New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1905-05-24

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lection OF Keepers of lodging houses
boarding houses and inns, ana nrns5tG
ing for penalty for defrauding them.
Be 1t enacted by the LegislatIIr ~ ~
State of Minnesota: VI 'ie
Sec. L. That section 1899 of the ca,~
eral Statutes OF the State of Minnesota
hereby amended to read as follows.
Section 1899. A person who obtains
any food or accommodation at any Inn
hotel. lodging house or boarding house. Ils.a'
without paying therefor, with Intent To-
defraud the proprietor or manager there
Of, or who obtains credit at any Inn
no lodging house or boarding house
by or through any false pretense. or Who
after obtaining credit and accommodetion
at an inn. hotel, lodging house or board
ing mouse, absconds and surreptitiousIv
paying for his food and accommodated
is guilty of misdemeanor" and tba
proprietor or manager of any such inn.
hotel, boarding or lodging house, shall
have lien on any baggage or effects se If
any such person, in his possession. for
the amount due and unpaid for food or
lodging so fraudulently obtained
Sec. 3. All acts and parts of acts in
consistent with this act are hereby re-
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and
be in force from and after it's passage
Approved April 10, 1905.
CHAPTER s26-H. F. NO. 800.
AN ACT to provide for an optional plan
Tor counties to consolidate the rural
schools, to provide for the organizafion
ana government of consolidated rural
schools, and to provide for the trans
portation of pupils at public expense.
BE IL enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
section /. The board of county commits
sioners of any county in the state NAV
ana upon petition of % per cent of the
resident freeholders living on farms there
OF snail organize a commission consisting
OF seven members as follows: Four mem
pers or the board of county commission
ers CHOSEN by said board, the county SUI
perlntendent of schools, one member to
De appointed by the county auditor and
one one member to be appointed by the state
of public instruction, said
commission to be known as the --
county rural school consolidation COM
mission The board of county commits
sloners shall provide for the reasonable
expenses Of said consolidation commits
Sec .. Said consolidation commission
shall organize by selecting a chairman
ana ana, a secretary from their number and
olstrlcting the school districts of the
county SO as to provide for the consolida-
t lion OF rural schools into larger dis
mlieS square, and shall provide for pub
llshlng map and statement showing the
proposed plan to the people of the county;
provided, that the said districts shall be
formed in such a manner and the pro
posed consolidated school shall be located
at such places; as shall make it most
TO- and from their homes
Sec 8. Said consolidation commits
SION may recognize, or, it may assist in
f Sratii1g an agreement between, for the
1fst part, any district under its juris-
ddicatlon' the boundaries of which it shall
define; and for the second part, anv
a i,e an nj county or any school district
the school district of the first part shall
transport It's pupils to the school sup
ported by the farm school district, of the
nr11 che
OF the second part for the actual cost Of
the instruction of the pupils from the
ofst TIC OF the first part, and the district
or the second part shall furnish instruc-
ton to pupils of the district of the first
alton.
Sec 4, Said consolidated commission
small call an election of all the electors
IN each district and every township in
me county for the purpose of deciding
wnether the county redistricting plan as
presented shall be adopted; the date for
SAID election shall be the same for ali
t tIIMiHtshlb bS ana snail not be earlier than
thlrty (SoC days after the call is issued
and the plans are published in the lead
ing newspapers of said county; said con-
soldatlon commission shall provide for
the election to be held at the usual places
spectlve Townships said consolidation
commission shall cause notice of said
eiHctlon to be posted in ten Of the most
ten days before said election: said elec-
ton shall be by ballot marked, "For the
C c.onsoidatlon of rural Schools" or
,a Aganst the consolidation of rural
SCHOOLS, the voter to place a cross after
the line which he chooses and said COM
mission shall provide printed ballots and
shail Immediately make up the vote, for
ana against the proposed plan, and send
the same sealed, to the county superin-
tendent, who, upon receiving the vote
rom each and all townships of said
county shall call the consolidation com
mission together to count the votes ana
announce the decision Of the respective
boards of rural schools
Sec. 5. If it shall appear from these
several reports that of the electors pres
emf ana voting majority voted in favor
OF the proposed redistricting plan, the
SAID consolidation commission shall give
to each consolidated district in the coln-
~ number and name, which, together
with the name of the nearest postofice
snail serve as a postal address, and shall
certify to the county auditor that such
plan has been adopted with descriptions
Of the outlines of the new districts or
ganized. and the numbers and names
districts. These facts shall be made a
part OF the records of said auditors Of
Sec. 6. In case the vote for consoltda
ton carries, the county superintendent Of
schools SHALL within thirty (3O) DAYS
AFTER the commission announces the de-
c1Slon, cause notices to be posted in ter,
dU of the most public places in each
newly organized district, and shall cause
to be published at county expense in one
or more newspapers in the county no.
tees requesting the electors thereof to
assemble at some specified time and
place for the purpose of electing a board
Of school trustees and transacting such
other business as may properly come be-
fore the meeting. These notices shall be
posted at least ten (1O) days prior to the
date Of such meeting. The officers of the
several original districts shall continue
to exercise their respective rights and
duties until the organization of the new
boards of school trustees, as provided by
law.
Section T. Sections six (6) and seven
~ Of chapter two hundred sixty-two
(262l Of the Laws of 1901, relating to the
consolidation of districts and transporter
ton of pupils, not inconsistent with this
schools.
Sec. 8. Where old districts owning
school property are SO divided that the
school property owned by said districts
belongs in part to more than one new
district, the chairman of said boards Of
directors of consolidated rural school dis
tricts shall constitute a board of ap-
praiSement to award the proportion of
such value to each district and to pro-
vide for the sale or disposal of the same
and to give to each district it's just share,
and where such old district has an in
debtedness the board of appraisement
shall be constituted in the same manner
to determine the proportions of said debt
which shall be assumed by each consolida-
ted district. In case such board of ap-
praisement cannot agree, 1t shall place
the decision in the hands of the board Of