Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-02-11

NlG eicClOFS 10 NOtc ltF or against Il COnNCN-
ton at the next election for members of the
legislature ; and if itshaII appear that M
jority OF the electors voting thereon hay,
voted fora convention, the legislature shall
at its next session provide for calling such
convention.
ARTICLE XIEI.-MlSCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS.
/. The political year for the State
Of Wisconsin shall commence on the first
Monday in january in each year; and
the general election shall be holden OH the
Tuesday succeeding the first Monday in
November III each year.
2. Any inhahtant Of this State who
may hereafter be engaged. either directly
or indirectly, in duel, either rs principal
or accessory, shall forever be disqualified
as an eector and from holding and any Of
flee under the constitution and laws of this
State, and may be punished in such other
manner as shall be prescribed by law.
3. No member of Congress, nor any
person holding any Office of profit or trust
under the United States (post-nastcrs cX-
ccpted,) or under any foreign power no
person convicted of any infamous crime
III any court within the United States, and
no person being a defaul;cr to the United
States, or thls state, or to any county or
town therein, or to any state or territory
within the United States, shall be eligible to
any office Of trust, profit, or honor in this
state.
4. 1t shall be the duty of the lcgisla-
turc to provide a great seal for the state
which shall be kept by the secretary of
state and all official acts of the governor,
his appreciation of the llws excepted, shall
be thereby authenticated.
! ). All persons rcsidn upon Indian
lands within any county of this State, and
qualified to exercise the right of suffrage
under this constitution, shall be entitled to
vote at the polls which may be held nearest
their residence, for State, / States, and county
officers, Provided, that no person shall vote
for county officers out of the county in
which he resides.
6. The elective officers OF the lcgisla-
turc, othcrthan the presiding officers, shalIb
chief clerk and a sergcant-at-arns, to be
elected by each house.
:. No county with an area of nine
hundred square miles or less, shall be diyi-
died, or have any part stricken thcrelrom,
without submitting the question 10 4 vote
of the people of the county, nor unless
majority Of all the legal voters OF the county
voting Oh the question shall vote for the
same.
3. No county seat shall be removed
until the point to which tits proposed to be
removed shall be fixed by law, and a ma
jority Of the voters Of the county, voting on
the question, shall have voted in favor Of
Its removal to such point.
0. All county officers whose election
or appointment is not provided for by this
Constitution, shall be elected by the clcc-
tors of the respective counties or appointed
by the boards Of Supervisors or other coun-
~ authorities, as the Legislature shall dI-
rect. All city, town, aud vllaCn officers
whose cIecuon or appointment IS not pre-
'dcd for Nv the Constitution, shall be cleo
ted hy the electors of such cities, towns
and villages, or Of some division thereof, or
appointed bv such authorities thereof. as
the legislature shall designate for that par
pose. Al, other officers whose election or
j, not provided for by this
Constitution, auI all Officers, whose offices
mly hereafter b2 created by l,,. shall be
elected by the people or appointed - tin
Legislature may direct
10. The Legislature mas dcc)r7c the
cases IN which any office slmtl be- deemed
vacant, and also The manner Ut ilug the
Vacancy where no provision is made cor