Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-10-16
(No. IA Az
Joint Resolution No. II.

Proposing an amendment to section 3 OF
article ii of the constitution of the state
of Wisconsin, as amended by 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 IL 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 1898, the following words: "or,
If a 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
B Of article III shall read as follows: Sec
tion 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
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
direct annual tax sufficient to pay the in
terest on such debt as 1t falls due, and
also to pay, and discharge the principal
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.
mo. % Sd
.T0fut ResOIuGiOn No IL
Providing for an amendment of section %.
article Nv of the constitution for sep
arate couhty government in certain coun-
ties.
concurring that section %, of article ",
of the constitution of the state of WiseOn-
sin, be amended by adding at the end
thereof the following:
provided that in counties which contain
an Incorporated city of more tnan one num-
dred thousand inhabitants the legls ature
NAV establish % separate system or county
governments" so that when SO amended
Said section will read as follows Section
%. The legislature snail estapdisn DuI one
which shall be as nearly uniform as prac-
ticable; provided that In countles whlch
contain an incorporated clG3 Oh hitao+S 04 taa
legislature may establish q 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 70,
rs and 437 Of the laws Of 1901, which said
chapters read as follows:
No. 1876, ST. CPubllshed March 26. 1901.
Chapter 73.
AN ACT to submit to the people an amend.
ment to article XII Of the constitution or
the state of Wisconsin, giving the legis-
lature power to pass a general banking
law.
Whereas. At the biennial session Of the