St. Paul recorder. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1938-10-21
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. 1888
Honorable Mike Holm,
Secretary of State,

Honorable Mike Holm,
Secretary of State,
Dear Sir:
In compliance with the provisions
Of Section 46 of Mason's Minnesota
Statutes of 1927, / herewith furnish
you a 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 gem
eral election in 1888 in accordance
with certain acts adopted by the 1897
legislature.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. I
BY the adoption of Chapter 492 of
the Laws of 1897, 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
and/or 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
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 COM
mission consisting of the. governor,
the attorney general, and the state
auditor the power to exchange any OF
the public lands of the state, incIud-
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
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:
pact areas of land for forestry and
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.
The amendment requlres that all
mineral Fights and water power rights
in lands so transferred by the state
shall be reserved. The 32Rd so ac-
quIred will become subject to: the
same trust, If any, as t1e land dis.
80 S4V11o al I3-Rad
Is given In exchange, tae land re-
! celVed will become school land.
|. PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO.
BY the adoption of Chapter 493 of
the Laws of 1887 the legislature has
SO of Article 4 of the Constitution Of
+ the State of Minnesota.
This section now reads as follows:
"Any city or village in this state
may frame a charter for its own
with and subject toythe laws of
this state, as follows:S. The legis-
lature shall provide, under such
restrictions, as it deems proper,
for board of fifteen freeho1ders,
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 vilz
+ lage is situated, as the legislature
/ event to exceed six years, which
board shall, within six months
after its appointment, return to
the chief magistrate Of said city
or village a draft of said charter,
4 signed by the members of said
| board, or majority thereof. Such
i charter shall be submitted to the
qualified voters of such city or
i village at the next election there
| after, and if four-sevenths of the
| qualified voters voting at such
election shall ratify the same 1t
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 havi9g patrol
II limits now established. such. char
n ter shall require three-foarthsr
81 majority vote of the qualified vot-
81 ers voting at such election to
change the patrol limits now .es-.
tablished. Before any city shall
incorporate under this act the
legislature shah prescribe by law
the general limits within which
such charter shall be framed.
Duplicate certificates shall be
made setting forth the. charter
III proposed and its ratification,
which shall be signed by the chief
Ill
and authenticated by it's 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 SO deposited may be amended
by proposal therefor made by a
board of fifteen commissioners
aforesaid, published for at least
thirty days In three newspapers
or village, and accepted 10y three
ffths of the qualified voters of
such city or village voting at the
next election and not otherwise;
in harmony with and subject to
the constitution and laws of the
state Of Minnesota. The legisla-
lftt ture may prescribe the duties OF
> the commission relative to sub
hitting amendments of charter to
the vote of the people,. and shall
provide that 1apona application Of
Ave per cent5-of the legal voters
~ of amy such city or Village, by
itten petition. such 5cen1nisss 70 =
peUrle proposed amendments to
i, such charter set forth in said petit
III ton. The board vof freehoiders
abaxe provided for shall be per-
mafient, and an the vacancies by
s', death disability to perform duties,
resignation or removal from the
cor5orate limits, or expiration soi
term of office, shall be filed by
hppointment in the same manner
e. the original boardsWa.s created
and said. board shall always con-
tain its full complement OF mem.
bers. It shall be q feature OF al