North Carolina
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This Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the history, culture, and legal frameworks of North Carolina. It encompasses a diverse range of collections highlighting the state's historical developments, governance, and contributions to the broader American context.
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Item Open Access 1715-55 N.C. Sess. Laws 36, An Additional Act to an Act for Appointing Toll-Books, and for Preventing People from Driving Horses, Cattle, or Hogs to Other Persons’ Lands, ch. 5, § 7(General Publisher, 1729)Prohibited “slaves” to hunt on any person’s land besides their master’s w ith any weapon.Item Open Access 1715-55 N.C. Sess. Laws 69, An Act to Prevent Killing Deer at Unseasonable Times(General Publisher, 1745)That it shall not be lawful for any person to kill or destroy any deer, running wild in the woods or unfenced grounds in this government, by guns, or any other ways or means whatsoever, between the fifteenth day of February, and the fifteenth day of July, yearly, and in each year, after the ratification of the said act; and that any person convicted of the same, shall forfeit and pay the sum of five pounds, current money . . .Item Open Access 1756-1776 N.C. Sess. Laws 168, An Act To Amend An Act Entitled, “An Additional Act To An Act, Entitled, An Act To Prevent Killing Deer At Unseasonable Times, And For Putting A Stop To Many Abuses Committed By White Persons Under Pretense Of Hunting, ch. 13.(General Publisher, 1768)Whereas by the before recited act, persons who have no settled habitation, or not tending five thousand corn hills, are prohibited from hunting, under the penalty of five pounds, and forfeiture of his gun[.]Item Open Access John. A Haywood, Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina, Arranged under Distinct Heads in Alphabetical Order, at 199-200, Hunting, § 2 (Vol. 1, 1808)(General Publisher, 1768)From and after the First day of January next, no person whatever (masters excepted) not having a freehold of one hundred acres of land within this province, or tending ten thousand corn hills, at least five feet distance each, shall hunt or kill deer, under the penalty of ten pounds proclamation money for every offence;Item Open Access N.C. CONST. art I, § 30(General Publisher, 1776)Declared a right to bear arms in defense of the state, and that standing armies are dangerous to liberty in times of peace and shall not be "kept up."Item Open Access 1777 N.C. Sess. Laws 41, 43-44, ch. 6, § 9(General Publisher, 1777)That all persons failing or refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance, and permitted by the County Courts, as immediately aforesaid, to remain in the State, shall be adjudged incapable and disabled in Law to have, occupy or enjoy, any Office, Appointment, License, or Election of Trust or Profit, civil or military, within this State, and shall not be capable of being elected to, or aiding by their Votes to elect another to be a Member of Assembly, and shall not by themselves, or by Deputy, Attorney or Trustee, execute any such Office, Trust or Appointment, and shall be disabled to prosecute any Suit at Law or Equity, or to be Guardians, Executors or Administrators, or capable of any Legacy, or Deed of Gift of Lands, and shall be disabled from taking any Lands by Descent or Purchase, or conveying Lands to others for any Term longer than for one Year, and shall not keep Guns or other Arms within his or their House, but the same may be seized by a written Order of a Justice of the County in which he or they reside; and after the Expiration of the said Sixty Days, he or they shall not be permitted to depart this State without Permission first had and obtained from the Governor and Council; and in Case of being suffered to depart, shall give Bond and sufficient Security, if such shall be required, not to be aiding to the Enemies of this State during his or their Absence; and in Case of their Departure without such Permission had, he or they shall forfeit all their Goods and Chattels, Lands and Tenements, to the Use of the state…”Item Open Access John Haywood, A Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina, Arranged under Distinct Heads in Alphabetical Order, at 234-35, Hunting, § 3 (1814)(General Publisher, 1784)If any person or persons shall be discovered hunting in the woods with a gun, in the night time, by fire light, such person or persons so offending shall, upon conviction, by indictment or presentment in any court of record in this state, be fined by such court 20 current money, to be applied to the use of the county wherein the offence was committed until all costs accruing upon the presentment be paid.Item Open Access 1786 N.C. Sess. Laws 407, An Act for Raising Troops for the Protection of the Inhabitants of Davidson County, ch. 1, § 5.(General Publisher, 1786)That every able bodied man who shall be enlisted into the said service, and shall furnish himself with one good rifled or smooth bored gun fit for service, one good picker, shot-bag and powder-horn, twelve good flints, one pound of good powder, and two pounds of good leaden bullets or buck shot suitable to his gun . . . [shall be provided with certain items of clothing].Item Open Access Francois X. Martin, A Collection of Statutes of the Parliament of England in Force in the State of North Carolina, 60-61 (Newbern 1792)(General Publisher, 1792)Restatement of the Statute of Northampton, prohibiting going armed with force and arms in affray of peace, nor to go nore ride armed by night nor by day in fairs, markets, nor "in the presence of the King's Justices.Item Open Access John Haywood, A Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina, Arranged under Distinct Heads in Alphabetical Order, Oaths and Affirmations, at 40, The oath of a Constable, § XXIII (1814)(General Publisher, 1814)You shall swear that you will well and truly serve the State of North Carolina in the office of a constable, you shall see and cause the peace of the State to be well and duly preserved and kept according to your power, you shall arrest all such persons as in your sight shall right or go armed offensively, or shall commit or make any riot, affray or other breach of the peace; you shall do your best endeavor, upon complaint to you made, to apprehend all felons, and rioters, or persons riotously assembled; and if any such offender shall make resistance with force, you shall make hue and cry, and shall pursue them according to lawItem Open Access Laws of the University of North Carolina, 9. Chapter 3—Collegiate Duties and Restrictions, § 13 (Raleigh, NC: J. Gales & Son, 1829)(General Publisher, 1829)Prohibited students from keeping a dog, firearms, or gun powder. Also prohiited carrying, keeping, or owning a sword, dirk, sword-cane, or any deadly weapon, or using fire arms without permission from a member of the faculty.Item Open Access 1838, Ordinances of the Trustees of the University of North Carolina, ch. 5, §§ 20-24 (Raleigh Register).(General Publisher, 1838)Every Student who shall send to any person a challenge or message, either in writing or otherwise, purporting to be a challenge to fight a duel, shall be expelled.Item Open Access 1838, Ordinances of the Trustees of the University of North Carolina, ch. 5, § 13 (Raleigh Register).(General Publisher, 1838)Prohibited students from keeping any firearms or gunpowder at the college. Prohibited keeping, carrying, or owning any sword, dirk, sword-cane, or other deadly weapon. Prohibited use of firearms without the permission of the college president.Item Open Access James Iredell, A Digested Manual of the Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina, at 73 (1847)(General Publisher, 1840)Prohibited “any free negro, mulatto, or free person of color” from carrying or possessing any shotgun, musket, rifle, pistol, sword, dagger, or bowie knife without a license from the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions of his or her country.Item Open Access James Iredell, A Digested Manual of the Acts of the General Assembly of North Carolina, at 75 (1847)(General Publisher, 1846)Prohibited selling or delivering firearms and weapons to “any slave, or slaves, any gun cotton, fire arms, swords, dirks or other side arms.”Item Open Access 1850-51 N.C. Sess. Laws 243, ch. 121, § 5(General Publisher, 1850)Applied a property tax on all pistols, Bowie-knives for one dollar. A property tax of fifty cents applied to dirks, sword canes.Item Open Access Laws for the Government of the City of Raleigh, Containing All Legislative Enactments Relative Thereto, and the Ordinances of the Board of Commissioners Now in Force: From the First Act of Incorporation to 1854, at 63, § 6 (1854)(General Publisher, 1854)No person shall discharge any gun or other fire-arms within any of the streets or public squares of the city, or upon any lot of the same, (excepting his own lot,) on pain of forfeiting four dollars for every such offence. Or, if the offence be committed in the night, the offender shall forfeit twenty-five dollarsItem Open Access 1856-1857 N.C. Sess. Laws 22, Pub. Laws, ch. 24, § 1.(General Publisher, 1856)[T]he true intent and meaning of the 95th section of the 34th chapter of the Revised Code was and is hereby declared to be to prevent fire hunting for deer with a gun or guns in the night time, and nothing more.Item Open Access 1856-1857 N.C. Sess. Laws 34, Pub. Laws, ch. 34, § 23, pt. 4.(General Publisher, 1856)On every pistol, except such as are used exclusively for mustering, and on every bowie-knife, one dollar and twenty five cents; on dirks and swordcanes, sixty five cents: Provided, however, That of said arms, only such shall be taxable, as at some time within the year have been used, worn or carried about the person of the owner, or of some other, by his consent.Item Open Access 1858-1859 N.C. Sess. Laws 35–36, Pub. Laws, ch. 25, § 27, pt. 15(General Publisher, 1858)Imposed a tax of one dollar and twenty-five cents on every dirk, Bowie-knife, pistol, sword cane, dirk-cane, and rifle cane.