Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1903-03-26
Notice of Election on Amendment to consti
tuition.

| tuition.
STATE OF WISCONSIN, &C
Department of State. d.
| NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN. That at
the Judicial Election to be held in the
several towns, wards, villages and cleo
! tiQn districts of the state of WiScon-
sin. on the first Tuesday of April. A.
| d. 1908, being the seventh day of said
month. the following amendment to
Section of Article of the constitu-
+, tion of the state of Wisconsin. as
amended in 1877, is to be submitted to
| the people in pursuance Of the require
ments Of Chapter TO- of the laws of
| 1903. which is hereby certified to you
in accordance with Chapter 5, of the
| Wisconsin Statutes of 1898, entitled
'Caucuses, Electors and General Elec-
tions." Chapter 10, of the laws of
1903, reads as l certify, to-wit:
No. 422 Al Published March Is, 1905.
! CHAPTER 10.
! AN ACT to submit to the people an amendment
| to the constitution, relating to the number of
| justices of the supreme court and to provide for
elections to fill vacancies in the office of justice
OF the supreme court,
| Whereas, The legislature of this state at the
biennial session for the year 1901. proposed and
adopted by vote of the members elected 10 each
OF the two houses, an amendment TO the coasti-
tuition of this state (the same being in fact an
amendment TO section 4, of article thereof as
amended in 1871, the proposed amendment be-
| ing i'll the following language:
Resolved by the assembly, the senate concur
ring, That section of article VII of the consti-
tuition shall be amended so as TO read as follows:
Section L The chief justice and associate jus
| tees of the supreme court shall be severally
known as the justices 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 be a
quorum, to be elected as now provided, not
more thai one each year. The Justice having
been longest 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- ofico, the chief Justice.
Whereas, the foregoing proposed amendment
to the constitution was duly ratified and agreed
by the legislature of this state for the year
1903; and
OF the constitution that vacancies in the Office
of justices of the supreme court shall be filled
by appointment of the governor, which shall
continue until a successor is elected and quail
fed therefore.
The people of the State of Wisconsin, repre-
scented in senate and assembly, do enact ass fol-
lows.
Section 1. The proposed amendment to the
constitution of this state shall be submitted to
the people at an election to be held on Tuesday.
the 9TH day of April 1905 and if the people shall
approve and ratify said amendment by ma or-
ity of the electors voting thereon such amend
ment shall become q part of the constitution of
this state.
Section J. Notice of the submission of said
question, the form of ballot, the conduct of the
election and the canvass of the votes shall all be
as provided in chapter of the Wisconsin stat
utes of 1898, entitled "Caucuses. Electors and
General Elections and the submission and can
vass shall be particularly as provided in section
80 94d and CAT, as the last chapter amended
by chapter 81 of the laws of 1892
Section s. In the event of the ratification OF
said proposed amendment by the people, one of
the additional justices provided for shall be
elected at the judicial election IN April, 1904,
and his term shall commence on the first Mon
day of January 1905 The other additional JUS
tice provided for by the proposed constitutional
amendment shall be elected at the judicial cleo
ton in April, 1906, and his term shall commence
on the first Monday of January, 1907.
Section 4. In the event that said proposed
constitutional amendment shall be adopted and
ratified by the people, section 94s, of the Wiscon
sin statutes of 1898, as amended by section l of
chapter of the laws of 1899, shall be amended
by striking out In the seventh line thereof the
words "justice of the supreme court or" and by
adding at the end of said section l of chapter
7. the following: "In all cases of vacancy in the
office of justice of the supreme court, the person
appointed to fill such vacancy shall continue to
hold his Office until an election can be had in
some year IN which no other justice Is elected
pursuant to the constitution and laws of the
state, and until his successor has been duly
elected and qualified" so that said section 94s
shall in that event when SO amended read as
follows:
Section 94s. In all cases of vacancy in the
office OF circuit Judge or county Judge, the eleC-
ton to fill such vacancy shall be held on the
first Tuesday of April next after the vacancy
shall happen, in case such vacancy shall happen
twenty days before such day; and if no election
shall then be held for such purpose, or if the
vacancy shall happen within twenty days next
before said first Tuesday, then the election shall
be held on the first Tuesday of April next there
after. In all cases of vacancy in the office of
justice of the supreme court, the person ap-
pointed to fill such vacancy shall continue to
hold his office until an election can be had in
some year in which no other justice is elected
pursuant to the constitution and laws of the
state and until his su ccessor has been duly cleo
ted and qualified
Section 5. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage and publica-
ton.
Approved March r. 1908.
Said election to be held and con-
Quoted, votes canvaSSed and returns
made in accordance with law.
Given under my hand and official seal
at the Capitol, in the City of Madison,
this 10th day of March, A. d. 1903.
[sEAL1 w. l.. HOUsER,
Secretary of State.
To the County Clerk of Wood County.