Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-11-02

the assistant secretary of the board of public
works 5000, the judge of the municipal court
$2,5OO. the mayor 81 ZOO, and the assistant
clerk Of the city council $500: authorizing the
county of Polk to issue bonds Of $l5, 600 for the
purpose of constructing bridges and to improve
roads; relating to the trial for o1fenses agalnCt
the ordinances of Watertown, Carver County,
before justices Of the peace; authorizing the
city Of Minneapolis to issue bonds to the
amount Of $500,000 for the purpose Of paving,
sewerage and water privileges; creating school
district No. Sc in the town Of Collingwood,
Meeker County: to pay the salary of the re:
porter of the supreme court at the rate of
$1,5OO, and appropriating $400 for rebinding
reports and pamphlets. "A bill authorizing
the town council Of Taylor's Falls to provide
sinking fund for the payment of the bonds OF
the town and the interest thereon was also
passed. :. On motion of Sanbom the general
orders were were made the special order for
speaker announced the following as the COM
mittee on congressional apportionment: Messrs.
Comstock Collins, Sanborn, Hicks. Amundson,
Norrish. Sheardown, Rice, Flom and Gardner.
....Adjourned.
ST. PAUL, October 26.-Hall offered reso-
luton for the appointment of committee of
twelve to select a site for state capitol, con-
point between St. Paul and Minneapolis. No
tice of debate. !. Ives offered resolution di-
recting the chief clerk to issue his orders for
$40 for postage to each member. Carried.
A recess was taken in older to prepare for the
joint assembly of the two houses for the elec-
ton of a United States senator: After recess
SanbOrn introduced bill, changing the bound
aries of the Sixth, Seventh and Twelfth judicial
districts, and abolishing the Ninth judicial dis
trict :. Adjourned.
JOINT CONVENTION.
The senate having been notified that the
| house WAS ready to canvass the votes cast for
senator, shortly entered the hall of the house.
| The roll was called when the journal OF the two
houses relating to the election of senator was
read, and the speaker declared Hon. VIM. Win
! dom duly elected senator in the congress OF the
United States, for the term ending March 4,
1883. On the motion Of Senator Campbell the
convention adjourned.
| ST. PAUL, October 27.-The following resOlu.
tions were adopted: Providing for the payment
of witnesses before the judiciary committee IL
the Cox investigation; giving witnesses in the
Cox investigation case So per diem and six cents
a mile each way; that the st. Louis town bill bt
returned from the senate, it having been passed
by the house as local bill during the absence
OF the local committees; directing the stat
librarian to tender thanks to the different state
aud territories which had sent volumes to th
state library to replace those burned in th
capitol fire.. Bills introduced: Providing fo
the organization of the county of Kanabec, ant
submitting the change of the county seat t.
cooperating the village of Barnsville, Cla.
County, passed); to detach certain territor!
from school district 5O Dodge County, and at
taching the samo to district 2S, (passed(; t!
authorize the commissioners of st. Loui
County to purchase site for q jail, (paSsed)
organizing school district 105, Rice County
(passed); to appropriate $500 for the building
~ q hrI1o pOnma
River, in Stearns County; authorizing the coul
Gil of Saltwater to cover the funds on accoun
of sinking fund into the interest fund account
(passed); to incorporate the village of Waconia
Carver County. Passed); legalizing the plat
Luverne, Rock County, (passed). Bills pass
Blue Earth County; Incorporating the village Q
Leroy, Mower County; authorizing district Nc
81, Scott County, to issue $1,000 of bonds. =.
Adjourned.
ST. PAUL, October 29.-Bills introduced: !
joint resolution, asking the senators and repre-
sentatives in congress to favor the passage OF
bill to grant pensions to soldiers and sailor
who had peen confined in Confederate prisons
and suffered disability; authorizing the cit
council of Winona to issue 100000 bonds, fo
the construction of water works, (passed unde
suspension of the rules); authorizing the cit
of Winona to issue $4,000 bonds for street in
provements, (passed under suspension OF II
. rules); to establish at Altkin q term OF cou
for the counties of Aitkin, Grow Wing an
, Itaska, passed under suspension of the rules
appropriatng $500 to improve ca road adj in IS She t9
towns of Rose and New Canada, Ranse
, County, (passed under suspension of the rules
= extending the time for the construction of Il
Sauk Center and Northern Railroad, (passe
under suspension Of the rules); anthorizi1
= the county commissioners of Hennepin Coun
to pay Martin Roberts for caring for certa
. sick person; to cancel and discharge all CO.
tracts for seed wheat in favor of the ste
against the countless; appropriating money f
!, a state road in Stearns County; appropriate
. $3.50 to build a bridge across the Watonws
! River; to vacate the village plot Of Gray Clou
e Of the rules); appropriating $1,000 to build
bridge across Rock River, in Pipestone Count
a incorporating the village of Adrian, Lyt
: County; authorizing the county of Chippewa
= issue $4,000 bonds for building court hou
4 and jail; incorporating the village of Adam
y Mower County; allowing time IT. for g. goed a.1
year. :. Adjourned till Monday evening,