| An Ordinance Relating to Patrols for the City of St. Augustine |
| Sec 7. Be it further ordained that said patrol shall have power, and they are hereby authorized to enter into any disorderly house, vessel or boat where they shall have reason to believe that any slave or slaves are harboured, trafficked, or dealth with...and if slaves, free negroes and mulattoes or other coloured persons to cause them to be punished by whipping, not exceeding 39 strips upon his or her bare back. Sec 8 Be it further ordained, that itshall be the duty of said patrol and of each member to arrest all slaves free negroes, mulattoes and other coloured persons who may be found in the streets after the hour of nine o'clock p.m. without a pass from some white person duly authorized to give it and to take them to their respective homes or employers or to detain them until the next morning and report them to said mayor. |