The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1861-03-29
: LAWS OF MINNESOTA.

LAWS OF MINNESOTA.
An Act to Provide for the Assessment and
Collection of Tax for State Purposes.
Be Il enacted, &c. Section l. There shall be
levied on all the taxable property in the State
of Minnesota, for the year enc thousand eight
hundred and sixty.One, tax of four mills or
the dollar for the use of the State, including
the sum to be raised as q sinking fund, and fol
the interest of the State debt under the pro-
visions of an act entitled IAN Act to authorize
q loan oftwo hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars, to- defray the current expenses of the
State.' approved March thirteenth, one thou.
sand eight hundred and fifty. eight; one and q
half mills thereof shall be payable in gold OF
silver. so much thereof as may be necessary
expenses on State loan of two hundred and
fifty thousand dollars. -. .,...,.t -,
Sec. 2. 1t shall be the duty of the proper Off.
GERS of the several counties of the State to as
sess and collect said tax in their respective
counties, and pay the same over to the Treas.
urer of State in the manner and time prescribed
by law. ---s-------
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage. s,o7 STA ser Z
Approved March 8, 1861. H sa- IT,
Decisions in the District Courts in certain
Be It enacted, &c. Section l. Whenever
any District Court or the Judge of any District
Court, shall decide upon demurrer to any
pleading in any action pending in such Court,
and whenever any such Court or the Judge
shall decide upon and determine any motion or
application to such Court ur the Judge thereof,
for any order from which an appeal may be
taken to the Supreme Court by either party
to the action in which such motion or applica-
ti0n shall be made, the Judge making such de.
cision upon such demurrer, motion or applica-
ton, shall make the same in writing, signed by
him, and shall therein state separately and DIS
tinctly each and every point or question made
and submitted to him in writing, on the argu.
ment or in the submission of such demurrer,
motion or application, and his decision upon
each of such points or questions, and such de-
cision in writing shall accompany and consti-
tute a part of. and be filed and served with the
order which the Court or Judge shall make on
such demurrer, motion or application.
Section 2. This act shall take effect from
aud after its sassage.
Approved March 9Th, 1861.
An Act to provide for Appeals to the Supreme
Court in certain cases.
Be it enacted, &c. Section l. That whenev.
er any district court or judge thereof shall have
made any order upon demurrer to any plead.
ing in an action pending in such court, any
party deeming himself aggrieved by such or
der, may appeal therefrom to the Supreme
Court, whether snch order does or does not
contain leave to amend or answer the pleading
demurred to. Provided, That Whenever an
appeal from such order shall have been taken
to and decided by the Supreme Court, no ap-
peal from the final judgment of the District
Court rendered in such action, in obedience
and pursuant to the decision of the Supreme
Court thereon shall be allowed, nor shall any
writ of error be allowed upon such judgment;
but this proviso shall not be so construed as to
forbid or prevent an appeal from, or writ of
error upon, the final judgment in such action.
in case the pleadings therein or any of them
shall be amended or changed subsequent to
the decisions of the Supreme Court upon the
appeal from such order. In case the order so
appealed from shall contain leave to amend or
answer the pleading demurred to, and shall be
affirmed by the Supreme Court, the party to
whom such leave was by the order granted,
shall have the same length of time, after notice
of such afirmance, in which to avail himself
of such leave, that the order so affirmed Origi-
nally granted to him; but the Supreme Court
in the order affirming the order appealed from,
or the District Court. or judge thereof, upon
proper application therefor, may extend or in
such leave, as to such court or judge shall ap.
pear reasonable or proper. In case the order
SO appealed from and affirmed shall not con.
tain any such leave, or in case the order so
appealed from shall be reversed by the Su-
preme Court such court may in such order of
afirmance or reversal, grant such leave to
amend or answer over as the nature of the case
NAV require, and to such court shall appear
reasonable and proper.
Sec. 2. That whenever either party to an &C.
ton pending in any District Court shall apply
to such court or to the judge thereof for an Or
der for judgment on the pleadings in the action,
such court or judge shall make an order there
on, and any party deeming himself aggrieved
by such order, may appeal therefrOm to the
Supreme Court, and in making the decision or
order on such appeal, the Supreme Court may
grant to the party against whom the decision
may be, such leave to amend as may be rea-
sonable and proper, and the nature of the case
may require upon such terms as such court
may impose and prescribe.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect from and
after its passage.
Approved March 9Th, 1861.
An Act to amend an Act to regulate the Fore
closure of Real Estate. Approved March 10,
A. D., 1860.
Belt Enacted. &c. Section l. That section
three of an act entitled an act to regulate the
foreclosure of real estate, approved March
tenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty,
be and the same is hereby SO amended as to
read as follows:
ANY person may, in writing executed and
recorded in the same manner as mortgages
are now executed and recorded, waive with
the exception of one years tIme) his right Of
redemption, as allowed by this act, or any por.
ton OF said time of redemption. Any waiver
OF the right of redemption or any part thereof
may be included in the instrument by which
the mortgage is created.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect from and
after its passage.
Approved March s, 1861.
An Act to amend Chapter Seventy SIX Of the Public
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