Echo de l'ouest. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1883-1929, 1909-04-30
CHAPTER 2O-S. F. NO. 3222,

approved 4oS ACOc.
CHAPTER 2OHS. F. NO. 1872.
AN ACT amending sections four a. and
five (5) as heretofore amended. and sec
tions nine 90, thirteen d3), fourteen
90, nineteen q9) and twenty C2O, OF
Laws of 1889, being entitled: An act
acts relating to the municipal court
of the City Of Minneapoiis;. ,o
State of Minnesota:
chapter i Mt of th 5Sty ~ a 1341, Of the c Speeia1
four har1 hundred esi? sixfy-fVe 4s55 of the laws
Sec. 4. The Judge Of the municipal
court shall be a resident Of Minneapolis,
admitted to practice in all the courts of
this state. Before entering upon the
duties of his office he shall take and sub
eral Statutes for judicial officers; which
bath shall be filed in the office Of the
city clerk of said city.
There shall be one special judge Of said
court, whose time n manner of elec-
ton. terna4aef office; powers, duties ana
qualifications shall be the same as those
Of the Judge, and his successors shall be
elected and in his office filled
in like manner
There shall also be one associate Judge
of said court whose time and manner OF
ele st t term s Of Gf7 &c R 4SS snzce duties as {b ans
of the judge. n his successor shall be
elected and vacancies in his office fiue,,
in like manner.
title Of the special judge and the as
sociate judge of said court, respectively.
shall be municipal judge, and all the
judges Of said court shall be nominated
vided that nothing herein contained shalt
be construed to affect the tenure of OF
flee of any of the judges of said court
holding office at the date Of the passage
of this. act.
Said judges shall have the general pow
ers of the judge Of courts of record and
may administer oaths: take n certify y
or the amount of money to be deposited
in court in lieu thereof, and as conserva-
tors of the peace, shall have all power
be, vested in justices Of the peace or any
other judicial officer.
They shall have the power to stay for
a deinite period not exceeding one year;
Of any sentence which they may impose
for the violation Of a law or ordinance;
and may, at their discretion, revoke any
such stay, whereupon the sentence shall
be executed forthwith. In any case where
a, person has been committed to the city
workhouse or county Jail pursuant to a
S Sc \ n ter;fa Of f. said fhan court wbs said s5 5Hdged' Or }pa a
such person will thereafter keep the
peace and pe of good behavior, may order
the release of such person on parole;
lated it shall be their duty to revok such
parole forthwith and to cause such per-
son to be rearrested and recommitted
for such portion Of the or qrigi nal sentence af s1ncs
parole; and If no revocation shall be
ordered within one year after such date,
UGH person shall be fully discharged and
released from such sentence at the eH-
Mira tiOn of that ner1O0.
Sec. 2. That section five 90 Of said
chapter thiRty-four (S4), as amended by
chapter three hundred eighty-seyen $50
Sec. g.. There shall be a clerk Of
said municipal court. whose term of Of
appointment, who shall be appointed by
the Judges Of said court, Or a majority
Of them, with the advice and consent Of
the city e c9u thd tT Of the &C city t r Of to Minn e.
them, shall have power to remove said
clerk at any time for cause, or he may
be removed by a two-thirds vote of the
whole number Of the aldermen elected to
Such clerk. before he enters upon the
duties of his office, shall take and SUB
ton Of the United States and Of the
State of Minnesota, and to faithfully and
honestly discharge and perform the duties
of his office, and shall execute to the
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sum and with sucn s%ureties as the city
council shall direct and approve, con-
that he will account to and pay
over to the treasurer of said city on the
first Monday Of every month all fines.
penalties, fees and other moneys belong
ing to or to go to said city which may
have come into his hands during the
month next preceding. and that he will
at all times pay over to all other persons,
on demand, all moneys to which they
may be entitled which may have come
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Of his office. and that at the end Of his
term Of office he will forthwith "a over
to the city of Minneapolis all moneys to
which said city shall then be entitled,
and to his successor in office all other
moneys then remaining in his hands and
which shall have come into his hands In
virtue of or by reason of his Office.
Such oath and bond shall be filed in the
office of the city clerk of said city.
Sec. 3. That section nine W of said
chapter thirty-four $40 be amended to
read as follows:
Sec 8. The municipal court shall hold
regular terms, for the trial Of civil ac-
tlcns on the first Qst) Tuesday of each
month except during the months Of July
and August. which terms shall continue
from day to day with such adjournments
as to the court ma seem proper untS!
the business of each term Is finished:
and the court may. by rule or order, ap-
noint such terms to he held oftener or
upon other days than the days above
mentioned.
CIvil actions in said court shall be
commenced by the service of a