Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1924-10-09
JOINT RESOLUTION
No. "a. 1923

No. "a, 1923
TO amend section 8 of article XI OF
the constitution, relating to pow
ers 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 majority
Of the members elected to each of the
two houses, which proposed amend
ment is as follows:
"Resolved by the Senate, the Assem-
bly, concurring, That section 8 of Arti-
Gle XI of the constitution be amended
to read; (Article XII Section 3. Cities
and villages organized pursuant to
state law = are hereby empowered,
to determine their local affairs and
government, subject only to this con-
stitution and to such enactments OF
the legislature of statewide concern
as shall with uniformity affect every
city or every village. The method Of
such determination shall be prescribed
by the legislature. g No county,
city, town, village, school district, or
other municipal corporation shall be
allowed to become indebted in any
manner or for any purpose to any
amount, including existing indebted
ness, in the aggregate exceeding five
per centum on the value of the taxable
property therein, to be ascertained by
the last assessment for state and
county taxes previous to the mourning
of such Indebtedness. Any county,
city. town, village, school district, or
other municipal corporation mourning
any Indebtedness as aforesaid, shall,
heiore or at the time of doing so, pro
vide for the collection of direct an
nual tax sufficient to pay the interest
on such debt as it falls due, and also
to pay and discharge the principal
thereof within twenty years from the
time of contracting the same; except
that when such Indebtedness is incur
red in the acquisition of lands by
cities, or by counties having popula
ton of 10000 or over, for public mum
cipal purposes, or for the permanent
Improvement thereof, the city or coun
ty mourning the same shall, before
or at the time Of SO doing, porvide
for the Collection of a direct annual
tax sufficient to pay the interest on
such debt as it falls due, and also to
pay and discharge the principal there
OF within period not exceeding fifty
years from the time of contracting
the same;" now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the Senate, the Assem-.
bly, concurring, That the foregoing
amendment to this constitution of the
Wisconsin is hereby agreed to
by this legislature.
NOTE-Under the present provi-
sions of the Constitution, cities and
villages have only the powers of deter
mining their local affairs and govern
ment which may have been granted
them by the legislature. If this pro-
posed amendment is ratified, cities
and villages, by following the methods
of determination which may be pre-
scribed by the legislature, will have
all powers of determining their local
affairs and government not prohib-
tied by the Constitution or by "such
enactments of the legislature of state
wide concern as shall with uniformity
effect every city or every village"
The constitutional limitation of indebt
edness of per cent Of the value of
the taxable property of municipalities
remains unchanged by the amend
ment.
(Jt Res. No. 20, A.
JOINT RESOLUTION