The City Attorney's copies of his semi-annual reports in the form of letters to the Council. They include detailed discussions of legal matters pending during the period covered by the reports.

Arranged by dates suits were filed, giving name of court, docket number of suit, name of the party opposing the City of New Orleans (either as plaintiff or defendant), brief description of the suit and of the various actions taking place, and the disposition of the matter. Volume two (1856- 1862) has more complete records than does the first volume. There is at least one suit at the end of the second volume from the Confederate States of America District Court.

Arranged by dates suits were filed, giving name of court, docket number of suit, name of the party opposing the City of New Orleans (either as plaintiff or defendant), brief description of the suit and of the various actions taking place, and the disposition of the matter. Volume two (1856- 1862) has more complete records than does the first volume. There is at least one suit at the end of the second volume from the Confederate States of America District Court.

Arranged by dates suits were filed, giving the number of the Justice's Court in which filed, name of the party opposing the City of New Orleans (either as plaintiff or defendant), and a description of the suit and the actions taken in it. This volume is indexed. It is likely that the record of most of the suits chronicled in this volume is the most complete extant since the original suit records of the Justice of the Peace courts apparently have not survived.