Edward Tiffin 1804 State of the State Address

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Mr. Speaker,
1 am dii t(5ted to inform the fenate, thai: the houfe of reprefenta^ tWes have appointed a committee, to coiuracSi with a printer or princ ters, for fuch printing as may be neceflary, during the prefent feffion, to adt jointly wilh fuch committee as may be appointed by the fe<^ r.a'e.
Ordefidy That a committee oi claims be appmnted, and that Mr.. Claypool, Mr. BaeU and Mr. Bigger, be the faid committee.
Robert K. Slaughter, eledted a fenatcr by the county ot Fairfield, appeared, produced his credentials, which were read, and the oaths ot fidelity and of office, as required by the conllitution, were adrni. niftered to hint, by Thomas Scott, a juftice of the peace in and for the county ot Rofs.
Mr. Tod, from the joint committee appointed to wait on the governor of the flate and notify him that a quorum of the two houfts. is aflembled and ready to receive any communications he may Le pleafed to make to them, rep6rted, that the committee had, acu cording to order, performed that fervice, and that the governor fig,, nified lo them that he would make a coaimunication to the fenate, ihis day, at three o'clock, in writing.
Ordered, That Mr. Pritchard have leave ot abfencc from the fer¬ vice ofthe fenate^ until Thurfday next,
A nieflage was received from the governor ofthe ftate, by Willit. am Creightoo, jun. efq. fecictary ot ftate, as IcUowech :— Mr. Speaker,
I am req^uefted by the governor to hand you a communicatioh, in writi.ig, to the general afl-mbly of the ftate of Ohio : And he with drew.
The faid communication was read and is as foUoweth : {Jintlemen cf the SsnatCy and of the Houfe of  ReprefcJitatives.
WHILE you are about to enter on the labours of another feffion of the general aifembly, we are called on by the tics of gra^ titude to rendtr our fincere acknowledgments to the divine difw pofer of human events, for his diftinguiftiing favors towards us ; and while we fympatbize with thofc ot our fellow citizens in the other ftatcs, who have fulfered under thofe various vifitations and afilidlious attached to the condition of man in tViis life, we have a« bundant reafon to acknowledge the divine goodnefs in the merciful manner we have been dealt with for the laft year ; our crops have been abundant, ftorms, peftilences and fevereaifli<5lion8 have been withheld ; thofe partial difeafes incident to the firft fettlers of all cxtenlive aod uncultivated forefts, are gradually difappearing before the improving hand ot induftry ; the climate vvith its natural pro¬ ductions, the foil, the navigable ftreams which runs through thein^ tcrior and waththe Ihores of our ftate ; the donations made for fchools and nniverfities ; the great provifion for rendering eafy the means of interoourfe to every part by good roads, added to the form of government wc pofiefs j the panicipatiou of ecjual  laws.