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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: Ouachita Parish

The Creation of Legal Borders

Ouachita Parish

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 18, 1809

(54) CHAPTER XXII.

AN ACT To remove certain doubts as to the northern limits of the county of Concordia.

March 20, 1811

CHAPTER X.

AN ACT For the better defining the Limits of the County of Concordia and dividing the same into two Parishes, and for other purposes.

February 28, 1814

AN ACT To divide the parish of Warren.

1828 Act No. 42

AN ACT to create a new Parish in the Parish of Natchitoches, to be called the Parish of Claiborne.

1830 Act March 4

AN ACT to establish the boundary line between the parishes of Catahoula and Washita. [sic]

1832 Act March 14

AN ACT to form a new parish to be called the Parish of Carroll.

March 10, 1834

AN ACT To change the division line between the parishes of Ouachita and Catahoula.

March 28, 1835

An Act establishing the Western boundary of the parish of Catahoula, and for other purposes

1838 Act No. 48

AN ACT To form a new Parish to be called the parish of Caldwell.

1839 Act No. 12

AN ACT to form a new parish, to be called the parish of Union.

1841 Act No. 13.

AN ACT, To annex a certain District of Country to the Parish of Ouachita and for other purposes.

1842 Act No. 19

AN ACT to amend the act entitled an act to annex a certain district of country to the parish of Ouachita and for other purposes," approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-one.

1843 Act No. 41

An act creating the Parish of Franklin.

1844 Act No. 42.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled, "An Act creating the Parish of Franklin," approved on the first day of March, one thousand eight hundred and furty three, and for other purposes.

1844 Act No. 118

AN ACT to create a new Parish in the Parish of Ouachita to be called the Parish of Morehouse.

1845 Act No. 38

AN ACT Creating the Parish of Jackson.

1846 Act No. 179.

AN ACT To fix the boundary lines between the parishes of Ouachita, Union and Jackson.

1847 Act No. 124.

 AN ACT To change the boundary between the parishes of Ouachita and Morehouse.

1848 Act No. 11

AN ACT To re-annex a portion of the parish of Franklin to the parish of Ouachita.

1852 Act No. 149.

AN ACT To take the census of portions of the parishes of Ouachita, Morehouse, Carroll and Franklin, with a view to the formation of a new parish, to be called the parish of Richland.

1868 Act No. 115

AN ACT To create the parish of Richland, and providing for the organization thereof.