THE PRINTING ASSOCIATION. . ->■■>

warehouse at Linnton ; at the store of F. W Petty- love ia Portland, Tualatin County ; at the null. fither of McLoughlin or the Island Milling Company S Ckdamas County; at the warehouses of the , M iH- L Company or the Hudson's Bay Company in Clam- poV S; or at some place to he designated by S eJiector' in Yamhill County : .These places were to be considered depots for receiving the publ c rev enue and the persons m charge should give a receipt statin" the amount which should be placed to the cS of the treasurer of the county or territory.

Soon after the organization of the house, on Gray's motion it was resolved that the supreme judge be Sled upon to inform them whether he had examined the laws which he, Burnett, had helped to make, and how nTany of them 'were incompatible with .the organic articles of compact adopted by the pe jople in July pre- vious- a piece of irony which might well have been 1 +1 A M>ipf instice whose reply was referred to riJS^lffiSS- For tie 7 first time there * was J a p ospect of having the laws printed when re- S a company having.been formed which owned a printing-press and material at Oregon C ty, to which application was made for proposals to prut the laws This company was known as the Oregon Bruiting ItocS erne of the articles of whose constitution declared I that the press owned by the association should never be use] by any party for the purpose o propagating sectarian principles or doctrines, noi for

L discussion of exclusive gV£^ the reason

If it is proper to judge by appearances tii^ of the introduction of this article was that there were men in the association who wished to curfcul .to* Methodist influence, the Mission being largely repre

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tttZ&£S& -JJWSSfitt. I- « ** »«■«- more safely with wheat as a legal tender.

• • Graver' 8 Or. Archive*, 140-1.