The Kansas herald of freedom., 1859-05-14
Proclamation

In pursuance of the third section of the
"Act to provide for the formation of
Constitution and State Government for the
State Of Kansas" a majority of the legal
voters af the Territory having declared
themselves in favor of the formation Of
Constitution and State Government,
!, SAMUEL MEDARY, Governor Of the
Territory of Kansas, do proclaim, as the
law requires,
"Ihat an election shall be holden on the
first Tuesday of June, A. d. 1859, in the
several voting precincts in the Territory of
Kansas, for delegates to convention to
frame Constitution and State Government
for the State of Kansas.
"Ihat said convention shall be composed
Of ffty-two members, to be apportioned
among the several districts of the Territory
as follows, to wit: The county of Leav-
enworth shall constitute the first district
and shall elect ten delegates the county of
Atchison shall constitute the second dis
trict, and shall elect three delegates the
county OF Doniphan shall Constitute the
third district, and shall elect five delegates:
the county of Brown shall constitute the
fourth district, and shall elect one delegate:
the county of Nenaha shall constitute the
fifth district, and shall elect one delegate :;
the counties Of Marshall, Washington and
ATrapahoe, shall constitute the sixth dis
trict, and elect one delegate the county of
Jefferson shall constitute the seventh dis
trict, and elect one delegate the county of
Calhoun shall constitute the eighth dis
trict, and elect one delegate the county of
Riley shall constitute the ninth district, and
elect one delegate the county Of Potea-
watomie shall constitute the tenth district,
and shall elect one delegate the county Of
johnson, shall constitute the eleventh dis
trict, and shall elect two delegates the
county Of Douglas shall constitute the
twelfth district, and shall elect sew
en- delegates; the county of Shawnee
shall constitute the thirteenth district,
and shall elect three delegates the
counties of Richardson, Davis, Dickerson
and Clay, shall constitute the fourteenth
district, and shall elect one delegate the
county of Lykins shall constitute the fif-
teenth district, and shall elect two dele
gates the county of Franklin shall consti-
tute the sixteenth district, and shall elect
one delegate & the counties Of Weller,
Breckenridge and Wise shall constitute the
seventeenth district, and shall elect two
delegates the county of Linn shall consti-
tute the eighteenth district, and shall elect
two delegates the county of Anderson
shall constitute the nineteenth district, and
shall elect one delegate the counties of
Coffey and Woodson shall constitute the
twentieth district, and shall elect two dele
gates; the counties of Madison, Butler,
Hunter, Greenwood, Godfrey and Wilson,
shall constitute the twenty-hrst district,
and shall elect one delegate the counties
of Bourbon, McGee and Dorm shall con-
stitute the twenty-second district, and shall
elect two delegates; the county of Allen
shall constitute the twenty-third district,
and shall elect one delegate.
"T'hat the delegates, elected under the
provisions Of this Act, shall assemble at
Wyandott, on the first Tuesday of July, A.
d. 1859, and shall proceed to frame con-
stitution and provide for the organization Of
a State Government for the State Of Kan
sas.
"That all white male citizens of the
United States, and all those who shall have
declared on oath their intention to become
such, and all male Indians who have been
made citizens Of the United States by treaty
or otherwise, and who shallsbe over the age
of twenty-one years, and who shall have
been bona Jide Inhabitants of the Territory
of Kansas, for the period of six months
next preceding each of the respective cleo
tions provided for by, this Act, and who
shall have been bona tfds inhabitants of the
county in which they may offer to vote for
ten days next preceding each Of the respec-
tive elections aforesaid, and none others ;
shall be entitled to vote at the,several cleo
tions herein provided for; Prorided, that
no officer, soldier, seaman or marine, or
other person in the army or navy of the
United States, or attached to the troops in
the service of the United States, shall be
allowed to vote or hold Office under the pro-
visions Of this Act, by reason of being on
service in this Territory.
That the persons who may be judges Of
election in the several voting precincts of
this Territory, at the time Of the respective
elections provided for in this Act, shall be
the judges OF the several respective elee-
tions hereinbefore. provided for
NThat the said judges Of election, before
entering upon the duties Of their office,