Documents created during the Oregon Constitutional Convention of 1857. Includes: committee reports, drafts of articles and schedules, general notes, corrections, and other materials. Sections of the constitution represented include: preamble and bill of rights; suffrage and elections; distribution of powers; Legislative Department; Executive Department; education and school lands; finance; militia; corporations and internal improvements; seat of government; general provisions; boundaries; schedules, and related papers. Also includes printed speech of James Hughes of Indiana, on the admission of Oregon, delivered in the House of Representatives, 1859 February 10. photostatic copies of "An act to establish the territorial government of Oregon, 30th Congress, first session, August 14, 1848," "Original constitution of Oregon, 1857," and "An act for the admission of Oregon into the Union," 35th Congress, second session, February 14, 1859. "The original copy of the constitution of the State of Oregon, adopted September 18th, 1857," microfilmed from original in the Oregon State Archives, Salem.
