During the discussion of a riotous episode connected with the enforcement of the Separation law, which had resulted in the death of a man, Rouvier was overthrown.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
I took the position, first, that inasmuch as the machinery of civil government had not as yet been extended over that district of the country, the Alcalde system prevailed, and thousands upon thousands of valuable properties had changed hands by virtue of the Alcalde judgments and decrees and their enforcement, and the property rights of many were dependent upon the validity and stability of such judgments and decrees, all would be endangered by the proposed change; that his ministerial officers might be subject to prosecution; that under such circumstances we had better stand upon the records of the past,-records as old as the institution of mining in the United States.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs
That danger arose from two causes-the action of the military commanders of this department and the enforcement of the laws of Washington Territory over the disputed domain.
"Memoirs of Orange Jacobs"
Orange Jacobs