24th CONGRESS No. 1582 2d SESSION
APPLICATION OF OHIO FOR THAT PORTION OF THE LAND GRANTED FOR THE MIAMI CANAL AND AFTERWARD SOLD BY THE UNITED STATES
COMMUNICATED TO THE SENATE, FEBRUARY 7, 1837
To the Senate and House of Representatives, in Congress assembled:
The general assembly of the State of Ohio would respectfully represent, that, by an act of Congress, approved May 24, 1828, there was granted to the State of Ohio a quantity of land equal to one half of five sections on each side of a canal to be constructed from Dayton to the Maumee river, at the mouth of Auglaise, on certain conditions, which were to be complied with on the part of the State. By an act of the general assembly, passed December 31, 1831, the State pledged herself to carry into effect the act of Congress before named, by authorizing the selection, sale and application of the proceeds of said lands to the construction of the Miami canal. Since the passage of the act of the general assembly before referred to, and the selection of lands made in accordance with its provisions, (and the act of Congress donating said lands,) in lieu of lands previously sold by the United States, within five miles of said canal, the general government has sold a quantity of said land, the avails of which have passed into the Treasury of the United States, instead of being appropriated to the construction of the Miami canal, according to the provisions of the act of Congress donating them for that express purpose. The general assembly, therefore, ask of Congress the passage of an act authorizing the State of Ohio to select from any lands belonging to the United States within said State, a quantity of land equal to the amount sold by the United States, that properly belonged to the State of Ohio, according to the act of Congress granting lands to the State of Ohio to aid said State in the construction of the Miami canal.
Resolved by the general assembly of the State of Ohio, That the governor of this State be requested to transmit a copy of the foregoing memorial, and of this resolution, to each of our senators and representatives in Congress, and that they be requested to use all honorable and proper exertions to obtain an act of Congress for the purpose therein set forth.
WILLIAM MEDILL, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ELIJAH VANCE, Speaker of the Senate.
January 3, 1837.
