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This series includes bonds sold by the city to the citizens of New Orleans to finance various projects, including improvement to the city's shipping wharves, permits issued to various merchants (including by the military mayor during Federal Administration of the city), and contacts between the city and various vendors. These also include franchises awarded to ferries and wharf operators on the Mississippi River. More detailed inventory can be found in the description of each volume.

Scope and Contents A records of contracts granted to run ferries, the rights to wharf privileges on the public levee, accounts of the revoking of these privileges following the Civil War and amounts of compensation, rights to erect buildings on the levee, railroad contracts, and contracts for rebuilding and repairing wharves. The insert includes information on locations and area of wharfage, the length of unbuilt space available for wharves, and the length of existing wharf fronts. The collection gives...

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A one-page invoice, dated January 13, 1838, for $26.25 of goods purchased for the Steamer Maimora.

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Manuscript diary, consisting of 56 pages, July-August, 1870, including Benedect's sea voyage from England to France.

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Papers dealing with ownership of the steamship, "Grover Cleveland". Includes a certificate of inspection and a certificate of ownership.

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Log of voyage from New Orleans to Brasos St. Iago, commencing December 23, 1846, William Gardiner, master. The ship reached the Chalmette battleground, where it met with an accident that forced it to return to the city. Most of the record recounts efforts to clear the decks and make the vessel seaworthy. The voyage was not continued.

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Register of vessels arriving in the First Municipality.

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Records include reports of flatboats, and steamboats arriving in the port of the Second Municipality and a register of sea vessels.

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Register of vessels arriving in prot in the Third Municipality.