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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: 1852

The Creation of Legal Borders

1852

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.

1852 Act No. 197

AN ACT Fixing the line dividing the parishes of Point Coupee and West Baton Rouge and Iberville.

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.

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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