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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, San Francisco Municipal Reports for the Fiscal Year 1874-5, Ending June 30, 1875, at 886 (1875)(1887)General Orders, Order No. 1,226-Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, § 1. Approved July 9, 1875: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Stockton 240 (1908)(1891)Ordinance No. 53: Prohibited the wear or concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, Bowie-Knife, slungshot, sand-club, metallic knuckles, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, General Orders of the Board of Supervisors Providing Regulations for the Government of the City And County of San Francisco: Also, Ordinances of Park Commissioners 8 (1884)(1880)General Order no. 1,603-Relating to the Police Department, § 22-Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons. Approved September 17, 1880: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, or dangerous or deadly weapon.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, An Ordinance to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, in St. Helena Star, December 9, 1884, at 2(1884)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, sword, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators fined not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars or imprisoned not less than one day nor more than thirty days.Item type:Item, City Ordinances of the City of Needles, in The Needles Eye, November 29, 1913, at 3(1913)Chapter 4, Article 4-Concealed Weapons, §§ 60-61. Approved November 28, 1913. Volume 25, Number 48. (Needles, California): Prohibited concealed carry of pistol, revolver, dirk, derringer, dagger, Bowie-knife, razor, brass knuckles, slung-shot, sand-bag, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Fred L. Button, General Municipal Ordinances of the City of Oakland, California 218 (1895)(1890)Sec. 1, An Ordinance to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, No. 1141: Prohibited the wear or concealed carry without a permit of any pistol, slung-shot, brass or iron knuckles, sand club, dirk, Bowie-knife, iron bar, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Concealed Weapons, in The Napa Valley Register, November 10, 1880, at 3(1880)Prohibited the concealed carry of any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, sling-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. Violators imprisoned until fine is paid, not to exceed one day for each dollar fined.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 10: An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, and Fixing the Penalty Therefor, in The Lompoc Record, August 21, 1888, at 2(1888)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, dirk, stiletto, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, New Advertisements, in Los Angeles Tri-Weekly News, July 22, 1865, at 2(1865)named Ordinance, §§ 1-3, & Unnamed Revised Ordinance, Article 5, § 2. Passed July 17, 1856. Volume 13, Number 12: Prohibited the concealed carry any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapons. Violators fined not more than one hundred dollars and imprisonment at the discretion of the mayor, not exceeding ten days. Also prohibited discharge any pistol, gun, rifle, other description of firearms, or air gun. Violators fined five dollars for the first offense, ten dollars for the second offense, and the third offense not more than fifty dollars, and imprisonment at the discretion of the mayor not exceeding ten days.Item type:Item, The Ordinances of the City of Monterey: A Municipal Corporation of the State of California Under a Freeholder's Charter: Classified with Appendix Containing the Charter of Said City: February, 1913, at 112 (1913)(1892)Ordinance No. 49-To Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Weapons, §§ 1-3: Prohibited the wear or concealed carry of any dirk, pistol, sword-cane, slung-shot, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 8, in Los Angeles Herald, April 12, 1889, at 7(1889)Ordinance No. 8-An Ordinance to Amend an Ordinance Entitled an "Ordinance Regulating the Carrying of Deadly or Dangerous Weapons," §§ 1-2. Approved April 10, 1889; In Force April 12, 1889. Volume 32, Number 10. (Los Angeles, CA): Prohibited concealed carry of any dirk, Bowie-knife, sword-cane, pistol, revolver, or any other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, An Ordinance to Prohibit the Carrying of Concealed Deadly Weapons, in Marysville Daily Democrat, February 7, 1889, at 4(1889)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, dirk, or other dangerous or deadly weapon.Item type:Item, Concerning Concealed Weapons, in Alameda Encinal, May 3, 1882, at 3(1882)Prohibited concealed carrying of any pistol, slung-shot, brass or iron knuckles, iron bars "such as are usually carried by Chinamen," sand clubs, dirk, Bowie-knife, dangerous weapons, deadly weapons. Violators punished by fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding fifty days, or both.Item type:Item, Jener W. Nielson, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Fresno, California 52 (1916)(1891)No. 221, § 8: Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, firearm, slungshot, dirk, Bowie-knife, or other deadly weapon without written permission from the President of the Board of Trustees while within city limits. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor.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, L. W. Moultrie, Charter and Ordinances of the City of Fresno 30 (1896)(1896)Prohibited the concealed carrying of any pistol or firearm, slungshot, dirk, Bowie knife, or other deadly weapon, absent written permission.Item type:Item, Ordinance No. 6, in The Fresno Republican, November 7, 1885, at 3(1885)Prohibited the discharge of firearms within the corporate limits of the city. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor. Also prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, firearm, slung-shot, dirk, Bowie-knife, or other deadly weapon.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, 1917 Cal. Stat. 221-25(1917)Prohibited the concealed carry of any pistol, revolver, or other firearm without a license. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor. Also declared the unlawful carry or possession of any of the above items as a nuisance, to be confiscated by the police and surrendered to a judge. Confiscated weapons are to be destroyed at the end of the year.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.