The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1896-01-10
ORDINANCES AND LE0ALS
fO6ALSHED IN THE HUSTLER AND
OTHER PAPERS OF LIKE CHAR
ACTER ARE ILLEG.aL.
80 Says Attosa.ev General Ch.l.ls,

90 says attorney General Ch.ltls.
In the st. Paul Pioneer Press
OF Saturday last, we find the fol.
lowing which will be of interest
to citizens of Virginia and some
non'residents, for or against
whom notices of a legal charac.
ter have been published in The
hustler, a paper printed with
one Swedish page, the balance
OF the paper being published in
the language of the country:
.'Attorney General Childs has
written an opinion for State Ex-
pert Printer Whitney. defining
the law relative to the legal
status of newspaper, a portion
OF the matter in which is printed
In other than the English langu
age. The law provides that all
legal notices must be published
in papers printed in the English
language.
1t seems that throughout the
state there are several papers
printing two or three columns
each week of matter in German.
Norwegian, Swedish. etc. One
publisher who desires to print
about three columns of German
matter in mis- paper. has written
to Expert Printer Whitney, ask
ing if he does so whether or not
he can lawfully print legals. He
referred the matter to Attorney
General Childs, who holds that
the legal status of a paper is
made invalid by regularly print
ing matter in other than the En-
glish language. This will pre-
vent publishers of such papers
from printing anything in the
way of county commissioners
reports, state, city or county no.
tices."
This means that Ordinance
No. 2 of the city of Virginia, en-
titled IAN ordinance to license
and regulate hawkers, peddlers
and canvassers within the limits
of the city of Virginia." IS
Void and of no effect
Because it has never been pub.
lished in a legal newspaper.
This means that Ordinance No.
3 of the city of Virginia, entitled
IAN ordinance relating to dogs
and the licensing thereof" rs -
Void and of no effect
Because it has never been pub
lished in legal paper.
This means that Ordinance No.
4 of the city of Virginia, entitled
IAN ordinance for the preven-
tion of vagrancy and suspicious
characters in the city of Vir-
ginla," is
Void and of no effect
Because it has never been
published in legal paper.
This means that some
Sixteen or seventeen
Mortgage foreclosure sales,
Which have been made during
the past summer. are
Invalidated and can be made
Void and of no effect because
such sales were made upon no.
tees published in
The Hustler,
Which is not a legal paper &C.
cording to the decision of the
attorney general as above quoted
This means that each and ev-
cry legal of any description
whatsoever, which has been
published in The Hustler, is in
validated and can be voided be-
cause such notice has never been
published in a legal newspaper.
This means that The Hustler,
which has been published with
a Swedish department annex for
eight months past, has never
been a legal paper since it has
been published, and moreover
That to establish legality The
Hustler, as successor or absorper
of the Mountain Iron Manitou,
must publish a paper in plain
English for period of one year,
because it has been published
with a Swedish department for
over six months, the time allot-
ed by law for the renewal of q
publication which has suspended
in order to hold it's legality,
This means that The Enter
prise, the pioneer and only
NEWSPAPER published in Vir.
ginia, is also the only LEGAL
publication of the central Mesa
ba! AS such we invite the pat:
ronage of people desiring the
publication of legal notices.
wa Start q Dairy.