Scope and Contents

Records notarial acts involving city business during the period 1809-1824. The data is recorded on forms headed "Record of notarial acts executed by the City of New Orleans before ... the City Notary," but the records appear to have been compiled at some time after the date of the last act recorded. The record is an inventory of the various acts, showing date, "style of act" (sale, deposit, contract, etc.), "party thereto," "purpose thereof,", price, and remarks.

Scope and Contents Includes copies of notarial acts involving the New Orleans municipal government. Many are acts of sale in 1810 for parcels of the former plantation of Claude Treme. Among the other acts is one for the sale by the city of the land for Charity Hospital, various documents concerning the College d'Orleans, and one pertaining to a grant by the King to aid in the reconstruction of the Cabildo by Almonester following the fire of 1794. Of special note, attached to documents involving the property of...