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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: 1870

The Creation of Legal Borders

1870

1870 Act No. 102.

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

1870 Act No. 77 Ex. Sess.

AN ACT Annexing a portion of the parish of Tensas to Franklin parish.

1870 Act No. 7 Ex. Sess.

 AN ACT To extend the limits of the Parish of Orleans, and to change the boundaries of the Parishes of Orleans and Jefferson, and to consolidate the Cities of New Orleans and Jefferson, and to provide for the government of the city of New Orleans and the administration of the affairs thereof, and to repeal an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the city of New Oleans," approved February 23, 1852; and to repeal all acts amendatory thereto, and to repeal an act entitled "An Act to incorporate the City of Jefferson," approved March 9, 1850, and to repeal all acts amendatory therto, and to provide for the  funding of the floating indebtedness of the corporations as consolidated by this act.