BOOK II. 
fIEWS OF LOUISIANA, 
IN TWO BOOKS, 
TERRITORY OF THE MISSOURI 
CHAPTER I. 
SOUND ARIES....EXTENT....RIVERS....GENERAL VIEW. 
Although the executive exercises authority out of the 
Indian boundary/ the territory itself cannot properly be consi¬ 
dered as extending beyond it; the territorial governor, acts as 
well in the capacity of a general agent for the United States, as 
in that of civil magistrate. The judiciary has determined that it 
possesses no jurisdiction over the Indian country. 
The territory of the Missouri is bounded on the south by the 
33° of lat. which strikes the Mississippi about one hundred and 
fifty miles below the Arkansas, and constitutes the northern 
boundary of the state of Louisiana. On the west, it may be con-* 
sidered as bounded by the Osage purchase ;* this line runs from 
a place called the Black rock, about three hundred miles up the 
Missouri, due south to strike the Arkansas. On the north, a line 
was agreed upon in a treaty between governor Harrispn, and the 
Sacs and Foxes, which begins at a point opposite the Gascon¬ 
ade river, and strikes the Mississippi at the Jaufloine river* It 
is unnecessary to observe, that the Mississippi bounds on the 
east. 
* Except cm the south of the Arkansas, where there is no western 
boundary. 
