1800 Ga. Laws 153-54
| dc.coverage.spatial | Georgia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T23:50:38Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T14:56:10Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T00:51:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1768 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prohibited "any slave" from possessing firearms, ammunition, or weapons without a ticket from their master or a white person over the age of sixteen present and any time after sunset on Saturday but before sunrise Monday morning. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | WHEREAS the seventh and ninth clauses of the act for the establishing and regulating patrols, and for preventing any person from purchasing provisions or any other commodities from, or selling such to any slave, unless such slave shall produce a ticket from his or her owner, manager, or employer, do refer to the act of the general assembly of this province, entitled "An act for the better governing negroes and other slaves in this province," and to prevent the inveigling or carrying away slaves from their masters or employers, of which act his majesty hath declared his royal disallowance, and the several directions therein contained, and to which the said first recited act doth refer, are thereby annulled and of none effect, by which means many inconveniencies have arisen; to remedy which, Be it enacted, That immediately from and after passing of this act, it shall not be lawful for any slave, unless in the presence of some white person, to carry or make use of fire arms, or any offensive weapon whatsoever, unless such slave shall have a ticket or license in writing from his master, mistrefs, or overseer, to hunt and kill game, cattle, or mischievous birds or beasts of prey, and that such license be renewed every week, or unless there be some white person of the age of sixteen years or upwards in the company of such slave when he is hunting or shooting, or that such slave be actually carrying his master's arms to or from his master's plantation by a special ticket for that purpose, or unless such slave be found in the day-time, actually keeping off birds within the plantation to which such slave belongs, loading the same gun at night, within the dwelling house of his master, mistrefs or white overseer: Provided always, That no slave shall have liberty to carry any gun, cutlass, pistol, or other offensive weapon, abroad at any time between Saturday evening after sun set, and Monday morning before sun rise, notwithstanding a license or ticket for so doing. | |
| dc.description.summary | Prohibited "any slave" from possessing firearms, ammunition, or weapons without a ticket from their master or a white person over the age of sixteen present and any time after sunset on Saturday but before sunrise Monday morning. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3579 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedby | https://ia600700.us.archive.org/26/items/digestoflawsofst1800stat/digestoflawsofst1800stat.pdf | |
| dc.subject | ENSLAVED PERSONS & OTHER MINORITIES | |
| dc.title | 1800 Ga. Laws 153-54 |