Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-10-11
General Election Notice.
FOR WOOD COUNTY.

NOTICE is hereby given that at the General
IN Election to be held in the several Towns.
Wards and Election Precincts in the State OF
Wisconsin, on the Tuesday next succeeding
the first Monday, being the fourth day of No
vember next, the following officers are to be
elected, to wit:
A Representative in Congress for the Sixth
Congressional District for the term Of two
years from the fourth day Of March next.
A State Senator for the Twcntv-Scventh
Senate District, in the place of f. L. BROWNE.
whose term of office will expire on the first
Monday of January next.
A Member of Assembly in each Assembly
District and such County Officers as are b,
law required TO be elected at such eIecti.n
At the same Election, the question will be
taken upon the approval by the people, of the
amendment proposed to Section Five. Article
Five, of the Constitution Of the State of Wis
consin, by Chapter 202 of the General Laws
Of 1862, as follows:
AN ACT
Providing for a vote of the People on an
amendment to the Constitution.
TIE peotle of the State of Wisconsin, represent
ed IN Senate aud ASsembly, do e7soct as fol-
ious
Section l. At the general election to be
held on the Tuesday next Succeeding the first
Monday in November, in the wear 1862, the
qualified electors Of this State may vote for or
against the amendment to the Constitution
agreed to by the last and present Legislatures,
and published before the last general election.
as provided by the Constitution, which amend
ment is as follows: That Section five of Arti-
Gle five of the Constitution be amended 50 as
to read as follows: ''Sec. }. The Governor
shall receive during his continuance in office,
an annual compensation of two thousand five
hundred dollars"
Section 2. The votes cast on such amend
ment shall be by separate ballot, and shall
have written or printed or partly printed or
written on each of them the words "For the
amendment to the Constitution" or against
the amendment to the Constitution" which
words shall Indicate the vote for or against
the ratification and adoption Of such amend
ment. The ballots so cast shall be canvassed
and returned III the same manner as the votes
for State officers are required By law to be
canvassed and returned. Also, the Secretary
of State shall Immediately on the completion
of said canvass, publish statement of the re-
suit thereof in the State paper, and if ma
ioritv of all the electors voting thereon shall
vote |'for the amendment to the Constitution, >
such amendment shall be deemed ratified and
adopted, and shall go into effect Immediately
otherwise it shall be of no force or effect.
Approved April 4, 1862.
At the same election, the question will be
taken upon the approval by the people of the
amendments proposed to the General Banking
Law, by Chapter 2o3 Of the General Laws Of
1862, as amended by Chapter 354 of the Gen
eral Laws of 1862, as follows;
AN ACT ...
To amend Chapter II of the Revised Statutes
entitled ''of the incorporation of Banking
Associations"
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin, 5eorese7,
Ted IN Senats and Assembly, do enact as follo,es
Section l. No bank or banking association
shall demand or receive greater or higher
rate of interest upon any note discounted BY
such bank or banking asSocia ton, or for tn,
loan or torbearance Of any money, goods OF
things in action, than seven dollars upon one
hundred dollars for one year, and after thai
rate for greater or less sum- or fer a longer
Or shorter time. Whenever the securities de
posted with the State Treasurer to secure The
redemption Of the circulating notes of any
bank, shall be sold in pursuance of sections
forty-one and torty-two of said chapter Il 70
thel revised statutes, if such securities shall
be or have been sold for sum sufficient to re
deem its outstanding notes at par, thea th,
Bank Comptroller shall, after the expiration
of three years from the time of sale of sucl
securities, pay over to the legal representative
of any such bank, upon application therefor
the surplus derived from the sale of said Sc
eurities, if any there be remaining in the Gus
tody of the Comptroller. .#.@
Sec. ,. At the general election to be he'll
son the Tuesday next succeeding the first Mon
dav in November, A. D. 1852, at all the pla ce
Of holding elections in this State for the elec
tion of officers required b, law then to b