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

ways for the village, and from time to
have power to acquire lands for parks
and parkWays by gift, devise, lease, pur-
chase and dedication, to administer and
and TO ordain and establish rules and or
dinances to secure the quiet, suitable
and appropriate. use thereof. The lands
SO acquired shall be held Tor pubic use
as parks and parkWays.
Sec. 4. The village council shall an
nually at the time of leYy1ng other vii
deem necessary, not to exceed one mill
upon the dollar of taxable property OF
the village, for park purposes and such
taxes shall be collected with and as part
of other village taxes, and paid into the
village treasury, and set apart as VII
lage park fund. The board of park COM
mlssioners shall have power to expend
such found in the acquisition. maintenance
and improvement of parks and park
ways. All warrants drawn upon such
fund shall be accompanied by recelpted
the warrant is drawn, and shall be sign
ed by the president of the board and by
the village recorder, and eountersigne}d
by the president of the village council.
The board of park commissioners may
with the consent of the village council,
take any land within the village, which
has been acquired or dedicated as pub
lie park or common, and thereafter ad-
minister and govern the same as II &C
quired by purchase under the provisions
of this act. The board of park commits
sioners may also, with the consent of the
village council, take as a parkway any
street or highway or portion thereof, and
thereafter administer and govern the
same in all respects and with like powers
as if it had been originally acquired as a
parkway under the provisions of this act
The board of park commissioners shall
have power to regulate, control and gov
ern the traffic upon and over any park
way, and may exclude therefrom all We
hicles excepting those in use for carry
ing passengers, or impose lesser restric-
tons thereon as it may deem best.
Sec. 5. All offenses against ordinances
of the board of park commissioners may
be prosecuted before any justice of the
peace or municipal court of the county.
The penalty for violating such ordinance
shall be by imprisonment not exceeding
ninety (e0) days or by fine not exceeding
one hundred (S10W dollars for each Of
Tense; and in case the fine is not paid.
by imprisonment not exceeding ninety
600 days
Sec. &. For the purpose of acquiring
lands for parks and parkway purposes,
the village shall have the power of emf
nent, domain, and the power of levying
special assessments to be exercised in
the manner prescribed by sections PA to
242 inclusive, and sections PSI to 266 IN
of Minnesota for 1895. The proceedings
therein provided for shall be conducted
by the village council, and the duties pre-
scribed to be performed by the city con-
troller and the city clerk by said chapter
8, shall be performed by the village re-
corder;, Duties prescribed to be perform
y
may be performed by any engineer en-
ployed by the city council, and by the
village treasurer respectively. Notices
may be published in any newspaper pup
lished in the village,
Sec T. The board of park commits
sioners shall have power to erect docks,
boat houses, bath houses, refreshment
booths, amusement halls, pavllions and
other structures for the comfort of, the
people, and to operate and administer the
same and to make reasonable charges
therefor. The board shall also have power
with the consent of the village council
to make contracts and leases for the con-
struction and operation of such buildingS
for terms not exceeding ten G0) years.
Every such contract and lease shall pro-
vide that the structure shall be operated
for the public use and convenience, and
that the charges shall be reasonable, and
shall reserve to the board of park com.
| missoners power to prescribe reasonable
rules and regulations from time to tima
for the conduct of the privilege.
Sec. s. In case any such park or park
way shall embrace the shore of any navi-
gable lake, the board shall have power to
lease to private clubs the privilege of
occupying limited areas in the bed of the
lake adjacent to such shore for club house
{1O) years in any case The space to be
occupied by any one private club shah
not exceed one acre. No such club house
shall be ocasd er SO as to ,a atsrfs s with
| serve to the board full power and au-
| thority to make from time to time rea-
| sonable rules and regulations to secure
| quiet and good order on the premises.
J The lessee in such case shall have power
( to retain the club house for the use of
! its own members. and guests, Every
| area so leased shall be subject to all the
| ordinances of the village, and in partlc-
ular to the ordinance relating to the sale
and use of malt and Intoxicating liquors;
| be in force from and after its passage.
Approved April 13, 1909.
| QUA Eu1Fp 1871 n No 1
| AN ACT proposing an amendment to ar
ticle nine of the Constitution of the
| State of Minnesota relating to taxa
ton.
! Be it enacted by the Legislature of the
State of Minnesota:
| Section 1. The following amendment
| to article nine of the Constitution of the
State of Minnesota, to take the place Of
sections one, TWO, three, four and the
amendment added to the end of said
| article adopted in 1896, relating to tax
alton, is hereby proposed to the people
| of the State Of Minnesota for their ap-
| prevail or rejection, which amendment
| when adopted shall be known as section
one of said article nine, that is to say: ..
Section /. The power of taxation shall
never be surrendered, suspended or con-
| tracted away Taxes shall be uniform
| shall be levied and collected for public
| purposes, but public burying grounds.
public school houses, public hospitals,
| seminaries of learning, all churches,
| church property, and houses of worship,
! institutions of purely public charity, and
| public property used exclusively for any
public purpose. shall be exempt from
| taxation, and there may be exempted
from taxation personal property not ex-
| ceeding in value 5000, for each house
hold, individual or head of a family, as
| the legislature may determine: Provid-
| ed, that the legislature may authorize
! municipal corporations to levy and col
| lect assessments for local improvements
| upon property benefited thereby without
| regard to a cash valuation, and, pro-
! vided further, that nothing herein con-
| tanned shall be construed to affect, mod
| ify or repeal any existing law providing
! for the taxation of the gross earnings OF
| railroads
Sec. .. Such proposed amendment shall
be submitted to the people, for their ap-
| prevail Or rejection, at the general cleo
| ton for the year one thousand nine hun
dred and six, and the qualified electors
/ of the state, in their respective districts
may, at such election, vote for OF
against such proposed amendment by
| ballot, and the returns thereof shall be
made and certified within the time, such
votes canvassed, and the result thereof
| declared in the manner provided by law
| with reference to the election Of state
officers, and If it shall appear thereupon
that majority Of all the electors voting
at such election shall have voted for and
ratified said amendment, as provided II
| the next section hereof, then the COVER
nor shall make proclamation thereof, and
such amendment so ratified shall take
effect and be in force as a part Of the