1861 Ala. Laws 214-15
Abstract
Appropriated $6000 to purchase Bowie knives and Bowie knife pikes for the 48th regiment of the Alabama militia at an inflated price of $3 per Bowie knife due to Bowie knife restrictions. The average value of a Bowie knife was fifty cents in other states.
Summary
Appropriated $6000 to purchase Bowie knives and Bowie knife pikes for the 48th regiment of the Alabama militia at an inflated price of $3 per Bowie knife due to Bowie knife restrictions. The average value of a Bowie knife was fifty cents in other states.
Law Text
SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembly convened, That the sum of six thousand dollars be and is hereby appropriated out of any unappropriated money in the treasury, to purchase one thousand Bowie-knife-shaped pikes, and one thousand Bowie knives for the purpose and use of the 48th regiment Alabama militia: Provided, that only so much of this appropriation shall be used as may be necessary to pay the actual cost of the manufacture of such arms.
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ARMED FORCES