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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 Selma Code of the City, ch. 7, § 244(General Publisher, 1862)Any person who shall commit an assault or assault and battery with firearms or other deadly weapon, shall on conviction be fined not less than twenty-five 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) Page 50 § 129(General Publisher, 1861)Prohibited the discharge of any gun, pistol, or any kind of fire-arms within city limits. Violators fined five dollars.Item Open Access Wade Keyes, The Code of Alabama, 883 (1876), ch. 3, § 4111 (Act of Aug. 5, 1868, at 1)(General Publisher, 1868)Prohibited the carrying of any rifle or “shot -gun walking cane.” Punishable by fine of $500-1000 and imprisonment of no less than 2 years.Item Open Access Alabama Acts of the General Assembly 329-35 (1868)(General Publisher, 1868)Required licenses for dealers in firearms. Licenses were priced at twenty dollars.Item Open Access 1867 Ala. Rev. Code 169(General Publisher, 1867)Tax of $2 on pistols or revolvers in the possession of private persons, excluding dealers, and a tax of $3 on “all bowie knives, or knives of the like description.” Non -payment was punishable by seizure and, unless payment was made within 10 days with a penalty of an additional 50%, subject to sale by public auction.Item Open Access 1866–1867 Ala. Laws 260 & 263, ch. 2, § 2(10)(General Publisher, 1867)Tax of $2 on pistols or revolvers in the possession of private persons, excluding dealers, and a tax of $3 on “all bowie knives, or knives of the like description.” Non -payment was punishable by seizure and, unless payment was made within 10 days with a penalty of an additional 50%, subject to sale by public auction.Item Open Access George Washington Stone, The Penal Code of Alabama (1866) Page 63 § 204(General Publisher, 1866)Prohibited selling, giving, or lending any pistol, Bowie-knife, or other knife of like kind to a minor under eighteen years of age. Violators fined not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1865-66 Ala. Laws 7, ch. 1 (Feb. 22, 1866)(General Publisher, 1866)Imposed an annual tax of two dollars on each person who is not a regular dealer but in possession of pistols and revolvers. Imposed an annual tax of three dollars on each person who is not a regular dealer but in possession of bowie knives or knives of like description.Item Open Access 1861 Ala. Laws 214-15, ch. 22 (Nov. 27, 1861)(General Publisher, 1861)Appropriated $6000 to purchase Bowie knives and Bowie knife pikes for the 48th regiment of the Alabama militia at an inflated price of $3 per Bowie knife due to Bowie knife restrictions. The average value of a Bowie knife was fifty cents in other states. .