Temporary Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire in New England 9-10 (1761)
| dc.coverage.spatial | New Hampshire | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T03:35:13Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:07:39Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:15:45Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1761 | |
| dc.description.abstract | An Act for Preventing and Suppressing Riots, Routs, and Other Unlawful Assemblies: Prohibited gathering in numbers of twelve or more and being armed with clubs and other weapons, or any group numbering thirty or more, from unlawfully, riotously, or tumultuously assembling | |
| dc.description.lawtext | And be it further Enacted, That if twelve persons or more, being armed with clubs, or other weapons; or if fifty persons or more, whether armed or not, shall be unlawfully, riotously, tumultuously or routerously assembled, any of the officers aforesaid, shall make proclamation, in manner and form aforesaid; and if such persons, so unlawfully assembled, shall not thereupon immediately disperse themselves, according to said proclamation, each of them, and every one who shall wilfully hinder any such officer (who shall be known, or shall openly declare himself to be such) from making the said proclamation, shall forfeit and pay a fine not exceeding the sum of five hundred pounds, at the discretion of the said superior court, (which only shall have cognizance of the offence,) considering the aggravations attending the same, and shall be whipt thirty stripes on the naked back at the publick whipping-post, and suffer twelve months imprisonment, and once every three months, during said twelve months, receive the same number of stripes as aforesaid. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited gathering in numbers of twelve or more and being armed with clubs and other weapons, or any group numbering thirty or more, from unlawfully, riotously, or tumultuously assembling. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4569 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Acts_and_Laws_of_His_Majesty_s_Province/XtwKAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=RA1-PA9&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | CARRY - INTENT TO COMMIT CRIME | |
| dc.title | Temporary Acts and Laws of His Majesty's Province of New Hampshire in New England 9-10 (1761) |