An Act to Punish Assaults Committed with Concealed Weapons, no. 4433, § 1, 1858 S.C. Acts 743, 743 (R. W. Gibbes).

“AN ACT to punish Assaults committed with Concealed Weapons.^[1]

    I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That if any person shall hereafter make an assault upon another person with any deadly weapon, carried concealed about the person, every such person upon conviction, under indictment, shall be fined not less than two hundred, and not more than two thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned for a period not exceeding six months, at the discretion of the Court, and shall moreover be required by the Court to find sureties for the peace and for good behavior for one year after the termination of such imprisonment.

In the Senate House, the twenty-first day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight, and in the eighty-third year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America.”