whereupon he is admitted to Practice in this Court.” The Superior Court of Law and Equity for the Mero District was not formally organized and opened until late in the year 1789, when John McNairy was appointed judge of that court. Under the territorial form of government provided by Congress, in May, 1790, for “the territory of the United States of America south of the river Ohio,” the President appointed three attorneys for the territory--one for Washington District, one for Hamilton District and one for the “Mero District.” Andrew Jackson was appointed in and for the “District of Mero,” and I have not been able to find any evidence whatever that he held any office whatever prior to this appointment. It is doubtful whether he ever received any compensation from the government of the United States for the services rendered as attorney of the “Mero District;” for, at the first session of the third general assembly of Tennessee, an act was passed, October 26, 1799, the second section of which is as follows: “Be it enacted, that the sum of four hundred dollars shall be and the same is hereby appropriated for the payment of the sum due Andrew Jackson, as a full compensation for his services as Attorney General for the District of Mero under the territorial government.” Andrew Jackson never accepted payment twice for the same service. Section 1 of the same act appropriates two hundred dollars “to Archibald Roane, as full compensation for services as Attorney General for the District of Hamilton under the territorial government.” Jackson did not arrive at Nashville until the fall of the year 1789 or the spring of 1790--most probably the latter. He “settled” in Jonesboro, in what was then Washington county, North Carolina, and is now Washington county, Tennessee, in the early part of the spring of 1788. He probably came from Morganton, North Carolina, across the range of mountains to Jonesboro, as early in the spring as the melting snow and ice made such a trip over the Appalachians possible. From Morganton to Jonesboro, by the trail or route then travelled, was more than one hundred miles, two-thirds of which, at that time, was without a single human habitation along its course. As emigration from east of the mountains to “the new world west of the Alleghanies” was considerable about this period, it is quite possible that Judge McNairy and others came at the same time; but who they all were, and the exact date of their arrival in Jonesboro, is not known.