Excerpt from A Paper on the Judicial and Legal Condition of the Territory of Wisconsin: At and After Its Organization; Read Before the Club by Judge Miller, July 4, 1870 By an Act of Congress, approved May 7, 1800, all that part of the territory of the United States, N orth-west of the Ohio river, which lies to the westward of a line, beginning at the Ohio, opposite to the mouth of the Kentucky river, and running thence to Fort Recovery, and thence North until it intersects the territorial line between the United States and Canada, for the purposes of a temporary government constituted a separate territory, called the Indiana territory. The general provisions of the ordinance were extended to this territory. The judges of the Courts were appointed for good behaviour, by the President of the United States. April 30, 1802, the State of Ohio was admitted into the Union. The Territory of Indiana was divided, and the Territory of Michi gan organized, pursuant to an Act of Congress, passed Jan uary 11, 1805. By this act the same provisions were made respecting the tenure of office of the judges as in the ordi nance. The prescribed boundaries of Michigan Territory, were North of a line drawn East from the Southern bend or extremity of lake Michigan, until it intersected lake Erie, and East of a line drawn from said southerly bend through the middle of said lake Michigan to its northern extremity and thence due North to the Northern boundary of the United States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.