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1883 Wis. Sess. Law 1034, An Act to Incorporate the City of Nicolet, ch. 351, § 32, pt. 45.

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To regulate and prohibit the carrying or wearing by any person, under his clothes, or concealed about his person, of any pistol, sling-shot, or knuckles, bowie-knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagger, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon, and to provid...

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1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 986, 990, vol. 2, An Act to Incorporate the City of Sturgeon Bay, ch 341, § 52, pt. 40, 83.

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pt. 40: To prevent bonfires and the use of firearms and fireworks in the city or in any place or part thereof which may be dangerous to the city or any property therein, or annoying to the citizens thereof. pt. 83: To prohibit and prevent the carrying ...

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1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 713, vol. 2, An Act to Revise, Consolidate and Amend the Charter of the City of Oshkosh, the Act Incorporating the City, and the Several Acts Amendatory Thereof, ch. 6, § 3, pt. 56.

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To regulate or prohibit the carrying or wearing by any person under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol or colt, or slung shot, or cross knuckles or knuckles of lead, brass, or other metal or bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk or dagge...

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1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 369-70, vol. 2, An Act to Revise, Consolidate and Amend the City Charter of the City of Fond du Lac, ch. 152, ch. [sic] 6, § 8, pt. 16.

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To prevent and prohibit the manufacture, keeping or storing of nitro-glycerine, and to regulate the keeping and storing of gunpowder, gun cotton, burning fluids, coal oils and other dangerous explosive materials, in said city, and to provide for the in...

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1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 315, vol. 2, An Act to Revise, Consolidate and Amend the Charter of the City Of Wausau, ch. 151, tit. 5, § 38.

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The powers conferred upon the said council to provide for the abatement or removal of nuisances, shall not bar or hinder suits, prosecutions or proceedings in the courts according of law. Depots, houses or buildings of any kind, wherein more than twent...

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1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 290

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Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any minor, within this state, to go armed with any pistol or revolver, and it shall be the duty of all sheriffs, constables, or other public police officers, to take from any minor, any pistol or revolver, found in h...

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1883 Wis. Sess. Laws 841. vol. 2, An Act to Revise, Consolidate and Amend the Charter of the City of Neenah, Approved March 14, 1873, and the Several Acts Amendatory Thereof, ch. 184, tit. 12, § 162.

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Any person who shall be found in or upon any street, alley or public ground within said city, or within any saloon, shop, store, grocery, hall, church, school house, barn, building or other place within said city . . . shall use toward or in the presen...

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1858 Wis. Rev. Stat. 985, Of Proceedings to Prevent the Commission of Crime, ch. 175, § 18.

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If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury or violence to his person, or to his family or property, he may, on complai...

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Charter and Ordinances of the City of Milwaukee, and Amendatory Acts, Together with a List of Officers and Rules and Regulations of the Common Council Page 126, Image 127 (1852) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

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Ordinances of the [City of Milwaukee], An Ordinance for the Prevention of Fire, § 3. No person shall fire or set off any squib, cracker, or gun-powder, or fire-work, or build any bonfire within one hundred feet of any building in this city, under ...

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Edward Vernon Whiton, Statutes of the Territory of Wisconsin, Passed by the Legislative Assembly Thereof, at a Session Commencing in November 1838, and at an Adjourned Session Commencing in January, 1839, Page 381, Image 381 (1839) available at The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources.

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An Act to Prevent the Commission of Crimes, § 16. If any person shall go armed with a dirk, dagger, sword, pistol or pistols, or other offensive and dangerous weapon, without reasonable cause to fear an assault or other injury, or violence to his ...

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