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California
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Item type:Item, S. Garfielde, Compiled Laws of the State of California 643-44 (1853)(1850)Ch. 125, div. 4, §§ 40-41: Prohibited dueling. Should the opponent be killed, violators and their seconds shall be punished in state prison for a term not less than one year but no more than five years.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 237, in San Jose Common Council & Mayor (1854)(1854)§That from and after the approval of this Ordinance the Marshall shall every month make out a list of the houses, in which Gunpowder is kept, with the quantity, and shall report the same to the Mayor, and the Mayor shall deliver a copy of such list to the Foreman of the Fire Company.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 51: To Prevent the Carrying of Deadly Weapons, in The Santa Barbara Daily Press, June 2, 1876, at 1(1876)Allowing the mayor to issue a license to carry a concealed weapon to "to any peaceable person whose profession or occupation may require him to be out at late hours of the night."Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 264, in San Jose Common Council & Mayor (1854).(1854)No person shall discharge any fire arms of any description whatever in that portion of the city included within Main St & the Guadalupe river, and between Julian & William streetsItem type:Item, Ordinances and Joint Resolutions of the City of San Francisco 220 (1854)(1853)Ordinance No. 498, section 13: Every person, house, or firm engaged in keeping a pistol or rifle shooting gallery, shall pay for a license to carry on the same, the sum of ten dollars per quarter, in addition to the amount of the powder license.Item type:Item, San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1874-5, Ending June 30, 1875, at 887 (1875)(1872)Prohibited the carry or discharge of firearms within Golden Gate and Buena Vista park.Item type:Item, The General Orders of the Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco 13 (1869)(1869)Prohibited the discharge of any cannon within the city, in the part of the county between Larkin and Ninth streets, or in the streets forming the water. Violators fined not less than one hundred dollars or imprisoned not more than thirty days.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 84, in R.M. Clarken, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Sacramento 173 (1896)(1876)Prohibited the concealed carry of a pistol, dirk, or other dangerous or deadly weapon without a license.Item type:Item, 1849 Cal. Stat. 245(1849)An Act to Incorporate the City of San Francisco, § 127: Prohibited the carrying, with intent to assault any person, any pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault another person.. Punished by fine of up to $100 and imprisonment for up to 3 months.Item type:Item, 1851 Cal. Stat. 360-61(1851)An Act to Reincorporate the City of San Francisco, § 13: Granted the city of San Francisco authority to regulate houses for the storage of gun-powder and other combustibles.Item type:Item, 1874 Cal. Stat. 465(1874)An Act For the Protection of the Property At East Park, in Sacramento County, ch. CCCXXI (311), § 1: Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, or firearm within the grounds of East park of SacramentoItem type:Item, Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Los Angeles 39 (1873)(1873)Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, rifle, or other description of fire-arms, or discharge of any air-gun within city fire limits. Violators fined give dollars for the first offence, ten dollars for the second offense, and not more than fifty dollars and imprisonment not exceeding ten days on the third offense.Item type:Item, Wm. M. Caswell, Revised Charter and Compiled Ordinances and Resolutions of the City of Los Angeles 85 (1878)(1878)Ordinance 35: Prohibited brandishing a weapon unless in self defense. Ordinance 36: Prohibited the carry of any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon within the corporate limits of the city of Los Angeles. Violators fined not more than one hundred dollars, and imprisoned at the discretion of the mayor not to exceed ten days.Item type:Item, Charter and Revised Ordinances of the City of Eureka 251 (1905)(1878)Penal Ordinances, Ordinance No. 55- Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, §§ 1-4: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, or dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ten days, or both.Item type:Item, 1878 Cal Stat. 117(1878)An Act Amending Section Four Hundred and Fifteen of the Penal Code, in Relation to Crimes Against The Public Peace, ch. CCXCIX, § 1: Prohibited discharge of any gun or pistol in an unincorporated town. Violators fined not exceeding two hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding ninety days, or both fine and imprisonment.Item type:Item, Theodore H. Hittell, The General Laws of the State of California, from 1850 to 1864, Inclusive 261 (1872)(1864)§ 1585 [§1]: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any dirk, pistol, sword cane, slungshot, or "other dangerous or deadly weapon." Exempted any peace officer or officer acting under the law of the United States. Punishable by imprisonment for 30-90 days or fine of $20-200.Item type:Item, 1875 Cal. Stat. 627-28(1875)Allowed the city of San Jose to regulate the storage of gunpowder and other combustibles and explosive substances within the incorporated limits of the city.Item type:Item, 1863 Cal. Stat. 748(1863)Prohibited the concealed carry of any dirk, pistol, sword in a cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon, concealed. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, imprisoned not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or fined not less than twenty nor more than two hundred dollars.Item type:Item, 1864 Cal. Stat. 115(1864)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any dirk, pistol, sword cane, slungshot, or "other dangerous or deadly weapon." Exempted any peace officer or officer acting under the law of the United States. Punishable by imprisonment for 30-90 days or fine of $20-200.Item type:Item, 1855 Cal. Stat. 152-53(1855)Ch. 127, §§ 1-3: Provided that a person who killed another in a duel with "a rifle, shot-gun, pistol, bowie-knife, dirk, small-sword, back-sword or other dangerous weapon" would pay the decedent's debts and be liable to the decedent's family for liquidated damages.Item type:Item, S. Garfielde, Compiled Laws of the State of California 663-64 (1853)(1850)Ch. 125, div. 11, § 127: Prohibited the carry of a pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with intent to assault. Violators punished by fine not to exceed one hundred dollars or imprisonment no more than three months.Item type:Item, William H. R. Wood, Digest of the Laws of California 334 (1861)(1861)Art. 1904: Prohibited the display of any dirk, dirk-knife, Bowie knife, sword, sword cane, pistol, gun, or other deadly weapon in a threatening manner, or use of such weapon in a fight. Punishable by a fine of $100-500 or imprisonment for 1-6 months.