Virginia
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The Virginia Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the diverse regions, history, and developments within Virginia. Here, you'll find Collection that represent various jurisdictions and sectors, providing a valuable resource for researchers, students, and professionals.
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Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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 Acts 224, Act 17(General Publisher, 1639)An act in 1637, which makes it a felony to barter with the Indians repealed, and enacted that for trading with them for arms and ammunition shall be felony, and for other commodities imprisonment at discretion of the Governor and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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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 . . .Item Open Access 1631 Va. Acts 173, Acts 46-48.(General Publisher, 1631)NOE man shall goe or send abroade without a sufficient party well armed.Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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.”