The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-10-13

consisting of the governor, the at
torney general and the state auditor;
be exchanged for lands of the United
States andjor privately owned lands
in such manner as the legislature
may provide, and the lands so ac-
quired shall be subject to the trust,
if 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 Proposed
Amendment
The purpose and effect of this amend
ment Is to confer upon commission
general, and the state auditor the power
to exchange any of the public lands of
the state, Including lands held In trust
for any purpose, for lands of the United
States and lands privately owned, such
exchanges to be made in such manner as
the legislature may provide. In the
case of certain trust fund lands ex-
changes cannot now be made because the
State Constitution does mot permit the
legislature to authorize the sale OF said
m nt viii make it possible for the state
TO acquire compact areas of land for for
estry and other conservation purposes by
exchanging land outside of state forests
and other conservation areas for lands
Of the United States within such areas
and for privately owned lands within
such areas.
The amendment requires that all min
eral rights and water power rights In
be reserved. The land so acquired will
become subject to the same trust, II
any, as the land disposed of. For exam
pie, II school land Is given In exchange,
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 2
By the adoption of Chapter 493 of the
Laws of 1887 the legislature has proposed
an amendment to Section S6 of Article 4
of the Constitution of the State of Min
nesota.
This section now reads as follows:
ANY city or village in this state
may frame a charter for its own gov
eminent as a city consistent with
and subject to the laws OF this state;
provide, under such restrictions as it
deems proper, for a 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
of said city or village a draft of said
charter, signed by the members of
said board, or majority thereof.
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 it shall,
at the end of thirty days thereafter,
become the charter of such city or
existing charter and amendments
thereof: Provided. that in cities hav-
ing patrol limits now established,
such charter shall require a three
fnfJrthS lnrifV UnfR "a
voters voting at such election to
change the patrol limits now estab-
hshed. Before, any city shall incor-
porate under this act the legislature
shall prescribe by law the general
limits within which such charter
shall be framed. Duplicate certifi-
charter proposed and its ratification,
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-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 laws of the state of Minnesota.
The legislature may prescribe the
duties of the commission relative to
submitting amendments of charter 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
ton, such commission shall submit to
the vote of the people proposed
amendments to such charter set forth
in said petition. The board of free
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
a feature of all such charters that
there shall be provided, among other
things. for, mayor or. chief magis.
either one or two houses; If of two
houses, at least one of them shall be
elected by general vote of the cleo
ter or amendment thereto to the
qualified voters of such city or village
any alternate section or article may
DS presented LOT lne CnOlCe 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-
ton of which may be limited to
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 n nf fnr ND f,aI4
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
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