Alabama
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The Alabama Community serves as a repository for historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the state of Alabama. This community includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Alabama's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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."