Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-09-06
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
yembcr 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 Twenty
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
cbnsin, by Chapter 202 of the General Laws
of 1862, as follows:
AN ACT
Providing for vote of the People OF an
amendment to the Constitution.
TIE people of tie State Of Wisconsin, represent
cd IL Senate c0sd 4sScn.b(g, do enact as fol-
tors
Section |. At the general election to be
held Oh The Tuesday next Succeeding 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 las, aud present Legislatures
and published before the last general elcc ton
provided by the Constitution which amend
ment is as follows: That Section five of Arti-
cle five of the Constitution be amended so as
to read as follows: Sec. ). The Governor
shall receive during his continuance in Office
~ Il
hundred dollars
Section = The votes east 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 "a ganSt
the amendment to the Constitution" which
words shall indicate the vote for against
the ratification and adoption of such amend
nent. The ballots so cast shall be canvassed
and returned in the same manner as the votes
for State officers are required by law to be
canvassed and returned. Also, the Sc cretary
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 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 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 Il of the Revised Statutes,
entitled "of the incorporation of Banking
Associations
Tie people Of the State Of Wisconsin,, rcprese,-
Ted IN Senate and assembly, do enact as tolloacs:
Section !. No bank or banking association
shall demand or receive IA greater or higher
rate of interest upon any note discounted bv
such bank or banking associa ton or for the
loan or fOr6earance 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 with the State Treasurer to secure the
redemption Of the circulating notes of any
bank, shall be sold in pursuance of sections
forty lone and torty-two of said chapter II of
the1 revised statutes, if such securities shall
be or have been sold for Il 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, paw over to the legal representative
ofany such bank, upon application sherefor,
the surplus derived from the sale of said Sc
curities, if any there be remaining in the Gus
tody Of the Comptroller.
See 81 the general election to be held
on tLe TUe>dIy mex Succeeding the first Mon
day in November, 4 d. 1862 al all the pl4 ces
of holding elections IN this State for the elee-
tion of officers required by law then to -
ola tbn hot ,l,