The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1874-10-03

Juneau, Portage and Wood, in place of Thorn
as b. Scott, whose term of Office will expire
on the first Monday in January, 1875
4 state senator in the Thirty. first senate
district, comprising the county of Lacrosse,
IN place of q. G. Hixon, whose term of office
will expire on the first Monday in January,
1875.
! state senator in the Thirty third senate
| district comprising the counties of 0zaukee
and Washington, in place of Adam Schantz,
whose term of Office will expire on the first
Monday in January, 1875.
/ A member of assembly in each assembly
/ district i'll the state, and such county officers
as are by law required to be elected at such
election
! A proposition for an amendment to the
constitution is at the same time to be sub
mitted to vote of the electors, pursuant to
the provisions of chapter 81, of the laws of
1874, approved February lS, 1874, and which
is as follows:
IAN Act to submit to the people an amend
ment to section three (3), article eleven
QI), of the constitution.
| Whereas, The legislature of the state of Wis
! consn, at its annual session for the year
1872, proposed and adopted, by a vote of
the majority of the members elected to each
of the two houses, an amendment to the
constitution of this state, in the following
ing language:
Resolved by the Assembly, the Senate con
curing, That section three (3) of article elev-
en- Il u of the constitution of this state be
amended adding at the end of said section
the following words: No county, city, town,
village, school district, or other municipal
corporation, shall be allowed to become in
debted in any manner or for any purpose, to
any amount including existing Indebtedness
i'll the aggregate, exceeding five per centum,
on the value of the taxable property therein,
TO be ascertaned by the last assessment for
state and county taxes previous to the incur
ring of such Indebtedness. Any county, city,
town, village, school district, or other munic-
ipal corporation, incurring any Indebtedness
as aforesaid shall before at the time OF
doing so, provide for the collection of a dl-
rect annual tax sufficient to pay the interest
/ on such debt, as ii falls due, and also to pay
and discharge the principal thereof, within
/ twenty years from the time of contracting
/ the same; and,
| Whereas, the legislature of this state, at
its annual session for the year 1878, agreed
/ to such proposed amendment bv ma jority of
/ all the members elected to each house now,
therefore,
The people of the state of Wisconsin, repre-
sented in senate and assembly do enact as
follows:
Section l. The foregoing proposed amend
ment to the constitution of this state shall be
submitted to the people, at general election
to be held en- Tuesday, succeeding the first
Monday of November 1874, and if the people
shall approve and ratify said amendment by
IA majority of the electors voting thereon,
said amendment shall become part of the
constitution of this state.
See. 2 The form of the ballot in voting to
approve and ratify said proposed amendment
shall be "for amending the constitution linn
iting bonded Indebtedness by counties, towns,
cities and villages, to five per cent" and
against said amendment, against amending
the constitution limiting the bonded indebt
edness by counties, towns, cities aud villages
to five per cent" which shall be on sepa-
rate ballot and shall be deposited in a sepa-
rate box TO be provided for that purpose and
all persons qualified to vote at any election
/ in this state shall be deemed voters on this
question.
Sec. g. The votes cast approving and rati-
! fying or disapprOving said amendment shall
be counted and returned by the inspectors Of
the election in all respects as votes for state
officers counted and returned and the
officers now designated by law to canvass the
returns of votes for state officers shall can
| vass the returns on this question at the same
time and place, and under the same regu!a-
tions and restrictions now provided by law
for canvassing and declaring the returns of
i elections for state officers.
See 4. Within three days after the deter
mination of said canvass, it shall be the duty
of the canvassers to certify the result of the
said canvass to the governor, who shall
thereupon without delay make proclamation
of the result
Sec. 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
1874.
Sec g. This act shall take effect and be in
force from aud after its passage and publica-
ton"
Given under my hand and the great
/ TL.s.l seal of the state of Wisconsin, at
the capitol in Madison, this 24th
day of August, 1874
PETER DOYLE,
Secretary Of State