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1854 Or. Terr. Stat. 257, ch. 37, An Act to Prohibit the Sale of Arms and Ammunition to Indians, §§ 1-3.
(General Publisher, 1853)
Prohibited any “white citizen” to sell, barter, or give any kind of firearm or ammunition to “an Indian.”
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1854 Or. Terr. Stat. 220, ch. 16, § 17
(General Publisher, 1853)
If any person shall go armed with dirk, dagger, sword, pistol, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault, injury, or other 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.
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1862 Or. Spec. Laws 9, An Act to Incorporate the City of Albany, § 6.
(General Publisher, 1862)
[To] regulate the storage of gun powder and other combustible materials, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in shops, stables and other places[.]
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1845-64 Or. Gen. Laws 531, ch. 43, § 527
(General Publisher, 1864)
If any person shall assault, or assault and beat another with a cowhide, whip, stick or like thing, having at the time in his possession a pistol, dirk or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate and prevent such other from resisting or defending himself, such person upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than one, nor more than ten years.
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1845-64 Or. Gen. Laws 530-31, ch. 43, § 524-25
(General Publisher, 1864)
If any person shall challenge another to fight a duel, or transmit the message for another shall be guilty of a misdemeanor
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Charter of the City of Portland, Street and Fire Department Laws, Ordinances, Regulations &C., at 205-206, Concerning Offences and Disorderly Conduct, § 2 (1872)
(General Publisher, 1868)
That any person or persons who shall fire any pistol, gun or rifle, or any other species of fire-arms within the following limits: the Willamette river on the east and (10) Tenth Street on the west, Caruther’s Addition on the south nd F Street on Couch’s Addition on the north, shall on conviction thereof before the Recorder, be subject to a penalty of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisonment, at the discretion of the Recorder, not exceeding twenty days. Provided that the Marshal shall permit upon the national holidays and other days of public celebration, any appropriate display of fire-arms and other instruments named in this section.]
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1868 Or. Gen. Laws 18-19, An Act to Protect the Owners of Firearms, §§ 1-2.
(General Publisher, 1868)
Every white male citizen of this state above the age of sixteen years, shall be entitled to have, hold, and keep, for his own use and defense, the following firearms, to wit: either or any one of the following-named guns, and one revolving pistol: a rifle, shot-gun (double or single barrel), yager, or musket; the same to be exempt from execution, in all cases, under the laws of Oregon. § 2. No officer, civil or military, or other person, shall take from or demand of the owner any fire-arms mentioned in this act, except where the services of the owner are also required to keep the peace or defend the state.
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1872 Or. Laws 26, An Act for the Protection of Game and Fish, § 6.
(General Publisher, 1872)
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons, at any time, to place, or use, in any of the streams or rivers of this State, any drugs, charms, or powder, or to use any giant blasting or gun powder, or other explosive material, for the purpose of catching, killing or destroying fish; and any person violating the provision of this section, shall be fined twenty dollars for the first offence, double that sum for the second and treble that sum for the each succeeding offense, to which may be added imprisonment for any time not exceeding ninety days.
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Charter of the City of Portland, Street and Fire Department Laws, Ordinances, Regulations &C., at 225-27, To Regulate The Storage And Sale Of Gunpowder, And Other Explosive Material, §§ 1-10 (1872)
(General Publisher, 1872)
Regulated the keeping and sale of gunpowder
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Ordinances of the Town of Jacksonville, at 44-45, Ordinance No. 53, § 9 (1876)
(General Publisher, 1876)
All persons are forbidden to shoot or fire off any gun within said cemetery enclosures, or put or turn loose any animal therein.
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1878 Or. Laws 136, Special Laws, An Act to Incorporate the Town of Independence, in the County of Polk, and State of Oregon, § 4.
(General Publisher, 1878)
[T]o regulate the storage of gunpowder and other combustible material, and the use of candles, lamps and other lights in shops, halls and other places[.]
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Ordinance No. 317: An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, THE DAILY ASTORIAN, Feb. 22, 1879, at 3, § 2 (Astoria, OR)
(General Publisher, 1879)
That any person or persons who shall fire any pistol, gun or rifle or any other kind of fire-arms within the corporate limits of the city, shall on conviction thereof before the Police court, be fined not less than five nor more than fifty dollars
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Charter and Ordinances of the City of Portland and Table of Grades: Together with the Rules of Order, Reports of officers, etc., at 207, Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, § 2 (1879)
(General Publisher, 1879)
That any person or persons who shall fire any pistol, gun or rifle, or any other species of fire-arms, within the corporate limits of the city, shall, on conviction thereof before the Police Court, be fined not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars: Provided, That all circumstances of necessity may be plead as a defense to the offense described in this section; and, provided further, that the Chief of Police may permit upon the national holidays and other days of public celebration any appropriate display of firearms named in this section.
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Ordinance No. 317: An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, THE DAILY ASTORIAN, Feb. 22, 1879, at 3, § 9 (Astoria, OR)
(General Publisher, 1879)
That any person or persons who shall carry any fire arms, knife, dirk, knuckles, slung-shot or any other dangerous weapon in a concealed manner about their or his person, within the corporate limits of the city, without a permit, which permit shall be issued by the auditor and clerk of the city upon the recommendation, in writing, of the chief of police, and upon the presentation of the treasurer’s receipt, that the applicant therefore, has paid into the city treasurer the sum of five dollars for a yearly permit, or the sum of one dollar for a permit extending over the period of one month, shall upon conviction thereof before the police court, be fined not less than two nor more than twenty-five dollars, or by a term of imprisonment not exceeding twenty days, provided this section shall not apply to the officers of the law.
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Ordinance No. 317: An Ordinance Concerning Offenses and Disorderly Conduct, THE DAILY ASTORIAN, Feb. 22, 1879, at 3, § 7 (Astoria, OR)
(General Publisher, 1879)
Any person or persons who shall draw any kind of fire arms, or any dirk, dagger, knife or other deadly weapon upon the person of another, or who shall strike at the person of another with slung-shot, knuckles or any other dangerous weapon, within the corporate limits of the city, shall on conviction thereof before the police judge be fined not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not more than twenty days, or both.
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Ordinance no. 26, § 6, DALLES CITY, CHARTER & GENERAL ORDINANCES (Himes the Printer 1882).
(General Publisher, 1881)
Shooting galleries shall pay a quarterly license of five dollars. Every place or building where guns or pistols are kept for shooting at targets, whether for hire or not, shall be deemed a shooting gallery under this ordinance.
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1885 Or. Laws 33, An Act to Prevent Persons from Carrying Concealed Weapons and to Provide for the Punishment of the Same, §§ 1-2
(General Publisher, 1885)
Prohibited the concealed carry of any revoler, pistol, or other firearm, or any knife, dirk, dagger, slung-shot, or metal knuckles, or any instrument which could inflict injury upon another. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than ten dollars but no more than two hundred dollars, and/or jailed not less than five days but no more than one hudnred days.
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1885 Or. Laws 263-64, An Act to Incorporate the City of Junction and Repeal An Act Entitled “An Act to Incorporate the City of Junction;” approved October 20, 1872, § 6.
(General Publisher, 1885)
[The] Mayor and common council . . . shall have exclusive power within the corporate limits of said city . . . to regulate . . . the discharge of firearms or other preparation of gunpowder or combustibles of any kind[.]
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ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, no. 152, § 39 (C. W. Watts 1887).
(General Publisher, 1887)
Each of the following shall be conclusively deemed and taken to be a deadly or dangerous weapon within the meaning of the provisions of sections 3 and 7 of this ordinance, to-wit: Any pistol, whether loaded or not, any dirk, dagger, bowie-knife, slung-shot, brass or iron knuckles; and any and all other weapons which the evidence may show to be dangerous to life or limb shall be considered and deemed to be deadly or dangerous weapons within the meaning of said section."
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ALBANY, CHARTER AND GENERAL ORDINANCES, no. 152, § 8 (C. W. Watts 1887).
(General Publisher, 1887)
That any person or persons who shall fire off or discharge any ordinary gun, pistol, rifle or other firearm within the corporate limits of the City of Albany, or shall ignite, fire or explode, or cause to be fired or exploded, any firecrackers, bombs, torpedoes or other fire or detonating works of any description whatever in that portion of the city bounded by Third Street on the south, Jackson Street on the east, Vine Street on the west and the Willamette River on the north, shall, upon conviction thereof before the Recorder's court, be fined not less than five or more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned in the city jail not less than two…**