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ty: and they shall also take into consld-

| GRAFTON the assets of the municipality or
! municipality from which such terri
tory is taken. and may provide that such
assets may be divided between the munich
palitieS or quasi-municpalities Interested IN
J such proportion as shall be agreed upon or
, that the one or the other of such munlcl-
| palitieS or quaSi-municipalities shall receive
| all of such assets.
Sec. 3. Within sixty G0 days after the
passage and approval of this act the COM
mon council or other governing body or any
city in this state to which part of the
| territory of any township, municipality or
| quasi-municipality has heretofore been an
! neXed and which is subject to the provls-
| ions of this act and the board OF super
visOrs or other governing body of the town
| ship, municipality or quasl-munlclpailty
| from which such annexed territory mas
| been taken shall proceed to adjust and ap-
| portion the Indebtedness of such discovered
| township municipality or quasi+municipal-
| ity which existed at the time of such an
| neXation and to determine the amount and
! proportion thereof that shall be assumed
| by each of the municipalities or quaSl-mu-
inequalities interested: and in so doing they
| shall take into consideration the amount
| and relative values of the territory annexed
| and that remaining, and also the assets OF
| the municipality or asi-mun1clpallty from
| which such territory is taken, and may pro-
vide that such assets may be divided be-
| tween the municipalities or quas-munlcl-
| palities Interested in such proportion as
| shall be agreed upon, or that the one or
| the other of such municipalities or quasi
municipalities may receive all such assets
Sec. 4. In case the authorities of any city
| to which territory has been heretofore or
shall be hereafter annexed, as hereinbefore
| provided, and the authorities of the mun1c-
| ipality or Quasi-municipality from which
| the annexed territory is taken are unable
| to agree upon the adjustment of the in
| debtedness of such discovered municipality
or quasi-municpality, then said authorities
| may refer the matter of adjusting such IN
| debtedness to a board of arbitration to be
sod nf fyrn n
| chosen by each of the parties interested
and the fifth to be appointed by the four
so chosen, and the findings of majority
of such board of arbitration shall be as
binding upon each of the municipalities or
| Observation-Disclosures interested as the agree
ment of the authorities of such municipali-
ties or quas-municipalities themselves
would have been.
See 3 In case of the settlement by
agreement of any Indebtedness of any dis
severed municipality or quasi si-municipaltty,
as provided in sections two (2) and three
| c}) of this act, or in case of the arbitration
of any such Indebtedness. as provided for
! in section four a. of this act, such settle
ment or arbitration shall be reduced TO
writing. specifying the terms and condl-
| tiOnS thereof and shall be filed with the
| county auditor of the county in which such
municipalities or Observation-Disclosures are
situated, and thereupon each of such mu-
inequalities or Observation-Disclosures snail be
responsible for the proportion or Such IN
detedness assumed or apportioned to it.
Sec. 6. In case the authorities of any
city to which territory has been or shall be
annexed as hereinbefore provided, and the
authorities of the municipality or quasi
municipality from which such annexed ter
ritory is taken, fail to act in the matter Of
adjustment of the indebtedness of such dis
severed municipality or quasi municipality,
as herein provided, or if for any reason
such adjustment Of said Indebtedness can
not be made Big said authorities or by the
board of arbitration provided for in section
four az hereof, and in all cases where no
adjustment of such Indebtedness shall nave
been effected at the end of sixty (60 days
from the time herein limited for the au-
thOritieS of such municipalities or quasi
municipalities to proceed to the adjustment
of such indebtedness, then any person or
persons interested, either as creditors or
taxpayers of said discovered municipality
or quas-municipality. may petition the dis
trfct court of the county in which such mu-
inequalities or Observation-Disclosures are stu
ated, setting forth the facts, and such dis@
trict court shall thereupOn take cogniZabce
of the matter of the adjustment of the in
debtednesS of such discovered municipality
or quas-municipality, and for that purpose
shall cite the governing body of each mu-
nicpality or quas,municipality interested
and the creditors of such divided munlcl-
paity or quas-municiDality to appear be-
fore ii at time and place to be designated
by said court, and thereupon said court
shall proceed to hear and determine the
matter of the adjustment of such indebted
of shall make its findings of the amount
and proportion of such Indebtedness which
each of such municipalities or quasimunici-
palities shall pay, and thereupon each of
said municipalities or Observation-Disclosures
shall be responsible for the amount of such
indebtedness adiudged for it to pay.
Sec. Z. The provisions of this act shall
not be construed to ann'~ 70 the indebted
ness of any school district nor to the in
debtedneSs of any municipality or quasi
municipality for which special provision
has been or shall be made for it's adjust
ment. nor to any case in which the indebt-
edness of any discovered municipality or
quasi-municipality is barred by the statute
OF limitations at the time of the passage of
this act
See 8. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage
Approved Feb. 10, 1S95.
NO. 4S.-S. f. NO. 4SG.
AN. ACT providing for the enlargement Of
organized counties by attaching ,lereto
and Incorporating therein territory from
an adjoining uporganiZcd county or coun-
ties.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section i. Any organized county may be
enlarged by attaching thereto and incor-
poratng therein adjoining territory to be
detached from any adjacent unorganized
county or counties, and the lines of such
counties changed as hereinafter provided.
But the territory so attached to any or
600 square miles in area.
See. . Whenever there shall be present
eu to the secretary of state a petition
signed by not less than fffty-five (5j) per
cent of the actual residents and Legal voters
Of any organized county within the state,
as shown by the returns of the last pre-
ceding general election, praying that GER
tain territory he detached from an adjoin-
ing unOrganiZed county or counties and at
tached to and incorporated in such organ
lied county and containing an accurate
description of such territory, with the
boundaries thereof. which said boundaries
shall follow the United States survey line
of townships or the center of any mean
dered stream or shore of any meandered
lake, may be necessary: and also a peti
tion of like import signed by fifty-five (j3)
per cent of the actual residents and legal
voters of the territory proposed to be at
tached to said organized county, as shown
by the returns of the said last preced-
ing general election from all the vOt-
ing precincts within said territory, which
said petition shall contain therein,
following the facts required to be
stated and to be signed by tho said
legal voters. an oath in the following
fOfm: II s0iemnly swear Tor affirm thaJ
| know the contents and purpose of this
petition and sign the same of my own free
will, and that l am an actual resident and
legal voter of the township Tor county, of
which | in said petition represent myself
to be-" and each signer at the time of
signing shall be sworn by some proper
officer; then said secretary of state shall at
once file said petitions and Immediately
notify the governor and state auditor of
the receipt of the same, and they shall i'm
mediately meet and consider said petitions,
and If they be found to conform TO law
they or majority of them, shall so GER
tify, and immediatey thereupon the gov
crnor shall issue his proclamation, attested
by the secretary of state setting forth the
facts that such petitions have been so filed
and found conformable to law and declar
ing the said territory described in said petit
tions detached from the unorganized county
or counties of which it was formerly
rart and attached to and incorporated with
in said organized county as in said petitions
prayed.
Sec. 3. The secretary of state shall there
upon file and record such proclamation in
his office in n book to be provided for that