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Item Open Access 1839 Terr. of Wis. Stat. 381, An Act to Prevent the Commission of Crimes, § 16(General Publisher, 1838)If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury, or violence to his person, or to his family, or property, he may, on complaint of any other person having reasonable cause to fear an injury or breach of the peace, be required to find sureties for keeping the peace for a term not exceeding six months, with the right of appealing as before provided.Item Open Access How Firearms May Be Used and what Quantity of Gun Powder May Be Kept, Ordinances of the City of Kenosha, Ordinance no. 8, §1 & §5 (1858).(General Publisher, 1858)That no person shall fire or discharge any cannon, rifle, gun, pistol, or fire arms of any description, or fire, explode, or set off any squib, cracker, or other thing containing powder or other combustible or explosive material in any street, alley, or public ground within this city south of a line running through Lemon street from the lake to the west line of the corporation, and east of West Main Street. § 5 No person shall be allowed to keep any gunpowder in any occupied building within the limits of this city without permission of the council;-- and no person shall keep in any such building a greater quantity than ten pounds; which shall be kept in a close tin canister or canisters.Item Open Access 1876 Wis. Sess. Laws 737, ch. 313, § 3, pt. 59(General Publisher, 1876)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry “of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.”Item Open Access 1876 Wis. Sess. Laws 218, ch. 103, § 3, pt. 43(General Publisher, 1876)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry “of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.”Item Open Access 1877 Wis. Sess. Laws 367, ch. 162, §, pt. 49(General Publisher, 1877)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry “of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.”Item Open Access 1874 Wis. Sess. Laws 334(General Publisher, 1874)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry “of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.”Item Open Access Charter and Ordinances of the City of Milwaukee, and Amendatory Acts, Together with a List of Officers and Rules and Regulations of the Common Council, at 126, An Ordinance for the Prevention of Fire, § 3 (1852)(General Publisher, 1852)No person shall fire or set off any squib, cracker, or gun-powder, or fire-work, or build any bonfire within one hundred feet of any building in this city, under the penalty of five dollars for each and every offence; and the Mayor, Marshal or any Aldermen or Fire Warden may restrain or prohibit any fire work or bonfire in any part of the city, whenever, in their opinion there shall be danger therefrom.Item Open Access 1878 Wis. Sess. Laws 119–20, ch. 112, § 3, pt. 55(General Publisher, 1878)Allowed the city to regulate the concealed carry “of any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles, or knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.”Item Open Access 1872 Wis. Sess. Laws 17, ch.7, § 1(General Publisher, 1872)Prohibited the concealed carry of a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, revolver, slung-shot, brass knuckles, or other offensive and dangerous weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment in state prison not more than two years, or one year in the county jail, or find not exceeding five hudnred dollars with costs of prosecution. Sureties of the peace may be required up to two years post-conviction.Item Open Access REVISED STATUTES OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN, PASSED AT THE EXTRA SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE COMMENCING JUNE 4, 1878, AND APPROVED JUNE 7, 1878, at 1121, ch. 196, sec. 4834 (1878)(General Publisher, 1878)Prohibited the carry of any dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive or dangerous weapons. Violators required to post sureties for a term not exceeding six months, with right of appeal.