AND GENERAL LAWS OF OREGON. COMPILED AND ANNOTATED BY WILLIAM LAIR HILL. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. [PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF Statute of FEBRUARY 26, 1885.] Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1887, BY BANCROFT-WHITNEY COMPANY, In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. COPYRIGHT, 1892, BY BANCROFT-WHITNEY COMPANY. 19232C SAN FRANCISCO: STATE OF OREGON, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. I hereby certify that I have examined the collection and compilation of the statutes of Oregon compiled and annotated by William Lair Hill, in two volumes, to the first volume of which this certificate is annexed, and that it contains all the general statutes of Oregon which are in force, arranged under appropriate heads and titles in the order and method of a code, in sections numbered consecutively from one to the end of the entire body of general statutes, with marginal notes showing the date of the passage of each section, and references to the sections respectively as they appear in the volume of General Laws of Oregon compiled by Matthew P. Deady and Lafayette Lane, and to the pages of acts published in the volumes of session laws published since the said compilation of general laws, and with brief notes of the construction given to each section by the Supreme Court of Oregon, the Supreme Court of the United States, and the Circuit Court of the United States for the district of Oregon, and of the construction given to similar sections by the Supreme Courts of California, Nevada, the Court of Appeals of New York, and the courts whose decisions are reported in the American Decisions. Witness my hand this ninth day of August, A. D. 1887. Governor of Oregon. |