Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1902-09-25
mo. 81, Al
Joint Resolution No. 8.

are made part or the foregoing notlce,
towit: -1----.-E
NO. SO, Al
Joint Resolution No. 9.
For the submission of an amendment to
section 1 of article VII of the constftu.s'
ton relating to the justices Of the su-
preme court.
Resolved, by the assembly, the senate
concurring. that section 1 of article VII
of the constitution be amended as to
read as follows: Section 1. The chief JUS
tice and associate justices of the supreme
court shall be severaly known as the JUS
tees 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
vided not more than one each year. The
justice having been longest a 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-
officio the chief justice.
(No. IA Az
Joint Resolution No. II.
Proposing amendment to section 3 of
article ii of the constitution Of the state
of Wisconsin, as amended by a vote of
the people at the general election, No
vember 3, 1874, relating to the indebted
ness of municipal corporations.
Resolved, by the assembly, the senate
concurring, that section 3 of article ii of
the constitution of Wisconsin be amended
last line of said section printed in the
statutes of 1898, the following words: ''or,
If 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 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
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
ing existing Indebtedness. in the aggregate
exceeding five per centum on the value of
the taxable p e. property Ss therein to be aseer
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 it falls due. and
| also to pay and discharge the principal
thereof within twenty years, or. if a city
containing population of more than TWEEN
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. II.
| Providing for an amendment of section 23,
| 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 Nv !,
| 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 to the people in pursu-
ance of the requirements of chapters q,
25S and 437 Of the laws of 1901, which said
| chapterS read IS follows: