The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1911-03-24

which nominating committee
could report, and the club took up
this suggestion and decided to hold
a meeting next Wednesday night
motion by F. X. Meagher pro-
viding for the appointment of a
nominating committee was carried,
and the chair appointed DR.. An
drews. J. r. Snow, B. F. Pay. Fl. f.
Hance and F. X. Meagher.
The Annexation Bill.
The following is a copy of a bill
for an act relating to the change
Of boundaries of counties in the
state of Minnesota in cases where
an incorporated village and an in
corporated city lie on opposite banks
of a navigable stream, in different
counties and adjacent to each other.
Section l. In cases in this state
where an incorporated village and
an Incorporated city lie on opposite
banks of navigable stream, in diff
ferent counties and adjacent to each
other, in such case should such vii
lage desire to have the territory in
cmded in its corporate limits de-
tached from the county in which it
is situate and attached to the .coun-
ty in which said city is situate, it
shall cause TO be prepared separate
petitions in duplicate to the respec-
tive county boards of the counties
in which said village and city are
situate. or which will be affected
thereby, setting forth such desire to
be detached from the county in
which said village is situate and at
tached to the county in which said
city is situate and describing the
territory to be so detached and set
ting forth the reasons therefor.
Said petition shall be signed by
at least two-thirds of the qualified
electors voting at the last preceding
general election in said village and
shall be filed with the county audi
tors of the respective counties to be
affected thereby.
Said respective board of county
commissioners at their first meet
ing after the filing of said petitions
as aforesaid shall fix a time and
place in each county when and
where said petition may be consid-
cred and heard and shall give
twenty days notice of said hearing
in each county by two publications
of such notice in two papers of
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counties to be affected by the pro.
posed change of boundaries.
That at the time and places set
for said hearings each of said boards
shall hear the arguments for and
against granting said petitions and
if majority of the members pres
ent and voting of each of said
boards shall respectively find that
the public welfare demands and pub
lie necessity requires that the pro-
posed change of county lines be
made, each of said boards shall
thereupon pass resolution grant
ing said petitions and recommend
that said change of boundaries be
bers of each of said boards, or of
either of the same shall find against
said petition, said finding shall also
be embodied in resolution to that
effect.
Sec. 2. Any person or municipal
ity affected by the said decision of
said county board or boards may
appeal to the district court of either
county from the decision of said
boards or either of them, within
thirty days after the final determi-
nation of either or both of said
boards by filing notice of appeal
with the county auditors of the re-
spective counties and execute a
bond conditioned for the payment
of costs on such appeal in the sum
of at least $3.50 in favor of the
board of county commissioners from
whose decision said appeal is taken,
said bond to be approved by the
Judge of the district court to which
said appeal is taken.
Said appeal shall be tried to the
court without jury and before some
disinterested Judge, and may lie
heard in term time or in vacation.
Sec. 8. That in case both of said
boards jointly concur in favor of
said petition and no appeal is taken
from said decision or decisions with
in the time hereinbefore specified,
or in case of appeal from the de-
cision of either of said boards and
the final determination of said ap-
peal in favor of said petition, the
governor within ten days thereafter
shall issue his proclamation as in
other cases and said boundaries of
said counties shall then be changed
in conformity with said petition and
the change Immediately become eff
fective.
Sec. 4. This act shall take effect
and be in force from and after it's
passage.
The above is the bill that if en-
acted into a law will aid in annexing
North Mankato to Mankato.
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