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

made parties defendant and some of the
d tenda;ts shall not sM I'll oia' II
complaint therein, and other of the de-
PENDANTS shall interpose defense judg--
ment by default may be entered against
the defendant or defendants not an
swering. and the said judgment against
the defendant or defendants in default
shall be enforced in the same manner as
if no defense had been interposed by the
other parties to such action; and SUCH
judgment by default shall not be bar
to further proceedings or Judgment
against the parties interposing defense
in such action.
one of the parties liable upon a joint OBJ
legation shall not operate as a discharge
or release of the parties to such joint OBJ
legation who are not included in such ac-
ton or Judgment
Seventh-Ths act shall not be construed
so as to affect or change the liability of
the parties to joint obligations as to each
other.
Sec. 2. This. act shall not affect actions
nor joint contracts now in existence:
Sec 3. All acts and parts of acts In
consistent with this act are hereby re-
pealed.
Sec 4. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage.
Approved April 3d. 1897.
CHAPTER 3O4-H r. NO. 1923
AN ACT to amend an act entitled "A bill
for an act to provide terms of the dis
Beltrami and Cass, approved April 10,
1897, making said counties a part of the
Fifteenth judicial district and establish
ing court therein.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section /. That the counties Of Beltrami
and Cass be and they are hereby attached
to and made part of the Fifteenth judi
cial district.
That terms of the district court shall be
held in said counties as follows:
Tn ha # "a ami m 1aT1n
on the first Tuesday in November OF each
year.
In the county of Cass commencing on
the first Tuesday in May Of each year
be amended SO as to read as follows:
Sec. 2. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with this act are hereby re-
Sec. 5. That section three 60 Of said
act be amended so as to read as follows:
Sec. (3). This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after the fifth day of
May one thousand eight hundred and
Approved April %, 1897.
CHAPTER 3O5-H. F. NO. 263.
AN ACT to allow boards Of education or
directors of special school districts to fix
the time for holding their annual school
meetings.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. That boards Of trustees or
boards of education of each and every
school district, In this state organized
under a special law shall have power to
appoint and designate the time for hold
ing the annual school meeting of such
district when the same shall have been
conferred upon them by majority vote
of the legal voters of such special school
district voting upon such question at any
general election or at any special cleo,
ton held within such district and called
for such purpose.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be
In force from and after it's passage.
Approved April %, 1897.
CHAPTER 3O6-H. F. NO. 1T.
AN ACT for the relief of Ellen Rush, and
to appropriate money therefor.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. That the sum Of four thou
sand four hundred 4,40O dollars be and
the same is hereby appropriated out Of
any money in the state treasury, not 9TH
erwise appropriated, for the relief of Ellen
Rush, whose husband, Thomas Rush, was,
on February 10, 1885, and while engaged
in the performance of his duties as guard
in the state penitentiary, struck on the
head by a prisoner then confined therein
and from the effects of which blow the
said Thomas Rush died. May -, 1895.
Sec. 2 That out of said sum of four
thousand four hundred (4,4O0) dollars so
appropriated, the sum of seventeen hun
dred Q,7O0) dollars be paid to Henry
Wolfer, as trustee, who is hereby author
lieu 10 pay OIL the mortgage now GX1SllHS
upon the homestead of said Ellen Rush
and to obtain and cancel the notes and file
the discharge of the mortgage and to do
such other things as will give clear title
to said homestead in said Ellen Rush, said
seventeen hundred Q,700) dollars to be
paid upon the passage Of this act, and
that the balance of twenty-seven hundred
(2,7O0) dollars be thereafter paid to said
Ellen Rush, in monthly installments of
forty (4O dollars per month, until all is
paid.
Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved April %, 1897.
CHAPTER BOTH. F. NO. 1875
AN ACT to amend chapter three hundred
and 1fty-four (354) of the general laws
of eighteen hundred and ninety-fve
$3.50, entitled IAN act providing for
the giving of bonds by contractors for
public works and improvements and for
the better security of the state and the
corporations thereof, and parties per-
forming labor and furnishing material
therefor
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. That section one a. of chap
ter three hundred and hfty-four GOD of
the general laws of eighteen hundred and
hereby amended so as to read as follows:
Section l. Before any contract what
ever for the doing of any work or labor
or furnishing any skill or material to
the state of Minnesota, any county, town
ship, village. school district, city or other
public corporations of the state, for the
erection, construction, alteration or re-
pair of any bridge public building or
other public structure. work or improve
ment, or in the making of any public i'm
provement whatsoever shall be valid for
enter into bond with the state or such
county, township village, school district,
city or other public corporation for the
use Of the same, and also for the use of
oil hn ~fc,,r -r,rIy1
labor or furnish any skill or material in
the execution of such contract, condi-
toned to pay as they become due, all just
claims for all work and labor performed
and all skill and material furnished in
the execution of such contract, and also
to save the obligee named in such bond
harmless from any cost, charge and ex-
pense that may accrue on account of the
doing Of the work specified in such con-
tract, and also to complete such contract
according to the terms thereof and the
contract price, and to comply with all the
requirements of law, which bond shall be
in an amount not less than one-half the
contract price agreed to be paid for the
performance of such contract when such
dollars, unless the board, person or those
who under the authority of the state have
respectively the care, control and manas e.
ment of such contracts and whose duty
it is to approve such bonds shall demand
larger sum, and shall be duly signed
and acknowledged by such contractor and
two or more sufficient sureties, which
bond shall be approved by and filed in the
office of the treasurer of the obligee
therein named, except that the bonds so
given on account Of the erection of any
new building for the state, or the enlarge
ment or Improvement of those already in
existence. for the several state institu-
tons. the same shall be approved by and
filed with those who under authority of
the state have respectively the care con-
troll and management of the several state
institutions, and except that the bonds so
given to any incorporated city shall be