Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1883-02-28
Senate.

1926, 900 of bonds for court house and Jail; de-
tachins certain territory from town of Mime.
field, Hennepin County. Adjourned.
ST.. PAUL, February 2O.-As soon as the
journal was dispensed with the chief clerk of
the house appeared and read a long list of bills
passed by the lower body. Bills were offered:
hospital for insane for 1883, $3S, 900, for 1884,
$4,000; for second hospital for insane for 1883,
$l3,0OO; for 1884, $1O1 600; total amount,
100000; to appropriate SOL to reimburse
Lyon County for smallpox expenses; to amend
state constitution, SO as to make terms of
amendment to be submitted to people at next
general election; to reimburse Mrs. Mary
Loemans in the sum of $75 for losses sustained
by ire; to appropriate $4,000 for repairs and
improvements of reform school during 1884;
to cover deficiency in appropriations for 1882,
81, 800; authorizing investigation Of claims for
seed grain furnished, and appointment of seed
grain commission to make such investigation
at a salary of $5 per day and expenses.
Bills passed under suspension of rules: Au-
thoriziEg Crookston to issue $4,000 in bonds
to fund floating indebtedness; for the issue of
$4,000 in bonds to build two bridges in
Crookston across Red Lake River: two thirds
of the rules; to amend section IS, title 2,
chapter 3S, code 1878, and authorizing the in
vestment Of funds arising from sale of agrlcul-
tural college lands in bonds bearing ~ per
cent instead Of per cent; to authorize Scott
County commissioners to reimburse county
treasurers in certain cases; for the issue of
$500, GOO in bonds-$150, 900 by St. Paul coun-
Gil and like amount by Ramsey County com
missioners-to build courthouse in st. Paul. :.
House bills passed; Authorizing issue of
bonds by Minneapolis to build approaches to
railway bridges; providing for parks in Mime
apolis and appointing park commissioners; re-
pealing prohi bition clause in charter of village
of Worthington, Mobiles County; authorizing
st. Paul to issue $50, 900 in bonds for purchase
Of parks; authorizing the city of St. Paul to
issue $1UO, 900 in bonds for sewerage purposes;
giving council Of st. Paul power to issue $685.
900 to bridge permanent roadway over Phalen
creek at East seventh Street; incorporating the
village Of Slayton, Murray Comfy; authorizing
Wells, Farlbault Comfy to issue $4,000 in
bonds; authorizing Ramsey County commits
sloners to issue $4,000 in certificates of in
debtedness of which $4,000 shall be for i'm
proving the county Jail and $b, 900 for addition
to courthouse} authorizing St. Paul to issue
$50, 600 of bonds to enlarge W0lkhouse; author
izing St. Paul to issue $4,000 bonds for West
st. Paul levee. Senate bills passed: For an
assistant superintendent of public instruction
| at salary of 81 500 per annum; also for clerk
in superintendent of Instructions Office at $500
per annum; amendment to constitution fixing
terms of district clerks Of court at two years:
officers elected at next election to hold until
the first Monday in January, 1887: first Monday
in January to be the expiration Of terms of Of
elections after 1884 biennial and in even years;
making terms Of judges six instead of seven
years. =. Bridge bills passed: -Four hundred
dollars for bridge in Waupaca County; in Sher
burne County, $4,000; in Otter Tail County,
$500; in Renville County, $500; in Freeborn
Traverse County, $500; in Lincoln County,
5000; in Lyon County, $500, in Lyon County,
$500: in Wi'kin County, $1,000; in Wilkin
County, $400; in Douglas County, 81, 900; in
Marshall County, 81 900; in Douglas County,
$500; in Chicago County, 300; in Mower
County, $400; in Swift County, $500; to build
bridges across Minnesota River and sloughs
near Pomme de Terre River, $500.
House.
ST. PAUL, February 1.-THE State Grange
presf nted petition asking for the passage of
a bill to reorganize the State Agriculture! So
ciety. Bills lntroduced: Authorizing Min
neapolis to issue $100, 900 of bonds to improve
certain grounds in the city. Passed under sus-
pension of the rules; appropriatmg $500 to
build bridge over Straight River. in Steele
and Rice Counties; authorizing Minneapolis to
issue 100000 in bonds for park purposes,
passed under suspension Of the rules; appro-
priating $4OO to reimburse Renville County
for expending money for smallpox cases; ap-
propriating $400 for bridge across Rock Riv-
er in Rock County; detaching certain town.
ships from Cass County and attaching the
same to Wadena; authorizing the commission
ers of Ramsey County to issue certificates Of
Indebtedness to the amount of $10, 900 for road
purposes; for the erection of Lamberton
County out of parts of Redwood, Brown and
Cottonwood Counties. Bill passed: Pre-
scribing the time for holding terms Of court in
the Ninth Judicial District; amending the act
of the city of Moorhead; to legalize the issue
of certain bonds by the city Of Moorhead. >.
The house then went into committee Of the
whole and on arising adjourned.
ST. PAUL, February 19.-The joint resolution
introduction of any bill except by unanimous
yeas 27, nays 25.. Bills introduced: Au-
thorizing the city council Of st. Paul to issue
800, 900 bonds for tho sewerage fund Of said
city (passed under suspension Of the rules); to
appropriate $3.50 for bridge across Joe River,
Kittson County; to appropriate $500 to build a
bridge across the north branch Of the Grow
River; incorporating the village of Slayton,
Murray County, (passed under suspension of
the rules); to authorize st Paul to issue bonds
in the sum of $4,000 to allow the common
council to build levee for West St. Paul,
(passed under suspension of the rules); to au-
thorize the county commissioners of Ramsey
County to issue certificates Of Indebtedness for
$2O 600, .(passed under suspension Of the
rues) to authorize the city Of st. Paul to issue
$50, 600 of bonds to enlarge the workhouse,
(passed under suspension of the ruies); to fix
the salary Of the judge OF probate of Grow
Wing County, at 800; to enable the several
towns in stearns, Pope, Kandiyohi, Yellow
Medicine, Pipestone, Chippewa, Repville, Lyon,
Lincoln and other counties to issue bonds to
did in the building of the Sauk Rapids and
Southwestern Railway; to authorize the city Of
ST. Paul to issue $50, 900 of bonds to aid in the
the compensation Of the auditor and treasurer
of Blue Earth County at $3.50 and %, 2O0