Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1841-1853, 1846-01-08
Oregon.

The following is Mr. Dougiasss " bill protect the
rights of American settlers in the Territory of Oregon
until the termination Of the joint occupation Of the
same;" which read a first and second Time and re-
ferred The Committee of the Whole the state of the
Union, and made the special order of the day for the
Tuesday of January.
Bill 10 protect american Citizens residing in the Ore
gon Territory.
Be enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tves of the United States of America in Congress
sembed, That the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court
the Territory Of Iowa, and the laws of said Territory,
far the may be applicable hereby extended
all that portion of the territory of the United States
which lies within the following limits wit bounded
the South by the forty-second parallel of north
atitude on the east by the summit of the Rocky Noun
tains on the north by the line of 81 deg and 40 min
north laude and the west by the Pacific Ocean in
Guiding the streams adjacent to the and also
all that portion OF the intermediate country of the
Missouri river, and between the 10th and Add parallels Of
north laude Provided, That this shall be
strued or executed in such manner deprive the
subjects of Great Britain of any of the rights and pry
eges secured by the third article of the treaty signed
London, October 90 1875 and continued in force by the
treaty of Augua g. 1927 until such treaty stipulation
shall cease by virtue of the notice provided for in the
second article of said last mentioned treaty.
BE il further enacted That all the country described
in the first section Of this act, shall constitute Judi
dica District, and District Court shall be held there
in by the Judge to be appointed under this act
times and places he shall designate, and said Court
shall possess all the powers and authority vested in the
present district courts of said Territory of Iowa An
additional Justice of the Supreme Court of Territory
of Iowa shall be appointed who SHALL hold his Office BY
the tenure receive the compensation possess
the same powers and authority conferred by law
upon other Justices of the said Court who shall hold the
District Courts in the said District aforesaid.
B. Be further enacted That the President be hereby
authorized to appoint the requisite number Of Justices
the Peace and such ministerial officers shall be necessa
~ for the due execution of the laws Provided that any
subject Of Great Britain who shall be under the
provisions oil this act for crime alleged TO have been
committed within the territory of the United States
west of the Rocky Mountains, while the remains
free and open the vessels citizens and subjects of the
United States and Of Great Britain, pursuant to spula-
tons between the two powers shall be delivered up for
trial on proof OF bis being such British subject, the
nearest and most convenient authorities having cogn
zance of such offence, by the laws of Great Britain.
a. be further enacted That provision shall be made
by law, 10 secure and grant 40 Of land every
white male nhabItant OF the territory Of Oregon, Of the
age of IL years, and upwards who may have heretofore
or shall hereafter, within two years from the passage Of
this act, from any State territory Of the United
Staes and have settled in said territory Of Oregon and
who shall have cultivated and used the for FIVE
secutve years. and to his heirs law of his de-
cease and to the wife Of every such nhsbsnt and to