An Act to Prevent the Disposing of Arms, and Others Warlike Implements, and Ammunition to Indians and Other, ch. 91, §§ 1-2, 1807 Ind. Acts 515, 515-16 (Stout & Smoot).
"CHAPTER XCI.
AN ACT to prevent the disposing of Arms, and other Warlike Implement, and Ammunition to Indians and others...
...§ 1. BE it therefore enacted by the Legislative Council and House of Representatives, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Executive of the Territory for the time being, be, and he is hereby authorized[1] and empowered by proclamation to prohibit the furnishing by sale, gift, or otherwise, all, & every species of war-like weapons, and implements[2]; ammunition or warlike stores, to any Indian or Indians, dwelling within, or without the limits or lines of the federal counties in this Territory, when in his opinion the public[3] welfare and safety may require such prohibition.
§ 2. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons, who shall directly or indirectly, by gift, present, donation, loan, sale or otherwise furnish and provide, or have furnished and provided any Indian or Indians, with any article of ammunition, such as flints, powder, lead or balls, or with any warlike implements[4] or deadly weapons, such as knives, spears, battle axes, tome hawks, pistols, fusils, rifles, smooth bores, or muskets, contrary to the proclamation of the Executive, as aforesaid, every person or persons, so offending, shall, upon conviction by indictment or presentment, in any court of record in this Territory, be fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, be whipped publicly[5], any number of stripes, not exceeding one hundred well laid on, and be imprisoned for a term not exceeding five years, at the discretion of the court before whom the same may be tried, and moreover, shall stand committed, after having received the stripes, until the fine and costs be paid."
John Rice Jones, and John Johnson, eds., Laws of the Indiana Territory Comprising Those Acts Formerly in Force, and as Revised by Messrs. John Rice Jones, and John Johnson, and Passed (After Amendments) by the Legislature; and the Original Acts Passed at the First Session of the Second General Assembly of the Said Territory: Begun and Held at the Borough of Vincennes, on the Sixteenth Day of August, Anno Domini Eighteen Hundred and Seven (Vincennes IN: Stout & Smoot, 1807), 515-16. Chapter 91—An Act to Prevent the Disposing of Arms, and Other Warlike Implements, and Ammunition to Indians and Others, §§ 1-2. Approved September 17, 1807.
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