St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-10-14
Proposed
Amendments
to the
Constitution
of
Minnesota
To be submitted at 1888
General Election
STATE OF MINNESOTA
LEGAL DEPARTMENT
WILLIAM S. Erwin
Attorney General
st. Paul, Minnesota, June 8, 1888
To be submitted at 1898
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 IS of Mason's Minnesota
Statutes Of 1927, herewith furnish
you . statement Of the purpose and
effect Of all proposed amendments to
the Constitution of the State of Min
nesota which are to be submitted to
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. 1
By the adoption of Chapter 492 Of
the Laws of 1887, the legislature has
proposed an amendment to Article
Of the State Constitution. The pro-
posed amendment, If adopted, will not
alter the form of any existing section
OF the Constitution but will add new
section to be known as Section of
said Article 8.
The proposed section reads as fol-
lows:
Section 8. Any of the public
lands of the state, including lands
held in trust for any purpose,
may, with the unanimous approval
OF commission consisting of the
governor, the attorney general and
the state auditor, be exchanged
for lands of the United States
andLor privately owned lands in
such manner as the legislature
may provide, and the lands so ac-
quired shall be subject to the
trust, II any, to which the lands
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,
auditor the power to exchange any Of
the public lands Of the state. Inelud-
Ing lands held In trust for any pur.
pose, for lands Of the United States
and lands privately owned, such ex.
charges to be made In such manner
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. This amendment win make Il
possible for the state to acquire COM
pact areas Of land for forestry and
other conservation purposes by ex-
changing land outside of state for
lands Of the United States within sues,
areas and for privately owned lands
within such areas.
The amendment requires that all
mineral rights and water power rights
In lands so transferred by the state
shall be reserved. The land so ac-
a.
same trust. II any, as the land dis.
posed OF. For example, II school land
Is given In exchange, the land re.
ceiVed will become school land.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO.
, BY the adoption of Chapter 40S of
the Laws of 1887 the legislature has
proposed an amendment to Section
36 of Article of the Constitution of
the State of Minnesota.
This section now reads as follows:
"Any city or village in this state
may frame q charter for its own
government as q city consistent
with and subject to the laws of
this state, as follows: The legis-
lature shall provide, under such
FF res lions a a 1t deems proper
who shall be and for the past I'VE
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 q term in no
event to exceed six years, which
board shall, within six months
after It's appointment, return to
the chief magistrate Of said city
or village a draft. of said 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 ur-sevenths of the
qualified voters voting at such
election shall ratify the same it
shall. at the end Of thirty days
thereafter, become the charter of
such city or village as city, and
and amendments thereof: Pro-
vided, that in cities having patrol
limits now established. such char
ter shall require a three-fouFths
majority vote of the qualified vot-
ers voting at such election to
change the patrol limits now es-
tablished Before any city shall
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 be signed by the chief
and authenticated by its corporate
seal. One of said certificates
shall be deposited 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 char
ter 50 deposited may be amended
by proposal therefor made by
board of fifteen commissioners
Aforesaid, published for at, least
thirty days in three newspapers
Of general circulation in such city
or village, and accepted 10y three
1fths 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 laws of the
state, Of Minnesota. The legisIa-
ture may prescribe the duties of
the commission relative to sub
Knitting amendments Of charter to
the vote Of the people. and shall
provide that, upon application of
FIVE per cent OF the legal voters
of any such city or village, by ;
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 freeholders
above provided for shall be per-
manent, and alt 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 hoard was created,
and said board shall always con-
tain its full complement o. mem: