Act of Mar. 14, 1816, § 1, 1816 La. Acts, 2nd legis., 2nd sess. 92, 92 (Peter K. Wagner 1816).
". . . [T]he mayor and city council of the city of New Orleans shall have full power and authority . . . [T]o prevent gun powder being stowed within the city and suburbs, in such quantity as to endanger the public safety . . . ."
Acts Passed at the Second Session of the Second Legislature of the State of Louisiana: Begun and Held in the City of New Orleans on the Third Day of January, in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixteen (New Orleans, LA: Peter K. Wagner, 1816), 92. An Act to Amend the Act Entitled “An Act to Incorporate the City of New Orleans” and the Act Entitled “An Act to Determine the Mode of Election of the Mayor, Recorder and Other Public Officers Necessary for the Administration and Police of the City of New Orleans and for Other Purposes, § 1. Approved March 14, 1816.
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