The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Providence of the Massachussets Bay in New England 226-27 (1726)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Massachusetts | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T01:55:24Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T13:54:22Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T02:21:42Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1713 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act To Prohibit Shooting Or Firing Off Guns Near The Road Or Highway On Boston Neck: That no person or persons, from and after the publication of this Act, may presume to discharge or fire off any gun upon Boston Neck within ten rods of the road or highway leading over the same, on pain of forfeiting and paying the sum of twenty shillings . . . And for the better conviction of persons offending against this Act, it shall be lawful, to and for any Free-holder, to arrest and take into custody any gun so fired off, and render the same to one of the next Justices in Boston, in order to its being produced at the time of trial. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Whereas the Limbs and Lives of several Persons have been greatly endangered in riding over Boston Neck, by their Horses throwing them, being affrighted and startling at the Firing of Guns by Gunners that frequent there after Game; For Preventing whereof for the future, Be it Enacted by his Excellency the Governor, Council, and Representatives in the General Court Assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That no person or persons, from and after the publication of this Act, may presume to discharge or fire off any gun upon Boston Neck within ten rods of the road or highway leading over the same, on pain of forfeiting and paying the sum of twenty shillings for each gun fired or discharged; one Moiety thereof to be and for the Use of the Poor in the said Town of Boston, and the other Moiety to him or them that shall inform, complain, and sue for the same; to be recovered before the Court of General Sessions of the Peace within the County, or before any One or more of her Majesty's Justices of the Peace out of Court. And for the better conviction of persons offending against this Act, it shall be lawful, to and for any Free-holder, to arrest and take into custody any gun so fired off, and render the same to one of the next Justices in Boston, in order to its being produced at the time of trial. | |
| dc.description.summary | To protect travelers whose horses are startled by hunters, this act prohibits firing a gun within ten rods of the highway across Boston Neck under penalty of a twenty-shilling fine. The collected fine is split equally between the town's poor and the informant, and any freeholder is legally authorized to seize the offending weapon to serve as evidence at trial. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4183 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Acts_and_Laws_of_His_Majesty_s_Province/6-dBAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=guns | |
| dc.subject | DISCHARGE | |
| dc.title | The Charter Granted by Their Majesties King William and Queen Mary to the Inhabitants of the Providence of the Massachussets Bay in New England 226-27 (1726) |