Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-10-18
General Election Notice,
FOR WOOD COUNTY,

NOTICE is hereby given that at the General
~ 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.
4 State Senator for the Twenty
Senate District, in the place of E. L. BROWNE
whose term OF office will expire on the first
Monday of January next.
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 2O2 of the General Laws
of 1852, as follows:
Providing for vote of the People or an
amendment to the Constitution
The people ofhe STATE of Wisconsin. represent
ed IN Senate and assembly, do enact as fol-
io,cs:
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 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
ament is as follows: That Section five of Arti-
Gle five of the Constitution be amended so as
to read as follows: "Sec. 5. The Governor
shall receive during his continuance in Office
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 each of then the words, ''For the
amendment to the Constitution" or ga gainst
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 canyassed
and returned in the same manner as the votes
for State officers are required by law to be
canvassed and returned. Also, tae Secretary
of State shall Immediately on the completion
Of said canvass, publish statement of the re-
suit thereof in the State paper, and if a ma
jority of all She 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,
Stherwas it shall be of no force or effect.
Approved April 4, 1862.
At TIE 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
eral Laws of 1862, as follows:
AN ACT
To amend Chapter II of the Revised Statutes.
entitled 'of the incorporation of Baking
Associations"
The people of the State of Wisconsin, represer,-
Sed IN Senate and assembly, do enact as follo,cs
Section l. No bank or banking association
SMALL demand or receive greater or higher
rate OF interest upon aay note discounted bv
such bank or banking association, or for the
loan or forbearance 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 for a longer
or shorter time. Whenever the securities de.
posted w9th the State Treasurer to secure the
redemption of the circulating notes of anv
bank, shasi be sold in pursuance of sections
forty-one and forty-two of said chapter II Tof
the] revised statutes, if such securities shall
he or have been sold for a sum sufficient to re-
deem its outstanding notes at par, then the
Bank Cohptroller SHALL after the eXpirati ton
of three years from the time of sale of such
securities, pay over to the legal represer tatave
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 ,geleral election to be held
on the Tuesday next succeeding the krst Mon
day in November, A. D. 1852, at aE the places
of holding elections in this State for the cleo
ton Of officers required by law then to be
elected, the question whettH his act shall