Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1822-02-09

The Ohio, upon the waters of Cumberland river, aud
be tween the Green river aud Tennessee river which
ite been reserved by law for the Virginia troops,
oion continental establishment, oad s,Don their o,ca
st'te establishment, should, from the North Carolina
nae, bearing IN further upon the Cumberland lands
tan expected, prove nsu iicient for thc;r local
boGnueS, the deficiency shall be made up To the said
troops IN good lands, to he laid off between the rivers
ocioIo and Little Miami, ON the north west side of
,iie iNef Ohio IN such proportions as have been
gagged to them 10y The laws of Virginia"
Ahe committee OF Congress to whom those resolu.
uons we're referred, report AS follows SO That they
Rave considered Tie several matters referred to
them, anu observe ,hat the legislature OF Virginia
by tier act OF the I'd OF January 1881 resoly ed thai
they would yield 10 the Congress OF the United States
Tor the benefit Oi the said United States all right IL
ue, ana caiin which the sai wealth hath To
tie land northwest vi the river Ohio upon the fol-
lowing conditons, VIZ The report then reciies The
! Ast, "a, oil, and Hin cOut,t,Us, verbatim Aud re-
siieS tic ON CONDITION, ,crbalim, except that the
Wosis, dsa upon their state establishment, are
Ut, and StA conditions
! The reporl, alter renarking upon the lst I'd and
% conditions, proceeds Ia the folio wing words :
! iour conmtee are further of opinion, that the
th, ON ana olh conditions being reasonable, should
We .'a'seu 10 Ny congress The report then objects
To the "a. and 3th condons and assigns the reasons
/ why.
The export then concludes with these words !:
Aodr committee therefore, upon the whole, re-
commend, that # the leg slure OF Virginia make a
cession conormabe this report, congress accept
s"ch cessioni Ihts report agreed to by con
sfess on the l5i " Sepember 1888, and transmit
| ted 10 Virginia.
IL Is Obvious here, that congress did agree to the
sixth conditlon as first adopted 10y Vrgina, without
any amendment whatever, and that the omission OF
Tue words and upon their state establishment"
was mere inad'erienee of the clerk the commit
Tee And 1t may lie fairly presumed, that the com.
m'ee Vi TIE legislature, who framed the OF ces-
sion, seeing thai The lst, ID 3i, 4th 5tii and 9th con-
ditions were agreed by congres, us reasonable mud
" oeins asreeu 10 give up 7h and 9i, conditions
ooted l'e ''n condition from the report OF the com
'ee ~ Congress, instead OF referring hack their
own issliAi resolution and IN doing so copied the
error vi the clerk of the committee OF Conures.
linus The hears OF many gallant soldiers who Tell in
battle, have been cut OF without one aero of honn,v
land.
i, That 1t was believed by the General Assembly.
winch e'iactei tnc act oil cesSion, that they were
'NHS reservation 'or the state line, is apparent,
tonl the lact that at tie session they enactar
the law Tor surveying the military lands which di-
reefs tie superintendent Of The state line as well as
ose o! the continental line, after surveying all the
good lands OH the east side OF the Ohio to prueec ed
to survey upon the west side of the Ohio, until all de-
hc'ency shall be made up. This act passed before
the act OF ctssio, II IL trne but alter the resolutions
OF congress were transmitted 10 The legislature II
,:y thing can he MIA ined which could make the in
Justice done to the troops the line appear more
glaring, It Is 10 be tOd the following facts i'm Dec
'oo' me depuiaiions OF officers part oi their
respective lines, 10 prevent any interference which
niSht occur between made by different s,,r-
veyorS, keeping different officers surveying in the
same tract o country, agreed to make partition OF
them Jointly by line beginning at Il given point on
Cuuiberiand nNer and running to Big Barren river
All the lands lying the north side of that line and
west ol Big Darrcn river, We're 10 be surveyed The
continental line al south that line and Cumber.
land r'ter and all east oi Big Barren river were TO be
: surveyed tor tie state line. Much of the land eas
o! BIZ Barren river is of but tle value very liule
I OF that between Cumberland and Tennessee is ii
Tor ouitivation. There is but narrow srip be,yeen
ne line OF partition and the North Carolina line II
was then believed that the valuable part of the
lands assigned 10 the stale line, were those west of
tennessee river. But IN l7G, ;Iie government of the
- States, tor purposes OF national policy coded the
lands west OF the Tennessee TO the Chckasaw In
uES taus, no, only excluding the troops OF the stale
iae iron the lands intended for them west of Ohio
upon very nice and technical distinction or AZ
most "A palpablc mistake hut also taking from them
The lands which Virginia had reserved for them an
the east side OF the OHIO Those lands have remain
edin possession OF the ndi.ns SINCE until 1918
and aow Kentucky claims all that were not located
before the first day o. My, 1892.
. BY employing agent, II the public expense to
attend 10 portion OF the claims OF the state line The
tSislature has manifested solcitude for h, protec
tion oil the rights OF iIat much injured part ofthe
army.
: have deemed II my duty, TO put the goyernmeoi
IN possession OF ihe facts stated i'm this conmunica
t'on That the legislature mily judge how far the no.
nor and intel est of the state are concerned
4 lac tedious researclI among the archives of The
5 executive and legislative departments which was
, necGssaIy. III learning the whole history of tbesp
claims, viii, hope, be received as an apolopv far
D deierrins 10 make this communication so soon as
could have wished
Very respectfully, your obi sse.y't,,
e }. 5. HERRING.
His E,rceLis,cy, Thomas N. Randolph,
Gocr"orof Virgi H..
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