The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-08-19
CHAPTER CCINXNX.

AN ACT to submit to tie reople an amendment 20
section Of article G. section y Of article Z, aud
section Of article - of tie constitution of tho
STATE Of Wisconsin, 50 IS 70 provide for biennial
general elections
WHgREAs, At the annual session Of the legislature
of this for the year 1881 an aruepd aut 10 the
by majority Of the members eietccd 10 each Of the
two HOUSES thereof which amendment was the fol-
lowing ] hguage:
Re OWED By the Asse nby the Senate concurrng
That section OF article Of Il Constitution Of the
State Of Wisconsin, be so amended read fol-
lows Section T. Sheriff. corGuers r. gsters of deeds
district attorneys and all other county officers excert
judicial Ctcers shall be cHo-en by the electors Of he
respective counties, once in every two years. SheT>
ifs shall mold no other office ami be Ineligible for two
years next succeeding the termination OF their oces
they may be required by law their security
from time TO TIM, and in default OF giving such new
security their office shall he deemed vacant, but the
county shall never be made responsible for the acts
the sheriff The governor may remove any officer in
this section mentioned giving to such Copy of the
charges against him and an opportunity Of being
heard in bis defense All vacancies shall be filled by
appointment, and the person appointed to fill a
caucy shall hold only for the uuexpred portion of the
term to which shall be appointed and until his
cessor shall he elected and qualified That section
Il, article of said constitution be amended as
read as follows: Section u. There shall be clerk
OF the circuit court chosen in each county organized
for Judicial purposes by the qualified electors thereof
who shall hold his office for years, sabject TO
mova as shall he provided by law: in of
cy, the Judge of the circuit shall have power
appoint clerk until the tnCy shall be filled by an
election; the clerk thus elected appointed shall
give security the legislature may require. The
preme court shall appoint its clerk, and clerk
Of the circuit court may be appointed clerk of the
supreme court That section article Is OF said con-
s:itution, be amended as to read follows Secs
tion l. The political year for the State of Wisconsin
shall commence the lIrst Monday in January in "a III
year, aud the general election shall be holden the
Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in Novem~
ber The first general election for all state and coun
ty officers except judicial officers, after the adoption
of this amendment, shall be holden in the year A. D.
1854 and thereafter the general election shall be held
bennialJy. III statr county other officers elected
at the general election in the year 1881, and whose
term Of Office would otherwise expire 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 amendment to
the Constitution of the State of Wisconsin, was duly
ratified and agreed to by the Legislature of said state
for the year 1882, by majority 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 l. 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 people
approve and ratify the said amendments by major
ity of the electors voting thereon, said amendment
shall become part Of the constitution of this state.
SECTION 2 The form of the ballot for voting to APP
prove and ratify said amendments shall be
For amendment to section a. article of the constt>
tuition.
For amendment to section u, article of the
stituton.
For amendment to section /, article Is, of the
stitution.
And the form of the ballot against said amendment
shall be-
Against the amendment to section 4, article of the
constitution.
Against amendment to section II, article Of the
constitution.
Against amendment to section l, article Is of the
constitution.
Said ballots shall be separate and apart from any
other ballot and shall be cast in separate boxes TO De
provided for that purpose and all persons qualhed TO
vote at any election in this state shall be deemed
voters on this question.
SECTION 3. The votes cast for or against sad
amendments shall be counted and returned by the IN
spectors OF the election in all respects as votes Tor
state officers counted and returned, and the olH
GERS in counties designated by law to canvass the
returns of votes for officers shall canvass the fe
turns In their respective counties on TINS question,
and certify and return the result to the stae canvass
sers at the same time and places and under the same
and restrictions now provided by Jaw loI
canyassing and declaring the returns for eecons OF
state officers and the state canvassers shali canvass
said returns certified TO them provided by law IN
case Of election for state officers.
SECTION f. Within three days after the determine,
ton oil SAID canvass by the state canyasSefs they Sa