...western extremity. The act of 1802, enabling Ohio to become a state, defined its north boundary to be "an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east until it shall intersect Lake Erie." (2) However, while the constitutional convention was in session,...

...Ohio was admitted as a state. The Enabling lot provided that Ohio should be bounded "on the north by an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan running east after intersecting the due north line from the mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall intersect Lake...

...Pennsylvania line, on the south by the Ohio river, to the mouth of the Great Miami river, and on the north by an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east, after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami river until it shall...

...boundaries of the State of Ohio made its northern boundary the same as that of the Ordinance, that is, "an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan . . . until it shall intersect Lake Erie at the territorial line." It is said that when the Ohio Constitutional...

...they shall have the authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme or bend of Lake Michigan." Congress have evidently by their legislation heretofore, determined to form...

...specified in the Ordinance of 1787 40 and in the Act of May 7, 1800. The northern boundary was to lie along an east and west line drawn through the "southerly extreme" of Lake Michigan to the Canadian boundary in Lake Erie, and with that boundary to the west line of Pennsylvania. 41...

...west by the line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great Miami, aforesaid, and on the north by an east and west line, drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from the mouth of the Great Miami until it shall intersect...

...draft a state constitution, and obliged them to take in their northern boundary and accept therefor "an east and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan," in accordance with the limits prescribed by the original ordinance. In the Ohio State Constitutional...

...west by the line drawn due north from the mouth of the Great M;ami, aforesaid, and on the north by an east and west line, drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, running east after intersecting the due north line aforesaid, from tlie mouth of the Great Miami, until it shall...

...territory lying «wl •• the line to he drawn due north from the mouth of the Miami, aforesaid, to'1 territorial line, and north of an east and west line drawn through the •MBb-" extreme of Lake Michigan, running east as aforesaid to Lake Erie, to the afore* ' state, or...