BALLS, THEATRES AND PUBLIC EXHIBITIONS.
An Ordinance concerning Public Balls, Theatres and Public Exhibitions.
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Art. 97. (4.) It shall not be lawful for any person to enter into a public ball-room with a cane, stick, sword, or any other weapon; and every person having such weapon shall, before he enters the ball-room, deposit the same at the office, which shall be at the door of the entrance of said ball-room. At every public ball there shall be a person appointed to receive and take care of such articles.
Ordinance No. 3131
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FIRE, FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH AND FIRE DEPARTMENT.
1.-An Ordinance relative to Preventing and Extinguishing Fires.
Art. 383. (5.) 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 within the limits of the city, without the license of the common council; provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to military reviews. All persons violating the provisions of this section shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars.
Ordinance No. 3172. Approved December 23, 1856.
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An Ordinance supplemental to, and explanatory of Ordinance No. 5406, entitled “ An Ordinance concerning the Markets of the City of New Orleans, and providing for farming the Revenues thereof."
Ordinance No. 4342.
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OFFENCES AND NUISANCES.
An Ordinance relative to Offences and Nuisances.
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Art. 676. (5.) 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-defence.
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Sec. 115 That whoever shall carry a weapon or weapons concealed on or about his person, such as pistols, bowie-knife, dirk or any other dangerous weapon, shall be liable to prosecution by indictment or presentment, and on conviction for the first offence shall be fined not less than two hundred and fifty dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or imprisonment for one month ; and for the second offence not less than five hundred dollars nor more than one thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the parish prison at the discretion of the court, not to exceed three months, and that it shall be the duty of the judges of the district courts in this State to charge the grand jury specially as to this section.- Acts of 1855, p. 148.
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POWDER AND POWDER MAGAZINE.
An Ordinance relative to Gunpowder and to the Powder Magazine.
Ordinance No. 3193. Approved December 30, 1856.
Ordinance No. 3193. Approved December 30, 1856. Ordinance No. 6381, passed by Bureaus under military authority, orders the sale at public auction, December 4th, 1865, of the Powder House, " with the privilege of storing gunpowder brought to the city, subject to all the conditions as laid down in the laws and ordinances regulating the storage and sale of gunpowder, it being understood that all powder deposited therein shall be at the risk of the owner.”
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REVENUE-TAXES AND LICENSES.
To establish a uniform rate of Taxes and Licenses on Professions, Callings and other business, and on Carriages, Hacks, Drays and other vehicles, for the year 1966.
