Art. 8, If any one enter a field and injure the erops, or throw down the feuee, so that eattle or horses go in and do damage, he shall pay all dam ages, and receive twenty-five lashes for every offence.

Art. 9. Those omly may keep dogs who travel or live among the game. If a dog kill a lamb, calf, or any domestic animal, the owner shall pay the damage, and kill the dog

Art. 10. If an Indian raise a gun or other weapon against a white man, it shall be reparted to the chiefs, and they shall punish him. If a white man do the same to au Indiau, it ehall be reported to Dr. White, and he shall punish or redress it.

Art. 11. If an Indian break these laws, he shall be punished by his chiefs; if a white man break them, he shall be reported to the agent, and punished at his instance.

These laws, the agent says, he " proposed the one by one, leaving greatly pleased as free to reject with all proposed, but wished a heavier penalty to some, and suggested the dog-law, which was annexed."

In a history of Oregon written by as to accept. They were one W. H. Gray, of As toria, we find this Indian agent spoken of as a "notorious blockhead. Mr. Gray's mcthods of mention of all pcrsons toward whom he has antagonism or dislike are violent and undignified, and do not redound either to his eredit as a writer But it is impossible to avoid or his credibility the impression that in this instance he was not far from the truth. Sarely one cannot read, without mingled horror and incredulity, this programme of the whipping-post, offered as one of the first instalments of the United States Government's "kind intentions" toward these Indians; one of the first prac- tical illustrations given them of the kind of civilization the United States Government would recommend and introduce. We arc not surprised in Oregon, a little later, that "the Indians want pay for being whipped, the same as sionaries-during the great revival of 1839. Some of the nfluential men in the tribe desired to know of what benefit as a witness. to read in another narrative of affairs they did for praying-to please the mis