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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 This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Louisiana's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.
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Item Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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 weaponsItem Open Access 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.Item Open Access 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 cartridgesItem Open Access 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."Item Open Access 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.)Item Open Access 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.