Section 13. _be It Further Ordained_, That This Ordinance to Take Effect

from and after its first publication.

Ordained the 3d day of July, 1865.

E.D. ESTILLETTE, President of the Board of Police.

JOS. D. RICHARDS, Clerk.

Official copy:

J. LOVELL, Captain and Assistant Adjutant General.

No. 35.

An ordinance relative to the police of negroes recently emancipated within the parish of St. Landry.

Whereas it was formerly made the duty of the police jury to make suitable regulations for the police of slaves within the limits of the parish; and whereas slaves have become emancipated by the action of the ruling powers; and whereas it is necessary for public order, as well as for the comfort and correct deportment of said freedmen, that suitable regulations should be established for their government in their changed condition, the following ordinances are adopted, with the approval of the United States military authorities commanding in said parish, viz: