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Reconstruction in Louisiana: Black Codes of 1865: Legislative Acts

Legislative Acts

1865 Act No. 10, Ex. Sess.

AN ACT To prohibit the carrying of fire-arms on premises or plantations of any citizen, without the consent of the owner.

1865 Act No. 11, Ex. Sess.

AN ACT To Prevent Trespassing.

1865 Act No. 12, Ex. Sess.

AN ACT To amend and re-enact the one hundred and twenty-first section of an act entitled "An Act relative to crimes and offences," approved March 14, 1855.

1865 Act No. 16, Ex. Sess.

AN ACT To provide for the punishment of persons for tampering with, persuading or enticing away, harboring, feeding or secreting laborers, servants or apprentices.

1865 Act No. 19, Ex. Sess.

AN ACT Relative to apprentices and indentured servants.

1865 Act No. 20, Ex. Sess.

AN ACT To punish in certain cases the employers of Laborers of Apprentice.