Oregon Historical Quarterly, Volume 11Oregon Historical Society., 1910 - Northwest, Pacific |
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Page 119 - The sixth annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Association was held in the History Building, Stanford University, Cal., November 19 and 20, 1909.
Page 110 - Until otherwise provided by law, the judicial districts of the State shall be constituted as follows : The counties of Jackson, Josephine and Douglas shall constitute the First District. The counties of Umpqua, Coos and Curry, Lane and Benton shall constitute the Second District.
Page 225 - River; thence easterly to and up the middle channel of said river, and where it is divided by islands, up the middle of the widest channel thereof, and in like manner up the middle of the main channel of Snake River to the mouth of the Owyhee River...
Page 106 - Judge of the Supreme Court, before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take and subscribe, and transmit to the Secretary of State, the following oath : -' I, , do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Oregon, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge the duties of a Judge of the Supreme and Circuit Courts of said State according to the best of my ability, and that I will not accept any other office...
Page 275 - Chief, your words are weighty, your hairs are gray. We have known you a long time. You have had an unpleasant journey to this place. I cannot therefore keep the families back. I make them over to you, which I would not do to another younger than yourself.
Page 89 - The Government of the United States is one of enumerated powers; the National Constitution being the instrument which specifies them, and in which authority should be found for the exercise of any power which the National Government assumes to possess.
Page 89 - The government of the United States is one of enumerated powers; the governments of the States are possessed of all the general powers of legislation. When a law of Congress is assailed as void, we look in the national constitution to see if the grant of specified powers is broad enough to embrace it; but when a State law is attacked on the same ground, it is presumably valid in any case, and this presumption is a conclusive one, unless in the constitution of the United States or of the State we...
Page 80 - Twality district, comprising all the country south of the northern boundary line of the United States west of the Willamette or Multnomah River, north of the Yamhill River, and east of the Pacific Ocean.
Page 412 - The State shall never assume the debts of any county, city, town, or township, or of any corporation whatever, unless such debt shall have been created to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or defend the State in war.
Page 323 - The man with several sons rapidly approaching manhood wished them to have the opportunity whicn had been his when as a young man he had taken up land on the then frontier. This opportunity was virtually promised in the far Northwest by the enlistment of such men as Benton and Linn in the effort to give the Oregon question an American solution.2 The Linn Bill with its provision granting six hundred and forty acres of land to every white male inhabitant who should cultivate the same for four years,...