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 SEC. 8. That when any slave shall obtain his or her freedom, the time specified in the fourth section shall begin to run from the time when such freedom shall be obtained.

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
 * STATE OF OREGON,
 * SECRETARY'S OFFICE.

SALEM, June 10th, 1878.

I, S. F. Chadwick, Secretary of the State of Oregon, do hereby certify that I am the custodian of the great seal of the State of Oregon. That the foregoing copy of original bill for an act in regard to slavery and free negroes and mulattoes passed the legislative committee of the Territory of Oregon June 26, 1844, has been by me compared with the original bill for an act, etc., on file in this office, and said copy is a correct transcript therefrom, and of the whole and of the original bill.

In witness whereof, I have hereto set my hand and affixed the Great Seal of the State of Oregon, the day and year above written.

[SEAL] S. F. CHADWICK,

Secretary of the State of Oregon.

By THOMAS B. JACKSON,

Assistant Secretary of State.

The executive committee, in their communication to the legislative committee, dated December 16, 1844, made this recommendation:

"We would recommend that the act passed by this assembly in June last, relative to blacks and mulattoes, be so amended as to exclude corporal punishment, and require bonds for good behavior in its stead." (Oregon Laws and Archives, 58.)

At the December session I introduced the following bill, which was passed December 19, 1844:

Be it Enacted by the Legislative Committee of Oregon as follows:

1. That the sixth and seventh sections of said act are hereby repealed.