Laws of the State of Wisconsin

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R. A. Bird, printer, 1880

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Page 490 - Indian descent not members of any tribe ; provided, that the legislature may at any time extend by law the right of suffrage to persons not herein enumerated ; but no such law shall be in force until the same shall have been submitted to a vote of the people at a general election and approved by a majority of all the votes cast at such election...
Page 380 - ... shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year or by both such fine and imprisonment, and the Juvenile Court shall have jurisdiction of all such misdemeanors...
Page 489 - The Senators shall be elected by single districts of convenient contiguous territory, at the same time and in the same manner as members of the Assembly are required to be chosen; and no assembly district shall be divided in the formation of a Senate district.
Page 417 - ... guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than ten, nor more than one hundred dollars...
Page 440 - The mayor shall take care that the laws of the state and the ordinances of the city are duly observed and enforced, and that all other executive officers of the city discharge their respective duties. He shall from time to time give the common council such information and recommend such measures as he may deem advantageous to the city.
Page 208 - ... shall hold their offices for the term of three years, and until their successors are elected and qualified.
Page 437 - York" and by that name they and their successors shall and may have continual succession, and shall be persons in law, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended, in all courts and places whatsoever...
Page 390 - York shall be paid the compensation now fixed by law for such justices until the expiration of the terms for which they were respectively elected or appointed.
Page 244 - The amount hereafter to be raised by tax for county or city purposes, in any county containing a city of over one hundred thousand inhabitants, or any such city of this State, in addition to providing for the principal and interest of existing debt, shall not in the aggregate exceed in any one year two per centum of the assessed valuation of the real and personal estate of such county or city, to be ascertained as prescribed in this section in respect to county or city debt.
Page 47 - If it be for the purpose of securing the plaintiff against a contingent liability, it must state concisely the facts constituting the liability, and show that the sum confessed therefor does not exceed the same.

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