New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1895-05-22

officer operating said establishment and not
then If. in the meantime, such changes
have been made in accordance with such
notification.
Sec. s. This act shall take effect and be
In force from and after it's passage.
Approved April %, 1895.
NO. b5.-s. F. NO. 1sa. .
AN ACT proposing an amendment TO ar
ticle four I'd of the constitution or tne
State of Minnesota. allowing cities al
ready incorporated and villages desiring
to become incorporated as Cities to frame
their own charters as cities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the
State of Minnesota: #
article four C4 Of the constitution of the
State of Minnesota Is hereby proposed to
the people OF said state for their approval
or rejection. which amendment wnen SO
approved shall be known as section S6 OF
said article four a., and shall read as FOL
lows:
state may frame charter for Its own
government as city consistent with ana
subject to the laws of this state as fol-
lows: The legislature shall provide under
board of fifteen freeholders, who shall be
and for the past five years shall nave
been qualified voters thereof, to be ap-
pointed by the district Judges Of ,,,t the ne
Is situated, which board shall within SIX
months after its appointment return to the
chief magistrate of such city, or village
draft of such charter signed by the mem
bers of said board, or majority thereof
Such charter shall be submitted to the
qualified voters of such city or village at
seventies of the qualified voters voting at
such election shall ratfy the same it shall
at the end OF tnirty days thereafter become
the charter of such city or village, as
city, and supersede any existing charter
and amendments thereof: provided, that
In cities having patrol limits now estab-
lished such charter shall require three r5
fourths majority vote Of the qualified
voters, voting at such election, to change
the patrol limits now established.
Before any. city. shall Incorporate under
law the general limits within which such
charter shall be framed. Duplicate Ger
tifcates shall be made setting forth the
charter proposed and it's ratification, which
shall be signed by the chief magistrate Of
said city or village, and authenticated by
its corporate seal. One of said certificates
tary of state, and the other, after being
recorded in the office of the register OF
deeds for the county in which such city or
village lies shall be deposited .l among the ne
archives of such city or village, and all
courts shall take judicial notice thereof:
Such charter so deposited may be amended
by a proposal therefor made by a BOARD
of fifteen freeholders aforesaid, published
for at least thirty days in three neWspa-
pers Of general circulation in such city or
village, and accepted by three-ffths of the
ing at the next election, and not other
wise; but such charter shall always be IN
harmony with and subject to the constitu-
ton and laws of the State or Minnesota.
The legsla ture may prescribe the duties
Of the commission relative to submitting
amendments of charter to the vote OF the
people.
for shall be permanent, and ali the va
cancies by death, disability to perform
duties, resignation or removal from the cor
porate limits shall be filled by appointment
in the same manner as the original board
was created, and said board shall always
contain its full complement of members
1t shall be a feature Of all such charters
that there shall be provided, among other
things, for a mayor or chief magistrate,
and legislative body of either one
two houses; if Of two houses at least one
of them shall be elected by general vote
charter or amendment thereto to the
qualified voters of such city or village any
alternate section or article may be pre-
sented for the choice of the voters, and
may be voted on separately without preiu-
dice to other articles or sections of the
charter or any amendment thereto.
relating to affairs of Cities the application
of which may be limited to cities of over
fifty thousand Inhabitants, or to cities of
Inhabitants, or to cities of fifteen thousand
inhabitants or less, which shall apply
equally. to all such cities of either class.
anu WHICH Sudl1 De paramount Wulle IN
force to. the provisions relating to, thu. same
matter included in the local charter herein
provided for. But no local charter, pro-
vision or ordinance passed hereunder shall
supersede any general law Of the state
defining or Furnishing crimes or misde-
meanOrS.'
Sec. 2. This proposed amendment shall
be submitted to the people of this state
for their approval or rejection at the next
general election held therein, and each of
the legal voters at said election may vote
by ballot for or, against said proposed
amendment, and the returns thereof shall
be certified and such votes canvassed and
the result thereof declared in the manner
provided by law for the returning, certify
election for the state officers and declar-
ing the result thereof; and if it shall ap-
pear therefrom that a majority of the
voters present and voting. at said election
upon said amendment have voted in favor
of the same, then Immediately after the re-
suit shall have been ascertained, the gov
ernor shall make proclamation thereof and
said amendment shall thereupon take effect
stitution of the State Of Minnesota
Sec. 8. The ballot used at said election
on said amendment shall have printed
thereon: amendment to article four ~
of the. constitution, allowing cities and vii
lagos in this state to frame their own city
charters Hes; ;, And enrh el"ctor
cross mark thus (O in one of the spaces
left for the purpose upon the margin of the
ballot used at said election as provided in
section % of chapter of the General Laws
! Of one thousand eight hundred and ninety
three The eector desiring to vote for said
amendment shall make cross mark thus
(X) in the space SO left opposite the word
"Yes," and the eector desiring to vote
against said amendment shall make a cross
mark thus (X) opposite the word s'No."
And no ballots shall be counted on said
amendment except those having said CO.. So
mark OK opposite one only Of said words
eyes" or mo"
Sec 4. This act shall take effect end be
In force from and after it's passage.
Approved April s, 1895.
NO. 56.-H. Il. NO. $40
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