15 The Public Records Of The Colony Of Connecticut 191 (Charles J. Hoadly ed., 1890) (enacted 1775)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Connecticut - Hartford | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T03:51:35Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T14:13:06Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-16T23:37:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1775 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Prohibited the exportation of salt petre, nitre, or gun powder out of the colony by land or water. Violators fined twenty pounds for every hundred weight of salt petre, nitre, or gun powder. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Be it also enacted, That no salt petre, nitre or gun-powder made and manufactured, or that shall be made and manufactured in this Colony, shall be exported out of the same by land or water without the licence of the General Assembly or his Honor the Governor and Committee of Safety, under the penalty of twenty pounds for every hundred weight of such salt petre, nitre or gun-powder, and proportionably for a greater or lesser quantity so without licence exported; to be recovered by bill, plaint or information, in any court of record in this Colony by law proper to take cognizance thereof. And whereas it is necessary that two powder-mills be immediately erected in this Colony for manufacturing gun-powder, Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a bounty or premium of thirty pounds shall be paid out of the Colony treasury to the person or persons who shall erect the first powder-mill in this Colony, and shall make and manufacture therein five hundred pounds weight of good and merchantable gun-powder; also that a bounty or premium of thirty pounds shall be paid out of the Colony treasury to the person or persons who shall erect the second powder-mill in this Colony and make or manufacture therein five hundred pounds weight of good and merchantable gun-powder. | |
| dc.description.summary | The act prohibits exporting saltpeter, nitre, or gunpowder made in the colony without official permission, imposing financial penalties based on quantity for violations, and provides monetary bounties from the colony treasury to individuals who establish the first two powder mills and produce at least 500 pounds of quality gunpowder in each. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3363 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyHathi | https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucw.ark:/13960/t14m9rf4s&seq=201 | |
| dc.subject | GUNPOWDER - TRANSPORTATION | |
| dc.subject | SUBSIDY | |
| dc.title | 15 The Public Records Of The Colony Of Connecticut 191 (Charles J. Hoadly ed., 1890) (enacted 1775) |