Minneapolis spokesman. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1934-2000, 1940-10-11


In compliance with the provisions Of
Nason's Minnesota Statutes of 1927
Section 46, l make this statement OF
the purpose and effect of the amend
ment proposed to the constitution Of
to be voted on at the No
vember 5, 1910 general election In &C
cordance with Laws 1899. Chapter AL
PROPOSED AMENDMENT
By the enactment Of Laws 1889
447, the legislature has pro-
posed an amendment to Section 36 OF
Article 4 of the constitution. This Sec
ton now reads as follows:
Section Sc. Any city or village
in this state may flame a charter
for it's own govern ment as a city
consistent with and subject to the
laws of this state, as follows: The
legislature shall provide, under
such restrictions as 1t deems prop
er, for a board of fifteen free
holders, who shall be and for the
past five years shall have been
qualified voters thereof, to be ap-
pointed 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 its appointment,
return to the chief magistrate of
said city or village 8 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 il four-se venths of the
qualified voters voSing 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 a city, and
supersede any existing charter and
amendments thereof: Provided.
that in cities having patrol limits
now esta blished, such charter shall
require a three-fourths majority
vote of the qualified voters voting
at such election to change the pa
troll limits now established. Be-
fore any city shall incorporate I'M
der 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 magis-
trate of said city or village and
authenticated by its corporate seal.
One of said certificates shall be
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rotary of state, and the other,
after being recorded in the Of
fee 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
by proposal therefor made by a
board of fifteen commissioners
aforesaid. published 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
but. such charter shall always he
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 provide
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 petition.
The board of freeholders above
provided for shall be permanent,
and all the vacancies by death,
disability to perform duties, eesig-
nation or removal from the COR
porate limits, or expiration Of term
Of office, shall be filed by app lint
ment in the same manner ~ the
original board was created. and
said board shall always contain its
full complement of members. II
shall q of o. oh
tiers that there shall be provided,
among other things, for a mayor
or chief magistrate, and q legis-
lative body of either one or two
houses; If of two houses, at least
one of them shall be elected by
general vote of the electors. In
submitting any such charter 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
legislature may provide general
laws relating to affairs of cities,
the application of which may be
limited to cities of over fifty thou
sand inhabitants, or to cities of
fifty and not less than twenty
thousand inhabitants, or to cities
Of twenty and not less than ten
thousand inhabitants, or to cities
OF ten thousand inhabitants or
less, which shall apply equally 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
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