Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1893-03-23
LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
items Regarding the Doings Of Legislators
at the Capitol.

LEGISLATIVE NOTES.
ite,ns Regarding the Doings Of Legislators
at the Capitol.
An important bill has appeared in the
house providing for court of appeals,
the same having been agreed to by the
bar OF the state. BY the bill the state
Is divided into appellate judicial districts
as follows:
!. The Second and Fourth judicial
districts.
2. The First, Third, Fifth, Sixth,
Ell nth, Tenth and Thirteenth districts.
8. The Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh,
Twelfth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Six
teenth judicial districts.
An appeal can be taken to this court
OF appeals in the following cases:
!. From Judgment in an action COM
menced in the district court or a mu-
nlclpal court, or brought there from an
other court from any Judgment rendered
ID such court, and upon the appeal from
Such judgment may renew any inter-
mediate order involving the merits or
necessarily affecting the Judgment.
.. From an order granting or refusing
provisional remedy or which grants,
refuses or dissolves or refuses to dis
solve an injunction or an order vacating
or sustaining an attachment.
3. From an order involving the merits
OF the action or some part thereof.
4. From an order granting or refus-
ing new trial or from an order sus-
tanning or overruling Il demurrer.
5. From an order which in effect de-
termines the action and prevents a
Judgment from which an appeal might
be taken
6. From final order affecting sub
stantial right made in a special pro-
ceedlng, OR upon summary application
in an action after Judgment.
There is to be one appellate judge
elected in each district, whose pay shall
be $4,000 per year, the first judges APP
pointed by the governor, and the terms
to be six years. All district judges of
the appellate districts are made mem
bers OF the appellate court, but the dis
tricts are SO arranged that no district
judge shall sit in review of any decision
he has made. There are to be five
terms year of the appellate court.
The bill is offered, and will be urged,
as the means agreed to on all hands as
the best to relieve the overburdene
condition of the supreme court, which
is between one and two years behind in
it's work.
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The bill which Senator Hompe intro
duced is of considerable interest to GER
tain railroads in this state It provides
that at the time of filing with the state
auditor the annual statement of gross
earnings of railroad companies, Ill the
companies in Minnesota having lands
granted to aid in the construction of
the railroad which were unsold on the
first day of May of the year during
which the gross earnings covered by
such statement were earned shall make
and file with the state auditor state
ment verified by the oath of the presi-
dent, secretary, or other officer of the
company, stating the number of acres
of such granted lands in each county on
the 1st day of May next preceding the
statement. Within 10 days after the
filing of such statement furnish and file
in the Office of the state treasurer list
showing the number of acres of land so
surveyed and remaining unsold The
state treasurer shall annually pay out
Of the state treasury to the several
counties in which the lands are situated
a sum equal to 8 cents per acre for each
acre of such land.
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Gov. Nelson has signed the following
bills:
To authorize town supervisors to is
sue bonds or orders of their towns for
the purpose of refunding or paying out
standing bonds of said towns and regu-
latlng the issue and providing for the
payment thereof
Authorizing the council of villages
and smaller cities to file a corrected
plat.
To provide for fixing and establish
ing boundary lines by civil action.
To provide for doorkeepers, cloak
room keepers and pages at the opening
of the legislature.
Authorizing cities to complete or ef-
fectuate vacation proceedings in cor
tain cases.
Providing for the construction of side
tracks and switches on the right of way
of railway companies to elevators,
warehouses, mills or factories located
on adjacent lands.
Legalizing subscriptions and contri-
buttons by villages for the encourage
ment of agricultural fairs or for edu-
cational purposes.
In the house the committee on legis-
lative expenses recommended the in
definite postponement of the resolution
to reimburse r. C. Hinrichs, r. c. Tai
boys, R. A. Walsh, DR.. Williams and D.
NJ. Sullivan for expenses incurred in the
contests for their seats in the house, and
recommended the passage of substi-
tute allowing the successful contest
ants the following sums: r. A. Walsh,
S2O3.25; R. C. Hinrichs, $3.50; DR.. Will
Jams, $125, and D. M. Sullivan, S2OS. 95.
Mr.. Talboy's bill was disallowed alto
gether.
The ladies seem to have won their
fight in the senate, for, by vote of 2e
to IA, the bill giving women the right
of suffrage was recommended to pass
by the committee of the whole. 1t was
not the original bill that went through,
but a much stronger one, which struck
the word ''male'out of the portion of the
constitution declaring who shall vote.
The senate committee on grain and
warehouses were addressed by Atty.
Gen. Standish of North Dakota. Mr..