ACTS PASSED AT THE CALLED SESSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ALABAMA 7 (Tuscaloosa: Ferguson & Eaton, 1837) (June 30, 1837).

Abstract

§1 Mandated that any person carrying a Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick who cuts or stabs another, causing them to die, shall be adjudged as a crime of murder, with the offender having held malice aforethought. §2 that any person selling a Bowie knife or Arkansas toothpick shall pay a tax of one hundred dollars.