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Item Open Access Ordinances and Joint Resolutions of the City of San Francisco: Together with a List of the Officers of the City and County, and Rules and Orders of the Common Council 220, Ordinance No. 498, section 13 (December 29, 1853), at 220 (Monson & Valentine 1854)(General Publisher, 1853)Required a license to operate a shooting gallery within city limits.Item Open Access Ordinance No. 237, San Jose Common Council & Mayor (1854).(General Publisher, 1854)That from and after the approval of this Ordinance the Marshall shall every month make out a list of the houses, in which Gunpowder is kept, with the quantity, and shall report the same to the Mayor, and the Mayor shall deliver a copy of such list to the Foreman of the Fire Company.Item Open Access Ordinance No. 264, San Jose Common Council & Mayor (1854).(General Publisher, 1854)No person shall discharge any fire arms of any description whatever in that portion of the city included within Main St & the Guadalupe river, and between Julian & William streetsItem Open Access Ordinances and Joint Resolutions of the City of San Francisco; Together with a List of the Officers of the City and County, and Rules and Orders of the Common Council Page 220, Image 256 (1854) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.(General Publisher, 1854)Every person, house, or firm engaged in keeping a pistol or rifle shooting gallery, shall pay for a license to carry on the same, the sum of ten dollars per quarter, in addition to the amount of the powder license.Item Open Access 1851 Cal. Stat. 360–61, An Act to Reincorporate the City of San Francisco, § 13(General Publisher, 1851)Granted the city of San Francisco authority to regulate houses for the storage of gun-powder and other combustibles.Item Open Access 1849 Cal. Stat. 245, An Act to Incorporate the City of San Francisco, § 127(General Publisher, 1849)Prohibited the carrying, with intent to assault any person, any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault another person.. Punished by fine of up to $100 and imprisonment for up to 3 months.Item Open Access William H. R. Wood (Editor), Digest of the Laws of California: Containing All Laws of a General Character Which were in Force on the First Day of January, 1858, 334 (1861), art. 1904(General Publisher, 1855)Prohibited brandishing in a rude, threatening, or angry manner a dirk, dirk-knife, Bowie-knife, sword, sword-cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon in the presence of two or more people. Violators fined not less than one hundred nor more than five hudnred dollars or imprisoned not less then one month nor more than six months.Item Open Access 1855 Cal. Stat. 152–53, ch. 127, §§ 1–3(General Publisher, 1855)Provided that a person who killed another in a duel with “a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, small-sword, back-sword or other dangerous weapon” would pay the decedent’s debts and be liable to the decedent’s family for liquidated damages.Item Open Access S. Garfielde, Compiled Laws of the State of California: Containing All the Acts of the Legislature of a Public and General Nature, Now in Force, Passed at the Sessions of 1850-51-52-53, § 127(General Publisher, 1853)Prohibited carrying of pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with intent to assault. Punishable by fine of up to $100 or imprisonment for up to 3 months.Item Open Access S. Garfielde (Editor), Compiled Laws of the State of California: Containing All the Acts of the Legislature of a Public and General Nature, Now in Force, Passed at the Sessions of 1850–51–52–53, 643–44 (1853), ch. 125,div. 4, §§ 40–41(General Publisher, 1850)Prohibited dueling. Should the opponent be killed, violators and their seconds shall be punished in state prison for a term not less than one year but no more than five years.