that no sums whatever shall be paid or allowed for clerk hire in excess of the amounts actually paid or due for help employed to perform necessary excess clerical labor in the respective offices of judges of probate as hereinbefore mentioned. Sec. 2. Not to affect chapter 63, General Laws 1915, but all other inconsistent acts repealed. This act shall not affect or repeal chapter 63 of General Laws, 1915. All other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after January 1st, 1919. Approved April 17, 1917. CHAPTER 329—H. F. No. 723. An act authorizing the university of Minnesota to exchange certain lands belonging to it and heretofore acquired for use in connection with the agricultural school at Morris, Minnesota, for other lands more suitable for use in connection with said agricultural school. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: Section 1. University authorized to exchange lands at Morris agricultural school. That the board of regents of the university of Minnesota be and it is hereby authorized to exchange the lands hereinafter described, to-wit: lot six (6) of county subdivision of the east half (E2) of section thirty-five (35) in township one hundred twenty-five (125), range forty-two (42), according to the plat thereof on file and of record in the office of the register of deeds of Stevens county, Minnesota, and containing approximately two and four-tenth (2-4/10) acres for a tract of land of equal value and not less than two and fourtenths acres in area, to be selected from the north seven and one-half (72) acres of the northwest quarter of the northwest quarter of the southwest quarter (NW of NW of SW1⁄4) of section thirty-six (36), township one hundred twenty-five (125), range forty-two (42), all according to the government survey of said lands; all thereof being situate in Stevens county, Minnesota. Sec. 2. To be approved by board of regents, who are to execute deed. The selection of the particular land so to be taken in exchange for the land first hereinbefore described and the value thereof shall be approved by said board of regents. The president and secretary of the board of regents, when thereunto authorized by the board of regents, are hereby authorized to execute and deliver in the name of the University of Minnesota and in its behalf, all deeds, conveyances or other instruments necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 17, 1917. CHAPTER 330-H. F. No. 778. An act to legalize certain payments of clerk hire in the office of the county treasurer in certain counties. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : Section 1. Payment of clerk hire in Crow Wing county treasurer's office legalized.-All payments heretofore made for clerk hire in the office of the county treasurer in any county. then having an assessed valuation of more than fourteen million dollars and less than eighteen million dollars, according to the assessment of the last preceding year, not exceeding, for any one year, one-twelfth of one mill upon each dollar of such assessed valuation, is hereby legalized and made valid. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 17, 1917. CHAPTER 331-H. F. No. 794. An act to amend Section 3630, General Statutes of 1913, as amended by Section 5 of Chapter 271, Laws of 1915, relating to the inspection of petroleum products and establishing fees for such inspection. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: ` Section 1. Fees for inspection of petroleum, etc., in more than 50 barrel lots reduced to five cents per barrel.-That section 3630, General Statutes of 1913, as amended by section 5 of chapter 271, Laws of 1915, be amended so as to read as follows: Section 3630. The fees for inspecting and branding shall be as follows: 1. For a single barrel or other receptacle containing not more than fifty gallons, forty cents. 2. If more than one and not more than ten such receptacles be inspected at one time and place, twenty-five cents for each. 3. If more than ten, fifteen cents for each additional barrel or receptacle, except as hereinafter provided. 4. Oil, gasoline, naphtha or benzine in tanks or tank cars containing more than fifty barrels five cents per barrel. If the quantity in any one receptacle exceeds one barrel excepting where the same is in tanks or tank cars containing 468 SESSION LAWS fifty barrels or more, five cents shall be charged for each fifty gallons thereof. 1 Such fees shall be payable at the time of the inspection. Provided, that when oil, gasoline, benzine or naphtha is shipped outside of the state after inspection fees have been paid, the firm shipping same shall be given credit by the inspector for such fees. And provided, further, that all kerosene oil, gasoline, benzine and naphtha inspected in other states where the inspection requirements are as high as those required herein, may be admitted without additional inspection on payment of the fees required by this act.. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 17, 1917. CHAPTER 332-H. F. No. 816. An act providing for the organization of township mutual companies to insure against loss from death of horses and cattle. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : Section 1. Mutual insurance companies for insuring against loss by death of horses and cattle authorized.--It shall be lawful for any number of persons, not less than twenty-five, residing in adjoining towns in this state, who shall collectively own property worth at least fifty thousand dollars ($50,000.00), to form themselves into a company or corporation for mutual insurance against loss by death of horses and cattle, but no such company shall operate in more than fifty towns in the aggregate at the same time. Provided, that where any such company confines its operations to one county, it may transact business in the whole thereof by so providing in its certificate of incorporation. Sec. 2. How organized. Every such company shall be organized in the same manner as is now provided by law for the organization of township mutual fire insurance companies and shall be subject to all laws relating to such companies and possessed of similar powers, but it shall not have power to insure against loss or damage other than by death of horses or cattle. Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 17, 1917. 1 CHAPTER 333-H. F. No. 845. An act to regulate commercial fishing in Lake Superior. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : Section 1. Licensing of residents for fishing in Lake Superior authorized.-The state game and fish commissioner is hereby authorized to issue licenses to residents of Minnesota who are citizens of the United States, for skiffs and power boats for use in commercial fishing in that part of Lake Superior under the jurisdiction of the state of Minnesota, subject to the following regulations and conditions: Sec. 2. Size of nets to be used.-It shall be lawful to use nets as follows in such fishing: Gill nets of not less than two and one-half (22) inch mesh, extension measure, may be used for taking herring, provided that any gill nets of two and three-eights (23%) inch mesh, extension measure, in use at the time of the passage of this act may be used until the end of the year 1918, and provided further, that gill nets of not less than two and one-eighth (2%) inch mesh, extension measure, may be used between April 15th and June 15th for the purpose of taking herring for use as bait only. Gill nets of not less than four and one-fourth (44) inch mesh, extension measure, may be used for taking lake trout. Gill nets of not less than two and five-eighths (25%) inch mesh, extension measure, may be used for taking ciscoes, provided that no nets for taking ciscoes shall be set in water less than sixty (60) fathoms in depth. Sec. 3. Other nets unlawful.—No nets of any kind shall be used without first having obtained a fishing license therefor and it shall be unlawful to use any net in said waters except such as are herein expressly permitted to be used. Sec. 4. Set lines.-Set lines may be used to taking lake trout. Sec. 5.. Licensing of boats.-Skiffs and power boats are hereby authorized to be used in such fishing as is authorized under this act when duly licensed. Applications for licenses for use of boats in fishing under this act shall be made in writing, on blanks to be furnished for that purpose, to the game and fish commissioner, which applications shall state the character and number of boats desired to be used. Fees for license for each fishing season shall accompany each application as follows: For each skiff, limited to the use of one man $ 2.00 4.00 For each power boat of one gross ton capacity or less......... 5.00 For each power boat of from one to five gross ton capacity 10.00 For each power boat of five gross ton capacity For each gross ton in excess of five gross ton capacity 25.00 2.00 Licenses shall not be transferrable and shall be granted for one fishing season only. Each net used under license granted under this act shall have attached thereto when in use, a numbered metal tag to be furnished by the game and fish commissioner. No net shall be set within one-fourth (4) mile of the mouth of any stream flowing into Lake Superior. Sec. 6. Season for fishing.-The open season for fishing under this act shall be from the first day of December to the first day of November, following for taking herring, provided that this provision for closing herring fishing in November shall not be effective until the state of Wisconsin shall, provide for a similar close season; and from the first day of December to the first day of November, following, for taking lake trout. Sec. 7. Fish may be kept in possession one week.-Fish caught in nets under license authorized by this act may be had in possession by the license for one week after the close of the fishing season. Sec. 8. Non-owner not to remove fish from nets. It shall be unlawful for any person not the owner or his agent, duly authorized, to take any fish from any nets set by persons licensed under this act, or to wilfully disturb or interfere with such nets. Sec. 9. Fish may be sold within or without state.-Fish caught in such nets authorized for use by persons licensed under this act, or with hook and line in open season, may be shipped and sold within or without the state. Sec. 10. Packages to be plainly marked. All packages containing fresh or salted fish shall be plainly marked with a number, either by stencil or durable tag, said number to be furnished licensee by the game and fish commissioner. Sec. 11. Depositing of fish gurry or offal in Lake Superior prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to place any fish gurry or fish offal in the waters of Lake Superior or in any waters tributary thereto. Sec. 12. Written report to be made to commissioner.-Every person, firm, co-partnership, or corporation receiving a license for fishing under this act shall make a written report on blanks to be furnished for that purpose by the game and fish commissioner at the end of each fishing season, to said commissioner, stating accurately and in detail the amount, in pounds, of each kind of fish caught, the price at which such fish were sold and the total value of each kind. Sec. 13. Commissioner authorized to use nets at any time for procuring eggs.-The game and fish commissioner shall |