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Item Open Access 1 THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT 95–96 (J. Hammond Trumbull ed. 1850) (enacted 1643(General Publisher, 1643)Required each family to bring arms to church every Sabbath and lecture day.Item Open Access RECORDS OF THE COLONY AND PLANTATION OF NEW HAVEN, FROM 1638 TO 1649, at 131–32 (Charles J. Hoadly ed., 1857) (enacted 1644)(General Publisher, 1644)One quarter of each plantation's militia will attend church services with "arms compleat" with five to six charges of powder, firelocks, and shot. Penalty of two shillings for neglect and one shilling for late arrival.Item Open Access 1 PUBLIC RECORDS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT 542–43 (J. Hammond Trumbull ed., 1850) (enacted 1650).(General Publisher, 1650)Required all persons above sixteen years old to bear arms. All males will have a musket or other gun in continual readiness and fit for service.Item Open Access J. Trumbull, Public Records of the Colony of Conn., May 1665 (1850) 113 § 130(General Publisher, 1665)Prohibited selling or trading “to the Indeans,” nor any Dutch or Frenchman any guns, pistols, and other warlike instruments. Violators fined “twenty for one” and corporal punishment at the court’s discretion.Item Open Access The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, May, 1665 (1850) Page 113-114(General Publisher, 1665)Prohibited selling or trading “to the Indeans,” nor any Dutch or Frenchman any guns, pistols, and other warlike instruments. Violators fined “twenty for one” and corporal punishment at the court’s discretion.Item Open Access The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut, Prior to the Union with New Haven Colony, May, 1665 (1850) Page 79(General Publisher, 1665)Prohibited the repairing, selling, and giving “any Indian” a gun or ammunition, punishable by fine.Item Open Access 1672-1714 Conn. Acts 3, False Alarms(General Publisher, 1714)Prohibited falsely alarming the colony by firing any gun or guns, at any time between the shutting in the Evening or break of day. Violators fined five pounds or two months imprisonment, or other Corporal punishment.Item Open Access Acts and Laws Passed by the General Court or Assembly of His Majesties Colony of Connecticut in New-England 292(General Publisher, 1723)Prohibited the prosecution of “any Indian” for gun or ammunition except by a particular Court, requiring the guns be forfeited.Item Open Access 1723 Conn. Acts 292, An Act for Preventing Lending Guns, Ammunition etc. to the Indians(General Publisher, 1723)Prohibited giving or selling “any Indian” guns and ammunition.Item Open Access Franklin Bowditch Dexter, Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College: May 1745-May 1763, Annals, at 8 (1745)(General Publisher, 1745)Prohibited any scholar from keeping or discharging a gun or pistol in the College.Item Open Access An Act for regulating and ordering the Troops that are, or may be raised, for the Defence of this Colony, Article 19 (11 May, 1775)(General Publisher, 1775)When a commissioned officer is found drunk on duty, he shall be dismissed from service dishonorably. Non-commissioned officers and soldiers shall be sentenced according to a regimental court-martial.Item Open Access 1775 Conn. Acts 413, An Act for Supplying the Troops Ordered to be Raised for the Special Defense and Safety of this Colony, with Necessary Fire Arms(General Publisher, 1775)Provided that a sufficient supply of arms to be procured for the benefit of inhabitants of households and other persons not on the militia roll. Every person for whom any arm shall be impressed shall be paid four shilling for its use. Users shall be fined four shilling if they lose the arm.Item Open Access The Public Records Of The Colony Of Connecticut. Hartford, 1890 vol. 15 p. 191(General Publisher, 1775)Prohibited the exportation of salt petre, nitre, or gun powder out of the colony by land or water. Violators fined twenty pounds for every hundred weight of salt petre, nitre, or gun powder.Item Open Access The Public Records Of The State Of Connecticut Page 271-272(General Publisher, 1779)Prohibiting challenging another to fight with a sword, pistol, rapier, or other dangerous weapon. The person challenging shall forfeit one thousand pounds and give sureties for good behavior during life. Violators also prohibited from holding any office of "profit or honor under this State." Failure to pay the fine shall lead to imprisonment for one full year.Item Open Access 1783 Conn. Acts 633, An Act For The Punishment of Burglary And Robbery(General Publisher, 1783)Prohibited the burglary of any dwelling house or shop where goods, wares, and merchandise are deposited. Also prohibited robbery of any person in the Field of Highway through abuse, force, violence, or doing so armed with any dangerous armour or weapon. Violators punished with death.Item Open Access 1799 Conn Acts 511, An Act For The Militia, § 4(General Publisher, 1799)Imposed fines for non-appearance of militia muster and deficiencies of Arms, Ammunition, and Accoutrements. Violators of non-appearance as NCOs, drummers, fifers, or trumpeters at three dollars for each day's battalion or regiment exercise. The same fined at one dollar and fifty cents for company exercise and inspection. Privates fined at two dollars for non-appearance on days of regimental or battalion exercises. For neglect, privates fined at one dollar per day. For deficiencies in each gun or pair of pistol, violators fined seventy-five cents. For deficinecies in each sword, bayonets, or cartridge boxes, violators fined fifty cents.For other articles required by law, violators fined twnety-five cents.Item Open Access Conn. Const. art. I, § 15(General Publisher, 1818)Declared every citizen has a right to bear arms in defence of himself and the State.Item Open Access A Digest of the Laws of the State of Connecticut. (vol. 1, 1822) Chapter X, Trespass on the Case, p. 552(General Publisher, 1822)Required guns to be made innoxious before transfering to an "incautious person."Item Open Access Zephaniah Swift, The Public Statute Laws of the State of Connecticut, as Revised and Enacted by the General Assembly, in May, 1821, with the Acts of the Three Subsequent Sessions Incorporated; to Which is Prefixed the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of Connecticut Page 105 § 52(General Publisher, 1824)Prohibited challenging another, or accepting any such challenge, to duel with a sword, pistol, rapier, or other dangerous weapon. Violators fined a sum of three thousand dollars and required to give sureties for good behavior during life, and be disabled from holding any office of profit or honor. Inability to pay the fine shall lead to one year imprisonment.Item Open Access Charter and By-Laws of the City of New Haven, November, 1840 Title XI - Gunpowder Page 15(General Publisher, 1827)Prohibited, directly or indirectly, selling or delivering any gunpowder, or to have, store, or keep any quantity of gunpowder greater than one pound weight. The Court of Common Council shall have the power to license the sale, having, storing, and keeping gunpowder up to seven pounds in weight, and stored in a tin canister.
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