St. Paul daily globe., 1893-05-04
CHAPTER 20-H. f. 612

state of Minnesota, and defining the duties
of inspectors and prescribing penalties and
inspection fees, and the manner OF the
appointment of inspectors. Approved
April II, 1893.
Provides for the appointment of state
inspector by the governor and the require
ment of a bond from the inspector to be
approved by the secretary of state and filed
in his office; for the appointment OF deputies
by the state inspector; for report by the
state inspector annually TO the secretary
of state; requires a TEST Of 120 degrees for
kerosene or coal oils; provides graded
scale of fees as to the bulk of the oils to
be inspected; the fees to 90 to the inspector
and deputies; and provides severe penalties
against the sale Of uninspected oils.
CHAPTER PHI. f. 333.
AN ACT in relation to the sale of honey
compounded or adulterated, and to pre-
vent fraud and to preserve the pubic
health. Approved April II, 1885.
Makes it unlawful 10 sell or cause to be
sold honey compounded, manufactured from,
or mixed with glucose, sugar syrup, OF any
kind or any substance whatever, not the
legitimate and exclusive product OF the
honey bee, unless the package containing
same is marked and represented as such,
and the name of the person or hfm com.
pounding the mixture and the names OF
the substances used in large type. Also
prohibits the sale of honey from bees When
fed on glucose OF other meter1alS except
natural flowers without having the same
marked iii the same prominent manner
Provides 4 penalty OF not less than nfteen
dollars nor more than one hundred dollars,
or Imprisonment for thirty days. Makes it
the duty OF the state dairy and food com
missioner and his assistants to enforce the
provisions of this act
CHAPTER -22-H. F. 652.
AN ACT to prohibit the manufacture, sale
or use of adulterated cigarettes, and the
sale of cigars or tobacco to minors. APP
proved April s, 1888
Prohibits the manufacture or sale or use
of any cigarettes containing any substance
foreign to tobacco and deleterious to health,
under q penalty OF fine or imprisonment
Also prohibits the sale of tobacco or cigar
cites to minors under sixteen years OF age
under the same penalties.
CHAPTER 23-H. F. 592.
AN ACT to provide text books and regu'
Iating the manner of procuring the same.
Be it enacted by the Legislature or the
State of Minnesota:
Section ]. The board of trustees or board
of education OF eacn ana every scnQol
district in the state of Minnesota Is hereby
authorized and empowered to select, adopt
or contract for the text books needfuI Tor
the use OF the school OF sGhools unuer us dS.
charge; and the said board OF trustees or
board of education shall have power 10
purchase the text books selected OF con
tracted for and provide for the loan, free
of charge, or sale, at cost, or Sucn text
books to the pupils in attendance at such
school or schools.
Provided, that no adoption or contract
shall be for Il period OF less than three
y
which time the text books so selected,
adopted or contracted for shall not be
changed.
Sec. ,. Before any publisher, or publish
ers shall enter or attempt to enter into
any contract for the sale of text books, as
herein provided, they shall file with the
superintendent Of public instruction OF the
state of Minnesota 4 list OF their DOCKS,
and the lowest prices at or for which they
viii sell any or all of such books 10 any
board of trustees IN the state or MlnnesoLa;
and they, the said publishers, snall deposit
with the superintendent OF puDllc lhSLfuG-
ton a sample copy Of each book so listed,
which shall represent in style of binding,
mechanical execution, general make up ana
matter, the book or books they offer to sell
to the board of trustees at or for the prlceS
50 listed ana i'll no case shall prices De
raised above said listed prices as filed.
Sec. 3. 1t shall be the duty OF the state
superintendent of public instruction to fur
nSh a certified copy OF the list OF books
and prices filed in accordance With the pro-
visions of section two of this act to the
district clerk of each common school DIS
trict i'll the state of Minnesota.
See. 4. Whenever five or more legal Vot-
ers Of any common school district in the
state of Minnesota shall petition the board
of trustees to submit to the legal voters
thereof the question of providing free text
books to the pupils attending the schools
under its charge, it shall be the duty OF
said board of trustees to call meeting OF
tbe legal voters OF the district giving ten
days' notice. which notice shall state that
the question Of free text books Will be
submitted at such meeting. Such question
may be submitted at any annual meeting,
provided that notice Shall have peen pre-
ViOuSly given in accordance with the pro-
visions Of this section. In case majority
of the legal voters present ana voting Shall
vote in favor of free text books, 1t snail be
the duty Of the board or trustees 10 PROVIDE
for the same.
Sec. s. All books purchased in accordance
with the provisions of this act shall be pad
-. Il ,T,gt t1n 1sDe. Nnf.tiX iXD
districts; and it shall be the duty of the
school districts and their school boards to
see that sufficient funds are raised and set
aside for the purposes or this act.
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved March 24 1895.
CHAPTER 24-H. f. 262.
AN ACT relating to labels, trade marks and
advertisements, and to provide for their
protection and the punishment for coun-
terfeiting the same, or for using counter
feits of the same. Approved April II,
1893.
Provides that trade marks, labels. etc,
may be registered by depOsiting two copies
who is authorized to issue q certificate of
such record; and provides a penalty for
counterfeiting or initiating the same.
CHAPTER 25-H. L. SO.
AN ACT declaring it a mlsdemeanor on
the part of employers to require as i con
ditiOn of employment the surrender of any
right of citizenship. Approved March .,
1893.
Forbids any person, partnership or corpo-
ration from requiring or demanding from
any servant or emplOye, on any condition
whatever, the surrender in writing or by
parol, or the abandonment or any agree
ment to abandon any l4WIu right OF pflYl-
lege Of citizenship, pubic or private p0-
litical or social moral or religious, under
u penalty OF $500 tine.
CHAPTER 28-H. f. sos,
AN ACT to provide for the appointment
of agents in this state by the authorities
of other states as stock detectives. Ap-
proved April Ii, 1885.
Authorizes agents or detectives appointed
by another state for the purpose OF recoy-
ering on behalf OF the true owner animals
strayed or stolen in such other states and
unlaWfully shipped or driven into TINS state
TO act in this state in accordance with the
terms of his appointment by ming ms ap-
pOiutmCnt or commission and entering into
q bond for s., 0GO, satisfactory to the secre-
tary OF state. And upon such compliance
authorizes said agent to seize such Strayed
or stolen cattle i'll accordance Herewith.
CHAPTER 27-H. +. 776.
AN ACT to protect government lights and
light house stations. Approved April IL,
Makes it a misdemeanOr to break, injure
deface or destroy any light house or prop
erty herewith, and penalty under con-
viction of Imprisonment or fine, or both
CHAPTER 2S-S. +. NO. 81.
AN ACT 10 regulate the receipt, storage and
shipment OF grain at elevators and ware
houses on the right of way Of railroads in
the state OF MinueSOtQ, ut starons ana
sidings other than terminal points.
BE it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section /. All elevators and warehouses in
which grain is stored and handled, and
which ere situate on the right of way of
my railroad at any station or siding in this
state, other than at terminal points, are here
declared to be public elevators and shall
inspC ction of the railroad and warehouse
commission Of the state of Minnesota, and
shall, for the purposes of this act, be known
and designated as public country elevators
or country warehouses; it shall be unlawful
to receive, store, ship or handle any grain
in any such elevator or warehouse, unless
the owner or owners thereof shall have pro
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