Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1931-05-07

exceed the total of the maximum
terms, fixed by law or by the court
| if the court has fixed the maximum
term for such separate offenses,
which total shall, for the purpose of
this act, be construed as one con-
tinuous term of Imprisonment. And
provided further that where one is
convicted of a felony or crime that
is punishable by imprisonment in
the state prison or state reformatory
or by fine. or imprisonment in the
county Jail, or both, the court may
impose the lighter sentence If it
shall so elect. The power Of the
court to fix the maximum term of
| imprisonment shall extend to inde-
terminate sentences imposed under
Laws 1927, Chapter 1885,"
Approved April 20. 1881.
CHAPTER 223-S. r. No. I'll.
AN ACT appropriating moneys for
the field training center for the
National Guard, and providing for
the issuance and sale of certificates
of indebtedness and for levying
taxes to raise such moneys.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State Of Minnesota:
Section 1. There is hereby created
a special fund to be known as the
Military Camp Construction Fund"
to be used for the purposes herein
after specified. To provide moneys
for said fund the state auditor is
hereby authorized and directed to is
sue and sell, upon the request of
the adjutant general, as funds are
needed for said purposes, certificates
of Indebtedness of the State in the
sum of $300,0O0.00, to be known as
Minnesota Military Camp Construc-
ton Certificates of Indebtedness"
Such certificates shall be issued in
four series, maturing successfully as
follows: $4,000 on February 1, 1885;
$50, 900 on August /, 1885; $4,000 on
February 1, 1886; $780, 900 on August l,
1886; $4,000 on February 1, 1887, and
$500 on August 1, 1897. Said GER
tificates shall bear interest at a rate
not exceeding four and one-half per
cent per annum, payable semi-an-
nually. The principal and interest of
said certificates shall be payable
when due out of the taxes to be
levied therefor as hereinafter provid-
ed. Said certificates shall not be
sold for less than par. Said GER
ltificates shall be in such form and
of such denominations and upon such
terms and conditions not inconsistent
herewith as the state auditor shall
determine, and shall be signed by the
adjutant general and attested by the
state auditor under his seal.
Sec. 2. The state auditor shall
keep proper record wherein all said
certificates shall be registered, show
ing the date of issue, the amount,
the rate of interest, the date of ma
turity, and the name of the purchas-
er of each certificate, with such 9TH
er information as the auditor may
deem proper. No transfer of any
such certificate shall be valid as
against the State except by entry
upon said record in the office of the
state auditor, which entry shall be
made by the auditor only upon pres
entation of the certificate with
proper written assignment or other
instrument of transfer in such form
as the auditor may prescribe. Such
transfer may be evidenced either by
endorsement upon the certificate by
the state auditor or by the cancel
lation of the certificate and the is
suance of new certificate to the
Itransferee, as the state auditor may
determine. Every such certificate
shall have endorsed thereon a GER
tificate by the state auditor showing
that it is registered and is transfer
able only as provided by this act
Sec. 3. The proceeds of the sale
of said certificates shall be paid into
said fund as received from time to
time, and the full amount thereof is
hereby appropriated to the adjutant
general for the acquisition of lands
for the field training center for the
National Guard in the County of Nor
rison, known as Camp Ripley, and
for the construction, improvement,
equipment, and maintenance of said
training center.
Sec. A The state auditor is here
by authorized and directed to levy
and collect, in the same manner as
other state taxes are levied and col
lected, for the year 1892 and for each
succeeding year thereafter until all
of the certificates of Indebtedness
sold as provided by this act and the
interest thereon have been paid in
full, tax sufficient to pay the prin-
cipal and interest of said certificates
as the same become due from time
to time. The proceeds of said tax
levies shall be placed in said fund
as received from time to time, and
the principal and interest of said GER
tificates shall be paid therefrom as
the same become due. Any excess
of said proceeds remaining in or &C
cruing to said fund after the full pay
IF nd ,v,fa
est shall be placed in the general rev.
enue fund.
Sec. 5. The first right Of invest
ment in the certificates of indebted
ness authorized by this act is reserv-
ed to the State, and the state trust
funds, or any other available funds
may be invested therein without first
calling for bids. Such certificates of
Indebtedness as are not purchased by
the state shall be sold in such man.
ner as the state auditor may deem
best.
Sec. 6. The sum of s1,12o.O0 re-
csived by the adjutant general from
the department of highways for high
way right-of-way through the former
National Guard training ground
known as Camp Lakeview in Waba-
sha County, and all other sums re-
ceived by the State through the ad-
ljutant general or otherwise from the
sale Of any buildings or other mill
tary property pertaining to said for
mer training ground shall be placed
in said military camp construction
fund, and all such moneys are here
by appropriated to the adjutant gen
eral for the same purposes as the
proceeds of the certificates of in
debtedness issued as hereinbefore
provided.
Sec. 7. The provisions OF this ACT
shall be subject to the provisions Oh
Laws 1925, Chapter 426, and acts
amendatory thereof, as Tar a. sp-