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Act Recognizing the State of Ohio-1803

Act Recognizing the State of Ohio-1803.      163

 

ACT OF CONGRESS RECOGNIZING THE STATE OF

OHIO - 1803.

 

An act to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States

within the State of Ohio.

Whereas the people of the eastern division of the territory

northwest of the river Ohio did, on the twenty-ninth day of No-

vember, one thousand eight hundred and two, form for them-

selves a constitution and State government, and did give to the

said State the name of the "State of Ohio," in pursuance of an

act of Congress entitled "An act to enable the people of the east-

ern division of the territory northwest of the Ohio to form a con-

stitution and State government, and for the admission of such

State into the Union on an equal footing with the original States,

and for other purposes," whereby the said State has become one

of the United States of America; in order, therefore, to provide

for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the

said State of Ohio-

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of

Representatives of the United States of America in Congress as-

sembled, That all the laws of the United States which are not

locally inapplicable shall have the same force and effect within

the said State of Ohio as elsewhere within the United States.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said State shall

be one district and be called the Ohio district, and a district court

shall be held therein, to consist of one judge, who shall reside

in the said district, and be called a district judge. He shall hold

at the seat of government of the said State three sessions annu-

ally; the first to commence on the first Monday in June next,

and the two other sessions progressively on the like Monday of

every fourth calendar month afterwards, and he shall, in all things,

have and exercise the same jurisdiction and powers which are by

law given to the judge of the Kentucky district; he shall appoint

a clerk for the said district, who shall reside and keep the records

of the court at the place of holding the same, and shall receive for

the services performed by him the fees to which the clerk of the

Kentucky district is entitled for similar services.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That there shall be al-