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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 This repository includes research studies, historical documents, and scholarly works that explore Louisiana's development, culture, and contributions to regional and national history.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 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.Item Open Access Proceedings of the Board of Police of the Town of Opelousas, §§ 1-6, THE OPELOUSAS JOURNAL, Jun. 26, 1874, at 3 (Opelousas, Louisiana).(General Publisher, 1874)to prevent the carrying concealed weapons within the corporate limits of the town of OpelousaItem Open Access Prohibition of Weapons in Balls, Theatres, etc., The Laws and Ordinances of the City of New Orleans, Title 1—Amusements, Chapter 1—General Ordinances, Articles 1-6 (1879).(General Publisher, 1879)That hereafter it shall not be lawful for any person to carry a dangerous weapon, concealed or otherwise, into a theatre, public hall, tavern, pic-nic ground, place for shows or exhibitions, house or other place of public entertainment or amusement.Item Open Access The Laws and General Ordinances of the City of New Orleans: Together with the Acts of the Legislature, Decisions of the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Provisions Relating to the City Government: Revised and Digested, Pursuant to an Order of the Common Council, Section 1, art. 636 (5), 257 (Henry Jefferson Leovy, Simmons & Co. New Ed. 1870)(General Publisher, 1870)Prohibited unlicensed shooting galleries from operating within city limits.Item Open Access The Laws and General Ordinances of the City of New Orleans: Together with the Acts of the Legislature, Decisions of the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Provisions Relating to the City Government: Revised and Digested, Pursuant to an Order of the Common Council, Section 635, 257 (Henry Jefferson Leovy, Simmons & Co. New Ed. 1870)(General Publisher, 1870)No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol, fowling piece or fire-arms, within the limits of the city, or set fire to, or discharge any rocket, cracker, squib or serpent, or shall throw any lighted rocket, cracker, squib or serpent, within the limits of the city, without the license of the common council; Provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to military reviews or to the lawful use of weapons in self defense.Item Open Access An Ordinance to Establish a Uniform Rate of Taxes and Licenses, THE NEW ORLEANS CRESCENT, December 30, 1868, at 6 (New Orleans, Louisiana).(General Publisher, 1869)imposed a 50 dollar tax on pistol galleriesItem Open Access Evening Gun, no. 251 at 89, NEW ORLEANS, LAWS AND GEN. ORDINANCES (1857 E. C. Wharton).(General Publisher, 1857)That the captains of police of the first, second, third and fourth districts be, and are hereby, instructed to purchase the powder necessary for firing the evening guns in said districts, and present the vouchers for the same, after they have been approved by the chief of police, and it shall be the duty of the said captains to detail a member of the police force of each of said districts to fire the said evening guns, without extra compensation."Item Open Access Henry Jefferson Leovy, The Laws and General Ordinances of the City of New Orleans, Together with the Acts of the Legislature, Decisions of the Supreme Court, and Constitutional Provisions, Relating to the City Government. Revised and Digested, Pursuant to an Order of the Common Council Page 242, Image 268 (1857) § 680(General Publisher, 1857)Every keeper of a pistol gallery, the whole tax being levied on each and every gallery, sixty dollars.