Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-10-14
Proposed
Amendments
to the
Constitution
Minnesota
To be submitted at 1888
General Election
STATE OF MINNESOTA
LEGAL DEPARTMENT
WILLIAM S. ERWIN
Attorney General
st. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 1891
To be submitted at 1888
General Election
STATE OF MINNESOTA
LEGAL DEPARTMENT
WILLIAM S. Erwin
Attorney General
st. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 1888

st. Paul, Minnesota, June 8. 1888
Honorable Mike Holm,
Secretary of State,
Dear Sir:
In compliance with the provisions
Of Section As of Mason's Minnesota
Statutes Of 1927, / herewith furnish
you statement of the purpose ana
effect of all proposed amendments to
the Constitution of the State of Min
the electors of said state at the gen.
eral election in 1888 in accordance
with certain acts adopted by the 1887
legislature.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. I
By the adoption of Chapter 492 of
the Laws of 1887, the Legislature has
proposed an amendment to Article 8
of the State Constitution. The pro-
posed amendment, if adopted, will not
of the Constitution but will add a new
section to be known as Section 8 of
said Article 8.
The proposed section reads as fol-
lows:
SOULFUL o. ANY VI Tic puDllC
lands of the state, including lands
held in trust for any purpose,
may, with the unanimous approval
of a commission consisting of the
governor. the attorney general and
for lands Of the United States
and/or privately owned lands in
such manner as the legislature
may provide, and the lands so ac-
CURED shall be subject to the
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exchanged therefor were subject,
and the state shall reserve all
mineral and water power rights in
lands so transferred by the state"
The Purpose and Effect Of the Pro-
posed Amendment
The purpose and effect Of this
amendment Is to confer upon a COM
mission consisting Of the governor,
the attorney general, and the state
auditor the power 70 exchange any Of
ing lands held In trust for any pur-
pose; for lands Of the United States
and lands privately owned, such ex.
changes to be made In such manner
as the legislature may provide. In
the case Of certain trust fund lands
exchanges cannot now be made be-
cause the State Constitution does not
permit the legislature to authorize the
sale Of said lands except by public
sale. This amendment will make il
possible for the state to acquire COM
other conservation purposes by ex-
changing land outside of state for
ests and other conservation areas for
lands Of the United States within such
areas and for privately owned lands
within such areas.
mineral Fights and water-power rights
In lands so transferred by the state
shall be reserved. The land so ac-
CURED will become subject to the
same trust. II any, as thu land dis
posed OF. For example, II school land
Is given In exchange, the land re-
celVed will become, school land.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 2
% By the adoption OF Chapter 493 OF
the Laws of 1887 the legislature has
proposed an amendment to Section
the State of Minnesota.
This section now reads as follows.
':Any city or village in this state
may frame charter for its own
government as a city. consistent
this state, as follows: The legis-
lature shall provide, under such
restrictions as 1t deems proper,
for 4 board Of fifteen freeholders,
who shall be and for the past five
years shall have been qualified
voters thereof, to be appointed by
the district judges of the judicial
district in which the city or viii
lage is situated, as the legislature
may determine. for term in no
board shall. within six months
after its appointment, return to
the chief magistrate Of said city
or village draft of said charter,
board, or a majority thereof. Such
charter shall be submitted to the
qualified voters of such city or
village at the next election there
after, and If four of the
qualified voters voting at such
shall, at the end of thirty days
thereafter, become the charter OF
such city or village as a city, and
supersede any existing charter
and amendments thereof: Pro-
yided. that in cities having patrol
limits now established, such char
ter shall require a three-fourths
majority vote of the qualified vot-
ers voting at such election to
change the patrol limits now es-
incorporate under this act the
legislature shall prescribe by law
the. general limits within which
such charter shall be framed.
Duplicate certificates shall be
made setting forth the charter
proposed and its ratification,
which shall he signed by the chief
magistrate of said city or village
and authenticated by its corporate
seal; One Of said certificates
the secretary of state. and the
other, after being recorded in the
office of the register Of deeds for
the county In which such city or
village lies, shall be. deposited
among the archives OF such city
or village, and all courts shall take
judicial notice thereof. Such char
ter SO deposited may be amended
by proposal therefor made by a
board of fifteen commissioners
thirty days in three newspapers
Of general circulation in Buch city
or village, and accepted 10y three
fifths of the qualified voters of
such city or village voting at the
next election and not otherwise;
but such charter shall always be
in harmony with and subject to
the constitution and lawH of the
state Of Minnesota. The legisla-
ture may prescribe the duties Of
the commission relative to sub
uniting amendments Of charter to
| the vote Of the people, and shall
provide that upon application of
five per cent of the legal voters
written petition, such commission
shall submit to the vote OF the
people proposed amendments to
such charter set forth in said petit
ton. The board of freehoiders
above provided for shall be per-
manent, and all the vacancies by
death, disability to perform duties,
resignation or removal from the
corporate limits, or expiration OF
term of office, shall be filled by
appointment in the same manner
as the original board was created,
and said board shall always con-
tain its full complement OF mann