Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-09-18
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Joint Resolution No. IL.

Proposing an amendment to section 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 II 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
8 of article II shall read as follows: Sec
ton g. 1t shall be the duty of the legs-
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
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 incurring 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 it falls due. and
also to pay and discharge the principal
thereof within twenty years. or. if city
containing a population of more than twen-
or federal census taken before such debt is
contracted. within fifty years, from the
time Of contracting the same.
(No. 2S S.
Joint Resolution No. II.
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
bred thousand inhabitants, the legislature
may establish separate system OF county
government so that when so amended
said section will read follows: Section
Is. The legislature shall establish but one
system of town and county government,
which shall be as nearly uniform as prac-
tlcable; provided, that in counties which
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 l3,
25S and 4S7 of the laws of 1901, which said
chapters read as follows:
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