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Identifier: newpopularpictor00sear (find matches)
Title: A new and popular Pictorial History of the United States
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Sears Robert, 1810-1892
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Publisher: United States
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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town called Oregon City, a view of which isgiven opposite. It is from a sketchtaken on the spot. The colony hereintend to avail themselves of the im-mense water-power, and have com-menced making extensive improve-ments. They have organized them-selves into a government for self-protec-tion, and adopted a constitution. Theirconstitution recognises religious andcivil liberty, trial by jui-y, and the writof habeas corpus ; enacts that schoolsshall be established for the general edu-catidu of the people ; that the utmostgood faith shall be observed toward theIndians ; and that slavery and involun-tary servitude shall only be counte-nanced as a punishment of crime. Ahouse of representatives is establishedby the code of laws, and its majesty isdeclared the fundamental principle ofgovernment. The house appoints agovernor, who holds his office for twoyears, and supreme and other courts oflaw for the exercise of the judicialpower. All free male descendants of 1 !lilliljj;li!;j;i!;illl!:l!;;;,
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608 DKSCRIPTION OF THE TERRITORY OF OREGON. white men, inhabitants of the territory,nvay, under this constitution, vote atelections and be eligible to offices ; andany settler who may reside in Oregontor six months shall ho entitled to a citi-zens privileges. The currency lawsare founded upon a good basis, and theiinporliition or miinunicture of ardentspirits is prohibited by an act which im-poses fines for transgressing its pro-visfons. The upper colony from the UnitedStates is situated on the Willametteriver, ninety-four miles from its entranceinto the Columbia. It consists of aboutone hundred families, who raise consid-erable grain, and have about four thou-sand head of cattle, extensive fields ofwheat, potatoes, peas, and vegetables,of all descriptions. They have hogs,poultry, &;c., in abundance. Fort V.xncoiivek. on the north bankof the Columbia, ninety miles from theocean, is the principal seat of the Brit-ish fur trade. It has an enclosure thir-tv-seven rods long and eighte

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