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


this act; the viewers shall receive three
f3) dollars per day for each and every day
they are necessarily engaged in performing
the duties required Of them. and they may
hire, at reasonable prices, such help as may
be necessary In the performance of their
duties; the county auditor of such county
shall receive compensation for his services
under this act as the board of county COM
missioners shall determine. and such COM
pensation shall be in addition to all sums
allowed by law at the time of the passage
of this act.
The fees and compensation provided for
In this act shall be audited, examined; al
lowed and paid upon the order of the board
of county commissioners.
Sec. 13. The board of county commits
sioners are hereby authorized to issue
bonds Of their said county in such sums
only as may be necessary to defray the
expense incurred in locating, establishing
and constructing any road and ditch under
this act, said word expense" to be con-
strued to mean and cover every item of
cost of such road and ditch or bitches from
its inception to it's completion, and said
county to be reimbursed as hereinafter pro-
vided. Said bonds may be issued as soon
as said expense can be sascertained, and
shall bear interest at rate not exceeding
six (6) per cent, and shall be payable on
or before ten 90 years, at the option of
said board of county commissioners The
board shall have the power to sell said
bonds as they shall deem best for the in
terest of said county; but they. shall not
sell the same at less THAN par Value. AS
soon as said bonds are sold they shall or
der the treasurer to pay all outstanding
orders issued in pursuance OF this act out
of the funds received from the sale of said
bonds. and said commissioners are hereby
authorized and empowered to transfer from
such fund to the general fund of said
county all money paid out by said treasurer
for damages awarded under this act and
all other sums allowed by this act in To-
eating and establishing such road, ditch or
bitches. Said commissioners are also en-
powered to transfer from said general
fund any surplus money that may be in
such general fund, sufficient to pay said
damages and expense of locating and es-
tablishing such road and ditch OF bitches.
Sec. a. AT the next assessment of taxes
after any bonds are issued in pursuance of
this act the board of county commissioners
shall, for the purpose of paying SAID bonds,
levy tax on all lands lying within one
"a mile from the center of said road. ex-
cept what Is actually damaged by such
road, and all lands benefited by any ditch
or bitches constructed under this law in
proportion to the benefits assessed by said
viewers equal to one-tenth~ Q-1O the
amount Of said bonds and one o. years in
terest thereon less the amount levied on
said land for that year for general road
and bridge purposes, which tax shall be
collected other county taxes are col
lectcd: and each succeeding year tax
equal to one-tenth Q-10) of the amount Of
said bonds and one o. years interest there
on less the amount OF taxes leFled on SAID
lands for that year for general road and
bridge purposes, shall be levied and col
lHcted in like manner until said bonds and
the interest thereon are fully paid.
Sec. -. That all the money arising from
the taxation Of said lands levied i'll each.
year for general road and bridge purposes
mot exceeding the assessment for the
bonds and interest for that year) shall in
each year be applied to the payment of in
terest and principal on said bonds until
said bonds and interest thereon are fully
paid: ana any money remaining after such
funds are so applied be paid into the town
treasury each year.
See. Is. No error or omission in proceed
ings under this act shall affect the validity
thereof
See. II. When any road is constructed
under this act it shall be kept in repair as
any township or county road is kept In re-
pair.
Sec. 1s. That all lands assessed as pro.
vided for in this act for the purnose OF
constructing any highway or road shall be
road and bridge tax voted at the annual
election under General Statutes of 1878,
chapter II. section 49, and known as the
road and bridge fund. during the time of
bonds and interest; provided. that said
road and bridge tax does not exceed the
amount assessed for the payment of said
bonds and interest for that year.
Sec. 10. All acts and parts of acts incon-
sstent with this act are hereby repealed:
Sec. 20. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April 90 1895.
NO. 15.-H. T. NO. 36S.
AN ACT to amend an act entitled An act
to authorize reassessments for local i'm
prOvements by cities and to legaiZe GER
tain of such assessments being chapter
two hundred and six (206, of the General
Laws of Minnesota for the year 1893,
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. That section two (2) of chap
ter two hundred and six (206) Of the Gen
eral Laws Of the State of Minnesota for
lS93). be and the same is hereby amended
by inserting after the words 'already IN
dertaken' in the second (2nd) and third
(}rtD lines of said section the words lat
the time of making such assessment"
Sec. .. That section eight 81 Of said
chapter two hundred and six l2Q6l of the
General Laws of the State of Minnesota
three 0S93), be and the same is hereby
amended by striking out the following
words at the end of said section:
forced and collected in the same manner
as other assessments made by said NUM-
cipal corporation are enforced and collect
Sec. g. That said chapter two hundred
and six (2O6) of the General Laws of the
State Of Minnesota, for the year eighteen
hundred tSa and 1nine,ty-three aS93l. be and
thereto the following sections:
Sec. TO- As soon as the said assess
ment roll shall be confirmed the clerk of
the comptroller of said municipal corpora
ton, or if said municipal corporation shall
not nave comptroiler, to the clerk. a
of the order confirming the same, which
the said comptroller. or if there is no
comptroller, said clerk shall record in a
book to be kept by him in his office, and
after recording the same he shall deliver
the said certified copy of said assessment
roll to the treasurer of said municipal COR
poration, and it shall be the duty of said
of said clerk, without any order or direc
ton in the premises. within ten 90 days
10 publish notice to all parties interested
i'll said assessment in the official paper Of
said municinal corporation. stating therein
that said certified copy of said assessment
roll has been delivered by him to the
treasurer briefly describing it's nature.
lot or parcel of land can be ascertained
at the office Of said treasurer that the
assessment is due and payable at the office
c'0) days from the date Of the last publica-
tion of said notice there will be allowed a
deduction Of ten dO per cent of the amount
such period Of thirty (sM days and the the
same shall be paid before the first nst)
day OF October next ensuing and not more
than six % months after the expiration
OF such period Of thirty 600 days then there
shall be allowed deduction of five (o)
per cent Of said assessment. Said notice
shall be published ut least once In each
week for three 81 successive weeks.
Any person paying his assessment within
the said thirty go days shall be entitled
to a deduction therefrom of ten QOl per
cent of the amount thereof. And any per-
son paying his assessment after said period
of thirty go days and before the first 1st)
day of October next ensuing and not more
than six 60 months after the expiration of
said period of thirty $50 days shall be en-
titled to deduction therefor of five (o)
per cent of the amount thereof, and the
treasurer is hereby authorized to make and
allow said deduction.
Upon presentation to the comptroller or
If there is no comptroller, to the clerk, of
the treasurers receipt for the assessment