SEC. 5. For the use of this State, and to raise revenue therefor, there is hereby levied an annual tax upon the property and subjects herein declared, as follows, that is to say sixty cents on the hundred dollars of the value of:

5. […] all dirks and bowie knives, swords, canes, pistols and guns; all cattle, horses, mules, studs, jacks and jennets and race horses; all hogs, sheep and goats.