6th. The establishment of maximum rates to be charged by the railroad bridge at Portland, and by telegraph companies within the State. 7th. The repeal of the law creating the fish commission, and the passage of a law preventing the use of fish-traps and fish-wheels. 8th. The levying of no tax upon the people for the support of any other institutions of learning than our common schools. 9th. The passage of a law authorizing the Governor, in case of violation of State laws, to employ a person to commence prosecution in the courts for the punishment of the offender. 10th. A registration act applicable to cities of five thousand inhabitants and over. 11th. The enactment of a law, similiar to a provision of the Rhode Island constitution, requiring the Judges of the Supreme Court to give their written opinion upon any question of constitutional law when required to do so either by the Legislature or the Governor. 12th. A change in the laws of the State by which all county officers shall have fixed salaries, and providing that all fees collected by them under the law shall be paid into the county treasury. 13th. An addition to our lien laws, giving to laborers employed by corporations of any and every character, a first lien for their wages upon whatever property of such corporations they may have labored. 14th. A change in our laws, by which the punishment for vote buying at our elections will be rendered more certain. CONCLUSION. Gentlemen of the Legislative Assembly of Oregon: A kind Providence has given to the people of this commonwealth a goodly heritage, and has vouchasfed to them innumerable blessings. Let it be to your aim to add to these blessings the great benefits accruing from the administration of a wise and frugal government and from the enactment of just and equal laws. To create the office of attorney-general, provide the duties and fix the compensation.. Read second time and referred Reported HOUSE BILL NO. 3- To provide for the punishment of crimes committed on the Columbia river and the 286 784 16 21 77 405 16 21 78 427 Read first time Read second time and referred Reported Read third time and passed.. 16 21 78 135 193 To amend an Act entitled an Act to incorporate the town of Medford, in Jackson county, Authorizing the appointment of official reporters in the circuit courts, and prescribing Read first time- Read second time and referred. Reported... Signed. PAGE. 16 78 382 474 369 614 16 22 78 295 16 22 79 131 698 BILL NO. 8- To amend sections 2730, 2731, 2735, 2752 and 2790, and to repeal sections 2736, 2737, 2738, 16 * Read second time and referred.. 79 391 HOUSE To authorize and empower annuity, safe deposit and trust companies to be appointed and act as administrators, executors, guardians, assignees, receivers or trustees... To permanently locate, regulate and maintain a State normal school. To amend section 1 of an Act entitled an Act to create the county of Morrow, and to fix To amend section 2609, title IV, chapter XVI, of miscellaneous laws of Oregon, as com- piled by W. Lair Hill, relating to legal voters at school meetings Read first time... Read second time and referred.. |