The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-10-20
The Purpose and Effect Of the Proposed
Amendment

The Purpose and Effect Of the Proposed
Amendment
The purpose and effect of this amend
CONSISTING Of the oovernor, the attorney
general, and the state auditor the power
TO exchange any OF the PUBLIC lanes OF
the state, including lanSs heid IN , srsss
States and lands privately owned, such
exchanges TO be made In such manner as
the legislature may provlse. In the
changes cannot now be made because the
State Constitution does not permit the
legislature 70 authorize the sale OF sac
lands except by public sale. This amend
ment Will make II possible for the state
20 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
lands SO transferred by the state shall
be reserved. The land so acquired will
become subject 20 the same trust, II
any, as the land disposed of. For exam
pie, If school land Is given In exchange,
the land received Will become school land.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. z
BY the adoption Of Chapter 4e3 of the
Laws of 1887 the legislature has proposed
an amendment 10 Section Sc 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 q charter for its own gov
and subject TO the laws of this state,
as follows: The legislature shall
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 term in no event TO
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
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 cleo
ton shall ratify the same il 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.
such charter shall require a three
fourths majority vote Of the qualified
voters voting at such election to
lshed. Before any city shall incor-
porate under this act the legislature
shall prescribe by law the general
shall be framed. Duplicate certifi-
Gates shall be made setting forth the
charter proposed and its ratification,
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 a board OF
fifteen commissioners aforesaid. pub
Hshed for at least thirty days in three
such city or village, and accepted by
three-flfths 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
sucn city or village, by written petit
uons such commission shall submit TO
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 filed by appoints
ment in the same manner as the
original board was created, and said
board shall always contain its full
complement Of members. II shall be
feature of all such charters that
there shall be provided, among other
things, for a mayor or chief magis-
trate, and a legislative body of
either one or two houses; If of two
elected by general vote OF the cleo
tors. In submitting any such char
ter or amendment thereto TO the
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 10 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-