The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1882-10-06

such time as may be prescribed by the LegiSla-
lure, not exceeding thirty days" and by adding
at the end OF said section the words, and
provided further, that in Incorporated cities and
villages the Legislature may provide for the
registration OF electors, and prescribe proper
rules and regulations therefor so that said
section when amended shall read as follows :
Section |. Every male person of the age of
EWenty.one years or upwards, belonging to
either OF the following classes, who shall have
resided ID the state for one year next preceding
any election, and in the election district where
ne offers to vote such time as may be prescribed
Dy the Legislature, not exceeding thirty DAYS.
snail be deemed qualified elector at such
election.
l. Citizens of the United States.
z. PERSONS OF foreign birth who shall have
declared their intention TO become citizens
eomformably to the laws of the United States
on the subject of naturalization.
3. Persons of Indian blood who have once
been declared by law of Congress to be citizens
of the United States, any subsequent law of
Congress to the contrary notwithstanding.
a. Civilized persons of Indian descent, not
members OF any tribe; provided, that the Legis-
lature may at any time extend by law the right
of suffrage to persons not herein enumerated :
but no such law shall be in force until the same
shall have been submitted to vote of the peo-
pie at general election and approved by a
majority OF all the votes cast at such election !;
and provided further, that in incorporated
cities and villages TIE Legislature may provide
for the registration of electors and prescribe
proper rules and regulations therefor
WHEREAS, The foregoing proposed amend.
ment TO the constitution OF this State was duly
ratified and agreed to by the Legislature of this
state IOr tne year 1882, by a majority of all
members elected to each house, therefore
SECTION l. 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 Mon
day OF November, 1882, and if the people shall
approve and ratify the said amendment by a
of the electors voting thereon, said
amendment shall become part of the cOnsti-
tuition of this State,
SECTION 2. The form of the ballot in voting
10 approve and ratify said amendment shall be |:
:. For the amendment to section / of article 3 of
the constitution" And the form of the ballots
galnSt said amendment shall be i" Against the
mendment to section / of article of the con-
Nutlon;" They shall be on separate ballots,
ana said ballots shall be cast in Separate boxes
to be provided IOr that purpose, and all persons
quaIl4led TO vote at any election in this State
shall be deemed voters on this question.
SECTIONS. The votes cast for or against said
snail be counted and returned bV
the inspectors OF the election in all respects as
votes lor state officers are counted and returned
and che officers in counties now designated by
law to canvass the returns of votes for state
officers shall canvass the returns in their re-
spectlye counties en- this question, and certify
and eturn the result to the state canyaSserS
at the same time and places, and under the
same regulations and restrictions now provided
by law for canVaSSing and declaring the returns
for elections of state officers, and the state can
YasserS shall canvass said returns, certified to
them as provided by law In case of elections
for state officers.
SECTION 4. Within three days after the de-
termination OF said canvass by the state can
vaSSers, they shall certify the result thereof to
the Governor. who shall fhereupOn without de-
lay make proclamation of the result.
SECTION 5. The Secretary of State is hereby
required to include the substance of this act in
the notice of the general election for the year
1889. O''-
SECTION G. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage and publlca-
ton.
Approved March %, 1882.
Notice is further given that at said General
Election a proposed amendment to the Consti-
tuition of the State is to be submitted to the
people in pursuance of chapter 300 of the Laws
OF 1882, which chapter reads as follows:
CHAPTER 800.
AN ACT to submit to the people an amend
ment to section OF article 6, section IL of article
T. and section of article Is, of the constitution
OF the state of Wisconsin, so as to provide for
biennial general elections.
Whereas, At the annual session of the legisla-
ture OF this state for the year 1881, an amend
ment to the constitution of this state was pro-
posed and agreed to by majority of the mem
bers elected to each of the two houses thereof,
which amendment was the following language /:
ReS9 G by TIE Assembly, the Senate concur
ring, That section OF article of the cOnStitu-
ton OF the State of Wisconsin, be so amended as
to read as follows Section 4. SheriffS, cor
oners; registers OF deeds, district attorneys and
shall be chosen by the electors of the respective
once in every two years. Sheriffs
shall hold no other Office and be ineligible for
two years next succeeding the termination of
their offices they may be required by law TO
renew their security from time to time, and in
default of giving such new security their office
shall be deemed vacant, but the county shall
never be made responsible for the actsof the
in this section mentioned. giving to such a copy
of the charges against him and an opportunity
Of being heard in his defense. All vacancies
shall be filled by appointment, and the person
appointed to fill vacancy shall hold only for
the uneXpired portion of the term to which he
shall be appointed and until his successor shall
be elected and qualified. That section -, arti-
read as follows Section 70. There shall be a
clerk of the Circuit Court chosen in each county
for judicial purposes by the qualified
electors thereof, who shall hold his Office for
two years, subject to removal as shall be pro-
vided by law in case of vacancy, the Judge
of the Circuit Court shall have power to appoint
a clerk until the vacancy shall be flied by an
election the clerk thus elected or appointed
shall give security as the Legislature may re-
quire. The Supreme Court shall appoint its
own clerk, and clerk of the Circuit Court NAV
be appointed clerk of the Supreme Court.
That section article IL, of said constitution, be
so amended as to read as follows Section 1.
The political year for the state of Wisconsin
shall commence on the first Monday in January
in each year, and the general elections shall be
holden on the Tuesday next succeeding the first
ton for all state and county officers, except
judicial officers, after the adoption of this
shall be holden in the year A. d.
1884, and thereafter the general election shall
officers elected at the general election in the
year 1881, and whose term of office would other
wise expire on the first Monday of January in
the year 1884, shall hold and continue in such
offices respectively until the first Monday in
January in the year 1885, and
WHEREAS, The foregoing proposed amend
ment to the Constitution of the State of Wis
consin was duly ratified and agreed to by the
Legislature of said state for the year 1882, by a
of all the members elected to each
house thereof, therefore
The People of the State of Wisconsin, represented in
Senate and Assembly. do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. The foregoing proposed amendments
to the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin shall
be submitted to the people Of this state at general
election to be held on the Tuesday next succeeding
the first Monday in November, 1882, and if the peo-
pie shall approve and ratfy the said amendments by
a majority of the electors voting thereon, said
amendments shall become part of the constitution
Of this state.
SECTION 2. The form of the ballot for voting to
approve and ratify said amendments shall be:
For amendment to section 4, article 6, Of the con-
3titution.
For amendment to section IL, article 7, of the
constitution.
For amendment to section l, article 10, Of the
constitution.
And the form of the ballot against said amend
ments shall be-
Against amendment to section 4, article G. of the
constitution.
Against amendment to section IL, article Z, of the
constitution.
Against amendment to section /, article lS of the
Said ballots shall be separate and apart from any
other ballot and shall be cast in separate boxes to be
TO vote at any election in this State shall be deemed
voters on this question.
SECTION 3. The votes cast for or against said
amendments shall be counted and returned by the
inspectors of the election in all respects votes for
state officers are counted and returned and the Off
GERS in counties designated by law to canvass
the returns ofVotes for state officers shall canvass the
returns in their respective counties this question:
and certify and return the result to the state can
vassers at the same time and places and under the
same regulations and restrictions now provided by
law for canyassng and declaring the returns for cleo
lions of state officers, and the state canvassers shall
canvass said returns certified to them as provided by
Jaw in case of elections for state officers.
= SECTION. a. Within three days after the determi-
nation of said by the state canvassers they
shall certify the result thereo to the governor who
shall thereupon, without delay, make proclamation
If the result.
SECTION. 5. The Secretary of State Is hereby re
ured to include the substance of this act in the no.
ice of the general election for the year 1882.
SECTION. 6. This act shall take effect and be in
orce from and after its passage and publication
Approved March 80, 1882.
Given under my hand and off cal SEAL at the capi-
ol in the city of Madison this rst day Of August A.
D. 1882.