Maryland
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Item Open Access 1 ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND 77 (enacted 1639) (William Hand Browne ed., 1885)(General Publisher, 1639)Required "every housekeeeper" to keep and bear one gun of "bastard muskett boare" design, bandeloors or shott bag, one pound of powder, four pounds of pistol or musket shot, sufficient quantity of matchlocks & flints, a sword, and belt.Item Open Access Md. Act for the Liberties of the People (1639)(General Publisher, 1639)Gave the inhabitants of Maryland, who are Christians, all rights, liberties, immunities, priviledges, and free customs as naturally born Englishmen.Item Open Access 3 ARCHIVES OF MARYLAND at 103 (1642)(General Publisher, 1642)All housekeepers to provide an arm, sufficient powder, and ammo for each person able to bear arms. No man able to bear arms shall attend church or chappell or travel any considerable distance from home without an arm and at least one charge of powder and shott.Item Open Access 1647 Md. Laws 216, § 6(General Publisher, 1647)Banned carry of weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.Item Open Access 1650 Md. Laws 273, § 5(General Publisher, 1650)Banned carry of weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.Item Open Access W.H. Browne, Proc. & Acts of Gen. Assemb. of Md., Jan. 1637/8–Sept. 1664, at 273–74, § 5 (1883)(General Publisher, 1650)Prohibited entering either chamber of legislature with any gun or weapon “upon perill of such fine or censure as the howses shall thinke fitt.”Item Open Access “Laws of Maryland, 1713; Ch. 44, Sect. 32,” The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848, at 11 (New York, 1848)(General Publisher, 1713)Prohibition on “Negro or other slave” from carrying a gun or offensive weapon off their master’s land.Item Open Access 1715 Md. Laws 90, An Act for the speedy trial of criminals, and ascertaining their punishment in the county courts when prosecuted there, and for payment of fees due from criminal persons, chap. 26, § 7(General Publisher, 1715)And, to prevent the abusing, hurting or worrying of any stock of hogs, cattle or horses, with dogs, or otherwise, Be It Enacted, That if any person or persons whatsoever, that have been convicted of any of the crimes aforesaid, or other crimes, or that shall be of evil fame, or a vagrant, or dissolute liver, that shall shoot, kill or hunt, or be seen to carry a gun, upon any person’s land, whereon there shall be a seated plantation, without the owner’s leave, having been once before warned, shall forfeit and pay one thousand pounds of tobacco...Item Open Access 1715 Md. Laws 117, An Act for the Speedy Trial of Criminals, and Ascertaining Their Punishment in the County Courts When Prosecuted There, and For Payment of Fees Due From Criminal Persons, ch. 26, § 32(General Publisher, 1715)Prohibited “any negro or other slave” from carrying any gun or offensive weapon off their master’s land without a ticket.Item Open Access An Act to Prevent Popery within this Province, Votes and Proceedings of the Lower House of Assembly of the Province of Maryland (22 May, 1756).(General Publisher, 1756)And be it further Enacted, That all such Armour, Gunpowder, and Ammunition, of whatsoever Kinds, as any Papist whatever, within this Province, hath or shall have in his House or Houses, or elsewhere, or in the Hands and Possession of any other Person at his or their Disposition, shall be taken from such Papist, or Others, which have or shall have the same to the Use of such Papist, by Warrant of any Four Justices of the Peace of the County where such Papist shall be Resident (other than such necessary Weapons as shall be thought fit by the same Justices to remain and be allowed for the Defence of the Person or Persons of such Papists, or for the Defence of his, her or their HousesItem Open Access An Act for Regulating the Militia of the Province of Maryland (MD General Assembly, Lower House, L.H.J. Liber No. 48, Assembly Proceedings, May 22, 1756)(General Publisher, 1756)Prohibited the sale of strong liquor within five miles of any place of militia training.Item Open Access 1757-68 Md. Acts 53, An Act for Prohibiting All Trade with the Indians, for the Time Therein Mentioned, ch. 4, § 3(General Publisher, 1763)Prohibited the selling and giving to “any Indian Woman” any gunpowder or to “any Indian Man” more than one pound of gunpowder, punishable by fine.Item Open Access 63 Proceedings and Acts of the General Assembly 338, § 5 (June 15-July 3, 1773)(General Publisher, 1773)Banned carry of swords and other weapons in the House of Assembly, while the Assembly was sitting.Item Open Access Resolution of the Maryland Council of Safety, August 19, 1775.(General Publisher, 1775)Approving purchase of muskets with detailed manufacturing specifications and requiring that they be proved before purchase.Item Open Access Proceedings of the Conventions of the Province of Maryland Held at the City of Annapolis, in 1774, 1775, & 1776 Page 146-47, Image 146-47 (1836); 1776 Md. Laws 146(General Publisher, 1776)no muskets or rifles, except by the owner thereof on his removal to reside out of this province, or any gun barrels, gun locks, or bayonets, be carried out of his province, without the leave of the council of safety for the time being.]Item Open Access 1794 Md. Laws 246, Art. 32(General Publisher, 1794)That if any member of society shall suffer any damage by storing gunpowder in town, or breaming ships or other vessels at the wharfs, occasioned by the act, assent or direction, of such member, the insurance of such member so suffering damage, shall thereupon become void.Item Open Access 1806 Md. Laws 44, An Act to Restrain the Evil Practices Arising From Negroes Keeping Dogs, and to Prohibit Them From Carrying Guns or Offensive Weapons, ch. 81(General Publisher, 1806)Prohibited “any negro or mulatto” from keeping a dog or gun, except any “free negro or mulatto” who has a license for such purpose.Item Open Access Virgil Maxcy (Editor), Laws of Maryland, with the Charter, the Bill Of Rights, the Constitution of the State, and Its Alterations, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, and Its Amendments 465 (Vol 3, 1811), § 4(General Publisher, 1809)Prohibited carrying any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with intent to feloniously assault any person, or to be found in any dwelling house, warehouse, stable, or outhouse, garden, or area of a house with intent to steal goods or chattels.Item Open Access The Laws of Maryland, with the Charter, the Bill Of Rights, the Constitution of the State, and Its Alterations, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution of the United States, and Its Amendments, at 465 (1811)(General Publisher, 1811)Prohibited the carrying of any pistol, hanger, cutlass, bludgeon, or other offensive weapon with the intent to assault a person. Punishable by imprisonment for 3 months to 2 years.Item Open Access 1837 Md. Acts Ch. 101, An Act for the Preservation of Wild Fowl in the Waters of Smith’s Island and its Vicinity, in Somerset County, §§ 1-2(General Publisher, 1837)Prohibited shooting fowl from on board an open skiff, canoe, or open boat with any offensive weapon, gun, musket, fowling piece, or pistol in the region know as Hearn's Straits in Somerset County, within fifty yards of any blind for shooting fowl. Violators subject to ten dollar fine.