The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-10-06
This section now reads as follows:


may frame charter for its own gov
eminent as a city consistent with
and subject to the laws of this state.
as follows: The legislature shall
provide, under such restrictions as it
deems proper. for. board of fifteen
freeholders, who shall be and for the
past five years shall have been quail
fed voters thereof, to be appointed
by the district judges of the judicial
district in which the. city or village
is situated, as the legislature may
determine. for a term in no event to
exceed six years, which board shall,
within six months after its appoint
ment, return to the chief magistrate
charter, signed by the members of
said board, or 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-sevenths of the
qualified voters voting at such cleo
ton shall ratify the same 1t shall,
at the end of thirty days thereafter.
village as city, and supersede any
existing charter and amendments
thereof: Provided, that in cities hav-
ing patrol limits now established,
fourths majority vote of the qualified
voters voting at such election to
change the. patrol limits now estab-
lished. Before any city shall incor-
shall prescribe by. law the general
limits within which such charter
shall be framed. Duplicate certifi-
Gates shall be made setting forth the
which shall be signed by the chief
magistrate of said city or village and
authenticated by its corporate seal.
One of said, certificates shall be de-
posted in the office of 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 charter
so deposited may be amended by pro-
posal therefor made by board Of
fifteen commissioners aforesaid, pub
lished for at least thirty days in three
newspapers of general circulation in
such city or village, and accepted by
three-f1fths of the qualified voters of
such city or village voting at the next
election and not otherwise; but such
with and subject to the constitution
and laws of the state of Minnesota.
The legislature may prescribe the
duties of the commission relative to
the vote of the people, and shall pro-
VIDE that upon application of five
per cent of the legal voters of any
such city or village, by written petit
the vote of the people proposed
amendments to such charter set forth
In said petition. The board of free
holders above provided for shall be
permanent, and all the vacancies by
death, disability to perform duties,
resignation or removal from the cor
porate limits, or expiration of term
of office, shall be filled by appoint
ment in the same manner as the
original board was created, and said
board shall always contain it's full
complement of members. 1t shall be
a feature of all such charters that
there shall be provided, among other
things. for mayor or chief magis-
trate. and a legislative body of
either one or two houses; if of two
houses, at least one of them shall be
elected by general vote of the cleo
tors. In submitting any such char
qualified voters of such city or village
any alternate section or article may
be presented for the choice of the
voters, and may be. voted on sepa-
rately without prejudice to other
articles or sections of the charter or
any amendments thereto. The legis-
lature may provide general laws re-
lating to affairs of cities, the applica-
cities of over fifty thousand inhabi-
tants, or to cities of fifty and not
less than twenty thousand inhabi-
tants, or to cities of twenty and not
less than ten thousand inhabitants,
or to cities of ten thousand inhabi-
tants or less, which shall apply equal
ly to all such cities of either class,
and which shall be paramount while
in force to the provisions relating to
the same matter included in the local
charter herein provided for. But no
local charter, provision or ordinance
passed hereunder shall supersede
any general law of the state defining
or Furnishing crimes or misdemean-
ors."