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24TH CONGRESS, [6]
1st Session.
FROX THB
PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES,
With documents in relation to the boundary line between Ohio and
Michigan Territory.
DECEMBER 10, 1835.
Read, ordered to be printed, and refrrred to a select committee to consider and report
thereon.
WASHINGTON, December 9, 1835.
To the Senate and House of Representatives:
GENTLEMEN: I herewith communicate, for the information of Congress,
a report of the Secretary of War, with accompanying documents, showing
the progress made during the present year in the astronomical observa-
tions made under the act of the 14th July, 1832, relative to the northern
boundary of the State of Ohio.
The controversy between the authorities of the State of Ohio and those
of the Territory of Michigan, in respect to this boundary, assumed, about
the time of the termination of the last session of Congress, a very threat-
ening aspect, and much care and exertion were necessary to preserve the
jurisdiction of the Territorial Government under the acts of Congress, and
to prevent a forcible collision between the parties. The nature and course
of the dispute, and the measures taken by the Executive for the purpose
of composing it, will fully appear in the accompanying report from the
Secretary of State, and the documents therein referred to.
The formation of a State Government by the inhabitants of the Territory
of Michigan, and their application, now pending, to be admitted into the
Union,'give additional force to the many important reasons which call
for the settlement of this question by Congress at their present session.
ANDREW JACKSON.
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