Guide to the Archival Collections.pdf - Missouri History Museum

of St. Louis. After the city removed itself from the jurisdiction of the county in 1876, the
jurisdiction of the St. Louis circuit court was limited to the city. A new circuit court, based in
Clayton, assumed the jurisdiction for St. Louis County after 1876.
The collection consists of files of legal procedures in St. Louis courts including actions
concerning indictments, estates, deeds, applications, affidavits, accounts, abstracts, notes,
petitions, certificates, damage suits, mortgages, plats, bills for inspection, assault and battery and
assault and riot, murders, judgments, slavery, power of attorney, subpoenas, attachments,
coroner's inquests, ferry permits, bounties for killing wolves, trespasses, receipts, seizure of
properties, and court martials. Some of the earlier material includes records of the court of
common pleas and of the court of quarter sessions, both of which later became part of the circuit
court. The collection is arranged by file and folder number. The collection also includes a roster
of attorneys admitted to appear before the St. Louis land court and then the St. Louis circuit
court, often with the date of admission noted (1820-1880); 24 assorted docket books (1820-1823,
1835-1838, and 1840-1883); four motions docket books (1854-1877); three assignment indexes
(1866-1874); a fee book (1835-1837); a ledger (1879-1881); three court of appeals docket books
(1866-1875); five indexes (1851-1865); minutes of meetings of circuit court judges in conference
(1901-1903); testimony in case of Forest Park, Laclede, & Fourth St. Railway Co. vs. Peoples
Railway Co. (August 1893); and six jury registers (1852, 1860, and 1872-1883).
The bulk of this collection was donated by Circuit Clerk H. Samuel Priest after the W.P.A.
rebound the volumes in April 1941.
Some French.
Case files; found at the St. Louis Court House.
Indexed in five drawers at the end of the Archives Card Catalog.
Cite as: Saint Louis, Missouri, Circuit Court Records, Missouri History Museum Archives, St.
Louis.
A1357
Saint Louis, Missouri, City Collector.
Record books, 1841-1869. 12 volumes
These records include one volume of rents for lands in the St. Louis Commons (1841-1850);
10 volumes of merchant tax lists, arranged alphabetically (1850-1869); and one volume of
property tax receipts, by block number (1864-1865), with merchants' tax receipts from 1864.
Cite as: Saint Louis, Missouri, City Collector Record Books, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A1358
Saint Louis, Missouri, City Lighting Department.
Atlases, 1898-1939. 3 volumes
Cite as: Saint Louis, Missouri, City Lighting Department Atlases, Missouri History Museum
Archives, St. Louis.
A1359
Saint Louis, Missouri, City Register.
Records, 1823-1913. 39 boxes; 60 volumes
In 1876, St. Louis city removed itself from the jurisdiction of St. Louis County. After that
date, the office of the city register assumed for the city of St. Louis many of the functions
hitherto exercised by the St. Louis County clerk.
This collection consists of the records of the St. Louis city register—the city equivalent to a