| New Orleans Incorporated: 200 Years of the City Charter Louisiana Division | New Orleans Public Library p a g e 22 |
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The legal significance of the city charter is demonstrated by these pages from the published report of the Louisiana Supreme Court’s opinion in the matter of the City of New Orleans vs. Louisiana Savings Bank and Safe Deposit Company. Justice Robert Hardin Marr’s opinion makes direct reference to the 1870 Charter as the authority for a subsequent New Orleans license ordinance. Ruling in favor of the city Justice Marr also wrote “that the city had the power and authority, by the express terms of the charter, to require the bank to pay the license tax. . . . ”
[Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Louisiana during the year 1879 (New Orleans, 1880)]
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