The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-03-29
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
Laws Of Minnesota for 1855.
AN ACT
To Amend an Act entitled AN Act to In.
corporate the City of saltwater in the
County of Washington.

Be it eaacted yMe Legislative assembly Of the
Territory Of Minnesota
SECTION l. That section two Of said act be and
the same is hereby amended as follows:
That for the good order and government Of said
city, it shall be lawful for the male inhabitants there
OF having the qualifications of electors II members Of
the legislative assembly Of the Territory of Mnneso-
ta and who shall have been bona fde residents with
in the city OF Saltwater for year, to meet at the
court house in said city the first Monday of April
next, and at every subsequent election the first
Monday of January in each year, at such place or
places as the city council may direct, and then and
there elect one Mayor, one Recorder, three Council
men, and one city Justice Of the Peace being resi-
dents Of said city and having qualifications of voter.
as aforesaid.
The Mayor, Recorder and Councilmen, so elected
and qualified, shall constitute the city council of said
city, any three of whom shall constitute quorum for
the transaction OF business pertaining to their duties
And Ike it further enacted, that section eleven of
said act be amended as follows:
That for the purpose of more effectually enabling
the said city council to carry into effect the provis.
ions Of this act they hereby authorized and EN-.
powered to tax for corporation purposes on
property within the limits Of said corporation made
taxable by the laws Of this Territory, that said
tax shall not exceed in any one year three mills on
the dollar in value OF valuation the NAV be
found on the books OF the county commissioners Of the
county OF Washington. At the time Of assessing said
C S'y SouuS'' sndh nave power 10 levy an add.
tonal above specified sufficient to establish and
organize Hook and Ladder Company, and purchase
hooks ladders, buckets, axes, and all other tools and
apparatus that may be deemed necessary for the e(.
fective operation Of said company, and, il authorized
so to do by majority Of all the freeholders in said
city, at meeting called Tor that purpose, to levy an
additional tax as above specified sufficient to organize
and establish fire company and purchase an engine,
hose and other necessary apparatus for the extngush-
men. of fires in said city. public notice of which meet
ing and the object thereof shall he given by puhlita
ton thereof for three successive weeks any of the
papers published in said city. That whenever two
thirds OF the reeholders upon any Of the streets al
eys of said city shall petition, in writing, the CITY
council to open and improve said or Streets al
ley or alleys particularly describing and setting forth
in said petition the length and width desired BY said
petitioners, and all such other facts or matters a. aid
city council may, or shall direct to be stated and set
forth, in order that perfect explanation as to the
objects Of said petitioners may be obtained from said
petition, then said city council shall appoint FIVE dis.
interested freehoIders and residents Of said city al
commissioners to view and examine said premises,