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You will find herewith inclosed an Account with a receipt annexed for my salary as governor of the Territory of Louisiana to the 30th. inst. Not being acquainted with the mode of making application to your department for my salary, it is probable that the inclosed account may be deficient in point of form, if so, and you will have the goodness to point out the defect it shall be corrected. But...
My bill of exchange No. 1 of this date in favor of P. Provenchere or order is on account of his services in translating and copying certain laws of this territory, as pr. acct. rendered and receipted by said Provenchere and now on file in my office. Your Obt. Servt. Printed Source--Clarence Edwin Carter et al., eds. The Territorial Papers of the United States. 27 vols. (Washington, D.C.,...
27 August 1809, St. Louis. Discusses legal questions involved in trials of three Indians accused of murder. They were all found guilty, but the territorial court has held the trials invalid “because the Offence was committed without the jurisdiction of this court.” Relates the judge’s opinion that one of the crimes was committed by a Sac beyond the Indian boundary and hence “the court had not...
I arrived here yesterday about P.M. very much exhausted from the heat of the climate, but having taken medicine feel much better this morning. My appreh[en]sion from the heat of the lower country and my fear of the original papers relative to my voyage to the Pacific ocean falling into the hands of the British has induced me to change my rout and proceed by land through the state of Tennesee...