Daily globe., 1883-03-19
TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of villages,
and to define their duties and powers, and to re-
peal certain laws in relation thereto
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Minnesota:
Section l. Every village which has heretofore
been Incorporated under special act of the legis-
lature therefor shall continue to exist under such
act and amendments thereto; and the provisions of
this chapter sh all in affect apply to
the same, unless adopted provided in this section
The trustees thereof may, 10y resolution, submit
at special village election the question whether
such village will so continue or will become re-
Incorporated under the general statutes. They
shall give notice thereof in the manner required in
this chapter for notifying special elections. Ballots
shall bs written or printed, For rencorporation.
and Against reincOrporaton, and the election
shall be conducted and result canvaSsed provided
for in annual village election by such village. If a
majority vote for rsincorporaton, the trustees shall
make a certificate setting forth the fact of such
submission, and the vote thereon in detail, aud
the result thereof. and cause the same to
be recorded in the office of the register Of deeds,
and thereupon the special act OF incorporation
shall be deemed surrendered and such village be-
incorporated under the general statutes, b1t
shall until the next annual village election herein
provided to be held in January following, be gov
erned by the officers then in Office.
Sec 2. Every village which has been shall
be organized or incorporated under the general
statutes, shall be hereafter governed according to
the provisions of this CHAPTER, to the end that uni
formty of village government and equal privileges
to ali may be secured.
Incorporation OF VILLAGES.
Sec 3. Any district. sections or parts of sec
tons, in the State of Minnesota. which has been
duly surveyed aud plated into lots and blocks and
lands adjacent thereto, which said plat has been
duly and legally certified according to the laws of
this State and filed in the Office of the register of deeds
of the county in which said lands lie, may become
incorporated as village, in the following manner,
by application to the judge of the district court of
the county in which said lands are situated:
! Sec 4. Such application shall be made by PEI
titOn. signed by at least twenty-five electors then
residents upon the lands so to be incorporated,
which said petition shall set forth the boundaries
of such territory with their and distances,
the quantity OF lana therein embraced. according
to such survey, the name of such village, and the
resident population, near as may be, of said ter
| ritory.
Sec 5. copy of said petition together with
the names of the petitioners attached thereto, shall
be posted in three of the most public places in said
! territory so to be Incorporated, at least three
weeks prior to its presentation to said court to-
| gether with notice giving the time and place
when and where said petition will be presented tC
| said court for his action thereon.
| Sec. 6. At the time and place fixed IN
said notice, upon the filing of said petit
| ton and proof OF posting as aforesaid, and
] the map or plat of said premises
the court NAV proceed to hear proofs for or against
| the Incorporation of said village, and upon such
| hearing may take such evidence as he SHAH deem
| necessary.
Sec z. If the court, after such hearing shall be
satisfied of the correctness of such survey, and o
the legality of said plat, and that all of the require
ments OF the statutes have been complied with stha
| the lands embraced IN such petition or any par
| thereof ought justly to be included IN said pro-
posed village; that the interests of the inhabiant!
| viii be promoted thereby, it shall make order
declaring that such territory, the boundaries oi
which shall be therein set forth by meteS anC
| bounds, and which may be enlarged or diminished
by suchcourt, from the boundaries specified in sait
application, as justice may require, shall be in
corporated village by the specified in said ap
pication, and in such order it shall designate three
persons, electors residing on said territory, whose
duty shall be to give notice of election in sAiC
incorporated village, provided by section ten Of
| this act.
Sec. 8. Such petition and order shall be filed il
the Office of the clerk of the district court of thC
county in which such land lies, and the clerk shal
forthwith Eotify the persons designated in said
order of the filing thereof, and a certified copy
thereof shall be fled in the Office of the register o
deeds of said county, and be by him recorded, an(
thereupon said village shall be duly incorporated by
the name designated in said order.
| Sec. O. Any district, section or sections, parts
of sections, in the stare of Minnesota, which ma!
be hereafter set apart by an order of the distrc
court of this State, and shall organize as such mu
-cipal corporation by the action of the inhabtant
thereof in the manner and form hereinbefore r<o
yided shall thereupon be endowed with n th(
rights, powers and duties incident to Dunicipa
| corporations At common law, with perpetual sue
cession, and shall, by the corporate name and styl
| adopted, be capable of contracting and being con
tracted with, of suing and being sued and of plead
| ing and being impieded in all &C urtS of law ant
| equity, and have common seal, which may b
altered at the pleasure of the village council
shall have power to take, hold, purchase, lease ant
convey real estate and personal property, or mlXe
estate, as the purpose of the corporation may re-
quire, within or without the limits of said corpora
tion
MEETINGS FOR ORGANIZATION OF VILLAGES.
Sec. 10. Whenever the persons designated 10
that purpose in order OF the district court shal
receive notice from the clerk Of the said court o
that county of the filing of order Incorporating
any village in said county. the said persons sha
post notices in three of the most public places il
the village, giving at least ten days notice to tn
legal voters residing in said incorporated village L
meet to organize under the provisions of this act
and elect officers for the ensuing year. The actio
of majority of said persons sh hall be considered tn
action of the whole number, and the electors pres
ent at the time and place designated in said ca
may organize such meeting by choosing viva voc
two t2) judges of election and clerk who, befor
entering upon the discharge of their duties, sha
take and subscribe an oath or affirmation 20 faith
fully discharge the duties required of them, an
said judges and clerk, being duly qualified. sha
forthwith open the polls by proclamation, and con
duct the election in the manner provided by tn
statutes of the State for the election Of townshi
officers, and the judges of election shall give to eac
person elected certificate of his election, and sue
officers shall, after having qualified according
law, forthwith enter upon the discharge of thei
duties.
| ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES.
| Sec. IL. Additional territory may be annexed