New Orleans municipal records, 1765-1896 (bulk 1790-1836).

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New Orleans municipal records, 1765-1896 (bulk 1790-1836).

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Official records of the City of New Orleans relating to early government and administration. Records consist of correspondence; ordinances; resolutions; deliberations; petitions; financial records; and legal documents pertaining to the business of the Cabildo, the City Council, municipal officials, and municipal organizations. Early papers of the Spanish period include surveys by the royal surveyors, Pintado and Trudeau; and an original copy of proceedings directing the governor in the transfer of the Province of Louisiana to France (1803). Additionally, there are documents of land sales in the Chitimachas Indian Territory and Cabildo treasury accounts (1771, 1773-1775). Later records concern public health and safety. Contained are reports on small pox, hospitals, lepers, pensions and aid for the needy, and sanitation. Records relating to public property concern inspections, construction, and repairs of various public buildings and structures. Public finances records include receipts and disbursements of monies, including levies and taxes, licenses and permits, fees on vehicles, goods, cabarets, sale of city lots, and payrolls for police and other public employees. Records illustrate the employment and treatment of African-American laborers, and treatment and use of African-American chain gangs. Also included are regulations regarding Quadroon balls and shipping on Lake Pontchartrain and Mississippi River. Shipping records concern construction of shipyards and wharves, and fees collected from rafts, flatboats, and steamboats.

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Trudeau, Charles Laveau, approximately 1750-1816

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Appointed surveyor general of Spanish Louisiana in early 1780's, he served in that capacity until his resignation in 1805. From the description of Carlos Trudeau papers, 1800, 1804. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 259718135 Born in New Orleans, Charles Laveau Trudeau (aka Carlos Trudeau) was chosen to be surveyor general of Spanish Louisiana in the early 1780s and served in that capacity to 1805. After the Louisiana Purchase, he elected to remain in Louisia...

New Orleans (La.). Cabildo

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Don Alejandro O'Reilly, Governor and Captain-General of the Province of Louisiana, appointed, on December 1, 1769, six perpetual regidors or aldermen to form a city council, or cabildo, "for the administration of justice and preservation of order" in the city of New Orleans. These aldermen also were assigned individual administrative and/or judicial responsibilities. The Cabildo annually elected other officers, including judges, an attorney general, and a treasurer. The ...

Pintado, Vicente Sebastián, 1774-1829

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Surveyor general of Spanish West Florida. From the description of Vicente Sebastián Pintado papers, 1781-1842 (bulk 1799-1817). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980266 Landowner, Captain. Sebastián Pintado served as General Land Surveyor in Spanish Louisiana until its secession to France in 1803. He then served in the same capacity in Pensacola, the capital of Spanish West Florida until its session to the United States in 1821. Pintado also held th...