Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1881-11-09
THE MINNESOTA LEGISLATURE.
Senate.


ST. PAUL, November 1.-The senate met at
10 A. NJ. barely quorum present. Bills intro
duced: To authorize the st. Paul Gas Light
Company to manufacture and supply heat and
electric light in the city of st. Paul, (passed);
to provide for building bridgefrom Brainerd,
Grow Wing County, to West Brainerd, in Cass
County; to amend the act authorizing the city
of st. Paul to issue bonds for the building and
repair of bridges, opening streets, etc., by
authorizing an increase of bonds in $4,000 for
the bridge over Lafayette Avenue, Cpassed); ap-
propriating $75, 900 to be expended under the
direction Of the governor for completing the
new capital, and making it as near fire proof as
possible. Senate bills passed: To extend the
time for the completion of the railroad from
Fergus Falls to the Northern Pacific railroad;
to provide for the condemnation of lands for
the improvement of lakes, rivers and harbors.
49,. House bills passed: To organize the town
of Clifton, in Traverse County; authorizing the
commissioners Of Polk County to issue bonds in
$4,000 for roads and bridges; to enforce the
payment Of delinquent taxes prior to the year
1879, in Goodhue County; to provide for the or
ganization of Kanabec County; to authorize the
city of Winona to issue $3.50, 900 in bonds for the
erection Of water works: to authorize the city
of Winona to issue bonds in $3.50, 900 for macad-
amizing Streets to vacate the plot of the village
Of Grey Cloud, in Washington County; author
izing the city council of the city Of St. Paul to
provement of Fort Street, upon a vote of three
fourths of the members thereof. Adjourned.
ST. PAUL, November 2.-By an almost unani-
nous vote the bill allowing an additional Judge
in the Fourth (or Minneapolis) judicial district
was passed. The senate had three apportion-
ment bills before it, two introduced and read
for the first time, and the measure which has
already passed the house. The latter was re-
ferred to the special committee on apportion-
ment, who shortly afterwards reported it back
and recommended its passage. :. Bills intro
duced: To authorize the town of Oronoco,
Olmstead7 Coun y, to issue bonds in $10, 900 to
aid in building-a Touring mill in said town;
appropriating $500 for q bridge across the ST.
Louis river in Carlton County; to provide for
the ascertainment of the state indebtedness
other than the Minnesota state railroad bonds,
incurred by and through the construction of
the land grant 1aihoadsi appropriating 81 900
tothe Farmers Board of Trade; authorizing the
transfer Of certain balances in the internal
revenue fund, to be applied toward building
tie state capital, Cpassed.); to appropriate
money toward building q bridge in Faribault
County; increasing the salary Of the clerk of
IRON 70
shores Of White Bear Lake to Manitou Island,
and designating E. F. Drake, W. B. Dean and
G. P. Noyes as the commissioners to whom the
work is entrusted, passed, }; limiting the COM
pensati0n Tor the physician, medicines, ETC., in
Ramsey County and the city Of st. Paul, to
$4,000, and Of the clerk for the boardo OF control
to- 800, passed to legalize q state. road in
Wright, Blbley and Mcleod counties, (passed); };
to authorize the city Of st. Paul 10 issue $500,
000in bonds for freeswagon bridge across the
Mississippi River from point opposite to or
below Jackson Street to. the Sixth ward, (passed
under suspen1ion Of the rules. IA bill to
amend chapter g q The genersl statutes Of