The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1902-08-28
NOTICE OF GENERAL ELECTION
STATE OF WISCONSIN, i &C
DaDartTOonf of Ctata 90.

STATE OF WISCONSIN, &C
i Department of State.
NOTICE is hereby given, that at a general
election, to be held in the several towns
/ wards, villages and election districts of the
State of Wisconsin on the Tuesday succeeding
the first Monday, being the 18th day O. Novem-
elected, tO-wiG:
"A Governor in place of Robert M LaFollette
whose term OF office will expire on the first
/ Monday of January, A. D. 1908.
A Lieutenant Governor in place of Jesse
Stone whose term of Office would have expired
on the first Monday of January A. D 1903
| Secretary of State in place of William H
| Froehlieh. whose term of Office will expire on
| the first Monday of January, A. ID 1903
State Treasurer in place of James O.
Davidson, whose term OF office will expire on
i the first Monday of January A ID. 1908
j An Attorney General in place of Emmett r.
Hicks. whose term of Office will expire on the
| first Monday of January. 4 B. 1908.
| State superintendent in place of Lorenzo
| d. Harvey, whose term of Office will expire on
| the first Monday OF January A. d. 1902
| A Railroad Commissioner in place of Ora
| ham L. Rice, whose term of Office will expire
! on the first Monday of January, A. d. 1908
| A Commissioner of Insurance in place of
| Emil Giljohann, whose term of Office will ex-
| pire on the first Monday of January A. d. 1903.
| A Representative in Congress for the First
Congressional District, consisting of the
counties of Racine, kenoSha, Walworth Rock,
/ Green and Lafayette.
/ State Senator for the Third Senate Dis
/
and Racine.
| A Member of Assembly for each of the
counties OF Barron Calumet Clark, Crawford,
Door, Dunn, Green, Green Lake. Iowa, Jack
! son. Juneau, KenOsha, Kewaunee, Lafayette,
Ashland, Lincoln Portage. Walworth. Mon
roe, Oconto, Ozaukee, Pierce, Richland, ST.
| Crolx, ShawanO, Trempeleau, Vernon, Wash
| 1ngton, Washara and Wood. Each county
constituting separate assembly district
| Also all County Officers required by law to
| be chosen at such election.
| In accordance with section 1. of article XII
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 1899, are made a part of the
| foregoing notice, tO-Wit:
| NO SO Al JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 8.
For the submission of an amendment to Sec
| ton l of article VII of the constitution re-
! lating to the justices of the supreme court
| Resolved, by the assembly, the senate con-
| curing, that section | of article VII of the
constitution be amended so as to read as fol-
/ lows:
| Section1. The chief justice and associate
justices OF the supreme court shall be severally
known as the justices of said court, with the
same terms of Office OF ten years, respectively,
/ as now provided. The supreme court shall
consist of seven justices, any four of whom
shall be quorum, to be elected as now pro
vided, not more than one each year. The JUS
| tice having been longest continuous member
| of said court, or in case two or more such
senior justices shall have served for the same
| length of time, then the one whose commission
first expires shall be ex-of1cio, the chief JUS
| tice
| (No. IA, Al 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 the peo-
| pie at the general election, November g. 1874
| relating to the Indebtedness of municipal
| corporations.
| Resolved, by the assembly, the senate con-
curing, that section of article II of the con-
| stitutiOn of Wisconsin be amended by insert
| ing after the word years in the last line of
said section as printed in the statutes of 1898,
| the following words: "Or, if city containing
| a population OF more than twenty thous-
and according to the last state or federal CEN
| SuS taken before such debt is contracted with
| in fifty years. so that when amended said
| section OF article H. shall read as follows:
| Section 3. It shall be the duty of the legis-
| lature. and they are hereby empowered, to
| provide for the organization of cities and in
cOrpOrated villages, and to restrict their power
| of taxation, assessment borrowing money
| contracting debts and loaning their credit, so
as to prevent abuses in assessment and taxa
| ton, and in contracting debts by such NUM-
| cipal corporations No county, city, town,
| village, school district or other municipal
| corporation shall be allowed to become in
debted in any manner or for any purpose to
any amount, including existing Indebtedness,
in the aggregate exceeding five per centum on
| the value of the taxa BILE property therein, to
be ascertained 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 interest on such debt
as il falls due and also to pay and discharge
the principal thereof within twenty years, Or
| IT 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, from the
time OF contracting the same.
| CNo. %, 81 JOINT RESOLUTION NO IL.
Providing for an amendment of section 49,
article w, of the constitution and for separ-
ate county government of certain counties.
Resolved. by the senate, the assembly con-
curing, that section %, of article ", of the
constitution of the state of Wisconsin, be
| amended by adding a the end thereof the fol-
| lowing:
provided that in counties which contain an
incorporated city of more than one hundred
thousand inhabitants the legislature may eS-
tablish separate system of county govern
ment'' so that when so amended said section
will read as follows:
but one system of town and county govern
ment which shall be as nearly uniform as
practicable; provided, that in counties which
contain an incorporated city of more than one
may establish a separate system of county
government
| Notice is further given that at said general
! election the following propositions are to be
requirements of chapters 73 258 and 437 of the
laws of 1901, which said chapters read as fol-
lows:
CHAPTER 73
An act to submit to the people an amendment
to article XI of the constitution of the state
of Wisconsin, giving the legislature power
to pass a general banking law.
Whereas at the biennial session of the Iegis-
lature of the state of Wisconsin for the year
1899, joint resolution was passed proposing
an amendment to article XI of the cOnStitu-
tion of the state of Wisconsin, giving the egis-
lature power to pass a general banking law,
which was agreed to by a majority of the
and approved April 10th, 1899, which proposed
amendment was i'll the following language:
Resolved, by the assembly, the Senate con-
curing, That article II Of the constitution
of the state of Wisconsin be- and is hereby
amended, by substituting for sections 4 and
thereof, a new section to be known as section
and reading as follows:
section f. The legislature shall have power
to enact a general banking law for the creation
of banks, and for the regulation and supervi-
sion of the banking business, provided that
the vote of two-thirdS of all the members
elected to each house, to be taken by yeas and
nays, be in favor Of the passage Of such law.
The people of the State of Wisconsin repre-
sented in senate and assembly do enact as fol-
lows:
Section /. The foregoing proposed amend
consin shall be submitted to a vote of the peo-
pie of this.state in the manner now provided
by law for the submission of proposed amend
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