The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1882-10-07
CHAPTER CCLNXXX.

CHAE COisAAAA
AN ACT to submit to.the people an amendment to
section of article 8 section 10 Of article :, and
section Of article 10, of the constitution of the
State of Wisconsin, So rs to provide for biennial
general elections
WHEREAS AT the annual Session of the legislature
of this state for the year 1881 amendment the
constitution Of this proI osel and agreed
by ijority Of the members eletced to each of the
two houses there OF, which amendment the fol-
lowing language:
RESOLVED By the Asse nbIy the Senate concurring
That section Of article Of the Constitution of the
State of Wisconsin,, be amended as 10 read fol-
lows Section l. Sheriff. coroners, registers of deeds
district attorneys, and all other county officers except
judicial officers, shall be chosen by tie electors of the
respective counties, once in every Two years. Sher>
ifs shall hold no other office and be ineligible for
years next succeeding the termination of their Offices
they may be required by law to their security
from time to time, and in default of giving such
security their office shall be deemed vacant, but the
county shall be made responsible for the of
the sheriff The governor may remove any officer in
this section mentioned giving to such copy of the
charges against him and opportunity of being
heard in his defense All vacancies shall be filed by
appointment, and the person appointed to fill
cancy shall hold only for the uncxpred portion of the
term to which he shall be appointed and until his
cessor shall be elected and qualified. That section
u, article of said constitution he amended
read as follows: Section H. 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
moval as shall tie provided by law; in of
cy the judge Of the circuit court shall have power
appoint clerk until the vacancy shall be filled by
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
ShtutIon, be 50 amended as to read as follows: Secs
ton l. The political year for the State of Wisconsin
shall commence the first Monday in January III ga III
year. and the general election shall be holden the
Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in Novem>
Der. The first general election for all state and
ty officers except judicial officers after the adoption
of this apaO shall he holdeD N he wear 4
1884, and thereafter the general election shall be held
biennlaly. All state, county other officers elected
at the general election in the year 1881, and whose
term OF office would otherwise expire on the first
Monday of January in the year 1854 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. 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 he held on the Tuesday next succeeding
the first Monday ia 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 The form of the ballot for voting 70 APP
prove and ratify said amendments shall be
For amendment section 4, article of the consti>
tuition.
For amendment to section u, article of The con,
stitution.
For amendment to section l. article IS, of the con-
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 y, article Of the
constitution
Against amendment to section l, article 10 of the
constitution.
Said ballots shall be separate and apart from any
ether ballot and shall be cast in separate boxes 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.
SECTION 3. The votes cast for against said
amendments shall be coun ed aud returned by the in
spectors of the election in all respects votes Tor
state officers counted and returned aud the oils
GERS IN counties designated by law to canvass the
returns OF votes for state officers shall canvass the re-
turns in their respective counties this question:
ana certify and return the result to the state canvass
serS at the same tine and places. and under the same
regulations and restrictions now provided ny law lot
canvassng and declaring the returns for elections OF
state oncers, and the state canvassers shall canvass
sad returns, certified to them provided by law In
case OF election Tor state officers.
SECTION T. Within three days after the determina-
ton OF SAID canvass by the state they shall