Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-11-01
Providing for vote of the People or an
amendment to the Constitution,


Providing for a vote of the People on on
amendment to the Constitution
The people of the State of Wisconsin, re1yesn,t-
ed IN Senate and assembly, do enact as fol-
lOoS:
Section l. At the general election to be
held on the Tuesday next 81 cceeding 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 as follows: That Section five of Arti
Gle FIVE Of the Constitution be amended so as
to read Us follows: ''Sec s. 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, 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
mHnt. The ballots so cast shall be canvass ed
and returned in the same manner as the votes
for State officers are required by law to be
canvaSsed and returned. Also, the Sc cretarv
Of State shall Immediately on the completion
OF said canvass publish a statement of the re-
suit thereof in the State paper, and if a ma
jority of all the electors voting thereon shall
vote ''tor the amendment to the Constitution y
such amendment shall he 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 hv the people Of the
amendments tn bn D,
Law, by Chapter 203 Of the General Laws Of
1852, 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, represe,,
Ted IN Senate oed 1ssea,blg, do enact as toHoacs.
Section /. No bank or banking association
shall dsmand or receive a greater or higher
rate OF interest upon any note discounted hv
such bank or banking association or for rbp
loan or forbcarancc Of anv money. goods or
things in action, than seven dollars anon one
hundred dollars for one year, and after that
rate for a greater or less sum, or for lnnrer
or shorter time. Whenever the securities de.
posted with the State Treasurer to secure tie
redemption of the circulating notes of any
bank, shall be sold in pursuance of sections
forty-one and forty-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 then tho
Bank Comptroller shall, after the expiration
of three wears 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
day in November, A. D. 1882, at all the places
Of holding elections in this State for the eler-
ton of officers required BY law then to be
elected, the question whetk,r sis act shall