Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1897-04-08
LEGISLATIVE ROUTINE.


Briefly Showing Bills Introduced and Busi-
I'LL ness Finished.
ST Paul, March 23.-In the senate
yesterday the following bills were in
troduced:
Relating to taxes on real estate. pre-
scribing legal taxes.
Authorize cities and villages to frame
their own charters; given second read
ing and placed on general orders.
Providing for court reporters in all
counties.
To ratify proceedings Of county boards
of equalization.
To amend laws governing building
and loan associations. "
For relief of Rosseau county settlers,
Relating to sheriff sales of real es-
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TO legalize policies issued BY town
insurance companies in certain cases.
In the house the followings were in.
troduced: ~..+s 81 q r. 49, 49,
To fix the salary of the railroad and
and warehouse commission and the
secretary, making commissioners sal
aries $4,000 and the secretary 81, 500,
and prescribing new form of oath of
Office. -.,.. .4..,...
To enable county commissioners to
issue certificates of Indebtedness to
keep the repair bridges built out of
the road and bridge fund.
TO amend section 9, chapter 10, gen.
eral laws of 1887. relating to railroad
and warehouse commission, providing
that commissioners shall not engage in
any other business and that they may
be removed for cause by the governor.
To appeal chapter 1876, general laws
of 1895, relating of forest fires.
i 70 authorize county commissioners
of counties of $4,000 and over to issue
temporary loan notes for building
county poorhouse. -
To revise and codify the insurance
laws of the state. '4.eszs
St. Paul, March 24.-In the house
yesterday the following bills were pre-
sented:
Appropriation to enable negro citi-
zens of Minnesota to make an exhibit
at the Tennessee centennial. .-~s.'~-sss
To enable voters of any county or
su b-division to reduce taxation upon
improved real estate and increase it
upo unimproved real estate. -- e. ---
20 license insurance agents and
brokers'.
Relating to duties of county survey
ors with respect to drainage matters.
Requiring railway companies to erect
suitable signal posts and lights at all
flag stations.
Authorizing villages to designate vii
lage repositories.
Amending law relating to wills.
Amending law relating to public
halls.
TO appropriate $1,000 for W. B. Dun
nell, architect, on the commission to To-
cate the fourth hospital for insane.
Authorizing villages to issue bonds
to pay existing Indebtedness.
Making employers liable for injuries
due to defective machinery.
The Senate passed the following:
The University appropriation bill.
A bill for an act to amend Chapter
10, General Laws of 1898, providing
for taxation for educational purposes
A bill for an act to provide for the
extention of the work of the state ex-
pertinent station and to appropriate
money therefore.
A bill for an act to authorize munich
pal corporations having population
of not more than 5000 inhabitants to
issue bonds to pay the floating indebt-
edness therefore.
A bill for an act providing for the
recording in the Office of the register
of deeds, of orders, DEGREES and judge
ments of courts of record affecting
title to real estate of any interest
therein and prescribing the effect of
such records,
A bill for an act to legalize convey
ances made by husband and wife by
separate deed of same real estate
St. Paul, March 25.-In the senate
yesterday the following bills were
passed: ~. .-'- Is"
To provide for incorporation and reg
ulation of flexible premium or assess
ment life and casualty insurance asso-
citation societies. .-.,.. gr-...
Relating to foreclosure of mortgages
by advertisement.
Relating to county agricultural and
joint stock societies and appropriation
therefor.
To empower boards of park commits
sioners in cities having not more than
so, 900 and not Les !, than $4,000 inhabi-
tants to issue bonds .-@ -..
Amending law relating to savings
banks. -. H.
In the house the following were in
troduced:
Providing that persons holding Office
of district court shall not at same time
be justice of the peace.
Amending law relating to compensa-