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Act of April 2, 1779, §§ 4–5, 1779 Pa. Laws 198, 198–99 (John Dunlap).

  • Year:
  • 1779
Category:

Felons, Foreigners and Others Deemed Dangerous By the State,

Jurisdiction:

State,

"CHAPTER    CI.

An ACT for repealing part of an Act, entitled,[1] 'A further Supplement to the Act entitled,[2] an Act for the further security of Government;' and for disarming persons who shall not have given attestations of allegiance and fidelity to this State, or some other of the United States...

    ...Sect. 4. AND WHEREAS it is very improper and dangerous that persons disaffected[3] to the liberty and independence[4] of this state should possess or have in their own keeping, or elsewhere, any fire arms, or other weapons used in war, or any gun powder:
    Sect. 5. Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, the Lieutenant or any Sub-Lieutenant of the militia or any county or place within this state, shall be, and is hereby empowered to disarm any person or persons who shall not have taken any oath or affirmation of allegiance to this or any other state, and against whom information on oath shall be given before any Justice of the Peace, that such person is suspected to be disaffected to the independence[5] of this state; and shall take from every such person any cannon, mortar, or other piece of ordnance, or any blunderbuss, wall-piece, musket, fusee, carbine or pistols, or other fire arms, or any hand gun and any sword, cutlass, bayonet, pike, or other warlike weapon, out of any building, house or place belonging to such person."

[1] Spelled “intitled” in original source document.
[2] Ibid.
[3] Spelled “disafected" in original source document.
[4] Spelled “independance" in original source document.
[5] Ibid.

Laws Enacted in the Second Sitting of the Third General Assembly, of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Which Commenced at Philadelphia, on Monday the First Day of February, A.D. One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Nine, and Continued till Monday the Fifth Day of April of the Same Year (Philadelphia, PA: John Dunlap, 1779), 198–99. Chapter 101—An Act for Repealing Part of an Act, Intitled [sic] “A Further Supplement to the Act Intitled [sic], an Act for the Further Security of Government;” and for Disarming Persons Who Shall not Have Given Attestations of Allegiance and Fidelity to This State, or Some Other of the United States, §§ 4–5. Enacted April 2, 1779. 

Original source document from LLMC: https://llmc.com/docDisplay5.aspx?set=99924&volume=1779&part=020

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