The First Constitution of Ohio.

Governor or the other officers of the State, and their successors in office for the use of the State, or by him or them to be respectively assigned. over to the use of those concerned, as the case may be.

SEC. 3. The Governor, Secretary, and Judges, and all other officers under the territorial government shall continue in the exercise of the duties of their respective departments until the said officers are superseded under the authority of this Constitution.

SEC. 4. All laws and parts of laws now in force in this territory, not inconsistent with this Constitution, shall continue and remain in full effect until repealed by the Legislature, except so much of the act entitled "an act regulating the admission and practice of attorneys and counselorsat-law," and of the act made amendatory thereto, as relates to the term of time which the applicant shall have studied law, his residence within the territory and the term of time which he shall have practiced as an attorney-at-law before he can be admitted to the degree of a counselorat-law.

SEC. 5. The Governor of the State shall make use of his private seal until a State seal be procured.

SEC. 6. The President of the convention shall issue writs of election to the Sheriffs of the several Counties, requiring them to proceed to the election of a Governor, members of the General Assembly, Sheriffs and Coroners, at the respective election districts in each County, on the second Tuesday of January next; which election shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the existing election laws of this territory; and the members of the General Assembly then elected shall continue to exercise the duties of their respective offices until the next annual or biennial election thereafter, as prescribed in this Constitution, and no longer.

SEC. 7. Until the first enumeration shall be made, as directed in the second section of the first article of this Constitution, the County of Hamilton shall be entitled to four Senators and eight Representatives; the County of Clermont, one Senator and two Representatives; the County of Adams, one Senator and three Representatives; the County of Ross, two Senators and four Representatives; the County of Fairfield, one Senator and two Representatives; the County of Washington, two Senators and three Representatives; the County of Belmont, one Senator and two Representatives; the County of Jefferson, two Senators and four Representatives; and the County of Trumbull, one Senator and two Representatives.

Done in convention at Chillicothe, the twenty-ninth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, and of the independence of the United States of America, the twenty

MARCUS A. HANNA.

Marcus Alonzo Hanna, Republican, of Cleveland, was born in New Lisbon (now Lisbon), Columbiana County, Ohio, September 24, 1837; removed with his father's family to Cleveland in 1852; was educated in the common schools of that city and the Western Reserve College, Hudson, Ohio; was engaged as an employee in the wholesale grocery house of Hanna, Garretson & Co., his father being senior member of the firm; his father died in 1862, and he represented that interest in the firm until 1867, when the business was closed up; then became a member of the firm of Rhodes & Co., engaged in the iron and coal business; at the expiration of ten years the title of this firm was changed to M. A. Hanna & Co., which still exists; has been identified with lake carrying business, being interested in vessels on the lakes, and in the construction of such vessels; was president of the Union National Bank of Cleveland; president of the Cleveland City Railway Company; was director of the Union Pacific Railway Company in 1885, by appointment of President Cleveland; was a delegate to the national Republican conventions in 1884, 1888, and 1896; was elected chairman of the national Republican committee in 1896 and 1900; was appointed to the United States Senate by Governor Bushnell, March 5, 1897, to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement of Hon. John Sherman, who resigned to accept the position of Secretary of State in President McKinley's cabinet; took his seat March 5, 1897; in January, 1898, he was elected for the short term ending March 4, 1899, and also for the succeeding full term. Senator Hanna occupied a very prominent place among the leaders of the Senate. His advocacy of the Panama route for the isthmian canal, after the House of Representatives had by an overwhelming vote chosen the Nicaraguan route, resulted in a complete reversal of the program and the final choice of Panama; this is said to be one of the mosɩ remarkable legislative feats in the history of the United States Congress, and was the result alone of Senator Hanna's masterful presentation of the claims of Panama as compared with those of Nicaragua. Senator Hanna was chosen in January, 1904, to succeed himself in the United States Senate for the term commencing March 4, 1905, by the largest majority ever accorded a senatorial candidate by the legislature of Ohio. His speech of acceptance delivered to the General Assembly was looked upon as the benediction of one about to lay down the burdens of life, as indeed it proved to be, for his death followed one month later. Senator Hanna died February 15, 1904, in the city of Washington, and the funeral was held in Cleveland. His remains were deposited in the Wade mausoleum, Lake View Cemetery.

NOTES ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1802,

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HE Constitutional Convention of 1802 forms a connecting-link between the Territorial and State Government which seems to find its proper consideration at this point. The first session of the Second (and last) Territorial Legislature, was adjourned by Governor St. Clair in January, 1802, to meet in Cincinnati, November 29. The Congress, by an act of April 30, 1802, provided for the election of members of a convention which should:

First. Decide on the desirability of forming a state government, and Second. Frame the constitution for the state should the convention decide the first question affirmatively.

This convention met in Chillicothe on Monday, November 1, four weeks prior to the time set for the convening of the Second Territorial Legislature in its second session, and on the day appointed for the legislature to meet, promulgated the FIRST CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO.

Many members of the territorial legislature were members of this first constitutional convention, and the following notes from the Journal of that convention are republished as matters of history: