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Louisiana

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Louisiana. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from French and Spanish colonial periods through statehood to the present.

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End date: 1809Category: search.filters.subject.TRANSFER, MANUFACTURE & STORAGE OF GUNPOWDER

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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.