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 . onfinement in the jail of the county lawhich the offence is committed brany time notless than one month nor more than six monthsand shall also pay a fine not less than fifty dol-Aad fine iars and not exceeding one thousand dollars one fourth of which shall be to th
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 . onfinement in the jail of the county lawhich the offence is committed brany time notless than one month nor more than six monthsand shall also pay a fine not less than fifty dol-Aad fine iars and not exceeding one thousand dollars one fourth of which shall be to the use of the Terri-tory and three fourths thereof to the iise of theparty grieved and for want oi the means of pay-ment the offender shall be sold Sfo service by thecourt before which he is convicted for any timenot exceeding five years the purchaser findinghim food and raiment during the term The foregoing is hereby declared to be a lawof the Territory in TESllMONY whereof weW inthrop Sargent John Clevss Symmes JosephOilman and Return Jonathan Meigs juniorhave caused the seal of the Territory to be there-unto affixed and signed the same with our (Signed) ** IVinthrop Sargent* ** John Clei^es Symmes* *» Joseph Gilman ** Renirn Jonathen Mei^s junioff 191 TERRITORY *P^7HC UNITED STATE*? ) OHIO 5 NOaiH WEST c? THE RIVER. ^ LAW i^e^^ certain pow-ers^ in justices of peace case.; adopted fromihe Massachusetts Code andpublished at Cincinnati tjiefirst day of May one thous-and seven, hundred andninety eight ^^WinthropSargent actim» a:? Governorand ]ohn. ClevesSymmes Jo-seph Gilma n and Return Jon-dilhan. Meigs Junior Jf/dges ^^ HAT it shall be wiihln I he power and bo* the duly of every justice of peacewithin his county to punish by such line as isby the statiite lavi;s of th-3 Territoiy providedall assaiilis and batteries that are not of a highsnd aggravated nature and to cause to be stayedand arrested all affrayers rioters ^^nd disturbersand breakers ol
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