Order of General Sickles, Disregarding the Code, January 17, 1866 – General Order No. 1, § 16 in A Handbook of Politics for 1868 at 36, 36-7 (1868 Philip & Solomons).

"XVI. The constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed; nevertheless this shall not be construed to sanction the unlawful practice of carrying concealed weapons, nor to authorize any person to enter with arms on the premises of another against his consent. No one shall bear arms who has borne arms against the Uni­ted Stales, unless he shall have taken the amnesty oath prescribed in the proclamation of the President of the United States, dated May 20, 1865, or the oath of allegiance, prescribed in the proclamation of the President, dated December 8, 1863, within the time prescribed therein. And no disorderly person, vagrant, or disturber of the peace, shall be allowed to bear arms."

Full Text: 1868, A Handbook of Politics for 1868—Order of General Sickles, Disregarding the Code, January 17, 1866 – General Order No. 1, § 16

Edward McPherson, ed., A Handbook of Politics for 1868 (Washington, DC: Philip & Solomons, 1868), 37. Order of General Sickles, Disregarding the Code, General Order No. 1, § 16. Enacted January 17, 1866.