To his Excellency A. H. REEDER, Governor of Kansas Territory:

Believing that a large number of the citizens of the State of Missouri voted at the election of the 29th instant for delegate to Congress representing Kansas Territory, we respectfully petition your honor that the entire vote of the district receiving the votes of citizens of Missouri be set aside, or that the entire election be set aside.

THE CENSUS

ог

THE TERRITORY OF KANSAS,

FEBRUARY, 1855;

THE RETURNS OF THE ELECTIONS OF MARCH 30 AND MAY 22, 1855;

AND

THE ACTION OF GOVERNOR REEDER THEREON

The persons appointed by the governor to make an enumeration of inhabitants and qualified voters in the Territory having made their returns, the following table of inhabitants and qualified voters in the several districts is compiled therefrom.*

You are hereby appointed to take the census of the first election district of the Territory of Kansas. The act of Congress requires not only an enumeration of the inhabitants, but also of the qualified voters; and as the law commits solely to my discretion the mode of taking and returning, I have caused books to be prepared which will exhibit many features of our population interesting to the public and useful in the way of statistical information, as well to the legislature as the

people. In this book you will find columns prepared accordingly. In noticing the age you write on the proper column for those under twenty-one the word "minor;" for those between 21 and 30 the figures 21; and for those between 30 and 40, between 40 and 50, between 50 and 60 and over 60, write always the lower number. In noting males, females, natives of the United States, naturalized citizens, declarants, (meaning those who have declared before some proper court their intention to become citizens,) qualified voters, negroes, and slaves, it will only be necessary to insert a mark or figure on the proper column. Those columns of marks or figures you will foot up on each page, and at the end of the book you will bring together and foot up the several columns of each class, so as to show the aggregate of each. You will also ascertain and state the total of each kind of occupation, and of each class found in the column of age. The columns for occupations will, of course, be left blank for minors who have none and females. In entering the place you will enter the State or Territory of the United States, or the foreign country, which was the last place of residence, and you will ascertain from this column and carry to the end of the book the number from each place named. You will not include army officers or soldiers of the army, or persons attached to troops in the service of the United States, unless they intend to remain and reside in the Territory when not on service, nor will you include any Indians or persons of Indian blood. As this is an enumeration of inhabitants and not of property, you will enter the name of no man by reason of owning or claiming land here, or of his intention to remain here, but only those who actually dwell here at the time of taking the census.

In noting the qualified voters you must ascertain from your own observation, and the best information you can procure, who are entitled to be thus considered and designated. A qualified voter must be free, of white blood, twenty-one years of age, an actual resident of the Territory, dwelling here with the bona fide intention of making it his home, and a native or naturalized citizen of the United States, or a declarant who has sworn to support the Constitution of the United States and the act organizing the Territory.

As it may become necessary, in the formation of representative districts, to divide your district, it will be well to preserve, by notes in the blank pages, some information as to the number of the inhabitants, with reference as to known localities and natural boundaries, or at least so as to take the enumeration, that you may communicate to me such information on this head as that I may be enabled myself to make the necessary notes.

You will also make a separate alphabetical list of the qualified voters in the district and return the same personally to me, with your enumeration and classification, on the tenth day of February next, when you will be expected to take the oath entered at the end of this book.

Issued this 22d day of January, 1855.

W. C. BABCOCK, Esq.

A. H. REEDER, Governor of the Territory of Kansas.

List of voters of the first election district of the Territory of Kansas, according to the census returns taken by W. C. Babcock in the months of January and February, 1855.