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161 1799

  "A Department of Finance is erected in Louisiana as an appendage of the civil government, previously to which the supreme power of the province, both military & civil under the crown, had been delegated exclusively to the Governor and Intendant General.   The demarkation of the boundary between the United States & the Floridas, was commenced in the year preceding and is completed in March.  This line passes eastward on the 31st parallel of latitude from the Mississippi to the Chattahoola, thence down this river to its confluence with Flint River, thence eastwardly to the source of the St Mary's, and thence following the meander of the river to the ocean.    The gulf of Mexico is said to have been accurately surveyed, and a chart of it made by order of the King of Spain, embracing the whole of the sea coast between the 18th deg. of N. latitude and the river St Mary's in Georgia & twelve degrees of longitude."   Leng Ch:  97.