FIRST ELECTION FOR MEMBERS OF COUNCIL AND HOUSE. On the 18th of March, 1855, Governor Reeder issued a proclamation ordering an election to be held on the 30th of that month for thirteen members of the council and twenty-six members of the house of representatives, in which the council and representative districts were named, as follows: COUNCIL DISTRICTS. The first, fourth and seventeenth election districts, containing 466 voters, shall constitute the first council district, and elect two members of council. The second election district and so much of the thirteenth as is embraced in the Kansas half-breed lands, containing 212 voters, will constitute the second council district, and elect one member of council; and the voters thus detached from the thirteenth will vote at the place of election fixed for the second election district. The third, seventh and eighth election districts, containing 193 voters, will constitute the third council district, and elect one member of council. The fifth election district, containing 440 voters, will constitute the fourth council d strict, and elect two members of council. The sixth election district, containing 253 voters, will constitute the fifth council district, and elect one member of council. The ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth election districts, containing 201 voters, will constitute the sixth council district, and elect one member of council. The Wolf River precinct and Doniphan precinct, of the fourteenth, the whole of the eighteenth,* and so much of the fifteenth election district as lies north of Walnut creek and its main branch and a due west line from its source, containing 247 voters, shall constitute the seventh council district, and elect one member of council; and the voters who are thus detached from the fifteenth will vote at the Doniphan precinct. The Burr Oak precinct, of the fourteenth district, .containing 215 voters, will constitute the eighth council district, and elect one member of council. The residue of the fifteenth election district, containing 208 voters, will constitute the ninth council district, and elect one member of council. The sixteenth and residue of the thirteenth election districts, containing 468 voters, will constitute the tenth council district, and elect two members of council. REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. The seventeenth and fourth election distric: s, containing 97 voters, shall constitute the first representative district, and elect one member. The first election district, containing 369 voters, shall be the second representative dist ict, and elect three members. The second council district shall be the third representative district, and elect two members. The third election district, containing 101 voters, shall be the fourth representative district, and elect one member. *On the 24th of February, 1855, an additional election district was created, comprising portions of the eleventh, twelfth and thirteenth districts, and called the eighteenth election district, viz.: Commencing in the Vermillion branch of the Blue river, at the crossing of the military road from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearney; thence due north to the line of the territory; thence along the same, east, to the line of the fourteenth election district; thence south along the line of the fourteenth and fifteenth election districts to the aforesaid military road; and thence by the middle of said road to the place of beginning. The seventh and eighth election districts, containing 92 voters, shall be the fifth representative district, and elect one member. The sixth election district shall be the sixth representative district, and elect two members. The fifth election district shall be the seventh representative district, and elect four members. The ninth and tenth election districts, containing 99 voters, shall be the eighth representative district, and elect one member. The eleventh and twelfth election districts, containing 102 voters, shall be the ninth representative district, and elect one member. The residue of the thir eenth election district, containing 83 voters, shall be the tenth representative district, and elect one member. The seventh council district shall be the eleventh representative district, and elect two members. The eighth council district shall be the twelfth representative district, and ele t two members. The ninth council district shall be the thirteenth representative district, and elect two members. The sixteenth election district, containing 385 voters, shall be the fourteenth representative district, and elect three members. RETURNS OF ELECTION OF MARCH 30, 1855, BY DISTRICTS. No. of No. of ELECTION OF MARCH 30, 1855, BY COUNCIL DISTRICTS. First. Lawrence. First. Fourth.. Chapman's. 2 900 Joel K. Goodin.. 7 Sam. N. Wood.. Joel K. Goodin.. 7 Sam. N. Wood.... Joel K. Goodin.. 16 Seventeenth... 59 Ed. Chapman.. 42 Sam. N. Wood. 16 Second.... Second. 1 A. McDonald, 318 318 J. A. Wakefield 12 12 330 330 Third... H. J. Strickler.. 370 A. McDonald 4 374 ELECTION TO FILL VACANCIES, MAY 22, 1855. On the 16th of April, 1855, Governor Reeder issued a proclamation providing for an election to "be held on Tuesday, the twenty-second day of May, 1855, in the first election district of said territory, for three members of the house of representatives; in the second election district, for one member of council and two members of the house of representatives; in the third election district, for one member of the house of representatives; in the third, seventh and eighth election districts severally, for one member of council to represent the third council district; and in the sixteenth election district, for three members of the house of representatives; under and in conformity to the apportionment of said territory heretofore named, and to fill vacancies existing in the representative and council districts of which the said election districts are respectively composed;" the returns of the election of March 30, 1855, in these districts, having been thrown out by the governor on account of irregularities. RETURNS OF THE ELECTION OF MAY 22, 1855, TO FILL VACANCIES. NOTE.- Having thus given the organization of the territory into election districts, and the election of the first territorial legislature, subsequent elections held for legislative purposes will be omitted from these pages, as such election returns are of minor importance and draw too heavily upon the space to which the compiler is confined. |