ALABAMA[1]
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[2]
[Fourteenth Congress, Second Session]
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
- ↑ The area of the State of Alabama was ceded to the United States by the States of Georgia and South Carolina, and by Spain. A strip of land twelve miles wide, across the northern part of the State, and adjoining the southern boundary of the State of Tennessee, ceded by the State of South Carolina, was a portion of the Territory South of the river Ohio, afterward transferred to the Mississippi Territory. The larger portion of the State, ceded by the State of Georgia, was a portion of the Mississippi Territory. The southwestern corner of the State, between the Perdido River and the State of Mississippi, and between the thirty-first parallel and the Gulf of Mexico, ceded by Spain, became a portion of the Mississippi Territory.
- ↑ For other statutes of an organic nature relating to Alabama subsequent to 1817, see the act to determine qualifications of officeholders, act of April 9, 1818; to define jurisdiction of courts and require officers to take oath, April 20, 1818.
