Proclamation. By Winthrop Sargent, governor of the Mississippi Territory.
Subtitle: Whereas it has been enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, that so much of the ordinance ... providing for the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio ... as relates to the organization of a General Assembly therein ..
Contributors: Sargent, Winthrop, 1753-1820.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 37976.
Publisher: Printed by Benjamin M. Stokes?
Published: 1800
Place of publication: [Natchez, Miss
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Subjects: Mississippi. -- General Assembly.; Mississippi -- History -- To 1803.; Mississippi -- Politics and government -- To 1865.
Notes: "Given at the Bellemont Plantation near Natchez this 24th day of June, anno Domini one thousand eight hundred ... In testimony of which I have undersigned my name and caused the public seal to be hereunto affixed, Winthrop Sargent. By His Excellency's command, John Steele, secretary. William Williams, keeper of the seal. (A copy.)"

Followed by excerpts from the ordinance of 1787 relating to the qualifications of representatives and electors.

Evans 37976.

McMurtrie, D.C.  Mississippi, 6.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 37976)