tions were already settled upon; to have the postal agent in Oregon[1] instructed to locate post-offices and establish mail routes, so as to facilitate correspondence with different portions of the territory, instead of aiming to increase the revenue of the general government; to endeavor to have the mail steamship contract complied with in the matter of leaving a mail at the mouth of the Umpqua River, and to procure the change of the port of entry on that river from Scottsburg to Umpqua City. Last of all, the delegate was requested to advise congress of the fact that the territorial secretary, Hamilton, refused to pay the legislators their dues; and that it was feared the money had been expended in some other manner.
Several new counties were created at this session, raising the whole number to sixteen. An act to create and organize Simmons out of a part of Lewis county was amended to make it Thurston county, and the eastern limits of Lewis were altered and defined.[2] Douglas was organized out of Umpqua county, leaving the latter on the coast, while the Umpqua Valley constituted Douglas. The county of Jackson was also created out of the southern portion of the former Umpqua county, comprising the valley of the Rogue River,[3] and it was thought the Shasta Valley. These two new countries were attached to Umpqua for judicial purposes, by which arrangement the Second Judicial district was made to extend from the Columbia River to the California boundary.[4]
- ↑ The postal agent was Nathaniel Coe, who was made the subject of invidious remark, being a presidential appointee.
- ↑ The boundaries are not given in the reports. They were subsequently changed when Washington was set off. See Or. Local Laws, 1851–2, 13–15, 30; New Tacoma North Pacific Coast, Dec. 15, 1879.
- ↑ A resolution was passed by the assembly that the surveyor-general be required to take measures to ascertain whether the town known as Shasta Butte City (Yreka) was in Oregon or not, and to publish the result of his observations in the Statesman. Or. Council, Jour. 1851–2, 53.
- ↑ The first term of the United States district court held at the new court-house in Cyntheann was in October 1851. At this term James McCabe, B. F. Harding, A. B. P. Wood, J. W. Nesmith, and W. G. T'Vault were admitted to practice in the Second Judicial district. McCabe was appointed prosecuting attorney, Holbrook having gone on a visit to the
