Letters, proclamations, and decrees of Pierre-Clement de Laussat, Colonial Prefect of Louisiana, 1803-1804.

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New Orleans (La.). Conseil Municipal. Letters, proclamations, and decrees of Pierre-Clement de Laussat, Colonial Prefect of Louisiana, 1803-1804.

Letters, proclamations, and decrees of Pierre-Clement de Laussat, Colonial Prefect of Louisiana, 1803-1804.

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The records include printed proclamations and decrees issued and signed by Laussat, along with manuscript letters and other documents transmitted by him to the Municipal Council. Included are Laussat's proclamation of possession of the province, of the establishment of the municipal government, and of the appointment of numerous provincial officials. Also included are documents relative to issues that came before the Prefect for disposition. These range from the December 17, 1803 decree for the superintendence and discipline of the slaves in Louisiana, to a January 20, 1804 letter concerning an investigation of the former treasurer, Juan de Castanedo. Of special interest is an inventory, dated December 10, 1803, of the archives of the Spanish Cabildo turned over to the municipal government on Laussat's order. The individual documents received by the Municipal Council from Laussat were numbered sequentially, in a continuation of the numerical series begun for the Letters, Petitions, and Decrees of the Cabildo, 1770-1803. Manuscript endorsements were apparently added by the Council along with these document numbers. The documents were later bound into a single volume, which subsequently has been disbound.

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