Laws of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio : adopted and published at a session of the legislature begun in the town of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton and territory aforesaid, upon the 23rd day of April in the year of Our Lord 1798 and continued by adjournments to the seventh day of May in the same year . demand and take anyof the fees fiereln or in tiic aforesaid law be/oroascertained when the business for vxhichsuclifees is chargabie shall not have been actuallyPenalty for talc- done and performed such officer for every suching other than oficnce shall on convicti


Laws of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio : adopted and published at a session of the legislature begun in the town of Cincinnati, county of Hamilton and territory aforesaid, upon the 23rd day of April in the year of Our Lord 1798 and continued by adjournments to the seventh day of May in the same year . demand and take anyof the fees fiereln or in tiic aforesaid law be/oroascertained when the business for vxhichsuclifees is chargabie shall not have been actuallyPenalty for talc- done and performed such officer for every suching other than oficnce shall on conviction thereof before anylegal fees court of rccord for the proper county forfeit and pay to ihe party injured fifty dollars. It shall andmay be lawful for any person to refuse paymentBills of cons ^^ ^^^^ ^^ ^y officer who will not make out adetail required bill of particulars signed by him if required andalso a recei|;)t or discharge signed by him ofthe fees paid 1 he foregoing is hereby declared to be a lavwof the Territory in TESTIMONY whereof weWinthrop SargenS John Cleves Symmes JosephCilman and Beliirn Jonathan Meigs]umoi havecaused the seal of the Territory to be thereuntoaffixed and signed the same with our naraea(Signed) * TVinthrop Sargent ** John Cleves Symmes * Joseph Gilmaa *» JJelum Jonathan Me/gs junior** 11) ^. TERRITORY of the UNITED STATES 1^30RTH WEST of the RlVEIl OHIO i A LAW for ihe purpose of ^ all unsettled and un-i/iiprouad tracts or parcels cfland and sahlectinr^ tlieiii totaxation adopted Jrotn an actof the state of Kentucky andpublished at Cincinnati thefirst day of May one thous^and seven hundred and nine-ty ei^ht by Winthrop Sargentcictinijr as Goi-ernor and o John Cieves Symmes Joseph? Giiman and Return Jona-than Meigs junior Judges S^c I TpHEM shall be paid within this Ter-?^ ritory the following taxes for everyliundredacres of unimproved uncleared prairie orwood land the foUov^^ing sums according to thefollowing classes The land shall be


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