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Ordinance No. III: Crimes and Misdemeanors, GREENVILLE TIMES, Dec. 31, 1881, at 2 (Greenville, Mississippi).

, | | 1881

    "...Sec. 6. Be it further ordained, That it shall be unlawful to fly kites, play ball, throw missiles, or discharge any fire-arms, or other explosives, (except fireworks on national holidays) or cause dogs to fight in the streets of the town, or ...

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Ordinance no. 12, § 2, & Ordinance no. 25, OXFORD EAGLE, Jul. 7, 1898, at 2 (Oxford, Mississippi).

, , | | 1898

"...An Ordinance of the town of Oxford declaring certain offences, committed within the limits of the town to be misdemeanors, and providing a penalty against those who are guilty of them.

12 Be it ordained, by the M...

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Act of April 7, 1916, ch. 245, § 14(d), Miss. Laws 383, 388-389 (providing a military code for the state of Mississippi).

| | 1916

"(d) It shall be unlawful for any body of men whatsoever, other than the regularly organized land and naval militia of this state, the land and naval forces of the United States, and the students of public or of regularly chartered educational institut...

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Laws regulating carrying and brandishing firearms, who can own them, where they can be brought, etc., Ch. 20, §§ 293-300, in The Charter and Code of the Ordinances of Yazoo City (1908).

, , , , | | 1908

"Deadly weapons; carrying of concealed.
Sec. 293. Any person who carries concealed, in whole or in part, any bowie knife, dirk knife, butcher knife, pistol, brass or metallic knuckles, slungshot, sword, or other deadly weapon of...

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Constitution & Laws of the Institution of Learning Under the Care of the Mississippi Presbytery, Oakland College (Miss.), at 10 (1831)

, | , | 1831

Chapter XI. Of Misdemeanors, Offences and Punishments. 

Sec. 1. Neglect of study-interrupting the studies of others-profaneness-playing at games of cards or chance-duelling, or aiding or abetting it-wearing or carrying a dirk or other...

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R.H. Thompson, The Annotated Code of the General Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi 327, § 1030 (1892)

| | 1892

1030 (2988). The same; college students not to have, etc.-A student of any university, college, or school, who shall carry, bring, receive, own, or have on the campus, college or school grounds, or within two miles thereof, any weapon the carrying of w...

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1926 Miss. Laws 272, An Act Defining the Crime of Burglary with Explosives and Providing the Punishment Therefor, ch. 176, §§ 1-2.

| | 1926

§ 1. [A]ny person, who, with intent to commit crime, breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building, whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by the use of nitroglycerine, dynamite, ...

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1924 Miss. Laws 554, An Act Creating Bird and Game Sanctuaries, Providing That Parks and Play Grounds of Certain Dimensions Shall Constitute Such Sanctuaries, and For the Protection of Birds and Game Therein, ch. 323, § 2.

| | 1924

It shall be unlawful for any person to hunt with gun or dog on any sanctuary or preserve for birds and game, or to rob or destroy the nests of any birds, or to catch, snare, trap, or net any birds within any such prescribed limits, and any person found...

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1906 Miss. Laws 367, Privilege Taxes, ch. 114, § 3887.

| | 1906

Dealers in Deadly Weapons: On each person or firm dealing in pistols, dirk knives, sword canes, brass or metallic knuckles, or other deadly weapons (shotguns and rifles excepted) - 100.00. And which shall be in addition to all and any other taxes or pr...

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1900 Miss. Laws 51-52, An Act to Amend Chapter 32 of the Acts of 1894 Relating to Personal Assessment Rolls, ch. 49, § 1.

| | 1900

The auditor of the public accounts shall, by the first day of February in each year, furnish the clerk of the board of supervisors of each county with three copies of blank assessment rolls, and counties having two judicial districts shall be furnished...

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Robert Harvey. Thompson, The Annotated Code of the General Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi Page 367, Image 371 (1892) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1892

Pistols, toy; Sale of and of Cartridges or Caps for Prohibited, § 1247. If any person shall sell, or offer or expose for sale, any toy pistol, or cartridges or caps, or other contrivance by which such pistols are fired or made to cause an explosio...

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Miss. Const. of 1890, art. III, § 12.

| | 1890

The right of every citizen to keep and bear arms in defense of his home, person or property, or in aid of the civil power when thereto legally summoned, shall not be called in question, but the legislature may regulate or forbid carrying concealed weap...

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Josiah A.Patterson Campbell, The Revised Code of the Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi: With References to Decisions of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and of the Supreme Court, Applicable to the Statutes Page 775, Image 775 (1880) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1888

[Crimes and Misdemeanors, §2983. If any person assaults and beats another with a cowhide, whip or stick, having at the time in his possession a pistol or other deadly weapon, with intent to intimidate the person assaulted, and prevent him from def...

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An Act To Amend § 557 and 585, Code of 1880, so as to Increase the Public Revenue, and Provide for the Faithful Collection of the Same, ch. 2, § 1, 1886 Miss. Laws 12, 19.

| | 1886

"CHAPTER II.
AN ACT to amend Section 557 and 585, Code of 1880, so as to increase the public revenue, and provide for the faithful collection of the same:

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Sta...

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Josiah A. Patterson Campbell, The Revised Code of the Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi: With References to Decisions of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, and of the Supreme Court, Applicable to the Statutes Page 776, Image 776 (1880) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1880

Carrying Concealed Weapons, §2985. Any person, not being threatened with, or having good and sufficient reason to apprehend an attack, or travelling (not being a tramp) or setting out on a journey, or a peace officer, or deputy in discharge of his...

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1878 Miss. Laws 176, An Act To Prevent The Carrying Of Concealed Weapons And For Other Purposes, ch. 46, § 4.

| | 1878

[A]ny student of any university, college or school, who shall carry concealed, in whole or in part, any weapon of the kind or description in the first section of this Act described, or any teacher, instructor, or professor who shall, knowingly, suffer ...

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1878 Miss. Laws 175-76, An Act To Prevent The Carrying Of Concealed Weapons And For Other Purposes, ch. 46, §§ 1-3.

, | | 1878

§ 1. That any person not being threatened with, or having good and sufficient reason to apprehend an attack, or traveling (not being a tramp) or setting out on a long journey, or peace officers, or deputies in discharge of their duties, who carries co...

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Amos Randall Johnston, The Revised Code of the Statute Laws of the State of Mississippi : As Adopted at January Session, A.D. 1871 Page 559-560, Image 559-560 (1871) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

| | 1871

Dueling and Challenging to Fight, § 2531. Every person, who shall challenge another to fight a duel, or who shall send, deliver, or cause to be delivered, any written or verbal messages, purporting or intended to be such challenge, or who shall ac...

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1867 Miss. Laws 327-28, An Act To Tax Guns And Pistols in The County Of Washington, ch. 249, § 1.

| | 1867

[A] tax of not less than five dollars or more than fifteen dollars shall be levied and assessed annually by the board of Police of Washington county upon every gun and pistol which may be in the possession of any person in said county, which tax shall ...

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