Frederick Bates, Secretary of the Territory of Louisiana, and
exercising the Government thereof To all who shall see these presents
greeting
Whereas, by an act of the Congress of the United States, entitled
can act further providing for the government of the district of
Louisiana' it is provided, that Oaths of office, (except by persons
in the said act specially enumerated) shall be taken before such
persons as the governor shall direct. Now therefore, reposing especial
trust and confidence in the ability diligence and provident
circumspection of MOSES AUSTIN Esquire, I do empower him to
administer Oaths to support the constitution of the United States,
and oaths of office, to any, and all persons, appointed to office, by
the Governors of this territory, within and for the District of Saint
Genevieve.—
In testimony whereof I have hereunto affixed the seal of the
Territory, and subscribed my name at Saint Louis, the eleventh day of
September, In the year of our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred
and seven and of the Independence of the United States of America
the thirty second.
Frederick Bates