dred ($500.00) dollars, provided, however, that the chairman of the county board of any such county shall receive in addition to the foregoing ten cents per mile each way for going to the county seat to sign warrants during recess of the board.

Sec. 2. Inconsistent acts repealed. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 2, 1917.

CHAPTER 153-S. F. No. 371.

An act to extend the time for closing the affairs of a dissolved corporation other than a corporation having the power of eminent domain and legalizing conveyances made and acts done by such corporation after the expiration of the threeyear limit prescribed by General Statutes 1894, Section 3431. Section 2883, Revised Laws 1905, and Section 6198, General Statutes 1913.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Acts of dissolved corporations legalized' and extension of time given to dispose of property.-When any corporation other than a corporation having the power of eminent domain which has been dissolved more than three years, by expiration or forfeiture of its charter, decree of court or otherwise, did not fully close its affairs and convey all its property within the three years' limit prescribed by General Statutes 1894, section 3431, section 2883, Revised Laws 1905, and section 6198 General Statutes 1913, the time so limited is hereby extended for one year from and after the passage of this act; and any and all conveyances theretofore made by any such corporation or its proper officers and any and all acts done in disposing of the property of such corporation and closing its affairs, after the expiration of three years from the date of its dissolution, are hereby legalized and made of the same force and effect as though the same had been done within such three years. Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting any vested rights or any action or proceeding now pending. Approved April 2, 1917.

CHAPTER 154-S. F. No. 1005.

An act to amend Section 3 of Chapter 21 of the General Laws of the State of Minnesota for the year 1917, relating to the furnishing of seed grain and feed to resident land owners by counties under certain circumstances.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota :

Section 1. County board given authority to receive applications for seed grain after the second Monday in March.—That section 3 of chapter 21 of the General Laws of the State of Minnesota for the year 1917 be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

"Section 3. The county auditor shall file and number said applications in the order received by him and call the county board to meet on the second Tuesday in March next following, and said board shall meet and consider said applications separately and in the order of their filing, and may grant such applications in whole or in part as appear to them just and proper. Provided that not more than two hundred (200) bushels of wheat or its equivalent in other seed shall be furnished to any one person.

The county board is hereby granted authority in its discretion to direct the filing by the auditor of the petition provided for in section hereof after March 1st, and to receive applications for grain after the second Monday in March and to act upon such petition and application the same as if received prior to the respective dates in said act provided.

The county board shall make an order specifying the names of persons and amounts allowed with the kind and quantities of seed and feed granted, and the county auditor shall issue and deliver to the applicant a warrant showing such allowance. Such warrant shall be for the purchase of such seed and feed. and for no other purpose whatever, and shall be paid by the county treasurer only when there is endorsed on the back thereof a receipt signed by the applicant, acknowledging receipt by him from some reputable person, of the seed and feed therein specified.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 2, 1917.

CHAPTER 155—S. F. No. 269.

An act authorizing all. corporations other than those for pecuniary profit to increase or decrease the number of their trustees.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Corporations not organized for pecuniary profit given power to increase or decrease number of trustees. That any corporation other than those for pecuniary profit heretofore or hereafter incorporated by virtue of any law of this state, may by resolution of its board of trustees, adopted at any regular or called meeting, by a majority vote thereof, increase or decrease the number of trustees of such corporation and provide for their election, and may also in such resolution provide for the number of trustees of said corporation which shall constitute a quorum; and a copy of such resolution subscribed and sworn to by the president and secretary of such corporation, shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county where the corporation is located and in the office of the secretary of state.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 3, 1917.

CHAPTER 156-S. F. No. 323..

An act relating to sheriffs and their deputies and other assistants in counties containing not less than eighty congressional townships and having an assessed valuation of more than twenty million dollars and less than fifty million dollars, and to salaries, fees, mileage, charges and expenses of such officers and to the appointment of such deputies and other assistants. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Certain sheriffs to receive salary of $3,600.00 per annum. In each county in this state, now or hereafter containing not less than eighty congressional townships and now or hereafter having an assessed valuation of more than twenty million dollars and less than fifty million dollars, the sheriff shall receive an annual salary of thirty-six hundred ($3,600.00) dollars.

Sec. 2. To perform all work for county without additional compensation.-The sheriff in any such county shall perform all the duties and services now or which may hereafter be required by law to be performed by him, and in addition shall serve all papers and post all notices named by law to be served or posted in behalf of the state or county for which he is elected,

including all papers to be served or notice to be posted by the. board of county commissioners, the county auditor, or any other county official.

Sec. 3. Deputies and their salaries. The sheriff in any such county shall appoint and employ a chief deputy who shall be paid an annual salary of sixteen hundred eighty ($1,680.00) dollars; a second deputy who shall be paid an annual salary of fifteen hundred ($1,500.00) dollars; and a third deputy who shall be paid an annual salary of thirteen hundred twenty ($1,320.00) dollars; one jailor who shall be paid six hundred ($600.00) dollars per annum; one additional deputy during such times as the district court is in session in his county, and such other and additional deputies, bailiffs, or court officers as may from time to time be required, ordered, or authorized by a judge of said district court, or by the county commissioners of said county, each such additional deputy, bailiff, or court officer to receive a salary at the rate of not to exceed one hundred ($100.00) dollars per month.. The salaries of all such deputies, jailers, bailiffs, and court officers shall be paid by the county.`

Sec. 4. Payment of salaries and expenses. The salaries aforesaid shall be paid monthly in the same manner as other county officials are now paid, and the same shall be in full compensation for all services rendered by said officers except as hereinafter provided; provided that such sheriff shall be allowed the expenses necessarily incurred by him or any of his deputies in the performance of their official duties which shall be allowed and paid, in the same manner as other claims against such counties are paid and allowed, except that expenses incurred by them in performing the services required by them in connection with. insane persons and transportation of criminals and other persons to state institutions, and other charges and expenses incidental thereto shall be allowed and paid as by law in such cases provided.

All claims for livery hire shall state the purpose for which such livery was used and have attached thereto a receipt for the amount paid for such livery, signed by the persons to whom paid, and if the sheriff uses his own team or automobile in the necessary performance of the official duties of, his office, he shall be allowed for the use thereof such reasonable amount as the use of a team or automobile could be hired for, under the same circumstances, from any person engaged in the livery business in the same locality; not, however, to exceed eight cents per mile for each mile actually traveled, and no charge shall be made, or paid, for time consumed by such sheriff's conveyance in waiting; provided, further, that nothing in this act contained shall be construed to prevent such sheriff from collecting all fees, mileage, and other expenses or charges provided for, or

authorized by law and not herein otherwise mentioned, from the state or any department thereof, or any other person or corporation other than his county, and said sheriff shall, on the first Monday of each month, file with the county auditor of his said county, a correct statement of all such fees, mileage, expenses, and other charges received by him and turn all moneys into the county treasurer.

Sec. 5. Purchase of bloodhounds.-The sheriff in any such county, when authorized to do so by the board of county commissioners, may purchase and keep at the expense of the county, a pair of bloodhounds for use in pursuing and apprehending criminals and fugitives.

Sec. 6. Chapter 192, General Laws 1909 and chapter 257 General Laws of 1907 not modified or repealed. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to repeal, amend, or modify the provisions of chapter 257 of the General Laws of 1907, with reference to matrons, night watchman, and assistant jailers; nor the provisions of chapter 192, Laws of 1909, with reference to boarding of prisoners.

Sec. 7. Inconsistent acts repealed.-Chapter 390, General Laws 1913, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.

Sec. 8. Time of taking effect. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after May 1, 1917.

Approved April 3, 1917.

CHAPTER 157-S. F. No. 437.

An act to enlarge the boundaries of Minneopa State Park. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Increased acreage for Minneopa State Park.That the boundaries of Minneopa State Park as established and created by, chapter two hundred ninety-seven (297) of the General Laws of the State of Minnesota for 1905, and as enlarged by chapter four hundred and nine (409) of the Genéral Laws of the State of Minnesota for 1909, be and the same are hereby enlarged by adding to said park the following land situate in Blue Earth county, and State of Minnesota, to-wit: All the south twenty-six (26) acres of the southeast quarter of the northeast quarter (SE4 of NE4) of section twenty (20) in township one hundred and eight (108) north of range twentyseven (27) west, which lies west of the public highway now located on said twenty-six (26) acre tract, containing about eleven and one-half acres, and the said land shall be and the