The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-04-09

Sec. 4. The provisions of this act shall not
apply nor extend to any act done, nor offense
committed prior to the passage hereof, but the
provisions of law now in force and applicable
to the crime of murder in the first degree, as
we'll in respect to the penalty affixed to the
commission Of such crime, as in all other re-
spects, shall be and remain in full force and
effect as to any such offense heretofore COM
mtted.
SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts contra
vening tho provisions of this act, are hereby
repealed.
Sec 6. This act shall take effect from and
after its passage and approval
Approved March 5, 1868.
AN ACT proposing an amendment to section
one article seven III of the Constitution
of the State of Minnesota.
Be 1t enacted By the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota:
SECTION l. The following amendment to
the Constitution of the State of Minnesota is
hereby proposed for publication, and approval
and rejection by the people, in accordance
with section one, of article fourteen of the
constitution, that is to say, that section one,
OF article seven, Of the constitution, shall be
auleuOeu so as TO READ as follows:
Section l. Every male person of tho age of
twenty-one or upwards, belonging to either of
the following classes, who shall have resided
in the United States for one year, and in this
State four months next preceding any cleo
ton, shall be entitled to vote at such election,
in the election district of which he shall at
the time have been for 10 days resident, for all
officers that now are or hereafter may be elect
ed by the people:
First-Citizens of the Uuited States.
Second-Persons of Foreign birth who shall
have declared their intention to become citi-
zens conformably to the laws of the United
States, upon the subject Of naturalization.
Third-Persons of mixed white and Indian
blood who have adopted the customs and hab.
its of civilization.
Fourth-Persons of Indian blood residing
in this State who have adopted the language,
customs and habits of civilization, after an ex-
animation before any district court of the State,
in such manner as may be provided by law,
and shall have been pronounced by said court
capable of exercising the rights Of citizenship
within this State.
Sec. 2. This proposed amendment shall be
submitted to the people of the several districts
of this State, for their approval or rejection at
the next general election for the year eigh-
teen hundred and sixty-eight 1885, and each
of the legal voters of the State in their respec-
tive districts, may at such election vote by
ballot for or against such amendment, and the
returns thereof shall be made and certified,
and such votes canvassed, and the result
thereof declared in the manner provided by
law for returning, certifying and canvassing
votes at general elections for State officers
and declaring the result thereof; and if it shall
appear therefrom that majority Of voters
present and voting at such election upon said
amendment have voted in favor of the same,
then within three days after that result shall
have been ascertained and declared, the Gov
ernor shall make proclamation thereof, and
such amendment shall thereupon take effect
and be in force as part of the Constitution.
Sec. 3. The voters voting in favor of such
ten or printed or partly written and partly
printed upon their general ballots used at SAID
election the following words: Amendment to
section one, article seven, of the constitution,
Yes" And the ballots used at said election by
those voting against such amendment shall have
written or printed or partly written and partly
printed thereon the following words: "Amend-
ment to section one, article seven, of the con-
stitution, No."
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and
after its passage.
Approved March s, 1868.
AN ACT to provide for general terms of the
district court for Pope county,
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota:
SECTION l. General terms of the district
court shall be held in and for the county of
Pope, in the seventh [7th1 judicial district
annually, on: the second [2nd] Tuesday Of
July.
Sec. 2. So much Of section thirty-three
1881 of chapter sixty four [64 il of the general
statutes as attaches the said county of Pope
to the county Of Stcarns for judicial purposes,
is hereby repealed.
SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved February 70, 1868.
AN ACT to amend section twenty five [25 !
title three [3,] of chapter sixty-four f64,
ofthe general statutes. relating to the terms
of the district court for Goodhue county.
Be 1t enacted By the Legislature ofthe State Of
Minnesota:
SECTION /. That the first [lst] subdivision
of section twenty-five [25, title three [3,l
chapter sixty -four [64 Of the general statutes,
be so amended as to read as follows:
The general terms of the district court shall
be held in each year, at the times and places
following:
In the first II judicial district, in:the county
of Goodhue, on the second III Tuesday in De-
cember, and third Isl Tuesday in May.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 4, 1868.
AN ACT to fix the time for holding general
terms of the district court in the counties of
Wright, Sherburne Stearns Meeker, Nor
rison, Douglas, St. Louis, Benton and
Mile Lac.
Be 1t enacted By the Legislature Of the Safe of
Minnesota:
SECTION l. The general terms of the district
court shall be held in the following named
counties, at the time hereinafter specified
namely:
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