lands south of tenessee: for Gallatin’s cooperation with Joseph H. Nicholson to design legislation to meet the requests of the land commissioners in Mississippi Territory, see Gallatin to TJ, 4 Jan. 1804. Section 7, the last paragraph of a bill “for imposing more specific duties on the importation of certain articles,” gave the governor of Orleans Territory the powers of a district court in revenue cases, along with the powers vested in the secretary of the Treasury to remit fines and forfeitures. On 27 Mch., the last day of the session, the House agreed to both bills as amended by the Senate (U.S. Statutes at Large description begins Richard Peters, ed., The Public Statutes at Large of the United States … 1789 to March 3, 1845, Boston, 1855-56, 8 vols. description ends , 2:299-300, 303-6; Annals description begins Annals of the Congress of the United States: The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States … Compiled from Authentic Materials, Washington, D.C., Gales & Seaton, 1834-56, 42 vols. All editions are undependable and pagination varies from one printing to another. The first two volumes of the set cited here have “Compiled … by Joseph Gales, Senior” on the title page and bear the caption “Gales & Seatons History” on verso and “of Debates in Congress” on recto pages. The remaining volumes bear the caption “History of Congress” on both recto and verso pages. Those using the first two volumes with the latter caption will need to employ the date of the debate or the indexes of debates and speakers. description ends , 13:304, 305, 306, 1241-2).