By David Holmes, governor of the Mississippi Territory, a proclamation. : Whereas for the execution of process, civil and criminal, and for extending the operation of the laws throughout the territory, the governor thereof is authorized by the ordinance, to lay out such parts of the district ... into counties ..

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mississippi. Governor (1809-1820 : Holmes)

Contributor:

Holmes, David, 1770-1832.

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 41457.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Administrative and political divisions.

Mississippi--Administrative and political divisions.

Mississippi.

Alabama--Administrative and political divisions.

Alabama.

Genre:

Broadsides.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

[Natchez, Miss] : [publisher not identified], [1817]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

Designating the boundaries of Elk, Blount, and Shelby counties.

Signed: Done at the town of Washington, this ninth day of May. A.D. one thousand eight hundred and seventeen ...

The original, held by the Mississippi Archives, is signed in ms. by David Holmes.

Presumably printed at Natchez; there is no record of a press in operation at Washington in 1817.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 41457).

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