Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1901-06-06
IPnhlished AMY 23. 1901


CHAPTER 454
AN ACT to amend section 1854 of the stat
utes of 1898, as amended by chapter %
laws of 1901 relating to county courts.
The people of the State of Wisconsin rep
resented in senate and assembly do enact
as follows:
Section /. Amend section 2464 statutes of
1898, amended by chapter % laws of 1901
that said section when amended shall
read as follows: Section 1854. The county
judges of the counties of Grant, Columbia,
Washington, Waukesha, Pepin, Dodge and
Green Lake, may keep their offices and hold
snecial terms of the county court at any
time between the times of holding the reg
uar TERMS and transact any business which
might be done at, or which may be con-
tinued from any regular term to such Spe-
cial term at the following places, in their
respective counties In the county of Grant
at the city Of Platteville, in the county of
Columbia at the city Of Columbus, in the
county of Washington at the city of Hart
ford in the county of Waukesha at the city
of OconOmowoc, in the town of Pepin at
the village of Pcpn, III the county of Dodge
at Beaver Dam and Mayville in the county
of Green Lake at Princeton and Berlin. All
orders, judgments and business which shall
be made or done at such special terms and
places or as shall have been hereto
fore so made or done are declared valid.
Section 2. This act Shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage and
Approved May d. 1901.
No. BAT, Al published May %, 1901.
CHAPTER 457.
AN ACT to amend sections sc, 81. SO and 40
of the statutes of 1898, as amended by
chapter 349 of the laws of 1899, relating
to the form of official ballots for general
elections.
The people Of the State Of Wisconsin rep
resented in senate and assembly do enact
as follows:
Section l. Section SO of the statutes of
1898 is hereby amended so as to read as
follows: Section &C. At least seven days
before an election to fill any public office
the county clerk Of each county shall cause
to be published in at least two and in not
more than four newspapers, published with
in the county, the nominations to office GER
titled to or filed with him. One of such
publications shall be made in a newspaper
which advocates the principles of the pO-
liticaI party that at the last preceding cleo
ton cast the largest number of votes, and
the principles of the political party that
then cast the next largest number of votes.
The county clerk shall make such publica-
lions in two daily newspapers in counties
having such. one of which publications
shall be on the last Monday preceding cleo
ton day and the other one week previous
": but if there be no daily newspaper pub
lished within the county. one publication
in each weekly newspaper select
a Municipal election such publica-
ton shall be made by the city clerk
two times in not more than two newspapers
published in such city, but in case no daily
newspaper be published in such municipal
ity, there shall be one publication made in
the weekly papers selected. One of such
publications III each newspaper shall be
upon the last day upon which it is issued
before election. In addition to The publca-
tIon required to be made by this section,
so much of the following section as relates
to information to voters may be published
in the papers hereinbefore mentioned, and
in such papers as are printed in foreign Ian
guages, fairly translated into such language,
with illustrative examples as to the proper
manner of marking a ballot, as in the judg
ment of the clerk may be proper and neces-
Sary.
Section 2. Section 81 of said statutes as
amended by, said cnanter 3A9, is amended. to
publication of an election notice, the coun,
ty or city clerk, as the case may be, shall
precede the same with a statement which
shall be substantially in the following
form. to be modified or varied according to
the nature of the election. the caption to
whic.. shall be conspicuously displayed, but
caption be more than one and onefourth
inches in depth.