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372 legislature, under penalty of $100. All legal papers of the state shall be deposited and preserved in his office. The chief clerks of the senate and house of representatives, at the close of each session of the legislature, shall deposit for safe-keeping in the office of the Secretary of State, all books, bills, documents, and papers in the possession of the legislature, correctly labeled, folded, and classified. It shall be the duty of the Secretary of State to cause the original enrolled laws and joint resolutions passed at each session of the legislature to be bound in a volume, in a substantial manner, and in the order in which they are approved, and no further record of the official acts of the legislature, so far as relates to acts and joint resolutions, shall be required of said secretary; and he shall index the same, and cause the title thereof, with the session at which the same shall have been passed, to be written or printed on the back of such volume. At the end of each session of the legislative assembly the State Printer shall, of the acts, memorials, resolutions, and journals of each session, print the number of copies

—as specified later in this report.

A collection of documents designated by the Secretary of State as the "Archives" of the state contains the following:

The Code of Civil Procedure and other general statutes of Oregon, enacted by the legislative assembly at the session commencing September 8, 1862. Code Commissioners: M. P. Deady, A. C. Gibbs, J. K. Kelly. Salem: 1863.

General Laws of Oregon, 1845-1864, compiled and annotated by M. P. Deady. Salem, December 26, 1865.

General Laws of Oregon, 1843-1872, compiled and annotated by M. P. Deady, Lafayette Lane.

The Codes and General Laws of Oregon, compiled and annotated by William Lair Hill. 2 vols. Published by authority of an act of February 26, 1885. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1887.

Same, including statutes and decisions to 1892. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1892.

The Codes and Statutes of Oregon, showing all laws of a general nature, including the Session Laws of 1901. Compiled and annotated by Charles B. Bellinger, William W. Cotton. 2 vols. San Francisco: Bancroft-Whitney Company. 1902.

The Oregon Archives, including the Journals, Governor's messages, and Public Papers of Oregon. "From the earliest attempt to form a government to and including the session of the territorial legislature of 1849. Collected and published pursuant to an act of the