The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-21
NOTICE OF REFERENDUM ELEC-
TTON TO BE HELD SEP
TENDER 2, 1919.

Nlty Oh MdulSOn,
/, MERLIN HULL, Secretary Of
State Of the State Of Wisconsin, do
hereby certify that the following law
is to be submitted to vote of the peo-
pie at a special election to be held in
the several cities, towns, villages and
election precincts Of the State of Wis
consin on the first Tuesday of Septem-
Der, 1919, being the second day Of
said month
NO. 691,A Chapter 667,
Laws of 1919
AN ACT to amend section CD Of
chapter 452 Of the laws Of 1919, to
rennmber subsection (5) Of section 658
of the statutes, to be subsection (6)
thereof, to create subsection (5) of
section 658 Of the statutes, relating to
the service recognition board, and
making an appropriation.
The people of the state of Wisconsin,
represented in senate and assembly,
do enact as follows:
SECTION i. Section az Of chapter
452 Of the laws Of 1919, is amended to
read: (Chapter 452, laws Of 1879 Sec
ton j. The service recognition board
is hereby created to consist Of the
governor, the adjutant general and
= a returned soldier to be APP
pointed by the governor.
SECTION 2. For the purpose Of
raising sum sufficient to assure each
soldier, sailor, marine and nurse, in
cluding Red Cross nurses, who served
in the armed forces Of the United
States during the war against Germany
and Austria and who at the time Of his
or her induction into the service was
a resident of Wisconsin, a sum not ex-
ceeding ten dollars for each month of
service, with minimum of fifty dol
lars, as token of appreciation Of the
character and spirit of their patriotic
service, and to perpetnate such appreci-
ation as q part of the history Of Wis
consin, tax Of not exceeding three
mills on each dollar of the assessed
valuation in addition to the income sur
tax hereinafter mentioned is hereby
levied and authorized to be included in
the next tax levy; provided that in case
any county shall eject by resolution Of
the county board Of such county, adopt
ed prior to the levy of such tax, to raise
said amount by bond issue, authority
is hereby conferred upon said county
to issue such bond and thereupon the
proper authorities shall remit said levy
lin snch county. If any such person
entitled to the benefits under this act
be deceased before receiving such pay
ment, then the payment accruing to said
deceased shall be paid to the surviving
widow, child or children, mother or de-
pendent father or in the order herein
stated and in such case July lat, 1919,
shall be deemed the date of termina-
tion of such service. The benefit Of this
act shall not accrue to any person for
time spent while taking training in
any student army training camp, nor to
any person who, though indicted into
the service, did civilian work at CT
william pay.
SECTION 8. All sums levied and
collected by taxation or raised by the
issue of bonds ny any county shall be
paid into the state treasury and held
there as a special fund to be known as
the service recognition fund and dis.
bursed upon certificates Of the service
recognition board, as to the persons
entitled thereto and The amount to
which each person is entitled.
SECTION 4. The service recognition
board shall have complete charge and
control of the general scheme of such
payments. 1t shall adopt general rules,
uniform throughout the state, for The
distribution Of said fund, the ascer-
sainment and selection of proper bene-
ficiaries and the amounts to which
benefciaries are entitled and for proce-
dure, and may select or create such
agents as it may deem necessary.
SECTION 5. Subsection (5) of Sec
ton 658 Of the statutes is remembered
to be subsection (6) thereof.
SECTION 6. There is added to Sec
tion 65S of the statutes new subsec-
ton to read: (Section 65S) (5) For the
purpose Of carrying out the provisions
Of chapter ASP Of the laws Of 1919; but
bonds issued in any county for such
purpose shall not exceed in amount
three mills on each dollar of the total
assessed valuation of such county.
SECTION Z. ~ In Addition to the
normal tax imposed by section 1oS7m-6
of the statutes, there shall be levied,
collected and paid upon the incomes of
all persons, except as otherwise pro
vided by law, surtax on taxable in
come computed at the following rates,
to- wit:
(a) On the fourth one thousand dol
lars or any part thereof, one and three
fourths per cent;
% On the fifth one thousand dol
lars or any part thereof, two per cent;
(cl On the sixth one thousand dol
lars or any part thereof, two and one
half per cent;
| (d) On the seventh one thousand dol
lars or any part thereof, three per cent;