The records are manuscript volumes described as follows:

Reports, 1816-1817
• Reports of enslaved people arrested and brought to jail, also of arrests of soldiers and sailors. Brief reports of balls, concerts, circuses, etc. are also included.

Reports to the Mayor by the Commissary of the Sixth Ward, 1835- 1836
• Includes reports of conditions in the ward and of on- going work within its limits.

Reports to the Mayor by the Commissary of Faubourg Marigny, 1835-1837
• R. Montegut apparently continued in office as one of the Third Municipality Commissaries and continued to use this record book after May, 1836. A number of pages have been torn out of this volume (dates between August 20, 1836 and April 14, 1837)