Bulk in Spanish. Includes petitions, reports, accounts, receipts, and promissory notes, most of which relate to city finances. Also later copies of Cabildo documents (originals 1794-1799) signed by Cuban merchants, regarding land concession, the introduction of hemp, and other topics.

Bulk in French. The greater part of this series is letters and petitions to the mayor, 1807-1828, regarding city contracts and municipal services including construction, payments, employment; yellow fever, Charity Hospital administration, Board of Health (esp. 1817), cemeteries; citizens' complaints; crime and the Garde de Ville; and shipping matters. Also included are a small number of letters from various mayors, as well as mayoral notices concerning city contracts, inspection, street cleaning, Garde de Ville, and the police jail. Petitions sent to both the mayor and the Conseil de Ville are located in Series III, as most were addressed by the City Council. Depositions given before the mayor, acting in capacity of Justice of the Peace, can be found in Series IX. Additional letters to mayors, from Judge Henry Bry, are also located in Series IX.

Bulk in French (1838-1858 in English). Includes letters and petitions to the City Council, resolutions, and copies of official documents. Letters and petitions to Conseil de Ville and later councils of the three municipalities concern city contracts, construction, property, regulations, administration of the Charity Hospital, fines, cemeteries, paving, lighting, St. Mary's Market, sidewalks. Resolutions (most are contemporary copies) deal with regulations for the Garde de Ville, police jail, Charity Hospital, taxes, public balls, carts, pastry cooks, tavern license bonds, sidewalks, U.S. troops in New Orleans. Also included are copies of extracts of official documents (all are English translations), probably used by the City Council, regarding the Louisiana territory, the incorporation of New Orleans, and the Cabildo.

Bulk in French. Documents pertaining to the construction and maintenance of New Orleans, including contracts, surveyor reports, payroll records, and offers. Contracts involve the construction of levees, bridges, streets, canals; leveling earth; draining ditches; paving; maintenance of public buildings; operating carts and steamboats; collection of market and wharfage fees. Surveyor reports (most to the mayor) concern public hazards and the repair needs of bridges, sidewalks, streets, walls, buildings, and levees; also ordinance violations and filth. Vicinities mentioned include Vieux Carre, Faubourg Marigny, Faubourg St. Mary, Bayou St. John, riverbanks. Payroll records cover city cart drivers, street cleaners, pavers, carpenters, Garde de Ville, masons, lamplighters. The majority includes names, with signatures or marks. Also included are offers and proposals for city work, and a list of gas lamps.

See also Series VII for bills, receipts, and promissory notes for city accounts, most of which pertain to construction and maintenance.

Bulk in English. Records of levee dues collected, cargo manifests, bills of lading, receipts, Price Currents, market reports, and miscellaneous items. Many of the Price Currents also contain letters to customers from merchants (most Leverich & Co.).

Bulk in English. Records (mostly printed forms) of license bonds for drays, private carts, hacks and cabs; taverns, coffee-houses, and cabarets; pensions; others. First, Second, and Third Municipalities are represented. One item, volume of licenses 1818-1819, is housed in the Manuscript Department's oversize cabinet, call phrase is Y-1818-19, New Orleans.

Bulk in French. The greater part of this series consists of accounts, bills, receipts, and promissory notes of the City Corporation of New Orleans, for materials and services pertaining to the construction and maintenance of the city. Usually a single document served as a bill, a certification by the city surveyor of work completed or materials received, a promissory note, and a receipt of paymentâ??thus, these items have been sorted together. Documents that served solely as promissory notes or orders of payment (often printed) are sorted separately.

Also included in this series are tax receipts and reports for property, coffee-houses, grog shops, billiards, etc.; tax records for legal cases; charity records; financial material (mostly receipts) of merchant and philanthropist John McDonogh; records of the Sarphy family involving a mortgage debt; and miscellaneous checks, bonds, estimates, and calculations.

Bulk in French. Documents and copies (bulk) of documents pertaining to property in New Orleans, especially the sale and transfer of lots, and to land in Louisiana, including letters to the General Land Office, patents, certificates, surveys, and inspections. Also copies of documents detailing the sale of land by Bernard Marigny to the city of New Orleans, and documents of (mostly letters to) Columbus Lawson, Register of the Land Office at New Orleans.

French and English. The bulk of this series consists of depositions given before the Mayor, acting in the capacity as Justice of the Peace. Cases involve theft, trespassing, verbal threats, threatening behavior, assaults, gambling, alcohol, maritime deserters, the mutinous behavior of sailors, indentured servitude, runaway slaves, public balls, domestic violence, and dueling.

This series also contains summonses, discharge notices, power of attorney forms, documents relating to free persons of color (proof of residency, character witness), recognizances, a copy of a will, and legal documents (many are copies) pertaining to cases in New Orleans, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, and New York. Also included are correspondence and the legal papers of Judge Joshua Lewis and Judge Henry Bry.

In French. Reports Garde de Ville, captain and commissary reports, especially faubourgs St. Mary and Marigny, detailing activities, arrests, complaints. Includes mention of Marie Laveau (8/15/1824). See also Series IV for payroll records for the Garde de Ville.

In English. This series contains "Paroles of Honor" for the Fireman's Charitable Association and rosters of various companies, many of which include records of oaths of allegiance to the U.S., aliens and enemies.

Bulk in English. Reports of the Charity Hospital and the Orleans Infirmary; physician reports from the yellow fever epidemic of 1817 (includes daily tallies of cases).

French and English. This series contains miscellaneous correspondence, some of which is personal in nature, regarding legislation, finances, business matters. Also included are letters to officials of the city of Lafayette concerning city limits, ferries, fire engines.

In French. Nominations for membership, resignation.

In English. Bills of lading/invoices for books ordered by public schools, Second Municipality.

In French. One anonymous poem entitled "Enfants du Sud."

In English. Certificate appointing L.D. Nicholls Jr. First Lieutenant, Militia of Louisiana.

Reproductions (clippings) of photos of railroad engines.

Mostly blank paper.