JOURNAL OF THE MISSOURI STATE CONVENTION, HELD IN JEFFERSON CITY, JUNE, 1862. FIRST DAY. MONDAY, June 2, 1862. The Convention met in the hall of the House of Representatives, at Jefferson City, in pursuance of the following call of the Hon. Hamilton R. Gamble, Governor of the State of Missouri: Mr. JOHN H. SHANKLIN, member elect to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Jacob T. Tindall, of the 9th District, came forward, presented his credentials, and was sworn in as a member of this Convention. The roll was called, when the following members answered to their names: Messrs. Allen, Bogy, Breckinridge, Broadhead, Brown, Collier, Comingo, Douglass, Dunn, Henderson, Hitchcock, How, Howell, Jackson, Leeper, Linton, Long, McCormack, McDowell, Meyer, Moss, Orr, Pomeroy, Ray, Rowland, Shanklin, Smith of "EXECUTIVE Department, City of Jefferson, Missouri. The public exigencies, in my judgment, require that the Convention of the State should be convened, as well for the purpose of dividing the State into Congressional Districts, so that the number of Represent- St. Louis, Stewart, Waller, Welch, Woolatives to which we are entitled may be regularly elected, as for the transaction of other necessary business: Therefore, I, HAMILTON R. GAMBLE, Governor of the State until 5 o'clock P. M. of Missouri, do call the Convention of the said State to assemble in the Capitol, in the City of Jefferson, on the first Monday of June next. In testimony whereof, I have hereto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed this twenty-eighth day of April, in the year eighteen hundred and sixty-two. H. R. GAMBle. By the Governor: folk, Vanbuskirk, and Mr. President-33. There being no quorum present, on motion of Mr. Bogy the Convention adjourned EVENING SESSION. The Convention met pursuant to adjournment. The roll being called, the following additional members answered to their names: Messrs. Bush, Cayce, Doniphan, Eitzen, Flood, Gravelly, Hall of B., Holmes, Hudgens, Irwin, Isbell, Jamison, Kidd, Marmaduke, Marvin, Matson, McClurg, McFerran, |