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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: Rapides Parish

The Creation of Legal Borders

Rapides 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 23, 1808

(30) Chapter IX.

AN ACT Erecting the Catahula [sic] into a distinct Parish

March 16, 1809

(40). CHAPTER XVI.

AN ACT Altering the line separating the County of Natchitoches from the County of Rapides.

February 29, 1816

AN ACT Establishing the limits between the county of Oppelousas [sic] and the county of Rapides.

1846 Act No. 61

AN ACT Changing and fixing definitely the boundary line between Natchitoches and Rapides.

1847 Act No. 131

AN ACT Explanatory of an act changing and fixing definitely the boundary line between Natchitoches and Rapides, approved the twelfth of May, eighteen hundred and forty-six.

1847 Act No. 153.

AN ACT Changing and fixing definitively the boundary line between Rapides and Avoyelles.

1850 Act No. 153.

AN ACT Directing a census to be taken of portions of the parishes of Natchitoches, Catahoula and Rapides, with a view to the formation of a new parish.

1852 Act No. 85

AN ACT To create the parish of Winn.

1852 Act No. 106.

AN ACT Attaching a portion of the parish of Natchitoches to the parish of Rapides.

1852 Act No. 112

 AN ACT To fix the boundary between the parish of Rapides and the parishes of St. Landry and Calcasieu.

1861 Act No. 258.

AN ACT Requiring a census to be taken with the view or the formation of a new parish, to be taken from the parish of Rapides.

1869 Act No. 82

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

1871 Act No. 71

AN ACT To create the parish of Vernon, and provide for the organization thereof.