Askov American. [volume] (Askov, Pine County, Minn.) 1914-current, 1937-05-06
CHAPTER 369-H. F. No. 325
A BILL

FOR AN ACT to amend Mason's
Minnesota Statutes of 1927, Sec
ton 6356, relating to bond and
duties of appraisers.
Be it enacted by the LEGISLATURE of
the State of Minnesota:
Section 1. Mason's Minnesota
Statues Of 1927, Section 1856, here
by is amended so as to read as
follows:
1886. At the time of the ap-
pointment of any such state ap-
praiser he shall give bond to the
state in a penal sum of not less
than $1,000 conditioned for the
faithful performance of his duties.
which bond shall be approved by
the attorney general, and together
with the oath as hereinbefore pro-
vlded for, be filed in the office of
secretary OF state. Provided that a
bonded District Ranger or Fire
Patrolman certified by the Director
OF Forestry to be competent tim
Der appraiser, shall have all the
power and authority of any such
state appraiser without giving
further bond than his bond as a
District Ranger, or Fire Patrolman.
Such bonds shall be paid for out
OF monies appropriated for the
supervision of state timber.
Every such state appraiser Is
hereby authorized to arrest any
person found trespassing. or to
have trespassed, upon state lands
ana deliver him to the sheriff of
the county, and such state ap-
praiser shall Immediately enter a
complaint before a court of COM
petent jurisdiction in said county
charging the person so arrested
with such trespass, and the person
so charged shall be arraigned and
given a hearing on such complaint.
Such state appraiser shall wear
when upon duty a badge of office
to be designated and provided by
the Director of Division of Forestry.
1t is hereby declared a mis-
demeanor for any person not a
duly appointed and acting state ap-
pralser to wear badge or to i'm
personate or claim to be a state
appraiser.
whenever an appraisal or valua-
ton is made upon lands suited for
agricultural purposes, such state
appraiser shall place an estimate
and valuation Of any timber there
on, and make a separate report
thereof; such report shall be made
from his field notes made on the
land and be by him entered in his
own hand in a book kept for that
purpose, and shall be made a part
OF the record of the Director of the
Division OF Forestry office. such
entry shall be dated when made and
sworn to upon the record at the same
time the state appraiser shall file
IN the Director Of the Division of
Forestry all plats and field notes
made by him, and affix his sigma
ture to each said plat and to each
said page of the field notes. Such
records shall show that said state
appraiser was actually upon the
land when such estimate and
valuation was made.
NO such report shall embrace
more than one section or frac-
tlonal section of land according to
the government survey thereof, and
shall show the amount of timber
upon each forty acre tract or SUBJ
division; provided, however, that as
ownership may appear to each sub
division Of land so appraised in the
various trust funds of the state, so
shall all appraisements, sales, and
accountings therefor be done ac-
cording as such title may appear
as Of record in the office of the
Director Of the Division of Forestry
and provided further, that where
appraisals, sales, and accountings
heretofore made have not been
made in accordance with this pro-
vision, the Director Of the Division
Of Forestry is authorized to make
such apportionment to the various
funds as he may deem equitable
and just to each such fund, and
such apportionment Is hereby
legalized and confirmed.