The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-24
CHAPTER 1911. F. NO. s37.


10 grade Streets constituting an ap-
proach to public park, without any
petllon OF property owners therefor,
! BE 1t enacted by the legislature of the
| State of Minnesota
section l. That in any city of this state
now or hereafter having a population Of
| over nifty thousand inhabitants, where
| any pupilc park or parks now or here
| AFTER exist, without any graded street
leading therefrom to the main portion of
| such city, the common council of such
| Guy Is hereby authorized and empowered
| by three-fourths vote of all members
erect tnereof, upon recommendation of the
| oQard OF park commissioners. or such
| other oftlc1als as may have charge and
supervision Of the parks and parkways
| OF such city, to order and cause to be
opened and graded for public travel the
n nee street or streets to constitute
one main tnoroughfare leading from such
| PARK OF parks to the main portion of such
| CITY, without petition therefor signed
VI presented by the owners of any prop
| cry ironing or abutting upon the line
| OF such improvement, and may cause the
| Wh0le or any part of the necessary cost
anG expense OF opening and grading any
assessed upon and against the property
| penehted by such improvement in the
same manner and with like effect as other
assessments for street grading are made
Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and
De IN force from and after it's passage
Approved April 10, 1903.
CHAPTER 1911. F. NO. $50.
AN ACT legalizing certain floating in
oeptedness OF villages and authorizing
the issue Of bonds with which to fund
the same.
BE 1t enacted by the legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
section l. Any and all orders hereto
lore issued by any village in this state
1or the following purposes or either
tnereoI, TO wit, In payment Of the cost, in
WI WHO'S oI OF IN part, OF village water works
OF electric light plant, or both combined,
or the enlargement, improvement and re-
par thereof; in payment of the COST in
whole or in part, of the erection and con-
S t5n ;;t OF any building to be used for
fcers (ofhces), or hall to be used
by the public for exhibitions, lee
lures and other public entertain
orders are still outstanding and unpaid,
are hereby declared to be lawful floating
Indebtedness of said village, as of the
the council of any such village and the
voters thereof shall have heretofore rec
ognized said orders by voting to issue
t DGnds win which to- take them up,
Whetner the issuing Of bonds for such
purpose was or was not then authorized
by any law Of this state.
Sec. z The village council Of any vii
lage In this state is hereby expressly en-
powered to issue the bonds of its village
In such amount and denomination and
bearing such rate Of interest as the voters
VI any SuCu village may have heretofore
authorized by the votes of a majority of
all such voters present and voting at any
general or special election, upon a. prop
os1tlon as to whether not the bonds of
such village should be issued for the pur-
pose or taking up and paying outstanding
village orders Of the character described
IN Sectlon one of this act, whether any
such issuance of bonds was or was not
authorized at the time such vote was had.
Such bonds may be issued and sold bv
any such village council in such manner
as II snail deem proper, but for not less
IMAM their par value, and such bonds
snail run for such term of years not to
exceed hfteen, and shall be payable at
sucn place as may be by said village
council determined. The proceeds from
the sale of any such bonds shall be paid
over to the village treasurer to be used
by him In taking up the specific indebted
ness ness referred to In the action of the viii
lage council and in the proposition sub
m1tted by 1t to the voters of any such
village and adopted by them as aforesaid.
sec. g. The right to issue bonds under
this act shall not be affected by the
amount of the Indebtedness of any such
village outstanding at the time of issuing
bonds hereunder.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and
pc In force from and after it's passage
Approved April 10, 1903.
CHAPTER 163-H F. NO. 7OS
AN ACT to define articles Of food and
drink for human use, to prevent mis-
branding or authorizations of the same,
to prevent fraud and preserve public
health.
Be it enacted by the legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
Section 1. The term 'tfood'' shall in
clude all articles used by man for food,
drink or condiment whether mixed. single
or compound The term ''misbranded" as
used herein applies to all articles of food
or articles used in the composition of
ages or labels of which shall bear any
statement purporting to name any in
gradients or substance contained in such
article which statement shall be false
porting to name the substance of which
said article is made, which statement
shall not fully give the names of all the
substances contained in the article in any
quantity, or which names as single ar
ticle Of food any mixture or compound.
The term drink as used herein shall
not include liquids containing two 60 per
cent or more of alcohol.
Sec. 2. An article shall be deemed
adulterated in the case of food drink or
condiment:
has or have been mixed and packed with
1t so as to reduce or lower or injuriously
effect it's quality or strength, so that such
product when offered for sale, shall de-
ceive or tend to deceive the purchaser, or
Second, If any substance or substances
has or have been substituted wholly or
in part for the article, so that the pro-
duct, when sold, or offered for sale shall
deceive or tend to deceive the pur-
chaser, or
Third, If any valuable constituent of
the article has been wholly or in part
distracted, so that the. product when
tend to deceive the purchaser. or
Fourth, If it contain any added poison
Gus ingredient or an ingredient which
may render such article injurious to the
health of the person consuming it, or
Fifth, If it consists in whole or in part
of filthy, decomposed, or putrid animal
or vegetable substance, or any portion of
any animal unfit for food, whether manu-
featured or not, or if it is the product
of q diseased animal, or one that has
died otherwise than by slaughter, or,
Sixth, if it be mixed, colored, powdered
or stained in a manner whereby damage
or inferiority is concealed so that such
product, when sold or offered for sale,
shall deceive or tend to deceive the pur-
chaser.
misbranding any article of food, drink or
condiment as defined in section two CD or
who shall handle, keep for sale, offer or
expose for sale any article SO adulterated
or misbranded shall be guilty of a INSIDE
meanor and on conviction be fined not
less than twenty-five (25) dollars, or more
than seventy-five 75) dollars and costs
or by Imprisonment not to exceed ninety
600 days.
Sec 4. It shall be the duty Of the state
dairy and food commissioner and his as
sistants, experts and chemists and agents
by him appointed, to enforce the pro-
visions of this act.
Sec 5. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after July 1, 1903
Approved April 10, 1903.
CHAPTER 164-H. F. NO. 332.
AN ACT to ratify certain conveyances
and confirm the title in the State of
Minnesota to lands thereby conveyed.