St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-05-07
THE REFORM SCHOOL.
Act Providing for the Sale Of
the st. Paul Property.

s. F. 1e3-AN ACT relating to the state re-
form school,
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State
of Minnesota:
Section l. The board of managers of the
state reform school are hereby authorized
and required TO employ competent SUI
veyor and cause the lands now occupied as
the site of said institution in the county OF
Ramsey to be surveyed, plated and laid out
into lots and blocks, with such intervening
and adjacent streets and alleys. and also
cause the same to be numbered, named and
designated respectively in such manner as
they may deem desirable for promoting the
sale thereof, as herein provided. They
of the entire tract SO surveyed and plated,
suitable stone or other permanent monu-
ments. The precise location Of such monu-
ments and the precise length and width
of such lots, and the width and courses of
such streets and alleys shall be distinctly
specified on such plat. Such lands so plated
shall be known and designated by such name
as said board may select. The said plat shall
contain thereon the certificate of such sur
veyor to the effect that the same is an aceu-
rate plat and survey of the said lands. and
full description by metes and bounds OF the
same. The said board of managers, or
majority of them, shall also upon said plat
certify that they have caused the said lands
to be surveyed, plated and laid out into lots,
blocks streets and alleys, and to be num-
bered, named and designated as on said plat
set forth and that the Said lands so plated
constitute and shall be known by such name
as said board in and by such certificate may
select and determine.
SEC. 2. Within ninety days from the ap-
prevail of this act the said board of managers
shall file said plat in the Office of the register
of deedsof the county of Ramsey, and the
said register is hereby authorized to and shall
record the same in the public records in his
Office And thereafter all conveyances Of or
reference to any part or parts of said lands
by lots OF blocks, according to such plat, shall
for all purposes be valid and sufficient
description of the part or parts of said lands
so conveyed or referred to.
SEC. 3. The making and recording OF said
plat shall be and operate rs dedication for
for public use as street or alley OF the
streets and alleys laid out upon such plat.
SEC. A. The said board of managers shall
also within said ninety days make and de-
liver to the commissioner of the land office
copy of such plat SO certified together with
statement by them thereto attached OF such
lots, blocksand intervening or adjacent streets
ana alleys as they may desire to reserve for the
temporary use of said institution, which
shall not exceed twenty-three acres In ex-
tent.
SEC. s. The said commissioner shall with
in five days after the delivery to him of said
copy OF said plat appoint three disinterested
citizens of this state as appraisers of said
lands. Said appraisers shall take and sub
scribe and file with said commissioner an
oath or affirmation that they will faithfully
and impartially discharge their duties as ap-
and that they are not directly OF indirectly
interested i1 any Of such lands, and have
not entered into any combination to pur-
chase the same or any part thereof. II any
so qualify within five days after his appoint
ment the said commissioner shall forthwith
appoint some other citizen in his place, who
shall qualify in the manner af6fesaid.
SEC. .. The said Commissioners shall de-
plat; and within ten days thereafter the said
appraisers shall view the said lands and ap-
praise each lot and the improvements there