SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful for any person to carry deadly weapons, either concealed or otherwise, on or about their persons within any of the settlements of this Territory, except it be in the lawful defense of themselves, their families or their property, and the same being then and there threatened with danger, or by order of legal authority, or on their own landed property, or in execution of an order of court.

SEC. 2. Deadly weapons, in the meaning of this act, shall be construed to mean all kinds and classes of pistols, whether the same be a revolver, derringer, repeater, or any other kind or class of pistol; any and all kinds of bowie knives, daggers, poniards, butcher knives, dirk knives and all such weapons with which cuts can be given or by which wounds can be inflicted by thrusting, including sword canes and such sharp-pointed canes with which deadly thrusts can be given, and all kinds of slung-shots, and any other kinds of deadly weapon, by whatever name it may be called, by which a dangerous wound can be inflicted.

SEC. 3. The penalty for the violation of the preceding sections of this act shall not be less than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars for each offense, or not less than ten days’ imprisonment nor more than fifty days’ imprisonment in the county jail, or both; such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the jury trying the case.

SEC. 4. Any person who shall draw a deadly weapon on another, or who shall handle a deadly weapon in a threatening manner at or towards another, in any part of this Territory, except in the lawful defence of himself, his family or his property, or by order of legal authority, upon conviction thereof before the proper tribunal, shall for each offence be fined in a sum not less than twenty-five dollars nor more than seventy-five dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than twenty days nor more than sixty days, or be punished by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the jury trying the cause.

SEC. 5. Any person who shall draw or use any deadly weapon in any ball, dance or other public gathering of the people, or near where any election authorized by law is being held, in any part of the Territory, except it be in the lawful defence of himself, his family or his property, or in obedience to legal authority, shall, upon conviction before the proper tribunal, be punished by a fine not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars for each offence, or by imprisonment in the county jail for a term of not less than one month nor more than three months for each offence, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the jury trying the cause. […]