districts for the land office: the third section of the act of 2 Mch. “for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land, within the territory of Orleans, and the district of Louisiana” stated that “the territory of Orleans shall be laid off into two districts, in such manner as the President of the United States shall direct.” Writing to John Thompson on 2 July, Gallatin enclosed “an extract of the act of the President establishing the boundaries of the Western & Eastern land districts” of the territory. On 8 July, Gallatin also sent copies to Allan B. Magruder, James Brown, Felix Grundy, James Trimble, and Francis Vacher. The office for the eastern district was to be located at New Orleans, the western district office in Opelousas County (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 , 2:326; Terr. Papers description begins Clarence E. Carter and John Porter Bloom, eds., The Territorial Papers of the United States, Washington, D.C., 1934-75, 28 vols. description ends , 9:463-4, 468-9; Gallatin, Papers description begins Carl E. Prince and Helene E. Fineman, eds., The Papers of Albert Gallatin, microfilm edition in 46 reels, Philadelphia, 1969, and Supplement, Barbara B. Oberg, ed., reels 47-51, Wilmington, Del., 1985 description ends , 11:278-9).