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AN IMPORTANT DOCUMENT.
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PRESENTED JULY 1. le66.
SEVENTH DISTRICT.


in the Seventh District, and encamped near
the polls on the day Of election. They were
armed with pistols and other weapons. and de-
cIared their purpose TO vote, in order TO secure
the election of pro-Slavery members. They
said they were disappointed in not finding
more Yankees there. and that they had brought
more men than was necessary TO counterbal-
ance their vote. A number of them wore
badges of blue ribbon, with motto, and the
company were under the direction of leaders.
They declared their intention to conduct them.
selves peacefully. unless the residents Of the
territory attempted to stop them from voting.
Two of the Judges Of Election appointed by
Gov. Reeder, refused to serve, whereupon two
others were appointed in their stead by the
crowd of Missourians who surrounded the
polls. The newly appointed Judges refused
to take the oath prescribed by Gov. Reeder,
but made one to suit themselves. Andrew
Johnson requested each voter to swear if he had
a claim in the territory and if he had voted in
another district. The Judges did not take the
oath prescribed, but were sworn to receive all
legal votes. The Missourians voted without
being sworn. They supported H. J. Sickle.
for Council. and nj. w. MCGEE for Repre-
sentative. They left the evening of the cleo
ton. Some of them started on horseback for
Lawrence, as they said they could be there
before night; and all went the way they came.
The census list shows So legal voters in the
district. 253 votes were cast of these, 25
were residents, II Of whom were in the dis
trict when the census was taken. Some Of the
residents present at the polls did not vote, de-
claring it useless Candidates declined to run
on the free State ticket, because they were un-
willing to run the risk of so unequal con-
test, it being known that great many were
coming up from Missouri to VOTE Nearly all
the settlers were free State men, and 90 of
the IS legal votes given we're cast for the only
free State candidate running. Mobiller Nc
Gee, who was declared elected Representa-.
tive, had clan-a saw-mll and house in
the territory--and he was there part of the
time but his legal residence is now. and was
then, near Veslport, in Missouri, where he
owns and conducts valuable farm and where
his family resides.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
THIS was attached to the Seventh District
for member Of the Council and represent
tative, and its vote was controlled by the lille.
gal vote cast there. The census shows 80
votes in it-3l votes were cast, Of whom a
| VOteu Tue uec Otdtc TICKET.
NINTH DISTRICT.
Fort Riley and Pawnce are in this district
The latter place selected bv the Governor as
the temporary capital aud he designed there to
expend the sums appropriated by Congress in the
construction of suitable houses for the I.cgisla-
ture. y good deal Of building was being done
ut the Fort near by. For these re ,sons number
of mechanics, mostly from Penusvlvania, came
into this district in March, 1855, to seek employ
| ment. Some of these voted at the election. The
construction of the capital was first postponed,
| then abandoned, and finally the site of the town
was declared by the Secretary of War, to be
within the military reservation of Fort Riley.
Some of the inhabitants returned to the States,
and some went to other parts of the territory.
Your committee find that they came as settlers,
| intending to remain as such, and were entitled
to vote.
TENTH DISTRICT.
In this district ten persons belonging to the
| Wyandott tribe of Indians voted-rhey were of
| that class who under the law were entitled to
| vote; but their residence was ut Wayandott Vii
lage, at the mouth of the Kansas river, and they
had no right to vote m this district. They voted
| the o-Slavery ticket. Eleven men recently
| from Pennsylvania voted the Free State ticket.
| From the testimony they had not, at the time of
election, established their residence as to have
entitled them to vote.-ln both these classes of
cases the Judges examined the voters under oath
and allowed them to vote, and in all respects the
| election seems to have been conducted fairly.
The rejection of both would have changed the
result. This and the Eighth election district
| formed one representative distrct-and was the
| only one to which the invasion from Missouri did
| not extend.
ELEVENTH DISTRICT.
The 9th. 10th, llth, and 18th election dis
trlcts, being all sparscly settled, were attached
together as a Council district, and the / lth and
18th as a Representative district. This cleo
ton district is 80 miles north from Pawnee.
and $50 miles from Kansas city, 1t is the
north west settlement in the territory, and con.
tanned when the census was taken, but SO in
habtan,s Of whom "a were voters There
was on the day of election no white settlement
about Marysville, the place of voting, for 40
miles, except that Marshall & Bishop kept
store and ferry at the crossing of the Big Blue
| and California. Your committee were unable
| to procure witnesses from this district. Per-
SONS who were present at the election were
duly summoned by an officer, and among them
was +. J. Marshall, the member of the House
| from that district. On his return the officer
was arrested and detained, and persons hear
| ing the names of some of the witnesses SUN.
not appear before the committee. The returns
show that, in defiance of the Governors pro.
clamatlon, the voting was Uird voce, instead Of
by ballot. 32S names appear upon the poll
books, as voting, aud by comparing these
names with those on the census rolls, we find
but seven of the latter voted. The person
voted for as Representative. F. ]. Marshall,
was chief owner Of the store at Marysville,
and was there sometimes, but his family lived
in Weston. John Donaldson, the candidate
voted for the Council, then lived in jackson
county. Missouri.
On the day after election, Mr.. Marshall,
with twenty or thirty men from Weston. Mo-,
was on his way to the State. Some Of the
party told witness who formerly resided at
Weston, that they had been upa Marysville
and carried the day for Missouri that they had
voted about $50 votes. Mr.. Marshall paid the
bill at that point for the part~.
There does not appear to be any emigration
into that district in March. 1855, after the
census was taken, and Judging from the
best test in the power Of your committee, there
were but seven legal votes cast in the district,
and 321 illegal.
TWELFTH DISTRICT.
The election in this district was conducted
fairly. No complaint was made that illegal
| votes were cast
THIRrEEyTH DISTRICT.
Previous to the day of election several hum
ureds of Missourians from Platte, Clay, Boone,
Clinton and Howard counties came into the
district in wagons and on horseback, and
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