Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-10-02
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Joint Resolution No. II.

Proposing an amendment to section of
article III of the constitution of the state
of Wisconsin, as amended by a vote of
the people at the general election, No
vember 8, 1874, relating to the indebted
ness of municipal corporations,
Resolved, by the assembly the senate
concurring, that section of article II of
the constitution of Wisconsin be amended
by inserting after the word years in the
statutes of 1898, the following words: cor,
If city containing a 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 tho 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 contrac citing
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 incurring of
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 twen-
ty-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.
(No. % S.
Joint Resolution No. IL.
| Providing for an amendment of section %,
article ~ of the constitution and for sep
arate county government in certain coun-
ties.
Resolved, by the senate the assembly
concurring, that section %, 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
| dred thousand inhabitants, the legislature
| may establish separate system OF county
government so that when so 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 separate SyS-
tenn of county government.
Notice is further given that at said gen.
eral election the following propositions are
to be submitted 90 the people in pursu-
ance of the requirements OF chapters %,
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