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

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| AN ACT to submit to the people amend
ments to the constitution. -,o -
! Whereas, At the biennial session OF
| the Legislature of this state in the year
| 1909, amendments to the constitution
were proposed and agreed to by ma
jority OF the members elected TO eacn
| Of the two houses, which proposed
| amendments were III the Following IAN
"ResoIved by the Senate, the Assem-
| bly, concurring. That section 3, Of ar
ticle NI, Of the constitution. be amend
Section 8. It shall be the duty Of
| empowered, to provide for the oIganjj-
i cation Of cities and incorporated viii
| lagos, and to restrict their power or
| taxation, assessment, borrowing money,
| contracting debts and loaning their
| credit, so as to prevent abuses In as
| sessments and taxation and in con-
| tracing debts by such municipal cor
! pora tons No county, city. town. vii
| lage, school district or other munich
pal corpora ton shall be allowed to be-
| come indebted in any manner or for
any purpose to any amount, including
! existing Indebtedness, in the aGGre-
| gate exceeding five per cent on the
| value of the taxable property therein,
| to be ascertained by the last assess
| ment for state and county taxes preVt-
Gus to the mourning of such indebted
| ness. Any county, city, town, village,
school district or other municipal cor
| pOration 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 interest on such debt as it falls due,
| and also to pay and discharge the prln-
cpal thereof within twenty years from
| the time Of contracting the same; e&-
| cept that when such indebtedness is
| incurred in the acquisition of lands by
cities, or by counties having a popula
/ tiOn of hundred and fifty ThOnS9 q
| or over, for public, municipal purposes
or for the permanent Improvement
thereof, the city, or county mourning
| the same, shall, before or at the time
of SO doing, provide for the collection
| of g direct annual tax sufficient to pay
! the interest on such debt as it falls
principal thereof within period not
exceeding fifty years from the time Of
| contracting the same
! "ResOlVed by the Senate, the Assem-
| bly, concurring, That article XI Of the
constitution be amended, by adding a
new section thereto to be know as SEQ
| ton ga to read:
section ga. The state or any Of it's
cities may acquire by gift, purchase or
condemnation lands for establishing,
! laying out, widening, charging, eX-
tending and maintaining memorial
grounds, streets, squares, parkways.
| bOuieVardS, parks, Fairgrounds, sites
for public buildings, and reservations
in and about and along and leading to
[ cLIly VI tLIl VI the SdIAG, anu after the
establishment, layout, and completion
| of such improvements, may convey any
such r&al estate thus acquired and not
| necessary for such Improvements, with
| reservations concerning the future use
and occupation of such real estate, so
as to protect such public works and
| improvements and their enyirOns, and
| to preserve the view appearance, light,
| air and usefulness OF such public
| works"
"Reso1ved by the Assembly. the Sem
ate concurring, That section 10, Of ar
ticle WI, Of the constitution, be amend
Section 10. Each of the Judges OF
the supreme and circuit courts shall
receive a salary, payable at
such time as the legislature shall fix,
! of not less than one thousand five hun
dred dollars annually; they shall re-
ceive no fees Of office, or other COM
| pensatton than their salary; they snail
hold no Office of public trust. except q
judicial office, during the term for
which they are respectively elected,
and all votes for. either of them for any
| office, except judicial office, given by
the Legislature or the people, shall be
void. No person shall be eligible to the
office Of judge who shall not, at. the
time Of his election, be citizen Of the
United. States, and have attained the
age of twenty-five years. and be o
qua qualiffi fec , eleGtGr within the jursdio-
amendments to the Constitution n Of 81 this this
state We're. duly ratified and agreed to
by the legislature thereof at the bien-
nial session of 1911 by a majority Of all
the members elected to each house
thereof, therefore:
The people of the state of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
DO enact as follows:
Section 1. The foregoing proposed
amendments to the constitution OF this
state shall be submitted to the people
at general ELECTION to be held on the
Tuesday succeeding the first Monday
In November, 1912, and If the people
shall approve and ratify any or all OF
the said AMENDMENTS by majority OF
the electors voting thereon, each such
amendment so ratified shah becoms a
part Of the constitution Of this state.
Section g.. The form OF the ballot to
be. cast on the question of adopting or
rejecting the said amendments shall be
respectively; /. For the amendment
extending from twenty to fifty years
the time within which debts Incurred
in the acquisition Of lands by cities, or
6y counties having q popula zion of one