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CLINTON, LOUISIANA, A DIGEST OF THE LAWS AND ORDINANCES OF THE PARISH OF EAST FELICIANA, ch. 18, § 5 (The Whig Office 1848) (Law Passed 1840).

  • Year:
  • 1848
Category:

Race and Slavery Based, Hunting, Carrying Weapons,

Jurisdiction:

Municipal,

"CHAPTER XVII.
OF SLAVES.
POLICE CODE OF 1840...

    ...Sec. 5. No slave shall carry a gun to hunt, except on the plantation of his master or mistress; nor then unless accompanied by the overseer or some other free white member of the family, or has a written permit from his owner or overseer, which permit shall state for what said slave is hunting: Any person having the charge of slaves, who shall permit this section to be violated, shall pay a fine of twenty dollars, for the use of the parish, upon information to any Justice, whose duty it is to take cognizance of the case." 

John C. White, ed., A Digest of the Laws and Ordinances of the East Parish of East Feliciana, Adopted by the Police Jury of the Parish and Promulgated and Now and from Their Promulgation in Force; This Digest Containing All the Resolutions Having the Effect of Laws, up to the First Day of May, 1848, Inclusive (Clinton, LA: The Whig Office, 1848), 68. Chapter 18—Of Slaves, § 5. Passed 1840.

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