CIVIL HISTORY. 



PERIOD SIXTH. 



THIS PERIOD EXTENDS FROM JULY 4tH, 1825 UNTIL 1837. 



The original intention of the legislature which passed the 

 act of February 4th 1825, was to make the Ohio and Erie ca- 

 nal, extending from lake Erie to the Ohio river, and the south- 

 ern end of Miami and Maumee canal, from Cincinnati to Day- 

 ton. And provided congress made provisions for assisting us 

 in continuing the last named canal to lake Erie, running al- 

 most wholly through United States lands, our legislature in- 

 tended in such case to complete that canal to lake Erie, as 

 they now are doing. 



The Ohio and Erie canal could scarcely be said to have 

 been completed until 1831-2, nor the Miami and Maumee ca- 

 nal from the Ohio river to Dayton until the locks at Cincinnati 

 were finished in 1834. 



The commissioners named in the act of January 31st 1822, 

 were Benjamin Tappan, Alfred Kelley, Thomas Worthington, 

 Ethan A. Brown, Jeremiah Morrow, Isaac Minor and Ebene- 

 zer Buckingham junior. This board appointed the acting 

 commissioners, engineers, &c. Jeremiah Morrow having been 

 elected governor of the state, resigned his office of commis- 

 sioner; and in February 1823, Micajah T. Williams was ap- 

 pointed in his place. After the canals were fairly under way 

 Messrs. Kelley and Williams were appointed acting commis- 

 sioners, under whose superintendence these canals were con- 

 structed. 



