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 This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Louisiana's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.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