An Ordinance Respecting Public Balls, New Orleans, LA (Passed 27 Oct. 1817)
| dc.coverage.spatial | Louisiana - New Orleans | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-10-24T00:41:40Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-12T19:37:53Z | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-03-17T01:57:04Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1817 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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. | |
| dc.description.lawtext | Art. 1. It shall not be lawful for any person to enter into a public ball-room with any cane, stick, sword or any other weapon, and every person having either a cane, stick, sword or any other weapon, shall, before he enter the ball-room, deposite the same at the office which shall be at the door of the entrance of said ball-room, where there will be a person appointed to receive and take care of such articles which he shall carefully keep, affixing to each article a number, a check of which he shall give to the owner; and said articles shall not be returned to the persons respectively depositing them, until said persons are quitting the balls and produce their checks. Art. 2. Every person entering in any public ball-room, in contravention to the above provision, shall pay a fine of five dollars; and every person giving a public ball without having previously established an office at the door of the entrance of said ball-room, and without appointing a person to receive and take care, in the manner aforesaid, of the articles before mentioned shall pay a fine of twenty-five dollars, and if the offence is repeated, the offender shall forfeit the right to hold any further permission to give such public balls. | |
| dc.description.summary | 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. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.firearmsresearchcenter.org/id/frc0001/4016 | |
| dc.subject | SENSITIVE PLACES | |
| dc.title | An Ordinance Respecting Public Balls, New Orleans, LA (Passed 27 Oct. 1817) |