WISCONSIN CONSTITUTION


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any county or town therein, or to any state or territory within the
United States, shall be eligible to any office of trust, profit or honor
in
this state.
  Great seal. SECTION 4. It shall be the duty of the legislature to provide
a great seal for the state, which shall be kept by the secretary of
state, and all official acts of the governor, his approbation of the laws
excepted, shall be thereby authenticated.
  Residents on Indian lands, where may vote. SECTION 5. All persons re-
siding upon Indian lands, within any county of the state, and qualified
to exercise the right of suffrage under this constitution, shall be entitled
to vote at the polls which may be held nearest their residence, for state,
United States or county officers. Provided, that no person shall vote for
county officers out of the county in which he resides.
  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