South Carolina

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This Collection serves as a repository for academic and research materials related to the history, culture, and legal developments of South Carolina. It includes a wide range of collections documenting the state's unique historical journey, cultural heritage, and contributions to the broader American landscape.

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An Act for the Regulation of the Militia of this State, at 684, § 5, pt. 7 (1782).
(General Publisher, 1782)
Any officer or private who shall be found drunk on guard, or at any other time of duty, if an officer, be cashiered and turned into the ranks, or receive such other punishment as the court shall inflict ; if a non-commissioned officer or private, he shall be confined til sober, and serve ten days longer than he was otherwise liable to.
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4 Statutes at Large of South Carolina 343-44, An Act to Prevent Sedition, and Punish Insurgents and Disturbers of the Public Peace, § 1 (1838)
(General Publisher, 1776)
Prohibited any person to “take up arms with a hostile intent.”
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4 Statutes at Large of South Carolina 34, An Act for Disposing of the Accadians Now in Charleston, § 10 (1838)
(General Publisher, 1756)
Prohibited “Acadians” from using a firearm or other offensive weapon and allowed people to seize such weapons.
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An Alphabetical Digest Of The Public Statute Law Of South-Carolina, at 37, tit. 115, § 13 (Vol. 2, 1814)
(General Publisher, 1740)
That if any person shall fire or shoot off any gun or pistol in the night time after dark and before day light, without necessity, every such person shall forfeit the sum of forty shillings current money, for each gun so fired as aforesaid
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DAVID J. MCCORD, 7 STATUTES AT LARGE OF SOUTH CAROLINA 417–19 (1840) (enacted 1740, re-enacted 1743)
(General Publisher, 1740)
Required ever white male inhabitant liable for militia service to carry a gun or pair of horse pistols in good order and fit for service to church. Also required at least six charges of gun powder and ball. Violators liable for twenty shillings on each violation.
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1740 S.C. Acts, An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and other Slaves in this Province, § 41
(General Publisher, 1740)
And Whereas an ill custom has prevailed in this Province, of firing guns in the night time; for the prevention thereof for the future, be it enacted that if any person shall fire or shoot off any gun or pistol in the night time after dark and before day-light without necessity every such person shall forfeit the sum of 40s. current money for each gun so fired as aforesaid
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1740 S.C. Acts, An Act for the Better Ordering and Governing of Negroes and other Slaves in this Province, § 23
(General Publisher, 1740)
Prohibited any “negro or slave” from possessing or using firearms or weapons without a ticket or license from their master, punishable by seizure of weapons.

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