The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-02-03

the attorney general in the name OF the state
20 vacate and set aside g. grant heretofore or
hereafter made by the state by letters pat
ent statute or otherwise, in the following
cases:
First-When he has reason to believe that
the grant was obtained was obtained by
means OF some false or fraudulent suggestion,
or concealment OF material fact made by
the granter, or with his knowledge. consent
or privity.
Second-When he has reason to believe
that the grant was made through mistake
or ignorance OF a material fact.
Third-That he has reason to believe that
the grantee or those claiming under the
grant have done anything in the violation
OF the terms or conditions on which 1t was
made, or that the grantee, or those claim
ing under the grant, are in default through
having omitted doing some thing called for
by It's terms or conditions; or that a forfeiture
of the grant has ben incurred by any other
means.
Representative Mcdonald, Of RAM
sey introduced bill, II. F. 2S8, which
is OF special interest to railroads and
street car companies. 1t provides that
any railroad may, under the right of
eminent domain, use the right Of way,
road bed, bridges, and tracks of any
other railway company within any in
corporated city, or in any canon, gorge,
ravine, pass or defile, by paying to the
railroad company thus affected an
equal portion of six per cent of the
actual cash cost Of the right Of way.
track, terminal facilities, together with
it's wheelage proportion of the annual
cost OF maintaining, and operating the
same. The act also gives power TO
parallel. cross over or under, to use
depot grounds, warehouses; elevators,
machine shops, water tanks and other
rights upon the same terms. In the
condemnation proceedings the court
may designate the extent of control
necessary to the maintenance of the
rights Of the original owner, and the
act further provides that nothing here.
in is to abridge the rights conferred
upon any railroad company by exist
ing general or special laws Of the
state.
One of the several bills in which the
state game and fish commission is in
terested is H. f. 1885, introduced by
Mr. Abbott by request. 1t relates to
the licensing Of non resident hunters.
and provides that hunters in Mime
sofa shall procure from the commits
sion q license, together with a coupon
book containing five coupons for deer,
one hundred coupons for birds, these
coupons to be attached to game and
fish shipped, and to constitute prima
facie evidence Of their having been
legally killed.
The measure, which is in it's making
Just bit ambiguous, provides PEN
atty for violations of the described con-
ditions. The license is issued for one
year.
To Representative Dan Shell was
accorded the honor Of presenting the
state fair bill, asking for a $2S,OOO ap-
preparation for the purpose Of con-
structing an amphitheater for general
exhibitions, equipping the grounds
with an adequate water service for
fire. stock and sprinkling. The bill, In
all, required but half page OF type
written COPY, and was referred to the
committee on general legislation.
Representative Laybourn, Of Duluth,
at the request Of some of his const1tu-
ents. introduced a bill (H T. 295), which
Is for the better protection OF common
laborers in lumber woods and camps.
II is Endorsed by the trades and labor
assembly Of Duluth and Is designed
to not only secure to men labor1ng
in the pineries, the wages that are
promised them when they begin work,
but to provide for payment when men
are discharged or the work is finished,
instead of the present system OF time
checks. The relief to be afforded IS
this: Laborers are to be paid month
ly, and, in the event Of failure to pay
men their just and due wages, the en-
fCrcement Of a lien shall be accom-
panied by recovery on the part of the
plaintiff, Of treble costs.
If H. F. 200, introduced by Represen-
tative Gum Coy requesD, becomes a
law, the boundary line between adj
joining counties may be changed only
when so per cent of the legal voters
Of any county present a. petition to
the secretary of state praying for the
change.
The bill was sent to the judiciary
committee.
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constituents would have a collection
made of birds, fish, minerals, woods,
grasses, grains, herbs, nuts, fruit and
flowers Indigenous to Minnesota, and
for that purpose would have the leg
islature appropriate $4,000, which sum
81 all be disbursed by the state agri-
cultural society, under whose direction
a manager or executive shall be re-
tained at salary Of $1,000 for the first
year. This collection of the fauna and
fora of Minnesota is to be displayed al
the will Of the society at the annual
fairs, and the bill provides that the
society may secure and exhibit birds
or other animals, which may be sold
after the exhibition, and the proceeds
tnerefrom applied to the appropria-
tion.
The committee on general legislation
will pass on the merits of Representa-
tive Yates bill On. F. 29D, which pre-
sCribes the manner in which property
belonging to sureties On bonds given
to the state shall be listed. The pro-
vision simply is for the minute and
detailed description Of real or per-
sGral property, bank or corporate
stock, etc, in an affidavit Of justifica-
ton, as well as in an itemized state
nient of the holdings of such sureties.
A bill introduced by Representative
Brusletten Oh. F. 2SD provides that
incorporated cities in this state with a
population Of less than 5000 may es-
tablish a municipal court for the
transaction Of such business as would
come before 1t.
representative Mcdonald, of the
Ramsey delegation, introduced bill
which is designed to fill the gap left
by the former ''vagrant" bill, which
was killed in committee. The present
bill, which is called H. F. 289, pro-
vides that every person known to be a
professional or habitual burglar, high
waynan or confidence man shall be
deemed a vagrant, and prescribes pun
iShment. The former bill was so word
ed as to say. that any man who ''had
the reputation Of being a thief, etc."
was a vagrant, and, owing to the
sweeping provision, was put down by
the committee.