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Julien Poydras de Lalande (1746-1824), a native of France, was a large property (and slave) owner in Pointe Coupée Parish and New Orleans. In 1809 he served as delegate to Congress for the Territory of Orleans. Poydras published five pamphlets in support of the rights of the people in the ongoing Batture Case. In the pages displayed here, from one of those pamphlets, he describes the process of batture formation, and presents his arguments in favor of the doctrine of its ownership by the people.
     [Julien Poydras. A Defence of the Right of the Public to the Batture of New Orleans (Washington, 1809)]
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