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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: Jefferson Parish

The Creation of Legal Borders

Jefferson Parish

February 11, 1825

AN ACT To divide the parish of Orleans and for other purposes.

1827 Act March 22

AN ACT To amend an act, entitled "an act to determine the boundaries between the parishes of Assumption and Lafourche Interior and the eastern boundary of the last mentioned parish, approved, March 7,1824."

1830 Act March 15

AN ACT relative to the Chénière Caminada.

1847 Act No. 140.

AN ACT To extend the limits of the parish of Orleans.

1850 Act No. 323.

 AN ACT to amend the act entitled "An act to extend the limits of the parish ot Orleans."

Louisiana State Constitution of 1852, Title II, Article 8

The limits of the Parish of Orleans are hereby extended, so as to embrace the whole of the present City of New Orleans, including that part of the Parish of Jefferson, formerly known as the City of Lafayette.

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1867 Act No. 123.

AN ACT Directing the State Engineer to define the boundaries of the lands attached to the New Canal and to define the boundaries between the parishes of Orleans and Jefferson.

1870 Act No. 7 Ex. Sess.

 AN ACT To extend the limits of the Parish of Orleans, and to change the boundaries of the Parishes of Orleans and Jefferson, and to consolidate the Cities of New Orleans and Jefferson, and to provide for the government of the city of New Orleans and the administration of the affairs thereof, and to repeal an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of New Oleans," approved February 23, 1852; and to repeal all acts amendatory thereto, and to repeal an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the City of Jefferson," approved March 9, 1850, and to repeal all acts amendatory therto, and to provide for the  funding of the floating indebtedness of the corporations as consolidated by this act.