Boardman, also of the State Library, who has helped in the discovery of some particulars that were hard to find. Finally, the author's thanks are due to the general editor of the series for many valuable suggestions, and to Dr. Edgar H. McNeal for assistance in reading the proof sheets. If this volume shall be found valuable as a guide for the general reader interested in the government and political institutions of Ohio, and, at the same time, adapted to the needs of the students of civil government in our schools, it will have fulfilled the purposes for which it was written. W. H. S. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, COLUMBUS, O. The above was written in 1903. The publication of this volume has been delayed to the present in order to make the changes in the text necessitated by the revision of the school code, election laws, etc., by the legislature of last winter. OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY, August 30, 1904. W. H. S. CONTENTS § 1. References. § 2. Colonial Claims to the West. § 3. Indian Occupants of the Ohio Country. § 4. Early English and American Settlements. § 5. Acquisition of the Northwest Territory by the United States. § 6. Congressional Measures for the Development of the Northwest Territory. § 7. Organization of the Terri- torial Government. § 8. The Territorial Government § 10. References. § 11. Organization of the Government under the First Constitution. § 12. The Ohio-Michi- gan Boundary Dispute. § 13. Progress of Ohio to 1851. § 14. Development of County and Township Government. § 15. Clash between the Legislative and Judicial Departments of the State. § 16. Repeal of the Black Laws. § 17. New Arrangements under the Second Constitution. § 18. The Civil and Criminal Codes, and the Revised Statutes. § 19. County, Town- |