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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: Orleans Parish

The Creation of Legal Borders

Orleans Parish

Chap. XXV.

AN ACT For dividing the territory of Orleans into Counties, and establishing courts of inferior jurisdiction therein.

April 10, 1805

March 31, 1807

(2) Chapter I

AN ACT Supplementary to an Act, entitled "An Act providing for the Superior Court going Circuit," and for establishing Courts of Inferior Jurisdiction."

March 20, 1809

(80) CHAPTER XXX.

AN ACT To remove certain doubts relative to the limits of the parishes of New Orleans, Plaquemine and St. Bernard.

April 10, 1811

CHAPTER.XIX.

AN ACT To amend the Act entitled "An Act to remove Certain doubts relative to the limits of the Parishes of New Orleans, Plauqmine [sic]e and St. Bernard.

1817 Act February 22

AN ACT further to determine the limits of the parish of St. Bernard.

February 11, 1825

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

1818 Act March 6

AN ACT to extend the limits of the City of New-Orleans.

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.

1836 Act March 8

AN ACT To amend the Act entitled an "Act to incorporate the City of New Orleans," approved February the seventeenth eighteen hundred and five; and other Acts amending the same.

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.

1871 Act No. 48.

 AN ACT To amend an act entitled " An Act to extend the limits of the parish of Orleans," etc., approved March 16, 1870, and to prescribe additional regulations for the government of the corporation of the city of New Orleans.

1875 Act No. 23.

 AN ACT To change the boundary of the parish of St. Bernard.