Digest of the Acts of the Legislature, and decisions of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, relative to the General Council of the City of New Orleans : together with the ordinances and resolutions of the former city council and the general council of the city of New Orleans, in force on the first of August, 1848 / compiled under a resolution of the General Council, Approved May 6th, 1848, by Perry S. Warfield.
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ART. 9. If any slave shall be guilty of whooping or hallooing anywhere in the city and suburbs, or of making any clamorous noise, or of singing aloud any indecent song, he or she shall, for each and every offense, receive at the police jail, on a warrant from the Mayor, or any magistrate, a number of twenty lashes or stripes, and if such offense be committed on board any vessel, the master or commander thereof shall forfeit and pay a sum of twenty dollars for each and every offense.
