A Law for the Regulation of Slaves, 1799 Miss. Territory Laws 112, 113 (A. Marschalk 1799).
"A LAW for the regulation of SLAVES...
...No negro or mulatto shall keep or carry any gun, powder, shot, club or other weapon whatsoever, offensive or defensive; but all and every gun, weapon and ammunition found in the possession or custody of any negro or mulatto 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 offense."
Laws of the Mississippi Territory; Published at a Session of the Legislature Begun in the Town of Natchez, in the County of Adams, and Territory Aforesaid, upon the 22nd Day of January, Anno Domini 1799, and in the 23rd Year of the Independence of the United States of America; and Continued by Adjournments to the 25th Day of May, in the Same Year (Natchez, MS: A. Marschalk, 1799), 112–13. A Law for the Regulation of Slaves. Passed March 30, 1799.
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