chapter 354]

on any note discounted by such bank or banking association, or for the loan or forbearance of any money, goods or things in action, than seven dollars upon one hundred dollars for one year, and after that rate for a greater or less sum, or for a longer or shorter time. [As amended by Whenever the securities deposited with the state treasurer to secure the redemption of the circulating notes. of any bank, shall be sold in pursuance of sections forty-one and forty-two of said chapter 71 [of the] revised Sale of securi- statutes, if such securities shall be or have been sold for a sum sufficient to redeem its outstanding notes at to be paid over par, then the bank comptroller shall, after the expirato representation of three years from the time of sale of such securities, pay over to the legal representative of any such bank, upon application therefor, the surplus derived from the sale of said securities, if any there be remaining in the custody of the comptroller.

ties on failure of

bank to pay

notes- - surplus

tive of bank.

Question to be submitted to vote of the people.

Form of ballots, how canvassed, returned, &c.

Statement to be published.

SECTION 2. At the general election to be held on the Tuesday next succeeding the first Monday in November, A. D. 1862, at all the places of holding elections in this state for the election of officers required by law then to be elected, the question whether this act shall become a law and go into effect, or in any manner be in force, shall be submitted to the people; and if the same shall be approved by a majority of all the votes cast on the subject, it shall go into effect; otherwise, it shall not go into effect nor be in force.

SECTION 3. The votes cast on the subject specified in the last preceding section, shall be by separate ballot; and shall have written or printed, or partly written and partly printed, on each of them, the words "for amendment to the banking law," or "against amendment to banking law," which words shall indicate the vote for or against the approval of this act; and the ballots so cast shall be canvassed and returned in the same manner as the votes cast for state officers are required by law to be returned and canvassed; and the secretary of state shall, immediately on the completion of said canvass, publish a statement of the result thereof in the official state paper, and shall communicate the same to the next legislature at the commencement of the session; and he shall also deliver to the state treasurer a certified copy thereof, with a statement of the result of the canvass upon the subject, immediately after the completion of the canvass.

SECTION 4. This act shall take effect and be in force Take effect. from and after the twentieth day of January, A. D. 1863.

SECTION 5. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with Repeal. or in any way contravening the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

Chapter 203 approved April 4, 1862; chapter 354 approved June 17, 1862.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS.

SESSION OF 1862.

NUMBER I.

JOINT RESOLUTION of the senate and assembly of the state of Wisconsin, requesting senators and members of congress to vote for abolishing [the] franking privelege, [privilege.]

Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That our senators in congress be requested to vote and use all honorable means to secure the passage of a law abolishing the present franking systom, [system,] and that our representatives in congress who voted for the abolition of the present franking systom [system] are entitled to the thanks of the people of this state.

Approved January 30, 1862.

NUMBER II.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS relative to the resignation of Gen'l Sigel.

Resolved, by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the people of the state of Wisconsin entertain towards Brig'd-General Franz Sigel, feelings of most profound respect; and believing that his long experience in, and familiarity with, military affairs, his brilliant military career in his native country, and his prompt, noble and efficient labors in sustaining the cause of the union in the present

struggle, entitle him to the respect and confidence of the people of the whole country,

Resolved, That the president of the United States, if not incompatible with the public interests, be respectfully and earnestly requested to promote Gen'l Sigel to the rank of a major-general in the army of the United States. Such promotion would, in the judgment of this legislature, be but an act of simple justice to a brave and efficient officer, and would be hailed with joy, not only by his countrymen, but by the loyal people of the whole country. Resolved, That the governor of this state be requested to forward copies of these resolutions to the president of the United States and secretary of war.

Approved January 30, 1862.

NUMBER III.

JOINT RESOLUTION of the senate and assembly of the state of Wisconsin, directing the governer [governor] to notify the secretary of the United States treasury, that Wisconsin assunes [assumes] her quota of the national tax.

Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the governer [governor] is hereby authorized and directed to give notice to the secretary of the United States treasury, that the state of Wisconsin does assume her quota of the national tax, as provided by the act of congress approved Augst [August] 5th, 1861. Approved February 1, 1862.

NUMBER IV.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS relative to relief for Ireland.

Resolved, by the assembly, the senate concurring, That, in view of the want and famine impending over Ireland, and of our sense of gratitude to her brave sons who, by thousands, are periling their lives on the battle-fields of liberty, in defense of our government and institutions, in this time of their trial, (that) our senators in congress be instructed, and our representatives be requested, to use all constitutional means in their power for the relief of that distressed land, by appropriate action.

Resolved, That his excellency, the governor, be requested to forward a copy of this resolution to our senators and representatives in congress, at his earliest convenience. Approved February 11, 1862.

NUMBER V.

JOINT RESOLUTION requesting senators and representatives in congress to oppose any stamp tax on newspapers, or any interdiction of free exchanges.

Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That our senators and representatives in congress be respectfully requested to oppose the passage, by congress, of any act imposing a stamp tax on newspapers, or the interdiction of free exchanges.

Resolved, That a copy of this resolution be transmitted by the governor to each of our senators and representatives in congress. Approved February 15, 1862.

NUMBER VI.

JOINT RESOLUTIONS relative to amending the constitution in regard to the governor's salary.

Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That the joint resolution agreed to by a majority of the members elected to the two houses composing the last preceeding [preceding] legislature, as appears by the yeas and nays taken thereon and entered on their journals respectively, entitled "joint resolution relative to amending the constitution in regard to the governor's salary," approved April 13, 1861, and which said resolution is in the words and figures following, to wit: "Resolved, by the senate, the assembly concurring, That section five of article five of the constitution, be amended so as to read as follows: "Section 5. The governor shall receive, during his continuance in office, an annual compensation of two thousand five hundred dollars,"" be, and the same is, agreed to. Resolved, That a joint committee of one from the senate and two from the assembly, be appointed, to report a bill to carry into effect the foregoing resolution, in accordance with the provisions of the constitution.

Approved February 17, 1862.