Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-08-21
(No. Il Az
Joint Resolution No. II.

Proposing amendment to section of
article ii of the constitution of the state
or Wisconsin, as amended by a vote of
the people at the general election, No
vcmber 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 be amended
by inserting after the word years in the
last line of said section as printed in the
statutes of 1885, the following words cor,
II city containing q 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
8 OF article ii shall read as follows: Sec
ton 8. 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 so as to prevent abuses in assess
ment and taxation: and in contracting
dents by such municipal corporations. No
county, city, town, village school district
or other municipal corporation shall he al
lowed to become indebted in any manner
or for any purpose to any amount. incud-
Ing existing Indebtedness. in the aggregate
exceeding five per centum on the value of
me 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 1t falls due and
also to nav and discharge the principal
thereof within twenty years, or III city
containing a population of more than TWEEN
ty-fVe 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.
IrovldlnS for an amendment of section %,
article ~ OF the constitution and for sep.
arate county government i'll certain couu-
TIES
Resolved, by the senate, the assembly
c0hcurrtnS, tnat section IS of article ~,
OF the constitution of the state of Wiscon-
SIN, be amended by adding ut the end
thereof the following:
"proNiued that III counties which contain
an Incorporated clty OF more than one hun
ured thousand inhabitants, the legislature
may eslaOllSh separate system OF county
government 50 that when so amended
said section Will read rs follows: Section
rs. The Legislature shall establish but one
system OF town and county government,
Which shall be as nearly uniform as prac-
tlcable: provided, that i'll counties which
contain an Incorporated city of more thal
one hundred thousand inhabitants, the
legislature may establish L separate SyS-
tenn of county government.
Notice is further given that at said gem
eral election the following propositions are
to be submitted TO the people in pursu-
ance of the requirements of chapters 73,
2oS and 451 of the laws Of 1901 which said
chapters read as follows: