Virginia

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The First Charter of Virginia (1606)
(General Publisher, 1606)
Granted subjects all liberties, franchises, and immunities of free denizens. Also granted subjects the right to take, load, carry, transport armour, weapons, ordinances, muniiton, poweder, shott, victuals,and "all other things" necessary for the use and defense of the people.
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Proceedings of the Virginia Assembly, 1619, in LYON GARDINER TYLER, NARRATIVES OF EARLY VIRGINIA, 1606-25, at 273 (1907) (enacted 1619);
(General Publisher, 1619)
Required all persons attending church to bear arms, including swords, poulder, and shotte.
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1619: Laws enacted by the First General Assembly of Virginia 70, reprinted in H. R. McIlwaine and John P. Kennedy, eds., Journals of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, vol. 1 (Richmond, 1905), 9-14
(General Publisher, 1619)
Prohibited selling or giving “Indians” arms or ammunition. Punishable by hanging.
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WILLIAM WALLER HENING, 1 THE STATUTES AT LARGE; BEING A COLLECTION OF ALL THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA, FROM THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, IN THE YEAR 1619, at 127 (1823) (enacted 1623).
(General Publisher, 1623)
Ordering that no man go or send abroad without being sufficiently well-armed.
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1 W.W. Hening, Laws of Va. from First Sess. of Legis. in 1619, Act LVI at 174-5 (1823)
(General Publisher, 1631)
Required an annual muster of the men, women, and children of the plantations by the plantation commanders. Information collected: age, country and towns of birth, the ship they travelled upon. Also “of armes and munition, corne, cattle, hoggs, goates, barques, boates, gardens, and orchards.”
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1631 Va. Acts 173, Act 51
(General Publisher, 1631)
All men that are fitting to bear arms, shall bring their pieces to the church upon pain of every offence, of the mayster allow not thereof to pay 2 lb. of tobacco, to be disposed by the church-wardens, who shall levy it by distress, and the servants be punished.
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1631 Va. Acts 173, Acts 46-48.
(General Publisher, 1631)
NOE man shall goe or send abroade without a sufficient party well armed.
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1631 Va. Acts 174, Act 56
(General Publisher, 1631)
It is ordered and appointed, that the commanders of all the several plantations, do upon holy days exercise the men under his command, and that the commanders yearly do likewise upon the first day of December, take a muster of their men, together with the women and children, and their ages, countries, and towns, where they were born, with the ships they came in, and year of the Lord, as also of arms and munition . . .
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WILLIAM WALLER HENING, 1 THE STATUTES AT LARGE; BEING A COLLECTION OF ALL THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA, FROM THE FIRST SESSION OF THE LEGISLATURE, IN THE YEAR 1619, at 173 (1823) (enacted 1632).
(General Publisher, 1632)
Ordering that no man go or send abroad without being sufficiently well-armed.
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1632 Va. Acts 198, Act 45
(General Publisher, 1632)
All men that are fitting to bear arms, shall bring their pieces to the church upon pain for every offence, if the default be in the master, to pay 2lb of tobacco, to be disposed by the church-wardens, who shall levy it by distress, and the servants shall be punished [ ] commander.
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1633 Va. Acts 219, Acts Made by the Grand Assembly, Holden At James City, August 21st, 1633, An Act That No Arms or Ammunition Be Sold To The Indians, Act X
(General Publisher, 1633)
It is ordered and appointed, That if any person or persons shall sell or barter any guns, powder, shot, or any arms or ammunition unto any Indian or Indians within this territory, the said person or persons shall forfeit to public uses all the goods and chattels that he or they then have to their own use, and shall also suffer imprisonment during life, the one half of which forfeiture shall be to him or them that shall inform and the other half to public uses.
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1639 Va. Acts 226, Act 10
(General Publisher, 1639)
All persons except negroes to be provided with arms and ammunition or be fined at pleasure of the Governor and Council.
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1639 Va. Acts 228, Act 21
(General Publisher, 1639)
Not to shoot or hunt on other men’s land that is seated and bounds marked under penalty of 40s. but may pursue deer and shoot on their own land.
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1639 Va. Acts 224, Act 17
(General Publisher, 1639)
An act in 1637, which makes it a felony to barter with the Indians repealed, and enacted that for trading with them for arms and ammunition shall be felony, and for other commodities imprisonment at discretion of the Governor and Council.
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1642 Va. Acts 255, Act 23
(General Publisher, 1642)
Be it also enacted and confirmed, that what person or persons soever shall sell or barter with any Indian or Indians for piece, powder and shot and being thereof lawfully convicted, shall forfeit his whole estate
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1642 Va. Acts 248, Act 11
(General Publisher, 1642)
Whereas the rights and interests of the inhabitants are very much infringed by hunting and shooting of diverse men upon their neighbors lands and dividends contrary to the privileges granted to them by their patents, whereby many injuries do daily happen to the great damage of the owners of the land whereon such hunting or shooting is used, It is therefore enacted and confirmed that if any planter or person shall hunt or shoot upon or within the precincts or limits of his neighbor or other divident without leave first obtained for his so doing, and having been warned by the owner of the land to forbear hunting and shooting as aforesaid, he or they so offending shall forfeit for every such offence four hundred pounds of tobacco . . .
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1642 Va. Acts 263, Act 41
(General Publisher, 1642)
It is enacted and confirmed that masters of every family shall bring with them to church on Sundays one fixed and serviceable gun with sufficient powder and shot upon penalty of ten pound of tobacco for every master of a family so offending to be disposed of by the churchwardens who shall levy it by distress, and servants being commanded and yet omitting shall receive twenty lashes on his or their bare shoulders, by order form the county courts where he or they shall live.
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1642 Va. Acts 261, Act 35
(General Publisher, 1642)
Be it further enacted and confirmed, for the better observation of the Sabbath and for the restraint of diverse abuses committed in the colony by unlawful shooting on the Sabbath day as aforesaid, unless it shall be for the safety of his or their plantations or corn fields or for defense against the Indians, he or they so offending shall forfeit for his or their first offense being thereof lawfully convicted . . . the quantity of twenty pounds...
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1651 Va. Acts 365, Articles At The Surrender Of The Country, art. 13
(General Publisher, 1651)
That all ammunition, powder and arms, other than for private use shall be delivered up, security being given to make satisfaction for it.
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1655 Va. Acts 401, Act 12
(General Publisher, 1655)
What persons or persons soever shall, after publication hereof, shoot any guns at drinking (marriages and funerals only excepted) that such person or persons so offending shall forfeit 100 lb. of tobacco to be levied by distress in case of refusal and to be disposed of by the militia in ammunition towards a magazine for the county where the offence shall be committed.