Act of Mar. 2, 1631, no. 50, VA. CODE (R. & W. & G. Bartow 1823).
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NOE commander of any plantation, shall either himselfe or suffer others to spend powder unnecessarilie, that is to say, in dringinge or enterteynments."
William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All of the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619, Published Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed on the Fifth Day of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight, vol. 1 (New York, NY: R. & W. & G. Bartow, 1823), 173. Act 50. Passed March 2, 1631.
William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of All of the Laws of Virginia from the First Session of the Legislature in the Year 1619, Published Pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly of Virginia, Passed on the Fifth Day of February One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eight, vol. 1 (New York, NY: R. & W. & G. Bartow, 1823), 198. Act 54. Passed September 4, 1632.*
* This law was technically repealed by the General Assembly on September 4, 1632, but was then passed again verbatim as Act 54 of that same session. See pages 179–80 in the second attached PDF for more information.