John G. Aikin, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama 201-02 (1822)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Alabama | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-22T23:23:01Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-22T23:36:46Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T13:38:49Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-16T22:01:23Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1822 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prohibited hunting with fire at night-time. Punishable by a fine of fifty dollars. Only construed to "embrace persons hunting deer with a gun and fire at night." | |
| dc.description.exceptions | Only applies to deer hunting | |
| dc.description.lawtext | § 1. It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to hunt with fire-arms in the night-time; and every person convicted thereof, shall forfeit and pay for every such offence, the sum of fifty dollars; one-half to go to the use of the informer, and the other half to go to the use of the county: Provided, That this act shall not be construed to prohibit brace persons hunting deer with a gun and fire at night. § 2. If any person hunting with fire in the night-time shall kill any horse, mare, colt, neat-cattle, hog, sheep, or other domestic animal, such person so offending shall be liable to an action at law, for double damages against him above penalties. § 3. If any slave or slaves shall be discovered fire-hunting in the slaves' manner aforesaid, such slave or slaves, on conviction thereof, in manner aforesaid, before any justice of the peace, for the county wherein the offence may be committed, shall, by order of said justice, receive thirty-nine lashes well laid on, on his bare back; and the master or owner of said slave, or person in whose care he shall be, shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars for each slave so convicted, to be levied by a warrant, immediately to be issued by such justice for that purpose. § 4. If any person shall be convicted, before two justices of the peace, in manner aforesaid, of sending or having sent his or her slave, or any slave in his charge or care, to fire-hunt, in manner before mentioned, the person or persons so offending, shall be subject to the same pains as are provided by this act to be inflicted on fire-hunters. § 5. If any person summoned to give evidence against any person accused under this act, shall refuse or neglect to give such evidence, the person so refusing or neglecting, shall be committed to the jail of the county where the offence shall be committed, until he or they shall give testimony against the said offender. § 6. Nothing contained in this act shall be construed to affect any provisions contained in the act entitled "An act for the punishment of crimes therein mentioned," passed the thirteenth of January, 1802. § 7. The captains of the several companies of militia in this territory, shall cause this act to be read at the head of their respective companies twice in every year, after the publication thereof, under the penalty of forfeiting to the use of the county, for every such neglect, five dollars, recoverable by warrant of any justice of the peace, on the oath of two reputable witnesses. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited hunting with fire at night-time. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/2993 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Digest_of_the_Laws_of_the_State_of_Ala/VNu1QU9MLu0C?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA201&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | HUNTING REGULATION | |
| dc.title | John G. Aikin, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama 201-02 (1822) |