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to select prizes for the awards. These
will be selected from wide variety Of
articles which will be the handiwork
OF members Of the club. The artist
members are asked to submit articles
OF their own design and craftsmanship
to the committee which will select the
prizes to be given. For the first time
in the Is years of this annual Bal
Boheme no participant in the pageant
may enter the costume contest for the
most beautiful, the most appropriate
and the most amusing.
Requests for boxes and acceptances
to become patronesses continue to pour
into the Arts Club and the Bal Boheme
Office at the clubhouse is rapidly be-
coming as fascinatingly busy as is the
Hotel Willard, where countless paint
ers, architects, sculrtors and headdress
makers are hard at work even during
the Christmas week end in a frenzy of
work necessary to the success of the
Bal Boheme, now only two weeks away.
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tune awards, and Mr.. Leisenring, who
for the second year, is chairman of
the famous Floor Committee for the
ball.
Boxholders for this unique ball al
ready INCLUDE Miss Mary B. Adams,
Mrs. Beale R. Howard. Mrs Thomas
Henry Clay Reed, Maj. and Mrs.
Richard La Garde, 1t. Col. and Mrs.
Howard C. Davidson, the Rev. DR..
and Mrs. Howard T. Wilkinson, Mrs.
Charles Bittinger, Mrs. o. B. Camp
bell. Mrs. A. Lenox Uhler, the Misses
Jaskson, DR.. and Mrs. Tomas Cajigas,
Mrs. Samuel A. Kimberly, Mrs. Carlton
van Valkenburg, Mrs. j. Frank Staley,
Mrs. Charles Piggott, Mrs. Bell Howell
Bohn, Miss Clara Saunders and Miss
Marie Saunders.
Miss Lucia Hollerith heads the Com
mittee on Costume Awards and is as
sisted by Miss Agnes Cole and Miss
Eleanor Mullikin, all of them prom
inent artists in Washington. They
will meet shortly after the New Year
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H ington have engaged boxes for
the annual Bal Boheme, which
this year will be In the Island
of Ball." to which artists and archi-
tects of the Arts Club will transform
the bathrooms of the Willard Hotel.
The ball, set for Monday evening, jan
uary 10, will be one Of the most beau
tiful which the Arts Club has given
and the preparations are elaborate and
each detail is authentic for Miss Bertha
Noyes, who Is chairman of the ball this
year. brought many souvenirs back
from the Island of Bali where she re-
Gently went on trip around the world.
Miss Moves will entertain in her box
Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur B. Lisle Of Rhode
Island and General and Mrs. Daniel
Devore.
Miss Noyes also will have place
for herself in the official box with Mr..
Lewis Lotion Moneyway, president OF
the club: members of the jury on cos
tune awards; Mrs. Frank B. Steele,
wife of the vice president Of the club:
Mrs. Maud Howell Smith and Mrs.
Ethel Hoffman Kane, the two vice
chairmen for the ball; Mrs. L. M.
Leisenring. chairman of the Committee
for the Selection of the Jury on Co.'S
Evening star., 1937-12-26

Mr.. L. Bruce Hord, deputy admins
trative assistant to the Adjutant Gen.
eral. and Mrs. Hord of 1921 Adams Mill
road. left this week for their winter
home in Miami, motoring by way OF
Southern Pines and Aiken,
Brig. Gen. and Mrs. Richard c.
Marshall, jr.. are at the Gulf Stream
Hotel. Lake Worth, Fla, for the holi-
days.
Cmdr. and Mrs. Robert B. Carney
have taken the house of the Misses
Elizabeth and Mary Howry at 1904 o
street for the Christmas holidays.
They have with them their daughter,
Miss Betty Carney, who is student at
Gunston Hall, and their son, Mr..
Robert Carney, jr, who attends the
Columbia Prep School. The Misses
Howry are in Florida for the holidays.
Capt. Jesse Bundren Helm, Medical
Corps, U. S. A., and Mrs. Helm, who
have recently arrived from Newport,
r. l.. with their three children, have
taken a house at 5000 Thirty-fr
street NV. Mrs. Helm is the former
Miss Ruth Powderly of Washington.
Mt @nd Mrs. M. J. O'Connell of
Marion, Ohio. and Warrenton, Va,
have taken an apartment at the
Broadmoor. They have with them
their daughters, Miss OConnell and
Miss Blanche O'Connell, and their son.
Mr.. M. j. O'Connell. jr. Mr.. O'Connell
is vice president O. Utility Manage
ment Corp, with Offices in New York
City.
Miss Marionbetty Kadin, daughter
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Barnett Kadin, of
2762 Woodley place, is expected home
for the holidays. Miss Kadin is at
tending Chicago University
Mr. and Mrs. A. r. Kennedy of
819 Philadelphia avenue. Silver Spring,
Md, are spending Christmas in At
lantic City, N j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eli Bamford Smith,
the lattep known better in dramatic
circles as Maud Howell Smith, have
gone to West Point, N Y. to spend
Christmas week with Mrs. Smiths
nephew and niece, Capt. and Mrs.
Charles E. Hart. Mrs. Smith, who be-
fore leaving the city on Friday COM
pleted casting for the festival pageant
for the Arts Club Bal Boheme. I'm
the Island of Rail-" Monday IAN
uary 10. at the Willard Hotel will
return to the city by the end Of the
week to take up rehearsals.
Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Haskins of
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Alumni Association
Benefit Dance.

The Alumni Association Of Gathers
burg High School will hold q benefit
dance Wednesday night at the Ma
tional Women's Club, Bradley lane,
Bethesda, Md, from 10 to / o'clock.
Miss Marietta A. Crawford is chair
man Of the committee, assisted by Mr..
Oliver Smith, jr.; Miss Madeline How
ard, Miss Elizabeth Mullinix, Mr.. Will
liam Beall, Miss Rebecca Miller, Mr.
Evening star., 1937-12-26

Mr.. Reed Lear, Mr.. Stewart Smith,
Mr.. Allan Swayze, Mr. Frank Ainsa,
Mr.. George Cooper, Mr.. Robert Drew,
Ensign Buckner Winfield. Mr. Teddy
Pierce, Mr.. James Smith and Mr..
Tanner Kinnier.
Evening star., 1937-12-26

Takoma Park, Md, have as their holi-
day guests their son and daughter
in-law, Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Lee
Haskins of Detroit.
Miss Mildred Lustick has returned
to the Capital after spending seven
weeks in Atlantic City and New Haven,
Conn.
Mrs. w. F. Hosford and Miss Doro-
thy Hosford of MapleWood, N. j., are
spending few days at the Dodge.
Evening star., 1937-12-26
Residential
And Official
News Notes
Cochrans to Spend
The Holidays
In South.

~ REPRESENTATIVE AND MRS.
- JOHN j. COCHRAN have
gone to Florida to spend the
a \ holidays and expect to return
to the Shoreham shortly after the
new year.
Evening star., 1937-12-26

Llnwood Heller. Mr.. Arthur Beall,
Miss Margaret Plummer and Mr.. Jack
Watson.
Evening star., 1937-12-26

The United States Consul at Cairo,
Egypt. and Mrs. George " Allen have
come to Washington for visit and are
staying with Mrs. Aliens mother Mrs.
John d. Martin at Chevy Chase. They
will be here two months,
Evening star., 1937-12-26

Mr.. and Mrs. John r. Haskins of
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Bal BOherne
Boxes in
Demand
Many Hostesses y
Preparing for
Big Event.

hostesses in Wash
. ington have engaged boxes for
the annual Bal Boheme, which
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Approved April II, 1887.
CHAPTER 241-S. F. No. 274
A RILI,

FOR AN ACT to legalize and vail
date the defective execution of
instruments and the record and
filing Thereof
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Minnesota:
Section 1. That in all cases where
instruments affecting real estate
within this state. or letters of at
torney authorizing the same, have
for six years been actually recorded
in the office of the Register of
Deeds or filed in the office Of the
Registrar Of Titles O. the county
where the real estate thereby at
fected was, at the time Of such
record or filing, or is, situate,
whether such instruments were duly
or properly admitted to record or
filed, all such instruments and the
record of all such instruments may
nevertheless be read in evidence in
any court within this state and
such records shall be received as
prima facie evidence of the con-
tents Of the original instruments
Of which they purport to be records;
And all such records and instru-
ments shall have the same force
and effect as they would have If
such original instruments. at the
time they were 20 recorded, or
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lodge with the attorney general
information of any such violation
as may come to its knowledge"
Section 5. That Mason's Mime
sofa Statutes, 1927, Section 4760,
be, and the same Is hereby, amend
ed to read as follows:
"4760. That on and after the pass
age Of this act, where any struc-
ture is at a less distance from the
track than herein provided the
Commission shall provide for warn
ing signs to be placed thereon Of
such design and type as the Com
mission shall deem proper unless
the Commission shall determine
such a sign is unnecessary. 1t shall
be the duty Of the railroad inspec-
tors of the burec Of labor, in
dustries and commerce to report to
the Railroad and Warehouse Com
mission and to the attorney general
any violation of the provisions Of
this act of which they may obtain
knowledge"
Approved April II. 1887.
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CHAPTER 236-H. F. No. %
A BILL

FOR AN ACT to amend Mason's
Minnesota Statutes 1927, Section
55S1, relating to wild animals
and to the taking Ct big game.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of
the State of Minnesota:
Section !. That Mason'S Mime
sofa Statutes, 1927, Section 5537,
be amended SO as to read as fol-
lows:
"5537. Deer may be taken from
November Is to November 25, both
inclusive, In even numbered years
only, but nothing in this chapter
shall be construed to permit the
taking or killing of moose, elk or
caribou at any time. Except that
one antlered moose may be taken
within the Northwest Angle State
Forest during such open season as
may be provided in any year be-
tween October 10 to October 20 in
elusive, through the issuance Of
orders therefor by the Director Of
the Division of Game and Fish, who
with the approval of the Commits
sioner of Conservation shall pro-
mulgate and publish rules and regu-
lations in keeping with the minutes
and resolutions of the Conservation
Commission prescribing the manner
of taking and transporting such
big game and all further provisions
which are deemed necessary and
pertinent thereto. The license fee
for the hunting of such game in
the Northwest Angle Sta Forest
shall be S525 for residents and
S5025 for non-residents. Each such
licensee may take one antlered
moose during such season as may
be provided"
Section 2. Any person found guilty
Of the violation Of the above act
shall be punishable by a fine of
not less than $500 nor more than
$4,000, or by imprisonment in the
County Jail not less than 80 days
nor more than 80 days.
Section 3. Any acts and parts
of acts inconsistent herewith are
hereby modified and amended SO
far as may be necessary to give
full force and effect to the pro-
visions Of this act.
Approved April II, 1887.
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Chapter Isl, and Laws 1885. Chap

Chapter Isl, and Laws 1885, Chap
ter 375, relating to compensation
of certain town officers.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of
the State of Minnesota:
Section 1. That Mason's Mime
sofa Statutes Of 1927, Section 1899,
as amended by Laws 1888, Chapter
All, Laws 1885, Chapter ISL, and
Laws 1885, Chapter 375, be and the
same hereby Is amended to read as
follows:
1.-THE following town officers shall
be entitled to compensation for each
days service necessarily rendered as
follows, viz: Assessors, four dollars,
and mileage at the rate Of five go
cents per mile for each mile neces-
sarily travelled by him in going and
returning from the county seat of
the county to attend any meeting
of the assessors Of the county which
may be legally called by the county
auditor, and also for each mile
necessarily travelled by him in max
ing his return of assessment to the
proper county officer; supervisors
and clerks, three dollars when the
service is rendered within the town,
and three dollars when rendered
without the town; but no supervisor
shall receive more than ninety dol
lars as compensation in any one
year; provided, however, that any
towns containing over SO but not
more than SIS sections, the salary of
the supervisors, in addition to mile
age herein allowed, shall be three
dollars per day when the service is
rendered within the town and three
dollars per day when the service is
rendered without the town, but no
supervisor in any such town shall
receive more than one hundred
thirty-five dollars as compensation
in any one year. For the following
services the clerk shall receive fees,
and not a per diem, viz: For GER
tifying each notice of election,
twenty-five cents; posting notices,
each twenty-five cents and ten
cents for each mile necessarily
travelled; filing each paper, ten
cents; recording orders and other
instruments, ten cents per folio;
copying and certifying any record or
instrument recorded or filed In his
office, ten cents per folio, to be
paid by the person applying there
for. The voters at any town meet
ing, before balloting for officers be-
gins, may by resolution increase
the compensation Of town officers,
not to exceed fifty per cent.
Nothing herein contained shall be
construed to repeal any law where
in any towns are classified for the
purpose Of fixing the salaries, or
maximum salaries, Of any Of their
officers"
Approved April II, 1887.
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CHAPTER 246-H. F. No. 628
A BILL

FOR AN ACT to amend Mason's
Minnesota Statutes of 1927, Sec
ton 1442-49, authorizing retire.
ment boards to make loans to con-
tributing members in certain
cases.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State of Minnesota:
Section l. That Mason's Mime
sofa Statutes of 1927, Section 1442-
40, be and the same is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 1442-49. In every city of
this state now or hereafter having
over $4,000 inhabitants, which has
heretofore adopted or shall here
after adopt a system of paying pen
sions and retirement allowances to
retired municipal employees pursuant
to Laws of 1919, Capter 500, or said
Act as amended, the retirement
board is hereby authorized to make
loans to the contributing members
Of such retirement fund in amounts
not to exceed fifty per cent of the
amount of the salary deductions
standing to the credit of any con-
tributor. No loan shall be made
except IN case Of necessity which
in the opinion of the board is DEEM
ed sufficient to warrant the grant,
ing of such loan, nor without the
approval of at least three members
of the board. A majority of such
members may grant such loan
Loans may be granted in case of
lay-off of employees where such lay
off is Of indefinite duration and does
not amount to a complete separa-
ton from the service.
Repayment Of loans in all cases
where the employe is still in serv-
ice shall begin with the month
following the making Of said loan,
and there shall be repaid on such
loan each month an amount equal
to the regular monthly deduction
from the salary of such employe,
which deduction for repayment of
the loan shall be in addition to the
deduction for credit to the retire
ment fund. In cases where loans
are made to employees that have
been laid off, the repayment shall
begin with the first month in which
the employee is reinstated in his
regular employment.
"All loans made under this Act
shall bear rate of interest which
shall be one-half of one per cent
higher than the rate Of interest
which may be credited by the re-
tirement board to the credit Of con-
tributors on their credits from
salary deductions"
Section 2. This act shall take
effect and be in force from and
after its passage.
Approved April II, 1887.
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CHAPTER 251-H. F. No. TT
A BILL


FOR AN ACT amending Laws of
1908, Chapter 247, relating to the
ALLEGATION Of rooms or parts of
the Hennepin county court house
and Minneapolis city hall; pro
viding for the ALLEGATION and re-
ALLEGATION of rooms and space in
said building.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of
the State Of Minnesota:
Section /. That Laws Of 1908,
Chapter PAT, Section 2, Is hereby
amended so as to read as follows:
Section 2. The commission here
by created shall have the entire
care and control of all Of said
court house and city hall building.
1t shall have power to assign un-
assigned rooms and space in any
part of said building with entire
control Of any room or rooms in
said building, and Of all halls and
corridors and Of all boiler and ma
chinery rooms. The commission in
its discretion may reassign and re-
allocate occupied rooms or space
therein provided that space already
occupied may not be re-assigned
except after q hearing before said
commission on written notice to the
occupant or person In charge Of
such space; and the vote Of three
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CHAPTER 243-H. F. No. 427
A BILL

FOR AN ACT to amend Mason's
Minnesota Statutes of 1927, Sec
ton 3996-17, as amended by Laws
1888, Chapter 408 relating to the
sale of securities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of
the State of Minnesota:
Section l. That Mason's Mime
sofa Statutes of 1927, Section 1906
II, as amended by Laws 1888, Chap
ter 408, be amended so as to read
as follows:
"3996-17. The following fees shall
be paid to the commission:
Cd On application for registra-
ton, $1O0 per $1,000 on the total
proposed sale price Of the securi-
ties covered by such application;
provided, that the minimum fee
shall be $500, and the maximum
fee $4,000. Provided, however, that
the fee charged any cooperative
association organized in good faith
under the laws Of this State shall
be $500.
co On notification of intention
to sell, SOC per ST 900 on the total
proposed sale price of the securities
covered by such notification; pro-
vided, that the minimum fee shall
be $1,000 and the maximum fee
$4,000. Provided, however. that the
fee charged any cooperative as
ISOLATION organized in good faith
under the laws of this State shall
not exceed $500.
CD On application for brokers'
licenses, $4,000.
(4 On application for agents
licenses, $500.
60 On application for dealers
licenses. $4,000.
No application or notification Of
intention to sell shall be given any
effect until the proper fee Is paid.
All fees and charges collected by
the commission shall be covered
into the state treasury"
Approved April II, 1897.
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CHAPTER 239-H. F. No. 158
A BILL

N
FOR AN ACT to amend Mason's
Minnesota Statutes of 1927, Sec
ton 1914, relating to the 10
cation, size. and use of buildings
in cities of the first class.
Be it enacted by the Legislature Of
the State Of Minnesota:
Section l. Mason's Minnesota
Statutes Of 1927, Section 1914, is
hereby amended so as to read as
follows:
1914. That for the purpose Of
promoting the public health, safety,
order, convenience, prosperity and
general welfare, any city in the
state Of Minnesota now or here
after having $4,000 inhabitants or
over, acting by and through the
governing body of such city, may
by ordinance regulate the location.
size and use of buildings, the height
of buildings, the arrangement Of
buildings on lots, and the density
Of population therein, may make
different regulations for different
districts thereof, and may acquire
or prepare and adopt a comprehen-
Sive city plan for such city or
any portion thereof for the future
physical development and improve
ment Of the city, in accordance
with the regulations made as afore-
said, and may thereafter alter said
regulations or plan, such alterations,
however, to be made only after
there shall be filed in the office
Of the city clerk a written consent
Of the owners Of two-thirds of the
several descriptions of real estate
situate within 100 feet of the real
estate affected, and at the af-
firmative vote in favor thereof by
a majority of the members of the
governing body of such city; pro-
vided, however, that notwithstand-
ing any resolution, ordinance or
law conflicting herewith, the gov
erning body of any such city, by an
affirmative tWo-thirdS vote in favor
thereof, may by resolution grant a
permit for the construction of ad-
ditionS, extensions or improvements
to any hospital which is being &C
tually operated and maintained on
the premises which it occupies on
the date Of the passage Of this
act; provided, further, that when
ever the city planning commission
or board shall make recommended
ton in writing to the governing
body of any such city for altering
said regulation or plan, with re-
spect to more restricted use of
any real estate within 1000 feet
Of public park, which part con-
tains not less than so acres, located
near or adjacent to the waters of a
navigable lake, covering an area
of not less than 1000 square miles,
said governing body, by two
thirds vote of all its members, may
alter said regulation or plan in
accordance with said recommended
ton Of the city planning commits
sion or board"
Approved April II, 1887.
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the State of Minnesota:


Section 1. In any county in this
state wherein there now is or where
in there hereafter may be a county
board of education for unorganized
territory, and wherein condemna-
ton proceedings are brought under
Chapter So, Laws of 1885, or where
such proceedings are now pending.
the county board Of education by
unanimous vote, with the written
opinion of the county attorney. that
such claims is a legal outstanding
obligation of the territory formerly
included in any dissolved school
district, may audit, allow and pay
any such incurred outstanding OBJ
legations of any dissolved school
district within it's territory out of
funds received from the payment
of delinquent taxes upon land with
in such condemnation proceedings,
in the same manner as though said
indebtedness had been originally
incurred by said county board of
education.
Section 2. This act shall be In
full force and effect from and after
passage.
Approved April IT, 1887.
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members Of said commission shall

members Of said commission shall
govern as it's final action after such
hearing; provided further that any
interested party may appeal from
an adverse ruling of said commits
sion to the District Court, which
Court shall summarily decide the
matter after a hearing thereon IN
the same manner as q civil case.
and the determination Of said mat
ter by said Court shall be final,
provided that if the space in con-
troversy Is occupied or sought to be
occupied by District Court Judge
or other District Court official,
that said final determination be
made by a Judge Of the District
Court from district other than
that comprising Hennepin County.
which other judge shall be selected
by the Governor upon request Of
the commission. When so deter
mined and after service Of the
Court order on the occupant or
person in charge of such space or
room, he shall remove therefrom In
accordance with the terms Of the
order, and his failure to do so shall
be deemed contempt Of court.
The commission shall also have
the care and control of all engines,
boilers, machinery, elevators and all
mechanical and electrical appliances
Of every nature in said building. It
shall cause all of the occupied por-
lions Of said building to be properly
heated, lighted, cleaned and kept in
repair for public use, with full
authority to appoint any and all
employees necessary to properly per-
form the duties hereby deyolved
upon such commission, with author
ity to fix the compensation Of such
employees and to remove any there
Of at pleasure.
Nothing herein contained shall b
construed to interfere In any man
ner with the powers and duties Of
the court house and city hall COM
mission engaged in completing and
furnishing said building
Approved April II, 1897.