Members of the General assembly, who passed the first efficient act, for making our canals. The session commenced De cember 3rd, 1821. MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY. From the counties of Adams, George R. Fitzgerald. Ashtabula, Robert Harper. Athens, Elijah Hatch, Belmont and Monroe, Wm. Dunn, Alexander Armstrong and Thomas Shannon. Brown, George Edwards. Butler, James Shields, Robert Anderson and Joel Collins. Champaign, Aaron L. Hunt. Clermont, Gideon Minor, Clinton, James Harris, Columbiana, Wm. Blackburn, Peter Musser and Daniel Har baugh, Coshocton, James Robinson. Cuyahoga, Josiah Barber. Delaware, Joseph Eaton. Darke and Shelby, Jacob Miller. Fairfield, Robert F. Slaughter and George Sanderson. Fayette, James Carothers. Franklin, John R. Parish. Greene, William M. Townsley. Guernsey, Lloyd Talbott, Hamilton, Clayton Webb, M. T. Williams, J. C. Short and S. R. Miller. Harrison, John Patterson. Highland, Richard Collins. Huron and Sandusky, David Abbott. Jefferson, James Wilson and Samuel McNary. Knox, Royal D. Simons. Licking, William W. Gault. Logan and Wood, John Shelby. Madison and Union, William Lewis. Meigs, Gallia and Jackson, David Boggs and George House. Miami, Thomas W. Furnas. Montgomery, George Grove and Samuel Archer. Morgan and Washington, William M. Dawes and Timothy Muskingum, William H. Moore and Alexander Harper. Pickaway and Hocking, Caleb Atwater and Valentine Keffer. Richland, James Hedges. Ross, Thomas Worthington, Archibald M'Lean, William Vance. Scioto, Pike and Lawrence, William Kendall and Caleb Hitchcock. Stark, John Myers. Trumbull, Thomas Howe. Tuscarawas, George Richardson. Warren, John Bigger and Thomas Corwin. Wayne, Benjamin Jones. MEMBERS OF SENATE. From the counties of Fairfield, Elnathan Scofield. Hamilton, Eprhaim Brown. Butler, James Heaton. Warren, Nathaniel M'Lean. Green and Clinton, William R. Cole. Franklin, Delaware, Madison and Union, Joseph Foos. Licking and Perry, John Spencer. Wayne, Thomas M'Millan. Portage and Medina, Jonathan Foster. Harrison, James Roberts. Meigs, Gallia and Jackson, Daniel Womeldorf. Trumbull, Eli Baldwin. Brown, Nathaniel Beasly Stark, Michael Ozwalt. Cuyahoga, Huron and Sandusky, Alfred Kelly. Jefferson, David Sloan. Montgomery, William Blodget. Columbiana, Gideon Hughes. Belmont, David Jennings. Adams, Thomas Kirker. Champaign, Clark, Logan and Wood, James Cooley. Pickaway and Hocking, John Barr. Geauga and Ashtabula, Samuel W. Phelps. Richland and Knox, John Shaw. Muskingum, Thomas Ijams. Washington, Athens and Morgan, Sardine Stone. Clermont, Thomas Morris. Highland and Fayette, Allen Trimble. Ross, Duncan M'Arthur. Guernsey, Tuscarawas and Coshocton, William M'Gowan. Preble, Miami, Darke and Shelby, Walter Buell, (one year.) Members of the General Assembly of 1824-5 who passed the necessary laws for making our canals; for adopting a system of education for common schools, and changing the mode of taxation. The yeas and nays are also given, as follows, to wit: Assembly. YEAS. Messrs. Isaac Atkinson, John Bigger, Jacob Blickensderfer, William Cary, Leonard Case, William Collings, Isaac Cook, William Coolman, Matthias Corwin, John Cotton, Samuel Coulter, Edmond Dorr, John Dougherty, Jeremiah Everett, Richard Fallis, Thomas Flood, Jacob Frederick, Thomas Gatch, John M. Gray, Thomas Hanna, Robert Harper, Batteal Harri son, David Higgins, Homer Hine, George B. Holt, Andrew V. Hopkins, Thomas Irwin, Thomas King, Joseph Kyle, James W. Lathrop, Philip Lewis, John Liest, Jacob Lindsey, John Lucas, Alexander M'Connell, John M'Corkle, Samuel M'Henry,. John Means, David Mitchell, Edward L. Morgan, Elias Murray, Joseph Olds, Thomas L. Pierce, Thomas Rigdon, James Robison, of Coshocton, James Robison, of Wayne, Joseph W. Ross, Almon Ruggles, Thomas Shannon, James Shields, Robert F. Slaughter, Stephen C. Smith, Adam Swan, John Turner, William Wiley, George W. Williams, Thomas Worthington, M. T. Williams, Speaker—58. NAYS. Messrs William Blackburn, Ephraim Brown, George Brown, John Cochran, John Davenport, George Edwards, William Hamilton, James Hedges, John Hubbard, William Lowry, William E. Russell, John Shelby, Jacob Ward-13. Senate. YEAS. Messrs John Augustine, Edward Avery, Z. A. Beatty, D. H. Beardsley, Ebenezer Buckingham, junior, Samuel Caldwell, Jacob Catterlin, Jacob Claypool, Joel Collins, David Crouse, Ephraim Cutler, Owen T. Fishback, George Fithian, Joseph Foos, Nathan Guilford, Samuel H. Hale, David F. Heaton, David Jennings, Thomas Kirker, Henry Laffer, Robert Lucas, William Manning, George Newcomb, Aaron Norton. David Shelby, Matthew Simpson, David Sloane, William Stanbery, Clayton Webb, Samuel Wheeler, Daniel Womeldorf, Jabez Wright, Robert Young, Allen Trimble, Speaker-34. NAYS. Messrs William Gass, Daniel Harbaugh-2. APPENDIX. No. I. IN CONGRESS, JULY 13, 1787. AN ORDINANCE FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES, NORTHWEST OF THE RIVER OHIO. BE IT ORDAINED, by the United States in Congress assembled, That the said territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district; subject, however, to be divided into two, districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.. Be it ordained, by the authority aforesaid, that the estates both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said territory, dying intestate, shall descend to, and be distributed among their children, and the descendants of a deceased child, in equal parts; the descendants of deceased child or grandchild, to take the share of their deceased parent, in equal parts, among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants, then in equal parts to the next of kin, in equal degree; and among collaterals, the children of a deceased brother or sister of the intestate shall have, in equal parts, among them, their deceased parent's share; and there shall in no case be a distinction between kindred of the whole and half blood; saving in all cases to the widow of the intestate, her third part of the real estate for life, and one third part of the personal estate; and this law relative to descents and dower, shall remain in |