The Ohio Gazetteer, and Traveler's Guide: Containing a Description of the Several Towns, Townships and Counties, with Their Water Courses, Roads, Improvements, Mineral Productions, &c. &c. : Together with an Appendix, Or General Register, Embracing Tables of Roads and Distances, of Post Offices, Their Location and Distance from the Capital of the State, and of the United States, of Works of Internal Improvement, of the Several Officers of State, Their Residence, &c., of the Colleges and Their Officers, of Banks, Their Officers and Capital, &c. &c

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Stran ix - He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the General Assembly, and in case of disagreement between the two Houses, with respect to the time of adjournment, adjourn them to such time as he shall think proper, not exceeding four months.
Stran xviii - ... are called, are not so numerous. The mounds vary, in magnitude, vastly from each other, and' somewhat so in shape; some are 'of a conical figure, ending on the top in a point, and as steep on the sides as the earth could be made to lie; others are of the same form, except that they present a flat area on the top, like a cone cut off at some distance from its vertex, in a plane coincident with its base, or with the horizon. — Others again are of a semiglobular shape.
Stran 338 - It aims also at bearing an important part in extending these blessings to the destitute millions which overspread the earth. For this purpose, it proposes as its primary object, the thorough education of ministers, and pious school teachers. As a secondary object, the elevation of female character. And as a third general design, the education of the common people, with the higher classes, in such a manner as suits the nature of republican institutions.
Stran viii - Besides framing the constitution, the convention had another duty to perform. The act of congress, providing for the admission of the new State into the Union, offered certain propositions to the people. These were, first, that section sixteen in each township, or, where that section had been disposed of, other contiguous and equivalent lands, should be granted to the inhabitants for the use of schools ; second, that thirty-eight sections of land, where salt-springs had been found, of which one township...
Stran 443 - But finally among several other compromises of conflicting claims, which were made, subsequently to the attainment of our national independence, Virginia agreed to relinquish all her claims to lands northwest of the Ohio river, in favor of the general government, upon condition of the lands, now described, being guaranteed to her.
Stran 127 - Ohio ; on the South by the Ohio River, and on the west by the State of Illinois.
Stran 337 - Its grand object is the diffusion of useful science, sound morality, and pure religion, among the growing multitudes of the Mississippi valley.
Stran viii - State government was ratified and signed by the members of the convention. It was never referred to the people for their approbation, but became the fundamental law of the State by the act of the convention alone ; and, by this act, Ohio became one of the States of the Federal Union.
Stran 443 - Virginia Military Lands are a body of land lying between the Scioto and Little Miami rivers, and bounded upon the Ohio river on the south. The State of Virginia, from the indefinite and vague terms of expression in its original colonial charter of territory from James I., king of England, in the year 1609, claimed all the continent west of the Ohio rivpr, and of the north and south breadth of Virginia.
Stran 373 - XX ranges of military or army lands north, and XXII ranges of congress lands south. In the western borders of this tract is situated the town of Columbus. French grant, a tract of 24,000 acres of land, bordering upon the Ohio river, in the southeastern quarter of Scioto county.

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