The quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. 4, March, 1903-December, 1903Oregon Historical Society
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The quarterly of the Oregon Historical Society, Vol. 4, March, 1903-December, 1903
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All the coöperation and assistance that Mr. Whitney asks the
government is a grant of sixty miles wide of the public
land, from one terminus of the contemplated road to the
other, for which a full consideration would be given in
carrying the mails, and transporting ammunition stores,
soldiers, and all public matters free of cost.
* * * * *
From the _Weston Journal_, March 15, 1845.
OREGON EMIGRANTS.
Preparations are making on the whole frontier, by the Oregon
emigrants, to leave at an early day. One company goes from
Savannah, another from some point between that and this, and
the company from this county, we understand, will leave at
Fort Leavenworth, or its neighborhood. One of the emigrants
who goes with the Savannah company informs us that not less
than one hundred families will leave at Elizabethtown, and
thirty families from the other points. The number from this
county we do not know. * * * A committee has submitted some
rules and regulations for the intending emigrants. They have
not yet had a meeting to adopt them, but they no doubt will
do so. They go about it in the right way, and the rules and
regulations are such as to secure order and method. They
expect to leave about the first of April, if the grass is
sufficient, or as soon thereafter as it is.
* * * * *
REPORT
Of the committee appointed to draft a constitution for
"Savannah Oregon Emigrating Company."
Whereas, in order the better to prepare the way for and to
accomplish our journey to Oregon with greater harmony, it
was deemed advisable to adopt certain rules and regulations;
and whereas the undersigned, having been appointed a
committee to draft and prepare said rules and regulations,
and having given the subject that attention which its
importance demands, beg leave respectfully to report the
following as the result of their deliberations, viz:
§ 1. This association shall be known by the style and name
of the "Savannah Oregon Emigrating Company."
§ 2. Any person over the age of sixteen may become a member
of this company by subscribing to this constitution and
paying into the treasury the initiation fee of one dollar.
§ 3. No person under the age of twenty-one years can become
a member without the consent of their legal guardian.
§ 4. No person shall be admitted whose intention is
obviously apparent to avoid payment of his debts.
§ 5. A majority of the members shall have power to expel any
member for good cause.
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