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Arms Regulation in 19th Century Louisiana: 1870-71

ACTS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AT THE THIRD SESSION OF THE FIRST LEGISLATURE, BEGUN AND HELD IN NEW ORLEANS, JANUARY 3, 1870, AND AT THE EXTRA SESSION, BEGIN AND HELD IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 7, 1870

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No. 75.] AN ACT To organize, arm and equip a Uniformed Militia; to provide for its instruction, duties and government; to appropriate one hundred thousand dollars for the arming, equipping and payment of the same.

Art. XVI. An officer or soldier who uses any reproach or provocation to another, in speech, gesture or writing, to induce him to fight a duel. same.
Art. XVII. An officer who gives or sends a challenge to an officer or soldier to fight a duel, or accepts such challenge when sent to himself, or is second in a duel, or promoter or carrier of a challenge.
Art. XVIII. An officer who upbraids another for not sending or for refusing a challenge.
Art. XIX. An officer commanding a guard, who knowingly and willfully suffers a person to pass the same in order to fight a duel, or an officer knowing or believing, or having reason to believe, a challenge to be given or accepted, carried or promoted, by an officer or soldier under his command, who does not immediately arrest and bring him to trial.

Approved April 5, 1870.
H. C. WARMOTH,
Governor of the State of Louisiana.

ACTS PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AT THE FIRST SESSION OF THE SECOND LEGISLATURE, BEGUN AND HELD IN NEW ORLEANS, JANUARY 2, 1871.