1 Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 113-14 (J. Hammond Trumbull ed., 1850) (enacted 1644)
Abstract
§ 130: Prohibited selling or trading "to the Indeans," nor any Dutch or Frenchman any guns, pistols, and other warlike instruments. Violators fined "twenty for one" and corporal punishment at the court's discretion.
Summary
Prohibited selling or trading "to the Indeans," nor any Dutch or Frenchman any guns, pistols, and other warlike instruments. Violators fined "twenty for one" and corporal punishment at the court's discretion.
Law Text
[130] Whereas yt is obsearued that the Dutch and French doe sell and trade to the Indeans, guns, pistolls and warlike instruments, It is now Ordered,† that no pʳson wᵗʰin these libertyes shall at any tyme hereafter sell nēther gun nor pistoll nor any Instrument of warre, nether to Dutch nor French men, vnder the penalty of forfeting twenty for one, and suffering such further corporall punishement as the Court shall inflicte.
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TRANSFER - DANGEROUS PERSONS