Tuesday, April 27.
State Government for Ohio.
The Senate resumed the second reading of the bill to enable the people of the Eastern division of the territory north-west of the river Ohio to form a constitution and State government.
On motion, section sixth, to strike out the following words, reported by the committee to be struck out, and which report was amended, as follows:
"Provided, That the convention of the said State shall, on its part, assent that each and every tract of land sold by Congress, from and after the 30th day of June next, shall be and remain exempt from any tax laid by order or under authority of the State, whether for State, county, township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale:"
It passed in the negative—yeas 12, nays 14, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bradley, Brown, Dayton, Dwight, Foster, Howard, J. Mason, Morris, Ogden, Olcott, Tracy, Wells, and White.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Breckenridge, Clinton, Ellery, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, Logan, S. T. Mason, Nicholas, Stone, Sumter, and Wright.
On motion to strike out the words reported by the committee to be struck out of section sixth, and amended as follows:
"Third. That one-twentieth part of the net proceeds of the lands lying within the said State, sold by Congress, from and after the thirtieth day of June next, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be applied to the laying out and making public roads, leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic to the Ohio, or to the navigable waters thereof, and continued through the said State: such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress with the consent of the several States through which the road shall pass:"
It passed in the negative—yeas 12, nays 14, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Bradley, Brown, Dayton, Dwight, Foster, Howard, J. Mason, Morris, Ogden, Olcott, Tracy, Wells, and White.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Breckenridge, Clinton, Ellery, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, Logan, S. T. Mason, Nicholas, Stone, Sumter, and Wright.
On motion to strike out these words, reported by the committee to be struck out of the sixth section:
"Second. That the six miles reservation, including the salt springs, commonly called the Scioto Salt Springs, the salt springs near the Muskingum River, and in the military tract, with the sections of land which include the same, shall be granted to the said State, for the use of the people thereof, the same to be used under such terms, and conditions, and regulations, as the Legislature of the said State shall direct, provided the said Legislature shall never sell nor lease the same for a longer period than ten years:"
It passed in the negative—yeas 8, nays 18, as follows:
Yeas.—Messrs. Brown, Dwight Foster, Howard, J. Mason, Morris, Ogden, Olcott, and Tracy.
Nays.—Messrs. Anderson, Baldwin, Bradley, Breckenridge, Clinton, Dayton, Ellery, T. Foster, Franklin, Jackson, Logan, S. T. Mason, Nicholas, Stone, Sumter, Wells, White, and Wright.
And the bill being further amended, it was ordered to the third reading as amended.