St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-06
THE LAWS OF 1891.

| full all the general laws enacted by the
last legislature. For the benefit of such
of its readers as are interested iii such
matters, it summarizes here briefly the
more important of these measures.
| Provision is made in chapters l and 2
of the General Laws of 1891 for the sub
mission to the people of two cOnstitu
tiOnal amendments; the first forbid
ding all sorts of special legislation, and
the second authorizing the taxation
of the gross earnings of railroad and
| kindred corporations in lieu of their
| property. The GLOBE has already com
mented on both of these laws at some
length, and Will at the proper time call
the attention of the states voters to
their Importance.
! Chapter is the CURRIER bill for
the taxation of telegraph and telephone
lines, and restores the powers of the
state board of equalization to impose or
| said property tax at rate to be by it
| determined.
| Chapter 10 makes it miSdemeanor
to be party to any pool or trust the
object of which shall be to fix or regu-
late the price of any commodity or to
limit its supply.
Chapter IL makes it a misdemeanor
| to sell oleomargarine unless it is col
ored q bright pink.
Chapter IL imposes heavy penal
ties on anybody who sells anything
which looks like lard but is not really
made from hog fat, unless he gives his
customers the fullest facilities for learn
ircr xuho = = do e oIo
it the duty of any one who runs hotel
! or restaurant and uses lard made out
of anything but hog fat to keep posted
on the wall legend to that effect, SO
that everybody who eats may know
what he is eating.
Chapter 16 is the anti Pinkerton
bill, which forbids the keeping or
letting of armed forces for hire by pri-
vate concerns, or the employment of
any but citizens of the state of Mime
sofa as police officers or detectives.
Chapter II forbids the employment
of railroad hands in consecutive
service for periods of more than twenty
hours duration without their having
been in the meanwhile allowed period
of eight hours for rest.
Chapter p brings the ordinary local
building associations doing business
in places of more than 10000 in
nabitantS under the supervision of the
state examiner. 1t requires them to file
with him a statement of their condition
and TO receive from him a certificate
each year. 1t forbids their dealing in
real estate, regulates the method Of sell
Ing forfeited stock and secures stock
holders the right of withdrawing stock
six months old by giving at least sixty
days notice of their intention to do so.
Chapters IS and % are of special in
terest to livery stable keepers, give
them lien on horses which they keep.
| and prescribe serious penalties for any
one who hires horse and does not pay
for it.
Chapter 80 regulates the practice of
midwifery. and makes it necessary to
secure certificate from the state med
zeal board before any one shall be per-
mitted to follow this pursuit.
Chapter So creates state board of
seven persons to conduct examinations
for admission TO the bar, and abelishes
all the existing statutes in reference to
such examinations.
Chapter IS allows trials which are
pending at the end of any term of the
district court to be continued into the
next term until they shall have been
completed.
Chapter IS is a grand curative act,
| making all instruments of record, how
ever effectively executed, prima facie
evidence.
Chapter Al legaliZes powers of attorney
made by wife to husband when such
instrument was executed in state
where this is permitted. Chapter 46
legalizes sheriffS' certificates which
| have been recorded more than twenty
| days after the sales to which they re-
late, and chapter 40. instruments from
which the notarial seal has been omitted.
Chapter II permits corporations here
! after or heretofore organized to provide
for division of their capital stock into
! common and special or preferred shares.
Chapter II authorizes the governor to
assign the judge of one judicial district
| to service, in another when public con-
venience brought to his notice, makes it
| desirable.
| Chapter so adds to the list of grounds
| for which new trials may be granted i'll
the district court, inadequate and in
| sufficient damages appearing to have
been given under the influence of pas
sion or prejudice"
| Chapter 81 defines the word slot" as
used in the statutes concerning home
| stead exemption, and prescribes that it
shall be construed to mean one lot as
laid out on the plat of which it is part,
or in case the buildings on it occupy
| parts Of two lots, that the exemption
shall extend to quantity of land not
greater in extent than one of the orig
inal lots in the same block.
| Chapter 90 amends the law relating to
the adoption of children by empowering
the court, at the request of the party
adopting a child. to decree that the child
so adopted shall be the heir of such
| person in all respects as if born to him
in lawful wedlock.
| Chapter 120 cures the defects in the
supplementary proceedings law which
were occasioned by the amendment of
| 1889.
Chapter 122 makes Washington sbirth-
day, May 80 or Memorial day, and cleo
ton day legal holidays.
Chapter 1913 reduces the amount re-
coyerable for the death of person
caused by the wrongful act of another
to $1,000.
Chapter l27 excerpts manufacturing
and agricultural corporations from the
payment of the fees required of other
corporations when fling their articles
with the secretary of state.
Chapter 152 provides for the appoint
ment by the supreme court of three
persons to revise the statutes of the
state and to submit to the next Iegisla-
ture draft OF the laws as revised by
them.
| This is the sum total of III larislo