The condition of that bond was, as its framer believed, drawn in a masterly manner; and his draft was lying before Messrs.
"Ten Thousand a-Year. Volume 1."
Samuel Warren
Others, with too accurate a foresight, doubted the efficacy of the measure, and prophesied that the additional sanction of the oath, by which its framer hoped to bind the committees to a just and honest decision, would, "like oaths of office and Custom-house oaths, soon fall into matters of form, and lose all sanction, and so make bad worse."
"The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860"
Charles Duke Yonge
Not content with this, the framer of this scheme had obtained the right of purchase, on the basis of value of land in Eastern Oregon ten years ago, of the grant of lands in aid of the construction of the Willamette Valley and Cascade Mountains Military Wagon-road, amounting to eight hundred and fifty thousand acres.
"Two Years in Oregon"
Wallis Nash