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MISSISSIPPI TERRITORIAL ARCHIVES.
will give a description of the Coast, the Country, population soil, and productions.1
Wishing you an agreeable voyage and the enjoyment of good health
I am Sir, &c
Doctor Flood.	(sgd)	W. C. C. Claiborne
P. S. You have enclosed several Copies ot? an address from me to the Inhabitants, which you will cause to be distributed.
To Robert Smith New Orleans January 5. 1811.
The enclosed statements in writing No. 1 & 2 as to the anarchy and confusion which prevails in the Vicinity of the Bay St. Louis and tin- Rivers Viloxy and Pascagoula, were received on yesterday. The expediency of making immediate efforts to extend to that quarter the Laws of this Territory is now evident: and I have accordingly passed an Ordinance establishing the Parsihes of Viloxy and Pascagoula: and dispatched to those places Doetr. Flood under special instructions. Copies of the ordinance, and of the instructions are herewith enclosed marked A. and B.
A few (inn boats will very soon be cruisiner in the Lakes, under the orders of Commodore Shaw, and they will be instructed to support the civil authorities. Perhaps I may be enabled to maintain good order in the Parishes of Viloxy and Pascairoula without the presence of a military force: but T much doubt it.
I have received no answers to my letters to Governor Folch.
The Rouble.	I am Sir, &c &e
Mr. Smith	(sgd) W. C. C. Claiborne
Sec.: State.
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