1874-75 Ark. Acts 156-57
| dc.coverage.spatial | Arkansas | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T03:08:39Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T13:59:41Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-16T23:19:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1875 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prohibited the carrying in public of any "pistol, gun, knife, dirk, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon, with intent to assault any person." Punishable by a fine of $25-100. | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Army or Navy pistols exempt | |
| dc.description.lawtext | SECTION 1. That any person who shall wear or carry any pistol of any kind whatever, or any dirk, butcher or bowie knife, or a sword or a spear in a cane, brass or metal knucks, or razor, as a weapon, shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, in the county in which said offense shall have been committed, shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered by presentment or indictment in the Circuit Court, or before any Justice of the Peace of the county wherein such offense shall have been committed; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prohibit any person from keeping such weapons as aforesaid on his own premises, or to prohibit persons traveling through the country, carrying such weapons while on a journey with their baggage, or to prohibit any officer of the law wearing or carrying such weapons when engaged in the discharge of his official duties, or any person summoned by any such officer to assist in the execution of any legal process, or any private person legally authorized to execute any legal process to him directed. Sec. 2. That the fines collected by any officer, under and by virtue of this act, shall be paid by such officer into the county treasury by the officer collecting the same, and he shall take from the Treasurer duplicate receipts therefor, one of which he shall file in the Clerk's office of his county; and the County Treasurer shall hold the fines collected and paid over as aforesaid as part and parcel of the school fund of his county, and shall be responsible on his official bond for the safe keeping and disbursement of the same. Sec. 3. That any Justice of the Peace in this State, who, from his own knowledge or from legal information received, knows, or has reasonable grounds to believe, any person guilty of the offense in section one, of this act described, and shall fail or refuse to proceed against such person, shall be adjudged guilty of a nonfeasance in office, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered by presentment or indictment in the Circuit Court of the county wherein such offense shall have been committed, and shall moreover be removed from office. Sec. 4. That any Sheriff, Coroner, Constable, or any police officer, of any city in this State, who may have personal knowledge of the commission of the offense, in the first section of this act described, and shall fail or refuse to arrest such offender and bring him to trial, shall be adjudged guilty of a nonfeasance in office, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as provided for Justices of the Peace in the foregoing section of this act. Sec. 5. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, and that this act take effect and be in force ninety days after its passage. | |
| dc.description.summary | This law makes it a misdemeanor to carry certain weapons—such as pistols, knives, razors, or metal knuckles—outside of limited exceptions, including on one's own property, while traveling, or when used by law enforcement or authorized individuals performing official duties, with penalties of fines between $25 and $100. Fines collected are directed into the county treasury to support the local school fund. Public officials, including justices of the peace and law enforcement officers, are required to enforce the law and can be fined and removed from office for failing to do so. The law overrides conflicting statutes and takes effect 90 days after passage. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3273 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Acts_of_the_Extraordinary_Session_of_the/yYlIAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA155&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyHathi | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433009076419&view=1up&seq=171 | |
| dc.subject | CARRY - INTENT TO COMMIT CRIME | |
| dc.title | 1874-75 Ark. Acts 156-57 |