Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1879-03-27

fire. hail or lightning. which corporation may
be sued, contract or De contracted with.
plead and be implicated in any court of law or
equity within the State. and it shall possess tho
usual duties of corporations, and the corporate
name thereof shall embrace the name of the
town in which the business office of said COM
pany shall be located.
Sec 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 6, 1879.
general laws Of 1871, providing for stay of
execution on judgments rendered in courts
of Justices of the peace.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the State of
Minnesota:
Section l. That chapter sixty eight of the
general laws of 1871 be amended as fol-
lows: That chapter sixty-eight of the general
laws of 1871 is hereby amended by striking
out the word twelve wherever it occurs in
said chapter and inserting in lieu thereof the
word 'sevcn.'
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 10, 1879.
AN ACT to amend sec. of title three of chap
ter one Of the general laws of 1872, re-
lsting to insurance.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State
of Minnesota:
Section l. That section of title three of
chapter one of the general laws of 1872, be
amended 50 Is to read as follows:
Sec. z. No person shall act as agent in this
State for any company not of this State in any
matter whatever relating to risks until the last
section has been complied wit on the part OF
the company and he has received from the in
surance commissioner "a agents certificate of
authority stating that the foregoing require
ments have been complied with, a record of
the issuance of which certificate shall be kept
in the office of the commissioner. Renewal
certificates must be obtained by agents within
sixty days from the first day of January In each
year. Any person acting as agent OF An in
surance company, or doing or attempting to
do business in any way relating to obtaining
insurance in this State for any insurance COM
pany or companies without such agents certl-
cate of authority in violation of this section or
after said certificate shall have been revoked,
shall be deemed guilty of misdemeauor and
than twenty-five or more than one hundred
dollars for each offense, to DO paid into the
treasury of the county where the Ofense was
committed. In case of the non-payment of
any ouch fine the court shall have power to
punish the offending party by imprisonment
in the county Jail for a period not exceeding
three months. 1t shall be the duty of the in
surance commissioner to notify the county
attorney of the proper county in writing of any
offense under this section which may come to
his knowledge; and it shall thereupon become
the duty of such county attorney to at once
ishment thereof. All persons or agents solicit
ing fire or inland risks in this State shall be
residents of this State, but this section shall
not be construed tSapply to special or general
agents of insurance companies not soliciting
risks.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in
force from and after its passage.
Approved March 10, 1879.
AN ACT to amend section three (3) chapter 10
of the general laws of 1874, - amended by
section four a. of chapter AZ of the general
laws of 1877. relating to the removal of in
sane and imbecile persons.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota:
Section /. That section number three (3) of
chapter nineteen (19) of the general laws OF
the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four
(lS74), as amended by chapter forty-two (42) OF
the general laws of the year one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-seven 0S77), be amended
80 rs TO read az follows: The Governor shall
appoint commission of three doctors. one Of
whom shall be member of the State Board OF
Health, who shall serve for a period of two
years or until their successors shall be appoint
Gu, VINO snail constitute q commission whose
duty it shall be to visit the several Minnesota
hospitals for the insane at least once every six
poonths of each year, or upon the written re-
quest of the Governor of the State and inspect
said hospitals as to the sanitary condition and
the general management Of the same, and also
to examine into the mental and physical con-
dition of the patients therein, frequency, man.
Fer and cause of punishment, Opponents
deaths, and such other matters as may fall
within the scope of thorough hospital inspec-
tion. and report in detail to the Governor with
in ten days after each and every such inspec-
ton is made. Said commissioners shall receive
their actual expenses and no more, for which
the Auditor of State shall draw his warrant on
the State Treasurer.
Sec. z. Should the said commission find,
upon visiting either of the said hospitals, any
patient or patients whose insanity they have
reason to doubt, said commission shall have the
authority to remand such patient or patients to
the probate court from which they were COM
mitted respectively, there to be detained
reasonable time under proper surveillance,
when, If such judge shall be satisfied of his or
her sanity, he or she shall be discharged by
order of said court; otherwise he or she shall
be rc-committed to the hospital for the insane.
Provided, that said commission shall have no
authority to discharge any patient committed
to either of the insane asylums in this State
and charged with crime.
Sec. 3. 1t shall further be the duty of said
commission to select from the patients of the
insane hospitals such idiotic and predetermined
children and youths who, in their opinion, are
proper subjects for training and instruction
and transfer the same to the trustees of the
asylum for the deaf, dumb and blind at Eari-
bault.
Sec. 4. The trustees Of the asylum for the
deaf, dumb and blind are hereby authorized to
receive such weak-minded and idiotic children
and youths as may be sent them under the
provisions of this act, and make provision for
the maintenance of said children and youths.
and are required to lease for term not exceed
ing two years proper building or rooms for
the same, and to provide q competent teacher
and to establish such rules and regulations az
may be necessary for the instruction training
and government Of said children and youths.
Seo' 5. In case any children and youths so
received shall be found, upon trial, incapable
Of receiving any benefit from such instruction
and training, or when in the opinion of the
superintendent of said asylum it shall be better
for the welfare of any child or youth to be re-
moved from said asylum, the said superinten-
dent shall have full power to remand any
such child or youth to the parents thereof or to
the board of commissioners of the county from
which the child or youth was sent.
Sec. 6. The sum of five thousand dollars
($5 ,OOO) or so much as may be required for the
year one Thousand eight hundred and seventy
nine (1879), and the sum of six thousand dol
lars ($6, 000) or 80 much thereof as shall be re-
CURED for the year one thousand eight hum
dred and eighty 1880, is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the State treasury not
otherwise appropriated, for the purpose Of car
rying into effect the provisions of this act; and
the State Auditor is hereby required to issue
warrants for the money 50 appropriated, in tho
same manner ~ warrants are drawn and issued
for the support of the deaf, dumb and blind.
Provided, that nothing herein contained shall
be construed ~ establishing permanent insti-
tuition for the support and education of tho
persons herein named,
6eo. Z. This sct shall take effect and b In
force from and after it, paasaea
Appeoved March q l87o.