and enjoy (from the date hereof) all the rights, privileges and immunities whatsoever which to a county and the inhabitants thereof in anywise appertain.—And each and every person within the bounds of said county of Wayne who held commissions civil or military under the government of the Northwestern territory at the time of the formation of the State of Ohio, shall still continue to exercise and enjoy their respective offices. And the justices of the Court of common pleas; of the general quarter sessions of the peace, and of the orphans court shall (until otherwise directed) continue to hold their respective courts at the place and times at which they were accustomed to be held under the Government of the Northwestern Territory.
And whereas I have not received sufficient information respecting the settlements, below the great Miami, to enable me to form in that quarter a county establishment, for the present, that tract of country included between a North line drawn from the mouth of the big Miami River; the Ohio, and the Indian boundery line running from a point opposite to the mouth of the Kentucky River shall be attached to and form part of the county of Clark. And such persons within the said bounds as may have held civil or military commissions under the Government of the Northwestern Territory, at the time when the said described tract was attached to this territory, are hereby appointed to the same offices respectively in the County of Clark which they held under the Government of the Northwestern Territory.
Done at St. Vincennes the 14 day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and three and of the Independence of the United States the 27.
John Gibson, Secretary
Peter Audrain, proth.
| By the Governor |
Jefferson to Harrison
Dear Sir:
While at Monticello in August last I received your favor of Aug. 8 [see above] and meant to have acknowledged it on
