Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1903-05-01

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hereby authorized to employ a Licensed
engineer to operate said road roller ana
sufficient help to operate said rock crush
er and to annually expend necessary
funds for the maintenance of said crush
| er and roller.
Sec. 8. Said road roller and rock crush
er and equipment shall he used only upon
county work.
Sec. 4. During the year 1908 such board
of county commissioners are hereby au-
thorized to purchase said rock crusher.
road roller and equipment with any funds
in the county treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated.
Sec. 5. In determining whether any
county in the state has a population OF
| ants or over reference shall be had to the
last national or state census.
Sec. 8. This act shall take effect and
be In force fYom and after its passage.
Approved April 20, 1903.
CHAPTER 293-H. r. NO. 279.
| AN ACT to authorize cities of over ten
thousand and under fifty thousand m
| habitants of his state to acquire lands
for public parks and parkWays within
the corporate limits Of any such city,
and thereafter to maintain, improve and 10
parkways, and fixing the maximum
limit of expenditures yearly for such
maintenance, Improvement and govern
ment, by the he bo n3tias OF ds,d PARK Gomm1s-
Be it enacted by the legislature OF the
! State Of Minnesota:
Section 1. Any. city Of this state: now
| ten thousand and under fifty thousand in
habitants, according to the next preced-
ing state Or national census, is hereby
| authorized and empowered to receive as
| gift or donation, in whole or in part, and
to acquire, by purchase or donation,
through the agency Of its board of park
commissioners, for the use by the public
| of lands lying within the corporate limits
| 80 e,,oh oifV ona ~ hv condemnation
then in the manner hereinafter set forth.
and to, thereafter, hold and control, and
from time to time lay out, alter, improve,
public parks and parkways, provided,
| that the control, improvement and MAIN
tenance herein established shall extend
over, and cover all park lands heretofore
Sec. 2. For the purpose Of making n
perfecting such condemnation of such
lands Cor such public use for
Commissioners Of any such city shall pro-
coed In the following manner:
Whenever they shall hall deem it tt to = be . o. fo or
raT gIe Of land should be taken, appropri-
ated or condemned, for the use OF said
city as aforesaid, and shall so determine
by resolution thereto duly passed, the eg
plated by duplicate plats, one Of which
duplicate plats shall be filed in the office
Of the city engineer OF said city.
Lie Sdlu Od1 VI ehAA
shall thereupon appoint a board of three
appraisers, who shall be disinterested
freeholders and qualified voters Of the
and condemned are situated, to view the
premises and appraise, the damages
which may be accustomed by the taking.
Appropriation ana lem ahe ea 81 a ane
p%raisers shall be notified, as soon as
practicable, by the secretary of SAID
| board Of park commissioners to attend
- ~ t;roo +o no fva6 nv him for the DUR
pose of qualifying and entering upon
their duties. They shall thereupon be
sworn to DISCHARGE their duties as aRr
and fidelity and to make due return OF
their acts as such to said board of park
commissioners.
give notice by publication in the official
newspaper Of said city, once a week, for
two consecutive weeks, the last of Wh1c en-
before the day of such meeting, and
which said notice shall contain a general
description of the lands designated for
appropriation by the board OF park com
missioners, including a separate and dis.
tinct description of each and every lo1
or parcel Of land proposed to be taken.
together with the owners, names, wh sae
neer and that the SAID appraisers will
meet at a place and time DESIGNATED, and
to appraise the damages for the property
so to be taken. appropriated. and con-
demned. At the time named In sale no,
tice the said appraisers shall. meet and
view the premises. and may hear any eyi-
dence adduced or offered by the parties
interested. and adjourn, from time to
when their view and hearing shall be
concluded, they shall determine and APP
praise the amount of damages. to be paid
eel of property proposed to be taken, APP
propriated or condemned, and hay
Ing ascertained and appraised the
a @aRa and as file afV %ith the 'he secre saa:1
written report to said board, detailing
their action in the premises, embracing a
schedule, and the appraisement Of the
damages in each case, with a description
Of the land and the names Of the owners,
If known to them, and also a statement
of s the cost g G IF tine t Rrecf fiing Of such re-
port with the secretary of the board of
park commissioners, as aforesaid, the sec
rotary shall thereupon give notice by a
p~raisers' report in the official newspaper
of the city, once a week for two success
sive weeks, the last publication Of which
shall be at least ten 90 days before the
sioners mentioned, in 1t, ana tnat me re-
port Of the appraisers will be considered
by the board of park Commissioners at
a meeting thereof to be named In the
before the time specified for said meeting
in said notice, notify the said board OF
objections which he may have In the
premises, and the board Of park com
m%issioners, upon the day fixed for the
consideration of such report, OF at sucn
NAV stand over, or be referred shall nave
the power in their discretion, to confirm,
revise or annul the appraiselnent. IN
whole or in part, giving due consideration
to any objections interposed by the par
ties Interested. Provided, however. that
said board of park commissioners shal.
have no power to reduce .nf 10 ~ COS .
the annraisement is annulled, IN whole or
In part, the said board may thereupon
appoint new appraisers, VINO Snall Ply
coed in like manner as In the case OF the
frst appra1sement, as to any land IN
With ia former appralsement was an
nulled ~ n,r,~ oou-
missioners shall have finally confirmed the
appraisement, in whole or In part the
said award shall t~hereupon stand as 4
charge against the e city ~ pay u or Den noo9sdit ed
and set apart in the treasury or sald CITY
to and for the use Of the partles enuatdeu
thereto within six months altet tne GU ~
bort except that in case any appeal
eehha1i he taken from the ordsr Of con-
frmation aforesaid, then the amount Of
such damage shall f5 ~ not de ~ nted ana set
required TO De pao ,,ntij sixty days shall
h hR1a e Ks redre after the de%terminsation of Of
the anneal so taken, as hereinafter pro-
vided. .,o,. nroner+v Is
nr Sec; ID to Ang be ptta taken, appropriated AND
condemned under the provisions her hereof y,
X {Ss 5 deems there Of is t 2ny b '1as5ui Of park K
e eomm proGene1aso or in the acts of the ap,,
praisers in the premises, by leaso, ~
%5ie + h. h. s aonSym Ct the or 1 WSG is ais sa a
award T15h to th him. am may at any tims before f{as
the time specified. for the co co1 nare aomn
of the award by the board 81 pai arr oh the