Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-05-30
TOWNS AND VILLAGES.

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AN ACT to provide for the incorporation of villages,
and to define their duties and powers, and to re-
peal certain la US in relation thereto.
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the State of
Section l. Every village which has heretofore
been incorporated under a 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 no manner affect apply to
the same unless adopted provided in this section
The trustees thereof may, Gby 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 be written printed, For incorporation.
and Against incorporation" and the election
shall be conducted and result canvassed as provided
for in annual village election by such village. If
majority vote for incorporation the trustees shall
make certificate setting forth the fact of such
submission, and the vote thereon III detail, and
the result thereof. and cause the same to
be recorded in the efice of the register of Deeds
and thereuDon the special act of incorporation
shall be deemed surrendered and such village be-
come incorporated under the general statutes but
shall until TIE 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
formity of village government and equal privileges
to all 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 and 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 Pc
tition, signed by at least twenty-five electors, then
residents upon the lands SO to be Incorporated,
hinh Forth Y1orS
of such territory, with their and distances,
the quantity of land therein embraced, according
to such survey, the name of such village, and the
resident population as near as may be, of said ter
ritory.
Sec. 5. A copy of said petition. together with
the namesSf petitioners attached thereto, shall
be pested~ three of the most public places in said
territory so to be incorporated, at least three
weeks rrior to its presentation to said court, to-
gether with a notice giving the time and place
when and where said petition will be presented to
said court for his action thereon.
Sec. 6. At the time and place fixed in
sad nStics. upon the filing Of said petit
the map or plat of said premises,
the NAV proceed to hear proofs for against
the incorporation of said village, and upon such
hearing may take such evidence as he shall deem
necessary.
Sec. z. If the court, after such hearing shall be
satisfied of the correctness of such survey and of
the legality of said plat and that all of the require
mens OF the statutes have been complied with that
the lands embraced in such petition any part
posed village: that the interests of the inhabitants
will be promoted thereby, it shall make an order,
declaring that such territory. the boundaries of
which shall be therein set forth by metes and
bounds, aud which may be enlarged or diminished
by such court, from the boundaries specified in said
application, as justice may require, shall be an in
corporated village by the name specified in said APP
plicaton, and in such order it shall designate three
persons electors residing on said territory, whose
duty it shall be to give notice of an election in said
Incorporated village, as provided by section ten of
this act.
Sec. g. Such petition and order shall he filed in
the office of the clerk of the district court of the
county in which such land lies, and the clerk shall
forthwith Eohfy the persons designated in said
order of the filing thereof, and certified copy
thereof shall be filed in the office of the register of
deeds of said county, and be by him recorded, and
thereupon said village shall be duly incorporated by
the name designated in said order.
Sec. g. Any district, section sections, or parts
OF sections, in the Stae of Minnesota. which may
be hereafter set apart by order of the district
court of this State, and shall organize such mu
nicpa corporation by the action of the Inhabitants
thereof in the manner and form hereinbefore pro-
Vided, shall thereupon be endowed with al the
rights, powers and duties incident to municipal
corporations At common law with perpetual sue
cession and shall, by the corporate name and style
adopted, be capable of contracting and being con-
tracted with, of suing and being sued, and of plead
ing and being impisded in all &C urts of law and
equity. and have common seal, which may be
altered at the pleasure of the village council and
shall have power to take hold, purchase, lease and
convey real estate and personal property, or mixed
quire, within without the limits of said corpora
ton.
MEETINGS FOR ORGANIZATION OF VILLAGES.
Sec. 10. Whenever the persons designated for
that purpose in order of the district court shall
receive notice from the clerk of the said court of
that county of the filing of an order incorporating
any village in said county, the said persons shall
post notices in three of the most public places in
the village, giving at least ten days notice to the
legal voters residing in said incorporated village
meet to organize under the provisions of this act,
and elect officers for the ensuing year. The action
of majority of said sh Ill be considered the
action of the whole number, and the electors pres
emit at the time and place designated in said call
may organize such meeting by choosing viva voce
two ~ judges of election and clerk who, before
entering upon the discharge of their duties. shall
take and subscribe an oath affirmation to faith
fully discharge the duties required of them, and
said judges and clerk, being duly qualified, shall
forthwith open the polls by proclamation. and con-
duct the election in the manner provided by the
statutes of the State for the election of township
officers and the judges of election shall give to each
person elected certificate of his election, and such
officers shall, after having qualified according to
law. forthwith enter upon the discharge Of their
duties
ALTERATION OF BOUNDARIES.
Sec. IL. Additional territory may be annexed to