Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-08


sent of the common council, on the Sec
ond (2d) Monday in March, in each year,
or as soon thereafter as
practicable, and their term Of office
shall be for term of three
(3) years and until their successors are ap-
pointed and qualified; PROVIDED, That the
term OF the existing members OF said
board shall terminate as now provided by
law; Provided further, That two ~ of
the persons appointed in the year one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-one,
(1SSD shall hold their office for one ~
year, one (1) for two (2) years, and one
~ for three ~ years.
Sec. g. That the board of public works
and common council shall on the second
f2d) Tuesday in March of each and every
year, at two ~ O'Clock P. NJ, or as soon
thereafter as practicable meet in joint
convention, the president of the common
council to be the president of said conven-
ton, and elect competent and scientific
person as civil engineer to the board of
public works by viva voce of two thirds
~ of all the members elect of the COM
mon council and the board of public
works. Said engineer shall perform all
the civil engineering required by said
board of public works in the promotion
of all public works committed to their
charge, or required by said board in con-
nection with official duty; he shall be ex-
officio city engineer. Said city engineer
shall transact no other business than that
required of him in the performance of his
duties as city engineer, during his con-
tinuance in office; Provided, That said
convention shall meet from day to day I'M
til said city engineer shall be elected; and,
Provided FURTHER, That the term of office
of the city engineer shall expire on the
second (2d) Tuesday of March in each
year.
Sec. 4. That the personal notice re-
quired by section twenty-five (25), of
chapter seven (7), of the act approved
March fourth (4th), one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-four (1s74), reduc-
ing the laws relating to the city of
ST. Paul, into one ~ act,
and amending the same, may be made
by depositing in the ST. Paul postoffice a
postal card addressed to the property
owners to be assessed or their agents resi-
dent in St. Paul, at least four az days
prior to the making OF an assessment,
upon which card shall be either printed
or written substantially what the person
al notice by said section twenty-five (25)
is now required to contain, but the fail
ure to give such personal notice shall in
no wise affect the validity of said assess
ment or of any of the proceedings
Sec. 5. That all that portion of the
Fifth (5th) ward of the city of st. Paul lying
westwardly of the railroad track of the
st. Paul & Duluth rail- DAD company shall
constitute Aldermanic District Number
one (1) of said ward, and that all the rest
and residue of said ward shall constitute
District Number two ~ of said Fifth
ward.
Sec. g. That it is hereby made the duty
of the register of deeds of Ramsey county
to record any deed or any other instru-
ment in which the grantor or grantee is
the city of St. Paul without requiring
the same to be certified "taxes paid and
transferred" entered or paid by sale of
land described within, any general law
OF the State to the contrary nOtwithstand-
ing.
}. Sec. 7. The common council of the
city of St. Paul shall have power to pre-
serve quiet and order on the levees and in
the streets of said city, at the arrival and
departure of railroad cars, steamboats,
and other vessels and modes of convey
ance, and prescribe and regulate the man
ner and place in which drivers, porters,
runners, solicitors, agents and baggage
collectors for hotels or public houses OF
express companies, draymen, cabmen,
cartmen, hackmen, omnibus drivers and
solicitors for passengers or for baggage
with their drays, carts, cabs, carriages
sleighs or other vehicles shall
stand, and to prohibit or proven,
them from entering or driving within any
railroad depot or upon any rail.
road grounds, or entering upon any
railroad car or steamboat or other mode
of conveyance to solicit passengers OF
baggage 1t may also prescribe places OF
stands in the streets of said city within
which drays, carts, cabs, hacks, coaches,
carriages, sleighs, sleds and other vehi,
cles may stand and be kept for hire, and
within which loads of wood, coal, hay
and other articles may be kept for sale
and to regulate such stands and places.
Sec. s. The police department of the
city of st. Paul shall consist of the mayor
who shall be the chief executive Officer
and head of the department, chief Of
police, captain of police, two ~ ser
geants, two ~ detectives, and as many
policemen, patrolmen and police officers
as may be authorized by the common
council of said city, with the approval OF
the mayor.
Sec. g. In addition to the other bonds
required by the city charter and the acts
amendatory thereof, of persons contract
ing with said city to do any work, labor,
or furnish any material before any con-
tract for the doing of any work, labor, or
furnishing any material to orfo said city
shall be binding and valid as against said
city, said contractors shall enter into
bond with the city of st. Paul for the use
of all persons who may do work or fur
nish materials pursuant to any contract
between said contractors and said city
conditioned for payment of all just claims
for such labor, work or materials as they
become due under said contract: which
bond shall be in such an amount not less
than the contract price agreed to be paid
for the performance of such contract, and
with such sureties as shall be approved by
one (D of the judges of the district court
of Ramsey county, and shall file
the same in the Office of the
CITY comptroller of st. Paul.
Sec. TO- That so much of the city
charter as authorizes the appointment of
two ~ street inspectors is hereby repeal
ed and the duty now imposed by law
upon said street inspectors, is hereby
transferred to and made part of the du-
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