United States, or militia in actual service, shall be subject to corporal punishment under the military law.

Sec. 22. That no soldiers in time of peace, be quartered in any house without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war but in the manner prescribed by law.

Sec. 23. That the levying taxes by the poll is grievous and oppressive, therefore, the legislature shall never levy a poll tax for county or state purposes.

Sec. 24. That no hereditary emoluments, privileges or honors, shall ever be granted or conferred by this state.

Sec. 25. That no law shall be passed to prevent the poor in the several counties and townships within this state, from an equal participation in the schools, academies, colleges and universities within this state, which are endowed, in whole or in part, from the revenue arising from donations made by the United States for the support of schools and colleges, and the doors of the said schools, academies and universities, shall be open for the reception of scholars, students and teachers of every grade, without any distinction or preference whatever, contrary to the intent for which said donations were made.

Sec. 26. That laws shall be passed by the legislature, which shall secure to each and every denomination of religious societies in each surveyed township which now is, or may hereafter be, formed in the state, an equal participation, according to their number of adherents, of the

profits arising from the land granted by congress for the support of religion, agreeably to the ordinance or act of congress making the appropri

ation.

Sec. 27. That every association of persons, when regularly formed within this state, and having given themselves a name, may, on application to the legislature, be entitled to receive letters of incorporation, to enable them to hold estates, real and personal, for the support of their schools, academies, colleges, universities, and for other purposes.

Sec. 28. To guard against the transgressions of the high powers which we have delegated, we declare, that all powers, not hereby delegated, remain with the people.

SCHEDULE.

Sec. 1. That no evils or inconveniences may arise from the change of a territorial government to a permanent state government, it is declared by this convention, that all rights, suits, actions, prosecutions, claims and contracts, both as it respects individuals and bodies corporate, shall continue as if no change had taken place in this government.

Sec. 2. All fines, penalties and forfeitures, due and owing to the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, shall inure to the use of the state. All bonds executed to the governor or any other officer in his official capacity, in the territory, shall pass over to the governor or the other officers of the state and their successors in office, for the use of the state, or by him or them to be respectively assigned over to the use of those concerned, as the case may be.

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Sec. 3. The governor, secretary and judges, and all other officers under the territorial government, shall continue in the exercise of the duties of their respective departments, until the said offices are superseded under the authority of this constitution.

Sec. 4. All laws and parts of laws now in force in this territory, not inconsistent with this constitution, shall continue and remain in full effect until repealed by the legislature, except so much of the act, entitled, "An act, regulating the admission and practice of attorneys and counsellors at law ;" and of the act made amendatory thereto, as relates to the term of time which the applicant shall have studied law, his residence within the territory and the term of time which he shall have practiced as an attorney at law, before he can be admitted to the degree of a counsellor at law.

Sec. 5. The governor of the state shall make use of his private seal, until a state seal be procured

Sec. 6. The president of the convention shall issue writs of election to the sheriffs of the several counties, requiring them to proceed to the election of a governor, members of the general assembly, sheriffs, and coroners, at the respective election districts in each county, on the second Tuesday of January next, which elections shall be conducted in the manner prescribed by the existing election laws of this territory, and the members of the general assembly, sheriffs and coroners, then elected, shall continue to exercise the duties of their respective offices until the next annual or biennial election thereafter, as prescribed in this constitution, and no longer.

Sec. 7. Until the first enumeration shall be

made as directed in the second section of the first article of this constitution: The county of Hamilton shall be entitled to four senators and eight representatives. The county of Clermont, one senator and two representatives. The county

of Adams, one senator and three representatives. The county of Ross, two senators and four representatives. The county of Fairfield, one senator and two representatives. The county of Washington, two senators and three representatives. The county of Belmont, one senator and two representatives. The county of Jefferson, two senators and four representatives; and the county of Trumbull, one senator and two representatives.

Done in convention at Chillicothe, the 29th day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and two, and of the independence of the United States of America the twentyseventh.

In testimony whereof, we have here unto subscribed our names.