Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 37-38 (1792)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Illinois [Territory] | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:04:47Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T01:35:17Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:30:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1791 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act . . . To prevent the selling or pawning of arms, ammunition, cloathing, and accoutrements, Chapter XII, Sec. 2: Prohibited the purchase of public arms, ammunition, clothing, or accoutrements pertaining to non-commissioned officers or private soldiers in service. Violators shall be fined the value and costs of the articles on the first violation. Proceeding violators shall pay fines and costs of articles and shall suffer imprisonment not exceeding one month. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall presume to bargain for, purchase, or receive in pledge, or as a gift, or cause or procure to be bargained for, purchased, or received in pledge or as a gift, on any pretence whatever, all or any part of the public arms, ammunition, clothing or accoutrements pertaining to any non-commissioned officer or private soldier in the service aforesaid (knowing him to be such) he or she so offending, shall on conviction, forfeit and pay for the first offence treble the value of the articles so purchased or received, the same to be recovered with costs, by action of debt or information, in any court of record, one half to the informer, and the other half to the United States, or the whole to the United States, where prosecution shall be first instituted on the public behalf alone: and for every repetition of the like offence by the same person, he or she so offending again, shall forfeit and pay in like manner treble the value of the articles purchased or received as aforesaid, together with costs, and shall moreover suffer imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month. | |
| dc.description.summary | This section makes it illegal to buy, receive, or solicit public military property—such as arms, ammunition, or uniforms—from non-commissioned officers or soldiers. Anyone caught doing so must pay triple the value of the items, with proceeds shared between the informer and the U.S. government (or entirely to the U.S. if prosecuted publicly). Repeat offenders face the same financial penalty plus up to one month in prison. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3730 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Laws_Passed_in_the_Territory_of_the_Unit/fyNRAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA37&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | MILITIAS | |
| dc.title | Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-West of the River Ohio 37-38 (1792) |