WISCONSIN CONSTITUTION                          221


  Legislative officers. SECTION 6. The elective officers of the legislature,
other than the presiding officers, shall be a chief clerk and a sergeant
at arms, to be elected by each house.
  Division of counties. SEcTION 7. No county with an area of nine hun-
dred square miles or less shall be divided or have any part stricken
therefrom without submitting the question to a vote of the people of
the county, nor unless a majority of all the legal voters of the county
voting on the question shall vote for the same.
  County seats removed. SECTION 8. No county seat shall be removed
until the point to which it is proposed to be removed shall be fixed by
law,, and a majority of the voters of the county voting on the question
shall have voted in favor of its removal to such point.
  Election or appointment of statutory officers. SECTION 9. All county
officers whose election or appointment is not provided for by this con-
stitution shall be elected by the electors of the respective counties, or
appointed by the boards of supervisors or other county authorities, as
the legislature shall direct. All city, town and village officers whose
election or appointment is not provided for by this constitution shall
be elected by the electors of such cities, towns and villages, or of
some division thereof, or appointed by such authorities thereof as the
legislature shall designate for that purpose. All other officers whose
election or appointment is not provided for by this constitution, and
all officers whose offices may hereafter be created by law, shall be
elected by the people or appointed, as the legislature may direct.
  Vacancies in offices. SECTION 10. The legislature may declare the cases
in which any office shall be deemed vacant, and also the manner of
filling the vacancy, where no provision is made for that purpose in
this constitution.
   Passes, franks and privileges. SECTION 11. No person, association, co-
partnership, or corporation, shall promise, offer, or give, for any purpose,
to any political committee, or any member or employe thereof, to any
candidate for, or incumbent of any office or position under the con-
stitution or laws, or under any ordinance of any town or municipality,
of this state, or to any person at the request or for the advantage of
all or any of them, any free pass or frank, or any privilege withheld
from   any person, for the traveling accommodation or transportation
of any person or property, or the transmission of any message or
communication.
   No political committee, and no member or employe thereof, no candi-
 date for and no incumbent of any office or position under the consti-
 tution or laws, or under any ordinance of any town or municipality of
 this state, shall ask for, or accept, from any person, association, co-
 partnership, or corporation, or use, in any manner, or for any purpose,
 any free pass or frank, or any privilege withheld from any person, for
 the traveling accommodation or transportation of any person or prop-
 erty, or the transmission of any message or communication.
   Any violation of any of the above provisions shall be bribery and
 punished as provided by law, and if any officer or any member of the
 legislature be guilty thereof, his office shall become vacant.
   No person within the purview of this act shall be privileged from
 testifying in relation to anything therein prohibited; and no person
 having so testified shall be liable to any prosecution or punishment for
 any offense concerning which he was required to give his testimony or
 produce any documentary evidence.
   Notaries public and regular employes of a railroad or other public
 utilities who are candidates for or hold public offices for which the
 annual compensation is not more than three hundred dollars to whom
 no passes or privileges are extended beyond those which are extended
 to other regular employes of such corporations are excepted from the
 provisions of this section.