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to the Form inserted in Pages 16th. & 17th. of this Vol: Their Commissions bearing Date January 4th. 1790 --

January the 5th. His Excellency was pleas'd to fix the Terms of the County Courts for the County of Hamilton by the following Proclamation Viz: "Territory of the United States
North West of the River Ohio"
"By his Excellency Arthur St. Clair Esqr.
Governour & Commander in Chief." --
Whereas by the Laws for establishing Courts of general Quarter Sessions of the Peace & County Courts of common Pleas it is enacted that Courts of general Quarter Sessions shall be holden & kept four Times in every Year in each County & the County Courts of common Pleas at two fixed Periods, & having found it necessary to lay out a Part of the Territory between the two Miami Rivers into a new County by the Name & Style of the County of Hamilton I do hereby require & enjoin the Justices of the Peace for the said County to hold their Courts of general Quarter Sessions of the Peace at the Town of Cincinnati on the first Tuesdays in February, May, August, & November next & so on unless the same shall be altered by Law. - And the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas are required and en- joined to hold the County Court of common Pleas at