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The Louisiana Repository serves for historical, academic, and cultural materials related to the state of Louisiana. This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Louisiana's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.

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Treaty Between the United States of America and the French Republic, Art. III, Apr. 30, 1803, 8 Stat. 202, T. S. No. 86
(General Publisher, 1803)
Granted the inhabitants of the ceded territory all rights, advantages, and immunities of a full US citizen.
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1804 Ind. Acts 108, § 4
(General Publisher, 1804)
Prohibited a “slave or mulatto” from carrying or possessing a gun, powder, shot, club or other weapon and ammunition. (This is an improperly cited Louisiana Territory law, not a law of the territory of Indiana.)
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1804 La. Acts 284, An Act for Regulating and Governing the Militia of the Territory of New Orleans, § 13.
(General Publisher, 1804)
each non-commissioned officer and private of the infantry, shall constantly keep himself provided with good musket or guns, a sufficient bayonet and belt, two spare flints and a knapsack, a cartridge box or pouch, with box therein to contain not less than twenty-four cartridges
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An Act prescribing the rules and conduct to be observed with respect to Negroes and other Slaves of this territory, in A General Digest of the Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana, Passed from the Year 1804 to 1827, . . . (1828) § 20
(General Publisher, 1806)
Prohibited any person who keeps “slaves for the purpose of hunting” from delivering to any “slaves” any firearm for the purpose of hunting without permission.
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An Act prescribing the rules and conduct to be observed with respect to Negroes and other Slaves of this territory, in A General Digest of the Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana, Passed from the Year 1804 to 1827, . . . (1828) § 19
(General Publisher, 1806)
No slave shall, by day or by night, carry any visible or hidden arms, not even with a permission for so doing, and in case any person or persons shall find any slave or slaves, using or carrying such fire arms, or any offensive weapons of any other kind, contrary to the true meaning of this act, he, she or they, lawfully, may seize and carry away such fire arms, or other offensive weapons
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Police Code, or Collection of the Ordinances of Police Made by the City Council of New-Orleans. To Which is Prefixed the Act for Incorporating Said City with the Acts Supplementary Thereto Page 114-116, Image 112-114 (1808)
(General Publisher, 1808)
Captains of vessels are obliged, within twenty four hours from their arrival in this port, to deposit the gun-powder they may have on board, in the powder-magazine situate on the right bank of the river, the owner paying to the keeper of the magazine a suitable compensation. All citizens are strictly forbidden to keep in their houses, or elsewhere within the city or suburbs, more than one hundred pounds of gun-powder at a time, and in case of fire, such as live near the place where it is, if they have powder in their houses, shall be obliged to throw into their wells the barrels containing the same.
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Title XIV. Of Aleatory Contracts (Art. 2982–2984) Book III, art. 2983, (La. 1940) (enacted 1808)
(General Publisher, 1808)
The law grants no action for the payment of what has been won at gaming or by a bet, except for games tending to promote skill in the use of arms, such as the exercise of the gun, foot, horse and chariot racing."
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1812 La. Acts 172, 174, § 1
(General Publisher, 1813)
Prohibited the carrying of any concealed weapon, including a dirk, dagger, knife, pistol, or any other deadly weapon.
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1816 La. Acts 92, An Act to Amend the Act Entitled “An Act to Incorporate the city of New Orleans” and the Act Entitled “An act to determine the mode of election of the mayor, recorder and other public officers necessary for the administartion and police of the city of New Orleans and for Other Purposes [sic], § 1.
(General Publisher, 1816)
[T]he mayor and city council of the city of New Orleans shall have full power and authority . . . [T]o prevent gun powder being stowed within the walls and suburbs in such quantity as to endanger the public safety .
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Ordinances Ordained and Established by the Mayor & City Council of the City of New Orleans Page 68, Image 68 (1817) § 12
(General Publisher, 1817)
No person shall hereafter be permitted to fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece or firearm, nor to discharge or let off any rocket, cracker, squib or other fire-works, in any street, court yard, lot, walk or public way, within the city or suburbs, or from the door or window of any house or other building, or near any house or other inhabited part of said city or suburbs, on any account whatever particularly on the occasion of festivals or public rejoicings, under the penalty of from five to ten dollars upon each offender,
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An Ordinance for preventing and extinguishing Fires, Articles 10, 11, & 12. (1 July, 1817, New Orleans) Art 12 p. 66
(General Publisher, 1817)
Art. 10. It shall not be lawful for any person to have or keep within the city and suburbs, or within two miles of the same (except the public magazine, or place of depot appointed for that purpose) any quantity of gunpowder, at any one time, exceeding one hundred pounds weight, in any one place, house, store or out-house, which said quantity of one hundred pounds shall be separated in several stone jugs or tin canisters, each of which shall not contain more than ten pounds of powder, and shall be provided with a safe and sufficient stopple; and if any person or person shall keep any greater quantity of gunpowder at any one time than one hundred pounds, in any one place, house, store or out-house, or if the same gunpowder, so kept as aforesaid, shall not be separated in the manner herein above directed, he, she, or they shall forfeit all such gunpowder so kept contrary to the true intent and meaning of this ordinance, or so permitted to be kept, and which shall not be separated as aforesaid, and shall also forfeit and pay a fine not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered with costs of suit, by the Mayor or any other competent magistrate; one half to the informer, and the other half for the use of the city
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An Ordinance Respecting Public Balls, New Orleans, LA (Passed 27 Oct. 1817)
(General Publisher, 1817)
Prohibited any person from entering any public ballroom with any cane, stick, sword, or any other weapon. Such weapons shall be checked in at the entrance with receipt documentation.
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An Ordinance concerning the Port and Levee of New-Orleans, Art. 27 (City Council Decree, 23 Feb., 1827) art. 27
(General Publisher, 1827)
It shall not be lawful to fire off any cannon or other piece of artillery, or fire arms of any kind, on board of any ship, steam-boat, or other craft within the port of Orleans, except from day-break to the hour of retreat ; that is to say, until nine o'clock from the 15th of March to the 15th of September, and until eight o'clock during the remainder of the year
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Moreau Louis Lislet, A General Digest of the Acts of the Legislature of Louisiana: Passed from the Year 1804, to 1827, Inclusive, and in Force at this Last Period, with an Appendix and General Index Page 367-368, Image 373-374 (Vol. 1, 1828) § 25
(General Publisher, 1828)
If any person shall challenge another, or shall accept a challenge to fight with sword, pistol, rapier or other dangerous weapon, every person so challenging or accepting such challenge, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not exceeding five hundred dollars, and may be imprisoned not exceeding two years
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An ordinance concerning cattle, fences of plantations and other objects of the rural police, within the city of New-Orleans, Art. 16 (31 July, 1828)
(General Publisher, 1828)
Whoever shall fire a gun or other kind of fire-arms near any other inhabited place ; whoever shall fire at pigeons, or shall kill or wound any domestic animal, while hunting or fowling on another person's land, shall, in every such case, be fined from twenty-five to fifty dollars, besides his being liable for damages to the party concerned, and even to prosecution, if cause be found."
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Henry A. Bullard & Thomas Curry (Editors), 1 A New Digest of the Statute Laws of the State of Louisiana, from the Change of Government to the Year 1841 252 (1842), § 59
(General Publisher, 1842)
Prohibited the carrying of ” any concealed weapon, such as a dirk, dagger, knife, pistol, or any other deadly weapon.” Punishable by fine of $20-50.
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Ordinances of the Police Jury for the Better Regulation of the Town of Clinton, Police Jury September Session 1847, sec. 1. (September session, 1847), at 680 (John C. White, Whig Office, September 1, 1848)
(General Publisher, 1847)
Prohibited shooting firearms in the Town of Clinton.
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Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of the Parish of East Feliciana, Adopted by the Police Jury of the Parish, sec. 1. (September session, 1847), at 80 (John C. White, Whig Office, September 1, 1848)
(General Publisher, 1848)
Prohibited discharge of arms within the limits of the town Clinton, except in extreme circumstances. Punishable by fine.
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Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of the Parish of East Feliciana, Adopted by the Police Jury of the Parish, sec. 5. (September session, 1847), at 68 (John C. White, Whig Office, September 1, 1848)
(General Publisher, 1848)
No slave shall carry a gun to hunt, except on the plantation of his master or mistress; nor then unless accompanied by the overseer or some other free white member of the family, or has a written permit from his owner or overseer, which permit shall state for what said slave is hunting:
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John C. White, Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of the Parish of East Feliciana, Adopted by the Police Jury of the Parish 68 (1848)
(General Publisher, 1848)
Prohibited any “slave” from carrying a gun off the plantation without the permission.