St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-07

| such action shall commence within one Cd
| year from the happening of the injury, or
unless notice shall have first been given in
writing to the Mayor of said city, or the City
Clerk thereof, within thirty 800 days of the
occurrence of such injury or damage stat
ing the place where, and the time when such
injury was received, and that the person in
jured will claim damages of the city for such
| injury; but the notice shall not be required
when the person injured shall, in conse-
quence thereof, be bereft of reason. Nor
shall any such action be maintained for any
defect in any street until the same shall have
been graded, nor any insufficiency of the
ground where sidewalks are usually con-
structed, when no sidewalk is built.
SECTION TWENTY.
The time specified for the publication of
any notice required to be published in the
official paper of said city under the City
Charter, or of any of the provisions of the
its first publication.
SECTION TwENTY-oNE.
That section five o.. of chapter three (3),
of an act entitled, an act to reduce the law
incorporating the City Of Saint Paul in the
County of Ramsey and the State of Min ne
sofa, and the several acts amendatory there
city into one Q), act and to amend the same
hundred and seventy-four (1S74), is hereby
amended SO as to read as follows, to-wit:
Section 5. The law department of the
City of Saint Paul shall consist of Corpor-
alton Attorney and such legal assistants as
the Corporation Attorney shall appoint and
the Committee on Ways and Means of the
Common Council of said city shall approve.
The Corporation Attorney shall be the legal
head and have the control, supervision and
direction of the law department of the city
government and of all the several
heads and departments thereof. He
shall be elected by the Common
Council of the city on the first (D Tuesday
of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-five 0SS5) and shall hold his
| office for the term of two (2) years thereaf-
ter and shall receive salary Of five thou
sand @, 000) dollars per annum He shall
be the legal adviser of the Mayor, the Com
mon Council and of the Committee thereof,
the Board of Public Works and Board of
Education, and the Board of Health; and he
shall render and perform all the legal SER
vices incident TO his Office, and when re-
qnired shall furnish opinions upon such legal
questions as may be submitted to him by the
Mayor, the Common Council, or any Of its
Committees, or by either of the above nam ed
Boards. He shall in person or by one of
his assistants to be by him assigned for that
purpose attend the stated and special meet
ings of the Common Council, the Board of
Public Works, the Board OF Education, the
Board of Health, and shall also render and
perform such other duties as may
be prescribed by the Common Council by
ordinance. The law department of the city
shall be allowed such clerical force as shall
be required for the prompt aud efficient dis
| patch of the business of that department.
The Corporation Attorney and the First As
sistant shall be required to give their whole
time and attention to the discharge of the
| duties of their respective offices, and shall
have their offices at the City Hall, or such
other place as the Common Council shall des
gnate and provide for. The Assistant Cor
poration Attorneys shall hold Office during
the pleasure of the Corporation Attorney who
shall appoint them, and shall receive such
salary as shall be fixed upon
and approved by the Committee
on Ways and Means of the Common
| Council and the Corporation Attorney. The
| Board of Public Works, the Board of Educa-
ton. and the Board of Health, and each of
them, are hereby prohibited from retaining.
feeling or employing an attorney
| for their respective Boards. and
| it is hereby made the duty of said Boards
and of each of them whenever the advice,
| opinion or services of an attorney is re-
quired by either of said Boards, either at the
meetings of their respective Boards, or at
any other time, or upon any other occasion,
to call upon the Corporation Attorney, whose
duty it shall be either by himself in person,
or by one of his assistants to be by him des-
ignated for that purpose, to give such advice,
furnish such opinions, or render such serv-
ices as may be required by such Boards or by
either of them. The Corporation Attorney
shall be allowed sum not exceeding eight
cen hundred Q,s00) dollars per annum for
clerk hire for the Law Department. The
salary of such assistants as shall be appointed
by the Corporation Attorney, with the ap-
prevail of the Committee on Ways and Means
Of the Common Council, shall be such sum
per annum for each of such assist
ants as shall be fixed upon
and approved by said Committee
on Ways and Means and said Corporation
Attorney. The salaries of the Corporation
Attorney and his assistants and clerks shall
be paid monthly.
SECTION TWENTY-FIVE.
That section thirty-nine 1897, chapter
seven ~, title one % of an act entitled
San act to reduce the law incorporating the
City of st. Paul, in the County of Ramsey
and State Of Minnesota, and the several acts
ameudatory thereof, and certain other acts
relating TO said city, into one (I act, and to
amend the same" approved March fifth (5),
one thousand eight hundred and seventy
four 0S74), as amended ny section twelve
(12) of an act entitled can act to reduce
the law incorporating the City of st. Paul, In
the County of Ramsey and State Of Mime
sofa, and the several acts amendatory thereof,
and certain other acts relating TO said city
into one a act, and to amend the same"
approved March fourth a., one thousand
eight hundred and seyenty-fve QS75), is
hereby further amended by adding
thereto at the end thereof the following, to
wit: Upon the trial in the District Court of
an appeal from any assessment charged in
any special assessment warrant. whether
made BY reason of the appropriation or con-
denim alton of land Or for any other improve
| ment whatsoever under the provisions OF
this chapter, the testimony of members Of
the Board Of Public Works shall not be compe-
tent to prove the question of damage arising
or benefits derived from such improvement,
but said Court shall on such trial upon ques-
tons of damages and benefits give TO the Off
cial acts of said Board in making said assess
ments the same weight at least as it would and
should give to the testimony of an equal
number of disiuterested and specially quail
fed expert witnesses upon questions OF fraud
in fact or demonstrable mistake of fact,
on the part of the Board in making such
assessments, the testimony Of the members
of said Board shall also be com
petent and shall be received by said
Court, on such trial, upon all
all questions relating TO the situation and to-
biography of lots. blocks. parcels or tracts