened or having good reason to believe attack is imminent. §3273 also prohibited the conceal carry of Bowie-knives, other similar knives, and air guns. Violators fined not less than fifty, but no more than three hundred dollars.Item Open Access ACTS OF THE FIFTH BIENNIAL SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF ALABAMA, HELD IN THE CITY OF MONTGOMERY, COMMENCING ON THE SECOND MONDAY IN NOVEMBER, 1855, at 17 (1856).(General Publisher, 1856)Anyone who shall sell or give or lend to male minors a Bowie knife, or knife or instrument of like kind, or air gun or pistol shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars, but not more than one thousand dollars.