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1791 Jun. 30

Housing Issues.

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1791 Jun. 28

Miro, Estevan, (governor of Louisiana)
New Orleans

to Father Joachim de Portillo, (ecclesiastical judge of Louisiana)
New Orleans

He quotes (Antonio Porlier) Marquis de Bajamar, who says in the royal order of March 23: the king approves the provisions made by Miro and (Cirilo Sieni of Barcelona, tit. bp. of Tricali and auxiliary of Havana) by which the renters of the wooden houses temporarily put in the garden of the parish house should move them elsewhere when the city had been rebuilt after the fire of March 21, 1788: for a year and a half, the renters are to have the houses free, then they are to pay a moderate rent; the king also approves of the plan of Miro and the steward of the fabrique of the church submitted last September 10, by which better houses were to be built. Miro sends this quotation to Portillo in order that he may take care of it in so far as it concerns him. He also sends a copy of the above mentioned letter of September 10, 1790. Attached to 1791, June 30.

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1791 Jun. 30

Miro, Estevan (governor of Louisiana)
New Orleans

to Father Joachim de Portillo (ecclesiastical judge of Louisiana)
New Orleans

Miro refers to his letter and the enclosure of June 28, 1791. He has had notified on this day all the dwellers in the houses from the street below the plaza to Royal street and up to the gate of Josef (Joseph) Montegut that they should clean up the site before the end of the month. Any who wish to remain until new houses are built must pay rent until that time.

A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. (Spanish)

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1791 Jun. 30

Quinones, Estevan de, notary
New Orleans

Father Joachim Portillo having the royal approval of the plan of Antonio Ramis by which the fabrique of the Church of St. Louis will perpetually have the right to the rent from houses to be built on property granted to the Capuchins on May 16, 1745, has caused the inhabitants of that property to be informed that they must move. The following renters will remove their houses within a month:
Jorge Estilet
Antonio Xerez
Santiago Cafir
J(ose)ph Balestrine
Andres Sunan
Maria Teresa Daniel, free negress
Vinzente Galata
Margarita Broche, alias Barier
Francisco Gullar
Andres Flac
Francisco Orsel, alias Caminada
Note: The following renters will pay rent until new houses are built:
J(ose)ph Martinez
Antonio Ximenes
Father Luis Guignes O.M.Cap.)
Lorenzo Garcia
J(ose)ph Francisco Cabusec
J(ose)ph Huguet
Lorenzo Rogue (Roque)

He has turned over this document to Antonio Ramis. (Note:) The little house of Father J(ose)ph de Xerez, (O.M.Cap.) is locked.

IV-4-g A.D.S. 16pp.

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1791 Jun. 30

Quinones, Estevan de, notary public
New Orleans, (Louisiana)

Documents concerning the building of some brick houses for the advantage of the church (of St. Louis) in New Orleans on land belonging to said church, and the removal of the wooden houses which were built by virtue of a royal order.

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1746 May. 16

Vaudreuil, Pierre Rigaud Cavagnol, governor of Louisiana

Broutin, (Ignace, engineer)
Le Normant, (Sebastien Francois Ange, first judge of the superior Council
New Orleans, (Louisiana)

Lay out of the land given for a church and presbytery in New Orleans. (A note makes special mention of a) plot donated by (Francois) Fleuriau. (Another note, undated, states the this) document is in the charge of Carlos Trudeau.

A.D.S. 2pp. folio (French)

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1791 Jun. 28

Miro, Estevan, (governor of Louisiana)
New Orleans

to Father Joachim de Portillo, (ecclesiastical judge of Louisiana)
New Orleans

He quotes (Antonio Porlier) Marquis of Bajamar, who says in the royal order of March 23: the king approves the provisions made by Miro and (Cirilo Sieni of Barcelona, tit. bp. of Tricali and auxiliary of Havana) by which the renters of the wooden houses temporarily put in the garden of the parish house should move them elsewhere when the city had been rebuilt after the fire of March 21, 1788: for a year and a half, the renters are to have the houses free, then they are to pay a moderate rent; the king also approves of the plan of Miro and the steward of the fabrique of the church submitted last September 10, by which better houses were to be built. Miro sends this quotation to Portillo in order that he may take care of it in so far as it concerns him. He also sends a copy of the above mentioned letter of September 10, 1790.

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1790 Sep. 10

Miro, Estevan
New Orleans

to Antonio Porlier, (Marquis of the Bajamar)
(Madrid, Spain)

A few days after the fire (of March 21,1788), Father Antonio de Sedella, O.M.Cap., at that time vicar and ecclesiastical judge, asked that some of the inhabitants be allowed to build little houses or cabins in the garden of the presbytery till the city should be rebuilt. Miro granted this permission. Then the banks having failed, the fabrique asked to charge a moderate rent in order that divine services might go on. But those who do not care to pay the rent can easily put their wooden house on wheels and move. The steward of the fabrique (Antonio Ramis) has asked that permission be given to build more decent houses from which sufficient rent may be obtained to support divine worship. Miro adds his pleas to that of the steward. A note dated June 28, 1791, by Andres Lopez de Armesto declares this to be a faithful copy.

A.D.S. 4pp. 12mo. 3pp. 8vo. (Spanish)

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1791 Jun. 30

Miro, Estevan
New Orleans

to Father Joachim de Portillo
New Orleans

Miro refers to his letter and the enclosure of June 28. He has had notified on this day all the dwellers in the houses from the street below the plaza to Royal street and up to the gate of Josef (Joseph) Montegut that they should clean up the site before the end of the month. Any who wish to remain until new houses are built must pay rent until that time.

A.L.S. 2pp. 12mo. (Spanish)

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1791 Jun. 30

Quinones, Estevan de, notary
New Orleans

Father Joachim Portillo, having learned the royal approval of the plan of Antonio Ramis by which the fabrique of the Church of St. Louis will perpetually have the right to the rent from houses to be built on property granted to the Capuchins on May 16, 1745, has caused the inhabitants of that property to be informed that they must move. The following renters will remove their houses within a month:
Jorge Estilet
Antonio Xerez
Santiago Cafir
J(ose)ph Balestrine
Andres Sunan
Maria Teresa Daniel, free negress
Vinzente Galata
Margarita Broche, alias Barier
Francisco Gullar
Andres Flac
Francisco Orsel, alias Caminada
Note: The following renters will pay rent until new houses are built:
J(ose)ph Martinez
Antonio Ximenes
Father Luis Guignes (O.M.Cap.)
Lorenzo Garcia
J(ose)ph Francisco Cabusec
J(ose)ph Huguet
Lorenzo Rogue (Roque)

He has turned over this document to Antonio Ramis. (Note): The little house of Father J(ose)ph de Xerez, (O.M.Cap.) is locked.

A.D.S. 4pp. Folio (Spanish)

IV-4-g A.D.S. 16pp.
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