Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1911-08-04

No. ~ c4A 81 IT, RuG hAMs o 5Fnf 1871
AN ACT to amend SECTION II o. the
statutes, extending the right Of SUI
frage to women.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
| do enact as follows:
Section /. Section u of the statutes
is amended to read: Section q. Every
person, male or female, of the
age of twenty-one years or upwards,
classes, who shall have resided in the
/ state for one year next preceding any
election, and in the election dlstrlct
| where he or she offers to vote ten days,
shall be deemed a qualified elector at
such elections:
/. Citizens of the United States.
2. Persons of foreign birth VINO, PRIOR
to the first day of December, A. D. 1908,
shall have declared their intention to
become citizens conforma bly, to the
! laws of the United States on the SUB
the rights hereby granted to such per
sons shall cease on the first day OF De-
cember, A. D. 1912.
| & Persons Of Indian blood who have
once been declared by law of congress
! to be citizens of the United States, any
| subseQuent law of congress to the con-
! trary Notwithstanding
4. Civilized persons or INDIAN descent
not members of any tribe.
| 5. Any civilized person, being de-
scendant Of the ChtppeWas OF Lake au-
/ DeriOr or any OLneT lHuldA llDS, lo-
siding within this state, and not upon
any Indian reservation, who shall make
| and subscribe to an oath before the
clerk of the circuit court or his deputy
! of the county where such person re-
| sides that he or she is not member
! of any Indian tribe, and has no claim
upon the United States for AID ana as
sistance from any appropriately made
| by congress for the benefit of Indians,
and that he or she thereby relinQuishes
all tribal relations, and al Tlght TO
| claim or receive such aid, shall be en-
titled, on such oath being filed and re
| corded, to vote at all elections held in
this state, if he or she is otherwise
qualified. The oath so taken, on being
! tribal relations of such person by the
affidavit of a qualified elector, shall be
| filed in the office of the clerk before
whom it was taken and recorded ny
him in a book to be provided for that
purpose, upon such person paying to
said clerk the sum Of one dollar.
g. Sc No person under guardian
ship, non compos mentis or insane shall
be qualified to vote at any ELECTION, nor
shall any person convicted or treason
or felony be qualified TO vote, at any
election unless restored to civil rights
Section 2. The question whether the
foregoing provisions. of this act SHAH
take effect and be in force, shall be
submitted to a vote Of the people OF
this state, in the manner provided by
law for the submission of an amend
ment to the constitution. at the next
| general election to be held in NoVem-
Der, 1912 If approved by a majority
of all the votes cast on that subject al
such election, it shall take effect and
be in force from and after. such ,ap-,
! prevail by the people; otherwise it shall
not take effect or be in force. Upon
the ballot shall be printed shall Chap
! ter......... Gnsert on the ballot the
number of chapter) Of the laws Of 1911,
entitled An act extending the right of
suffrage to women be adopted"
Section 8. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's pas
sage and publication.
Approved June 2, 1911, Copy. Law