SECT. 15. Be it further enacted, that it shall be lawful for any patrol of this Territory, to take from any slave or slaves any fire-arms, or other dangerous weapons, to be delivered by said patrol to the justice of the peace of said district.

SECT. 16. Be it further enacted, That any fire-arms, or other articles so taken by the patrol, shall be delivered over to the nearest justice of the peace: and unless the same be called for within thirty days by the owner thereof or his agent, they may be sold at auction on some public day, and at some public place, and th eproceeds shall by aid justie of the peace be paid into the county treatury for county purposes: Provided, ten days’ notice of such sale be given by one or more advertisements stuck up in some public place in the district.

SECT. 17. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any slave, free negro, or mulatto, to keep or retain in his or their house or houses, any fire-arms whatsoever, and it is hereby made the duty of the patrol to serch negro houses or other suspected places for fire-arms, and if any they find, contrary to the true intent and meaning of his act, may take the same to the neartest justice of the peace, who may proceed therewith as directed in a preceding secion of this act; and the negro or negroes, in whose possession the same may be found, on failing to give a plain and satisfactory account of the manner he or they came possessed of the same, may be severally punished by moderate whipping on the bare back, not exceeding thirty-nine lashes.