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 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 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 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 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 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 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.Item Open Access 1860-1861 N.C. Sess. Laws 68, Pub. Laws, ch. 34, § 1(General Publisher, 1860)Prohibited “any free negro” from wearing or carrying or keeping in his house any “any shot gun, musket, rifle, pistol, sword, sword cane, dagger, bowie knife, powder or shot.”Item Open Access 1860-61 N.C. Sess. Laws 219–20, Priv. Laws, ch. 180, § 1(General Publisher, 1860)Granted the town of Wilmington the authority to levy and collecy taxes annually on all pistols, dirks, Bowie-knives, or sword-canes if worn about the person at any time during the year, as well as all pistol galleries.Item Open Access 1861 N.C. Sess. Laws 25, Pub. Laws, 2d. Extra Sess., ch. 17, § 10.(General Publisher, 1861)Every resident enrolled and notified, as is directed in the third section of this act, shall within one month thereafter, provide himself with a good musket, smooth bore gun or rifle, shot pouch and powder horn, and shall appear so armed and accoutred when called out to exercise or in actual service; the commissioned officers shall severally be armed with a sword or revolver at his discretionItem Open Access 1862-1863 N.C. Sess. Laws 60, Priv. Laws, Adj. Sess., ch. 49, § 9.(General Publisher, 1862)[T]hey may prohibit and prevent by practices the riding or driving of horses or other animals at a speed greater than six miles an hour, within the city; and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city.Item Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 103-04, Pub Laws, ch. 40, § 15.(General Publisher, 1866)“an act to amend chapter one hundred and seven, section sixty-six, of the Revised Code, relating to free negroes having arms;Item Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 22, Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 64.(General Publisher, 1866)That they may prohibit and prevent, by penalties, . . . and also the firing of guns, pistols, crackers, gun-powder or other explosive, combustible or dangerous materials in the streets, public grounds, or elsewhere within the city."Item Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 33-34, Pub. Laws, ch. 21, § 11(General Publisher, 1866)Imposed a $1 tax on every dirk, Bowie knife, pistol, sword cane, dirk cane, and rifle cane used or worn during the year.Item Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 63, Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 19(General Publisher, 1866)Granted the Board of Aldermen the power to levy a fifty dollar tax on every pistol, Bowie-knife, dirk, sword-cane, or any other deadly weapon worn upon the person except a pocket knife without special permission from the aldermen.Item Open Access 1865-66 N.C. Sess. Laws 69-70, Priv. Laws, ch. 7, § 30.(General Publisher, 1866)That the said board of aldermen shall have power to make from time to time, ordinances, rules and regulations concerning the firing of fire-arms, and all explosions in said city, the pace and speed at which horses may be driven or rode through the streets, the arrangements of stove-pipes in buildings, the mode in which fire shall be kept, or carried through the city, the manner in which powder and other explosive and inflammable substances may be kept and sold