The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-09-12
CHAPTER 227.

An Act to amend section 10 of the
Statutes, extend the right of suffrage
to women.
The people of the State of Wisconsin,
represented in Senate and Assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section 1. Section XII of the Statutes
is amended to read: Section XII. 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 preceding any election, and
in the election district where he or she
offers to vote ten days, shall be deemed
q qualified elector at such election:
l. Citizens of the United States.
2. Persons of foreign birth, who,
prior to the first day of December, A.
D. 1908, shall have declared their inten-
ton to become citizens conformably to
the laws of the United States on the
subject Of naturalization; provided that
the rights hereby granted to such per-
sons shall cease on the first day of De-
cember, A. D. 1912.
3. 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
contrary Notwithstanding.
4. Civilized persons Of Indian descent
not members of any tribe.
5. Any civilized person, being des-
cendent of the Chippewas of Lake
Superior, or any other Indian tribe, re-
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 resides,
that he or she is not a member of any
Indian Tribe, and has no claim upon the
United States for aid and assistance
from any appropriation made by Con
gress for the benefit of Indians, and
chat he or she thereby relinquishes all
tribal relations, and all right to claim
or receive such aid shall be entitled,
lon such oath being fled and recorded,
to vote at all elections held in this
state, if he or she is otherwise qualified.
The oath so taken, on being corroborat-
ed as to the residence and tribal re-
lations Of such person by the affidavit
of qualified elector, shall be filed in
the Office of the Clerk before whom it
was taken and recorded by him in a
book to be provided for that purpose,
upon such person paying to said clerk
the sum of one dollar
6. No person under guardianship,
non-compos mentis or insane shall be
qualified to vote at any election, nor
shall any person convisted of treason or
felony be qualified to vote at any cleo
ton unless restored to civil rights.
Section 2. The question whether the
foregoing provision of this act shall
take effect and be in force, shall be sub
mitted to a vote of the people of this
State, in the manner provided by law
for the submission of an amendment to
the Constitution, at the next General
Election to be held in November, 1912.
If approved by a majority CT all the
votes cast on that subject at such cleo
ton, it shall take effect and be N force
from and after such approval by the
people; otherwise it shall not take eff
feet or be in force. Upon the ballot
shall be printed .sshall Chapter
(insert on the ballot the number of
Chapter) of the laws Of 1911 entitled,
An act extending the right of suffrage