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Louisiana

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Jurisdiction: search.filters.coverage.Louisiana - New OrleansEnd date: 1809

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    Police Code, or Collection of the Ordinances of Police Made by the City Council of New-Orleans 114-116 (1808)
    (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)
    (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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    1804 La. Acts 284
    (1804)
    An Act for Regulating and Governing the Militia of the Territory of New Orleans,§ 13: 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