SEC. 11. Until otherwise provided by law, the Judicial Districts of the State shall be constituted as follows: The counties of Jackson, Josephine and Douglas shall constitute the First District; the counties Umpqua, Coos and Curry, Lane and Benton shall constitute the Second District; the counties of Linn, Marion, Polk, Yamhill and Washington shall constitute the Third District; the counties of Clackamas Multnomah, Wasco, Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook shall constitute the Fourth District; and the county of Tillamook shall be attached to the county of Clatsop for judicial purposes.

Done in convention at Salem, the eighteenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven, and of the independence of the United States the eighty-second.

MATTHEW P. DEADY, President.

CHESTER N. TERRY, Secretary.

PROCLAMATION

DECLARING THE RESULT OF THE ELECTION FOR AND AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION.

WHEREAS, The people of the Territory of Oregon, through their Delegates in Congress assembled, prepared a Constitution for their government under a State organization, and submitted the same, with certain propositions, to be approved and determined at an election which was held in the said Territory on the ninth day of November, A. D. 1857, in conformity to the provisions made by said Convention of Delegates; and

Whereas, It was provided further by said Convention of Delegates, that the result of said election should be announced by executive proclamation :

Therefore, to that end, it is hereby declared and made known, that at the said election, held on the ninth day of November, A. D. 1857, there were seven thousand one hundred and nintey-five votes given for the adoption of the said Constitution, and three thousand one hundred and ninty-five votes against its adoption. There were two thousand six hundred and forty-five votes given in favor of slavery, and seven thousand seven hundred and twenty-seven votes against slavery; and there were given one thousand and eighty-one votes in favor of permitting the residence of free negroes, and eight thousand six hundred and forty votes against the same.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my official signature, and caused the seal of the Territory to be affixed, at Salem, this fourteenth day of December, A. D. 1857.

L. S.

GEORGE L. CURRRY.

By the Governor :

B. F. HARDING, Secretary.

December 9th, 1857.