Maryland
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The Maryland Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the history, culture, and legal developments within Maryland. This Collection gathers collections representing various jurisdictions, historical periods, and sectors, providing valuable resources for researchers, students, and professionals.
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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 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 “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 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 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 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 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 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 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.