And we further certify, that the said voters were bona fide citizens of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, and actual residents of the Territory of Kansas for thirty days immediately preceding this election, and still continue the same as their home and residence. Judges. Attest: } Clerks. Tally-list of votes cast at an election held on the 15th day of December, A. D. 1855, precinct, in district No. -, in Kansas Territory, on the adoption or rejection of a constitution for the State of Kansas, and upon the general banking dause and black law-proposition. Constitution. No constitu- Gen'l banking Gen'l banking Exclusion of ne- Exclusion of netion. law Yes. law--No. precinct, in We, the undersigned, judges and clerks of election, hereby certify, upon our oaths, that the whole number of votes cast at an election held at district, in Kansas Territory, on the 15th day of December, A. D. 1855, for the adoption or rejection of a constitution framed by the constitutional convention which assembled at Topeka on the 23d day of October, A. D. 1855, for the State of Kansas, to be in number as follows: Constitution..... No constitution. We further certify, that the whole number of votes cast at said election, approving or disapproving an article in relation to a general banking law, submitted as a distinct proposition, to become a part of said constitution, if adopted by a majority of the people, to be in number as follows: General banking law-Yes..... We further certify, that the whole number of votes cast at said election, approving or disapproving the passage of stringent laws by the general assembly for the exclusion of free negroes and mulattoes from the State of Kansas, the result of said vote to operate as instructions to the first general assembly, to be in number as follows: Exclusion of negroes and mulattoes-Yes... And we further certify, that the said voters were bona fide citizens of the United States, above the age of twenty-one years, and actual residents of the Territory of Kansas for thirty days immediately preceding this election, and still continuing the same as their home and residence. , Judges. Attest: } Clerks. ELECTION OF JANUARY 15, 1856. 1 S C Smith FIRST DISTRICT-Blanton. 2 John E Stewart 3 Samuel Merrill 4 J Elliott 5 Ira Brown 6 H E Babcock 7 Joshua Hughes 8 Charles Dickson 9 Elisha F. Mayo 10 L J Eberhard 11 W S Bishop 12 Collins Holliway 13 J Salathiel 14 Joseph Everhard 15 James G Saffer 16 J A Coffey 17 W D Jennerson 18 Daniel F Merris 19 John Morehead 20 Seth Rodibaugh 21 L H Rowley 22 Harrison Nichols 23 William Carles 24 Josiah Hutcheson 25 R P Moore 26 O P Kennedy 27 E W Bennett 28 TH Kennedy 29 J K Goodin 30 William Whitlock 31 Ezekiel Duzar 32 Lewis Staggers 33 G W Berry 34 L M Huddleston 35 J M Jones 36 Clark Teft 37 Abram Still 38 JH Gleason 39 J W Jones Poll-book. 40 B Hitchcock 41 L A Hammond 42 Edmund Carles 43 Levi W Plumb 44 Jonathan Kenedy 45 Hiram Dunbar 46 W V Kennedy 47 William Nettleton 48 William Blegman 49 PS Hutcherson 50 T B Smith 51 P T Hupp 52 James Lane 53 Paul Jones 54 James Waley 55 A W Maberly 56 A W Maberly 57 H F Saunders 58 Jonathan Ogden 59 F P Vaughn 60 Thomas Hopkins 61 Joseph Curles 62 Thomas Breeze 63 E Smith 64 W Atwater 65 L A Prather 66 John G Smith 67 Isaac Shaper 68 John R Griffith 69 James B Abbott 70 Simon Gibson 71 R D Horton 72 William Livermore 74 Alex Mears 76 John Carter 77 N B Blanton 78 Peter Pridy Certificate correctly filled, and signed as follows: JOHN E. STEWART, PHILIP T. HUPP. Judges. WILLIAM S. BISHOP, WILLIAM LIVERMORE, Clerks. P. S. HUTCHESON, Certificate correct, except that W. R. Griffith is stated to be 24 instead of 23 votes for auditor. 1 T G Murray 2 W Bridges 3 J McFarlane 4 T McFarlan 5 BH Nelson 6 Moses Flora 7 J L Smith 8 D Scannell 9 James McGhee 10 D Burton 11 John Lawhead 27 Green Phillis 32 David Wallace 34 S M Salters 35 CM Wallace 36 Robert McFarland Poll-book. 37 Norman Chambers 38 Fleming Bridges 39 A M Whedon 40 W J Kennedy 41 John Stroup 42 William Stroup 43 E A Landon 44 James Anderson 45 T M Arterbery 46 JW Hague 47 Samuel Crane 48 Lewis Anderson 49 William S Hull 50 Edward T Webb 51 John Vanwinkle 52 W G Piper 53 Robert Shields 54 Isam C Taylor 55 Herbert Sterling 56 Armstrong Lawhead 57 E B Johnston 58 JH Crocket 59 John Anderson 60 V F White 61 Thomas Brindly 62 Joseph Young 63 J W Hoping 64 J Sellers 65 D Meacham 66 H C Bigbee 67 J J McGhee 68 T S McGee 69 Adam McGhee |