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A Brief History of the Recorder's Courts of New Orleans: 1874

1874

title page, Jewell's Crescent city illustrated.

Jewell's Crescent city illustrated.

The links are to the HathiTrust: http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t3kw5pm22

 

Recorder Stith went on to become Mayor of New Orleans. See p. 228 http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t3kw5pm22?urlappend=%3Bseq=268

 

 

On page 124 Joshua Baldwin, the Recorder of the Second Municipality, is mentioned, as well as the prison.  http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t3kw5pm22?urlappend=%3Bseq=150

Carrollton is annexed by New Orleans, and becomes the Seventh District, for which is established the Fifth Municipal Police Court.

No. 71                  AN ACT
To annex the city of Carrollton to the city of New Orleans; to provide for the transfer of certain transcripts from the office of the recorder; the transfer of books, papers, documents and property of the city of Carrollton, and also the public schools to the city of New Orleans; to provide for the debt of Carrollton; creating the seventh district of the city of New Orleans, and a municipal court; a sanitary district, and repealing the act incorporating the city of Carrollton.

No. 129                 AN ACT
To confer criminal jurisdiction upon the Seventh Justice Court for the parish of Orleans; to regulate fees and compensation therefor, and defining the limits of said criminal jurisdiction, and to establish fees of the constable of said court, and defining his duties under said act.

A Legal Inquest

1974 Act No. 71

1974 Act No. 129