Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1912-10-24

constitution, relating to municipal
corporations and their indebtedness.
WHEREAS, At the biennial session of
the legislature, for the year 1909, an
amendment TO the constitution was pro-
posed and agreed to by majority of the
members elected to each of the two
houses, which proposed amendment is
as follows:
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE AS
sEMBLY CONCuRRING, That Section 3, of
Article XII, of the constitution be a
mended TO read
Section g. 1t shall be the duty of the
legislature, and they are hereby en-
powered, to provide for the organization
of cities and incorporated villages. and
to restrict their powers of taxation, as
sessment, borrowing money, contracting
debts, and loaning their credit, so as to
prevent abuses in assessments and tax
alton, and in contracting debts by such
municipal corporations.
No county, city, town, village, school
district, or other municipal corporation
shall be allowed to become indebted, in
any manner, or for any purpose, to any
amount, including existing indebted
ness, IN the aggregate, exceeding five
| per centum on the value of the taxable
property therein, to be ascertained by
the last assessment for state and county
| taxes, previous TO the mourning of such
| Indebtedness. Any county, city, town,
| village, school district, or other mimi
| cipal corporation mourning any indebt-
edness as aforesaid, shall, at or before
the time OF doing so, provide for the
collection of direct annual tax sufii-
clent to pay the interest on such debt
as II falls du e, and also to pay and dis
charge the principal thereof within
| twenty years from the time of contract
| ing the same; except that when such
| Indebtedness is incurred in the acquisi-
! ton of lands by cities, or by counties
| having a population of 10000 or over,
for public municipal purposes, or for per-
manent Improvement thereof, the city or
county mourning the same, shall, before
or at the time of doing so, provide for the
collection of direct annual tax suffi-
cient to pay the interest on such debt
as it falls due, and also to pay and dis
charge the principal thereof within
period not exceeding fifty years from
the time of contracting the same; now,
therefore, be it
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE AS
| SEMBLY CONCURRING, That the forego-
! ing amendment to the constitution of
the state of Wisconsin, be, and the same
is hereby agreed to by this Legislature.
| (No. Is s. JOINT RESOLUTION NO. AZ
To amend Article XI of the constitution
by adding thereto a new section to be
known as Section ga, relating to the
acquisition of lands by the state or by
any of its cities for certain public
| purposes.
WHEREAS, At the biennial session of
the legislature for the year 1909, an a
mendment to the constitution was pro-
posed and agreed to by a majority of
the members elected TO each of the two
houses, which proposed amendment is
as follows:
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE AS
| sEMBLY CoNCURRING, That Article XII
of the constitution be amended by adj
ding a new section thereto to be known
as Section ga, to read:
Section 3a. The state or any of its
cities may acquire by gift, purchase, or
condemnation, lands for establishing,
laying out widening, charging, ex-
| tending, and maintaining memorial
grounds, streets, squares, parkways,
boulevards, parks, Fairgrounds. sites
for public buildings, and reservations in
and about and along and leading to any
or all of the same; and after the estab-
lishment, layout and completion of such
| improvements, may convey any of such
real estate thus acquired and not neces-
sary for such improvements, with re-
servations concerning the future use
and occupation of such real estate, so
as to protect such public works and i'm
provements, and their environes, and to
preserve the view, appearance, light,
air, and usefulness of such public
works; now, therefore. be it
RESOLVED BY THE SENATE. THE AS
| sEMBLY CoNCURRING, That the forego-
| ing proposed amendment to the consti-
tuition of the State of Wisconsin be, and
the the same is hereby agreed to by
this legislature.
mo. 1913 s. CHAPTER 227
An act TO amend Section II, of the
statutes extending the right of sIf-
frage to women.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in senate and assembly, do
enact rs follows;
Section l. Section u Of the statutes
is amended to read Section IL. Every
person, male or female, of the age of
! twenty-one years or upwards, belonging
to either of the following classes, who
shall have resided in the state for one
year, next proceeding any election, and
In the election district where he or she
offers to vote ten days, shall be deemed
a qualified elector at such elections:
l. Citizens of the United States.
>. Persons of foreign birth, who,
prior to the first day of December, A.
b. 1908, shall have declared their in
tentions to become citizens conform
ably to the laws of the United States
on the subject of naturalization. pro-
vided that the rights hereby granted to
such persons shall cease on the first day
| of December, A. d. 1912.