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The Federal Repository is dedicated to preserving historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the federal government and its jurisdictions, including the District of Columbia and other federal territories. This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore the development, culture, and contributions of these regions to the nation's history.
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Item Open Access The Charter of New England (1620).(General Publisher, 1620)Granted subjects all liberties, franchises, and immunities of free denizens. Also granted subjects the right to take, load, carry, transport armour, weapons, ordinances, muniiton, poweder, shott, victuals,and "all other things" necessary for the use and defense of the people.Item Open Access §14, 14 Stat. 176 (1866)(General Publisher, 1868)Reaffirmed that freedmen were entited to “full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty [and] personal security . . . including the constitutional right to keep and bear arms.”Item Open Access Freedmen's Bureau Act on July 16, 1866, §14(General Publisher, 1866)Declared that full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings concerning personal liberty, security, acquisition, enjoyment, and disposition of estate, including the right to bear arms, shall be secured and enjoyed by all citizens.Without respect to race, color, or previous status as a slave.Item Open Access Cong. Globe, 39th Cong., 1st Sess., at 908-909(General Publisher, 1866)Decree by Generel D.E. Sickles pre-empting South Carolina's Black Codes: Guaranteed the constitutional rights of all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants to bear arms will not be infringed. Did not construe to sanction carrying concealed weapons, or the carrying of weapons by disorderly persons, vagrants, or disturbers of the peace.Item Open Access Civil Rights Act of 1866 CHAP. XXXI.—An Act to protect all Persons in the United States in their Civil Rights, and furnish the Means of their Vindication.(General Publisher, 1866)Guaranteed "full and equal benefit of all laws and proceedings for the security of person and property, as is enjoyed by white citizens. Used by the Court to show language virtually identical to the Freedman's Bureau Act and covered the same rights.Item Open Access Act of May 8, 1792, 1 Stat. 271(General Publisher, 1792)The first Miltiia Act, used by Congress to mandate who must be enrolled within the militia.Item Open Access Letter from George Washington to Henry Knox (Nov. 30, 1780), in The Writings of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources 1745-1799 (John C. Fitzpatrick, ed.)(General Publisher, 1780)An order to repair and prove old arms before delivery.Item Open Access E. Wayne Carp's To Starve The Army At Pleasure: Continental Army Administration and American Political Culture, 1775-1783 (1984) at 66-67.(General Publisher, 1776)George Washington ordered the quartermaster general to stamp all Continental Army tools with the insignia "CXIII" to limit embezzlement of military equipment.Item Open Access An Ordinance Prohibiting the Carrying of Firearms, Ordinances of the Corporation of Georgetown (1859).(General Publisher, 1859)it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to have about their persons any concealed deadly or dangerous weapons, such as daggers, pistols, bowie-knives, dirk-knives, colt, slung-shots, or brass or other metallic knuckles, within the limits of this CorporationItem Open Access 1 William B. Webb The Laws of the Corporation of the of Washington Digested and Arranged under Appropriate in Accordance with a Joint Resolution of the City 418 (1868), Act of Nov. 18, 1858.(General Publisher, 1858)It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to carry or have concealed about their persons any deadly or dangerous weapons, such as dagger, pistol, bowie knife, dirk knife, or dirk, colt, slungshot, or brass or other metal knuckles within the City of Washington