CCRH Presents: Local Color
The Constitution of the State of Oregon
Article 1 Section 31.-White foreigners who are, or may hereafter become residents of this State shall enjoy the same rights
in respect to the possession, enjoyment, and descent of property as native born citizens. And the Legislative Assembly
shall have power to restrain, and regulate the immigration to this State of persons not qualified to become citizens of
the United States.
Article I Section 34--There shall be neither slavery, nor involuntary servitude in the State, otherwise than as a
punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.
Article I Section 35.-- No free negro, or mulatto, not residing in this State at the time of the adoption of this
Constitution, shall come, reside, or be within this State, or hold any real estate, or make any contracts, or maintain
any suit therein; and the Legislative Assembly shall provide by penal laws, for the removal, by public officers, of all
such negroes, and mulattoes, and for their effectual exclusion from the State, and for the punishment of persons who shall
bring them into the state, or employ, or harbor them. (Repealed November 3, 1926).
Article II Section 6.--No Negro, Chinaman, or Mulatto shall have the right of suffrage. (Repealed June28, 1927).