St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-03-21
SECTION ONE.

SECTION ONE.
Section one o. of chapter three hundred
and fifty-nine $3.50 Special Laws of A. D.
eighteen hundred and eighty-one QSSD is
hereby amended by adding the following to
said section, viz:
Said Plat Com missioners shall at their first
meeting in January of each and every year
elect one CD of their number as chairman
and one of their number as secretary. Said
chairman shall preside at all meetings of the
board and in his absence one Of the, other
members shall preside temporarily and shall
perform such duties as usually per-
tain to chairmen of similar organiza-
tons. The secretary shall keep
the records and minutes of the Board in
books, maps, plats or other documents, as
the nature of the case may he, to be procured
by the Secretary on authority Of the Board,
and shall be paid for by the county Commits
sioners of Ramsey County upon the presen-
tation of proper vouchers therefor duly
signed by the Chairman of the said Com
mission. Said Secretary shall be the Gus
todian of all maps, records and documents
belonging to said Commission or Board,
which are hereby declared to be public rec
ords, as also the present records now in their
possession, and shall deliver them to his
duly qualified successor in office.
SECTION TWO.
Said chapter three hundred and fifty-nine
$3.50, Special Laws of A. D. eighteen hum
dred and eighty-one QS8D is hereby
amended by adding the following section to
said Law:
Section three (3). The fee on all maps or
plats having less number than thirty (30)
lots, blocks or parcels thereon shall be three
dollars ($3) for each and every such map or
plat. Also on ali maps or plats having
curved lines of streets, avenues, parks,
blocks, lots or parcels of land, the radius of
each must be distinctly shown by letters and
figures on said plats or maps, also the bound
airy of the land so plated shall be shown by a.
red dotted line, and in cases of the plating
of arrangements or subdivisions of lots and
blocks, the original plating and description
of the same shall be shown on the plat or
map of such Encouragement or subdivision
by faint lines letters or figures;
PrOvded further, That in all cases of plats
or maps presented for approval whereon
streets, alleys, parks, bouIevards, avenues,
etc, or any of them are dedicated to the
public, the owner agent or person present
ing the same shall submit to the Plat Com
mission an abstract of title of the land so
plated, and if it shall appear that any mort
gage lien exists on said land, the approval of
the Plat Com mission shall be withheld until
a release of said mortgage or mortgages is
properly made so far as the same may relate
to any streets, alleys, parks, boulevards,
avenues, etc, so dedicated to the public, and
it is hereby made the duty of the Register of
Deeds of Ramsey county to notify in writing
the Plat Commission of all maps or pIats that
may be filed for record in his office after the
passage of this act,
SECTION THREE.
Strike out all of that part of said section
one % as relates to the dedication of public
parks, and insert the following in lieu there
Of: mo maps or plats embracing an area
Of twenty (20) acres or more Of any new adj
dition of lots or blocks in or to the City of
st. Paul shall ever be accepted by said Plat
be dedicated to the public as public park Of
such size or area as the Plat Commission may
prescribe, Of not less than onc-twentieth
q -20) part of the 9rea as laid out into blocks
and lots exclusive OF streets and
alleys, provided the said Plat Commission
may in its discretion require the dedication
of park to the public in such cases where
the area Of the land plated is of such area
and topography as in the judgment of said
Commission the public interests would re
quire portion of the same to bededicated for
park purposes.
SECTION FOUR.