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For organic acts issued before 1817 relating to the land now included within the limits of Alabama, see in this work:
 * Proprietary Charter of Carolina, 1663 (North Carolina, p. 2743).
 * Proprietary Proposals, 1663 (North Carolina, p. 2753).
 * Proprietary Charter of Carolina, 1665 (North Carolina, p. 2761).
 * Fundamental Constitutions of Carolina, 1669 (North Carolina, p. 2772).
 * Proprietary Charter of Georgia, 1732 (Georgia, p. 765).
 * Constitution of South Carolina, 1776 (South Carolina, p. 3241).
 * Constitution of Georgia, 1777 (Georgia, p. 777).
 * Constitution of South Carolina, 1778 (South Carolina, p. 3248).
 * Constitution of Georgia, 1789 (Georgia, p. 785).
 * Territory South of Ohio River, 1790 (Tennessee, p. 3413).
 * Territorial Government of Mississippi, 1798 (Mississippi, p. 2025).
 * Territorial Government of Mississippi, 1800 (Mississippi, p. 2027).
 * Territorial Government of Mississippi, 1808 (Mississippi, p. 2029).
 * Proclamation respecting Occupation of Territory, 1810 (Louisiana, p. 1375).

TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT OF ALABAMA—1817

An Act to establish a separate Territorial Government for the eastern part of the Mississippi Territory

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of the Mississippi Territory which lies within the following boundaries, to wit: Beginning at the point where the line of the thirty-first degree of north latitude intersects the Perdido River, thence east to the western boundary-line of the State of Georgia, thence along said line to the southern boundary-line to the State of Tennessee, thence west along said boundary-line to the Tennessee River, thence up the same to the mouth of Bear Creek, thence by a direct line to the northwest corner of Washington County, thence due 89