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This top community organizes Firearms Research Center holdings by jurisdiction. It provides separate collections for U.S. states, territories, the District of Columbia, and the federal jurisdiction, spanning the territorial period to the present.

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.MississippiCategory: search.filters.subject.TAX - PROPERTY OR SALES

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    1892 Miss. Laws 193-4, 198
    (1892)
    Ch. 74: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including guns(more than one), pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.
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    1878 Miss. Laws 27, 29
    (1878)
    Ch. 3, §§ 8, 12: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared lists of taxable items, including pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.
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    1880 Miss. Laws 21
    (1880)
    Ch. 6, § 7: Mandated tax assessors to have prepared rolls of taxable items, including pistols, Bowie knives, dirks, and sword canes.
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    1876 Miss. Laws 131, 134
    (1876)
    Ch. 304: Allowed the Auditor of Public Accounts to create assessment rolls for property subject to taxation, including pistols, dirks, bowie knives, and sword canes.
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    1867 Miss. Laws 412
    (1867)
    Ch. 317: Imposed property tax on several arms. Every pistol has more than one barrel or revolver, two dollars. On every single barrel pistol, one dollar. On each rifle, shotgun, army gun, fifty cents. On each and every Bowie-knife, sword-cane, or dirk, two dollars.
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    1854 Miss. Laws 49-50
    (1854)
    Imposed an annual property tax of $1 on each Bowie knife, Arkansas toothpick, sword cane, and dueling or pocket pistol.
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    1871 Miss. Laws 819-20
    (1871)
    Ch. 33, art. 3, § 1: Imposed property tax on pistols, dirks, Bowie knives, and sword canes.
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    1867 Miss. Laws 327-28
    (1867)
    Ch. 249, § 1:[A] tax of not less than five dollars or more than fifteen dollars shall be levied and assessed annually by the board of Police of Washington county upon every gun and pistol which may be in the possession of any person in said county,
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    A. Hutchinson, Code of Mississippi 182 (1848)
    (1844)
    Ch. 8, § 1: A tax of two dollars on each dueling or pocket pistol, except such as are kept for sale by merchants, artisans, or kept for use by military companies. . .

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