The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1886-10-28
Notice of General Election.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, !
DEPARTMENT. OLE STATE. {


NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN, that at the Gen.
~ eral Election to be held in the several towns,
villages and election districts of the State of Wis
consin, on the Tuesday succeeding the first Mon
day being the second day of November A. D., 1886,
the following officers are to be elected, to-wlt:
A Governor in place of jeremiah NJ. Rusk,
whose term of office will expire on the first Mon
day of January, A. D., 1887.
A lieutenant Governor, In place of Sam :. FL
field whose term of office will expire on the first
Monday of January, A. D., 1881.
A Secretary of State, In place of Ernst q. Tim
me, whose term of office will expire the first
Monday of January, A. D., 1887.
A State Treasurer, in place of Edward c. Nc
Fetridge. whose term of office will expire on the
first Monday of January, A. D., 1887.
An Attorney General, in place of Leander F.
Fusby, whose term of office viii expire on the
first Monday of January, A. D., 1887.
4 State Superintendent, IN place of Robert
Graham, whose term of Office will expire on the
first Monday of January, A.. D., 1887.
A Railroad Commissioning, in place of Nils p.
Haugen, whose term of Office will expire on the
first Monday of January, a. D., 1887.
A Commissioner of Insurance, IN place of Phil.
J.. Spooner, Jr., whose term of office Will expire
on the first Monday of January, A. D., 1881.
A Representative III Congress for the Fifth Con-
greSSlonal District, consisting of the counties of
Brown, Calumet, Kewaunee, Manitowoc, Ozau-
kee and Sheboygan, IN place of Thomas Il. 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-
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
mitted to the people in pursuance of chapter 2ll
of the laws of 1885, which chapter reads follows:
CHAPTER 21l.
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 /. 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 year, and IN the cleo
UiOn district where she offers to vote, ten days
next preceding 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., 1886, 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 shall be approved OF
by majority of all the votes cast on that subject
1t shall go into effect and be in force from and
after the date of said election, otherwise it shall
not go into effect or in any manner be in force.
Section 3. The votes cast upon the subject spec
fled the last preceding section shall be by sep
arate ballot, and shall have written printed
the words, For Woman Suffrage in School Mat
ters," or Against Woman Suffrage in School Mat
ters," which words shall indicate the vote of the
elector for against the approval of this act
and the ballot so cast shall be 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 a state
ment of the result thereof, in some newspaper
printed at the seat of government, and shall com
munlcate the same to the next Legislature at the
commencement of its session.
Section 4. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage and publication.
Approved April l, 1885.
Given under my hand and official seal at the
Capitol, IN the city of Madison, this Second day
of August, A. D., 1886.
r1 ERNST G.. TIAnfE,
L9EALI Secretary of State.