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Slaves, Runaways, Free Negroes, and Emancipation, ch. 15, art. 3, § 12, 1850 Ky. Acts 291, 296 (A. G. Hodges & Co. 1850).

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  • 1850
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Race and Slavery Based, Carrying Weapons,

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State,

"ARTICLE III.
Of dealing with slaves, and suffering them to go at large...

    ...§ 12. If any negro shall keep or carry a gun, or other deadly weapon, powder, or shot, the same may be seized by any free white person; and upon due proof thereof, before a justice of the peace, it shall be forfeited, and vested in the person seizing; and if the negro offending be a slave, he shall by a judgment of a justice of the peace, be punished by stripes not exceeding thirty-nine; if a free negro, fined five dollars." 

Acts of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, Passed at November Session, 1850, vol. 1 (Frankfort, KY: A. G. Hodges & Co., 1850), 296. Chapter 15—Slaves, Runaways, Free Negroes, and Emancipation, Article 3—Of Dealing with Slaves, and Suffering Them to Go at Large, § 12. Passed November 1850.

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