Laws of Maryland, 1713; Ch. 44, Sect. 32, in The Black Code of the District of Columbia in Force September 1st, 1848, at 11 (1848)
Abstract
Prohibition on "Negro or other slave" from carrying a gun or offensive weapon off their master's land.
Summary
This 1715 Maryland statute prohibits enslaved people from carrying firearms or other weapons off their owner’s property without the master’s permission. If they do, they can be brought before a justice of the peace, punished by whipping, and have their weapon confiscated and awarded to the person who apprehended them.
Law Text
No negro or other slave within this province shall be permitted to carry any gun or any other offensive weapon from off their master's land, without license from their said master, and if any negro or other slave shall presume to do so, he shall be liable to be carried before a Justice of the Peace and be whipped, and his gun or other offensive weapon shall be forfeited to him that shall seize the same and carry such negro so offending before a Justice of the Peace. Laws of Maryland, 1715; Ch. 44, Sect. 32.
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ENSLAVED PERSONS & OTHER MINORITIES