Act of Feb. 8, ch. 54, § 5, 1798 Ky. Acts 105, 106 (John Bradford).
"CHAP. LIV.
An Act to reduce into one of the several acts respecting Slaves, Free Negroes, Mulattoes and Indians...
...§ 5. No negro, mulatto, or Indian whatsoever, shall keep or carry any gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon whatsoever, offense or defensive, but all and every gun, weapon and ammunition found in the possession or custody of any negro, mulatto, or Indian, may be seized by any person and upon due proof thereof made before any justice of the peace of the county where such seizure shall be, shall by his order, be forfeited to the seizor for his own use, and moreover every such offender shall have and receive by order of such justice any number of lashes not exceeding thirty nine, on his or her bare back, well laid on for every such offence."
Acts (of a General Nature) Passed at the Second Session of the Sixth General Assembly, for the Commonwealth of Kentucky; Begun and Held in the Capitol, in the Town of Frankfort, on Monday the First Day of January, in the Year of Our Lord, One Thousand, Seven Hundred and Ninety-Eight, and of the Commonwealth in the Sixth (Lexington, KY: John Bradford, 1798), 106. Chapter 54—An Act to Reduce into One the Several Acts Respecting Slaves, Free Negros, Mulattoes, and Indians, § 5. Passed February 8, 1798.
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