1716 N.H. Laws 91, in 2 Laws of New Hampshire: Province Period 285 (Albert Stillman Batchellor ed., 1904) (enacted 1718)
| dc.coverage.spatial | New Hampshire | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T03:35:13Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:07:39Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:15:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1718 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Required every "householder" to have a musket, bandoliers, cartridge box, bullets, powder, cleaning tools, and a sword. Penalty of six schillings for each arm and two schillings for each other defect. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | 5. That every Listed Souldier and Housholder, (except Trooopers) shall be always provided with a well fix'd, Firelock Musket, of Musket or Bastard-Musket bore, the Barrel not less than three foot and a half long; or other good Fire-Arms, to the satisfaction of the Commission Officers of the Company, a Snapsack, Cartouch-Box, One Pound of good Powder, Twenty Bullets fit for his Gun, and Twelve Flints, a good Sword or Cutlass, a Worm and Priming-Wire fit for his Gun; on Penalty of Six Shillings for want of such Arms, as is hereby required, and Two Shillings for each other defect, and the like Sum for every Four Weeks he shall remain unprovided; the fine to be paid by Parents for their Sons under Age, and under their command, and by Masters or Heads of Families for their Servants, other than Servants upon Wages. | |
| dc.description.summary | Required every householder to have a musket, bandoliers, cartridge box, bullets, powder, cleaning tools, and a sword. Penalty of six schillings for each arm and two schillings for each other defect | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4582 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/Laws_of_New_Hampshire_Province_period_17/PbxGAQAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA285&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | REQUIRED POSSESSION | |
| dc.title | 1716 N.H. Laws 91, in 2 Laws of New Hampshire: Province Period 285 (Albert Stillman Batchellor ed., 1904) (enacted 1718) |