Twin-City herald., 1938-10-01


of the State of Minnesota which are to
be submitted to the electors of said
state at the general election in 1888 in
accordance with certain acts adopted by
the 1887 legislature.
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. |
BY the adoption of Chapter 492 OF the
Laws of 1887, the legislature has pro-
posed an amendment to Article of the
State Constitution. The proposed amend
ment, if adopted, will not alter the form
OF any existing section of the Constitu-
ton but will add new section to be
known as Section 8 of said Article s.
The proposed section reads as follows:
Section s. Any of the public lands
Of the state, including lands held in
trust for any purpose, may, with the
unanimous approval of a commission
consisting of the governor, the at
torney. general and the state auditor,
be exchanged for lands of the United
States andfor privately owned lands
in such manner as the legislature
may provide, and the lands so ac-
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 a 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 trIst fund lands ex.
changes cannct now be made because the
State Constitution does not permit the
legislature to authorize the sale of said
lands except by public sae This amend
ment will 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 rinhts in
lands so transferred by the state shall
be reserved. The land so acquired will
become subject to the same trust, If
any, as the land disposed Of. For exam
Pile, If school land IS given in exchange,
the land received will become school land,
PROPOSED AMENDMENT NO. 2
BY the adoption of Chapter 493 of the
Laws of 1887 the legislature has proposed
an amendment to Section SO of Article
of the Constitution of the State of Min
nesota.
This section row reads as follows:
ANY city or village in this state
may frame charter for its own SOW
ernment as 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 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
exceed six years, which board SHALL
within six months after it's appoint
ment return to the chief magistrate
of said city or village draft of said
charter signed by the members of
said board, or a 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-sevcnths 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
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 three
fourths majority vote of the qualified
change the patrol limits now estab.
lished. 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-
Gates shall be made setting forth the
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 a board of
fifteen commissioners aforesaid, pub
ished 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-
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
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 its 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 elec-
tors. In submitting any such char
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