The John McCraken’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 2 district ·

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1. ““The constitutionality of the act was brought to a test in the case of Cook v. Port of Portland, 20 Or. 580 , 27 Pac. 263 , 13 L. R. A. 533 . It is there declared in effect that the port of Portland is a municipal corporation, and that its purposes and powers are ‘all public, political, or governmental,’ and that the corporation, and the commissioners who exercise its powers, are as well the agents of the state, delegated to exercise a part of its prerogatives. ‘The sole ob.iect of the corporation,’ says Mr. Justice Bean, speaking for the court, ‘is to so improve the Willamette and Columbia rivers at the city of Portland and between that point and the sea, as to create and maintain a ship channel of a specified depth, and, for this purpose, it is given full power over these rivers, so far as the state can grant the same.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. United States v. Port of Portland