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Rh Prim. Military affairs—Kelsey, chairman, Whitted, Burch, Moores, Scott, Coyle, Matzger. Education and school lands—Peebles, chairman, Boise, Lockhart, Shattuck, Starkweather, Kinney, Robbins. Seat of government and public buildings—Boise, chairman, Campbell of Lane, Prim, Lewis, Olney, Chadwick, Shannon. Corporations and internal improvements—Meigs, chairman, Williams, Elkins, Hendershott, Campbell of Clackamas, Bristow, Miller. State boundaries—Lovejoy, chairman, Meigs, Olney, Newcomb, Applegate, Anderson, Watts. Suffrage and elections—Smith, chairman, Babcock, Brattain of Linn, Cox of Marion, Dryer, Olds, White. Bill of rights—Grover, chairman, Reed, McCormick, Waymire, Brooks, Shrum, Fitzhugh.

The chief speakers in the convention were Smith, Dryer, Boise, Kelly, Grover, Deady, Logan, Olney, Farrar and Way mire. I also took some part in the debates. All the different provisions of the constitution were quite thoroughly discussed, and, on the part of some of the speakers, with no little ability. The constitution as a whole was adopted by the convention on the eighteenth day of September, 1857, by a vote of thirty-five for, to ten against it. Those voting against it were: Anderson, Dryer, Farrar, Hendershott, Kinney, Logan, Olds, White, Watts and Watkins. Those absent and not voting were: Applegate, Bristow, Campbell of Lane, Chadwick, Lewis, McBride, Meigs, Nichols, Olney, Prim, Reed, Short, Shrum, Shattuck and Scott. Mr. Applegate, at an early day, became dissatisfied with the proceedings of the convention and left it. The schedule of the constitution provided that the question as to whether or not Oregon should be a slave state should be submitted to the people at the time they voted upon the constitution, and it also provided for a vote by