By David Holmes, governor of the Mississippi Territory. A proclamation. [electronic resource] : Whereas, by an act of the Congress ... there has been annexed to the said territory, all that tract of country lying east of Pearl River, west of the Perdido, and south of the thirty first degree of north latitude ... I do hereby erect the same into a county ... by the name of Mobile, and do further declare that the laws of the Mississippi Territory ... are in force within the said county