summoned unless the Court shall so direct by a written order made and filed with the Clerk of Court of the County, at least twenty days before the dates herein fixed for holding said Court. Sec. 3. Inconsistent acts repealed.-All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 1, 1917.

CHAPTER 10-S. `F. No. 105.

An act authorizing all. public service corporations to give mortgages or deeds of trust covering all their property or franchises, including after-acquired property, and legalizing such mortgages or deeds of trust heretofore given.

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

Section 1. Public service corporations authorized to execute mortgages or deeds of trust of property and franchises.—Any public service corporation owning property in this state may mortgage or execute deeds of trust of the whole or any part of its property and franchises to secure money borrowed by it for the construction and equipment of its lines and properties and for its corporate purposes, and issue its corporate bonds in sums of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100) secured by such mortgages or deeds of trust, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent (6%) per annum; such mortgages or deeds of trust may by their terms include after-acquired property, real and personal, and shall be as valid and effectual for that purpose as if such after-acquired property were owned by and in possession of the corporation giving such mortgage or deed of trust at the time of the execution thereof.

Sec. 2. Execution of mortgages or deeds of trust legalized. -That in cases where any public service corporation owning property in this state has mortgaged or executed deeds of trust of the whole or any part of its property and franchises to secure money borrowed by it for the construction and equipment of lines and properties and for its corporate purposes, and issued its corporate bonds in sums of not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100) secured by mortgages or deeds of trust, bearing interest at a rate not exceeding six per cent (6%) per annum and such mortgages, or deeds of trust have by their terms included afteracquired property, real and personal, such mortgages and deeds of trust are hereby legalized and made as valid and effectual to

all intents and purposes as if such after-acquired property were owned by and in possession of the corporation giving such mortgage or deed of trust at the time of the execution thereof.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 1, 1917.

CHAPTER 11-S. F. No. 188.

An act to amend Chapter 185, General Laws of Minnesota for 1911, as amended, relating to the acquisition of land for streets, parks and parkways in cities of the first class and the improvement and government of existing streets and parkways. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Issuance of certificates or bonds against assessments in two or more different proceedings authorized.-Section 10 of Chapter 185, General Laws of Minnesota for 1911 as amended is hereby further amended so as to read as follows:

Section 10. The city council, for the purpose of realizing the funds for making such improvement and paying such damages, may issue and sell special certificates of indebtedness, or special street or parkway improvement bonds, as they may decide, which shall entitle the holder thereof to all sums realized upon any such assessment, or if deemed advisable, a series of two or more certificates or bonds against any one assessment, or against the assessments in two or more different proceedings, the principal and interest being payable at fixed dates out of the fund collected from such assessments, including interest and penalties, and the whole of such fund or funds is hereby pledged for the pro rata payment of such certificates or bonds and the interest thereon, as they severally become due. Such certificates or bonds may be made payable to the bearer, with interest coupons attached, and the city council may bind the city to make good deficiencies in the collection up to, but not exceeding, the principal and interest at the rate fixed as hereinafter provided and for the time specified in Section 5. If the city, because of any such guaranty, shall redeem any certificate or bond, it shall thereupon be subrogated to the holder's rights. For the purpose of such guaranty, penalties collected shall be credited upon deficiencies of principal and interest before the city shall be liable. Such certificates or bonds shall be sold at public sale or by sealed proposals at a meeting of which at least two weeks' published notice shall be given, to the purchaser who will pay the par value thereof at the lowest interest rate, and the certificates or bonds shall be drawn accordingly, but the rate of interest shall in no case exceed five per cent per annum, payable annually or semi-annually.

The

city clerk shall certify to the county auditor the rate of interest so determined, and interest shall be computed upon the assessments at such annual rate, in accordance with the terms of Section 5.

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

Approved February 1, 1917.

CHAPTER 12-S. F. No. 263.

An act authorizing clerks of the District Court in counties having a population of not less than forty-five thousand nor more than fifty thousand, according to the last United States census of this state, to transcribe the judgments now in force in their office into a new judgment docket, and prescribing the conditions in reference thereto.

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

Section 1. Transcribing of judgments in Stearns County by Clerk of Court authorized. That the clerk of the district court in any county of this state having a population of not less than forty-five thousand nor more than fifty thousand, according to the last United States Census is hereby authorized at the expense of his county, to procure a suitable book, the form thereof to be approved by one of the judges of the district court of said county for the transcribing therein of the docket entries of all judgments docketed in the office of the clerk of said district court within the last ten years and now remaining unsatisfied of record.

Sec. 2. County commissioners to grant authority and fix compensation. Before procuring said judgment docket and before transcribing or entering any judgments therein, the board of county commissioners of any such county shall first by resolution entered upon their records, authorize the clerk of such district court to procure such judgment docket and direct the entry and docketing of said judgments therein, and shall then and there in such resolution fix the compensation to be paid said clerk therefor.

Sec. 3. Payment of clerk.-The compensation of said clerk shall be paid by the county on the presentation of a bill therefor, duly verified in the usual way accompanied by a certificate from one of the judges of the district court of said county that the work of transcribing said judgments in said judgment docket has been duly and properly performed.

Sec. 4. Application. This act shall not apply to any county in this state the salary of whose officers is fixed by any special law.

Sec. 5. To be completed by June 1st, 1917. The transcribing of judgments pursuant to the provisions of this act must be completed by the clerk of the district court of any such county not later than the first day of June 1917.

Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 1, 1917.

CHAPTER 13—H. F. No. 42.

An act entitled, "An act providing for the issuance and sale of interest bearing certificates of indebtedness to refund the outstanding certificates of indebtedness of any county which has issued and sold these certificates of indebtedness under the provisions of Chapter 130, General Laws of 1907, the amount of such refunding certificates of indebtedness not to exceed $600,000."

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

Section 1. $600,000 refunding interest bearing certificates authorized. The County Board of any county in this state may issue and negotiate the sale of interest bearing certificates of indebtedness of said county to take up and refund the outstanding certificates of indebtedness of said county heretofore issued and sold under the provisions of Chapter 130, General Laws of 1907, the amount of such refunding certificates of indebtedness not exceeding the sum of $600,000, to be issued as hereinafter provided in this act.

Sec. 2. County board to determine denominations and interest not to exceed 42 per cent. That said certificates of indebtedness shall be of such denominations and in such sums as the board of county commissioners shall determine, and shall bear interest at the rate of not exceeding 42 per cent per annum, payable semi-annually. The principal of said certificates of indebtedness shall become due and payable at such time or times as the board of county commissioners shall determine, except that they shall not be issued for a period exceeding ten years; said board of county commissioners may provide that a portion of said certificates shall fall due in each successive year after the date of their issue.

Sec. 3. Certificates to be signed by chairman and attested by auditor.-The certificates of indebtedness issued under this act shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and attested by the county auditor, and sealed with his official seal, and be made payable at such place as the board of county commissioners shall by resolution determine.

There shall be attached to each certificate coupons evidencing the semi-annual installments of interest to fall due on the same, and which interest coupons shall be attested by the facsimile of the signature of the chairman of the board of county commissioners and of the county auditor.

Sec. 4. Tax levy for payment of interest and principal.— The board of county commissioners shall annually after the date of the issuance of said certificates of indebtedness levy a tax upon the taxable property of the county in addition to all other taxes levied, sufficient to pay the interest annually accruing upon the certificates of indebtedness issued in pursuance of this act, and in advance of the maturity of the principal of any of said certificates shall in like manner levy a tax upon the taxable property of said county, sufficient to pay such principal when due.

Sec. 5. County auditor to advertise for bids for the sale of certificates to highest bidder or bidders.-Before any such county shall be authorized to issue any certificates of indebtedness as herein authorized, the county auditor shall give notice by advertisement, published for at least one issue in each of at least three consecutive weeks in one daily newspaper published in said county, that bids will be received by the county board of said county for the sale of such certificates at the time named in such advertisement. The county board shall sell such certificates to the highest bidder or bidders, but in no case for less than par.

Sec. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 6, 1917. *

CHAPTER 14-H. F. No. 68.

An act to amend Chapter 518, General Laws of 1913, an act creating the department of labor and industries, and providing for a board of examiners to govern appointments therein, and to repeal Sections 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, 1793, 1794, 1795, 1796 and 1797, Revised Laws of 1905, Chapter 356, General Laws of 1907, Chapter 180, General Laws of 1907, Chapter 497, General Laws of 1909, and providing penalties for the violation thereof.

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

Section 1. Giving of information, refusal to testify, refusal to admit certain evidence, or refusal to file reports, declared a misdemeanor.-Section 14 of Chapter 518, General Laws of 1913, is amended to read as follows: Any officer, agent, or employe