NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER, Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, 1816  The back page has a lengthy article on the: "Mississippi Territory" which concerns the: "...praying for admission into the Union as an independent state." Before the following year would end Mississippi would become the 20th state of the Union.
Also on the bkpg. is: "The Algernine Treaty" signed in type by Stephen Decatur and William Shaler.
Four pages, very nice condition.