OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, PASSED DURING THE SIXTEENTH SESSION OF THE STATE LEGISLATURE, COMMENCING JANUARY SIXTH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR, AND TERMINATING MARCH SIXTH, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-FOUR. 7,000 COPIES ORDERED PRINTED. SAINT PAUL: SAINT PAUL PRESS COMPANY. 1874. GENERAL INDEX. AMENDMENT TO CONSTITUTION. CHAPTER. PAGE. XV 17 78 35 95 I.-To provide for the assessment and collection of Taxes...... II. To enforce the payment of taxes which became delinquent in and prior to the year eighteen hundred and seventy-three..... III.-To provide for the levy and collection of taxes upon property in cases when such property has been subject by law to taxation but the levy of taxes thereon have been omitted.... IV.-To amend section six (6) of chapter one hundred and four of the general laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, providing for the collection of taxes against railroad companies.. 104 V.-To provide for the assessment and collection of a tax for state purposes 105 VI.-To extend the time for the payment of taxes on personal property, for the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three, in the counties of Jackson, Cottonwood, Murray, Nobles, Rock, Watonwan, Redwood, Lyon and Lac qui Parle.... 106 VII.-In relation to the printing and distribution of laws and documents.. 107 VIII.-To provide for the purchase of paper and stationer's supplies for the ...... public printing, and for use in the legislature and state offices...... IX.-Authorizing the state treasurer to make temporary use of the sinking or other funds........... 121 123 ..... X.-To require the state treasurer to pay over certain moneys in his hands to Sibley county.. XI.-To amend section 28 of title 4, of chapter six (6) of the general statutes of Minnesota, relating to the duties of the state treasurer and the care of the public funds...... XII.-To amend section twenty-four of title four, chapter six of the stat 124 ..... 124 utes at large, relating to state treasurer's bond...... XIII.-To provide for the issuance of duplicate state warrants in cases where the original warrant is lost or destroyed....... XIV. To authorize the appointment of president of the state normal school board in case of vacancy 127 127 129 XV. To amend chapter one hundred and three of the general statutes of the state of Minnesota, relating to demanding fugitives from justice.... 130 CHAPTER. XVI.-To amend section forty-two of chapter one hundred and twenty of the general statutes of Minnesota, as the same is amended by chapter forty-seven of the general laws of 1871, relating to jails and prisons.... PAGE. 131 XVII.-Allowing state prison convicts a portion of their earnings........ 132 XVIII. To amend section 21 and 22 of title two of chapter 35 of the general statutes of Minnesota, relating to state charitable institutions..... 11 134 XIX. To abolish the distinction between "public" and "private" patients in the hospital for the insane for the state of Minnesota.. 134 XX. To amend chapter ten of the general laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-three, relating to an asylum for inebriates........................ XXI.—Relating to the management of the soldiers' orphans' home....... 136 XXII. To provide for the appointment of county superintendents of schools in the counties of Todd, Wadena, Otter Tail, Wilkio, Clay, Becker, Polk, Beltrami, Traverse and Pembina, and legalize appointments already made...... XXIII. To repeal a part of section fifty-five of an act to provide for the management of common schools and school districts, of general laws passed eighteen hundred and seventy-three...... 135 137 XXIV. To fix the capital required of fire and marine insurance companies 138 XXV. To amend section twelve of title three of chapter one of the gen 139 eral laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-two, entitled an act to establish a reciprocal general insurance law for the state of Minnesota and to revise and amend the laws of said state relating to home and foreign insurance companies........ XXVI.—Creating a board of railroad commissioners, defining their duties, and providing for the establishment of maximum rates for [the] transportation of passengers and freight upon the railroads of this state, and to prevent extortion and unjust discrimination of railroad corporations or their employees, and to prescribe a mode of procedure and rules of evidence in relation thereto.... 140 XXVII. To amend an act entitled "An act to establish the location of the general office of railway companies chartered under the laws of this state"... ... 151 XXVIII.-Relative to the proceeding in condemning property for public use on bedalf of railroad companies..... 152 XXIX.-Relating to railroad corporations and common carriers........... 154 XXX.-Entitled an act making railroad companies or corporations liable for damage caused by fires in certain cases... ....... XXXI.—For the regulation of grain elevators and warehouses XXXII. To declare certain elevators and grain houses personal property for the purpose of assessment and taxation...... 154 155 156 157 XXXIII -To provide for filling vacancies in cemetery associations....... XXXIV. For the further protection of cemeteries in the state of Minnesota 157 CHAPTER. XXXV.-To amend chapter thirty-eight, title one of the general statutes XXXVI. To provide for obtaining title to lands by the state of Minnesota, XXXVII.-To authorize the seizure and condemnation of lands to be used XXXVIII.-For the preservation of game. .... ..... PAGE. 159 160 163 167 177 177 XL.-To amend section nine of chapter thirty-three of the session XLIII.-To prevent the destruction of fish from the waters within the 179 179 XLIV. To make it lawful to catch fish with nets in certain lakes in Kan- 180 XLV. To prohibit the use of the ball and chain, and the punishment of ..... 181 182 XLVI.-To secure liberty of conscience and equal rights in matters of XLVII.-To amend section nineteen and twenty-one of chapter one hun- XLVIII. To punish gamblers upon cars and steamboats. L.-For the protection of sub-contractors and material men......... 184 184 186 188 189 LIII. To amend chapter thirty-four of the general laws of eighteen hundred and seventy, amending section twenty-nine of chapter LIV.-Relating to estray.... 191 193 LV.-To amend section sixty-five of chapter five of the general laws of |