US Presidency
1856

A law was accordingly passed, against the consent of the governor, but in due form otherwise, to remove the seat of government temporarily to the Shawnee Manual Labor School ( or mission ) and thither the assembly proceeded. After this, receiving a bill for the establishment of a ferry at the town of Kickapoo, the governor refused to sign it, and by special message assigned for reason of refusal not anything objectionable in the bill itself nor any pretense of the illegality or incompetency of the assembly as such, but only the fact that the assembly had by its act transferred the seat of government temporarily from Pawnee City to the Shawnee Mission.