446 Kansas ^tate Historical Society.
as constable, both for Claytonville township; John G. Spencer, as justice of the
peace, and John M. Barnes, as constable, both for Locknair township; Louis
Dunn, as justice of the peace, and William Dunn, as constable, both for
Irving township; Joseph H. Brown, as justice of the peace for Claytonville
township; M. C. Willis, as justice of the peace for Claytonville township; E.
M. Hubbard as coroner for Brown county; James A. Fulton, as sheriff of
Brown county; Richard L. Oldham, as treasurer of Brown county.
September 8. — Commission issued this day to John Martin and James M.
Gardiner, as justices of the peace in and for Tecumseh township, Shawnee
county, by virtue of their appointment by the board of county commissioners,
on the 5th of September, 1857.
Commission issued this day to Abraham Policy, as notary public for
Shawnee county, Kansas Territory; also to David T. Mitchell, as notary public
for Douglas county, K. T.
September 15. — Commission issued this day to Henry De Villiers, as notary
public in and for Linn county; also to J. B. Chapman, as notary public in
and for Calhoun county; also to E. C. Amsden, as sheriff of Coffey county, by
virtue of his appointment by the board of county commissioners, at the July
term; also to John H. Blake, as clerk of the board of county commissioners
of Johnson county, by virtue of his appointment by the board of county com-
missioners on the 8th inst. — with the appointment was also received John
H. Blake's oath of office, sworn to before J. P. Campbell, judge of probate
of Johnson county, and also the bond of said Blake for the faithful perform-
ance of his duty, and the appointment of John H. Blake as recorder of John-
son county, and his bond for the faithful performance of his duties as re-
corder.
September 16. — Commission issued this day to James D. Allen, as justice
of the peace in and for Shawnee township, .Johnson county, by virtue of his
appointment by the board of county commissioners of Johnson county.
September 17. — Commission issued this day to Philip Allen, as justice of
the peace in and for Grasshopper Falls township, Jefferson county, by virtue
of his appointment by the board of county commissioners; also to Patrick H.
Cary, as commissioner of deeds for the state of New York, to reside in the
city of New York; also to William Grandin, as commissioner of deeds for the
state of New York, residing in New York city; also to John L. Pendry, as
notary public of Leavenworth county.
October 17. — Commissions issued to Hugh S. Walsh, as notary public for
Douglas county; oath of office administered by George W. Brown, notary
public; bond filed with the county court on 22d; F. P. Stanton and Rush
Elmore as securities. Commissions issued to Dudley Foley, as justice of the
peace for term prescribed by law, for Kentucky township, Jefferson county;
elected on the 5th October, 1857; sworn in by the secretary of the territory, and
oath filed; also commission issued to Thomas F. Campbell, notary public for
Leavenworth county; also to Benjamin F. Hutchins, notary public. Leaven-
Governor Walker^s Adniimstration. 447
worth county; also to Samuel N. Wood, by virtue of his election on the 5th
day of October, 1857; oath of office administered by Hugh S. Walsh, notary
public, and oath filed.
October 19. — Commission issued to Samuel Walker, as sheriff of Douglas
county, by virtue of his election on the 5th and 6th days of October, 1857;
oath of office administered same day by F. P. Stanton, secretary of the terri-
tory. Commission issued to Henry Barricklow, and also to Marshall T. Davis,
as county commissioners for Douglas county, by virtue of their election on
the 5th and 6th days of October, 1857; to William Yates, as treasurer of
Douglas county, by virtue of his election on the 5th and 6th days of October,
1857. Commissions issued to Amos Hicks and Thomas Oliver, as justices of
the peace for Lecompton township, Douglas county, by virtue of their election
on the 5th day of October, 1857.
October 20. — James F. Walker was this day commissioned, under the ap-
pointment of the county court, as constable for the township of Lecompton,
county of Douglas, during the term prescribed by law.
October 21. — Oath of office administered by the secretary of the territory
to William Yates, as county treasurer; indorsed on the back of his commis-
sion, and signed in the presence of the secretary. Certificates of election to
the council for the 6th council district were this day issued to Lyman Allen,
Carmi W. Babcock and Edwin S. Nash; also to John Speer, George W. Deitz-
ler, Oliver Barber, Hiram Appleman, Andrew J. Still, George W. Zinn,
Gideon Seymour, and John Lockhart, as representatives from the tenth
representative district, in the next legislative assembly for Kansas Territory,
by virtue of their election on the 5th and 6th insts.
October 23.— Oath of Robert E. Jordan, before W. S. Holt, of Halifax
county, Virginia, as commissioner to take acknowledgment of deeds, received
this day and filed. Commissions issued this day for the following officers for
Brown county, by virtue of their election on the 5th day of October, 1857, viz.:
William B. Sargent, as probate judge; Alexander B. Anderson, as county com-
missioner; Jacob Englehart, as county commissioner; Moses P. Proctor, as
county treasurer; P^'ranklin O. Sawin, as sheriff; J. Meyers, as justice of the
peace for Walnut Creek township; J. W. Betts, as justice of the peace for
Walnut Creek tovs-nship; H. C. Gragg, as justice of the peace for Locknair
township; J. Willhoit, as justice of the peace for Irving township; J. Mag-
lott, as justice for Irving township. Commissions issued this day for the
following officers for Lykins county, by virtue of their election on the 5th day
of October, 1857, viz.: Cyrus Tator, as judge of probate; George Fisher, as
county commissioner; Cyrus Shaw, as county treasurer; Ezekiel W. Downing,
as county commissioner, and Henry H. Williams, as sheriff.
October 24. — Commissions issued this day to Thomas Oliver, as justice of
the peace for Lecompton township, Douglas county, by virtue of his election
on the 5th day of October, 1857; oath of office administered by Hugh S. Walsh,
notary public, and indorsed on the back of his commission. Bond of Hugh
448 Kansas ^Statc Historical Society.
S. Walsh received from the county clerk (as notary public), and filed with
notary's bond. Bond of J. B. Chapman, as notary public for the county of
Calhoun, received and filed, with the notary's bond. Commission issued this
day to Charles Mundee, as notary public for the county of Leavenworth,
Commission issued to George A. Crawford, as notary public for the county of
Bourbon, on the 19th day of this month. Commissions issued this day for
the following officers for the county of Calhoun, by virtue of their election on
the 5th of October, 1857, viz.: William Owen as sheriff; C. G. Allen, as judge
of probate; Alfred Matthews, as county commissioner; Jesse Hendrickson, as
county commissioner; Albert Fuller, as county treasurer.
October 26. — Commission issued this day to Salmon S. Prouty, as clerk of
the board of county commissioners of Douglas county (vice R. C. Bishop,
whose term of service has expired), by virtue of his appointment by the board
of county commissioners, on the 24th of this month.
October 27. — Commission issued this day to Moses H. Wilburn, as justice
of the peace in and for the township of Kentucky, in the county of Jefferson,
by virtue of his election on the 5th of October, 1857. Commission issued this
day to Philip T. Hupp, as justice of the peace in and for said township of
Wakarusa City, in the county of Shawnee, by virtue of his election on the
5th day of October, 1857; oath of ofiice administered by H. S. Walsh, notary
public.
Certificate of election was this day issued to Marcus J. Parrott, as dele-
gale elected to the Thirty-fifth Congress of the United States, by virtue of his
election to said ofiice on the 5th and 6th days of October, 1857.
October 28. - Commissions were issued this day to the following persons
as officers in and for the county of Atchison, by virtue of their election on the
5th October, 1857, viz.:
Thornas J. Thompson, as sheriff; Alexander E. Mayhew, as judge of pro-
bate; Thomas Poteet, as county commissioner; Martin T. Bailey, as county
commissioner; Samuel Dickson, as county treasurer; Henry Wideman, as
justice of the peace, and Alexander B. Sharp, as justice of the peace, both for
Grasshopper Falls township; William Turner and Horace B. Herndon, as jus-
tices of the peace for Walnut township; Milo Carlton and Henry McClure, as
justices of the peace, Mt. Pleasant township; John H. Ashley and Andrew J.
G. Westbrook, as justices of the peace for Shannon township, all in the county
of Atchison. Commission v/as this day issued to Joseph L. Speer, as judge of
probate in and for the county of Jefferson, by virtue of his election on the 5th
day of October, 1857. Commission was this day issued to Henry G. Towle,
as justice of the peace in and for the township of Wakarusa, in Douglas county,
and the oath of office administered by Hugh S. Walsh, notary public for
Douglas county, and indorsed on his commission; also to E. D. Ladd, as jus-
tice of the peace in and for the township of Wakarusa and county of Douglas,
by virtue of his election on the 5th and 6th days of October, 1857. Oath of
ofiice of Samuel W. Holt, of Halifax county, state of Virginia, as commissioner
to take acknowledgment of deeds, received this day and filed with the oaths
of office. Commission issued to James O'Donnell, of Portland, Me., as commis-
sioner to take the acknowledgment of deeds for this territory in the state of
Governo?- Walkers Administration. 449
Maine. Commission issued to Albert Miner, Baltimore, Md., as commissioner
to take the acknowledgment of deeds for this territory in Maryland. Commis-
sion issued this day to Willard P. Gamble, as notary public for Leavenworth
county, residing in Leavenworth city.
October 29. — Commissions were this day issued to the following officers
in Bourbon county by virtue of their election on the 5th of October, 1857,
viz.: John S. Cummion, as sheriff; William Margrove, as judge of probate;
Andrew Monroe, ae county commissioner: Wiley Patterson, as county commis-
sioner; B. Little, as county treasurer: Harrison R. Kelso, as justice of the
peace, Charles B. Wingfleld, as justice of the peace, both for Scott township;
to John F. Gaither and Bryant Brauniss, as justices of the peace for Drywood
township. Commissions were this day issued to the following officers in
Riley county, by virtue of their election, October 5, 1857, viz.: Lorenzo West-
over, as judge of probate; Freeman N. Blake, as county commissioner; Amory
Hunting, as county commissioner; David A. Butterfield, as sheriff; Henry
Condry, as county treasurer; Charles Beebe and John Pipher, as justices of the
peace for Manhattan township; James R. Randolph and Mincher Condry, as
justices of the peace for Randolph township; J. S. Badger and B. E. Ful-
lington, as justices of the peace for Montague township; Welcome Wells and
Lemuel Knapp, as justices of the peace for Ogden township.
October 31. — Oath administered to Amos Hicks, as justice of the peace for
Lecompton township, Douglas county, and indorsed on the back of his com-
mission, which was issued on the 19th.
November 2. — Commission issued this day to Harrison Brass, justice of the
peace for Washington township, Douglas county, by virtue of his election on
the 5th of October, and oath of office administered by H. S. Walsh, notary
public, and indorsed on the back of his commission. Commission was this
day issued to B. Franklin Hawes, as notary public for Johnson county, Kansas
territory, residing at Lexington.
November 4. — Commission was this day issued to J. Winlock Davis,
notary public for Doniphan county, residing at Doniphan, in said county.
November 11. — Commission was this day issued to Jonathan R. Plough-
man, as notary public for Doniphan county, residing at Wathena. Commis-
sion was this day issued to C. E. Schollkopp, as notary public for Leaven-
worth county, residing at Leavenworth. Commission issued this day to
John C. Douglass, as notary public for Leavenworth county, residing at Leav-
enworth. Commission issued this day to Troost Barkley and Oscar F. Wil-
liams, as justices of the peace in and for the township of Lexington and
county of Johnson, by virtue of their election on the 5th of October, 1857.
Commissions issued this day for James Weightman and M. C. Brewster, as
justice of the peace, by virtue of their election on the 5th of October, 1857, for
the township of Tecumseh, Shawnee county. Oath of office of William Y.
Wyley, of Indianapolis, for state of Indiana, as commissioner of deeds, and
filed with his oath of office. Commission issued to R. Werth, as a notary
public of Leavenworth county, residing at Leavenworth.
450 Kansas State Historical Society.
November 16. — Oath of office administered to Marshall F. Davis, as county
commissioner for the county of Douglas, before H. S. Walsh, notary public,
and indorsed on the back of his commission.
November 18. — Oath of Albert A. Nunes, of Baltimore, Md., received to-day,
as commissioner to take acknowledgements. Oath of James O'Donnell, Port-
land, Me., as commissioner to take acknowledgments, received to-day.
November 19. — Commissions issued this day for the following officers for
Johnson county, by virtue of their election on the 5th of October last, viz.:
Patrick Cosgrove, as sheriff; John P. Campbell, as probate judge; John Evans
and Josiah Hargis, as county commissioners; John T. Barton, as county treas-
urer: S. F. Hill and B. L. Roberts, as justices of the peace for Olathe town-
ship: C. M. Oliver and J. B. Hovey, as justices of the peace for Spring Hill
township; Thomas Suttle, as justice of the peace for Monticello township;
Samuel Sautlers, as justice of the peace for Shawnee township; O. B. Gard-
iner and William Erskine, as justices of the peace for Macamish township.
Certificate of election issued this day to James A. DeLong, as member elect
to the house of representatives of the legislative assembly of Kansas terri-
tory, for the eleventh representative district, by virtue of his election on the
5th and 6th days of October, 1857; eleventh representative district, Shawnee
county. Commission issued to Alex. T. Reynolds, as justice of the peace in
and for the township of Brownsville, county of Shawnee, by virtue of his elec-
tion on the 5th day of October, 1857; also to the following officers of Doniphan
county, by virtue of their election on same day, viz.: Samuel V. Jameson, as
sheriff; Augustus J. Allen, as judge of probate; Isaac Tolman and Thomas H.
McCullough, as county commissioner; Hugh Robertson, as justice of the
peace for Wolf River township; Len Silence and Enoch George, as justices of
the peace for Burr Oak township; J. H. Alexander and J. B. Maynard, as jus-
tices of the peace for Center township; Laban Pritchard, A. Taylor, and Giles
A. Briggs, as justices of the peace for Iowa Point township; Henry Black,
William H. Hanson, Augustus S. Cognes, and William H. Wilson, as justices of
the peace for Marion township; J. Y. Rucker, C. M. Thompson, J. A. Van Ars-
dale, and O. A. Beauchamp, as justices of the peace for Wayne township.
Certificates of election T*ere also issued to Alexander A. Jameson, Benjamin
H. Brock. Harris Stratton, C. Graham, and John W. Wheeler, as members of
the legislative assembly from the third representative district, and to Ben-
jamin Harding and Andrew J. Meade, as members of the legislative assembly
from the third and fourth council districts — all by virtue of their election on
Monday, October 5, 1857.
November 20. — Commission issued to Alexander Jameson, as notary public
for Doniphan county; also to James Glenn, as justice of the peace for Iowa
Point township, in Doniphan county, and to H. Seily, William Lusk, Hender-
son Smallwood, and William Keaton, as justices of the peace in and for the
township of Washington, Doniphan county, by virtue of their election October
5, 1857. Certificates of election were this day issued to Cyrus K. Holliday
and Oscar E. Learnard, as members of the legislative assembly of Kansas ter-
ritory for the seventh, eighth and ninth council districts, by virtue of their
election on Monday, the 5th October, 1857.
Governor Wallers Achuinistreition. 451
The foUov/ing letter was this day received from Gov. R. J. Walker:
Leavenworth City, November 16, 1857.
Hon. F. P. Stanton, Secretary of Kansas Territory:
Sir — By leave of the President, I shall be absent on business three or four
weeks from the territory. Until my return to Kansas, you will perform the
duties of governor, as prescribed by the organic act.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. J. WALKER, Governor of Kansas Territory.
Commissions issued this day to the following officers for Breckenridge
county, by virtue of their election on Monday, 5th October, 1857: E. Godard,
as sheriff; Arthur J. Baker, as judge of probate; William Grimsly, as county
commissioner; H. W. Fick, as county commissioner; N. S. Storrs, as county
treasurer; H. P. Espy, as justice of the peace; also to Charles V. Eskridge,
as notary public for Breckenridge county, living at Emporia. Commissions
were this day issued to the following officers for Madison county, by virtue
of their election on Monday, October 5, 1857: T. P. Hall, as sheriff; A. D.
Graham, as judge of probate; W.Pearson and G. D. Humphrey, as county com-
missioners; J. Ryan, as county treasurer; E. Newlin, as justice of the peace.
November 23.— Commission issued this day to William E. Booker, as jus-
tice of the peace in and for the township of Douglas, in Calhoun county, K. T.,
by virtue of his election on the 5th day of October, 1857. Commissions issued
this day to the following officers of Jefferson county, by virtue of their election
on Monday, October 5, 1857:
Robert Ward and John Hugan, as county commissioners; Henry Evans,
as county treasurer; J. H. B. Emmett, as justice of the peace for Grasshopper
Falls township.
November 24. — Commissions issued this day to the following officers for
Franklin county, by virtue of their election on Monday, October 5, 1857; Jesse
B. Way, as sheriff; Jacob A. Marcell, as judge of probate; John F. Javens, as
county commissioner; Wm. Thornborough, as county commissioner; Thomas
Mewhinney, as county treasurer; William E. Crum and Joseph Welsh, as
justices of the peace. Commissions issued this day to Philip T. Colby, as jus-
tice of the peace in and for the township of Wyandotte, in the county of Leav-
enworth, by virtue of his election on Monday, October 5, 1857; and to Charles
H. Chapin, as notary public for Leavenworth county, residing at Quindaro.
Certificates of election were this day issued to A. G. Patrick, as member of
the legislative assembly for the fifth council district, and S. S. Cooper as mem-
ber of the legislative assembly for the eighth representative district, by vir-
tue of their election on Monday, October 5, 1857. Commission was this day
issued to James Kuykendall, as clerk of the county of Calhoun, by virtue of
his appointment by the board of county commissioners of said county.
November 25. — Commissions issued this day to Edson Whitney and Samuel
B. Williams, as justices of the peace in and for the township of Leavenworth,
by virtue of their election on the 5th and 6th days of October, 1857; also to
D. Tibbetts, as county treasurer, George W. Perkins, as judge of probate,
Charles Starns and Josiah Elliott, as county commissioners, Wm. H. Elliott,
as sheriff, all of Leavenworth county, by virtue of their election on the 5th
day of October, 1857.
452 Kansas State Historical Society.
November 26. — Commissions issued this day to the following officers for
Shawnee county, by virtue of their election on the first Monday, the 5th Oc-
tober, 1857; Philip C. Schuyler, as probate judge; Hiram Shields and Henry
W. Curtis, as county commissioners; Jehial Tyler, as sheriff; A. Polley, as
county treasurer; S. W. Frazier and Joseph C. Miller, as justices of the peace,
Topeka township; William Henshaw, as justice of the peace for Wakarusa
township; O. H. Sheldon and John Drew, as justices of the peace for Burlin-
game township; B. Todd, as justice of the peace for Brownsville township.
Also for Richardson county, Harlaw Isbell and Wm. F. Cotton, as justices of
the peace, Wabaunsee township; Ernst Hoheneck, as justice of the peace for
Alma township. Commissions issued this day to the following officers for
Davis county, by virtue of their election on Monday, October 5, 1857; C. W.
Churchill, as sheriff; James W. Blair, as judge of probate; Wm. B. Marshall
and B. K. Harris, as county commissioners; Edward Jinott, as county treas-
urer, John E. Ross and E. M. Thurston, as justices of the peace. Commis-
sions issued this day to the following officers of Allen and Greenwood counties,
by virtue of their election on Monday, October 5, 1857: Jesse Morris, as sheriff;
J. D. Passmore, as judge of probate; E. Copeland and J. F. Day, as county
commissioners; H. H. Haywood, as county treasurer; J. Jay and A. Case, as
justices of the peace for Allen county.
November 27. — Commissions issued this day to the following officers of
Coffey county, by virtue of their election on Monday, October 5, 1857; J. V.
Vv^lliams, as sheriff; Hardin McMahon, as judge of probate; Richard Burr
and E. C. Amsden, as county commissioners; Thomas Crabtree, as county
treasurer; J. F. R. Shull and Charles Smith, as justices of the peace. Commis-
sions issued this day to the following officers of Brown county, by virtue of
their election on Monday, October 5, 1857: Ira H. Smith and John Page, as
justices of the peace for Claytonville township; also to the following officers
appointed by the court of county commissioners: Ira H. Smith, as county sur-
veyor; J. S. Taylor, as assessor, and David Peebles, as clerk of the board of
county commisioners of Brown county. Commissions issued this day to the
following officers for Nemaha county, by virtue of their election on Monday,
October 5, 1857: J. S. Rodgers, as sheriff; Morton Carr, as judge of probate;
Eli Williams and G. W. Goucher, as county commissioners; J. W. Cornan, as
county treasurer; A. G. Chandler and James B. Fox, as justices of the peace
for Red Vermillion township; D. S. Lawrence, as justice of the peace for
Capioma township, and J. H. Steen as justice of the peace for Grenada town-
ship.
November 28. — Commissions were this day issued to the following officers
for the county of Marshall, by virtue of their election on the 5th day of Octo-
ber, 1857: M. L. Duncan, as sheriff; J. M. M. Lorkey and M. W. Hardin, as
county commissioners; C. B. Bunt, as judge of probate; J. S. Magill, as
county treasurer; J. S. Magill and J. E. Clardy, as justices of the peace. Also
to the following officers of Pottawatomie county, by virtue of their election on
Monday, October 5, 1857: William Dyer, as sheriff; Jacob Emons, as judge
of probate; Robert Wilson and Thomas R. Points, as county commissioners;
Peter Neyhart, as county treasurer; Allen Coulsen and A. Baker, as justices
for St. George township; Uriah Cook, as justice of the peace for Pottawatomie
township; Ashael Allen and Thomas Hannah, as justices of the peace for Blue
Governor Walker's Administration. 453
township. Also to A. G. Cook, as sheriff; Samuel Anderson, as judge of pro-
bate; D. Franklin Pyer and John McDaniel, as county commissioners; Isaac
Hiner, as county treasurer, for the county of Anderson, by virtue of their elec-
tion on Monday, October 5. 1857. Certificates of election were this day issued
to the following persons as elected to first council district, viz.: John A. Hal-
derman, J. W. Martin, and A. C. Davis; also to Hugh M. Moore, H. B. Denman,
Silas Armstrong, A. B. Bartlett, B. Johnson, T. B. Whitlock, A. B. Hazzard,
and W. M. Sharp, as elected to the first representative district, all on October
5, 1857.
December 1. — Commission issued this day to Henry M. Simpson, as notary
public in and for Douglas county, residing within three miles of Lawrence;
â– Jilso to George W. Collamore, as notary public, in and for Douglas county,
residing at Lawrence. Oath of office administered to Henry M. Simpson and
to George W. Collamore, as notaries public, and their bonds filed, as ap-