The Kanzas news., 1858-02-27
A New Constitutional Convention.

II
Be it enacted by the Governor and Leg
islative Assembly of the Territory OF Kan
zas
Section l.. That an election shall be held
throughout the Territory of Kanzas, on the
second Tuesday of March, A. D. 1858. for
the election of delegates to Convention to
frame Constitution for the State of Kan
Zas,
SEC. 2. The Convention shall be COM
posed of one hundred members. and the
Territory shall be divided into districts, and
delegates apportioned to them as follows:
Leayenworth, 13; Douglas and Johnson,
I3; Doniphan, 8; Atehison, 5; Brown, 8;
Nemaha, e; Marshall, 1; Riley, 8; Pota-
watomie, 2; Calhoun, g; Dickinson, L; Clay
and Washington, l.; Butler and Hunter. l;
Weller, 1 McGee, 1; Dorm. /; Wise, 1;
Greenwood, 1; Wilson and Godfrey, 1; Da
Eis, 1; Madison, 1; Breckinridge, 8; Rich
ardson, g; Woodson, 1; Coffey, 8; Shaw
nee, &; Anderson, 8; Franklin, 2; Bourbon
and Allen, 5; Linn, 4; Lykins, 4; Jeffer
b son, 4.
Sac. 8. That the several precincts in each
.countyer district shall be defined, and places
efxoting established, and three judges in each
ssnpoined by the Commissioners selected by
act subnitting the Constitution framed at
Lecompten," under the act of the Legisla-
tive Assembly of Kanzas Territory, enti-
lied 'tan act to provide for taking census,
and of election of delegates to a Conven-
tion," passed February 10Th, 1857, as far
as may be applicable to the districts afore
said, as follows: -
and it is hereby made the duty of the Sec
retary of the Territory to forward copy of
this act to eachof the persons above named,
Immediately upon the passage of this act.
SEC. 4. That il shall be, the duty of the
commissioners hereinafter appointed, to give
public notice, by posting written or printed
bills in three public places in each precinct
in their several counties or districts. indica-
ting the time and places of holding such
election, stating the names of the persons
selected as judges, at least ten days before
the day designated in this act for the cleo
ton of delegates. If any judge of the
election so appointed shall fail or refuse to
perform the duties of his appointment, the
legal voters assembled at the place, and on
the day appointed for said election shall have
power to fill such vacancy by election from
their own number; and it shall be the duty
of the judges of election, in all the precincts
throughout the Territory, to open the polls
at 9 O'clock A. NJ, and keep them open till
6 O'clock P. M.
SEC. 5. That the judges of election shall
each. before entering upon the discharge of
their duties, make oath or affirmation that
they will faithfully and impartially discharge
the duties of judges of the election, accord
ing to law, which oath or affirmation shall
be administered by any officer authorized
by law to administer oaths, or by one of
their own body. They shall appoint two
clerks, who shall take the like oath or affirm
alton, to be administered by one of the
, Judges of the election, and whose duty it
shall be to keep each a correct list of the
voters who may vote at such election. A
certificate of the oath taken by the judges,
as herein required, shall be attached to and
returned with the poll books.
Sec 6. Any voter shall have the right to
challenge the right of any person offering to
vote, and the person so challenged shall,
before he shall be permitted to vote, be re-
4uired to answer, under oath, to be admin
istered by one of the judges of election, all
questions put by the judges or their order,
touching his right to vote, or whether he
has voted in any other precinct during the
same day, and evidence contradicting his
statements may be introduced, for which
purpose the Judges are hereby empowered
to administer oaths, and if satisfied that he
is attempting to vote fraudulently, the judges
shall exclude his vote.
SEC. Z. That the vote shall be by ballot,
on which shall be written or printed the
names of the persons voted for as delegates,
which ballots, Immediately on the reception
thereof by the judges, shall be by them
deposited in ballot box, to be by said judg-
es provided for that purpose. At the close
of the polls the judges shall proceed, pub
Ecly, to count the ballots, and shall certify
The number of votes each person may have
received, which certificate, attested by the
clerks, together with one of the original
poll books and tally list, they shall, within
two days after said election, forward by one
of said judges, to one Of the commissioners
herein appointed for their county or district;
the other poll book and tally list, and the
ballots east at the election, shall be kept by
one of the judges sixty days for public in
speetion. It shall be the duty of the COM
missioners herein appointed. within ten
days after the election, to deliver all such
returns to the Governor of the Territory,
the President of the Council, or the Speak
er of the House of Representatives of the
Legislative Assembly.
SEC. 8. That it shall be the duty of the
Governor, the President of the Council and
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
or any two of them, to examine and count
up the returns from the several counties or
districts, make proclamation of the result
OF said election, and give certificates of eiec-
ton to the persons having the highest num-
Der of votes in their respective districts
SEC. g. That the elective franchise at any
election held under the. provisions of this
act. may be exercised by all the male inhab-
ltants of the Territory, over the age of