John G. Aikin, A Digest of the Laws of the State of Alabama 391–92 (1833)

No slave shall keep or carry any gun, powder, shot, club, or other weapon whatsoever, offensive or defensive, except the tools given him to work with, unless he is ordered by his master, mistress, or overseer, to carry the said articles from one place to another; but all and every gun, weapon, or ammunition, found in the possession or custody of any slave, may be seized by any person, and upon due proof made thereof, before any justice of the peace of the county or forfeited the seizer to Corporation where such seizure shall be made, shall, by his order, be forfeited to the seizer, to his own use; and moreover, every such offender shall receive, by order of such justice, any number of lashes not exceeding thirty-nine, on his bare back, for every such offence.