Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-08-23
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
rember next, the following officers are to be
elected to wit:
\ 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 Twenty Seventh
Senate District, in the place of E. 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 by
law required to be elected at such election.
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 or an
amendment to the Constitution.
TIE people Of tie ,State Of Wisconsin, represent
ed III Sc,e0te and AsScn.bly, do enact as fol-
iO1rs:
Section l. At the general election to be
held on the Tuesday next ST ccecding the first
Monday in November, in the year 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 so as
to read as follows: '"Scc. ). The Governor
shall receive during his continuance in Office,
an annual compensation Of two thousand five
hundred dollars
Section = The votes cast on such amend
ment shall be by a 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 east shall be canvasscd
and returned in the same manner as the votes
for State officers 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 i'll the State paper, and if a ma
Jorlty of all the electors voting thereon shall
vote ''tor the amendment to the Constitution. -
such amendment shall be deemed ratified and
adopted, and shall so 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 203 of the General Laws of
1862, as amended by Chapter 354 of the Gen
cral Laws of 1862, as follows:
AN ACT
To amend Chapter II of the Revised Statut, :.
entitled <>of the incorporation of Banking
Associations"
TIE people Of lie State Of IVjsconsin, reprcse,,-
,cH IN Senate and d$sembly do enact as folloacs:
Section /. No bank or banking association
shall demand or receive greater or higher
rate of interest upon any note discounted BY
such bank or banking association or for the
loan or fOrbcarance of any money! goods or
things in action, than seven dollars upon one
hundred dollars for one year, and after that
rate for greater or less sum, or fer longer
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 tortv-two of said chapter II Tof
the revised statutes, if such securities shall
be or have been sold for a sum sufficient to re
deem its outstanding notes at par then the
Bank Comptroller shall, after the expiration
of three years from the time of sale of such
securities, pay over TO the legal representative
of any such bank, upon application therefor,
the surplus derived from the sale Of said Sc
curities, if any there be remaining in the Gus
todv of the Comptroller.
Sec. 2 At the general election to be held
on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Mon
dav in November A y. 1852, az all the pla ceS
Of holding elections IN this State for the ejcc-
ton of officers required by law then to be
elected, the question whether this act shall