BELIEVE IT OR NOT, Alabama's Bicentennial begins NEXT FRIDAY. One week from today, 200 years ago, on Monday, December 23, 1816, the bill to establish present-day Alabama was first introduced and read on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill was entitled A BILL TO ESTABLISH THE TERRITORY OF MOBILE and you can find it in the following link on page 8 of this book of Alabama Territorial papers. (Oh yeah, this bill got changed a little in March of 1817 when a few Georgia politicians changed its title in order to promote some land they owned on THE ALABAMA RIVER) https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.31951d02363845l;view=1up;seq=28