Records of the Municipal Cemeteries of New Orleans, administered by the city. These include internment records, death certificates, and other associated records depending on the cemetery. Cemeteries include are:

• Bayou St. John Cemetery
• Lafayette Cemetery
• Jefferson City/ Valence Street Cemetery
• Carrollton Cemetery
• St. MAry's Cemetery
• Locust Grove Cemetery
• Holt Cemetery

Manuscript ledger (in French) of accounts with clients, showing services rendered, costs of services, and records of payments.

The collection includes manuscript records and published catalogs, described in the inventory below. Most are from the library of the First District, which became the consolidated collection, but one volume has survived from the library of the Second District as well.

Manuscript lists of passengers arriving at the port of New Orleans during April and May of 1851. Other copies of most of these lists exist in the passenger list records filmed by the National Archives. Lists for two vessels are not included on those microfilms: Schooner Union, from San Juan de Nicaragua (April 20, 1851) and Bark Cora, from Richmond (May 9, 1851).

Minute book (1827-1855), Register of depositors (1827-1843), Bank statements (1842-1847), Ledger of depositors' accounts (1837-1853), Journal of receipts and expenditures (1837-1853), Cashbook of receipts and expenditures (1842-1853).

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).

Levee duties and ship journals from the historical Port of Orleans, including the Wharfinger of the Second and Third districts.

This series includes correspondence between the Mayor and the Council and with other government entities, officials, as well as constituents. Additionally, the series contains licenses and permits issued to merchants and businesses, especially bakeries. The register of Free People of Color mandated by the Louisiana State legislature, in addition to other records tracking and monitoring enslaved people and people of color are in this series.

Records all cases referred to the Coroner and lists name, date, age, sex, race, marital status, cause of death, whether or not an autopsy was performed, and the funeral home and/or cemetery. Some autopsies conducted in area hospitals are also referenced.

Manuscript volumes of short printed forms with entries for date of record, name, and address of the deceased, date and cause of death, place of birth, occupation, age, marital status, sex, color, length of time in the city, and place where the Coroner viewed the body. Each form also includes certification to the effect that the Coroner ruled a formal inquest to be unnecessary.

Records of Cemeteries owned and operated by religious or private entities. Information regarding Catholic Cemeteries can also be located at the New Orleans Catholic Cemeteries Office.

Records of the Commisarries and City Guard. Includes arrest records of enslaved people, soldiers, and sailors; an early census of the 2nd District of the City; and reports of the Captain of the Guard.

Minute books, expenses, tax assessments and bills, and journals of receipts. Also included are emancipation petition for enslaved people. Some volumes are in French or English. Includes records of the Right Bank of New Orleans, known as modern day Algiers.

The record is a manuscript volume listing each call for creditors' meeting separately. For each meeting is recorded the name of the debtor, the names of the attorneys representing both he and his creditors, the date of the meeting, and the number of the suit asking for permission to settle the debt.

The records of the Second Municipality include the Second Municipality Council, surveyor's office, financial departments and records of ploice, schools, and wharfs. The image to the right shows the boundaries that were in place during the Municipality Period from 1836-1852, dividing the city into three separate entities. The Second Municipality occupied the area from Felicity to Canal, between the City of Lafayette and the First Municipality. This area was known as the "American Sector."

The papers consist primarily of manuscript letters received by Brown from business associates in such places as Nashville, Lexington, Springfield (IL), Wheeling, Natchez, Cincinnati, Brownsville, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, Kentucky, Havana, Kingston, Nassau, and Liverpool. There is also a folder of miscellaneous shipping lists, contracts, and promissory notes.