The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-08-12
Notice of General Election,
STATE OF WISCONSIN, !

STATE OF WISCONSIN, lss
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Us
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that at the Cen
~ eral Election to be held IN the several towns
villages and election districts of the State of W Is
consin, on the Tuesday succeeding the first Mon
day being the second day of November A. D.. 1886
the following officers to be elected, to-wIt:
A Governor, III place of Jeremiah Nj. Rusk
whose term of office will expire on the first Mon
day of January A. D., 1881.
A Lieutenant Governor, IN place OF Sam ). FL
field, whose term of office viii expire the first
Monday of January, A. D., 1887.
Secretary of State IN place of Ernst q. Tim
me- whose term of office VIII expire on the first
Monday of January A. D., 1881.
A State Treasurer, IN PLACE of Edward c. Nc
Fetridge whose term of office Will expire on the
first Monday of January, A. D., 1897.
An Attorney General, in place of Leander +.
Frisby, whose term of office will expire on the
first Monday of January, A. D., 1887.
A State Superintendent, In place of Robert
Graham, whose term of Office will expire on the
first Monday of January, A. D., 1881.
A Railroad Commissioner, IN place of Nils r.
Haugen, whose term of office will expire on the
first Monday of January, A. D., 1887.
A Commissioner of Insurance, IN place of Phil.
l.. Spooner Jr., whose term of Office will expire
on the first Monday OF January, A. D., 1851.
A Representative in Congress for the Fifth Con-
gressional District consisting of the counties of
Brown Calumet, kewaunee, Manitowoo, Ozau-
kee and Sheboygan, in place of Thomas Ii. Hudd,
whose term of Office will expire on the fourth day
A State Senator in the Fifteenth Senate Dis
trict, consisting of the county of Manitowoc IN
place of John Carey whose term of office will ex-
pire the first Monday of January, A. D., 1887.
Member of Assembly in each Assembly Dis
trict In the state, and all county officers required
by law to be chosen at such election.
Notice is further given, that at said General
Election the following proposition Is to be sub
mltted to the people IN pursuance OF chapter I'll
of the laws of 1885, which chapter reads as follows:
CHAPTER 2l1.
AN ACT relating to the exercise of the right of
suffrage of women upon school matters.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented
in senate and assembly, do enact as follows:
| Section 1. Every woman who is a citizen of this
state, of the age of twenty-one years or upwards
Except paupers persons under guardianship, and
persons otherwise excluded by section 2, OF ar
ticle of the constitution of Wisconsin, who has
resided within the state one year, and In the cleo
ton district where she offers to vote, ten days
next preced;Hs any election pertaining to school
matters shall have right TO vote at such election.
Section 2. At the general election to be held on
| the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in
November A. D., 1885, at all the usual places of
holding elections in this state, for the election of
all officers required by law then to be elected, the
question whether this act shall go into effect or
in any manner be in force, shall he submitted to
| the people and If the same shall be approved OF
by majority of all the votes cast that subject,
it shall go into effect and be in force from and
after the date OF said election, otherwise 1t shall
not go into effect or in any manner be In force.
Section 3. The votes cast upon the subject spec
flied in the last preceding section shall be by sep
arate ballot and shall have written or printed or
partly written and partly printed on each of them
the words For Woman Suffrage in School Mat
tors. or Against w IN SCHOOL MAJ
tiers" which words shall indicate the vots of the
elector for against the approval of this act;
and the ballot 80 cast shall he canvassed and re-
turned in the same manner the votes cast for
state officers required by law to be canvassed,
and the secretary of state shall Immediately on
the completion of said canvas, publish state
ment of the result thereof, in some newspaper
printed at the seat of government, and shall COM
municate the same to the next legislature at the
commencement of its session.
Section L. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved April i, 1885.
Given under my hand and oincial seal at the
Capitol, IN the city of Madison, this Second day
of August, A. D., 1856.
lsEALI Secretary ct t Of State.