Pennsylvania

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The Pennsylvania Collection serves as a dedicated repository for academic and research materials focusing on the historical, cultural, and legal developments within Pennsylvania. This Collection houses collections that reflect various jurisdictions, historical periods, and sectors, offering valuable insights for researchers, students, and professionals.

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By-Laws and Ordinances of the City of Pittsburgh, and the Acts of Assembly Relating Thereto; with Notes and References to Judicial Decisions Thereon, and an Appendix, Relating to Several Subjects Connected with the Laws and Police of the City Corporation, at 28-29, ch. 703, § 1 (1828)
(General Publisher, 1774)
Prohibited on any thirty-first day of December, or first or second day of January, in every year, wantonly, and without reasonable occasion, discharge and fire off any hand-gun, pistol or other fire-arms, or shall cast, throw or fire any squibs, rockets or other fire-works, within the inhabited parts of this province, to the disturbance of any of his majesty’s subjects there inhabiting and being
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1782 Pa. Acts 193, ch. 101, § 5
(General Publisher, 1779)
Authorized the liutenant or sub-liutenant to disarm those who have not taken an oath of allegiance
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9 Stat. at Large of Pa. 347, ch. 836, § 4 (1903)
(General Publisher, 1779)
Prohibited firearm possession for people “disaffected to the liberty and independence” of the state, empowered officers to disarm any person who did not take an oath.
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9 Stat. at Large of Pa. 336-37, ch. 833, § 9 (1903)
(General Publisher, 1779)
That if any person within this commonwealth shall challenge the person of another to fight at sword, pistol, rapier or other dangerous weapon, such person so challenging shall forfeit and pay for every such offense (being lawfully convicted by the testimony of one or more credible witnesses, or by the confession of the party offending,) the sum of five hundred pounds, or suffer twelve months imprisonment without bail or mainprise
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9 Stat. at Large of Pa. 91, ch. 750, § 32, pt. 9 (1903)
(General Publisher, 1777)
Any officer or private man found drunk when under arms, shall be suspended from doing duty in the battalion, company or troop on that day, and be fined at the discretion of a General or Regimental Court-Martial.
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9 Stat. at Large of Pa. 348, ch. 836 (1903)
(General Publisher, 1777)
Required an oath of allegiance; refusal of which punishable by disarming.
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1776 PA. CONST., Declaration of Rights, § XIII
(General Publisher, 1776)
Declared a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the state.
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1776 Pa. Laws 11, An Ordinance Respecting the Arms of Non-Associators, § 1
(General Publisher, 1776)
Authorized officers to collect all arms in the hands of “non associators”. -
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Resolution of the Pennsylvania Committee on Safety, Oct. 27, 1775, Col. Rec. Penn. 10:383.
(General Publisher, 1775)
Requiring that all muskets be "proved" prior to purchase
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8 Stat. at Large of Pa. 410-12, ch. 705, § 1 (1902)
(General Publisher, 1774)
Restricted the firing of handgun, pistol, or other firearms, as well as squibs, rokcets, or other fireworks on New Years Eve or the two days following. Violators fined ten shillings.

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