A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . ongress. The rest of the immense purchasewas at first erected into the district of Louisiana; then,in 1805, into the Territory of Louisiana, and in 1812,into the Territory of Missouri. At the time of possession, in 1803, Laussat, the Frenchcolonial perfect, declared that justice was then admin-istered worse than in Turkey. With the Americandomination came new ideas. In 1808 a civil code was, for the first time, adopted by Legislature inTiouisiana. It was based, to a large extent, on a draftof the (Jode N

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A hand-book of Louisiana, giving general and agricultural features . ongress. The rest of the immense purchasewas at first erected into the district of Louisiana; then,in 1805, into the Territory of Louisiana, and in 1812,into the Territory of Missouri. At the time of possession, in 1803, Laussat, the Frenchcolonial perfect, declared that justice was then admin-istered worse than in Turkey. With the Americandomination came new ideas. In 1808 a civil code was, for the first time, adopted by Legislature inTiouisiana. It was based, to a large extent, on a draftof the (Jode Napoleon. Bj act of Congress, in November,1811, the inhabitants of the Territory were authorizedto form a Constitution with a view to the establishmentof a State Government. The debates in the NationalHouse of Kepresentatives on this bill were long and in-teresting. The bill having been passed, however, theConstitution of 1812 was framed and adopted, and onApril 30, 1812, Congress passed an act for the admissionof liouisiana into the Union. Three months after TROUT 5TREA

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