463:... the county of Wayne shall form the first electoral district, and shall be entitled to elect three members ... the counties of Macomb and St. Clair shall compose the second district, and shall be entitled to elect one member ... the county of Oakland, and the country attached thereto, shall compose the third district, and shall be entitled to elect two members ... the county of Washtenaw, and the country attached thereto, shall compose the fourth district, and shall be entitled to elect two members ... the counties of Monroe and Lenawe, and the country attached to Lenawe, shall compose the fifth district, and shall be entitled to elect two members ... the counties of Cass, St. Joseph and Kalamazoo, and the country attached thereto, shall compose the sixth district, and be entitled to elect one member ... the counties of Chippewa, Michilimackinac, Brown, Crawford and Iowa shall compose the seventh district, and shall be entitled to elect two members of the legislative council.
345:. Anticipating a constitutional convention, he wrote, "The State of Michigan will then have a right to demand admission into the Union; and it is not to be anticipated, that the Congress of the United States will hesitate to yield as a matter of right, what they have heretofore refused to grant to us as a favor." Mason also asked the council to end the practice of imprisoning debtors, and to organize counties and courts in land newly attached to Michigan Territory—the area of present-day Iowa and Minnesota.
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unanimously rejected the proposed compromise on August 20. The state constitutional convention had met in the meantime, and its own resolution called for the territory not to interfere with re-marking the previously-surveyed "Harris line" that Ohio preferred, as long as Ohio did not exercise any jurisdiction over the disputed territory in the meantime. Ohio agreed, and the Toledo War effectively ended.
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to declare that "all counties bordering on the northern boundary of the state of Ohio shall extend to and be bounded on the north by the line running from the southern extremity of Lake
Michigan to the most northern cape of Maumee bay", and direct local authorities to begin exercising jurisdiction in
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November 12, a day late due to a lack of quorum the day before. Mason reported to the council that the census showed 85,856 inhabitants, and exhorted them to authorize the election of delegates to a state constitutional convention. The council authorized all "free white
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Jackson dispatched a pair of commissioners to the Maumee River to meet with both governors, and they proposed a compromise which effectively gave Ohio what it wanted. Mason opposed the compromise, and called the council into special session on August 17, 1835, to consider it. The council
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to be conducted the following month, to be completed by
November 2, and issued a resolution calling for statehood if the census showed a population above the 60,000 threshold. The council adjourned on September 8, 1834, until November 11, after the census was due to be completed.
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provided for the direct election of a 13-member legislative council by the people of the territory; the same act gave the council responsibility for determining the apportionment of seats. The council apportioned the seats as follows in an 1828 act:
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secretary, Seneca Allen recording clerk, Theodore
Williams enrolling clerk, Elisha L. Atkins sergeant-at-arms, Harvey Chubb doorkeeper, and Solomon J. Matthews and Pitt Phillips messenger and assistant messenger, respectively.
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rejected the idea of negotiating with the commissioners, saying the council had no authority to negotiate and any agreement would not be binding on
Michigan as a state. In addition, he asked the
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inhabitants" of the territory to vote for delegates in April 1835, and reiterated Michigan's claim to the strip of land at dispute in the
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died during a cholera epidemic in July, leaving Acting Governor
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510:Democratic
500:Democratic
446:secretary.
1362:Categories
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363:Toledo War
279:Toledo War
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129:1834-01-07
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579:Washtenaw
533:St. Clair
473:District
416:Green Bay
160:President
674:Crawford
669:Chippewa
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479:Name
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122:Term
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