170 HISTORY OF OHIO. 



Ohio was admitted into the Union, and became a sovereign 

 state. 



We go back and make a few remarks on the act of the 30th 

 April 1802. 



In the act of congress which enabled the people of that portion 

 of what remained of the North Western Territory, to form a sepa- 

 rate state government, after leaving out, what is now the state 

 of Michigan, congress offered certain inducements, to the peo- 

 ple to comply with, certain requisitions, after the state was 

 formed, and admitted into the Union, as a component member 

 of the confederacy. Congress offered the people, one thirty- 

 sixth part of their whole territory for the use of schools. They 

 offered them also, certain lands, on which they supposed salt- 

 water might be procured; they offered them five per cent, of all 

 the net proceeds of sales of lands, owned by congress; three 

 per cent, of which, was to be laid out, in making roads, in the 

 state, and two per cent, on a road to be made from Cumber- 

 land, in Maryland, to the state. These were the principal 

 offers, which congress held out to the people, but, congress 

 required of the people of the territory a constitution, which 

 should be founded on republican principles; which should adopt 

 as part of their constitution, the ordinances of 1786, 1787, so 

 far as was consistent with their being a separate state. The 

 state constitution, was to be in strict accordance with the con- 

 stitution of the United States. The state was prohibited from 

 levying any tax, on the lands of the United States, lying in 

 Ohio, before they were sold, and for five years afterwards. 

 Lands for a college in the Ohio company's purchase ; and a town- 

 ship, in Symmes's purchase, had been given before this time, 

 granted to the purchasers of those lands, wherewith to endow an 

 academy. Such were the offers, and such the requisitions of 

 the act of the 30th April 1802. We slate the substance. 

 And the convention when met, accepted these conditions, and 

 complied with them. In twenty nine days, after they assem- 

 bled, the convention finished their labors, and adjourned, 

 making Chillicothe, the seat of government for the new state, 

 during a certain period. Not wishing to stop our narrative, 



