Another was opened at Opelousas to divide the western lands in Orleans Territory. New Orleans became home to a United States District Land Office. That also led to the creation of land registers in each district. Provision one let people legally acquire or possess land. That act contained the following three major provisions: On march 2, 1805, a Congressional act was passed. That made Louisiana the only state to exclusively use the parish system. In 1845 the new drafting of the state constitution removed references to counties. The state constitution, which was enacted in 1812 at the time of statehood being gained, referenced parishes, as well as counties. The territory was divided into 19 counties in 1807, using the old Spanish ecclesiastical boundary lines. The legislative council, headed by the governor, split Orleans Territory into the following counties at that time: Acadia, Attakapas, Concordia, German Coast, Iberville, Lafourche, Natchitoches, Opelousas, Orleans, Ouachita, Pointe Coupee, Rapides. Areas over 33 degrees latitude were in Louisiana Territory and areas below (where the state of Louisiana now is) were in Orleans Territory. On March 26, 1804, Congress passed an act that split Louisiana into Orleans Territory and Louisiana Territory. It was one of the best real estate deals ever made. That land, which belonged to France at the time, was sold to the United States for the incredibly low price of three cents for each acre. In 1803, the United States obtained 544 million acres of land in the Louisiana Purchase. Louisiana Freed Slave Records, 1719-1820.Louisiana, State Penitentiary Records, 1866-1936 ().Coleman Lindsey, The Courts of Louisiana (n.p., n.d.).
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The New Orleans Genesis quarterly printed several of the records, and the museum has also translated many abstracts from them. Mint Building at New Orleans, which is part of the Louisiana State Museum.īlack Boxes – This collection, also located at the Louisiana State Museum, was acquired by the United States in 1803. The records can now be found at the Old U.S. Translations of abstracts of those records were published from 1923 to 1949 in Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Spanish Judicial Archives – During the Spanish era, these documents were recorded whenever lawsuits were sent to New Orleans for their final judgment process. Outposts that appealed court cases to New Orleans had records that were stored in this collection, along with other judicial records for the majority of New Orleans itself. Superior Council Records – These records can be found in the Mint Building and were taken when New Orleans was under French control. Many of the cabildo records are in the following 4 different collections in the city of New Orleans. That council was made up of a group of men, but they didn’t have any real legislative powers, despite being organized like a court of law. The council, also called the cabildo, ruled the area when the Spanish were in control. The superior council and the governor of the province ruled the area when the French were in control.
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