19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 76-78 (1911)
| 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 | "Establishing and Regulating Patrols" for "Searching and examining any Negroe house for Offensive Weapons Fire Arms and Ammunition." While the statute regulating possession of firearms referred only to slaves, the title of the statute suggests that it applied to any black person, slave or free. The law prohibited slaves possessing or carrying "Fire Arms or any Offensive Weapon whatsoever" except with a permit "from his Master Mistress or Overseer to Hunt and Kill Game Cattle or Mischievous Birds or Birds of Prey." Other provisions allowed a slave to possess a gun while in the company of a white person 16 years or older, or while actually protecting crops from birds. Under no conditions was a slave allowed to carry "any Gun Cutlass Pistol or other Offensive Weapon" from Saturday sunset until sunrise Monday morning | |
| dc.description.lawtext | AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that in Case any or either of the Patrols established or to be established within this Province by virtue of the said Act on Searching and examining any Negroe house for Offensive Weapons Fire Arms and Ammunition shall find any such or in Case any person shall find any Slave using or Carrying fire Arms or other Offensive Weapons Contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act such Patrol or person or persons may lawfully seize and take away such Offensive Weapon fire Arms and Ammunition but before the property thereof shall be vested in the person or persons who shall seize the same such person or persons shall within three days next after such seizure go before a Justice of the peace and shall make Oath of the manner of taking thereof and if such Justice of the peace after such Oath made or upon due Examination shall be Satisfied that the said Fire Arms Offensive Weapon or Ammunition shall have been Seized according to the directions and Agreeable to the true intent and meaning of this Act the said Justice shall by Certificate under his hand and Seal declare them forfeited and that the property is lawfully vested in the person or persons who Seized the same PROVIDED always that no such Certificate shall be granted by any Justice of the peace until the Owner or Owners of such Fire Arms or other Offensive Weapon so seized as aforesaid or the Overseer or Overseers who shall or may have the Charge of such Slave or Slaves from whom such Fire Arms or other Offensive Weapon so taken or seized shall be duly Summoned to shew Cause why the same should not be Condemned as forfeited or in Case of Non Appearance untill three days after the Service of Summons and Oath made of the Service thereof before the said Justice, | |
| dc.description.summary | This law allows patrols or individuals to search enslaved people's dwellings and seize firearms, ammunition, or other weapons if found being possessed or used in violation of the act; however, to keep the seized items, the person must report to a justice of the peace within three days, swear how the seizure occurred, and obtain a certificate of forfeiture after the owner or overseer has been summoned and given a chance to contest it. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3582 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Colonial_Records_of_the_State_of_Geo/iu4xAQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22%E2%80%9CSearching%20and%20examining%20any%20Negroe%20house%20for%20Offensive%20Weapons%20Fire%20Arms%20and%20Ammunition%22&pg=PA77&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | ENSLAVED PERSONS & OTHER MINORITIES | |
| dc.title | 19 The Colonial Records of the State of Georgia 76-78 (1911) |