John. A Haywood, Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina 199-200 (1808)
| dc.coverage.spatial | North Carolina | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T13:37:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T15:34:33Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T03:42:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1768 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Hunting, § 2: From and after the First day of January next, no person whatever (masters excepted) not having a freehold of one hundred acres of land within this province, or tending ten thousand corn hills, at least five feet distance each, shall hunt or kill deer, under the penalty of ten pounds proclamation money for every offence; | |
| dc.description.lawtext | I. § 2. From and after the First day of January next, no person whatever (masters excepted) not having a freehold of one hundred acres of land within this province, or tending ten thousand corn hills, at least five feet distance each, shall hunt or kill deer, under the penalty of ten pounds proclamation money for every offence; and moreover shall forfeit his gun, or have the value thereof; to be recovered by action of debt, bill, plaint or information, by any person who will prosecute for the same, wherein, upon conviction, over and above the said penalty and forfeiture as aforesaid, the defendant shall be committed to jail by order of the court, there to remain, without bail or mainprize for one month. § 5. Nothing herein shall bar or hinder an overseer of a slave or slaves from hunting and killing deer with a gun, on his employer’s lands, or the wastelands of the public, within five miles of the residence of such overseer. II. § 6. Upon suit being commenced on action of debt, information, &c. in a superior court, if the defendant shall fail to give such security as aforesaid, then the sheriff shall commit the defendant to the goal of the superior court for the district to which the same is made returnable. | |
| dc.description.summary | This law restricts deer hunting to landholders with at least 100 acres or those farming 10,000 corn hills (with exceptions for slave overseers hunting within five miles of their employer's property). Violators face a £10 penalty, mandatory forfeiture of their gun (or its equivalent value), and a non-bailable one-month jail sentence upon conviction. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4904 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Manual_of_the_Laws_of_North_Carolina/HIs0AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=hunt | |
| dc.subject | HUNTING REGULATION | |
| dc.title | John. A Haywood, Manual of the Laws of North-Carolina 199-200 (1808) |