The Saint Paul globe., 1899-04-27


county In which the business of such cor
poration is located, and the county attor-
ney shall, as soon thereafter as practica-
BILE, institute proceedings to recover the
fine hereinbefore provided for, which
fine shall be paid into the state treasury;
and no corporation which shall fail to
can maintain any suit or action, either
legal or equitable, in any of the courts
OF this state upon any demand, whether
vided, that nothing in this act shall
be taken or construed as releasing
any such corporation from fully com.
the existing laws Of this state; and pro-
vided, further that the provisions of this
act shall not apply to corporations en-
business in this state; nor to drummers
or travelling statesmen soliciting business
In this state for corporations which are
entirely nonresident; nor to any corpo-
ration engaged only in the business OF
loaning money or investing in securities
in this state, including all business Incl
dentally growing out of the same and
the handling of such real estate and other
property as may be taken by foreclosure
or otherwise in LIQUIDATION Of such loans
or securities; and provided further, that
none of the provisions of this act shall
apply to or in any manner affect corpora
tions which may be organized for the
purpose of raising and improving live
stock, cultivating and improving farms,
garden or horticultural lands, growing
sugar beets, or any corporation founded
Tor the purpose of canning fruits or vege-
tables. Provided, that this act shall not
apply to any foreign corporation hereto
fore duly licensed or authorized to trans
act business in this state and which has
the fees on capital stock required of do
mestic corporations under sections 1891,
of the compiled statutes of 1894, or any
corporation whose sole business in this
state is the transportation of freight
passengers or both freight and passengers
by water.
laws of the State of Minnesota for the
year 1885, entitled, IAN act to provide for
the appointment. by corporations created
or organized under the laws of another
state of agents to receive service of sum-
MONS" be and the same Is hereby re-
pealed.
Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after July 1st, 1899.
Approved March 18th, 1899.
CHAPTER 7O-S F. NO. 227.
and sixty-one (a6D, general laws Of
1897, being an act entitled, AN act to
authorize the district courts of this state
to hold adjourned or ,,; special terms terms Of
the county seats of the respective
counties" SO that when amended the
title thereof and act shall read as fol-
lows:
AN act to authorize the district courts
of this state to hold adjourned or special
terms of court in any place fixed by the
court outside of the county seats or the
respective counties"
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section l. In addition to the powers
heretofore conferred, the district courts
of respective judicial districts in this
state are authorized to hold adjournel
or special terms of such courts in the
respective counties in which the same
may be held in any place fixed by the
court outside of the county seats of such
counties for the purpose of granting
naturalization papers.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after it's passage.
Approved Maj goth, 1899.
CHAPTER is. F. NO. 1885,
AN ACT to authorize the common coun-
ell or other governing body of mu-
inequalities to reduce and rebate as
sessments for local improvements in
counties where the provisions of chap
ter two hundred and ninety (290) of the
general laws of eighteen hundred and
ninety-Seven QS97) have been made ap-
plicable by the adoption of the resolu-
ton therein provided for, in cases where
such assessments have not been in
cluded in any judgment entered pursu-
ant to said chapter
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the
State Of Minnesota:
Section l. The common council or other
governing body of any municipality i'll
any county in the state, in which the
board of county commissioners thereof
shall have declared by resolution adopted
at some regular or special meeting, held
on or before the first QsD day of Au-
gust, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven
QS97), that taxes existing and delinquent
on the first 0sD Monday of January,
eighteen hundred and ninety seven QS9O,
and prior years. excepting such taxes,
enforcement of which was barred by the
statute Of limitations at the time of the
passage of such resolution Of such board
of county commissfOners), exceeds the
sum of thirty 600 mills on the dollar Of
the assessed valuation Of real property
in such county for the year eighteen hun
dred and ninety-six 1886, is hereby au-
thorized and empowered to reduce and
rebate any assessment for local improve
ments not included in any judgment en-
and ninety (290) of the general laws of
Minnesota for the year eighteen hundred
and ninety-seven QS9D, where, in the
discretion of such common council or
rebate is to the interest of such mu-
nicipality, and the amount of such re-
duction or rebate shall be in the discre-
tion of said common council or other
governing body.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after its passage.
Approved March Goth, 1899.
CHAPTER 72-s. F. NO. 81.
AN ACT to amend section 235 of the
penal code of the State of Minnesota
being section 6523 of the statutes Of
Minnesota Of the year 1894
Be 1t enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section 1. That section 235 Of the penal
code of the State Of Minnesota relating
to the crime of rape be amended so as
to read as follows:
Section 235 Rape is an act of sexual
intercourse with female not the wife
Of the perpetrator committed against
her will or without her consent. A per-
son perpetrating such an act Of sexual
intercourse with female of the age of
sixteen years or upwards, not his wife
First-When through idiocy, imbeclity,
or any unsoundness of mind, either tenn
porary or permanent, she is incapable of
giving consent; or,
Second-When her resistance is forcibly
overcome; or,
Third-When her resistance Is prevented
pY rear OF immediate and great bodily
harm which she has reasonable cause to
believe will be inflicted upon her; or,
Fourth-When her resistance is prevent
ed by stupor or by weakness of mind pro-
duced by an intoxicating narcotic or an
aesthetic agent administered by or with
the privity of the defendant; or,
Fffth-When she is at the time uncon-
scfous of the nature of the act, and this
Is known to the defendant, is punishable
by Imprisonment in the state prison for
not less than five nor more than thirty
years.
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be
in force from and after its passage, pro-
vided the provisions Of this act shall not
apply to offenses committed before this
act takes effect, and as to all such Of
fenses the law In force at the time they
were committed shall continue and re-
main in full force the same as If this act
had not been passed.
Approved March 20th, 1899
CHAPTER 73+S. F. NO. 2n.
AN ACT to amend section three thousand
and twenty-ye ty lso259 Of the general
section two hundred and twelve 1919, ~