The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1872-03-14
AN ACT To promote the science Of Medicine and
Surgery in the State of Minnesota.
b u enacted BY No LSgfsldtvrs u tAs &tzte 81
NnASs0t0

Section l. shall b lawful in stiles and counties
whose population equals or exceeds ten thousand
Inhabitants for superntendsnts of psn:entaries,
wardsns OF poor houses coroners and city under.
teachers in medical colleges and schools in the State
and for physicians. professors and teachers to re-
ceve, the remains or body of any deceased person.
for purposes Of medical and surgical study; pro-
vidsd that said remains shall not have been regu-
larry inferred, and shall not have been desired for
intenent by any relative or friend of said deceased
within twenty hours after DEATH provided Also
that the remains OF no person who may be known
to have relatives friends, shall be delivered or
received without the consent of said relatives or
friends; and provided, that the remains of person
detained for debt or - witness, or on q suspicion
Of crime, or Of any traveller or Of any person who
shall have expressed desire in his her last sick.
mesa. that his or her body may be inferred shall be
delivered or received aforesaid but shall be bu.
ried In the usual manner, and provided also. that
or received shall be subsequently claimed by any
surviving relative or friend, they shall b given up
to said relative or friend for interment.
Sec ,. And It shall be the bounden duty Of said
physicians. professors or teachers, desently to bury
in some public cemetery, the remains Of al bodies
after they shall have answered the purposes Of study
Aforesaid, and for any neglect or violation OF the
provisions OF this ast the party 20 nsglectng shall
mere than 5000, to be sued by the Health Officers
Of said cities or other places for the benet Of their
- may be 10 received by the physicians. professors
and teachers. % Aforesaid, shall BE- used for the
purposes OF medical and surgical study alone; q d
in this State only; and whoever shall use such re
remains beyond the limits Of this State. or IL any
manner traffic in the same, shall be deemed guilty
Of msdsmeanor. and SHALL on conviction. be i'm
prisoned for term not exceeding one year, in the
or more than d, 900 90.
See. 4. Every person who shall deliver up the
remains Of any deceased person. in violation Of. or
first section Of this oct, and every person who shall
receive said remains, knowing the same to have
bsen delivered contrary to any Of the provisions Of
said section, shall each, and every one of them be
deemed guilty OF misdemeanor, and shall on con.
viction be imprisoned for term not exceeding two
years in = county Jail, shall pay . penalty Of not
more than 81 10000.
Sec. 8. This act shall take eject and be in force
from and after its passage.
Approved Feb. II, 1874.
AN ACT to amend sections iorty.sight and forty
nine Of chapter one Of the General Statutes Of
Minnesota, relating to contested elections
1s & enacted ~ ~ Lesisla:w,e Of tic State Of
ASnnss0t0.
Section L. That section forty eight Of chapter
one OF the General Statutes be amended 80 as to read
rs follows: Sec. 48 If party whose election 10 con.
tested desires to offer testimony upon points not
specified in the notice Of the contestant hs shall
oOlIo8IaDlN -
upon him a. Aforesaid. serve upon said contestant in
the manner provided IN section forty-sx. 4 notice
specifying such additional points, and the place and
time (Which shall not be more than ten days lat-r
than the time hxed by the contestant in his notice
for taking dspositions,) at which time testimony
thereon will be taken before two Justices of the
same county, which last notice shall ne servsi al
least ten days previous to the time Of taking testi
mony. No testimony shall be taken by the justicel
which does not relate to some point specified in said
notices, . copy Of which shall be respectively de-
livsrsd to the justices taking testimony thereon and
by them transmitted to the presiding officers Of that
branch Of the Legislature where the contest is to b.
decided, with the other documents,
Sec 2. That section forty.nine Of the same chap
tor be amended 20 as to read a. follows Sec. 49,
Any candidate or slector of the proper county may
contest the election Of any pc, eoa declared elected
to any county ONCE and he 81 Ill proceed therein If
The manner prescribed for contrasting the election
Senators and Representatives to the legislature
only that the contestant shall. within twenty
days after the votes have been canvasssd, cause
notice. specifying the points on which the election
will be soutesssd 70 Re served on the person whose
election he intends to contest, in the manner pro
vded In section forty six, and II such person whose
election 10 contested desires to offer testimony upoI
points not specified in the notice Of the contestant
he shall, in the sane manner, within ten days afts
the service OF the sontsstants' notice on him.
notice On the contestant, specifying such addition
al points, a.A upsn such neiiess, which are not Il
- tskss ~ s.s ~N p'sveA and which nay b