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Shooting Galleries, Ordinances of the City Council of Memphis, Ch. 4, Art. 5, §§1-8 (1867).

        "Section 1. That from and after the passage of this ordinance, no person or persons shall be allowed, under any pretence whatever, to open, set up or establish a shooting gallery in the first story of any building within the corporate limits of the City of Memphis, under a penalty of fifty dollars per day for each and every day that such shooting gallery shall be set up or continued within said corporate limits of the city.
        Sec. 2. That before a shooting gallery shall be set up or established in the cellar or basement story, or any other story of any building within the corporate limits of the City of Memphis, the proprietor or proprietors of such proposed shooting gallery shall apply to the City Tax Collector on Privileges, and obtain license therefor for the term of twelve months, as other city licenses are procured.
        Sec. 3. That such person or persons, on making application for license as above provided, to open, set up or establish a shooting gallery in the City of Memphis, shall, before receiving such license, enter into bond, with security, in the sum of one thousand dollars, payable to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Memphis; conditioned that no gambling of any kind, no sleight-of-hand nor device or practice forbidden by the laws of Tennessee or the Charter or ordinances of the City of Memphis, shall be permitted or allowed to be carried on in such shooting gallery, nor in any room or apartment connected therewith, or adjacent thereto, which may be directly or indirectly under the management or control of the keepers or proprietors of such shooting gallery. And all shooting or practicing which may be done in such shooting gallery shall be done with perfect safety and security to person and property in the vicinity or reach thereof.
        Sec. 4. That the keepers or proprietors of such shooting gallery shall not permit any minors, or persons under twenty-one years of age, to shoot, practice or experiment therein, with guns or other instruments, unless the fathers or guardians of such minors or persons are present and consent thereto.
        Sec. 5. That the license required by this ordinance for opening or setting up a shooting gallery, shall be one hundred dollars per annum, which shall be paid to the Tax Collector on Privileges, before license to open such shooting gallery shall be issued by the City Register.
        Sec. 6. That the terms “shooting gallery,” as used in this ordinance, shall be construed to mean and are hereby declared to mean and embrace all places where firearms are discharged and used, and also where any and all kinds and styles of guns, pistols, fowling-pieces, or any other instrument or instruments, by whatsoever name or names they may be called, and which are or may be employed or used in the sports or amusements of shooting galleries, are discharged, used or practiced with.
        Sec. 7. That any person who shall violate the first Section of this ordinance shall be fined fifty dollars per day so long as such violation shall be continued; and for violating the second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth Sections, or any provisions thereof, the offender shall be fined not less than twenty-five nor more than fifty dollars for each and every offense.
        Sec. 8. That the Board of Mayor and Aldermen of the City of Memphis hereby reserve to the city the right to repeal this ordinance, and revoke and recall any license issued under its provisions at any time thereafter, upon paying the holder or owner of such license a pro rata portion of the amount paid by him therefor."        

1867, TN, Shooting Galleries, Ordinances of the City Council of Memphis, Ch. 4, Art. 5, §§1-8


WM. H. Bridges, Digest of the Charters and Ordinances of the City of Memphis, from 1826 to 1867, Inclusive, together with the Acts of the Legislature Relating to the City, with an Appendix (Memphis, TN: Bulletin Publishing Company, 1867), 304-306. Ch. 4 An Ordinance in Relation to City Licenses or Tax on Privileges and Occupations, Specifying the Rates Charged and Defining the Provisions Regulating and Controlling the Same, Art. 5 Shooting Galleries, §§1-8. Approved 11 July, 1867.