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<title>Frederick Bates to Moses Austin, 09-11-1807</title>
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<date when="2011-06-28">06-28-2011</date>
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Moses Austin
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Eugene Barker, ed., <hi rend="italic">Annual Report of the American Historical Association for the Year 1919: The Austin Papers</hi>, (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1924), 3 vols., Vol 1, Part 1, pp. 137
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Eugene Barker's summaries and footnotes
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<p><persName>Frederick Bates, Secretary of the <placeName>Territory of Louisiana</placeName></persName>, and
exercising the <persName>Government </persName>thereof To all who shall see these presents
greeting</p>
<p>Whereas, by an act of the <persName>Congress of the <placeName>United States</placeName></persName>, entitled
can act further providing for the <persName>government of the <placeName>district of
Louisiana</placeName></persName>' it is provided, that Oaths of office, (except by persons
in the said act specially enumerated) shall be taken before such
persons as the <persName>governor </persName>shall direct. Now therefore, reposing especial
trust and confidence in the ability diligence and provident
circumspection of <persName>MOSES AUSTIN Esquire</persName>, I do empower him to
administer Oaths to support the constitution of the <placeName>United States</placeName>,
and oaths of office, to any, and all persons, appointed to office, by
the <persName>Governors of this <placeName>territory</placeName></persName>, within and for the <placeName>District of Saint
Genevieve</placeName>.—</p>
<p>In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the
<placeName>Territory</placeName>, and subscribed my name at <placeName>Saint Louis</placeName>, the <date when="1807-09-11">eleventh day of
September, In the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred
and seven</date> and of the Independence of the <placeName>United States of America
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<p><persName>Frederick Bates</persName></p>
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