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 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 estateItem 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 Acts 224, Act 17(General Publisher, 1639)An act in 1637, which makes it a felony to barter with the Indians repealed, and enacted that for trading with them for arms and ammunition shall be felony, and for other commodities imprisonment at discretion of the Governor and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 Ch. 111 §§ 7 & 8, 1 Va. Code 423 (1819)(General Publisher, 1819)Prohibited “free negro or mulatto” from keeping or carrying any kind of firelock, military weapon, powder, or lead without a license from a court.Item Open Access 1806 Va. Acts 51, ch. 94(General Publisher, 1806)Required every “free negro or mulatto” to first obtain a license before carrying or keeping “any fire-lock of any kind, any military weapon, or any powder or lead.”Item Open Access 1805 Va. Acts 51, An Act Concerning Free Negroes and Mulatoes(General Publisher, 1805)That no free negro or mulato shall be suffered to keep or carry any firelock of any kind… without first obtaining a license from the court…Item Open Access Collection of All Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a Public and Permanent Nature, as are Now in Force, at 187, ch. 103, §§ 8–9 (1803),(General Publisher, 1792)Prohibited any “negro or mulatto” from possessing or carrying a gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon.Item Open Access William Waller Hening, 1 The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All the Laws of Virginia 441 (1808)(General Publisher, 1657)Prohibited the giving or selling piece, powder, or shot to “any Indian,” subject to imprisonment and seizure of property.