River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1877-03-29
Approved March 8, 1877.
Published Mich 20, 1877.
CHAPTER 1853.

AN ACT to submit to the people an amend
ment to section OF article VIII of the con-
stitutiOn OF this State.
PREAMBLE.
WHEREAS, The legislature Of this State at
its annual session for the year 1876, proposed
and adopted by a vote of a majority OF all the
members elected to each OF the two houses
thereof, an amendment to the constitution
OF this State, in the following language:
Resolved by the Senate, the Assembly con-
curing, That section OF article VIII OF the
constitution OF this State be amended so as to
read as follows: Section 2. No money shall
be paid out OF the treasury except in pursu-
ance OF an appropriation by law. No apprO-
Iriation shall be made Tor the payment OF any
claim against the State, except claims the
United States and judgments, unless ed
within six years after the claim accrued. az
proved March 8, 1876 and
WHEREAS, The foregoing proposed amend
ment to the constitution OF this State was
duly ratified and agreed to by the legislature
of 1877, by a majority OF all the members
elected to each house, and was duly approved;
therefore,
The people of the State OF Wisconsin, repre-
sented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as
follows:
Section 1. The foregoing proposed amend
ment to the constitution OF this State shall be
submitted to the people at a general election
to be held on Tuesday succeeding the first
Monday in November, 1877, and II the people
shall approve and ratify the said amendment
by a majority of the electors voting thereon,
said amendment shall become part OF the
constitution OF this State.
Section 9 The form of the ballot in voting
to approve and ratlfy said amendment shall
be ''ior the amendment" and the form OF the
ballot against said amendment shall be
''against the amendment which shall be on
a separate ballot, and said ballots on said
amendment shall be cast in a separate box to
be provided tor that purpose, and all persons
qualified to vote at any election in this State
shall be deemed voters on this question.
Section g. The votes cast Tor or against
said amendment shall be counted and return
ed by the inspectors OF the election in all re-
spects as votes for State officers are counted
and returned, and the officers in counties now
designated by law TO canvass the returns OF
Votes for State officers shall canvass the re-
turns in their respective counties on this
question and certify and return the result to
the State canvassers at the same time and
places and under the same regulations andre
strictions now provided by law for canvass
ing and declaring the returns for elections OF
State officers and the State canvassers shall
canvass said returns certified to them as pro-
vided by law in case OF elections tor State
officers.
Section A. Within three days after the de-
termination OF said canvass by the State can
yassers, they shall certify the result thereof
TO the governor, who shall thereupOn with
out delay make proclamation of the result.
Section 8. The secretary OF state is hereby
required to include the substance OF this act
in the notice of the general election for the
year 1877.
Section g. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and alter Its passage and publ
cation.
A,,roved March 1877