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History Day Guide 2003 --
Ohio Law and Government
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Manuscripts State Archives
Audiovisuals Published Materials
Manuscripts: Journals, letters, ledgers and diaries.
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MSS 128 | Backus-Woodbridge Family Papers. 1731-1894.
Correspondence and financial records tracing four generations of Backus' and Woodbridges and the development of the Northwest Territory, including items related to the Ohio Land Company and conditions of pioneer life.
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MSS 248 | Northwest Territory Collection. 1781-1802.
Executive proceedings, laws, general and special legislative acts and other official papers and records. Includes memoranda of the Ohio Territory.
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MSS 356 | Greene, Jacob J. Letter, 1850 May 27.
Letter of May 27, 1850 from J.J. Green, editor of the Defiance Democrat and delegate to the 1850-51 Ohio Constitutional Convention, to [Willam] Carter regarding news and views of the Ohio Constitutional Convention, 1850-1851.
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VFM 4930 | Arthur St. Clair Papers.
Correspondence, speeches, business records and miscellaneous documents of St. Clair relating to such subjects as the French and Indian War, land transactions, the Revolutionary War and Northwest Territory affairs.
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VFM 4946 | Northwest Territory. General Assembly. 1801.
Standing Rules and Orders of the House of Representatives of the Territory of the United States Northwest of the Ohio, 1801 Nov. 25.
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State Archives: Local and state government records.
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Series 418 |
Auditor. Land Office. Steubenville Land Office. Acts, Circulars, and Letters
Establishing the Steubenville Land Office. 1800-1840.
Records establishing the land office and other records explaining procedures for entering, registering and accounting for land sales. Includes copy of the Land Law of 1800, which established the first land offices in the Northwest Territory.
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Series 1124 |
Ohio Constitutional Convention. 1912. Biographical Sketches of the Delegates, 1912.
Arranged alphabetically by delegate name.
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Series 1126 |
Ohio. Constitutional Convention. 1912. Minutes, 1912.
Contains Transcripts of Debates and Results of Votes on Particular Proposals.
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Series 1317 |
Ohio. Constitutional Convention. Journal 1802.
Contains two copies (one original, one with corrections) of the journal of the 1802 Ohio Constitutional Convention. The journal records the convention's day-to-day proceedings, noting motions, names of delegates, and voting information.
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Series 1458 |
Ohio. Constitutional Convention. 1912. Scrapbooks, 1912.
Contains clippings, lists of delegates, brief biographical sketches of delegates, and a copy of constitution created
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Series 2676 |
Ohio. Secretary of State. Amendments to the State Constitution Proposed in Constitutional Convention and Adopted, 1912.
Arranged by article to be amended, then by section
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Series 2687 |
Ohio. Constitutional Convention. Journal 1850.
Lists motions, proposing delegate, and whether or not the motion passed. Also includes names of delegates and how they voted.
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Audiovisuals: Photographs, video and film footage,
and audio recordings.
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P 80 | Ohio. Constitutional Convention. 1912.
Convention delegates, officers, and employees.
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P 161 | Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial. 1938
Sesquicentennial parade in Marietta, OH, Schoenbrun Village in Schoenbrun State Park, aerial view of Ohio River, re-enactment of the landing of the first settlers at Marietta, historic homes in Marietta.
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P 197 | Northwest Territory Sesquicentennial - Portsmouth, OH, 1938.
Sesquicentennial celebration in Portsmouth, including the school parade, the Colonial Ball and the river
boat parade on the Ohio River
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Published Materials: Books, periodicals, and pamphlets.
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342.7711 Oh3c, 1912 | Ohio. Secretary of State.
The Constitution of the State of Ohio: and the Several Amendments Submitted at the Election held September 3, 1912, with the Proclamation of the Governor and the Vote by Counties on Each Amendment/ Published by Charles H. Graves, Secretary of State.
Columbus, Ohio: F.J. Heer Printing Co., 1912.
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V 342.7712 Oh3J 1827 | Northwest Territory.
Journal of the Convention, of the Territory of the United States North-west of the Ohio, Begun and Held at Chillicothe, on Monday the First Day of November, A. D., 1802, and of the Independence of the United States the Twenty-Seventh..
Columbus, George Nashee, State Printer, 1827.
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342.7713 R953 | Ryan, Daniel J.
The First Constitutional Convention, and its Effect on the History of Ohio. An Address by Daniel J. Ryan, at Chillicothe, Ohio, November 29, 1902, on the Occasion of the Centennial of the Adoption of the First Constitution of Ohio, by the Constitutional Convention at Chillicothe, November 29, 1802. .
Columbus, O., The Berlin Printing Company, 1902.
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V 345.12 N891L 1792 | Northwest Territory
Laws Passed in the Territory of the United States North-west of the River Ohio: From the Commencement of the Government to the 31st of December, 1791. .
Philadelphia: Printed by Francis Childs and John Swaine, 1792.
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V 345.12 Oh 34I 1837 | Mills, Zechariah.
An Index to All the Laws and Resolutions of the State of Ohio: Including the Laws Adopted and Enacted by the Governor and
and Judges, and the Territorial Legislature; From the Commencement of the Territorial Government, to the Year 1835-6, Inclusive. Arranged Alphabetically, According to their Various Titles. Published by Order of the General Assembly. .
Columbus: S. Medary, Printer to the State, 1837.
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345.9771 P277 | Patterson, Isaac Franklin.
The Constitutions of Ohio, Amendments, and Proposed Amendments, Including the Ordinance of 1787, the Act of Congress Dividing the Northwest territory, and the Acts of Congress Creating and Recognizing the State of Ohio, Complete Original texts, with Historical Data, Records of the Vote Cast, Contemporary Newspaper Comment, Detailed Comparisons and Historical Introduction.
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Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1968.
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923.723 C769 | Flood, Charles B. and Fisher, E. Burke.
The Convention and its Men. A Serial..
Columbus, S. Medary's Steam Press, 1850.
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V 977 N819a 1802 | Northwest Territory.
An Act Declaring the Assent of the Territory North-west of the River Ohio to an Alteration in the Ordinance for the Government Thereof: Passed on the 21st day of December, 1801. .
Washington, D.C.: s.n., 1802
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977.02 M615H 1988 | Miller, James C.
A History of Ohio's Northwest Ordinance and United States Constitution Bicentennial Commission: 1986 - 1987 - 1988. .
Columbus: Ohio Northwest Ordinance and United States Constitution Bicentennial Commission, 1988.
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977. 1 G131h v.1 | Galbreath, Charles Burleigh.
[Ohio] as Part of the Northwest Territory..
History of Ohio. Chicago, New York, The American Historical Society, inc., 1925. v. 1, p. 153-277.
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977.1981 D56c | Dickson, Cornelius Evarts.
The Contribution of the Marietta Settlement to the History of the United States.
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PA BOX 277 5 | Ohio. Constitutional Convention. (1912). Committee on Judiciary and Bill of Rights.
Ordinance of 1787. Columbus, 1912..
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