Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1919-08-08
NOTICE OF
REFERENDUM ELECTION
ON
SOLDIER BONUS LAW
State of Wisconsin,


the State of Wisconsin, do hereby GER
tify that the following law is to be
submitted to vote of the people at
special election to be held in the sew
eral cities, towns. villages and election
precincts of the State of Wisconsin on
the first Tuesday of September, 1919,
being the second day of said month
(No. SOL, Al Chapter 667, Laws
of 1919
An Act to amend section ~ of chap
ter 452 of the laws of 1919, to renum-
Der subsection 60 of section 65s of the
statues, to be subsection (6) thereof, to
create subsection (5) of section 65S of
the statues, relating to the service rec
ignition board, and making an appro-
priation.
The people of the state of Wisconsin,
represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
Section / Section ~ of chapter 49,
of the laws of 1919 lis amended to read:
Chapter 452, laws of 1919 Section 1.
The service recognition board is here
by created to consist of the Governor,
the adjutant general and returned
soldier to be appointed by the govern
or.
Section For the purpose of raising
sum sufficient to assure each soldier,
sailor, marine, and nurse, including
Red Cross nurses, who served in the
armed forces of the United States dur
ing the war against Germany and Au-
stria, and who at the time of his or
her indiction into the service was
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 perpetuate such appre-
,:iation as part of the history of Wis
oonsin, a tax of not exceeding three
mills on each dollar of the assessed
valuation ian addition to the income
surtax hereinafter mentioned is 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, ad-
opted 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 there
upon the proper authorities shall re-
NIT said levy in such county. Ii any
such person entitled to- the benefits
under this act be deceased before re-
ceiving such payment, then the pay
ment accruing 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 1st, 1919, shall
be deemed the date of termination 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 civil
ian pay.
Section 8. All sums levied and col
lected by taxation or raised by the
issue of bonds by any county snail be
paid into the state treasury and held
there as special fund to be known as
the service recognition fund and dis
pursed upon certificates of the service
recognition board, as to the persons en-
titled thereto and the amount to which
each person is entitled
Section A 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
distri button of said fund, the ascer-
tainment and selection of proper ben
eficiaries and the amounts to which
benefciaries are entitled and for pro-
cedure, and may select or create such
agents as it may deem necessary.
Section 5. Subsection % of section
65s of the statutes is remembered to be
subsection (6) thereof.
Section 6. There is added to section
65S of the statutes new subsection to
read [Section 65s] o. For the pur-
pose 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 .athe total
assessed valuation of such county.
Section z. 1T In addition to the
normal tax imposed by section 10S7m-
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-wir:
TAT On the fourth one thousand dol
lars or any part thereof, one and three