The inventory lists the individual documents described elsewhere as Letters, proclamations, and decrees from Pierre-Clement de Laussat [to the Conseil Municipal], 1803-1804 and Letters, petitions, and reports [to the Conseil de Ville], 1804-1835. Also listed, though generally in less detail, are the other documents then housed in the archives, not all of which survive in the present City Archives collection.

The records are manuscript volumes. The first, covering the period May 7, 1838 - October 18, 1839, records the minutes and proceedings of the General Council. No other original minutes of this body exist in the City Archives collection. The second book is an index to the minutes and proceedings for the years 1847-1850. Unfortunately, however, the original record indexed by this volume is missing.