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This top community organizes Firearms Research Center holdings by jurisdiction. It provides separate collections for U.S. states, territories, the District of Columbia, and the federal jurisdiction, spanning the territorial period to the present.

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    Oliver H. Prince, Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia 407, 409 (1822)
    (1806)
    Required "All male white inhabitants ... from the age of eighteen to forty-five years ... to appear and work upon the several roads, creeks, causeways, water- passages, and bridges" and to "carry with him one good and sufficient gun or pair of pistols, and at least nine cartridges to fit the same, or twelve loads of powder and ball, or buck shot."
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    19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 348-49 (Pt. 2, 1911)
    (1791)
    Required males between 16 and 50 to serve in the militia and provide their own arms. The arms requirement was "one rifle musket, fowling- piece or fusee fit for action, with a cartridge box or powder-horn answerable for that purpose with six cartridges or powder and lead equal thereto and three flints."
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    19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 291, 296 (1911)
    (1773)
    "That every Person liable llable to ap to appear and bear arms at any Exercise Muster or Training hereby appointed Pursuant to the directions of this Act Shall constantly keep and bring with them to Such Muster Exercise or Training one Gun or Musket fit for Service one Catridge Box with at least Nine Catridges filled with Good Gun owder and Ball that shall fit his Piece a horn or Flask containing at least aQuarter of a Pound of Gun Powder a shot Pouch with half a pound of Bulletts..."
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    19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 137-39 (1911)
    (1770)
    Required every white male inhabitant attending church or other places of divine worship to carry a gun or pair of pistols. Arms are required to be in good order and fit for service, along with at least six charges of gun-powder and ball. Violators fined ten shillings for each violation.
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    19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 104, 108 (Pt. 2, 1911)
    (1778)
    "every person liable to appear and bear Arms at any Muster, exercise or training hereby appointed , pursuant to the directions of this Act, shall constantly keep and bring with him, to such training , exercising or Muster, one good Gun, Bayonet, hanger , sword or hatchet , a Cartouch Box, twelve Cartridges a powder horn and half pound of Powder , with at least twenty four pounds of Lead, a Worm , pricker and four Flints each,"
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    19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 353 (Pt. 2, 1911)
    (1784)
    "in case any person or persons so liable shall neglect or refuse to appear compleatly armed and furnished with one rifle musket, fowling-piece or fusee fit for action, with a cartridge box or powder-horn answerable for that purpose with six cartridges or powder and lead equal thereto and three flints, at any general musters of the regiment or battalion to which his company belongs, every such erson shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five shillings,"
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    18 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 11 (1910)
    (1755)
    "that every person lyable to appear and bear Arms at any Muster, exercise or training hereby appointed pursuant to the Direction of this Act, shall constantly keep in his House, or at his usual place of abode, and bring with him at such muster Exercise or training one Gun or Musquet fit for Service, one Cartridge Box with at least nine Cartridges filled with good Gun powder and Ball that shall fit his Piece"

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