Scope and Contents The records are manuscript volumes. Included are two volumes of minutes, dating 1856-1876, with a gap during the 1862-1866 period (internal evidence suggests that the Board did not meet during these years of war and federal occupation). In addition to the proceedings of Board meetings, these volumes also contain copies of various committee reports, financial reports, and narrative reports of the superintendent. These latter reports include the names of those being admitted and discharged,...

Scope and Contents The records are manuscript volumes, in French, consisting of daily reports, 1838-1840. They include names of enslaved people admitted each day, along with the names of their enslaver and a statement of how they were brought to the jail (by their enslaver, by the Guard, as runaways, etc.). Also included are statistical reports giving the number entering and being discharged each day, along with the total number in jail each morning; the number of males and females employed in the public...

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The majority of records are manuscript volumes, in French, and include daily reports of the police jail, and separate registers of enslaved persons entering the jail and employed in public works. Also included here are later records, written in English, of prisoners committed to the Parish Prison (1852-1862) and daily reports from the Parish Prison and House of Detention (1903-1907).

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Record of Vagrants Entering the Workhouse

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Records include a Statement of provisions on hand, purchased, and consumed in the Third Municipality Workhouse and a register of persons committed to the Third Municipality Workhouse, 1844-1851.