The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03
CHAPTER Cos 2 NO 15s

CHAPTER 6O-S. +. No. 10S.
AN ACT to amend chapter eighty-four
(S4), general laws eighteen hundred
ninety-three 1888, being subdivision
sixth 9th. SECTION 'forty-two hundred
teen hundred ninety-four QS9D, relating
to uses and trusts.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the
State of Minnesota:
teen hundred ninety-three 1888, being
subdivision sixth of section 1924, general
statutes 1894, be and the same is hereby
amended SO as to read as follows:
SIxth-Any incorporated city or village
in the State of Minnesota now or here
after organized is authorized to receive by
gift, grant, devise or bequest and take
charge of any money, stocks, bonds, per-
sonal, real or mixed estates. closes In
action and property of any kind whatever,
and to invest, reinveSt and loan the same
for the benefit of any public library as
ISOLATION, public hospital association, or
other charitable institution or associa-
ton, in such city or village, and any pub
lie cemetery association located within ten
miles of the corporate limits of any such
city or village free from taxation, and adj
minister the same in accordance with the
will of the testator or the grant of the
grantor of the estate. The district court
of the State of Minnesota shall have the
power in respect to such trust, estate and
trustees as are conferred on the said court
by this chapter in respect to other trusts.
Provided, however, that nothing in this
chapter or in any law of this state con-
tanned shall be construed as preventing
the creation of any trusts in writing, to
endure for a period not longer than the
life or lives of specified persons in being
at the time of its creation and for twenty
one CD years after the death of
writing to fully set forth the
nature and term of the trust;
but all such trusts are hereby authorized
and allowed; provided, further, that any
that hermit
alienation of the legal estate by the trus-
tee, so that, when so alienated it shall be
discharged from all trusts, shall be
deemed and construed as heretofore and
shall not be authorized by the provisions
of this act
Sec. 3 This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage and
Approved March 20, 1897.
CHAPTER els. F. NO. 44O
AN ACT to amend section 1915 of the gen.
eral statutes 1894, relating to organiza-
ton of cities.
Be it ENACTED by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section L. That section ten hundred for
tyye Qoi0 general s statutes Ss eighteen
same is hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
Sec. 1915. That cities may be organized
within the limits of this state as herein
provided. Whenever two-thirds (2-3) of the
legal voters residing within the limits of
a territory comprising not less than one
t9housand inhabitants, and not more than
fifteen thousand, whether all or part of
such territory had been Heretofore or
gained into a borough or village or not,
and which territory they desire to have
have presented to the judge of probate of
the county in which such territory is
situated, a petition setting forth the
metes and bounds of said city, and of the
wa ride nd +1,o
said city may be Incorporated under such
name as may therein be designated, the
judge of probate shall issue an order de-
claring such territory duly incorporated
metes, bounds, wards and name thereof,
as in said petition described. And the
said judge of probate shall in said order
designate the time and place of holding
the first election of officers for said city,
which shall be not less than thirty nor
more than sixty days from the present
ing of said petition, and shall cause said
order to be posted in five of the most pub
lie places in said city, at least for thirty
days prior to the day of such election,
and also cause the same to be published
at least once in each week for three con-
secutive weeks prior thereto, and if there
be no newspaper published in said city,
then in the paper published nearest there
to, and if there be more than one news
paper published in said city, then in one
of such papers. Upon presenting the
petition aforesaid to the judge of probate
as aforesaid, the inhabitants within the
metes and bounds therein described shall
thenceforth be a body polite and cor
pOrate, subject to, and with power to act
under the authority of, all the provisions
of this act.
They shall have power to sue and be
sued, complain and defend in any
court; make and use common SEAL and
alter it at pleasure; and take, hold and
purchase, lease and convey such real and
personal or mixed estate as the purposes
of the corporation may require, within or
without the limits aforesaid; shall be
capable of contracting and being con-
tracted with; and shall have the general
powers possessed by municipal corpora
lions at common law, and in addition
thereto, shall possess the powers herein
after specifically granted; and the au-
thoritieS thereof shall have perpetual sue
cession.
And in case the territory included in
any city which shall be hereafter
formed and established under the
provisions of this act, shall include the
territory embraced in any village or bor-
ough corporation, such village or borough
corporation shall upon the establishment
of such city corporation cease; and such
city corporation shall thereupon succeed
to and become vested with, the owners
of all the property. real, personal and mixed.
which belonged to or was owned by such
village or borough corporation at the time
when the same ceased to exist; and such
city corporation shall also thereupon be-
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