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entitled an act concerning religious cor
Rorations. Approved April IL, 1898.
Provides that corporations whose mem,
Dersh1p extends beyond the state may mold
annual meetings without the limits OF the
state, by proper publication thereof.
CHAPTER 10Th. f. AGO.
AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred
and eighty-six of general laws Of 1882
entitled an act authorizing the formation
of companies for mutual insurance against
loss and damage by hail, tornadoes,. cy-
1893
Relates to the fling of incorporation ar
ticles with the insurance commissioners
and his issue of certifc1te; and describes
the kind of property to be insured.
CHAPTER 1O5-H. F.37.
AN ACT to amend section one OF chapter
one hundred and ninety-three OF the
general laws of 1885. entitled an act
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section /. That section one of chapter
one hundred and ninety-three Of the gen
eral laws for the year A. d. 1885 be amend
ed so as to read as follows:
A party to the record of any civil action
or proceeding or a person for whose i'm
mediate benefit such action or proceeding
is prosecuted or defended or the directors,
officers, superintendent or managing agents
OF any corporation which is n party to the
record in such action or proceeding. may
be examined upon the trial thereof as If
under cross-examination ut the instance
of the adverse party or parties or any or
them. and for that purpose may be COM
PEELED in the same manner and subject to
the same rules for examination as any
other witness to testify. but the party
calling for such examination shall not be
concluded thereby, but may rebuff 1t by
counter testimony.
Sec. Q This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved March ., 1898.
CHAPTER 1OG-S. f. 231.
AN ACT to amend section seven Of chapter
thirty-eight, general statutes of 1878, as
ameI ded by chapter one hundred aud
ninety-tive of the general laws of 1885.
Approved April II. 1898.
Extends the time of payment on state
lands hereafter sold to forty years, with
five per cent interest. and on all uneX-
pired contracts where the interest is seven
per cent a reduction is to be made to five
per cent
CHAPTER los. T. $50.
AN ACT to amend section sixteen Of chap
ter three of the general statutes of 1873,
relating to compensation of members and
officers of the legislature. Approved April
Intended to regulate the fees to be paid
for enrolling and engrossing bills.
CHAPTER Josh. F. $40.
AN ACT to amend section three of chapter
ten of the general laws of 1887, entitled
an act to regulate common carriers, and
creating the railroad and warehouse COM
mission of the state of Minnesota, and
defining the duties of such commission
in rotation To common carriers. Approved
April II. 1898.
Intended to more clearly define the duties
OF common carriers and their relation to
the railroad commission.
CHAPTER 1O9-H. r. 51S
AN ACT to amend section nine of chapter
twenty-One of the general statutes Of
1873. as amended by chapter twenty-five
of the general laws Of 1887, relating to
weights and measures.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State Of Minnesota
Section 1. That section nine of chapter
twenty-one of the general statutes Of 1873.
rs amended by chapter twenty-five of the
general laws of 1887. be and the same is
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Sec 9. Whenever any of the following
articles shall be contracted for or sold or
delivered, and no special contract or agree
ment shall be made to the contrary, the
wit: Apples. green, fifty pounds; apnies,
dried twenty eight pounds; beans. sixty
pounds; barley fOrty-eight pounds buck
wheat. fifty pounds: beets, fifty pounds;
berries, forty pounds; broom corn seed,
tifty-seVen pounds; corn, shelled, hfty-slX
pounds; corn in ear, seventy-pounds; clover,
seed, sixty pounds; carrots, forty-tiv
pounds; charcoal. twenty pounds; cranber-
ries, thirty-six pounds; currants, forty
pounds; goOSeberries, forty pounds; hemp
forty eight pounds; millet, forty eight
pounds; oats, thirty-twO pounds; onions,
fifty-two pounds: orchard grass seed, four
teen pounds peas, sixty pounds; Irish po-
tatCes, sixty pounds; sweet potatoes, fifty
five pounds; parSnips, forty pounds;
peaches, dried, twenty-eight pounds; plas-
tering hair, washed, four pounds; plastering
hair, unwashed, eight pounds; rape seed,
filJy pounds; red top seed, fourteen pounds;
rutabagaS, fifty-twO pounds: rye, tifty-siX
pounds; sorghum seed, fifty seven pounds;
timothy seed. fOrty-five pounds; wheat, six
ty pounds.
And whoever in buying any of said ar
ticles shall take any greater number of
pounds thereof to the bushel, or in selling
GnV of said articles shall give any less
number OF pounds thereof to the bushel,
than is herein allowed and specified, except
when expressly authorized so to do by
special contract or agreement to that effect,
shall be deemed guilty OF n miSdemeanor,
and shall be punished by fine of not less
than ten dollars, nor more than one hun
dred dollars. or by Imprisonment in the
county Jail for not more than ninety days,
or both such fine and imprisonment.
See q This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved April II, 1898.
CHAPTER 110-H. r IS
AN ACT to amend section eighty-four Of
chapter thirty-s six of the general statutes
of 1873 as amended by section three of
chapter forty-one Of the general laws Of
1887. and to provide for taxation for edu-
cational purposes. Approved April 13,
Provides that the annual school tax shall
to go to the state university fund for main
tenance. After July 81, 1894. the annual
appropriations of $4,000 are to cease; and
when this fund exceeds in any one year
the sum of S125,0O0, the Overplus is to be
passed to the revenue fund of the state.
CHAPTER Hill. f. 29S
AN ACT to amend section two of chapter
eighty-one of the general laws of 1887
of the Protestant Episcopal church. APP
proved April l. 1893
Increases the number Of vestrymen to
nine.
CHAPTER les. F. 534
AN ACT to amend section twenty eight of
chapter one hundred and fOrty-eiGht of
the general laws of 1887, relating to the
powers of the board of trustees of the
Minnesota soldiers home. Approved April
II, 1893.
Makes it lawful for the trustees to retain
a portion of the pension of q soldier be-
coming inmate of the home in excess
of four dollars per month to be applied to
his support; but if he has q wife or chill
dren in dependence the amount is to be
paid over to them.
CHAPTER 113-H. f. 4s4.
AN ACT to amend section twenty-si1 Of
chapter one hundred forty eight of the
general laws Of 1887, being an act for
the relief of honorably discharged and in
digent ex-s0ldiers sailors and marines,
and the widows. minor orphans and de-
pendent parents of such soldiers. sailors
and marines. and for making an anprO-
priation for the purchase of land and the
construction of the necessary building or
buildings therefor for n soldiers home
Approved March 30, 1893
Provides that where any soldier, sailor
or marine is entitled to admission to the
soldiers home and has no means to pro-
cure his transportation. that the same shall
be provided by the president of the said
home. and to be reimbursed from the SOL
diers' home fund
CHAPTER 114-H. f. Gas.
AN ACT to amend chapter two hundred
and eight of the laws of Minnesota for
Provides that in all convictions and SEN
tence to the state reformatory. state prison
or other place of confinement. the clerk Of