Scope and Contents At its session of June 22, 1822, the Conseil de Ville passed a resolution authorizing W.W. Montgomery and Francis B. Ogden to "pass contracts in the North" for the purchase of iron pipes needed for construction of a water works for New Orleans. This project appears to have been the completion of the water works begun earlier by Benjamin Henry Latrobe.Item one is a copy book, apparently kept by Ogden, in which he recorded diary entries, letters received and sent, and "Reflections...