recollected that the actual settlers are not, generally, those that have been enriched by that extraordinary donation, but purchasers under them, and at prices, it is believed, not inferior to those received for the public lands, and that whilst they are burdened with their full proportion of their expense of the State government, they are cut off from an equal participation of the benefits enjoyed by their fellow-citizens; when, moreover, it is considered that the provision for schools embraces not the emolument of individuals, but the interest of morality and learning, the committee are of opinion that Congress. will perceive the propriety of acceding to a proposition, the tendency of which is to cherish and confirm our present happy political institutions and habits. This last consideration applies. equally to the United States Military Tract, to the military reservation of Virginia, and to lands which may hereafter be acquired from the Indian tribes.

No objection suggests itself why the lands which are or may be appropriated for the use of schools within the State of Ohio should not be vested in the Legislature of that State, in trust for that purpose.

The appropriation offered in the third proposition of the act enabling the people within the limits of the present State of Ohio to become a coequal member of the Union, originating in the belief that it would at once enhance the value of the public lands and cement more strongly together the various interests. of the confederacy, it is believed that these desirable objects will be equally promoted by applying a portion of the proceeds (so offered to be appropriated) to the opening and repairing roads within the State of Ohio.

The provision contained in the sixth section of the seventh article of the constitution of the State of Ohio, respecting the northern boundary of that State, depending on a fact not yet ascertained, and not being submitted in the shape of the other propositions from the convention to Congress, the committee have thought it unnecessary to take it at this time into consid

eration.

In relation to the grant to John Cleves Symmes and his associates, of one complete township, in trust, for the use of an

academy and other seminaries of learning, the committee recommend the adoption of a plan suggested by the Secretary of the Treasury, in a letter hereto subjoined, to which they beg leave generally to refer; and they respectfully submit the following resolutions, in addition to, and in modification of, the propositions contained in the act entitled "An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution 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," passed the thirtieth day of April, 1802:

Resolved, 1) That a donation, equal to one-thirty-sixth part of the amount of the lands in the United States Military Tract, within the State of Ohio, be made for the support of schools within that tract.

Resolved, 2) That a donation, equal to one-thirty-sixth part of the county of Trumbull, be made out of the lands within the United States Military Tract, for the support of schools within the said county of Trumbull.

Resolved, 3) That a donation, equal to one-thirty-sixth part of the Virginia Reservation, so far as the unlocated lands within that reservation (after the warrants issued by that State shall have been first satisfied) will supply the same, be made for the support of schools in the district contained between the Scioto and Miami rivers.

Resolved, 4) That a like provision for the use of schools be made out of any lands which may hereafter be acquired from the Indian tribes.

Resolved, 5) That the lands which now are, or hereafter may be, appropriated to the use of schools within the State of Ohio, be vested in the Legislature thereof, in trust for that object.

Resolved, 6) That not less than three-fifths of the sum offered to be appropriated by Congress for the opening of roads from the Western to the Atlantic waters, shall be appropriated under the direction of the State of Ohio, for the laying out of roads within that State.

Resolved, 7) That in lieu of the township proposed to be granted for the use of an academy, by the act passed the 5th day

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of May, 1792, there be granted to the State of Ohio, for the purpose described in that act, one other entire township within the district of Cincinnati; provided that the State of Ohio shall relinquish to the United States all their claim, under the act aforesaid, against the said John C. Symmes.

Resolved, 8) That these propositions shall depend on the compliance by the State of Ohio with the provisions of the third proposition and second section of the aforesaid act, entitled "An act to enable the people of the eastern division of the territory northwest of the river Ohio to form a constitution 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," passed the 30th day of April, 1802.

Sir: The committee to whom were referred sundry propositions submitted by the convention of the State of Ohio, to the Congress of the United States, have instructed me to request of you information on the following points:

1. The gross amount of lands comprised within the United States Military Tract.

2. Whether, through default of John Cleves Symmes, the intention of the United States to endow an academy or other public school with one entire township, hath been frustrated?

3. How far the purchasers under the aforesaid Symmes are bound to make good the said township, or the value thereof.

4. Whether the United States are bound to furnish an equivalent; and, if not,

5. How far it may be a matter of policy to comply with the proposition of the convention on that subject.

And such other information touching those propositions, generally, which the Secretary of the Treasury may deem expedient to lay before the committee.

With perfect consideration, I am, sir, yours,

JOHN RANDOLPH, JR., Chairman of the Committee.

ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.