1837 Ga. Laws 619
| dc.coverage.spatial | Georgia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-23T23:50:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-11T14:56:12Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T00:51:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1831 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Required gun powder over five pounds to be transported with marks indicating the containers hold gunpowder. Violators shall have gunpowder seized and forfeited. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of all owners, agents and others, who may or shall have any gun-powder, exceeding in quantity five pounds, transported upon the waters or within the limits of this State, to have the word gunpowder marked in large letters upon each and every package which may or s hall be so transported. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all gunpowder exceeding five pounds in quantity, which shall hereafter be transported or engaged for transportation upon any of the waters or within the limits of this State, without being marked as directed in the first section of this act, shall be liable to seizure and forfeiture-one half to the informer, the other for the use of the volunteer companies most convenient or contiguous to the place of seizure or forfeiture. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this law, be, and they are hereby repealed. | |
| dc.description.summary | Required gun powder over five pounds to be transported with marks indicating the containers hold gunpowder. Violators shall have gunpowder seized and forfeited. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/3581 | |
| dc.relation.isreferencedbyGoogle | https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Digest_of_the_Laws_of_the_State_of_Geo/z10NAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA619&printsec=frontcover | |
| dc.subject | GUNPOWDER - TRANSPORTATION | |
| dc.title | 1837 Ga. Laws 619 |