Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1870-09-16
General Election Notice.

HTOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN THAT
III at the general election TO be held in the sew
! eral towns wards and election precincts in
the state CT Wisconsin, the Tuesday succeeding
the first Monday, being the eighth day OF NoYenl-
her next the folio wing officers are to be elected:
A representative in Congress from the hrst CON
gressional district comprising The counties OF Mii-
waukee, Waukesha, Walworth, Racine ana memo.
sba In Mace of Halbert e. Paine, whose term of
office viii ,xpre on the fourth day OF March next.
representative in congress in the second con-
gressona district comprising tne COUNTIES 90 Of
Atwood whose term OF office will expire on the
fourth day of March next. =,
representative in congress in the third con-
eressola district, comprising the counties of Craw
ford Grant, Green, Iowa, La Fayette, Richland.
and Sank, in place of Amasa Cobb, whose term OF
Office will expire on the fourth day of March next
representative in congress in the fourth con-
gressional district comprising the countiesof Dodge
Fond du Lac, Ozaukee, sheboygan, and Washing
ton in place of Charles A. Eldridge, whose term of
office will expire the fourth day of March next
A representative in congress in the fifth congress
sional district, comprising the counties of Brown,
Calumet, Door, Green Lake. Kewaunee, Marquette,
Manitowoc, Oconto s.Outagamie, Shawano, Waupacca,
Waushara, and Winnebago, in the place of Phile-
Sawyer, whose term of Office Will expire on the
fourth day of March next.
representative in congress in the sixth con-
gressional district comprising the counties of Adams,
Ashland, Barron, Bayfield,. Buffalo, Burnett Clark,
Chippewa, Douglas, Dunn, Eau Claire, jackson,
Juneau, La Crosse, Marathon Monroe, Pepin,
Pierce, Polk, Portage St. Croix, Trempeleau, Yer
non, and Wood, in place of Cadwallader G. Wash
burne, whose term of office will expire ON the
fourth day of March next.
A State Superintendent 10 fill the vacancy in that
Office occasioned by the death of Alexander j.
Craig in place of Samuel Fallows, whose appoint
ment to that Office by the Executive will expire on
the election of his successor.
Also State Senator in each of the following dis
tricts:
LIST district in place of David Taylor.
Sd district, in place of Lyman Morgan.
9Th district in place of VIM. 2. Lynde;
9Th district, in place of Henry Stephens;
9th district, in place Of VIM. j. Kershaw;
IL tn district, in place of Nelson Williams;
18th district, in place of Hamilton FL. Gray
18th district, in place of Lemuel W. Joiner
18th dissEct, in place of Charles G. Williams;
10Th district in place of George Reed;
21st district, in place of Ira W. Fisher;
23d district in place of Vim. w. Woodman;
25ih district, in place of VIM. W. Griswold;
9th district, III place of Charles NJ Webb;
goth district in place of Geo. ID. Warning;
3lst district, in place of G. NJ Butt
33d district, in place of Satterlee Clark; whose
respective term of office will expire the day pre-
cedng the first Monday in January next.
Also, member of the assembly in each assem-
bly, district IN the state, and such county officers
as are required to be elected at such election,
Also proposition for an amendment TO the
sttution of the state of Wisconsin is to be submit
ted vote of the electors, as set forth in the
following act:
AN ACT to SUI bmt to the people amendment to
section eight (S) of article one ~ OF the consti-
tuition.
PREAMBLE.
WHEREAS The legislature OF this state at Its
al session for the year 1860, proposed and adop-
ted by vote of the majority of the members
elected to each of the two houses, amendment
to the constitution of this state, i'll the following
language:
Reolved by the assembly, the Senate conctrring That
section Of article OF the constitution of the state
of Wisconsin be amended so as TO read as foil
s.Sec g. No pei son shall be held to answer for q
criminal offense without due process of law, and
NO person for the same offense shall be put twice
in jeopardy of punishment, nor shall be COM
hn ast
himself. All persons shall, before conviction. be
baiable by sufficient suretes, except for capital
offenses when the proof is evident the presump-
ton great and the privilege of the writ of habeas
corpus shall not be suspended unless when, in ca
ses of rebellion INVASION the public safety may
require it. Approved March 9, 1869; and
WHEREAS, The foregoing proposed amendments to
the constitution of the state were Only ratified
and agreed to by the leg s'ature of 1870, and APP
proved; therefore,
The people of the State Of Wisconsin, represented IN
Senate and Assembly do enact as foltows
Section l. The foregoing proposed amendment to
constitution of this state shall be submitted
the people at general election to be held on Tues
day succeeding the first Monday in November, 1870,
and if the people shall approve and ratty said
amendment by majority Of the electors voting
thereon, said amendment shall become part of the
constitution of this state.
Section The form of the ballot in voting to ap-
prove and ratify said amendment shall be against
the grand jury system, and against said proposed
| amendment, '.for the grand jury SYSTEM which
shall be separate ballot, and shall be deposit
ted in a separate box to be provided for that pur.
rose and all persons qualified to at any cleo
ton in this state shall be deemed voters on this
question.
Section 8. The votes cast approving and ratify-
ing or disappearing said amendmen is shall be cou-
ted and re turned by the inspectors of the election
in all respects as for state officers are counted
and returned, and the officers now desi gnated by
law to the returns OF votes for state officers
shal canvass the returns this question, at the
same time and place and under the regulations
and restrictions provided by law for canyassing
and declaring the returns of elections for state
officers.
Section A. Within three days after the determi-
nation of said canvass, it shall be the duty of the
to certify the result of the said canvass
to the governor, who shall thereupon without delay
make proclamation of the result.
Section 5. The secretary of state is hereby re-
quired to include the substance of this act in
the notice of the general election for the year 1870
Sect ion 6. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved March II, 1870.
Given under my hand, and the great
seal of the State of Wisconsin. at
IL. ST. the Capitol ia Madison, this thirty
first day of August, A d. 1870.
LII. BREESE,
Secretary of State.
STATE OF WISCONSIN,