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 This community includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Alabama's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.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 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 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 Alexander McKinstry, The Code of Ordinances of the City of Mobile, with the Charter, and an Appendix (1859) Page 118(General Publisher, 1859)Prohibited the discharge of any gun, pistol, fowling-piece, or fire-arm.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 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 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 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.