The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-03-26
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
Laws Of Minnesota for 1855.
BILL
To Am end an Act entitled an Act to In.
corporate the City of st. Paul, Ramsey
County. Territory of Minnesota.

corporate the City of st. Paul, Ramsey
County, Territory of Minnesota.
Be Enacted by the Legislative Assembly Of Mime
sofa IartOry: ..r. 81,
SEC. l. That an act entitled act to incorporate
the City Of Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Territory Of
Minnesota, passed by the Legislative Assembly, and
approved March 4th, 1854, be amended as follows:
The second, ~ fifth, (5) seventh, % thirteenth,
(13) sections of chapter (2) hereby repealed
The following is hereby enacted to take the place OF
the second (2) section:
"The elective officers of said city shall he May
Or Treasurer, Marshal and Justice Of the Peace for
the CITY; and three Aldermen, one Constable and one
Justice of the Peace for each Ward. Said Alder
men, Constable and Justices shall be residents and
voters in the Ward for which they may be elected.
All other officers necessary for the proper manage
men of the affairs of said city shall he appointed by
the Common Council. All elective officers, except
Justices of the Peace, shall unless otherwise prOvid-
ell, hold iheir respective Offices for one year, and I'M
ii, their successors elected and qualified. Pro-
vided, however, The Common Council shall have
power for due cause, TO expe any of their own num-
ber and to from Office any officer or agent un-
der the city government-due notice being first given
to the officer complained Of. Justices of the Peace
shall hold their respective Offices ior two years, and
until their successors are elected and qualified"
The following is hereby enacted in lieu Of the fifth
(5) section: e.. ,.r,;,or,, and cou,.
thirty days preceding the elections and ten days IN the
ward where they offer their vote, shall be entitled to
vote for any officer to he elected under this law, and
to hold any Office hereby created. And the different
wards established BY law shall constitute the election
precincts for territorial and county, as well as city
elections, and the mode of conducting all territorial
and county elections in said city shall be in the man.
ner herein provided in reference to city officers, ex-
cept that the returns thereof shall lie made by the
Judges of election the Register of deeds of the
county of Ramsey, within the time and in the manner
provided by law.
The following is hereby enacted in lieu of the sew
enth (7) section:
/" either of tie inspectors Of election shall slis-
pect that any person Offering vote does not possess
the qualifications Of eector, the inspector, before
receiving the vote of any such, shall require hm TO
take the following oath You do solemly swear
Cor affirm, the may be,) that you are twenty
one years of age; that you citizen OF the United
States, (or have declared your intention to become
citizen, conormaby to the laws of the United States
on the subject of nauraizaon) that you have resi-
ded within this Territory six months, within this city
thirty days. and within this ward ten days next pre-
ceding this election and that you have not voted at
this election; and that you have made no bet or wa
ger, become directly indirectly interested IN any
bet or wager, depending the result OF this cleo
tom and if the person offering to vote shall take
such oath, his vote shall be received.
And if such person shall take such oath falsely, he
shall be deemed guilty of wilful and corrupt peru-
nv, and upon conviction thereof, upon indictment,
shall suffer the punishment provided by law for per-
sons guilty OF perjury. If any person who is not a
qualified voter shall vote at any election if any
person duly qualified shall vote in any other ward
than the one in which he resides, shall vote
than once any election, he shall be liable to ndict-
ment, and conviction thereof shall forfeit and pay
sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or less than
twenty five doa:s. 1t shall be the duty Of the in
spector to keep list Of the names Of all persons
whose may be challenged aforesaid who shall
in their votes and if any Inspector shall know
ingy and coupy receive the vote of any person not
authorized vote, shall make out false returns OF
an election, or any clerk shall not write down the
name Of every voter he votes, or shall wiiin!ly
make untrue and incorrect counts and ales OF votes
each and every such Inspector and clerk shall he la
BILE indictment, and conviction thereof shall Sc
verally forfeit and Pay sum not exceeding hve hun.
bred dollars, less than one hundred dollars Al!
| such indictments shall be tried In the District Cour'
of the county of Ramsey"
The following is hereby enacted in lieu Of section
thirteen (l3):
| "The votes for all elective officers under tie pro
visions Of this at the annual election shall he upon
ono ballot, which shall he written printed, or part
" written and partly printed, and which shall desg-
nate the person voted for tor Alderman for two years
and the person or persons intended for Aldermen Tor
one year."
SEC. 2. Chapter 5 Of said act is hereby amended
as follows:
Int ScCou, w sC'Chtu W "iAo $1,000
I 90 sections of said Chapter are hereby repealed.
The following is hereby enacted in lieu OF sector
two (2):
"The Mayor shall, when present. preside over The
meetings Of the Common Council, and take care thai
the laws OF the Territory and the ordinances OF the
city are duly observed and enforced and that all othe
executive officers of the city discharge their respec
tive duties. He shall from time to time give IN,
, Common Council such information and recommend
such measures as he may deem advantageous to tn.
Il.
and head Of the police of the city; and in of
riot or ether disturbance, he may appoint as man,
special or temporary consables as he may deem nee
essary.
The Mayor shall have vote only in of tie
He shall have full power and authority to take &C
acknowledgements Of deeds and to administer Oaths il
all where Oaths required by law to be made
and may attach to such acknowledgment or attesta
tons the corporate seal of the city,
The following is hereby enacted ia lieu Of the fourtl
a. section:
SEC g. The clerk shall be elected by ballot by thu
Common Council; he shall keep the corporate sea
and all the papers and records of the city, and keep
record of the proceedings of the Common Council
and whose meetings it shall be his duty to attend
and copies Of all papers fled in his office, and tran
scripts from the records of the Common Council, Ger
tilted by him, under the corporate seal, shall be evi
dence in all courts in like manner if the Origina
were produced; he shall draw and countersgn al
orders the Treasury, in pursuance of any order
resolution Of the Common Council, and Keep full
and accurate account thereof, in books provided TO
that purpose. The clerk shall have power and au
thorty to administer oaths or alirmations.
The following is hereby enacted in lieu Of section
seven C):
The Marshal shall perform such duties shall b
prescribed by the Common Council for the preserva
ton Of the public peace aud the collection of license
moneys and fines; he shall possess the powers of con
stable at law, by the laws Of this Terrific
ry, and receive like fees.
The following is hereby enacted in lieu of section
, nine (9):
"The Common Council at their first meeting il
each year, soon thereafter may be, shall des
gnate one newspaper, printed in said city, in whicl