Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United
States of America in Congress assembled, That all that part of the country ceded by France to the United States, under the general name of
Louisiana, which, by an act of the last session of Congress, was erected
into a separate district, to be called the district of Louisiana, shall henceforth be known and designated by the name and title of the Territory of
Louisiana, the government whereof shall be organized and administered
as follows