The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-10-10

Whereas, at the biennial session of
the legislature for the year 1909, an
amendment to the Constitution of this
State was proposed and agreed to by a
majority of the members elected to each
Of the two houses, which proposed
amendment was in the following
language: Resolved by the Assembly
the Senate concurring that section 10,
Article VII, of the Constitution of
Wisconsin be amended to read: Sec. 10.
Each of the Judges of the Supreme and
Circuit Court shall receive salary,
| payable at such time as the legislature
shall fix, of not less than one thousand
five hundred dollars annually; they shall
receive no fess Of office, or other com
pensation than their salary; they shall
hold no office, of public trust, except a
Judicial office, during the term for
which they are respectively elected, and
all votes for either of them for any Of
fee, except a 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 qua
lifted elector within the jurisdiction for
which he may be chosen.
(No. 26 ST.
JOINT RESOLUTION No. ~.
To amend section of article XI of the
Constitution, relating to municipal
corporations and their Indebtedness.
| WHEREAS, AT, the biennial session
oe the legislature fer 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 Assembly concurring, that section 3,
article XII, Of theConstitution be amend
ed to read.
Section 3. It 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 power Of taxation, as
sessment, borrowing money, contracting
debt, and loaning their credit so as to
prevent abuses in assessment and taxa
/ ton, and in contracting debt by such
Municipal corporations. No County,
City, Town, Village, School District, or
other Municipal Corporation, shall be
allowed to become indebted in any man
ner or for any purpose to any amount,
including existing indebtedness III the
aggregate exceeding five per centum on
the value of the taxable property there
in, to be ascertained by the last assess
ment for state and county taxes pre-
vious to the incufring 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 prin-
lclpai thereof within twenty years from
the time of contracting the same; ex-
Icept that when such indebtedness is in
Cured in the acquisition Of lands by
cities, or by counties having a popula
tion of one hundred and ffty-thousand
or over, for public, municipal purposes,
or for the permanent Improvement
thereof the city or county ineurring the
same shall, before or at the time Of SO
doing, provide for the collection, of a