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 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 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 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 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 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 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.