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that event, at such ratio that the whole
number of representatives shall never be
'"' nor exceed seventy two.
Sec. 3 The representatives shall be cho
e". '',"','> by 'he citizens of each county
rdp^vely, on the fecund Tuefday of Oc
tuber. J
S,c. 4. No person (hall be a representa
tive, who (hail not have attained the age of
twenty-five years, and be a citizen of the
, States and an inhabitant of the date ;
2' a "° '"' refilled, within the limits of
rhe county in which he (hall be chosen, one
f° ar next preceding his election, unless he
ihall have been absent on the public busi
ness of the United States or of this Hate, and
fball have paid a state or county tax.
„ Sec. 5. The senators (hall be chosen bien
nially by the qualified voters for representa
tives ; and on their being convened in con
sequence of the firft election, they shall be
divided by lot, from their refpe&ive coun,
ties or diftri&s, as near as can be, into two
classes ; the feats of the Senators of firft class
Hull be vacated at the expiration of the firft
year, and of the second class at the expira
•' the second year, so that one half thereof,
2s near as poflible, may be annually chosen
forever thereafter.
Sec. 6. 1 he number of Senators shall, at
the several periods of making the enumera
tion before mentioned, be fixed by the legif
'ature and apportioned among the several
counties or diftrias to be established by law
according to the number of white male in
habitants of the age of twenty one years in
each, and shall never be less than one third
nor more than one half of the number of re
presentatives.
Sec. 7. No person shall be a senator who
has not arrived at the age of thirty years,
and is a citizen of the United States, (hall
have resided two years in the county or dis
tria immediately preceding the eleaion, un
less he fliall have been absent on the public
business of the United States, or of this state
and (hall moreover have paid a Rate or coun
ty tax.
Sec. 8. The Senate and House of Repre
sentatives, when aflembled, Ihalleach choose
a speaker and its other officers, be judges of
the qualifications and elections of its mem
bers and fit upon its own adjournments, two
thirds of each house shall cenftitute a quo
rum to do business, but a smaller number
may adjourn from day to day, and compel
the attendance of absent members.
Sec. 9. Each house shall keep a journal
of its proceedings and publish them ; the
yeas and nays of the members, on any quef
tion ihall at the desire of any two of them,
be entered on the journals.
Sec. io. Any two members of either
house shall have liberty to dissent from and
protest against any a& or resolution which
they may think injurious to the public or
any individual, and have the reasons of their
dissent entered on the journals.
Sec. 11. Each house may determine the
rules of its proceedings, punifh'its members
for disorderly behaviour, and with the con
currence of two thirds, expel a member, but
not a second time for the fame cause, and
ihall have all other powers necessary for a
branch of the legislature of a free, and inde
pendent state.
Sec. 12. When vacancies happen in ei
ther house, the Governor, or the person ex
ercising the power of the Governor, shall is
sue writs of ele&ion to fill such vacancies.
Sec. I, Senators and Representatives
shall, in all cases except treason, felony or
breach of the peace, be privileged from ar
rest during the session of the general aflem
bly and in going to and returning from the
fame and for any speech or debate in either
house they shall not be questioned in any o
,ther place.
Sec. 14. Each house may punish, by im
prisonment during their session any person
not a member, who shall be guilty of difref
pea to the house by any disorderly or con
temptuous behaviour ip their presence, pro
vided such imprisonment shall not any one
time, exceed twenty-four hours.
Sec. 15. The doors of each house and of
committees of the whole flhall be kept open,
except in such cases as in the opinion of the
house require secrecy. Neither house shall,
without the consent of the other, adjourn for
more than two days nor to any other placet
than that in which the two houses (hall be
fitting.
Sec. 16. Bills may originate in either
house, but may be altered, amended or re
jeded by the other.
Sec. 17. Every bill shall be read on three
different days in each house, unless in case of
urgency three fourths of the house where
fiich bill is so depending shall deem it expe
dient to difpence with this rule ; And every
bill having passed both houses, (hall be sign
ed by the speakers of their refpedive hou
ses.
Sec. 18. The ftilc of the laws of the state
(hall be, " Be it enabled by the general as
sembly of the State of Ohio."
Sec. 19. The legislature of this state Shall
not allowrtfefellowing officers of govern
mant greater Mi^ual Salaries than as follows,
until the year ofie thousand eight hundred
and eight, to wit ; The Governor not more
than one thousand dollars ; the judges of the
supreme court not mote than one thousand
dollars each ! the presidents of the courts of
common pleas notmare than eight hundred
dollars each ; the secretary of state not
more than five hundred dollars ; the auditor
of public accounts not more than seven
hundred and fifty dollars ; the treasurer not
more than four hundred and fifty dollars ;
No member of the legislature shall receive
more than two dollars per day ; during his
attendance on the legislature, nor more for
every twenty-five miles he shall travel in go
ing and returning from the general assem
bly.
Sec. 20. No Senator or Representative
shall, during the time for which he shall
have been ele&ed, be appointed to any civil
office under this state which (ball have been
created, or the emoluments of which shall
have been increased, during such time.
Sec. 21. No money shall be drawn from
the treasury, but in consequence of appro
priations made by law.
Sec. 22. An accurate flatement of the re
ceipts and expenditures of the public money,
shall be attached to and publifned with the
laws annually.
Sec. 23. The House of Representatives
shall have the sole power of impeaching, but
a majority of all the members must concur
in an impeachment ; all impeachments shall
be tried by the Senate, and when fitting for
that purpose, the Senators shall be upon oath
or affirmation to do justice according to law
and evidence ; no person shall be convicted
without the concurrence of two-thirds of all
the Senators.
Sec. 24 The Governor and all other civil
officers under this state, shall be liable to im
peachment for any misdemeanor in office,but
judgment in such cases shall not extend fur
ther than removal from office and difqualifi
cation to hold any office of honor, profit or
trust, under this state. The party whether
convi&ed or acquitted, shall nevertheless be
liable to indidment, trial, judgment and
puniihmeat, according to law.
Sec. 25. The firft session of the general
assembly (hall commence on the firft Tuef
day of March next, and forever after the
general assembly shall meet on the firft Mon
day of December in every year, and at no
other period, unless directed by law or pro
vided for by this conflitution.
Sec. 26. No judge of any court of law or
equity, secretary of state, attorney ganeral,
regiftcr, clerk of any court of record, fheriff
or collector, member of either house of
Congress, or person holding any office under
the authority of the United States, or any
lucrative office under the authority of this
Hate, (provided that appointments Tn the
militia or justices of the peace shall not be
considered lucrative offices) shall be eligible
as a candidate for, or have a feat in, the
general assembly.
Sec. 27. No person shall be appointed to
any office, within any county, who shall not
have been a citizen and inhabitant therein,
one year next before his appointment, if the
county shall have been so long erected, but
if the county shall not have been so long
erected, then within the limits of the county
or counties out of which it shall have been
taken.
Sec. 28. No person who heretofore hath
been, or hereafter may be, a collector or hol
der of public monies, shall have a feat in
either Iroufe of the general assembly, until
such person shall have accounted for and
paid into the treasury, all sums for which he
may be accountable or liable.
Sec. I. The supreme executive power of
this state shall be vefled in a Governor.
Sec. 2. The Governor shall be chosen
by the electors of the members of the gene
ral assembly, on the second Tuefday of Oc
tober, at the fame places and in the fame
manner that they ihall refpe&ively vote for
members thereof. The returns of every e
leaion forgovernor (hall be sealed tip and
transmitted tothe feat of goverment by the
returning officers, dirded to the speaker of
the Senate, who (hall open and publish them
in the presence of a majority of the mem-,
bers of each house of the general assembly ;
the person having the highest number of votes
(hail be governor ; but if two or more ihall
be equal and highest in votes, one of them
ihall be chosen governor by joint ballot of
both houses of the general assembly. Con
tested elections for governor ihall be deter
mined by both boules of the general assem
bly, in such manner as ihall be prescribed
by law.
Sec. 3. The firft governor shall hold his
office until the firft Monday of December,
one thousand eight hundred and five, and un
til another Governor shall be elected and
qualified to office, and forever after the
Governor (hall hold his office for the term
of tWo years and until another governor shall
be eledfed and qualified, but he shall not be
eligible more than fix years in any term of
eight years. —He shall be at lead thirty years
of of age, and have been a citizen of the Uni-
Article 11.
ted States twelve yeats, and an inhabitant of
this dale four years next preceding his elec
tion.
Sec. 4. He shall, from time to time, give
to the general assembly information of the
state of the government, and recommend to
their confederation such mcafures as he shall
deem expedient.
Sec. 5. He shall have the power to grant
reprieves and pardons after conviction, ex
cept in cases of impeachment.
Sec. 6. The Governor shall, at dated
times, receive for his services, a compenfa
tion&which shall neither be increased nor
diminished during the term for which he
shall have been denied.
Sec. 7. He may require informrtion, in
writing, from the officers in the executive
department upon any fubjedt relating to the
duties of their refpe&ive offices, and shall
take care that the laws be faithfully execu
ted.
(The remainder of the foregoing in cur next.)
SEVENTH CONGRESS Second Session.
HOUSE— Wednesday, Dec. 22.
THE MINT. —Mr. Randolph renewed the mo
tion which was negatived yelterday, for going in
to committee, on the mint. He contended that
the establishment was useless and expensive, and
ought to be abolished. He was fopported by Mr.
Smilie.
Messrs. Gregg, Southard, Grfwold, Loundes,
Dennis, and Huger, were opposed to the motion.
They wished to wait the annual report of the Di
rector of the Mint, which is usually made on the
firft monday in January.
Mr. Gregg moved to peftpone the fubjeß to
the second monday in January, which pafied—
Ayes 57; Noes 28.
Mr. S. Smith from the com. of commerce and
manuf. made a favorable report on the petition
of John Holland, which was referred to the com.
of the utole and made the order of the Day for
tomorrow.
A message was received from the President of
the United flares.
The message is as fallows:
“ Gentlemen of the house of Representatives
" I now transmit a report of the Secretary of
State with the information requeued in your re
solution of the 17th inst.
“In making this communication, I deem it
proper to observe that I was led by the regard
due to the rights and interests of the UnitedStaies,
and to the just feufibility of the portion of our
fellow citizens more immediotely effected by the
irregular proceedings at New-Orleans, to life
not a moment in causing every Rep to be taken
which the occasion claimed from me : being a
ware of the obligation to maintain, in all cases,
the rights of the nation, and to employ for that
purpose those just and honorable means which be
long to the character of the U. States.
Dec. 22, 1802. Th JEFFERSON.
The message is accompanied by letters from
our Consul at New Orleans; the proclamation of
the intendant ; a letter from the governor of the
IVlTinnppi Territory to the secretary ot 3taie cn
clofing a letter written to the Governor of Loui
siana ; and a letter from the Governor of Ken
tucky to the President.
Mr. T. Morris, fubm : tted a resolution inftrutt
ing the coin, of ways and means to enquire whe
ther any and what alterations are necessary in the
aft supplementary to the att laying a direct tax.
He dated his obje& to be, the pofiponement of
the time of felling lands for the non payraent of
taxes; the necessity of which arose from the con
futed manner in which the afleffment had been
made in a part of the date which he represented.
Agreed to.
On motion of Mr. S. Smith the house resolved
itfelf into a committee of the whole—Mr.Varnum
in the chair—on the 4
“ Bill to allow a drawback of duties on goods export-
ed to New-Orleans ; and therein to amend the
a# entitled, “ Ms aft to regulate the collection of
duties on imports and tonnage."
« Be it enacted, &c. That “ the debentures for
drawbacks of duties on goods, wares and mer
chandize which have been exported from the U.
S. previous to tiie 6th of February 1800, for the
port of New Orleans, on the River Miffifippi, may
be paid at the refpeftive offices of the customs
on the terms and conditions prescribed by law in
cases of exportation, for the benefit of drawback,
to any foreign port or place other than the do
minions of a foreign state, immediately adjoining
the U. 3.
After some debate the house took tip the report
and ore the question of engrossing the bill for the
third reading, the house divided, ayes 34, nays 34.
The Speaker declaring himfelf in the negative, the
bill was 1011.
The committee of claims reported that the
prayer of the petition of Edward Barnes ought
not to be granted. Agreed to.
Thursday, Dec. 2g.
The Speaker laid beforethe house the following
Letter and accompanying address:
Chillicothe, Nov. 27, 1802.
Hon. Sir,
Inclofed you will receive an address from the,
convention lately convened at this place, for the
purpose of forming a Constitution and State Gov
ernment, for the seventeenth State of United A
merica, and which has been made my duty to in
clofe to you to be communicated to the femora-;
ble body over which you preside.
With every Sentiment of refpeft, I have the
honor to be, Sir, your most obt. fvt.
Edward Tiffin.
To the Hon. the Speaker, and House
of Representatives of the U. S.
To tire President and both Houses of Congress of
the United States.
THE Convention of the State of Ohio, duly ap
preciating the importance of a free and indepen
dent Rate government, and imprefled with fen
tinients of gratitude to the Congress of the Unit
ed States, for the prompt and decisive mefatires
taken at their lad feffiou to enable the people of
the. North Western Territory to emerge from the
Colonial Government, and to affbme a rank a
mong the filter Rates, beg leave to take the earlielt
Congees of toetiniteb ^tatcs.
opportunity of announcing to you this important
event.
Ou this occasion I cannot help cxpreffing their
unequivocal approbation of the measures porlocd
by the prelent administration of the general gov
ernment, and of both houses of Congrets, in di
minishing the public burthens, cultivating peace
with all nations, and promoting the happiness
and prosperity Os the country.
Refolded, that the President of this convention
do inclofe to the President of the United
States, to the president of the Senate, and thr
speaker of the House of Representatives of the
U. S. the foregoing address.
Edward Tiffin, President of the
Convention.
Done in the Convention at Chillicothe ,
the 27th day of Nov. 1802. ,
Thomas Scott, Secretary.
On motion of Mr. Randolph, the above coni-*
munication was referred to a feleft com. of fi>e.
Mr. Dawson submitted two resolutions ; the
one providing by law for the eflablifhment of post
roads within the United States; the ether for ap
propriating the refiduaty funds of the post office
for fixing and improving the post roads. Order
ed to he on the table.
Mr. Green moved a reflation, inflrufting the
committee of Comrtierce and manu. to enquire
into the expediency of providing by law for fix
ing the port of entry for the Miflifippi Territory
at Fort Adams, and the port of delivery at the
Natchez. Ordered to lie on the table.
From the Chronicle.
E.4NK SHARES.
The frivolous nonfence of the Centinel upon tire
fubjett of the bank (bares would not again be
brought into view, were we not aware that a
large proportion of its readers, from their various
avocations, are neceffa-ily precluded from tha*.
share of information which falls to tie lot of molt
mercantile men. If the appeal in the infiance of
felling the bank (hares, by the Secretary of the
Treasury, could be confined who!ly to the decision
of the well-informed among this latter class, while
they could not refrain Jmiling nt the felly and
arrogance of the editor of the Centinel, they would
be constrained to pronounce this tranfaftion a
measure dictated by every motive of found policy,
and by the bigheft interests of the United States.
It seems as if the Centinel was determined to be
as uniformly incorrect, in repeating what has been
flared in the Chronicle, as it is in its reasoning and
information. We did not fay 50 per cent, advance
was the " current price of bank (hares," according
to the Centinel of Wednesday lab ; but that it was
the “ outside or highest price which any large sum
in bank (hares would command." It is true the
exprellions in the Chronicle fairly implied, that
the Secretary bad realized 50 per cent, advance
upon the sale, although the denominative price
was forty-five. But the candid editor of the Cen
tinel has taken care to omit the essential part of
the statement, viz. That the mode of payment
which was received for these shares, confined in
bills at two cents in a guilder, or in forty cents,
under the market price of exchange upon Holland,
which made a difference of nearest to 5 per cent,
to be added to the 45.
For the fake of exhibiting the strength of one of
the major's Prong arguments, when he measured
the price of 2,220 bank shares, amounting to one
million fix hundred thousand dollars, by the Mar
foal's sale at Boston, of two or three solitary shares ;
a recent faft shall be Rated, which will at once
shew what is due to the forefight of Mr. Gallatin.
It x@s hut a few months finre, rhe government
of the United States wanted about forty thousand
dollars in bills upon London. Since the peace in
Europe, it is well known, the price of bills drawn
directly upon Amfterdsm has been higher in the
market than those of exchange on London. At
the time the government commenced its purchases,
the rate of good bills of exchange on London flood
generally for ready ffibney at 2 per cent, belo #
par : ft was no sooner circulated that the govern
ment had came into the market to purchase, than
the price almost ißOantaneonfly rose to 2 per cent,
above par, and at this disadvantageous loss of 4 per
cent, the government aerially supplied itfelf. 1 he
effect did not end here, for a ship owner in this
town, from this single operation of the government
was enabled just before his ship failed, to command
the high price of 5 per cent, above par in his bills.
Now, major, it a government demand of 40,000
dollars, would faife the market value as high as
4 per cent, upon exchange ; to what sum would
a demand from the fame quarter of thirty times as
nruclr, of of 1,260,000 dollars (the amount taken
in bills of Mr. Baring) raise the price ?— But the
intelligent,merchant, & not the uninformed editor
of the Centime), mull answer.
One hundred dollars in bank stock, yielding an
interefl of 9 per cent, which can be converted
into a capital of 145 dollars, yields in effect an in
terefl only of 6d. 300:5. Now 145 dlls, will pur
chase, at diets. per©ilder, 353 guiders ; which
at the legal exchange of 40 cis. is 141 dlls. 2octs,
bearing interest at 6 per cent, and of qourfe re
quiring ,d. 6crs. to difeharge the annual premium
on that amount. A merchant who owes a debt
of i4rdlls. zocts. in Holland, at 5 per cent# inter
est, and difeharges it by bank flock fold at 45 per
cent, advance, which invested in exchange at qr
cts. per guilder, will GAIN in the tranfaßion a
saving of 1-4 per cent, per ann. and an accumula
tion in capital of4i dlls. 2octs. per centum.
Any citizen who has a serious wi4h to reduce
his debts, and can have a chance of making huh
an arrangement, is advised by all means ro avail
himfelf of the occasion. As to the fiddle fuddle
Ruffof the current advance of bank (hares being
52 or 53 per cent, for any large quantity thrown
into the market ; it is believed that negotiations
on those terms are made no where but in the fluc
tuating exchange of major Bobadil's brain, or per
haps in the weekly price current of the Bolton
Gazette; and whoever adopts that for his mer
cantile vade mecum, will find it a sure and short
direction to....Scollay's buildings !
The rapid fubfeription for the publication
ofOLD SOUTH, in a handsome octavo
volume, not only in this State, but through- ,
out the United States, will probably enable
us to begin the work at an earlier period
than at firft proposed. The price to frb
fcribers is 6f. bound in boards, to non-sub
scribers 7/6.
Conscious of the propriety of the princi
ples advanced, and in order to silence anoni-
Omitted Last Week.