Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama in General Assembley convened, That if any person carrying any knife or weapon, known as Bowie Penally for Knives or Arkansaw Tooth-picks, or either or any knife or weapon shall in form, shape or size, resemble a Bowie Knife or Arkansaw Tooth-pick, on a sudden rencounter, shall cut or stab another with such knife, by reason of which he dies, it shall be adjudged murder, and the offender shall suffer the same as if the killing had been by malice aforethought.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for every such weapon, sold or given, or otherwise disposed of in this State, the person selling, knives to be giving or disposing of the same, shall pay a tax of one hundred dollars, to be paid into the county Treasury; and if any person so selling, giving or disposing of such weapon, shall fail to give in the same in his list of taxable property, lie shall be subject to the pains and penalties of perjury.