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ment being finally adopted and the resolution put. to vote, it was lost by fourteen to twenty-two. Six del- egates to the convention were then chosen, and the meeting adjourned amidst excitement and efforts by the minority to obtain a hearing. 3 _

When the convention met according to appointment at Oregon Citv, three counties only were represented, Champoeg by W. J. Bailey, J. Sanders Joseph Barnaby, and F. Bernia, all from French Frame; Tualatin by Hugh Burns and Robert Moore each owners of town sites ; Clackamas by Samuel McSwain, Philip Foster, H. Wright, H. M. Knighton S. S White and J. McCormick, eacli wanting a slice at Oregon City. The first resolution offered was by Bailey, and declared that the meeting viewed with indignation and contempt the unwarrantable, unjust, and°obnoxious efforts of certain individuals, at a pre- vious meeting in Oregon City, to deprive citizens of their rights, through a memorial to congress to reserve town sites, water-falls, and capes that had been settled for years, and were at that time rapidly advancing in value by improvement.

This was followed by another from Mr Burns, who resolved that the convention had full confidence m the constituted authority, the legislature, as the proper body to memorialize congress on matters touching the wants of the territory, and recommended the legisla- ture to petition the government of the United States to allow the land law to remain under its present form, according to the organic compact of Oregon.

At this stage of the proceedings a motion to adjourn sine die was made by one of the Oregon City delegates, which was rejected, and Robert Moore offered a resolu- tion declaring that it was the sense of the convention that it was highly improper to meddle with the rights

• As nearly as can be gathered from the resolutions and amendments offered at these several meetings in Oregon City I.. Stewart J"""-*****,* White, and M. M. McCarver were responsible for the X™cX£7oXbe government reservations, though how much they were influenced can only conjectured. P. G. Stewart earnestly resisted the movement.