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| The October 26, 1805 session of the
Conseil de Ville includes a reference to a petition from several of the city's butchers complaining that rain
water leaking through the roof of the meat market was spoiling their meats. The Council directed the Mayor
to ask the city surveyor to examine the roof and present an estimate of the cost of the most urgent repairs.
Apparently, the job of repairing the roof was given to one Charles Laveau, who tackled it quickly and, at the
end of November, presented his bill for $101.7 "bits." Charles Laveau, a free man of color, was the father of
the famous Marie Laveau. His work must have been found satisfactory, because in later years he made
other repairs to city property.
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The meat market referred to here is not the current meat market on Decatur between St. Anne and
Ursulines. That building, the oldest of the current French Market structures, was not built until 1813. The
market that Laveau repaired was completed in May, 1790 by contractor Augustin McCarty and located on
the levee approximately where the current meat market stands today. 
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