Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1846-10-21


that there shall be no bank of issue within
this state; secondly, that the Legislature
shall have no power 10 create any institu.
ton for banking purposes; thirdly, that it
shall have 20 power to confer upon any per-
sons or institutions whatever any banking
privileges; fourthly, that all persons who
shall make, sign, or issue within the state,
paper oil any kind, intended TO circulate as
money, shall, on conviction, be fined in a
sum not less .han $4,000, and imprisoned
in the penitentiary not less than ten years;
filthy, that any person or persons who shall
give or receive any kind of paper. intended
10 circulate as money, purporting to have
been issued in this stale, shall be fined, on
conviction, in sum not less than $500, or
imprisoned not less than three months, or
both; sixthlv, that no corporation within this
state, or officers or agents of corporations,
shall receive deposltes of money, make dis
counts, or buy or sell bills of exchange, un-
der penalty of $4,000 fine, or imprison-
ment not less than two years; seventhly, that
i: shall be the duty of the legislature 10 pass
all acts requisite to enforce any of the pro-
visions recited. Mr.. Gibson gave notice of
bis intention to present a minority report,
on the subject of banks and banking. Mo.
ses M. Strong, fiom the committee on SUIT
frage and elective franchise, presented
majority report. ! of the article proposed.
confines the right of voting at the fist cleo
ton under the constitution, TO- white male
persons of and over the age of Il years,
who may be residents of the state at the time
Of the adoption of the constitution. provided
such persons are citizens Of the u. States,
or have duly declared their intention to be.
come SUCH AT subsequent elections, in ad
dtion TO the above qualifications, a residence
of six months is required. - requires that
all votes, except in certain aases for town
ship officers, shall be given rira roce. %,
4, 5. 6, 7, and 8, contain the ordinary Con-
provisions in reference to privile
ees and exemptions Of voters, &c, synop'
sis ofwhich we deemit unnecessary TO give.
So [the last) provides for the temporary dis
Of any voter who shall make
a bet or wager on any election. Mr.. Bur-
chard gave notice Of his intention to present
a minority report. The main object of this
gentleman doubtless is to secure to the col
pred man, in connection with the white, the
right of suffrage. Mr.. A. H. Smith, from
he committee on Eminent Domain and
Properly Of the State, reported an article
with three sections-1st. that the Legsla
Iure of the State shall never interfere with
the primary disposal Of the soil Of the Uni
ted States, nor with any regulation Congress
may find necessary for securing the title in
such so to the bona tide purchasers there
of; that no tax shall be levied on lands the
Of the United States; and that in
no Case shall lands of nonresident proprle'
tors be taxed higher than those of residents.
I'd, that the State shall have concurrent ju
risdicton on all rivers and lakes forming
common boundary to said State and any
other States formed or TO be formed; that
he Mississippi and the navigable waters
leading INTO it, and the ST. Lawrence, and
he carrying places between the same, shall
be common highways, free, without any tax
Or impost, to all citizens of the u. States
Sd, that all lands and other property which
have in any way accrued to the Territory,
shall vest in the State Of Wisconsin. The
Convention adjourned.
SIXTH DAY-Sdturddy-Mr. VIM. r. |
Smith, tiom the committee on the militia, |
made report of an article consisting OF six
sections. The provisions are similar TO those
found in the Constitutions of the States ge
morally on this subject. We shall not there
fore take up room with an abstract. Mr.. |
Meeker, from the committee on internal
improvements, made report of a proposed
article, as follows:
"Internal Improvements shall forever be en-
couraged by the government OF this State. But |
he Legislature shall in no case create, or incur,
A State debt for that object, without at the same
time providing means for the payment Of the nte-
rest thereof and the final liquidation of the same"
Resolutions were offered as follows, the |
f st by Mr.. Crawford, and the second by |
Mr.. Doty. Both, under the rules, (as all |
other resolutions, unless the rules are sus-
pended lay over, till the succeeding day
Resolved, that all laws for the collection of
lebts be prohibited within this State.
Resolved, That the committee on the organiza- |
lion ana functions oil the judiciary De instructed
to inquire into the expediency providing in this
that the Legislature at its first ses-
sion after the adoption of this constitution, shall
provide by law for the app ointment of three COM
nissioners, whose duty it shall be to revise, re-
form, simplify and abridge the statutes, and the |
rules of practice, pleadngs, forms and proceedings
Of the courts of Record Of this State, and to report
thereon to the Legislature. subject to their adop-
ton and modification.
A motion was made by Mr.. Strong, of
Iowa, that the Convention resolve itself in.
TO committee of the whole on the article
Oh banking. This motion created some dis
cussion. Mr.. Smith, of Iowa, was opposed
to those parts of the article making banking
criminal, and enacting penalties. This was
a matter which, in his opinion, belonged to
a Legislature, and was no part Of the legt-
innate business of a Convention. He moved
that the article be referred to a select COM
mittee, with instructions to strike out the
penalties Mr.. Ryan defended this part of
his report. He thought it was important
that the penalties should be fixed, and made
high, in order that no "sof legislature"
which may come into power, shall have au-
thority so TO regulate the fines, as TO make
it the interest of any corporation to pay
them, for the sake of the money they can