§ 1. Be it enacted by the legislature of the state of Mississippi, That every person who shall hereafter challenge another to fight a duel, or who shall send, deliver or cause to be delivered any written or verbal message purporting or intended to be such challenge, or message, or who shall knowingly carry or deliver any such challenge or message, or who shall be present at the time of fighting any duel with deadly weapons, either as second, aid, or surgeon, or who shall advise or give assistance to such duel,shall on conviction thereof, before any circuit or criminal court in this state, be fined in a sum of not less than three hundred dollars, nor exceeding one thousand dollars, and shall be imprisoned for a term of time not less than six months.

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§ 5. Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall be guilty of fighting in any corporate city or town, or any other town or public place, in this state, and shall in such fight use any rifle, shot gun, sword, sword cane, pistol, dirk, bowie knife, dirk knife, or any other deadly weapon; or if any person shall be second or aid in such fight, the persons so offending shall be fined not less than three hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned not less than three months; and if any person shall be killed in such fight, the person so killing the other may also be prosecuted and convicted as in other cases of murder.

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§ 8. Be it firlter enacted, That if any duel shall be fought contrary to the provisions of this act, or if any person shall be guilty of fighting in any incorporate town or city, or any other town or public place in this state, and the parties or either of them shall use any rifle, shot gun, sword cane, pistol, dirk, dirk knife, bowie knife, or any other deadly weapon, contrary to the provisions of this act, and either of the parties combatant shall be killed, or shall die within ninety days of any wound received in any such duel or fight, the party surviving shall be, and he is hereby held chargeable with the payment of the debts of his antagonist so killed by him, and the estate of the party so killed shall be exhonerated from the payment of such debts, until the surviving party shall be first duly prosecuted to insolvency, and the person or persons to whom the combatant so killed in such duel, or fight, shall be indebted, may prosecute to judgment and execution any action of debt or assumpsit against such surviving party, which such person could have maintained against such party so killed, and in his declaration it shall be sufficient to set forth in substance the description of the judgment, bill, bond, note, assumps it, or account, by which the deceased in his life time was indebted to the plaintiff, and to aver that the defendant and the deceased had fought a duel contrary to the provisions of this act, or had fought in an incorporated city or town, or other town or public place in this state, and had in such fight used a rifle, shot gun, sword, sword cane, pistol, dirk, dirk knife, bowie knife, or other deadly weapon, contrary to the meaning and intent of this act, and that in such duel or fight, the defendant had unlawfully killed the deceased, or had given the deceased, in such duel or fight, a mortal wound, of which, within ninety days the deceased had died, and that in consideration of which the defendant had become bound to pay to the plaintiff the amount of money mentioned in such judgment, bill, bond, note, assumpsit, or account, and upon proving the same, the said plaintiff shall have verdict, judgment, and execution against the defendant, which shall appear to have been justly due, and owing from the deceased to the plaintiff, at the time of the commencement of such suit, any law usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

§ 9. Be it firther enacted, That if any person having, or carrying any dirk, dirk knife, bowie knife, sword, sword cane, or other deadly weapon, shall, in the presence of three or more persons, exhibit the same in a rude, angry and threatening manner, not in necessary self defence, or shall in any manner unlawfully use the same in any fight or quarrel, the person or persons so offending, upon conviction thereof in the circuit or criminal court of the proper county, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and be imprisoned not exceeding three months.