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

KANSAS AFFAIRS.
PROCLAMATION.
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, e
Territory of Kansas.
To the citizens and in7habitants of the Territory of Kanscas:
I, Andrew H. Reedler, governor of the said Territory, do hereby
proclaim and make known, that, under and by virtue of the authority
conferred, and the duty enjoined by the thirty-fifth section of the act
of Congress passedcl the thirtieth day of May, A. D. 1854, entitled
"An act to organize the Territories of Nebraska and Kansas," I have,
until otherwise provided by law, defined the judicial districts of the
said Territory, and assigned one of said districts to each of the judges
appointed for said Territory; and( have also appointed the times and
places for holding the courts in the said districts, as follows, that is
to sav:
All of said Territory embraced within the following bounds shall
constitute thedrstjutdicial district, to wit: Commencing at the mouth
of the Kansas river; thence up the MAlissouri river to the northern line
of the Territory; thence along said line west to the line between the
eleventh and eighteenth election districts; thence down said line to
the military road leading from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Kearney
thence along said road to the line between the twelfth and thirteenth
election districts; thence down the same and the waters of Soldier
creek, along the western shore thereof, to the Kansas river, and down
the same, on the southern shore thereof, to the place of beginning,
including the thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, and eighteenth election districts; which said district is assigned to Chief Justice S. D. Lecompte, and the courts thereof shall be held at the town
of Leavenworth.
All of said Territory embraced within the following bounds shall
constitute the second judicial district, to wit: Commencing at the
mouth of the Kansas river; thence up the same, along the southern
shore thereof, to the western linb of the Pottawatomie reservation;
thence along the western and southern lines of said reservation to the
headwaters of the Wakarusa, or the nearest point thereto, and thence
directly to andl down the northern shore of the same to the east side
of the house of Charles MIatingly; thence due south to the middle of
the Santa Fe road; thence westwardly along the middle of said road
to Rock creek; thence due south to the north line of I he Sac and Fox
reservation; thence along the north and west lines thereof, and due
south, to the Neosho river; thence up the southern shore of said river,
and of the north branch thereof, to the head; thence due south to
the line of the Territory, and thence by the south and east lines of
the Territory to the place of beginning, to include the first, second,
third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventeenth election districts. The
said district is assigned to Hon. Rush Ellmore, and the courts thereof
shall be held at the town of Tecumseh.
The residue of the Territory, comprising the seventh, eighth,
ninth, tenth, eleventh, and twelfth election districts, shall constitute
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