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    1786 Va. Acts 35. (Ch. 49, An Act Forbidding and Punishing Affrays).
    (General Publisher, 1786)
    Be it enacted by the General Assembly, that no man, great nor small, of what condition soever he be, except the Ministers of Justice in executing the precepts of the Courts of Justice, or in executing of their office, and such as be in their company assisting them, be so hardy to come before the justices of any court, or either of their Ministers of Justice, doing their office, with force and arms, on pain, to forfeit their armour to the Commonwealth, and their bodies to prison, at the pleasure of a Court; nor go nor ride armed by night nor by day, in fair or markets, or in other places, in terror of the county, upon pain of being arrested and committed to prison by any Justice on his own view, or proof by others, there to abide for so long a time as a jury, to be sworn for that purpose by the said Justice, shall direct, and in like manner to forfeit his armour to the Commonwealth; but no person shall be imprisoned for such offence by a longer space of time than one month.
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    Collection of All Such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia ch. 21, p. 33 (1794)
    (General Publisher, 1786)
    Prohibited any man from being armed at fairs or markets "in terror of the country."

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