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injunction granted, and the money taken was returned to the hank. The decision of the Circuit Court was in February, 1824, tried before the Supreme Court, and its decree affirmed, whereupon the State submitted. Meantime, however, in December, 1820, apd January, 1821, the Legislature of Ohio had passed the following resolutions:

" That, in respect to the powers of the governments of the several States that compose the American Union, and the powers of the Federal Government, this General Assembly do recognize and approve the doctrines asserted by the Legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia, in their resolutions of November and December, 1798, and January, 1800, and do consider that their principles have been recognized and adopted by a majority of the American people.

"That this General Assembly do assert, and will maintain, by all legal and constitutional meaus, the right of the State to tax the business and property of any private corporation of trade, incorporated by the Congress of the United States, and located to transact its corporate business within auy State.

" That the Bauk of the United States is a private corporation of trade, the capital and business of which may be legally taxed in any State where they may be found.

"That this General Assembly do protest against the doctrine that the political rights of the separate States that compose the American Union, and their powers as sovereign States, may be settled and determined in the Supreme Court of the United States, so as to conclude and bind them in cases contrived between individuals, aud where they are, no one of them, parties direct."

In accordance with these resolves, the bauk was, for a time, deprived of the aid of the State laws in the collection of its debts, and the protection of its rights ; and an attempt was made, though in vain, to effect a change in the Federal Constitution, which would take the case out of the United States tribunals.

It will be remembered that the vast country known as Louisiana, and transferred by France to the United States in 1803, was divided into the Territory of Orleans, and District of Louisiana. In March, 1805, the District of Louisiana became the Territory of Louisiana, under its own territorial government. In June, 1812, this became the Territory of Missouri, having then, for the first time, a General Assembly. Thus it continued until 1819, when application was made for admission into the Union.

A bill was accordingly prepared in Congress during the session