Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-09-20
GemcraE Election Notice.
FOR WOOD COUNTY.

IT Office is hereby given that at the General
II 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:
Representative in Congress for the Sixth
Congressional District for the term of two
years from the fourth day of March next
State Senator for the Twenty- Seventh
Senate District in the place of Z. 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, 10y Chapter POP of the General Laws
Of 1862, as follows:
Providing for vote Of the People or an
amendment to the Constitution
The people of the State of u ,scoasin, represent
ed IN Sejecte and assembly, do enact as fol-
1o2cs
Section l. At the general election to be
held on the Tuesday next Succeeding the first
Monday in November, in the year 1862, the
qualified electors of this State NAV 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 rs follows: That Section FIVE of Arti
Gle five of the Constitution be amended so as
10 read as follows: See. ). 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 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
neRt. The ballots SO cast shall be canvassed
and returned IN the same manner as the votes
tor State officers required by law to be
canvassed and returned Also, the Secretary
of State shall Immediately en- the completion
Of said canvass, publish a statement OF the re-
suit thereof in the State paper, and if ma
Jority OF all the electors voting thereon shall
vote "tor the amendment to the Constitution. 81
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 I, 1852
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, Us amended by Chapter 354 Of the Gen
oral 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 Stets Of Wisconsin,, reyreseu-
ted IN Senate and assembly, do enact as jollops:
Section l. No bank or banking association
shall demand or receive greater o. higher
rate Of interest upon any note discounted bv
such bank or banking association, or for the
loan or torbcarance 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
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
torty-one and fortv-two of said chapter II Tof
the revised statutes, if such securities shall
be or have been sold for sum sufficient to re-
deem Its outstanding notes at par. thea 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
tody Of the Comptroller.
Sec. . At the general election to be held
on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Mon
dav in November. A. d. 1889, at all the places
Of holding elections in this State for the eles-
tion of officers required by law then to be
elected, the question whether this act shall