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William Stanley, City Attorney, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Leavenworth Page 42 § 1-2
(General Publisher, 1859)
Prohibited the carry of concealed weapons. Prohibited any person guilty of carrying a pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, colt, slung-shot, metal knuckles, or any other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than five, nor more than two hundred dollars.
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William Stanley, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Leavenworth, Page 76 § 4
(General Publisher, 1859)
Prohibited discharging any firearms, firecrackers, squibs, through fireballs, or other combustible substance, or setting any bonfires. Violators fine not less than three nor more than twenty-five dollars.
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1860 Kan. Sess. Laws 138, An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Several Acts Relating to the City of Lawrence, § 35, pt. 19
(General Publisher, 1860)
Granted the city of Lawrence the authority to regulate the discharging of firearms, rockets, gunpowder, fireworks within the streets or vicinity of any building.
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1860 Kan. Sess. Laws 137, An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Several Act Relating to the City of Lawrence, § 35, pt. 7
(General Publisher, 1860)
Granted the city of Lawrence the authority to regulate the keeping and conveying of gun powder and other combustible and dangerous materials.
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Samuel Kimball, Charter, Other Powers, and Ordinances of the City of Lawrence (1866) Page 149, § 10
(General Publisher, 1863)
Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than one nor more than ten dollars.
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C. B. Pierce, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Leavenworth, with an Appendix, at 45 (1863), An Ordinance Relating to Misdemeanors, § 23
(General Publisher, 1863)
Prohibited the carrying of any concealed “pistol, dirk, bowie knife, revolver, slung shot, billy, brass, lead or iron knuckles, or any other deadly weapon within this city.” Punishable by a fine of $3-100.
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The General Statutes of the State of Kansas, to Which the Constitutions of the United State of Kansas, Together with the Organic Act of the Territory of Kansas, the Treaty Ceding the Territory of Louisiana to the United States, and the Act Admitting Kansas into the Union are Prefixed (1868) Page 378, § 282
(General Publisher, 1868)
Prohibited carrying a pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, or other deadly weapon while engaged in illegitimate business, under the influence of intoxicating drinks, or engaged in insurrection against the United States. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not exceeding one hundred ddollars, or imprisoned not exceeding three months, or both fine and imprisonment.
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1 General Statutes of the State of Kansas 378 (1868)
(General Publisher, 1868)
Prohibited possession of a "pistol, bowie-knife, dirk or other deadly weapon" by “[a]ny person who is not engaged in any legitimate business, any person under the influence of intoxicating drink, and any person who has ever borne arms against the government of the United States.”
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Ordinance no. 1, § 6, THE MINING ECHO, Jul. 7, 1877 at 1 (Empire City, Kansas).
(General Publisher, 1870)
Any person who shall carry any concealed pistol, dirk, or other deadly weapon, within the limits of thi- city, shall he deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not less than $10 nor more than $50.
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An Ordinance Relating to the Carrying of Fire Arms and Other Deadly Weapons, THE ABILENE CHRONICLE, May 12, 1870, at 1 (Abilene, Kansas) § 3
(General Publisher, 1870)
Prohibited intentionally discharging any pistol, revolver, or gun in any street, alley, highway, lot, house, or toher place where life or limb could be endangered. Violators fined not less than ten dollars nor more than one hundred dollars.
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Ordinance no. 1, § 8, THE MINING ECHO, Jul. 7, 1877 at 1 (Empire City, Kansas).
(General Publisher, 1870)
Any person who shall, while exercising the right to carry firearms, not concealed, be intoxicated, or shall do any act or thing calculated to cause apprehension or alarm to any citizen within the limits of this city shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction be fined in a sum not less than $3.00 nor more than $20.00.
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An Ordinance Relating to the Carrying of Fire Arms and Other Deadly Weapons, THE ABILENE CHRONICLE, May 12, 1870, at 1 (Abilene, Kansas) § 1
(General Publisher, 1870)
Prohibited the carry of any pistol, revolver, gun, musket, dirk, Bowie-knife, or other dangerous weapon. Violators fined in a sum not less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars. The arms in question shall be seized by the police captain.
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Ordinance no. 1, § 7, THE MINING ECHO, Jul. 7, 1877 at 1 (Empire City, Kansas).
(General Publisher, 1870)
Any person who shall discharge any gun, pistol, or other firearms, within the limits of this city, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, be fined in a sum not less than $5.00 nor more than $20.
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Ordinance no. 66, §§ 1-3, DODGE CITY TIMES, Aug. 17, 1882, at 5 (Dodge City, Kansas).
(General Publisher, 1876)
That any person who shall in the city of Dodge City, carry concealed or otherwise about his or her person, any pistol, bowie knife, slung shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, except County, City, or United States officers, shall be fined in a sum not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars.
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Revised Ordinances of the City of Salina, Together with the Act Governing Cities of the Second Class: Also a Complete List of the Officers of Salina During its Organization as a Town and City of the Second and Third Class Page 99, Image 100 (1879)
(General Publisher, 1879)
That it shall be unlawful for any person to carry on or about his person any pistol, bowie knife, dirk, or other deadly or dangerous weapon, anywhere within the limits of the city of Salina, save and except as hereinafter provided.
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Ordinance No. 12: An Ordinance to Suppress Criminal and Improper Practices in the City of Beloit, BELOIT WEEKLY DEMOCRAT, May 16, 1879, at 4 (Beloit, Kansas). § 31
(General Publisher, 1879)
That any person who shall within said city, carry concealed on or about his or her person, a revolver, pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, slung-shot, brass, lead or iron knuckles, or any other dangerous weapon, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
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Ordinance No. 12: An Ordinance to Suppress Criminal and Improper Practices in the City of Beloit, BELOIT WEEKLY DEMOCRAT, May 16, 1879, at 4 (Beloit, Kansas). § 57
(General Publisher, 1879)
That any person who shall within the city of Beloit, shoot off, fire or discharge any cannon, gun fowling piece, revolver or pistol of any kind, or firearms of any description, or fire explode or set off any squib, fire cracker or other thing containing powder, or other combustible or explosive material, without permission from the Mayor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor..."
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1881 Kan. Sess. Laws §§1, 23, pp. 79, 92
(General Publisher, 1881)
Mandated that the Council shall prohibit and punish the carrying of firearms, other dangerous and deadly weapons.
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Ordinance No. 6, THE WYANDOTT HERALD, Aug. 24, 1882, at 2. (Argentine, KS), § 9
(General Publisher, 1882)
Any person in this city who shall draw any pistol or other weapon in a hostile manner, or shall make any demonstration or threat of using such weapon on or against any person, or any person who shall carry on his or her person in a concealed manner, any pistol, dirk, bowie-knife, revolver, slung-shot, billy, brass, lead or iron knuckles, or any deadly weapon within the city, shall be, on conviction, fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars; provided that this Ordinance shall not be so construed as to prohibit officers of the law, while on duty, from being armed, nor any citizen having a permit from the Mayor...
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Ordinance No. 6, THE WYANDOTT HERALD, Aug. 24, 1882, at 2. (Argentine, KS), § 7
(General Publisher, 1882)
Any person who in this city shall discharge any firearms in any public place, or in the direction of any house or public place in this city, except gunsmiths in the prosecution of their trade, and except as otherwise expressly provided, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and, on conviction, be fined any sum not exceeding twenty dollars...