April 26, 1802.
The Message and documents therein referred to were read, and ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate.
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.