The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1919-08-07
(No. 691 Az Chapter 667,
Laws of 1919

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AN ACT to amend section a. Of
chapter 452 of the laws of 1919, to
lrennmber subsection 60 of section 658
| of the statutes, to be subsection c6)
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: hN
| SECTION 4. Sectionsd) of4chapter
452 of the laws of 1919, is amended to
read: (Chapter 452, laws of 1919 Sec
ton /. The service recognition board
is hereby created to consist Of the
| governor, s the adjutant general and
a returned soldier to be APP
pointed by the governor.
| SECTION g. For the purpose of
raising a sum sufficient to assure each
soldier, sailor, marine and nurse, in
Guiding 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-
lceeding ten dollars for each month of
lservice, with minimum Of fifty dol
liars, as a token of appreciation of the
character and spirit Of their patriotic
liservice, and to perpetuate such appreci-
alton as part of the history Of Wis
Tconsin, 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 elect by resolution of
the county board of such county, adopt
ed prior tothe levy Of suchstax, to raise
said amount by a bond issue, authority
| is hereby conferred upon said county
| to issue such bond and thereupon the
proper authorities shall remit said lew
IN such county. If any such person
entitled to the benefits under this act
be deceased before receiving such pay
ment, then the payment aecruing 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 ease July list, 1919.
/ shall besaeemed the date OF terminas
tion Of such service. The benefit of this
/ act shalfsnot 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
i collected by taxation or raised by the
4 issue of bonds by any county shall be
1 paid into the state treasury and held
i there as special fund to be known as
the service recognition fund and dis
| bursed upon certificates of the service
4 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
Il distribution of said fund, the ascer-
i tainment and selection of proper bene.
fieiaries and the amounts to which
bcncfciaries are entitled and for proce
H dure, and may select or create such
agents as it may deem necessary.
| SECTION 5. Subsection (5) Of sec
ton Cos of the statutes is remembered