Penitentiary Inspectors-Samuel Parsons, Henry Brown, George H. Tongue, Johathan Holmes, Jarvis Pike.

Non-resident tax collectors-1st District. James McBride. 2nd. Wm. Sterrett. 3rd. Samuel P. Hildreth. 4th. James Perry. 5th. John Milligan. 6th. Leonard Case.

Lawrence county was erected from Scioto and Gallia, by the act of December 21, 1815. The county seat is Ironton.

Jackson county was erected from Scioto, Gallia, Athens and Ross, by the act of January 12, 1816. The county seat is Jackson.

There was a very general revision of the laws previously enacted, at this session, and the attempt was made to give them greater uniformity and symmetry.

This was especially true with reference to the judiciary laws, both in the higher courts and as to justices of the peace and constables.

Some stringent measures were also passed to repress games and gaming, and it was made a misdemeanor punishable by not. less than fifty cents nor more than five dollars fine to "play bullets" across the streets of any town or village; and any one exhibiting a puppet show for pay, was liable to forfeit ten dollars for each offence, onehalf to go to the informer.

Duelling was made a high misdemeanor, as was challenging another to fight a duel. Anyone challenging another, fighting a duel, acting as second, or participating in a duel, whether with or without fatal consequences, was liable to imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than three nor more than ten years.

The State capitol was permanently removed to Columbus by joint resolution of the two Houses, and every session since, beginning with the second day of December, 1816, has been held there.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY, 1816- 817.

Governor-THOMAS WORTHINGTON.

Secretary of State-JEREMIAH MCLENE.

Treasurer of State-HIRAM MIRACH CURRY.

Auditor of State-RALPH OSBORN.

Supreme Judges-CALVIN PEASE, JOHN MCLEAN, JESSUP N. COUCH, ETHAN ALLEN BROWN.

The Fifteenth Legislature assembled at Columbus, in the first State House, on the second day of December, 1816, pursuant to law, and all subsequent sessions have been held at that city.

A temporary organization of the Senate was made as follows: Speaker, Abraham Shepherd, of Adams; Clerk, David Chambers; Doorkeeper, Edward Sherlock. On the fifth of December this organization was made permanent for the session.

On the third, the Governor transmitted his annual message to the two Houses, in which he referred to the loan effected to pay for the State's direct tax to the United States. The money was loaned to the State treasury by the Miami Exporting Co., of Dayton, the Bank of Chillicothe and the Muskingum bank of Zanesville, the sum being $104,000.

The vote for Governor was canvassed by the two Houses, and declared as follows: Thomas Worthington, 22,931; James Dunlap, 6,295; Ethan Allen Brown, 1,607; total, 30,833. Worthington's majority, 15,029.

On the eighth of December, the Governor and Secretary of State met with the Senate and declared the election of members of Congress as follows: 1st District. Wm. Henry Harrison. 2nd. John W. Campbell. 3rd. Levi Barber. 4th. Samuel Herrick. 5th. Philemon Beecher. 6th. Peter Hitchcock.

The subject of building a canal system was brought up at this session by a special message from Gov. Worthington, enclosing a communication from Hon. De Witt Clinton, of New York, setting forth the advantages of interior water lines of transportation.

On the opening day of the session, the House organized temporarily by electing Thomas Kirker, of Adams, as Speaker; Wm. Doherty, as Clerk, and Adam Betz, as Doorkeeper. Subsequently it was made permanent.

There was a contest for the seat from Gallia county between David Boggs and Lewis Newsom, and neither was seated until the contest was disposed of on the fifth of December, when Boggs was declared elected and seated.

The Governor's message and the reports of the different State officers were submitted, read and referred on the third.

On the eighth, Gov. Thomas Worthington was duly inducted into his second term in the presence of the two Houses, and delivered an appropriate address.

Elections were held by the two Houses in joint session for various offices as

follows:

December 5, 1816, Alexander McBeth was elected Associate Judge for Champaign county.

Secretary of State-Jeremiah McLene, Franklin.

December 12, Hiram Mirach Curry was elected Treasurer of State, vice Wm. McFarland, resigned, on the third ballot, the different ballots standing: I. Hiram Mirach Curry, 32; David Chambers, 21; Wm. Sterrett, 16; Henry Brown, 11; John Wood, 8. 2. Curry, 45; Chambers, 25; Sterrett, 16; Brown, 4. 3. Curry, 46; Chambers, 38; Sterrett, 6.

Associate Judges-Samuel G. Flenniken, Franklin; Ezra Sprague, Huron.
January 18, 1817. Supreme Judge-Ethan Allen Brown.

President Judges-First Circuit, Joseph H. Crane; Second Circuit, John Thompson.

Associate Judges. Adams-Moses Baird, Andrew Livingston.

Belmont-Edward Bryson, John Wiley.

Clinton-Jesse Hughes, George McManus, Aaron Sewell.

Franklin-David Smith.

Gallia-Fuller Elliott.

Hamilton-Othniel Looker, James Silvers.

Guernsey-Thomas Henderson, Wm. Frame, James Leiper.

Jefferson-Andrew Anderson.

Pickaway-William Seymour, Thomas Barr, Jacob Shoemaker.
Ross-James Armstrong, Isaac Cook, Thomas Hicks.

Warren-Ignatius Brown, Jacob De Lowe, Matthias Corwin.

Jefferson-James Moores.

January 25. Associate Judges. Butler-Henry Weaver, Robert Taylor.
Clermont-Joseph N. Campbell, Alexander Blair, John Morris.

Columbiana-Wm. Smith, Geo. Brown, John J. Bowman.

Cuyahoga-John H. Strong.

Scioto-John Collins, Lawson Drury.

Fairfield-David Swazy, John Augustus.

Fayette-James Mooney, Thomas McGarrah, Battell Harrison.
Greene-Samuel Kyle.

Trumbull-Herman Canfield, Ephraim Quimby, Robert Hughes.
Montgomery-Philip Gunckel, Isaac Spinning.

Madison-David Mitchell, James Curry, Samuel Baskeville.
Washington-Ezekiel Deming, John Sharp, Henry Jolly.
Licking-Henry Smith.

Ashtabula-Nehemiah King.

Coshocton--Joseph W. Pigman.

Lawrence-John Davison, William Miller, Gabriel Kerr.
Darke--John Purviance, James Rush, Enos Terry.

Penitentiary Inspectors-Henry Brown, Jeremiah McLene, John Edmiston, Samuel Parsons, John Cutler.

Non-resident tax collectors-1st District. James McBride. 2nd. Wm. Sterrett. 3rd. Samuel P. Hildreth. 4th. James Perry. 5th. Alexander Patterson. 6th. Homer Hine.

Darke county, heretofore erected, was organized by the act of December 14, 1816, and selected its local officers. County seat, Greenville.

Lawrence county, hitherto erected, was organized by the act of December 20, 1816. Ironton the county seat.

By the act of January 27, 1817, the western half of the fifth section, the whole of the sixth, the seventh, eighth, ninth, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth and thirtieth, half sections of the sixteenth township, twentieth range, known as Canada and Nova Scotia Refugee Lands, were detached from Licking and attached to Franklin.

A very large number of turnpike companies were incorporated, including the Zanesville and Lancaster; Knox, Richland and Huron; Franklin; Zanesville and Cambridge; Grand River; Cincinnati and Hamilton; Cincinnati and Dayton and others.

More than 100 public roads were ordered opened and improved out of the three per cent. United States fund.

Besides there was considerable general legislation and revision of existing laws.

OFFICIAL DIRECTORY, 1817-1818.

Governor--THOMAS WORTHINGTON.

Secretary of State--JEREMIAH MCLENE.

Treasurer of State--HIRAM MIRACH CURRY.

Auditor of State--RALPH OSBORN.

Supreme Judges--CALVIN PEASE, JOHN MCLEAN, JESSUP N. COUCH, ETHAN ALLEN BROWN.

Adjutant General-ISAAC VAN HORN.

SIXTEENTH LEGISLATIVE SESSION, 1817-1818.

Met December 1, 1817. Adjourned January 30, 1818.

The Senate organized by the selection of Abraham Shepherd, of Adams, as Speaker; David Chambers, Clerk, and Edward Sherlock, Doorkeeper, pro tempore, and on the sixth the same organization was made permanent.

The message of Gov. Worthington was received by the Legislature on the second of December. It was an unusually important document, and devoted largely to the subject of education and the projection and improvement of highways and lines of transportation.

He urged that the standard of teachers be raised both as to moral deportment and efficiency. He recommended that the State join with individuals and private corporations in the construction of turnpikes, and pointed out that the State's share of the tolls collected would aid materially in the reduction of the tax rate.

He also recommended such legislation as would encourage manufacturing enterprises, holding that the cost saved in the transportation of manufactured articles from beyond the borders of the State would be saved to the consumers, and the cost thus be lessened.

He further pointed out the weak points in the original Constitution, and suggested that some remedial method should be agreed upon by the Legislature.

In the message he announced the founding of the State Library, and gave a list of 106 sets and volumes, some 500 volumes in all, that he had purchased during the previous year, with a set of rules governing the Library.

The Legislature had allowed him $3,500 to be spent at his discretion, in the management of his office and the care and improvement of the State House and grounds. A balance on hand made the fund $4,013. Of this sum he invested $2,002 in the books referred to, and this formed the nucleus of the existing State Library.

On the twentieth of January, 1818, he sent a special message with a letter from Jeremy Bentham, of England, through United States Minister John Quincy Adams, accompanied with thirty-seven volumes of Bentham's works-a present to the State Library.

On the seventeenth of January, the Governor sent a special message, with a letter from Gov. Thomas Bradford, Jr., of Pennsylvania, on the subject of employing the labor of convicts to build and extend the penitentiary and other State buildings, with a favorable recommendation.

David Wampler, Senator from Tuscarawas and Coshocton, did not present his credentials until January 20, and then his right to a seat was contested on the grounds that he held another office. He was seated, however, the claim not being substantiated.