New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1855-12-15
mAYoRALTY OF NEW ORLEANS.
GUMMUN CUUN Gil,
City Of New Orleans, December. 10, 1855.
Am oRpINANcEto regu l 1lhe servIee Of slave,

4 CITY OF New orleans, December TO- 1865,
No, 24e3
| AN ORDINANCE 10 regulate the service of slave.
confined in the Police Jail:
SECTION l. Sc ii ordained, That all slaves, we'll
negroes, and coored persons claiming be, but unabl
10 prove themselves free, who capable of working
OIL the public works, and who may be confined ii
the Police Jail shall be employed the public works
of the city, under the following regulations.
SEC .. The slaves, and others forming the gang
shall be under the Superintendent of the Street Com
missioner, and guarded by three policemen tobe detail.
ed from The city police, who to under and be
governed by said Street Commissioner in the manage
ment OF said slaves.
slaves well negroes and coored persons claiming
be free but unable to produce evidence of their
DOM who may have been IN confinement in the Police
Jail for more than three days without having been
claimed released by their masters, discharged by
due process of law; and also all slaves who may have
been sent to- the jail by their for correction
unless otherwise ordered by their masters.
SEC 4. All slaves, as well as negroes and coored
persons employed in the gang shall be clothed in gar
ton, be determined by the Street Commissioner, and
made in the Workhouse or by such persons are ca
pable in the Police Jail; the materials 10 be procured
on requisition from the Warden of the Work-h house
approved by the Finance Committee.
Sec. S. The clothing Worn or brought by the pris-
oners shall be preserved in the Police Jail, and re-
turned 10 them on their discharge
SEC. 6. The subsistence OF all slaves, as we'll as
negroes or other coiored persons employed in the
gang, shall he at the expense Of the city the Tailor 10
be paid al the rate of fifteen cents per person per day
therefor well forlhe subsistence of those who are
al the charge of themselves masters.
SEC. Il The owners of all slaves sent 10 the Police
Jail for correction. and of rnnaways committed thereto
who able-boded and capable OF working in the
gang, shall be entitled TO the subsistence and clothing
Of their slaves when employed in the gang but nothing
further; negroes and colored persons claiming be
Free but unable TO produce evidence of freedom shall
be entitled TO their subsistence and clohing but mo-
thing further.
SEC. s. The charge by the city for feeding all col
ored persons negroes and slaves confined in the Police
Jail no, employed in Tue gang, shall be at the rate of
twenty cents per day.
SEC 9. The Chiefof The Pe!ice shall detail three po-
licemen, TO be approved by the Street Commissioner,
to guards Of the gang the policemen detailed to
this service shall be entitled each FIVE dollars per
month in addition TO the salary they receve and the
Street Commissioner shall be authorized discharge
said policemen should they refuse obey his orders or
neglect 10 perform the duties he may assign, and in
such he is authorized 10 call upon the Chief of
Police to detail other policemen for said service,
TSignedl J. J. LUGENBUEL,
President Board of Aldermen.
[Sgned1 Il. l.. TRACY.
President Board of Assistant Aldermen
Approved December TO- 1855.
dill 81 (sgnedl JOHN L. LEWIS, Mayor.