Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin

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Legislative Reference Bureau, 1907

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Page 13 - and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom at least, shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves ; they shall name In their ballots the persons voted for as President, and In distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President, and they shall make distinct lists of
Page 34 - to each house, then It shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment, or amendments to the people In such manner, and at such time, as the Legislature shall prescribe; and If the people shall approve and ratify such amendment, or amendments by a majority of the
Page 24 - have the power to suspend the execution of the sentence, until the case shall be reported to the Legislature at Its next meeting, when the Legislature shall either pardon, or commute the sentence, direct the execution of the sentence, or grant a further reprieve. He shall annually communicate to the
Page 10 - of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. SECTION 1. Full faith and credit shall be given In each State to the public acts, records, and Judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may by general laws prescribe the manner In which such acts, records and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof. SECTION 2. The citizens of each State
Page 94 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment; and no bill or resolution shall at any time be amended by annexing thereto or Incorporating therein any other bill or resolution pending before the house.
Page 33 - 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 Indebtedness, In the aggregate exceeding five per centum on the value of the taxab'e property therein,
Page 31 - hundred thousand acres of land, to which the State Is entitled by the provisions of an act of Congress entitled "An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant pre-emption rights," approved the fourth day of September, one thousand eight hundred and forty-one ; and also the flve
Page 33 - be the duty of the Legislature, and they are hereby empowered, to provide for the organization of cities and Incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses In assessments and
Page 25 - If he approve, he shall sign It, hut If not, he shall return It, with his objections, to that house In which It shall have originated, who shall enter the objections at large upon the journal, and proceed to reconsider It. If, after such reconsideration two-thirds of the members present shall agree to pass the bill, It
Page 23 - 6. No soldier, seaman, or marine In the army or navy of the United States, shall be deemed a resident of this State, in consequence of being stationed within the same. SECTION 6. Laws may be passed excluding from the right of suffrage all

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