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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 1880–1881 Ala. Laws 38– 39, ch. 44, § 1(General Publisher, 1881)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any Bowie knife, or any other knife of like kind or description, pistol, or firearm of “any other kind or description,” or air gun. Punishable by fine of $50-300 and imprisonment of not more than 6 months. Further provided that fines collected under the statute would be monetary and not in-kind payments.Item Open Access 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 J. M. Falkner, The Code of Ordinances of the City Council of Montgomery [Alabama] (1879), § 428(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited carrying of a concealed Bowie knife, pistol, air gun, slungshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon. Punishable by a fine of $1-100.Item Open Access Offenses Against Public Safety, Chapter 6, § 380(General Publisher, 1885)Prohibited carrying concealed a Bowie-knife, any other knife of like kind, dirk, pistol, other fire-arms of like kind. Violators fined not exceeding fifty dollars and possibly sentenced to hard labor not exeeding sixty days.Item Open Access Penal Code, ch. 43, §§ 518, MONTGOMERY, CODE OF ORDINANCES 213, 223-29 (1888 Brown Printing Co.) (Montgomery, Alabama).(General Publisher, 1888)Any person who carries concealed about his person a bowie-knife or any other knife or instrument of like kind or description, or a pistol or fire-arms of any kind or description, or any air-gun, slung-shot, brass-knuckles, or any other deadly or dangerous weapon, must, on conviction, be fined not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred dollars; or may be sentenced to hard labor for the city for not more than one hundred days;Item Open Access Selma Code of the City, ch. 7, § 275 (1862)(General Publisher, 1862)Any person who carries concealed about his person a loaded pistol or other kind of firearm, a bowie knife, dagger, or knife of like kind, unless threatened with, or having reason to apprehend an attack, or being upon or about to start upon a journey, shall upon conviction be fined not less than ten dollars, one half of which goes to the informer, when collected.”Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876, ch. 3, § 4109(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any Bowie knife, or any other knife of like kind or description, pistol, air gun, slungshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, unless the person was threatened with, or had good reason to apprehend, an attack, or “while traveling, or setting out on a journey.” Punishable by fine of $50-300 and imprisonment of not more than 6 months.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876, ch. 3, § 4809(General Publisher, 1876)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any Bowie knife, or any other knife of like kind or description, pistol, air gun, slungshot, brass knuckles, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, unless the person was threatened with, or had good reason to apprehend, an attack, or “while traveling, or setting out on a journey.” Punishable by fine of $50-300 and imprisonment of not more than 6 months.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876: with References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State upon the Construction of the Statutes; and in Which the General and Permanent Acts of the Session of 1876-7 have been Incorporated (1877) Page 882 § 4109(General Publisher, 1877)Prohibited concealed carry of a Bowie knife, any other knife or instrument of like kind or description, pistol, firearms of any other kind of description, or air gun. Violators fined not less than fifty nor more than three hundred dollars or imprisoned in county jail, or sentenced to hard labor not more than six months.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 1876: with References to the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State upon the Construction of the Statutes; and in Which the General and Permanent Acts of the Session of 1876-7 have been Incorporated (1877) Page 989 § 4809(General Publisher, 1877)Indictments of concealed carry are sufficiently charged as concealed carry of a pistol, other firearm, Bowie-knife, or other knife or instrument of like description. Also required the defendant to bear the burden of proving a "legal excuse."