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     In 1817, the State, with the consent of the General Government, donated Section 29, of the Scioto Salt Reserve, for the site of the new county seat, the town of Jackson.  A joint resolution of the Ohio General Assembly adopted Jan. 3, 1818, declared that experiments at the Scioto Salt works, had failed to find water of a sufficient quality to render it an object to the State to retain lands reserved at said works, and asked permission of the General Government to sell the lands.  Congress was slow to act, and the Legislature on Feb. 18, 1820, authorized the agent to lease lands for cultivation or pasture.  An act of Jan. 25, 1823, fixed the agents salary at $60 a year.  Congress acted at last, and on Dec. 28, 1824, it passed a law permitting the state to sell its salt lands, and directing that the proceeds be applied to such literary purposes as said Legislature may hereafter direct.  On Feb. 7, 1825, the Legislature passed a law providing for the survey of the salt lands, and for making two maps of the same, a report of all to be made by Dec. 25, 1825.  The agent employed Hon. Joseph FLETCHER, of Gallipolis, to make the survey, and the whole tract was laid out in eighty acre lots.  The Legislature on Feb. 7, 1826, passed a law providing for the sale of the Scioto Salt Reserve in June of that year, the sale to be held for three days, and the lots remaining unsold to be disposed of at private sale.  There was no further use for the office of agent of the Scioto salt works, and it was abolished, and all laws relating to leasing salt lands repealed, by an act passed Jan. 26, 1827, the disposal of the lands being placed in the hands of Daniel HOFFMAN, the agent for selling lands.  Thus ends the history of the Scioto salt works as state property.