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

for the purpose of general legislation.
Be it enacted by the Legislature OF the
State Of Minnesota:
Section 1. That the following amend
ment to section thirty-siX (36l OF article
four () of the constitution OF the state
of Minnesota is proposed to the people OF
said state for their approval or reJection,
which section. when so AMENDED Shall
read as follows:
Sec So Any city or village in this state
may frame a charter for It's own govern
ment as a city consistent with and sub
ject to the laws of this state, as follows:
The legislature shall provide under such
board of fifteen freeholders, who shall be
and for the past five years shall have
been qualified voters thereof, to be ap-
pointed by the district judges of the jul
is situated, as the legislature may deter
mine, for a term in no event to exceed
six years, which board shall, within SIX
months after it's appointment return 10
the chief magistrate of said city or village
draft of said charter, signed by the
members of said board. or majority
thereof. Such charter shall be submit
ted to the qualified voters of such city or
village at the next election thereafter. and
if four-sevenths of the qualified voters
voting at such election shall ratify the
same it shall, at the end of thirty days
thereafter. become the charter of such
city or village as city, and supersede
thereof; provided, that in cities having
patrol limits now established, such char
ter shall require a three-fourths majority
vote. of the qualified voters voting at such
election to change the patrol limits now
eSta bliShed.
Before any city shall incorporate under
this act the legislature shall prescribe by
law the general limits within which such
charter shall be framed. Duplicate Ger
tificates shall be made setting forth the
charter proposed and d, its o ratfcatiGa
trate of said city or village and authentl,
Gated by it's corporate seal. One of said
certificates shall be deposited in the once
of secretary of state, and the other. after
being recorded in the office of the register
of deeds for the county in which such
city or village lies, shall be deposited
among the archives of such city city i or VII
notice thereof. Such charter so deposited
may be amended by proposal therefor
made by board of fifteen commissioners
days in three newspapers of genera! cir
culation in such city or village, and &C
copied by three-ffths of the qualified
voters of such city or village voting, at
the next election and not otherwise; but
such charter shall always be in harmony
with and subject to the constitution and
islature may prescribe the duties OF the
commission relative to submitting amend
ments Of charter to the vote OF the peo-
pie, and shall provide that upon appllca-
ton of five per cent of the legal voters
of any such city or village, by written
petition, such commission shall submit to
the vote of the people proposed amend,
petition. The board Of freeholders above
provided for shall be permanent, and all
the vacancies by death, disability to per-
the corporate limits, or expiration OF
term of office, shall be filled by appoint
ment in the same manner as the original
board was created, and said board snail
always contain its full complement OIL
members.
1t shall be a feature of all such char
tiers that there shall be provided. among
trate, and a legislative body of either one
or two houses; if of two houses, at least
one of them shall be elected by general
vote of the electors.
In submitting any such charter or
amendment thereto to the qualified voters
of such city or village any alternate sec.
ton or article may be presented for the
choice of the voters and may be voted on
without prejudice to other ar
ticles or sections of the charter or any
thereto.
The legislature may provide general
laws relating to affairs of cities, the ap-
plication of which may be limited to
cities Of over fifty thousand inhabitants,
twenty thousand inhabitants, or to cities
of twenty and not less than ten thousand
inhabitants, or to cities of ten thousand
inhabitants or less, which shall apply
and which shall be paramount while IN
force to the provisions relating to the
same matter included in the local charter
herein provided for. But no local CHAR
ter. provision or ordinance passed there
under shall supersede any general law OF
the state defining or punlsh1ng crimes or
miSdemeanOrS.
Sec. 2 This proposed amendment shall
be submitted to the people of this state
for their approval or rejection at the
next general election held therein, and
each of the legal voters of (at said cleo
ton may vote by ballot for or against said
proposed amendment and the returns
thereof shall be certified and such votes
and the result thereof de-
clared in the manner provided by law for
the returning, certifying and canvassing
votes of the general election for the state
officers and declaring the result thereof;
and if it shall appear therefrom that
majority of the voters present and voting
at said election upon said amendment
have voted in favor Of same then i'm
mediately after the result shall have been
ascertained the governor shall make proc
lamation thereof, and said amendment
shall thereupon take effect and be in full
force as a part of the constitution of the
State of Minnesota.
Sec s. The ballot used at said election
on said amendment shall have printed
thereon: Amendment to section thirty
six (36) of article four a. of the constitu-
ton, allowing cities and villages in this
state to frame their own city charters
and classifying cities. "Yes-No." And
each elector voting on such amendment
shall make crossmark thus (A), in one
OF the spaces leIC IOr. the purpose upon
the margin of the ballot used at said
election, as provided by law in section
twenty-eight (2S) of chapter four. CD of
the general laws of one thousand eight
hundred and ninety-three 1888. The elect
ors desiring to vote for said amendment
shall make a cross mark thus CO, in the
space so left opposite the word Eyes" and
the elector desiring to vote against said
amendment shall make a cross mark
thus CX) opposite the word mo" and
no ballots shall be counted on said amend
ment except those having said cross
mark X opposite one only of said
words, Eyes or mo"
Sec 4. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April %, 1897.
CHAPTER 2s1-s. F. NO $50
AN ACT amending an act entitled can
act authorizing incorporated villages to
change their names, and providing for
such change being chapter two hun
dred and sixty-one (261) of the general
laws of the State of Minnesota of the
year one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-five $3.50.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Sector 1. That an act entitled "An act
authorizing incorporated villages to
change their names, and providing for
such change" being chapter two hundred