CHAPTER XLII. AN ACT TO PREVENT THE DESTRUCTION OF FISH, DURING Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That section two of chapter twenty-four of the general laws of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three be amended so as to read as follows: of meshes. Sec. 2. It shall be unlawful at any time during the Increase in size months of March and April to use net in fishing in any of the waters aforesaid, their inlets or outlets; Provided, That nets with meshes not less than two inches square, may be used at any time except the said months of March and April. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from When act to take and after its passage. Approved February 17, 1874. effect. CHAPTER XLIII. TO PREVENT THE DESTRUCTION OF FISH FROM THE WA- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : ner of catching SECTION 1. It shall be unlawful for any person to catch, kill, destroy or in any manner except by hook and Time and manline or spear, to take any fish known by the name ash. pike, pickerel and bass, from any lake, pond or marsh, or any inlet or outlet thereof, or other waters situated and being within the boundaries of the counties of Rice, Scott and Dakota, from the fifteenth day of November to Penalty for vio lation. Prosecutions when to commence. Duty of super the first day of April in any year after the passage of this act. SEC. 2. Any person or persons violating the provis ions of the preceding section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof suffer and pay a fine of five dollars for each and every fish so caught, killed, destroyed or taken, together with the costs of prosecution. SEC. 3. All prosecutions under the provisions of this act shall be commenced within one month from the time when the offense was committed, in the same manner provided in section ten of chapter thirty-three of the general laws of the state of Minnesota for the year A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one. SEC. 4. It is hereby made the duty of supervisors and visors and con- constables of towns and all others residing or being stables of towns. within said counties, having knowledge of the violation of When act to take effect. any of the provisions of this act, to make complaint thereof to any justice of the peace within the counties aforesaid, and such justice shall upon such complaint being made, issue his warrant for the arrest of the offender, and shall, upon the arrest of such offender and the return of such warrant proceed to hear and determine the matter in issue in the same manner as in other cases, and every person convicted of the violation of the provisions of this act, shall stand committed until such fine is paid. Provided, That such imprisonment shall not exceed one month. SEC. 5. This act shall be deemed to be a general act and shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2d, 1874. CHAPTER XLIV. AN ACT TO MAKE IT LAWFUL TO CATCH FISH WITH NETS Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That it shall be lawful for any person, at fish may be all times, to catch fish with nets in which the meshes are Designating how not less than one and one-half inches across, in Trout caught. [Foot] Lake, Engle Lake and Grass Lake, in the county of Kandiyohi. sistent acts. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with Repeal of inconthe provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. effect. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from When act to take and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1874. CHAPTER XLV. AN ACT TO PROHIBIT THE USE OF THE BALL AND CHAIN, Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : Prohibits the use chain as a pun SECTION. 1. That it shall be unlawful for the authorities of any city, village, town, or other municipal corpor- of the ball and ation, or other person, to require any person, as a Ishment for punishment for crime, or the violation of any ordinance crime. or municipal regulation, to labor upon the streets, parks, or other public works with ball and chain attached; or to cause or require any such person as a punishment for crime, to be held, tied or bound in public. Provided, That this act shall not be so construed as to prevent any person under arrest being tied or bound for the purpose of taking such person to or to and from any jail, prison or other place used for holding in custody persons under arrest. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with Repeal of inconthis act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. sistent acts. When act to take effect. Approved February 24, 1874. Guarantees free ual ministration lief. CHAPTER XLVI. AN ACT TO SECURE LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE AND EQUAL Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesola: SECTION 1. That all persons committed to any state exercise of spirit- prison or reform school or other place of continement in and religious be said state, shall be allowed spiritual advice and spiritual ministration from any recognized clergyman of the denomination or church to which such persons so committed or received may respectively belong, and have belonged prior to their being so committed or received into such state prison or reform school, or other place of confinement, such advice and ministration to be given within the prison or reform school or other building where the inmates thereof are required by law to be confined or imprisoned in such manner as will secure to such persons the free exercise of his religious belief; and such relig ious consolation, advice and ministration shall be allowed separate and apart, and out of the presence and hearing of any person other than the clergyman who is ministering to such inmates. Such clergyman shall have the right, at the times fixed as hereinafter provided, and in all cases of serious sickness without regard to time, to visit either of said institutions and to see and commu. nicate freely and untrammeled, with such of said inmates as belong to the church or society of which he is a clergyman. Duty of officers SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the board of managIn charge of pe- er's, or persons or officers having the control and mannal institutions. agement of said institutions, to set apart not less than one hour (and more if necessary) on the first day of each week, in which any of the clergymen in good standing of any church or denomination may freely minister vo and impart moral and religious instruction to those of the said inmates or children who respectively belong thereto prior to their being so committed or received therein, and to afford and grant to such clergyman such reasona ble and proper facilities as may be necessary to enable them to freely and properly discharge their duties as ministers and spiritual advisers to the said inmates; and to provide and furnish to such clergymen on such occasions a room or apartment whereby he may be enabled to freely and properly discharge his duties as such clergyman; Provided, That the religious denomination to which the parents of any child or minor so committed or received into either of said institutions belonged or was a member, shall be considered the denomination to which such Denominations designated. child or minor belongs, provided all such religious ministrations shall be given between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon and five o'clock in the afternoon, except in special cases, such as sickness when such ministrations may be given at any hour, and that the board of officers in charge of such institutions shall designate to each denomination which of the hour or hours so designated when a clergyman of of such denomination shall commence and impart such ministration and instruction and the time they shall occupy, which time shall be in accordance with the rules of such denominations, giving to each denomination an equal amount of time, without partiality or unjust discrimination whatever. -exceptions. SEC. 3. All sectarian practices, except by said cler Sectarian prac gyman as aforesaid, are hereby prohibited, and no officer tices prohibited of any state institution, or other person, shall interfere with or attempt to influence, control or change the religious belief or opinions of any of said inmates; nor shail any of said inmates be required to attend any religious services or devotions in any of said institutions against their own free will, if they have attained their majority and if minors shall not be so required contrary to the expressed directions of the parent or guardian or clergyman having spiritual charge of said inmates respectively, and in all matters appertaining to religion the rights of conscience and the free exercise thereof shall be scrupulously respected and guarded, provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit or limit such freedom of speech among the employees or inmates of said institutions as is permitted by the rules and regula tions thereof not in conflict with the spirit of this act. SEC. 4. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, A. D. 1874. Repeal of inconsistent acts. When act to take effect. |