The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-03

PROVIDED, Dut IL SUCH majority Is opposed,
then it shall be illegal for such council to
issue any bonds or other evidences of in
debtedness for any such purposes"
Sec. 3 This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage and
approval
Approved Feb. 26, 1897.
CHAPTER 27-S. F. NO. $40.
AN ACT to amend section rs, chapter IL,
general statutes 1878, the same being
section 1855, general statutes 1894, re-
lating to taxes.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the
State of Minnesota:
Section 1. That section 49, chapter II,
general statutes 1873, the same being sec
ton 1885, general statutes 1894, be and
the same hereby is amended by striking
out of the first line thereof the words ION
the 21st day of March and inserting in
lieu thereof the words "on the first Sec
ular day after ate the 10th day of March"
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved Feb. 26, 1897.
CHAPTER 2S-S. F. NO 200.
AN ACT to empower towns, cities, vii
lagos and boroughs in this state to
cause bodies to be disinterred from
abandoned, unused and neglected public
cemeteries and reburied in proper and
convenient cemeteries, and the tomb
stones removed and reset in the ceme-
terry to which the bodies are removed,
and providing that said cemetery, after
improved for public park, if the elect
ors of said town, city, village or borough
so determine.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. Whenever any public ceme
terry in any town, city, village or borough
in this state shall cease to be further used
place of burial of the dead and shall
have become unsightly, abandoned and
neglected, it shall be lawful for the legal
voters of said town, CITY,. village or Dor
to authorize and direct that the bodies
buried in such cemetery be. at the eX-
pense Of said town, city, village or
borough, disinterred and removed from
etery and there decently and properly re-
buried on lots to be provided by said
town, city, village or borough for that
purpose, and the tombstones removed to
the cemetery to which the bodies are re-
moved, and properly reset, and to cause
the cemetery grounds thus vacated to be
dedicated and improved for public park
Sec. 2. Whenever a petition signed by
ten or more legal voters of any town.
city, village or borough shall, at least ten
days before the annual meeting and cleo
ton of said town, city, village or borough,
be filed with the clerk or recorder thereof,
setting forth the fact that a cemetery (de-
scribing it,. situated in said town, city,
village or borough has become aban-
doned, neglected and unsightly, and ask
ing that the question of the removal of
the bodies buried in said cemetery to an
other proper and convenient cemetery
describing it,, and the reburial of them
therein and the removal of the tomb
stones to and the resetting thereof in the
cemetery in which said bodies are re-
buried, and for the dedication of said GEM
etery grounds so vacated for a public
park, be submitted to the legal voters of
said town, city, village or borough, it
shall be the duty Of said clerk or recorder
of said town, city, village or borough to
insert in the notices of election provided
by law a notice that said question will
be submitted to the legal voters of said
town, city, Village or borough for their
determination at said election.
Sec. 3. The voters at any such election
casting their ballots in favor of such
proposition shall use ballots having dis
tinctly written or partly printed and part
cemetery describing it) be vacated and
the bodies disinterred and removed to
(another cemetery, designating it and re-
inferred, and the tombstones removed and
reset in the cemetery to which the bodies
are so removed, and the cemetery grounds
thus vacated be dedicated and improved
for a public park. Yes"
And those casting their ball5<& against
such proposition shall use ballots having
distinctly written or partly printed and
partly written thereon the words ''Shall
the cemetery describing iD be vacated
and the bodies disinterred and removed
to (another cemetery, designating iD and
reinforced ana Che tombstones removed
and reset in the cemetery to which the
DOUloS are So removed, anu II0 cemetery
grounds so vacated be dedicated and i'm
proved for a public park No.. votes
cast upon said proposition shall be taken,
canvassed and returned in the same man
ner as is prescribed by law for the can
vassing and returning the votes for elect
i've officers of said town, city, village or
borough; and if such returns show that
majority of the votes cast at said election
on said proposition shall be in favor
thereof, then it shall be the duty of the
administrative officers or board, of said
town, city, village or borough to procure
proper lots in another convenient cemetery
in or near said town, city, village or bor-
ough, and cause said bodies to be dsnterred
in proper manner and quietly removed.
so as not to unnecessarily offend the
friends Of the deceased, and reburied on
said lots, and the tOmbStoneS, if any, to
be removed to said cemetery and properly
reset and cause the cemetery, grounds
thus vacated to be improved and fitted up
for public park. And the officers are
hereby authorized to appropriate from any
funds in the treasury, not otherwise APP
propriated such sum or sums as may be
necessary to carry out the provisions of
this act.
Sec 4. None of the provisions of this
act shall apply to any cemetery in any
any private party, or owned and con-
trolled by cemetery association,
whether incorporated or not.
Sec 5. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved Feb. 81 1897.
CHAPTER 29-S. F. NO. 200.
AN ACT to provide for seed grain loans
to farmers in this state whose crops
were destroyed by drought or storms
in the season of 1896, to appropriate the
necessary moneys therefor, and to pro-
vide for repayment of the same and of
amounts previously appropriated for
seed grain loans.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the
State of Minnesota:
Section 1. That the sum of seventy
thousand dollars (S70,00O, or so much
therefor as may be necessary, be and the
same hereby is appropriated out of any
moneys in the state treasury not other
wise appropriated. for the purpose of pur-
chasing seed grain for farmers whose
crops were destroyed in whole or in part
by drought. hail or other storms in the
season of 1896.
Sec 3 Any person desiring to avail
himself of the benefits of this act shall
make an application in writing, verified by
his oath, stating the number of acres of
grain he had in crop in the season of 1885,
and the number of acres destroyed by
drought, hail, or other storms, the num-
Der of acres owned or occupied by him
and which he intends to sow or plant to
crops in the season of 1897, and the num-
Der of bushels and kinds of grain neces-
sary to seed the same, which application
he shall file with the auditor of the county
in which he resides. 1t shall be the duty
of the county auditor to file all such APP
plications by him received, and on or be-
fore March 9Th. 1891, he shall give public
notice by publication in the official paper
in the county, for at least one week be-
commissioners of said county will meet
a his office a q ia q n "a n in