4836. LOUISIANA, Government for.—[further continued] .
We are now at work on
a * * * government for Louisiana. It will
probably be a small improvement of our
former territorial governments, or first grade
of government. The act proposes to give
them an assembly of Notables, selected by
the Governor from the principal characters of
the territory. This will, I think, be a better
legislature than the former territorial one,
and will not be a greater departure from
sound principle.—
To Thomas McKean.
Ford ed., viii, 293.
(Jan. 1804)