Report of the special committee appointed to investigate the troubles in Kansas,: with the views of the minority of said committee.

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
Sixteenth District.-Election at the house of Keller & Kyle, in the
town of Leavenworth.
Judges.. —MIatthias France, J. C. Posey, David Brown.
Seventceiith District.-Election at the Shawnee Methodist Church.
Judges.-Cyprian Choteau, C. B. Donaldson, Charles Boles.
EigAteenth District.- Election at the house of William W. Moore,
on St. Joseph and California road, at the crossing of the Nemaha.
Jutdgcs.-Jesse Adamson, Thomas J. B. Cramer, John Belew.
Instructions to judges of election.
The three judges will provide for each poll ballot boxes with a slit
for the insertion of the tickets, and will assemble at their respective
polls at or before eight o'clo)ck a. nm. of the day of election, and will
make and subscribe the duplicate copies of the printed oath which will
be furnished them. This oath must be administered by a judge or
justice of the peace, if one be present; and if not, then the judges c an
nmutually administer the oathl to each other, which they are hereby
fully autl-horized to do. In case of the absence of any one or two of
said judges at nine o'clock a. m., the vacancy shall be filled by the
judge or judges who shall attend; and if any vacancy shall occur
after the judges have been sworn, it shall be filled in the same maniier. In case none of the judg,es appointed shall attend at nine o'clock
a. m., the voters on the ground may, by tellers, select persons to act
in their stead. The judges will keep two corresponding lists of the
names of persons who shall vote, numbering each name. They must
be satisfied of the qualifications of every person offering to vote, and
may examine the voter, or any othlier person, under oath, upon the
sul)ject.
The polls wvill be kept open until six o'clock p. mn., and then closed
unless voters are present offering to vote; and in that case shall be
closed as soon thereafter as votes cease to be offered.
AWhen the polls are closed, the judges will proceed to open and
count the votes, and will keep twvo corresponding tally lists, on which
they will simultaneously tally each ticket as it is called by the judge,
who will openi and call out the tickets, whlich must be done without
hLandling, or interference by any other person. When the votes are
thus counted off, and the tally lists shall agree, the judges shall publicly proclaim the result, and shall fill up and sign the duplicate certificates of return which will be furnished them. They will then
carefully replace the said tickets in one or bothl of the ballot boxes,
togetlher with one copy of the oath, one of the lists of voters, and one
of the certificates of return, and will seal up and preserve the same,
to be produced if called for. The remainiing copies of the oath, list
of voters, tally list, and certificate, will be sealed up, directed to the
governor of the Territory, and delivered by one of the judges in person to the governor, at his office at the Shawnee Methodist mission,
on or before the fourth day of April, A. D. 1855.
In the fifth district the several return judges will meet on the day
-after the election, at the house of Henry Sherman, on Pottawatomie
creek, and select one of their number, who shall take charge of and de
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