The Third Constitutional Convention of the State of Ohio.

RICHLAND COUNTY.-Barnabas Burns.

Ross COUNTY.-Milton L. Clark.

SANDUSKY COUNTY.-J. S. Van Valkenburgh.
SCIOTO COUNTY.-James W. Bannon.

SENECA COUNTY.-John D. O'Connor.

SHELBY COUNTY.—Edmund Smith.

STARK COUNTY.-Anson Pease and James C. Hostetter.

SUMMIT COUNTY.--Alvin C. Voris.

TRUMBULL COUNTY.-George M. Tuttle.

TUSCARAWAS COUNTY.-Charles H. Mitchener.

UNION COUNTY.-John B. Coats.

VAN WERT COUNTY.-Isaac N. Alexander.

VINTON COUNTY.-Harvey Wells.

WARREN COUNTY.-Thomas F. Thompson.
WASHINGTON COUNTY.-Harlow Chapin.
WAYNE COUNTY.-John K. McBride.
WILLIAMS COUNTY.-Albert M. Pratt.
WOOD COUNTY.-Asher Cook.
WYANDOT COUNTY.-John D. Sears.

MORRISON R. WAITE, President.
LEWIS D. CAMPBELL, Vice-President.
D. W. RHODES, Secretary.

R. F. HURLBUTT, First Assistant Secretary.
D. S. FISHER, Second Assistant Secretary.
Jos. GUTZWILLER, Third Assistant Secretary.
ALLEN O. MYERS, Fourth Assistant Secretary.
J. B. WILBUR, Sergeant-at-Arms.

JAS. MORGAN, First Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms.
F. BLENKNER, Second Assistant Sergeant-at-Arms.
CHARLES RHODES, Postmaster.

J. G. ADEL, Official Recorder.

AMOS LAYMAN, Reviser of Reports and Proofs.

J. V. LEE, Assistant Official Reporter.

B. P. GAINES, Assistant Official Reporter.
N. F. DEAN, Assistant Official Reporter.
CHARLES FLOWERS, Assistant Official Reporter.
FRED MEAKIN, Assistant Official Reporter.

PART TWO

THE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT OF THE TERRITORIAL AND STATE GOVERNMENTS.

TABLE OF CONTENTS-PART TWO.

Page,

Introductory (1787-1788)

135

The First Legislative Council of the Northwest Territory (1788)......

136

The First Session of the Second Territorial General Assembly..

158

The Question of the Boundary of the State....

163

The General Assembly of the State of Ohio (1803-1904). Introductory..... 164

A Table Showing the Membership of the Ohio Senate (1803-1904).....

A Table Showing the Membership of the Ohio House of Representatives

165

(1803-1904)

201

An Alphabetical List of Members of the General Assembly (1803-1906) with

location and period of service.....

253

The 77th General Assembly and its Membership..

343

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INTRODUCTORY.

EFERENCE to the Ordinance of 1787, which is reproduced in

Part One of this volume, will discover to the reader that the legislative function of the territorial government in its first stage of development, and until there should be five thousand free male inhabitants of full age in the district, was lodged in the Governor of the Territory and the judges of the General (or Territorial) Court, or, any two of the Judges and the Governor.

The power of this legislative body is specifically declared in these words of the third paragraph of the Ordinance:

"The governor and judges, or a majority of them, shall adopt and publish in the district, such laws OF THE ORIGINAL STATES, criminal and civil, as may be necessary and best suited to the circumstances of the district, and report them to Congress from time to time, which laws shall be in force in the district until the organization of the general assembly therein, unless disapproved of by Congress; but afterward the legislature shall have authority to alter them as they shall think fit."