An Act to incorporate the original surveyed townships.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the general assem ly of the state of Ohio, That so soon as there re twenty electors in any original surveyed When 20 ownship of five or six miles square, or frac- lectors in as ional township in this state, wherein there are ny township, either the reserved section, number sixteen, elect three they may granted by congress for the use of schools, or trustees and section number twenty-nine, granted for reli- one treasure gious purposes, they are hereby authorised, un- er ler the provisions hereafter provided, to elect hree trustees and one treasurer, for the purpose of taking into their care the sections above described, who shall be a body, politic and corpo- who shall be rate, capable of suing and being sued, pleading a body pon and being impleaded.