Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-09


MI, of the constitution of the state of
Wisconsin, the following joint resolutions
adopted by the legislature of the state of
Wisconsin at the regular session of 1901,
are made a part of the foregoing notice,
to-wit:
CNo 33, Al
joint Resolution No. 8.
For the submission of an amendment to
section l of article VII of the constitu.
ton relating to the justices Of the su-
preme court.
concurriDg, that section 1 of article VII
of the constitution be amended so as to
read as follows: Section l. The chief JUS
ice and associate justices of the supreme
court shall be severally known as the JUS
tees of said court, with the same terms
If office of ten years respectively as now
provided. The supreme court shall consist
Of seven justices, any four of whom shall
he a quorum, to be elected as now pro-
vided. not more than one each year The
justice having been longest a continuous
more such senior justices shall have served
for the same length of time, then the one
whose commission first expires shall be ex-
officio, the chief justice.
CNo. Il Az
Joint Resolution No. II.
Proposing an amendment to section Of
article ii of the constitution of the state
OF Wisconsin as amended by vote, of
vember 8, 1874, relating to the indebted
ness of municipal corporations
Resolved by the assembly, the senate
concurring, that section 3 of article III of
the constitution of Wisconsin he amended
by inserting after the word years in the
last line of said section as printed in the
statutes of 1898. the following words: cor,
+ city containing population of more
than twenty-five thousand according to the
last state or federal census taken before
such debt is contracted, within fifty
years." so that when amended said section
2 of article TT shall road
ton 3. 1t shall be the duty of the legis-
lature, and they are hereby empowered, to
provide for the organization of cities and
incorporated villages, and to restrict their
power of taxation, assessment borrowing
money, contracting debts and loaning their
credit, sc. as to prevent abuses in assess
ment and taxation and in contracting
debts by such municipal corporations. No
county, city. town, village. school district
or other municipal corporation shall be al
lowed to become indebted in any manner
or for any purpose to any amount includ-
ing existing Indebtedness. in the aggregate
exceeding five per centum on the value of
the taxable property therein, to be ascer-
tanned by the last assessment for city and
county taxes previous to the mourning of
such Indebtedness. Any county. city. town
village, school district or other municipal
corporation mourning any Indebtedness as
aforesaid, shall. before or at the time of
doing so. provide for the collection of a
direct annual tax sufficient to pay the in
terest on such debt as it falls due. and
also to pay and discharge the principal
thereof within twenty years, or, if a city
containing population of more than TWEEN
ty-ffve thousand according to the last state
or federal census taken before such debt is
contracted, within fifty years, from the
time Of contracting the same.
(No. Is S.
Joint Resolution No. IL.
Providing for an amendment of section %,
article ~ of the constitution and TOR sep
arate county government in certain coun-
ties.
Resolved, by the senate, the assembly
coheurrtng, that section 25 of article ~,
of the constitution of the state OF Wiscon-
| SIN, be amended by adding at the end
| thereof the following:
provided that IN counties which contain
| an incorporated city of more than one hun
ured thousand inhabitants, the legislature
may establish separate system OF county
gov ernment so that when amended
said section Will read as follows: section
- The legislature shall establish but one
system OF town and county government,
which shall be as nearly uniform as prac-
ticable; provided, that in counties which
contain an Incorporated city of more than
one hundred thousand inhabitants, the
legislature may establish a separate sys-
tenn of county government.
Notice is further given that at said gen.
eral election the following propositions are
/ to be submitted to the people in pursu-
ance of the requirements Of chapters IS,
2oS and 4S7 of the laws of 1901, which said
chapters read as follows: