The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-03-27
Sec The said Commissioners shall ascertain

Sec. The said Commissioners shall ascertain
the number of persons within this State be-
tween the ages of five and twenty-one years,
who are blind or who are deaf mutes, with the
pecuniary circumstances OF such persons, their
parents and guardians They shall thereupon
provide q suitable building at Faribault, in Rice
county at an expense for rent not exceeding
two hundred dollars per year, and shall
furnish the same with cooking utensils, beds,
bedding and necessary furniture for the accom-
mediation of not exceeding twenty-five pupils,
and shall provide fuel and provisions for that
number OF persons for one year. Ihey shall
also provide such books of elementary instruc-
ton for the blind, and for deaf mutes, as may
be necessary, and shall employ one or more
teachers for such blind and deaf mutes, together
with such labor as may be necessary tor the
maintenance of the pupils herein provided for,
with the teachers.
Sec 4. Upon completing the preparations
herein provided for, said Commissioners shall
receive such number of INDECENT blind and in
digent deaf mutes, between the ages hereinbe-
fore specified, and not exceeding twenty-five,
as may offer, and shall provide for their main-
tainance and instruction for one year, In the
manner herein provided for. They may also
receive such pupils who are blind, or who are
deaf mutes, as may pay for their maintenance
and instruction sum equal to the average ex-
pense for the support and instruction OF the
whole number Of pupils under the charge of
said Commissioners, which money shall be ad-
ded to the fund herein appropriated, and ex-
pended by him in like manner.
Sec 5. The said Commissioners shall take
vouchers for all moneys expended by them, and
shall return the same with their report. They
shall report to the Legislature at its next SEES
sion their transactions, with detailed account
of their expeditures under this act. together
with such suggestions SIS may, in their judg-
ment, tend to the promotion of the interests OF
the blind, and the deaf mutes of the State.
Sec G. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved, March 4, 1868.
AN ACT to Protect the Owners of Boats,
Canoes, Skitfs, BatteauX and Other Small
Craft.
lie 1t enacted by the Legislature Of tie State Of
Minnes0t0:
Section l. That any person or persons who
shall. without the consent of owner or owners
thereof. take and remove from the place where
the same may be left by such owner, owners or
other person or persons in his or their employ,
any boat, canoe, skitf batteauX, used in naviga-
ting any of the waters of this State, shall upon
conviction thereof be deemed guilty of a mis-
demeanor, and shall be punished by fine of
not less than five dollars nor more than fifty
dollars and the costs of prosecution; or by i'm
prisOnment, in the county Jail of the proper
county, for not less than ten nor more than
sixty days, or by both fine and imprisonment,
in the discretion of the Court before which he
Or they shall be convicted. Proridea, That this
act shall not apply to any removal made in
good faith by any person for the safety or pro-
lection of said boats &c.
Sec. ,. That the Justices of the Peace of the
several counties shall have jurisdiction of said
Otfense. and shall have full power and au-
thOrity to hear. try and determine, every
charge of such otfense, and toimpose the fines,
and order the Imprisonment as herenbetore
provided.
Sec. 3. That any person or persons shall be
competent to make information against Of
lenses under this act and thereupon the JUS
tice of the Peace before whom such informa-
ton is made shall issue his warrant for the
arrest of the person or persons charged, to any
constable or Sheriff Of his county.
Sec. /. That all fines collected under the pro-
visions of this act shall be paid into the County
Treasurer wherein the offensc is committed
such county
Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved, March s. 1868.
AN ACT to Regulate the Taking up and Dis
position of EstrayS and to repeal Contra
vcning Acts.
he 1t fnacted By the Legislature Of tie State of
.NnnesOtd:
Section l. That any person who shall take
up any estray horse, mule, ass, neat CATTLE hog,
sheep or goat, shall within five days thereafter
advertise the same by posting up in writing in
where such estray was taken up or found, Civ
ing particular description of such estray, its
age, color and marks natural and artificial as
near as may be together with the name and
place of residence of the taker up or finder of
such estray.
Sec 2 If within ten days after such notice
of the taking up or finding the owner shall not
have claimed such estray and have paid all
reasonable charges and damages which the
taker up or finder may have sustained by rea-
son of any depredatiOns committed by such
estray upon the crops growing or otherwise
on the enclosed land Of the taker up or finder
the taker up or finder shall file with the clerk
of the town where such estray was taken up
or found q notice in writing containing the
name and place of abode Of such person, and
also the age, color and marks, natural and
artificial, of such estray, as near as may be.
Sec 8. The Town Clerk shall upon receipt oil
the notice as required in the preceding sections
enter the same at large in book to be provided
by him for that purpose, for which entry he
shall receive ten cents each for all horses mules
asses, and neat cattle and five cents each for all
SuCCP duu SOstlo w uC PdlIu Wy CIlC pCISOu
delivering the notice.
Sec L. The takcr up Or finder shall within
ten days after the taking up or finding such es-
tray notify two of the fence viewers of the town
wherein such estray was taken up or found who
shall Immediately proceed to the place where
such estray is kept and shall then appraise the
value of such estray and also all damages which
the taker up or finder may have sustained by
reason of depredations committed by such es.
tray as before stated in section two of this act,
and shall certify in writing to the taker up OF
finder the value of such estray, together with
the damages which such estray may have COM
mited as before stated
Sec. 8. Any person upon whose enclosed land
any such horse, mule, ass, neat cattle, hog,
sheep or goat may come, or who shall have
taken up any of the above named animals and
shall neglect to post up notices as before requir-
ed in section one of this act, or who shall neg
lect to file the notice with the Town Clerk as
required by this act, shall be subject to fine
of not less than five nor more than fifty dollars
to be sued for and collected by any person ag.
grieved before any Justice of the Peace of the
proper county, and shall be precluded from all
the benefits of this act, and from all claim to
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