Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1862-10-04
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,
vember next, the following officers are to be
elected, to wit:
4 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 Twentv-Seventh
Senate District, in the place of L. 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 vote of the People or an
amendment to the Constitution
The people Of tie State of Wisconsin, represent
ed IN Senate and Assenab(y, do enact as fol-
lows
Section l. At the general election to be
held on the Tuesday next ST cceedng 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 elec ton
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: See ). The Governor
cl j l.,
an annual compensation of two thousand five
hundred dollars"
Section 3. 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
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, the 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
ijority of all the electors voting thereon shall
vote 'tor the amendment to the Constitutions "
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 2O3 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 Banking
Associations"
The people of the State of Wisconsin, rcprssen-
sed IN Senate and assembly, do enact as folous:
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 fOrbearance of any money, goods or
things in action, than seven dollars upon one
hundred dollars for one year, and after that
rate for a greater or less sum, or fer 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-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, 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
day in November, A. D. 1852 at all the places
OF holding elections in this State for the ele,,-
ton of officers required b, law then to be
elected, the question uhetkR his act shall