This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XCB.2ACI/666.1.1.1 Message Board Post: A police jury is or used to be the governing body for parishes (LA for counties). Wards were the districts from which jurors were elected to serve on the jury. Though called a jury, the body was an executive, not judical, group.