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On April 19, 1804, Governor Claiborne wrote to the Mayor and Municipality of New Orleans asking that, in order to assist in the reorganization of the militia in New Orleans, a census be made of "all free male white inhabitants of this city, between the ages of eighteen and forty-five." (The letter is displayed here.) In the Municipal Council session of April 21, 1804, Mayor Boré informed the Council of the governor's request and, at that time, one of the members proposed that "a general census of the inhabitants of both sexes in the City and Banlieu of New Orleans" also be taken. The census of "the "2nd Quartier" shown here is the surviving result of that general census. One of the familiar names on this page is that of the Marqués de Casa-Calvo, Spanish Governor of Louisiana from 1799-1801 and one of the officials who handed Louisiana over to France in 1803. Casa-Calvo remained in New Orleans after the Purchase until he was expelled by 1806 by Claiborne, who suspected him of sowing seeds of discontent among the population.      [Conseil de Ville. Letters, Petitions and Reports, #492;      Census of the Second District of the City of New Orleans, 1804]

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