A Law Entitled a Law Respecting Slaves, §§ 4-5, MO. TERRITORY REV. STAT (Joseph Charless 1808) (Law Passed 1804).

"A LAW
Entitled a Law respecting Slaves.

    Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the governor and judges of the Indiana Territory, authorised and empowered by an act of Congress to make Laws for the District of Louisiana, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same...
    ...Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no slave or mulatto whatsoever, 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 made before any justice of the peace of the district 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. 
    Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That every free negro or mulatto, being a housekeeper may be permitted to keep one gun, powder and shot; and all negroes or mulattoes bond or free, living at any frontier plantation, may be permitted to keep and use guns, powder, shot and weapons, offensive and defensive, by license from a justice of the peace of the district wherein such plantation lies, to be obtained upon the application of free negroes or mulattoes or of the owners of such as are slaves."