The daily Minnesota pioneer. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1855, 1855-05-11
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L avs Of Minnesota for 1855.

LegaliZing the Town OF WinOna, and
for other Purposes.
BE it enacted by the Legislative assembly Of the
Territory Of Minnesota
Section 1. That the town as laid out by Orrn
Smith and Edwin (H.) johnson, in the county OF
Winona, the plat of which was duly recorded or filed
for record in the proper Office Of the then county Of
Fillmore, in the month of July, one thousand eight
hundred and fifty three, be and the same shall be
known in law as the Town of Winona, any record to
the contrary notwithstanding.
y. All transfers and sales of property in said
town by said Smith and johnson, their associates,
partners, and assigns or by other persons, shall be
and the same hereby declared to be legal and
binding in law upon the contracting parties if the
said town had received when first laid out and when
recorded, the name of Winona instead Of Montezu-
ma.
So. hat all that tract or parcel of land lying be-
low, contiguous, adjoining upon the east side Of
said town Of Winona, and commonly known as Ste
vens' Claim, containing eighty acres, more or less,
portion Of which has heretofore been laid out into
town lots, as the same appears Of record in the office
Of the Register Of Deeds for said county of Winona,
together with all such other portions thereof as may
hereafter be laid out into town lots, by the proprie
tors thereof, shall constitute part Of the town of
Winona.
S4 1t shall be the duty of the Register of Deeds
in and for the county Of Winona, to alter the num-
parts and portions thereof in such may be
necessary to prevent Misunderstanding relative to the
locality vi lots upon the original other pats there
or as heretofore to be hereafter recorded, and it
shall also be the duty OF the said Register of Deeds
to enter upon the records Of any and all the several
plats which may conflict in any manner with the
original or first plat of said town such minutes may
he necessary to exhibit plainly all such conflicting
surveys and records, and much Of all such surveys
and records may be found to conflict it'll said first
or original plat hereby declared to be void and Of
no effect
IS. In purchasing from the United States the land
or any portion of the lands upon which the said town
OF NInona is situated, it shall be the duty of the
Judge or other person or persons 30 authorized to
purchase the same in trust for the proprietors and
those holding under them-frst, to enter the lrac-
t'ona quarter section upon which the original first
plat herein referred to mainly laid; secondly
to enter the eighty less upon which the
SAID Stevens Claim is situated, and the remainder Of
the three humid ed and twenty shall be the
east hall OF the south east quarter Of section twenty
two, which said eighty shall also constitute
part and parcel Of the town Of Wnona, and he known
in law such.
Sc. So much land as is embraced in the town plat
of Winona as laid by Henry ID. Huff, and survey
ed by IL. J. Hilbert, and recorded in the Office of the
Register of Deeds for the county of Winona January
first, one thousand eight hundred and ftyve, as lies
on the west hall of the south quarter of section
ter of said section and the fractional lot lots lying
north of the same said section, shall hereafter be
known in law as West Winona. Provided, that
nothing herein contained shall be construed to
include within the limits of said West Wnona any
lands outside of the rightful claim Of said Henry D.
Of those SO rightfuy claiming said excess Of land.
81. That block numbered thirty-three in said
town of Winona, laid out by said Smith and John
son, and which was by them given and marked as
public square, be and the is hereby declared to
he the estate and property of Wnona county, for the
AMI other county buildings, and the County Commits
sloners of said county are hereby required to
thereon such said public buildings for said county.
8. This act shall take effect and be in force
frsm and after its passage.
SO. All and every dwelling house or other build
ing hereafter constructed and erected within the Ter
ritory Of Minnesota together with the right title and
interest OF the person or persons owning such dwell
ling house or other building and to the land upon
which the shall be situated, exceeding forty
acres, or if erected within the limits ofany city, town
or village plat, the lot which such dwelling house
or other building shall be situated, not exceeding in
extent acre, shall be subject to the payment of
the debt contracted for by of any work done
or materials found and provided by any brick mak
brickayer, stone cutter, mason lime merchant,
penter, painter and gazier, iron monger, plasterer,
and lumber merchant, any other person employed
ton and construction of such house other buildings
before any other lien which originated subsequent to
the laying of stocks, the commencement of such
house or other building.
10. If such dwelling house others buildings
any portion thereof shall have been constructed under
contract contracts entered into by the there
of or his or her agent, with any person persons,
no person who may have done work for such con
tractor furnished materials for him
them his their order authority, shall have
or possess any lien said house or other building
for work done or materials furnished, unless the
person persons employed by such contractor TO
do work furnish materials for such building, shall
within thirty days after commencing work or having
furnished materials aforesaid give notice in writ
ing the owner or owners Of such building his
or their agents, that he or they employed to
work or to furnish to have furnished materials,
and that they claim the benefit of the lien granted by
this chapter.
s IL. No such debt for work and materials shall
remain lien upon such lands, houses other build
ngs longer than year from the time of furnishing
of materials of the performance of the labor unless
petition claim for the same shall be filed and an
action for the recovery thereof he instituted within
the said year.
fro BE Concluded
EARTHQUAKES AT CAIRo.-TwO shocks of