Arkansas
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Item Open Access Slaves, in Laws of the Arkansas Territory 521 (J. Steele & J. M’Campbell, Eds., 1835)(General Publisher, 1835)Prohibited any “slave or mulatto” from keeping or carrying a gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon.Item Open Access J. Steele (Editor), Laws of the Arkansas Territory 521 (1835), § 3 [Slaves](General Publisher, 1804)Prohibited any "slave or mulatto" from keeping or carrying a gun, powder, shot, club or other weapon of offensive or defensive nature. Violators shall be sentenced to lashes not exceeding thirty-nine.Item Open Access An Ordinance Concerning Slaves, and Free Negroes and Mulattos, § 1, ARKANSAS GAZETTE, Jan. 12, 1836, at 1 (Little Rock, Arkansas).(General Publisher, 1836)That no slave or free negro or mulatto whatsoever shall keep or carry, within the limits of said City, any gun, pistol or other fire arm of any kind whatsoever, or any knife, dirk, club or any weapon of offence or defence whatsoever, or any powder, balls or shot; and that any and every such weapon, and any and all such ammunition found in the possession or custody of any negro or mulatto, may be seized by any person,Item Open Access Revised Statutes of the State of Arkansas, Adopted at the October Session of the General Assembly of Said State, A.D. 1837, in the Year of Our Independence the Sixty second, and of the State of Second Year Page 587 § 18(General Publisher, 1838)Provided that every gun, rifle, weapon of any kind, ammunition found in the possession of any "free negro or mulatto" not having a license may be seized and violators fined not exceeding twenty dollars.Item Open Access Revised Statutes of the State of Arkansas, Adopted at the October Session of the General Assembly of Said State, A.D. 1837, at 733-34 (1838)(General Publisher, 1838)Prohibited any “free negro” from possessing or carrying a gun, ammunition, or weapon of any kind without a license.Item Open Access Revised Statutes of the State of Arkansas, Adopted at the October Session of the General Assembly of Said State, A. D. 1837, in the Year of Our Independence the Sixty-second, and of the State of Second Year Page 733-734 § 23(General Publisher, 1837)Prohibited possession of offensive or defensive weapon without written permission of his master. Violators shall have the weapon seized and whipped not exceeding thirty stripes.Item Open Access Revised Statutes of the State of Arkansas, Adopted at the October Session of the General Assembly of Said State 733-34 (1838)(General Publisher, 1837)Prohibited “any slave” from possessing any gun or weapon without written permission from their master.Item Open Access Slaves, in Laws of the Arkansas Territory 521 (J. Steele & J. M'Campbell, Eds., 1835).(General Publisher, 1835)No slave or mulatto whatsoever, shall keep or carry a gun, poweder, shot, club or other weapon whatsoever, offensive or defensive; but all and every gun weapon and ammunition found in the possesision or custody of any negro or mulatto, may be seized by any person and upon due proof made before any justice of the peace of the district [county] where such seizure shall be, shall by his order be forfeited to the seizor, for his own use, and moreover, every such offender shall have and receive by order of such justice any num=ber of lashes not exceeding thirty nine on his or her bare back well laid on for every such offense.