Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-04-11
AN ACT regulating the cancellation Of fire
insurance policies.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of

insurance pOlclea.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State Of
Minnesota; s9$
Section !. The commissioner of insurance
is hereby authorized and empowered TO address
any inquiries to any insurance company or
the secretary thereof, in relation to it's doings,
or condition or any other matter connected
with its transactions, and it shall be the duty
of any company 80 addressed, to promptly re-
ply in writing to any such inquiries. Every
fire insurance company organized under any
law of this State, or any other State, failing to
make and deposit such statements, or to reply
to any inquiry of the said commissioner of in
surance, shall be subject to the penalty Of five
hundred dollars and an additional five hun
dred dollars for every month that such COM
pany shall continue thereafter to transact any.
business of insurance. Every insurance COM
pany organized without this State and doing
business herein, failing to make and deposit
such statements, or who shall wilfully neglect
to make full and true reply to such inquiries
as may relate to it's manner Of doing business,
or to its assets, pecuniary responsibility, or to
other matters connected with or relating to its
business transactions, shall be subject to like
penalties and revocation of it's. authority to
do business in this State. The said commits
sioner of insurance shall have power to ex-.
anime the form of policy contract, proposed to
be issued by any company, association, or COR
poration applying to be permitted to transact
the business of insurance in this State, and
may refuse to admit any company to this State,
or to renew the annual authority of any COM
pany previously admitted, whenever the form
of policy contract, issued or proposed to be is
same at the request of the insured, ON equitable
terms.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after July l, 1879.
Approved March 10, 1879.
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AN ACT for the relief of parties who received
seed grain under the provisions of chapter
ninety. four (94), of the general laws of one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight
(187S) entitled San act to furnish seed grain
to sufferers from grasshopper ravages."
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota:
Section l. The provisions of chapter ninety
four (94), of the general laws. of one Thousand
eight hundred and seventy-eight (1878), are
hereby suspended for one year, as against all
persons who may be unable to pay for the seed
said act, by reason of loss or damage of crops
of the present or of the ensuing year. Provid-
ed, that all persons claiming relief under this
act shall ON or before the first day of October
of each year, file with the county auditor an
affidavit Of loss or damage of crop, and CON
sequent inability to pay the one-half of his in
debtedness to be levied against his property
for such year, and to become due the ensuing
year, with an endorsement thereon of two dis,
interested free-holders of the town in which
the applicant resides, vouching for the truth
of his statement.
Sec. 2. The county auditor shall omit from
the tax levy of that year the amount due for
seed grain from all persons fling with him
such afidavits properly attested and vouched
for within the time prescribed and shall in
clude the same in the levy for the next year
following.
Sec. 8. Nothing In this act shall operate in
any manner to prejudice the claims of the State
against all persons indebted for seed grain, but
all the provisions of said chapter ninety four
(94, except as herein specially provided, shall
continue in full force and effect as against
| such persons indebted until the claims Of the
State are fully paid and satisfied.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 8, 1879.
| AN ACT to authorize persons who have com.
Piled with the laws as to planting and Guilt
waiting timber and shade trees authorized tt
plat and make application for bounty up tt
July 81, 1879.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State Of
| Minnesota:
| Section 1. Any person who has complied
| in full with all the requirements of the law il
force upon the planting of timber and shade
trees in this State, but who have through mis-
take, inadvertence, inability, or otherwise havl
failed to measure, plat and lay out such land 9,
| planted to trees and make the necessary appli
cation to obtain a bounty therefor as required
by law, may SO measure, plat and lay out sale
land and make said application for bounty a
aforesaid at any time previous to the thirty
| first (3lst) day of July, eighteen hundred anC
seventy-nine, which said proceedings shall b.
subject to all the laws now in force upon thi
subject, and said person when so complying
with the foregoing provisions shall be entitled
to the same bounty as if said application ha.
been made within the time heretofore require.
by law.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be il
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 10, 1879.