Act of Feb. 7, ch. 50, § 8, 1827 Del. Laws 120, 125–26 (J. Robertson).
"CHAPTER L.
AN ACT concerning certain crimes and offences committed by slaves, and for the security of slaves properly demeaning themselves...
...Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That if any negro or mulatto slave shall join, or be be willingly present at any riot, rout or unlawful assembly, or shall commit an assault and battery upon any white person, or shall without special permission of his or her master or mistress, presume to carry any gun, pistol, sword, dirk, or other unusual or dangerous weapon or arms; every negro or mulatto slave so offending, and being thereof convicted before any Justice of the Peace for the county, in which the offence shall be committed, shall be whipped with not less than ten nor more than forty lashes, publickly upon the bare back.”
Laws of the State of Delaware, Passed at a Session of the General Assembly, Commenced and held at Dover, on Tuesday the Second day of January, in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Eight Hundred & Twenty Seven, and of the Independence of the United States, the Fifty First (Dover, DE: J. Robertson, 1827), 125–26. Chapter 50—An Act Concerning Certain Crimes and Offences Committed by Slaves, and for the Security of Slaves Properly Demeaning Themselves, § 8. Passed February 7, 1827.
Original source document from LLMC: https://discover-llmc-com/LLMC-99891-1827-010.1.2.