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Item Open Access 1864 Montana Acts 182 § 35(General Publisher, 1864)Prohibited dueling and killing a person with a rifle, shotgun, pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, small sword, backsword, or other dangerous weapon. Violators guilty of murder in the first degree.Item Open Access 1864 Mont. Laws 355, An Act to Prevent the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons in the Cities and Towns of This Territory, § 1(General Publisher, 1864)Prohibited the carrying of a concealed “any pistol, bowie -knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon” within any town or village in the territory. Punishable by fine of $25-100.Item Open Access 1864 Mont. Laws 355, § 1 [Deadly weapons](General Publisher, 1865)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, Bowie-knife, dagger, or other deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than twenty-five but no more than one hundred dollars.Item Open Access Laws, Memorials, and Resolutions, of the Territory of Montana, Passed at the Seventh Session of the Legislative Assembly, Begun at Virginia City, Monday, December 4, 1871, and Concluded January 12, 1872, at 279, ch. 4, § 59 (1872)(General Publisher, 1872)If any person shall assault and beat another with a cowhide, stick, or whip, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with an attempt to intimidate and prevent the person assaulted from defending himself, such person shall, on conviction thereof, be imprisoned in the territorial prison not less than one nor more than ten years.Item Open Access Laws, Memorials, and Resolutions of the Territory of Montana, passed at the Seventh Session of the Legislative Assembly, begun at Virginia City, Monday, December 4, 1871, and Concluded January 12, 1872, at 562, ch. 63, § 1(General Publisher, 1872)It shall be the duty of any keeper of the arsenal, military stores, ammunition, arms and ordnance belonging to this territory . . . to report to the governor in writing the amount of such military stores and ammunition, and a list and description of such arms and ordinance in his possession and within his knowledgeItem Open Access 1874 Mont. Laws 46, An Act to Prevent Parties from Shooting within the Limits of Towns and Private Enclosures, § 1 (1873)(General Publisher, 1873)That it shall be unlawful for any person to fire any gun, pistol or any fire-arm, of whatever description, within the limits of any town, city, or village in this territory, or within the limits of any private enclosure which shall contain a dwelling house.Item Open Access 1879 Mont. Laws 359, ch. 4, § 23(General Publisher, 1879)Prohibited dueling and killing a person involved with a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, Bowie knife, dirk, small-sword, back-sword, or other dangerous weapon. Punishable by death by hanging.Item Open Access Concealed Weapons, Ordinance No. 4 of The Charter and Ordinances of the City of Helena, § 1 (1883)(General Publisher, 1883)No person shall in this city wear under his clothes, or concealed on or about his person, any pistol or revolver, except by special permission from the mayor; nor shall any person wear under his clothes, or concealed on or about his person, any slung shot, cross knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, or any bowie knife, razor, billy, dirk, dirk-knife or dagger, or any knife resembling a bowie knife, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item Open Access 1885 Mont. Laws 74-75, Deadly Weapons, An Act to Amend § 62 of Chapter IV of the Fourth Division of the Revised Statutes, § 1(General Publisher, 1885)Prohibited possessing, carrying, or purchasing a dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon, and from using the weapon in a threatening manner or in a fight. Punishable by fine of $10-100 and/or imprisonment for 1-3 months.Item Open Access 1887 Mont. Laws 549, Criminal Laws, § 174(General Publisher, 1887)Prohibited the carrying of a any pistol, gun, knife, dirk-knife, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault a person. Punishable by fine up to $100 or imprisonment up to 3 months.Item Open Access 1887 Mont. Laws 68, Extraordinary Session, An Act to Amend an Act Entitled An Act Concerning the Storage of Gunpowder, § 2.(General Publisher, 1887)No person, company, or corporation shall store, deposit or keep within the limits of any city, town or village, gunpowder, nitroglycerine, guncotton, dynamite, and other dangerous or powerful explosives exceeding fifty pounds, and no magazine or storehouse where such explosives are stored or kept, shall hereafter be located nearer than one-half mile from such city, town or villageItem Open Access 1888 Mont. Comp. Stat. 513, ch. 4, § 66.(General Publisher, 1888)It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of any city, town or village in this territory, to bear concealed upon his person any dirk, dagger, pistol, revolver, or other deadly weapon.Item Open Access MONT. CONST. OF 1889, art. III, § 13(General Publisher, 1889)The right of any person to keep or bear arms in defense of his own home, person, and property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but nothing herein contained shall be held to permit the carrying of concealed weaponsItem Open Access Ordinance No. 30: Concealed Weapons, RED LODGE PICKET, Sep. 12, 1893, at 3, § 2 (Red Lodge, Montana)(General Publisher, 1893)Any person who shall within the limits of this town discharge, or fire, or cause to be discharged or fired any pistol, revolver, gun, rifle or any other firearm shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction be fined not less than five dollars ($5.00) nor more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) or be imprisoned in the town jail not more than thirty days or both in the discretion of the Court.Item Open Access Ordinance No. 30: Concealed Weapons, RED LODGE PICKET, Sep. 12, 1893, at 3, § 1 (Red Lodge, Montana)(General Publisher, 1893)It shall be unlawful after the passage of this ordinance for any person, within the limits of this town, to carry concealed on his person or under his clothes any pistol or revolver, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, except by permission from the Mayor in writing, which permit shall state the period of time for which it is grantedItem Open Access The Complete Codes and Statutes if the State of Montana In Forcce July 1, 1895, pg. 1084, pt. 1, tit. 11, § 758(General Publisher, 1895)Every person who within the limits of any city or town carries or bears concealed about his person a dirk, dagger, pistol, revolver, or other deadly weapon is punishable by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars. This Section does not apply to peace officers in discharge of their official duty.Item Open Access The Complete Codes and Statutes if the State of Montana In Forcce July 1, 1895, pg. 1084, pt. 1, tit. 11, § 759(General Publisher, 1895)Every person who brings into this state an armed person or armed body of men for the preservation of the peace or the suppression of domestic violence, except at the solicitation and by the permission of the legislative assembly or of the governor, is punishable by imprisonment in the state prison not exceeding ten years and by a fine not exceeding ten thousand dollars.Item Open Access 1903 Mont. Laws at 49 Ch. 35, § 3(General Publisher, 1903)Prohibited entering any church, religious assembly, school room, or other place where persons are assembled for amusement or for educational or scientific purposes, or into any circus, show, or public exhbition of any kind, or into a ball room, socila party, or social gathering, or to any election precinct or any place of registration, on the day or days of any election or registration, where people of the State are collected to register or vote on any election. Prohibited weapons included pistol, other firearms, dirk, dagger, slung shot, sword cane, knuckles, or Bowie knife. Violators punished by not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars.Item Open Access 1903 Mont. Laws 135-36, An Act to Amend Section 908 of Chapter I Title VIII Part IV Division I of the Civil Code of Montana, and to Repeal Section 689 of the Penal Code, ch. 66, § 1.(General Publisher, 1903)If any railroad corporation within this State shall . . . transport within this State on any of its passenger cars, any oil of vitrol, gun powder, Lucifer matches, nitro glycerine, glynon oil, nytroleum or blasting oil, or nitrates oil, or powder mixed with any such oil, or fiber saturated therewith, or duolin or giant powder, or blasting powder, or any other goods in a dangerous nature . . . shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,Item Open Access Chapter 22—Concealed Weapons, §§ 526-534 in Codified Ordinances of the City of Anaconda (1905)(General Publisher, 1905)It shall be unlawful for any person within the limits of the City of Anaconda to carry or wear under his clothes or concealed about his person, any pistol, revolver, slung-shot, cross-knuckles, knuckles of lead, brass or other metal, bowie knife, dirk knife or dirk, razor or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon. Also provided licensure requirements and other information regarding concealed carry