The Grange advance. [volume] (Red Wing, Minn.) 1873-1877, 1877-02-28
Minnesota Legislature.


out witnesses; relating to recording sher-.
ifs certificates; rendering. thanks OF
OF Northdeld robbers; abat:ng pen
alties and interest on taxes OF grasshopper suit
terers: House bills were passed appropriate. |
lug $40, 900 for erection and finishing build |
ing for Deaf Dumb and Blind; legslizing
powers of attorneys in certain cases reim-
bursting Andrew McCrea, Tor taxes erroneous
ly paid; appropriating $1,000 0 tor grasshop-
per bountles; amending Lake City charter;
bonds tor County buildings; legalizing board
of trade in Kasson; Incorporating village Of
Excelsior; preserving game in Houston county;
regulating fishing with nets in Nicoll-t coun-
ty; authorizing mutual Insurance companies
companies; refunding taxes in Dodge county;
appropriating 100000 for insane hospital :;
legalizing conveyance OF real estate executed
in other States; apprOpriating 1900 tor State
Forestry Association; appropriatlng the sum
ct $3l 500 tor payment OF interest on State
bonds authorizing hospital for Insane to con-
vey certain lands; detaching certain territory
from St. Peter.
In the House, on the 10Th, bills were
introduced, authorizing treasurer OF Stearns
county to pay certain moneys; prohibiting
killing of pigeons in Olmstead county
authorizing town clerks to administer oaths:
res ulatiny running at large OF cattle, horses,
&c proposing amendment to the constitu-
ton relating to elective franchise; authoriz-
ing village of Minnesota Lake to ISSUE bonds
changing boundaries of school district i'll
ing time OF terms OF court in the 18th
Judicial District; creating village OF
Duluth out OF the city OF Duluth
extending time for the construction OF the
Wincna and Southwestern railroad. House
bills were passed incorporating village OF
Mavenn4 n
authorizing Yellow Medicine county to issu.
bonds tor railroad purposes; prohibiting cat
tie running at large in Clay county; repeating
the Gilman law Of 1876; authorizing Carlton
village OF Chaska, amending act relating to
Lanesboro; authorizing Anoka county to
issue bonds for county buildings; amending
Charter OF LIE Sueur.
In the Senate. on the Goth, the bill
rounding certain taxes in Dodge county here
totore passed was indefinitely postponed. The
bill providing Tor biennial Sessions was taken
up and the minority report OF the committee
tavoring the measure was adopted, yeas 81,
nays l6 The bill was then referred to the
Judiciary committee Tor amendment. Bills
were Introduced, relating to tees OF sherifs
OF Ramsey county relating to fences along
railroads providing for damages ter right OF
way tor railroads; for reciprocal insurance
companies amending laws relating to liens;
allowing women to vote OH local option. The
Senate then entered into the consideration OF
the tax law, but adjourned without final
action. The evening session was devoted to
the Meighen-Edwards contested election
case.
In the House on the Goth, 4 reso]u-
ton was introduced declaring against grams
OF swamp lands to corporations and demand
ing that the same be sold and the proceeds
claims against the State. Bills were intro-
duced amending the act Incorporating Farm
ington amending the laws relating to roads,
castways and bridges; regulating the the ad-
mission OF the Hail Insurance com pany to this
State; providing the establishment OF free IL
braries In cities; Reproducing Carver county
into legislative districts, passed under sus-
pension OF rules The Senate bill providing
tor uniform system OF cheapt+xt books III
the puhlic schools was taken up ana ter con-
siderable discussion was passed; ayes SO, nays
80, absent, 9.
In the Senate on the 21st bills were
introduced, relating to assessments for i'm
provements in Duluth amending the stat
utes relating to meet ngs OF railroad stock
holders; Tor State road in Sibley and lie
Sueur counties; to protect manufacturers OF
ale, beer, &c. IN the poss ssi"n OF their casks,
ricultural Society. The following we're pissed
under suspension of rules Amending the
act incorporating Duluth; Incorporating
WATERFOWL, Carver county; relating to the
MtsSlSSlpp! anu hutn River DOOW NOmpa1Iy
The ouse amendments to the school text
book bill were then concurred.
The House ON the 2lst inst, resclnded
the amendment of the committee otthe whole
reducing the amount appropriating the
amount tor bounties for tree planting from
$4,000 to S44l.25. The i'll as originally in
troduced was ordered to third reading Bills
were introduced preventing town boards from
letting contracts to its own members amend
ing the act Incorporating Faribault; amend I.
ing section 10 chapter 50, of statutes relating
to HOUSEKEEPING; fishing in lakes in Rice
county; relating ~ duties Ut Board of Health {;
reimbursin9g G. F. solberg tor moneys paid tor
ing IT, foreclosure OF railroad mortgages; ap-
propriating $500 for iron fence around soldier s
monument at Fort Ridgely author izing Swift
county, to issue bonds; providing boa'd
OF school examiners in each county.
House bills were pa sed authorizing the
village OF Minnesota Lake to issue bonds !;
prohibiting shooting Of pigeons in Olmsted
and Dodge counties; authorizing treasurer OF
Stearns county to pay over ctr'ain moneys;
amending the act Incorporating the village Of
Jordan; providing tor local option in Lake
City; restraining cattle, &c., from running at
relating to fees of notaries public; relating 10
tori closure OF mortgages; reducing rate OF in-
terest on taxes OF persons whose crops
were destroyed by .grasshoppers
preventing destruction OF fish in Howard
Lake, Wright county; authorizing Polk
est On taxes due by persons whose crops have
been destroyed hy .grasshopp-rs and other
causes; authorizing Rock county to issue
bonds; amending the law relating to thu
Swede Insurance Company in Carver county
incorporating village Of Grand Meadow au
th"riz ing counties OF stearns, Meeker, Nc
Leod Sibley and Nicollet to issue bonds 'o
railroad purposes; attaching counties III Ye