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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: St. Tammany Parish

The Creation of Legal Borders

St. Tammany 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

April 24, 1811

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.

March 6, 1819

AN ACT to divide the parish of St. Tammany, and for other purposes.

February 22, 1826

AN ACT to determine the boundary between the parishes of St. Tammany and Washington.

1869 Act No. 85

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

1912 ACT No. 124.

AN ACT To repeal an Act passed by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana in the year 1826, which was approved February 22, 1826, which relates to the boundary lines between the Parishes of Washington and St. Tammany, and establishing a dividing line between said Parishes in Section No. 57, Township 4 South, Range 12 East.