Connecticut
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The Connecticut Community serves as a dedicated repository for academic and research materials focusing on the historical, cultural, and legal developments within Connecticut. This community houses collections that reflect various jurisdictions, historical periods, and sectors, offering valuable insights for researchers, students, and professionals.
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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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.