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1805~Map of Territory of Orleans

City of New Orleans is incorporated | New Orleans Navigation Company

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October November December 1806

April 1805

April 10, 1805 The legislature of the Territory of Orleans defines the 12 counties. he term county

was used until 1845 when a new constitution designates parish as the official term for subdivisions of the state.

May 1805

May 23, 1805; An early territorial Supreme Court decision does little to settle a dispute over batture land between the river and Tchoupitoulas Road between Jean Gravier, developer of Faubourg St. Mary, and the Mayor, Aldermen and the inhabitants of the city of New Orleans. Although the court’s judgement gives the disputed land to Jean Gravier, the dispute continues until a compromise is made on June 30, 1857. The Batture land is formed outside the levee by the river which is slowly moving its course by carving away at the west bank and depositing on the east bank land claimed by Gravier.

June 1805

July 1805

July 20 A decree by the City Council under Mayor James Pitot to demolish the earthworks and throw them into the ditches, claims the land for the city. Later in the year a letter from Governor Claiborne to Mayor John Watkins establishes the fortifications as federal property but agrees that all but Ft. St. Charles and Ft. St. Louis, those closest to the river should be demolished.

In July of 1805 Morales stops movement of goods through the port of Mobile, saying that the Treaty of San Lorenzo (Pinckney's Treaty) prohibits foreign commerce on the Mobile River. Claiborne sends his secretary John Graham to Mobile to negotiate and to see if the Spanish are increasing their garrisons there.

August 1805

August 7 The City Council opens a street between the Dorsiere house and the ropewalk parallel to Chartres and Levee between Customhouse St. and Canal St. Eugene Dorsiere had purchased the site of the old powder magazine that blew up in the 1794 fire.

In 1805 Municipal government orders fences,

banquets, with gutters to be built. Banquettes are to be five feet wide of cypress a foot square, fixed with a pavement of bricks and masonry. Mr. Mansuy Pelletier, city

In 1805 a Union Fire Co. meets monthly at the engine house on Royal. Fines are levied: $1 for

appearance and $5 for appearance without

The first city directory is published by Matthew

Claiborne lives at the corner of Levee (Decatur)

The Corner of Dumaine and Levee is an arsenal

The five old forts, four ravelins and ramparts nizable, having mostly sunk

Bernard Marigny asks permission to subdivide his plantation. An initial plan is drawn up by Nicolas de Finiels and the streets are laid out by Barthelemy Lafon. Both of these men had been

engineers under the Spanish

In 1805 A $200 reward is offered for information on the robbery of the mail portmanteau. A villain robbed the coach within nine leagues of the city, ripped it open and threw it into the river. In 1805 the slave trade is forbidden by federal statute, but it continues through New Orleans. The territorial council charters the New Orleans Navigation Company to make the Carondelet Canal more serviceable and collect tolls. It will be widened again in 1835. Around 1805 Dr. John Sibley is appointed an Indian agent in the Natchitoches area of northwest Orleans Territory. He kept meticulous records of trade with native cultures but the Natchitoches are not mentioned.

Juan Ventura Morales is now the Intendant of Spanish West Florida. Vincente Folch is the Governor and Carlos DeHault de Lassus is commandant at Baton Rouge. Former Louisiana governorCasa Calvo, is now the Spanish Commissioner to determine the Western Boundary of Louisiana.These Spanish officials have continued to live in New Orleans after the transfer with a detachment of 50 Spanish Regulars.Morales is encouraging land speculation in West Florida, enriching himself on land that is claimed by the United States. Casa Calvo is spreading rumors that land west of the Mississippi will be traded for the Floridas. The marques, through traveling with the Intendent, finds him to be a disgusting and worrisome character.

James Monroe and C. C. Pinckney are in Spain trying to work out the territorial disputes. At this time many Spanish subjects in Louisiana are asking to be relocated in Texas, but the Spanish authorities are cautious that these emigrants may be tainted by American institutions and traditions.

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