The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-07-14

f fifteen south of ranges nine, to eighties
east, and continuing on to the Missouri
r river and State line, vii be first surveyed
t Outside of these limits it would perhap
/ Ebe premature 70 adopt theprojeeted line
s of survey as boundaries of Counties
/ The map alluded to issubmitted with tn;
communication.
s The census of the Territory, takeT
, under the provisions of the act of Con
; gress. exhibits a return of :, ,904 qualifet
voters, and an entire population of 8, So
/ persons, exclusive of Indians and officers
soldiers, and employees of the army o
the United States not residing in the Ter
4 fritory. The census returns, which an
submitted for your inspection, contain Z
considerable amount of statistical.infor
!. nation. such as the places of emigration
ages, occupations, DC. This population
consists of 5, 1873 males, and 5, ,383 females
and il Is afaet worthy of remark as pc
culiar to great extent to this Territory
that they are not, as usual, collected
Z about one point, or along frontier line
. bat are dispersed over district of mors
than Is GOO square miles. This state o
things, although it has its Inconvenience.
lat present, is nevertheless highly graft
! fying, as it indicates that our TeYritor,
| has many points of strong interest, anG
promises an early Development of oul
resources.
| Inobedience to the act of Congress ]
have. until otherwise provided by law,
divided the Territory into Judicial Dis
| triess, designated the places for Courts.
and assigned the judges, as stated in my
Proclamation of the 9Th of February
Hast, which together with all the other
Prociamations of the Executive Depart
meht, will be submitted to you The
designation of terms of the Supreme
Court was purposely omitted, for the rea-
son that my action was only provisional
until the-subject could be committed to
your charge, and the jurisdiction of the
Court, as yet being probably only appel
liant, there could be for sometime no bu-
siness to evoke It's action.
t The provision for County Courts. and
the officers connected with them, and
the other officers of the Territory which
you may consider necessary, the laws for
regulating and holding elections, the
qualifications of voters, the jarisdic-
Itions of the Supreme and District Courts,
the election andapportionment OF Justic-
es of the Peace and C6nstables, their
powers and Jurisdictions, the means OF
settling decedents' estates-so far as
/ these several matters are unproyided for
| by existing laws-tegether with other
Iobyious subjects, need no special com
ment from me. In regard to Constables
and Justices, however, l desire to state,
that have issued a number of commits
sions throughout the Territory, which,
under the act of Congress, viii expire at
| the end of your present session, and il
would probably prevent public and pri-
yate detriment TO authorize them to com
plete any proceedings which may then
be pending before them. If, as is prob
able, you shall provide for filling those
Offices by election, | would suggest thai
some provision be made for the time thai
shall eiapse between the expiration of the
present commissions and the election and
qualification of new ineumbents.
The presence in our Territory of sc
large number of Indians. iaterspersed
as they are with the white population
adds a new feature to the indiscElminatc
sale of intoxicating liquors which doe'
not exist in other communities. A por
ton of them indulge upon almost every
opportunity, in the excessive use of ar.
dent spirits, and the friends and enemies
of prohibition, who are acquainted will
the Indian character, and its frenzied de
velopments under the influence of intox
ication, will probably all unite in the ad
} mission that special precautions, in thi:
} respect, are necessary as well for thep pro
lection of the Indian character asains
degradation, as of the whites against vi
olence. The more estimable members o
most of the tribes are using their infu
ence to check this evil, and we shoull
second their efforts, as well for our SAX,
as their own.
The cause of education need scarce
| ly Recommend to your especial attention
1t is always better to pay for the educa
ton of the boy than the punishment o
/ the man. To enlarge upon the necessi,
| ty of general education for producing q
good government would be at this day
a work of supererogation, and | leave the
matter in your hands, confident it vii
receive the attention it deserves.
/ Levying of public taxes at this time,
at leastt to any considerable extent, before
our people have secured title to their
lands, or realized their products, would
be undesirable, unless absolutely necessa
ry; but if you shall find it necessary to
/ levy and collect taxes for county or other
purposes, have no doubt thai the pre-.
Eemp;er who claims an incohate title in hi.
quarter section could be assessed thereon
for his share of the public burdens.
! The location of the permanent seat oi
government is also referred 10 you by the
actof Congress making the appropriation,
land in view of the large expenditure ne.
cessary for the erection of public build
ings, and of the fact that in case of re.
moyal, the burden of new buildings will
1 fall upon the people of the Territory, wis
dom would seem to require that this du-
.Ety should be performed with an eye to
the future as well as the present, aud to
the probable rapid progress of our Terri
tory, and the probable bounds Of a fu-
lure State.
I. The organization of the Militia of the
Territory is another subject which will
demand your attention; and in this con-
nection l have to inform you that the Ter
ritory of Kansas is entitled to two thou
sand muskets, deliverable IN kind, and
also to one hundred and thirty seven mus
kets-being the neutrality-suspicious. for
i855-from the General Government
The annual appropriation may be COM
muted for other arms; or field artillery al
cost. These arms are delivered at any
accessible point in the Territory, on the