IV.-An act providing for the service and return of process in certain cases.-Approved on the 29th of October.

V.-An act regulating the interest of money, and fixing the same at six per centum per annum, and for preventing usury. -Approved on the 15th of November.

VI.—An act authorizing and regulating arbitrations.—Approved on the 15th of November.

VII. An act to establish and regulate ferries.-Approved on the 15th of November.

VIII.—An act making promissory notes and inland bills of exchange negotiable.-Approved on the 15th of November. IX.-An act to prevent trespassing by cutting of timber.— Approved on the 15th of November.

X.-An act supplemental to an act entitled "an act to prevent trespassing by cutting of timber."-Approved on the 19th of December.

XI.-An act regulating grist-mills and millers.-Approved on the 2d of December.

XII.-An act to regulate the disposition of water-crafts of certain descriptions, found gone or going adrift, and of estray animals.-Approved on the 2d of December.

XIII.-An act for the prevention of vice and immorality.— Approved on the 2d of December. [This act was designed to prevent Sabbath-breaking, profane swearing, drunkenness, duelling, cock-fighting, running horses on public highways, and gambling at billiards, cards, dice, shovel-board, etc.]

XIV.-An act to create the office of a territorial treasurer and an auditor of public accounts.-Approved on the 2d of December.

XV.-An act establishing courts for the trial of small causes. -Approved on the 2d of December.

XVI.-An act providing for the appointment of constables. -Approved on the 2d of December.

XVII.-An act to ascertain the number of free male inhabitants, of the age of twenty-one, in the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, and to regulate the elections of representatives for the same.-Approved on the 6th of December.

XVIII.—An act to prevent the introduction of spirituous

liquors into certain Indian towns.-Approved on the 6th of December.

XIX.-An act regulating the firing of woods, prairies, and other lands.-Approved on the 6th of December.

XX.-An act establishing and regulating the militia.—Approved on the 13th of December.

XXI.-An act defining and regulating privileges in certain cases.-Approved on the 6th of December.

XXII.-An act for allowing compensation to the members of the house of representatives, who attended to put in nomination the members of the legislative council, and for defraying the incidental expenses accrued thereon.-Approved on the 13th of December.

XXIII-An act for the relief of poor persons imprisoned for debt.-Approved on the 13th of December.

XXIV.—An act for opening and regulating public roads and highways.-Approved on the 13th of December.

XXV.-An act levying a territorial tax on land.—Approved on the 19th of December. [By this act the owners of lands within the territory were taxed, for every hundred acres of first rate land, eighty-five cents; for every hundred acres of second rate land, sixty cents; for every hundred acres of third rate land, twenty-five cents; and so in proportion for a greater or smaller quantity.]

XXVI-An act to regulate county levies.-Approved on the 19th of December.

XXVII.-An act allowing and regulating prison bounds.Approved on the 19th of December. [The prison bounds allowed by this act did not extend in any direction more than two hundred yards from the jail.]

XXVIII.-An act for the appointment of county treasurers. Approved on the 19th of December.

XXIX.-An act for allowing compensation to the members of the legislative council and house of representatives of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, and to the officers of both houses.-Approved on the 19th of December. [This act allowed to each member of the legislature the sum of three dollars "for each and every day's attendance on the business of legislation," and "at the commencement

and ending of every session, three dollars for every fifteen miles of the estimated distance, by the most usual road, from his place of residence to the seat of the assembly." To the secretary of the council, the sum of three dollars per day "for his services in attending to the business of the council, and the additional sum of three dollars per day for clerk hire and incidental expenses." To the clerk of the house of representatives, three dollars per day for his services, "and the additional sum of four dollars per day for clerk hire and incidental expenses." To the sergeant-at-arms for both houses two dollars. per day; and to the door-keeper of each, one dollar and fifty cents per day, during the session.]

XXX.—An act to regulate the inclosing and cultivating of common fields.-Approved on the 19th of December.

XXXI.—An act regulating the fees of the constables in the several counties within this territory.-Approved on the 19th of December.

XXXII.—An act to encourage the killing of wolves.-Approved on the 19th of December.

XXXIII.-An act for the punishment of arson.-Approved on the 19th of December.

XXXIV.-An act for allowing compensation to the attorneygeneral of the territory, and to the persons prosecuting the pleas in behalf of the territory, in the several counties.-Approved on the 19th of December.

XXXV.-An act supplementary to the act entitled "A law for the relief of the poor."-Approved on the 19th of December.

XXXVI.-An act appropriating moneys for the payment of the debts due from this territory, and making appropriations for the ensuing year.-Approved on the 19th of December.

XXXVII.—An act repealing certain laws and parts of laws. -Approved on the 19th of December.

On the 30th of December, 1799, the President of the United States nominated Charles Willing Byrd to the office of secretary of the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio; and, on the next day, the senate confirmed the nomination.

On the 7th of May, 1800, the President of the United States approved an act of Congress entitled "An act to divide the territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio into two separate governments."*

INDIAN LANDS-INDIAN TRADE-EARLY FRENCH SETTLEMENTS.

THE boundary lines which were established, at the treaty of Greenville, in 1795, between the lands of the United States and the lands of the northwestern Indian tribes, gave to the Indians all the territory lying within the present limits of Indiana, with the following exceptions. First:-One tract of land six miles square, at the confluence of the rivers St. Mary and St. Joseph, where the town of Fort Wayne now stands. Secondly:-One tract of land, two miles square, on the Wabash river, at the end of the portage from the head of the river Maumee, and about eight miles westward from Fort Wayne. Thirdly-One tract of land, six miles square, at Ouiatenon, or the old Wea town, on the river Wabash. Fourthly:-The tract of one hundred and fifty thousand acres, near the falls of the river Ohio; which tract was called the "Illinois Grant," or "Clark's Grant." Fifthly:-The town of Vincennes, on the river Wabash, and the adjacent lands to which the Indian title had been extinguished; and all similar lands, at other places, in possession of the French people, or other white settlers among them. And, sixthly:-The strip of land lying, east of a line running directly from the site of Fort Recovery so as to intersect the river Ohio at a point opposite to the mouth of the Kentucky river.

Between the years 1795 and 1811, the government of the United States maintained pacific relations with the Miamis,

*Laws of the United States, iii, 367.