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An Act to Prohibit the Selling of Guns, Gunpowder, or Other Warlike Stores, to the Indians, Pa. Territory Laws, 306, 306-7 (B. Franklin 1763).

  • Year:
  • 1763
Category:

Felons, Foreigners and Others Deemed Dangerous By the State, Purchase or Sale of Weapons,

Jurisdiction:

Colonial,

"An ACT to prohibit the Selling of Guns, Gunpowder, or other Warlike Stores, to the Indians.

...BE IT ENACTED by the Honourable JAMES HAMILTON , Efq; Lieutenant-Governor under the Honourable THOMAS PENN and RICHARD PENN, Efquires, true and absolute Proprietaries of the Province of Pennsylvania, and Countries of New-Castle, Kent and Suffex, upon Delaware, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Representatives of the Freeman of the said Province, in General Assembly met, and by the Authority of the same, That from and after the Passing of this Act, if any Person or Persons whatsoever shall, directly or indi­rectly, give to, sell, barter or exchange, with any Indian or Indians whatsoever, any Guns, Gunpowder, Shot, Bul­lets, Lead, or other Warlike Stores, without Licence from the Commander in Chief of the King’s Forces in those Parts, or from the Governor, or Commander in Chief of this Province for the Time being, first had and obtained, every such Person or Persons so offending, being thereof legally convicted in any County Court of Quarter Seffions within this Province, shall forfeit and pay the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, one Moiety thereof to the Informer, and the other Moiety thereof to the Governor, or Commander in Chief of this Province for the Time being, and shall furthermore be whipt with Thirty-mine Lashes on his bare Back, well lais on, and be committed to the common Goal of the County, there to remain Twelve Months, without Bail or Mainprize."

 

Anno Regni Georgii III, Regis, Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ & Hiberniæ, Tertio: At a General Assembly of the Province of Pennsylvania, Begun and Holden at Philadelphia, the Fourteenth Day of October, Anno Domini 1763, in the Third Year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George III by the Grace of God, of Great Britain France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c.: And from Thence Continued by Adjournments to the Twenty-Second Day of October, 1763 (Philadelphia, PA: B. Franklin, 1763), 306-7. An Act to Prohibit the Selling of Guns, Gunpowder, or Other Warlike Stores, to the Indians. Undated.

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