Cook v. Port of Portland

— This suit involves the constitutionality of an act of the legislative assembly of this state, entitled “An act to establish and incorporate the port of Portland, and to *581provide for the improvement of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in said port and between said port and the sea.” (Laws of 1891, 791.) This act in terms creates a separate district, with defined boundaries, which embraces substantially what was at the time of the passage the cities of Portland, East Portland, and Albina, and now the city of Portland, to be kown as the port of Portland, and the inhabitants thereof are…