2 Albert G. Hodges, A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky 1472 (1834)

§ 5: No negro, mulatto, or Indian, 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 [such person's] custody . . . may be seized by any person, and upon due proof thereof made before any justice of the peace of the county where such seizure shall be, shall by his order be forfeited to the seizer for his own use; and moreover, every such offender shall . . . receive . . . any number of lashes not exceeding thirty-nine . . . . § 6: Provided, nevertheless, that every free negro, mulatto, or Indian, being a housekeeper, may be permitted to keep one gun, powder and shot; and all negroes, mulattoes, and Indians, bond or fee, 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 county wherein such plantations lie . . . .