ACT OF CONGRESS ORDERING THE DESIGNATION BY A NEW SURVEY, OF THE WESTERN AND NORTHERN BOUNDARIES OF OHIO. (May 20, 1812.) AN ACT TO AUTHORIZE THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO ASCERTAIN AND DESIGNATE CERTAIN BOUNDARIES. B E it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the surveyor general, under the direction of the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized and required (as soon as the consent of the Indians can be obtained), to cause to be surveyed, marked and designated, so much of the western and northern boundaries of the state of Ohio, which have not already been ascertained, as divides said state from the territories of Indiana and Michigan, agreeably to the boundaries as established by the act entitled, “An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution and state government, and for the admission of such state into the Union on an equal footing with the original states, and for other purposes," passed April thirtieth, one thousand eight hundred and two; and to cause to be made a plat or plan of so much of the boundary line as runs from the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan to Lake Erie, particularly noting the place where said line intersects the margin of said lake, and to return the same when made to Congress: Provided, that the whole expense of surveying and marking the said boundary lines shall not exceed five dollars for every mile that shall be actually surveyed and marked, which shall be paid out of the monies appropriated for defraying the expense of surveying the public lands. APPROVED May 20, 1812. JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER. Joseph Benson Foraker, Republican, of Cincinnati, was born July 5, 1846, on a farm near Rainsboro, Highland County, Ohio; enlisted July 14, 1862, as private in Company A, Eighty-ninth Regiment Ohio Volunteer Infantry, with which organization he served until the close of the war, at which time he held the rank of first lieutenant and brevet captain; was graduated from Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., July 1, 1869; was admitted to the bar and entered upon the practice of the law at Cincinnati, Ohio, October 14, 1869; was elected judge of the superior court of Cincinnati in April, 1879; resigned on account of ill health May 1, 1882; was the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio in 1883, but was de feated; was elected to the office in 1885, and re-elected in 1887; was again nominated for governor and defeated in 1889; was chairman of the Republican State Convention of Ohio for 1886, 1890 and 1896, and was a delegate-at-large from Ohio to the national Republican conventions of 1884, 1888, 1892, and 1896; was chairman of the Ohio delegation in the convention of 1884 and 1888, and presented to both of these conventions the name of Hon. John Sherman for nomination for the Presidency; in the conventions of 1892 and 1896 served as chairman of the committee on resolutions; and as such reported the platform each time to the convention; presented the name of William McKinley to the Convention of 1896 for nomination to the presidency; was elected United States Senator, January 15, 1896, to succeed Calvin S. Brice, and took his seat March 4, 1897. He was re-elected January 15, 1902, for the term beginning March 4, 1903, and ending March 3, 1909. THE FIRST CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF THE STATE OF OHIO. T (1802.) HE people of that part of the Northwest Territory now embraced in the boundaries of the State of Ohio, having arrived at a numerical strength sufficient under the Ordinance of 1787 to give them a separate organization, and acting under the Act of Congress of May, 1802, elected representatives to a Constitutional Convention to take the necessary steps for admission into the Union of States. The representatives so elected, met in Chillicothe on the 1st of November, 1802, and completed their labors by the ratification on the 29th of that month of the First Constitution of the State of Ohio. ADAMS COUNTY. Joseph Darlington, Israel Donaldson, and Thomas Kirker. BELMONT COUNTY. James Caldwell and Elijah Woods. CLERMONT COUNTY. Philip Gatch and James Sargent. FAIRFIELD COUNTY. Henry Abrams and Emanuel Carpenter. HAMILTON COUNTY. John W. Browne, Charles Willing Byrd, Francis Dunlavey, William JEFFERSON COUNTY. Rudolph Blair, George Humphrey, John Milligan, Nathan Updegraff, and Bazaleel Wells. ROSS COUNTY. Michael Baldwin, James Grubb, Nathaniel Massie, and Thomas Worthington. TRUMBULL COUNTY. David Abbott and Samuel Huntington. WASHINGTON COUNTY. Ephriam Cutler, Benj. Ives Gilman, John McIntyre and Rufus President of the Convention, Edward Tiffin, of Ross County. It is interesting to note the absence, in this list of 1802, of the names of such counties as Cuyahoga, Franklin, Lucas, Montgomery, Stark, Muskingum and Mahoning, the homes, |