Act No. 322
AN ACT
To establish and organize under the one hundred and twenty eighth article of the State Constitution, a Mayor and Recorders court in the city of New Orleans.
The act established established a "criminal court to be styled and called 'the mayor and recorders court of New Orleans,' which shall have original jurisdiction in all criminal cases arising within the limits of the city of New Orleans, which by law are made punishable with fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or by imprisonment, without hard labor, not exceeding one year."
