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Louisiana Counties and Parishes: Rapides County

The Creation of Legal Borders

Rapides County

Chap. XXV.

AN ACT For dividing the territory of Orleans into Counties, and establishing courts of inferior jurisdiction therein.

April 10, 1805

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.

September 5, 1812

CHAPTER XII.

AN ACT For the better defining the Limits of the County of Natchitoches.

February 29, 1816

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