Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1919-08-28
State of Wisconsin, Department o.

State of Wisconsin, Department of
State, City of Madison. SIS.
/, Merlin Hull, Secretary of State
of the State of Wisconsin, do hereby
certify that the following law is to
be submitted to a vote of the people
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 Sep
TENDER, 1919, being the second day
of said month.
(No. 691, Al Chapter GET,
Laws of 1919
AN ACT to amend section D of
chapter ASP of the laws Of 1919, to
renumber subsection 90 of section
658 of the statutes, to be subsection
go thereof, to create subsection 80
of section 658 of the statutes, relat-
ing 10 the service recognition board,
and making an appropriation.
The people Of the State of Wiscon-
sin, represented in senate and as
sembly, do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Section % of chap
ter 452 of the laws Of 1919, is
amended to read: (Chapter 452, laws
of 1919 Section l. The service rec
ognition board is hereby created to
consist of the governor, the adult
ant general and returned
soldier to be appointed by the gov
ernor.
SECTION 2. For the purpose of
raising a sum sufficient to assure
each soldier, sailor, marine and
nurse, including 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 induc-
ton into the service was a resident
of Wisconsin, sum not exceeding
ten dollars for each month Of ser
vice, with a minimum of fifty dol
lars, as a token of appreciation of
the character and spirit of their
patriotic service, and to perpetuate
such appreciation as part OF the
history of Wisconsin, a tax OF not
exceeding three mills on each dollar
of the assessed valuation in addition
to the income surtax hereinafter
mentioned is hereby levied and au-
thorized 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,
adopted prior to the levy OF such tax,
to raise said amount by bond is
sue, authority is hereby conferred
upon said county to issue such bond
and thereupon the proper authorl-
ties shall remit said levy in such
county. If any such person entitled
TO the benefits under this act be de-
ceased before receiving such pay
ment, then the payment accrulng TO
said deceased shall be paid to the
surviving widow, child or children,
mother or dependent father or In
the order herein stated and in such
case July LIST, 1919, shall be deemed
the date of termination OF such SER
vice. The benefit of this act shall
not accrue to any person Tor 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
civilian pay.
SECTION 3. All sums LEVIED and
collected by taxation or raised by
the issue of bonds by 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 disbursed 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 recog-
milton board shall have complete
charge and control of the general
scheme of such payments. 1t shall
adopt general rules, uniform thru
out the state, for the distribution OF
said fund, the ascertainment and
selection of prOpe" benefc'arieS and
the amounts to W .;:h benetciaries
are entitled and ;or procedure, and
may select or C"-1e such agents
rs it may deem necessary.
SECTION 5. Subsection go OF
section 65S of the statutes is re
numbered to be subsection (o)
thereof.
SECTION 6. There is added to
section 65S of the statutes a new
subsection to read: (Section 65S)
go For the purpose OF carrying out
the provisions of chapter 452 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 provided by law, sur
tax on taxable income computed at
the following rates, to wit:
(a) On the fourth one thousand
dollars or any part thereof one and
three fourths per cent;