The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-05-04
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farms at Duluth and Waseca; chap.
l92, which authorizes railroad cor
porations to carry road material free
or at reduced rates; chap. 209, an up
to.date inheritance tax law that will
bring hundreds of thousands of dol
lars into the state treasury; chap. 256,
which prevents tampering with elec-
t1on ballots; chap. 200, which pro-
Vldes for the licensing of itinerant
physicians; chap. 26b, item %, sec. Sc,
which provides the sum of 1914, 100 for
deficiency in fighting forest fires, a
considerable amount of which will
come to Mile Laos county; chap. 280,
section 2, which provides s75, 1000 an
nually for county fairs, more than
twice as much as was ever before
appropriated, and means that each
society will receive about $1,000 an
nually hereafter from the state to nav
out in premiums to exhibitors; chap.
285, which provides for uniform tax
on money and credits; chap. 287.
which compels people Offering special
Inducements to the public or to pros
pective purchasers or customers to
make good their promises by paying
certain amount of the inducement
offered in cash when demanded; chap.
298, which provides for the indetermi.
nate sentence of persons convicted of
crime, law that will meet the ap-
proval of all enlightened penologists:
chap. BOP, which provides that places
like Princeton, Anoka and Brainerd,
where militia companies are or
gained, can secure armories mainly
at the cost of the state; chap. 1852,
which provides that village recorders
instead of village treasurers shall
make and publish annual financial
statements will save each viii
lage in the state from making two
financial statements annually; chap.
38l, which provides for the election of
officers and the management of the
state fair-a law that was sadly
needed; chap. 387, which abolishes
capital punishment; chap. 1888, which
provides for the election of United
States senator's by a direct vote of the
people,; and last but by no means
least chap. 80, which appropriates
$3.50, 600 annually to be placed at the
disposal of the State Highway Com
mission to be expended in EMPLOYING
engineers to supervise and direct the
construction and Improvement of
roads in every county of the state,
and also provides for an annual tax
levy of one-fourth of a mill which will
produce a state road and bridge fund
of $500, 900 annually; also chap. 800,
which provides for the submission of
a constitutional amendment which if
adopted will enable the next legis-
lature to levy one-mill tax for road
and bridge purposes, which means
that hereafter the State Highway
Commission will have a fund of at
least 81, 100000 at it's disposal to ex-
pend in the construction and i'm
provement of roads and bridges
throughout the state, or an average
of about SIS, 1000 to each county, and
this amendment is framed in the in
terest of the small counties of the
state and will not ob]ige counties of
small valuation to put up dollar for
dollar against the states appropria-
ton. These are only few of the
many beneficial laws enacted at the
last session. Scores of others equal
ly as important and beneficial might
be mentioned.
Locally, chap. 375, which provides
that counties may issue bonds to fund
floating indebtedness, has already
been taken advantage of by Mile
Laos county. The county commits
sioners have applied to the state for
loan of S34,0 to run 20 Years at four
per cent, and the loan has already
been acted upon and granted. County
warrants bear six per cent interest,
thus the county will save two per
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