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- ↑ Leovy, Henry (1870). The laws and general ordinances of the city of New Orleans, together with the acts of the legislature, decisions of the Supreme Court, and constitutional provisions, relating to the city government, revised and digested, pursuant to an order of the Common Council. p. 325.
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