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 elections 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 by 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-seventh.

In the testimony whereof, we have hereunto subscribed

our names.

EDWARD TIFFIN, President.

Attest. THOMAS SCOTT, Secretary.

No. III.

EXTRACT FROM A BRITISH PAPER SPEAKING OF US.

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"Base hypocrite! You boast of liberty while one sixth part of you are slaves. Look at your twelve southern provinces with two and a half millions of enslaved citizens bearing all the shades of color from the Caucasian to the Ethiopean. On the return of each 4th of July, rail and descant on mitres and crosiers and sceptres, and denounce royalty, in all its forms, while above, and beneath, and around about the orator of the day, stand forth in characters of blood the distinct mottoes of your land. DowN WITH DISCUSSION! LYNCH LAW TRIUMPHANT! SLAVERY FOR EVER! HAIL COLUMBIA HAPPY LAND!

man.

"Ornament your halls with scourges, wet with the blood of the sons of freedom, who dare to advocate the natural rights of Snuff the sweet savor of the tar cauldron, and delight your eyes, with the gibbet reared aloft in terror of those who would not bend the knee to the dark spirit of slavery.

"And then join in the gentlemanly mob to protect liberty and law, by taking special care of the press and the mail, as the wolf would care for and protect the lamb.

"And finally by way of admonition to our American brethren we would say, "Spare, O, spare, the name of liberty from further pollution until you have removed from your capitol, the greatest slave market in christendom.-Abolish your internal slave trade. Undo the heavy burden, cut asunder the bonds that make men chattels; in a word, become what you dare not contemplate-a nation of freemen. Then, and not till then, will the genius of liberty, breathe her ambrosial breath upon your land."

REMARKS.

It may be thought by some persons, that our remarks on England and Englishmen are quite too severe, on the page, to

which this appendix refers. Doctor McKeehan's capture and imprisonment, sent as he was, to administer relief, to our sick and wounded men, in Proctor's wood yard, is the most shameless, barbarous and cowardly transaction, recorded in history.

Previous to Doctor McKeehan's mission, that is, on the 22nd of January 1813, Proctor pledged his honor, to protect the wounded prisoners until the next morning, when he would send sleds to convey them from Frenchtown to Amherstburgh. The next morning at early day light, two hundred Indian warriors coming from Malden, killed and burned the wounded, in the houses of the citizens where they lay. These were Proctor's SLEDS, these two bundred warriors! In recounting such transactions, we have said what we have in the text, for saying which, we offer no apology and never will make any. We loathe the British government, not the good people of England.

But, to those who think our remarks ill-timed, during a profound peace, between us and England, we bring forward, an extract, honestly copied from an English paper, in which the reader can see, how we are spoken of in England during this same peace.

This extract, ran through all the papers from John O'Groat's house to Land's End. The piece from which it was copied, was applauded to the echo, by all parties, in every part of Great Britain. With this explanation, we dismiss the subject.

SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS ON THE SCHOOL LANDS AND THE SYSTEM OF EDUCATION FOR COMMON SCHOOLS.

We have already stated that there were in this state several districts, all of them entitled to a thirty-sixth part of their superficial contents, for the support of common schools.

In 1836-7 the subject of school lands and common schools, in the general assembly, was taken up, and it was generally agreed, that something must be done, but there was no sufficient data to act upon. Complaints, it is true, came up from every part of the state, some of one thing and some of another, and there was much difference in the proposed remedies. A superintendent was appointed for one year, to collect information on all the subjects connected with the department, and make report to the legislature with such recommendations as appeared necessary to place the system on proper ground.

One thing that seemed to require the immediate attention of the department was the school lands. The state was divided into so many different grants, each having distinct school lands, and the legislation had been voluminous and complicated, adopted frequently to promote the interests of individuals who, pretending advantage to the schools, sought an appropriation for personal advantage. It was made the duty of no individual, or department, to superintend this interest, and great iniquity was practised, while the legislature sought honestly to do right.

When the law passed, allowing the sale of the school lands, it was intended for immediate effect, and the frauds afterwards practised were not foreseen. No limit as to value was fixed for the sale of the lands, the result necessarily was, that, in the new counties where there was but little demand for lands, and, but few residents, sometimes, not five freeholders in a township, and, not a quarter of the land entered, the school land was sold for from ten cents an acre and upwards. The most extensive spcoulations were made in this way. It was sometimes worth, in a few years, several hundred per cent. more than it brought. A price should have been fixed, below which, the land should

not have been sold, and not have left it to the valuation of men, who were sometimes imposed upon, and sometimes interested. Nor should it have been sold until the government lands were all taken up in the township.

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A still greater fraud was committed in surrendering the leases. Some of the most valuable school lands were first leased, on "improvement leases," that is, the tenant took a quarter section of land, for ten or fifteen years. to build a cabin, and clear some fifteen or twenty acres of land; and might clear any larger quantity. He paid no rent, the improvement was the consideration of the lease and the use of the land. After these leases expired, the land was leased for ninety-nine years, renewable forever. Thus, the tenant paid for rent, the interest on the estimated value of the land, and it was to be revalued every fifteen or twenty years, as the lease might call for. At such revaluation, the tenant was bound to pay the interest on such amount as might be fixed on as the value of the land, without improvements. In our rapid settlement, land thus leased for from five to fifty cents per acre, estimating the land to be worth from one dollar to eight dollars, subject to such revaluation every fifteen years, and before the expiration of the fifteen years, the land was sometimes worth ten times the first estimate. The law, directing the sale of school land, allowed these tenants to surrender their leases, and on paying the amount of the last valuation to receive deeds in fee simple for the land. So they obtained the land at $3 or $4 an acre, and sometimes for less, when it was worth from fifty dollars to one hundred dollars an acre! In this way at least a million of dollars have been lost to the school fund of this state, and by the sacrifice of premature sales, another large sum has been lost. In the winter of 1838 both of these practices were put a stop to, so that what land remains will probably be carefully managed. At least we so hope.

The different school funds are as follows:

The Connecticut Western Reserve Fund is the proceeds of 56,000 acres of land, or $158,656, It belongs to the several