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

meanor, and said town, village and city
clerk or dealer manufacturer or en-
fined not less than twenty five dollars
or be imprisoned in
the county jail not less than thirty
days, nor more than sixty days.
Section 4. This act shall take effect
and be In force from and after it's pas
sage and publication.
Approved June %. 1911. Copy Law.
NO' G & 47s, LAWS OF OF oil 81
AN ACT to create sections 959s-1 to
959s-2o, inclusive, Of the statutes,
an dn ceS and OF proyng for
charter conventions
The people of the State Of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly,
Section L. There are added to the
statutes twenty new sections to read:
Section 959s-1. Every city. in addi
ton to the powers now possessed. Is
amend its charter, or to adopt new
charter by convention, in the manner
provided in this act. and for that pur-
to have. all powers in relation to the
form of It's government, and to the
conduct of it's municipal affairs not In
contravention Of or withheld by the
ally throughout the state.
Section $685.. When a raw char
ter shall have been adopted, or the old
charter altered or amended by any
act, such new charter or alterations or
amendments shall supersede any exist
ing charter or statutory provision in
consistent Herewith. and the same Is
copies of such new charter or altera-
tions or amendments, duly certified by
the city clerk, shall be filed in the Of
fec Of the secretary Of state.
Section 9b0S-3 The common conn
Gil may, by resolution, by a majority
vote and the approval Of the mayor, or
by two-thirds vote without the ap-
tions or amendments to the charter
and submit the same to vote of the
people at the next ensuing municipal,
school board or judicial election, .oc-
curing not less than thirty days after
such resolution is passed. or may, by a
resolution passed by two-thirds vote
of all the members of the council. and
same to vote Of the people at a spe-
four months prior to q municipal,
school board or judicial election.
ty-fve qualified electors Of the city
may propose alterat lions or amend
ments to the charter by fling the same
with the city clerk, whose duty it shall
or amendments to the common council
at it's next regular meeting, and such
altera lions or amendments shall then
be considered to be introduced in such
Section 959s-5. 1. Any proposed al
teration or amendment to the charter,
introduced as provided in section 969s
such Wher ions or OF anq ntro
duced as provided in section 959s-,4,
which fails of passage in the form In
which It was introduced, within sixty
days Of the date of it's INTRODUCTION,
shall be submitted to vote of the
qualified electors of the city upon the
fling with the city clerk of petition
siigfined by qualified electors OF the
2. If such petition shall contain the
signatures of a number Of electors,
equal to not less. than ten per cent of
the last regular municipal election, not
less than two months before any mu
nicipal, school board or judicial cleo
ton, 1t shall be the duty Of the city
clerk to submit such proposed altera
ton or amendment to vote Of the
people at such ensuing election; and
If it shall be approved by majority
Of those voting thereon 1t shall take
effect and be in force from and after
twenty days from the date Of suoh
election.
s. # such petition shall contain the
equal to not less than fifteen per cent
Of the number Of electors who voted
at the last regular municipal election,
and shall be filed with the city clerk,
not less than four months prior to 9
election, It shall be the duty of the city
clerk to submit such proposed altera-
ton Or amendment to q vote of the
people at special election to be or
dered by such city clerk
Section 959s-8. The special cleo
lions, herein authorized. shall be held
not less than twenty. nor more than
thirty days from the date Of fling the
petition herein mentioned in the Of.
fee Of the city clerk, or when ordered
by the common council, not less than
twenty nor more than thirty days from
the date OF the approval by the mayor
of the resolution ordering such special
conducted by the inspectors and clerks
of election Of the several election pre-
cincts in the same manner, and the re-
turns thereof shall be made in the
same form and manner as of the gen.
eral municipal election, and within
such time as Is prescribed by law. II
any such proposed alteration or amend
of those voting thereon, it shall take
effect and be In force from and after
twenty days from the date of such cleo
Section $685.. The petitions here
ing provided for need not be on one
paper and may be printed or written,
but shall contain the autograph sigma
lures of the persons whose names pur-
port to be signed thereto, together with
the house address of each signer. To
each sheet OF such petition there shall
be attached an affidavit, sworn to by
some qualified elector, to the effect that
he Is personally acquainted with all
sheet. Not more than one such pro-
pocad a1tera tiOO or amendment shall be