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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: St. Helena Parish

The Creation of Legal Borders

St. Helena Parish

1810 Proclamation of October 27

President James Madison annexes West Florida to Louisiana

1810 Proclamation October 27

1810 Ordinance December 7

W.C.C. Claiborne creates Feliciana

1810 Ordinance December 22

W.C.C. Claiborne creates four parishes within county of Feliciana

1811 Act April 24

CHAPTER XXVIII.

AN ACT Establishing the Parish Boundaries in the County of Feliciana.

1812 RESOLUTION August 4

Giving the assent of the Legislature to an enlargement of the limits of the State of Louisiana.

February 10 1832

AN ACT to divide the Parish of St. Helena.

March 30, 1832

AN ACT to explain and amend the act entitled 'An act to divide the parish of St. Helena, approved January twenty-hfth, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two.

1869 Act No. 85

AN ACT To create the Parish of Tangipahoa, and providing for the complete organization thereof.