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

benefits under this law; provided,
further, that said fund shall not be
used for any other purpose than for
the payment of service, disability or
dependency pensions as herein pro-
vided.
"The word member as used in this
act shall include police women, police
matrons and assistant police ma
irons"
Sec. 2. That Mason's Minnesota
Statutes of 1927, Section 1888, be and
the same hereby is amended to read
as follows:
"143S. The pensions authorized by
this act shall not be paid to any per-
SON while drawing salary in any
amount from such city as an en-
ployee in any police department or
from any department of the state or
any county or municipality therein as
an employee, provided, however, that
this provision shall not affect the
status as pensioner of any person
whose status as pensioner has been
fixed by retirement while another
provision of law was in effect; and
no member shall be entitled to said
pension after he removes his resi-
dence from the United States, or who
shall have been convicted of felony
provided, that no widow or child I'M
der sixteen years of age of any men,
Der who shall have been convicted of
a felony, shall be deprived of their
pension rights under this act by rea-
son thereof unless such widow or
child under sixteen years of age shall
have been a party to the commission
of such felony, and provided further
that where such member so convicted
of felony is then receiving a pen
sion, his wife or child under sixteen
years of age who has not been par
ty to the commission of such felony
shall receive the pension provided for
herein in the event of the death of
such member; and any person receiv-
ing the pension herein mentioned shall
not receive or be entitled to receive
any other or further pension or re-
lief from said association"
Sec. 3. That Mason's Minnesota
amended by Laws 1929, Chapter 81,
be and the same hereby is amended to
read as follows:
"1440. Said association, through its
Officers, shall have full charge, man.
agement and control of the pension
fund herein provided for, which said
funds shall be derived from the fol-
lowing sources: From gifts of real
estate or personal property, rents,
money or from other sources. It shall
also be the duty of the city treasurer
of any city affected by this act to
deduct each month from the monthly
pay of each member of such police
department, a sum equal to two per
cent of such monthly pay, and place
the same to the credit of the said
police pension fund; it shall also be
the duty of every police officer re-
ceiving any reward for services in
making arrests, or otherwise, to
place to the credit Of the police pen
sion fund all such rewards, and ii
shall be the duty of the chief OF
police of any such city to place to
the credit of the police pension fund
all moneys falling into the hands of
the police that shall remain I'M
claimed for period of six months,
and to sell all unclaimed property
falling into the hands of the police
when the same shall have been
unclaimed for a period of six months
and place the proceeds thereof to
the credit of the said police pen
sion fund.
An amount or sum equal to three
fifths $50 mill, in addition to the
rate allowed to be levied by the
charter of any city affected by this
act, shall be annually assessed and
levied at the time and in the
manner that taxes for the
other funds of such city are
levied by the proper officers of each
city where police relief association
now exists, upon each dollar of all
the taxable property in such city as
the same appears on the tax rec
ords of such city and such levy of
said sum for the benefit of such
police relief association shall be col
lected and apportioned by the proper
officers of any county in which such
city is located, in the same manner
as are all taxes of such city, and ali
annual SURPRISES shall remain in said
police pension fund.
Approved April 8, 1881.
CHAPTER 18Th. F. No. 295.
AN ACT to amend Mason's Minnesota
Statutes of 1927, Section 1858, re-
lating to cemetery associations.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State Of Minnesota:
Section 1. That Mason's Mime
sofa Statutes of 1927, Section 1858,
be amended by adding thereto a
paragraph reading as follows:
1858. A corporation or association
may be formed for the purpose of
procuring and holding or selling
lands or lots exclusively for the pur-
pose of public cemetery and such cor
poration may acquire and manage all
real and personal property necessary
or proper for the establishment, en-
Enlistment, care and management of
a cemetery and may construct and
operate thereon crematory and
other proper means of disposing of
the dead. It may also sell and con-
vey cemetery lots or sell and convey
real or personal property lawfully &C
CURED by such association or cor
poration but not needed for cemetery
purposes. Such corporation may be
formed by three or more persons who
shall execute and verify the certificate
or articles of incorporation as re-
quired in the matter of the formation
of other corporations under the pro-
visions of this chapter. Such GER
tificate of incorporation shall be filed
for record in the office of the register
of deeds Of the county wherein such
cemetery is situated and thereupon
such association shall become a cor
poration. All cemeteries hereafter
started or established except GENE
teries established by religious cor
porations are hereby declared to be
public cemeteries within the pro-
visions of this act.
Any cemetery lands and property
or public burial ground now or here
after owned or controlled by any
town, village or city of this state
may be transferred by such town,
village or city, by deed or otherwise,
to any cemetery association or cor
poration formed or organized under
the terms of this act or heretofore
existing, and such transfer may be
with or without condition as shall
be determined by such town, village
or CITY as the case NAV he. cuob