Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1924-10-15
IJt. Res. No. IS, ST.
JOINT RESOLUTION


To amend section 3 of article XII of the
constitution, relating to powers of cities
and villages.
Whereas, At the biennial session of the
| legislature for the year 1921, an amendment
to the constitution was proposed and agreed
to by a majority of the members elected
to each of the two houses, which proposed
amendment is as follows:
"RFSOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE
ASSEMBLY CONCURRING, That section 3
of Article XII of the constitution be amend
ed to read: article XII Section 3. CITIES
AND VILLAGES ORGANIZED PURSUANT
TO STATE LAW hereby empow-
cred, TO DETERMINE THEIR. LOCAL AT
FAIRS AND GOVERNMENT. SUBJECT
ONLY TO THIS CONSTITUTION AND TO
SUCH ENACTMENTS OF THE LEGISLA-
SHALL. WITH UNIFORMITY AFFECT Ev-
cry CITY OR EVERY VILLAGE. THE
METHOD OF SUCH DIFFERENTIATION
SHALL BE PRESCRIBED BY THE LEG
ISLATURE. . No county, CITY, town,
village school district, or other municipal
corporation shall be allowed to become in
debted in any manner or for any purpose
| to anv amount, including existing indebt-
edness, in the aggregate exceeding hve per
centum on the value of the taxable prop
| erty therein, to be ascertalned py the last
assessment for state and county taxes prev
| ious to the mourning of such Indebtedness.
! ANY county, city, town, village, school dis
| trict or other municipal corporation incur
ring anv 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 OH SuCh uOpb
| as 1t falls due, and also to pay and dis
charge the principal thereof within twenty
wears from the time of contracting the
same: except that when such Indebtedness
| is incurred in the acquisition OF lanos oy
| cities, or by counties having .popuiatlon
| of one hundred fifty thousand or over Tor
public municipal purposes, or for the per-
manent improvement thereof, the city or
county mourning the same shall, perore OF
| at the time of so doing, provide TOT the
collection of direct annual TAX - liz
| to nav the interest on such debt as 1t rails
due, and also to pay and discharge the
principal thereof within a period not ex-
ceeding fifty years from the time of con-
| fra citing the same;' now therefore be 1t
| RESOLVED BY THE SENATE, THE AS
| SEMBI.Y CONCURRING, That the forego-
| ing amendment to this constitution or the
state of Wisconsin Is hereby agreed TO by
| this Legislature.
| NOTE-Under the present provisions or
the Constitution, cities and villages nave
| only the powers Of determining their iocaI
affairs and government which may nave
been granted to them by the legislature e.
| If this proposed amendment Is ratineo,
cities and villages by following the metnoos
| of determination which may be prescribed
by the legislature, will have all powers OF
| determining their local affairs and govern
ment not prohibited by the Constitution or
by 'such enactments of the legislature OF
statewide concern as shall with uniformity
effect every city or every village" The con
| stitutional limitation of Indebtedness OF 90
| of the value of the taxable property OF mu-
I-nicipalities remains unchanged by the
amendment.