History of the Pacific States of North America: Oregon. 1886-88

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A.L. Bancroft, 1886

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Página 305 - adopted. Be it enacted, that the following articles be considered as articles of compact, among the free citizens of this territory. 'Art. 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever lie molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments.
Página 438 - The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and nappiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another as a site of a prison.
Página 590 - provided in the first article of this treaty, the possessory rights of the Hudson's Bay Company and all British subjects who may be already in the occupation of land or other property lawfully acquired within said territory, shall be respected. The farm, lands,
Página 305 - shall be deprived of his liberty but by the judgment of his peers, or the law of the laud; and should the public exigencies make it necessary, for the common preservation, to take any person's property, or to demand his particular services, full compensation shall be made for the same. And in the just preservation of
Página 764 - to the citizens of the United States or any of them; subject nevertheless to be altered, modified, or repealed by the governor and legislative assembly of the said territory of Oregon; and the laws of the United States are hereby extended over and declared to be in force in said territory, so far as the same or any provision thereof may be applicable.
Página 21 - the heads of the River Bourbon:—I say, from these nations, together with my own observations, I have learned that the four most capital rivers on the Continent of North America, viz., the St Lawrence, the Mississippi, the River Bourbon, and the Oregon, or the River of the
Página 758 - in said territory shall be surveyed under the direction of the government of the United States, preparatory to bringing the same into market, sections numbered 16 and 36 in each township in said territory shall be, and the same is hereby, reserved for the purposes of being applied to schools in said territory, and in the states and territories to be erected out of the same.
Página 305 - as the l>asis of all laws and constitutions of government that may hereafter be adopted. Be it enacted, that the following articles be considered as articles of compact, among the free citizens of this territory. 'Art. 1. No person, demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever
Página 376 - On the 16th of December Linn again introduced a bill in the senate, the preamble to which declared that the title of the United States to the territory of Oregon was certain, and would not be abandoned, 33 authorizing the adoption of measures for the occupation and settlement of OreM

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