The records are typewritten translations (made by the Works Progress Administration and related agencies) of the first five (1803-1829) original French manuscript volumes of official proceedings. Volume 1, book 1 includes the proceedings of the Conseil Municipal as well as those of the first meetings of the Conseil de Ville.

In preparing these volumes the translators also compiled descriptive tables of contents for each. In the inventory that follows, the volume numbers correlate with those for the original manuscripts; the translations for each of those volumes were bound into separate books, represented by the book numbers within each volume.