Annual Reports of the Various Departments of the City of Columbus, Together with a Financial Statement of the Receipts and Disbursements for the Year Ending December 31, 1893, at 16-20, Ordinance No. 8191-Making Certain Offenses Therein Named Misdemeanors, § 9-Concealed Weapons & § 25-Firearms, Firecrackers, Etc. Passed January 22, 1894.

SEC. 9. Whoever shall wear under his clothes, or concealed about his person, any pistol or revolver, colt, billy, slungshot, brass knuckles or knuckles of lead, dirk, dagger or any knife resembling a bowie knife or any other dangerous or deadly weapon within the corporate limits of the city of Columbus, shall, on conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding one hundred dollars for each and every offense; nothing in this section, however, shall be so construed as to prevent the United States marshals and their deputies, sheriffs and their deputies, and regular or special police officers of the city from carrying or wearing such weapons as may be deemed necessary in the proper discharge of their duties; provided, however, if it shall be proved from the testimony on the trial of any such case that the accused was, at the time of carrying any weapon as aforesaid, engaged in the pursuit of any lawful business, calling or employment, and the circumstances in which he was placed at the time aforesaid were such as to justify a prudent man in carrying the weapon or weapons aforesaid for the defense of his person, property or family the accused shall be acquitted. SEC. 25. Whoever shall throw, cast or let off any skyrocket, squib, cracker, firework or other thing charged with gunpowder; or discharge any common gun or pistol in this city, without a written permit from the mayor, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof be fined not less than one nor more than twenty dollars, or be imprisoned not more than ten days, or both.