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1887-1888 v (1887-1888)

handle is hein.ssl/sswa0145 and id is 1 raw text is: ORGANIC LAW,
OR SECTIONS OF CHAPTERS ONE AND TWO, TITLE TWENTY-THREE, OF
THE REVISED STATUTES, CONTAINING PROVISIONS COMMON TO
ALL THE TERRTORIES, OR TO WASHINGTON TERRITORY
ALONE, AND OTHER ACTS OF CONGRESS APPLICABLE
TO THE TERRITORY, INCLUDING TITLE XXX.,
U: S. REVISED STATUTES, NATURALIZATION.
BOUNDARIES.
SEC. 1898. All that portion of Oregon, while that state
was a territory, lying and being south of the forty-ninth degree
of north latitude and north of the middle of the main channel of
the Columbia river from its mouth to where the forty-sixth
degree of north latitude crosses that river, near Fort Walla Walla;
thence with the forty-sixth degree of latitude to the summit of
the Rocky mountains, is organized into a temporary government
by the name of the territory of Washington.
SEC. 1902. All that part of the territory of the United
States included within the following limits, to-wit: Beginning
at a point in the middle channel of the Snake river, where the
northern boundary of Oregon intersects the same; then follow
down the channel of Snake river to a point opposite the mouth
of Kooskooskia or Clear Water river; thence due north to the
forty-ninth parallel of latitude; thence east along that parallel to
the thirty-ninth degree of longitude west of Washington; thence
south along that degree of longitude to the crest of the Bitter
Root mountains till its intersection with the Rocky mountains;
thence southward along the crest of the Rocky mountains to the
thirty-fourth degree of longitude vest of Washington; thence
south along that degree of longitude to the forty-second degree
of north latitude; thence west along that parallel to the eastern
boundary of the state of Oregon; thence north along that
boundary to the place of beginning, is created into a temporary
temporary government by the name of the territory of Idaho.

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