Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1891-05-08
able monument 70 tho Fi!st Minnesota reg

able monument to tho First Minnesota reg
ment on the battlefield Of Gettysburg.
Whereas, The government has designated
ne principal lines OF battle Of tho Union
burg by constructing thereon broad avenues,
upon which our sister states have erected At
appropriate places elegant and enduring
monuments. marking ITO positions and con
several regiments there engaged;
And WbereaA The First Regiment Mn
nesotA volunteers represented this state in
that baltic with unparalleled gallantry reso.
3utely and successfully charEins and repel:
than twenty times its numbers. and holding
back that force firmly until the emergency
had passed. though losing In killed aud
wounded more than four.nfths Of its men
And whereas, Due regard ter The dsaa,
and for the wounded and other SURVIVOR
and for the credit Of the state, requires The
where that charge was made, . monuments
worthy Of that regiment and Of this state, to
whom the regiment and the glory Of it,
matchless valor on that field belongs, there
Be i enac,ed BY the Legislature Of DE Stats
s1orloN J. That the SUN Of twenty tAe,-
sand 100000 dollars, OF - much thereof y
may DO Necessary, = z! hereby app1Spssssa
wise appropriated, - b expended In the
construction and erection Of . suitable monu-
mont to tho First Regiment Minaesota VOL
unteers, to be placed upon Hsncock avenue,
tn. ' point from Which sh:t resi%;eas on July
end, 1853. alone and successfully charged two
Confederate brigadss.
SIC. 2. The money hereby appropriated
ernor, upon his warrant or regulation there
SEC. 3. The governor il hereby authorised
to appoint three commissioner, who shall
serve withou. senpensation. 70 devise .
design and plan Of sueA nonunent ana to
contract for its construction and erection.
But no design or plan Of such monument
shall be adopted. nor contract tor Its con:
struction and erection b entered into. until
the Same shall first b approved by the
governor.
SEC. 4. In connection With such monu-
ment suitable marker. referring TO It and TO
the regiment, may be constructed and placed
BY s sai l Rs On july 3 1sss in Sepene
the charge of the Confederates known -
P1okett's charge.
SEC. S. This act shall take effect and b IN
force from and after its passage.
Approved April Is 1891.
CHAPTER 18Th. F. no. 1885,
An Act to appropriate money to carry on IN
Investigation begun by q committee Of tho
house, appointed March u, 1891, by the
speaker in pursuance Of resolution duly
passed by the house on the said day. to in
vestisate whether wheat was taken without
inspection from public elevator In Du-
luth. and If same condition prevails in
other public elevators, ETC., and to do and
carry on such other things In regard 70
such investigation as the house Of repro
sentaiives either have or may hereafter d.
rect such committee to do under the origi-
nal resolution or any resolution.
Be IT enacted BY the Legislature Of tho State
OF Minnesota:
SECTION There is hereby appropriated
out Of any money In the state treasury, not
otherwise Appropriated, the sum OF ten
thousand (10,0O0) dollars to be used for the
begun BY the committee Of the house appoint.
ed March twenty-frst (2lst), one thousand
eight hundred and n1nety-one (1s9l) under
resolution duly passed on March twenty. first
(2lst). one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-one IS3l), by the house Of representa-
tives az follows. to wit:
Resolved that committee of i've (5) be
appointed to investigate whether or not sixty
thousand (6O030) bushels Of wheat were
taken out without inspection from o public
elevator in Duluth; and II the same condition
prevails in other public elevators In shis