CHAPTER LV. March 2, 1865. An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors on ing liquors on days etc. certain days. SECTION 1. Prohibited from selling or giving away intoxicating liquors on the day of general elections in this State, or on the day in which any town meeting may be held. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That no person or persons, under the Prohibited from provisions of any license to sell intoxicating liquors selling intoxicat that may be hereafter granted in this State, shall be of general election allowed to sell, barter, or give away, except for medical purposes, any spirituous, vinous, fermented, or malt liquors, on the day of any general election, or the day on which any town meeting may be held for the transaction of town business, in the town in which such meeting may be held. tion of provisions of this act. SEC. 2. Any person or persons who shall sell, barter, or in any way furnish any spirituou, vinous, ferPenalty for viola- mented, or malt liquors, under any pretext whatever, or in any manner from which an intention to evade the provisions of this act may appear, he or they shall upon conviction thereof, by any court having jurisdiction of the same, be fined for each and every such offense in a sum not exceeding one hundred, nor less than fifty dollars, for the use of the common schools in the county in which the offense shall have been committed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1865. CHAPTER LVI. An Act to amend chapter seventeen of the Compiled March 1, 1885. Statutes, relating to corporations. SECTION 1. To be lawful to dispose of any real estate belonging to any religious incorporation. 2. Repeal of former act. 2. When act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That section thirty-two of chapter seventeen of the compiled statutes be amended so as to read as follows: belonging to said Section 32. It shall be lawful for any religious incorporation organized under the provisions of this chapter, by and through their trustees, to sell and convey, encumber or otherwise dispose of any real estate be- Religious incorpolonging to such corporation. Provided, however, That rations may disno such conveyance or encumbrance shall be made by pose of real estate the trustees except when first authorized to make the corporation. same by a resolution of such society passed at a meeting thereof called for that purpose, notice of the time, place and object of which meeting shall be given for at least four successive Sabbaths on which such society shall statedly meet for public worship, immediately preceding the time specified for such meeting. SEC. 2. That section thirty-three, of chapter sev- Repeal of former enteen, of the compiled statutes, is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 1, 1865. act. 1 CHAPTER LVII. February 24, 1866. An Act proposing an amendment to section one, article seven, of the Constitution of the State of Minnesota. Who may be enti tled to vote in this SECTION 1. Who may be entitled to vote in this State. 2. To be submitted to a vote of the people at the next general election. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. The following amendment to the Constitution of this State is hereby proposed for publication, and approval or rejection by the people, in accordance with section one, of article fourteen of the Constitution; that is to say, that section one of article seven of the Constitution shall be amended so as to read as follows: Section 1. Every male person of the age of twentyone years or upwards, belonging to either of the following classes, who shall have resided in the United States one year, and in this State for four months next preceding any election, shall be entitled to vote at such election, in the election district of which he shall at the time have been for ten days a resident, for all officers that now are or hereafter may be elective by the people. First Citizens of the United States. Second-Persons of foreign birth who shall have declared their intentions to become citizens conformably to the laws of the United States upon the subject of naturalization. Third-Persons of mixed white and Indian blood who have adopted the customs and habits of civilization. Fourth-Persons of Indian blood residing in this State, who have adopted the language, customs and habits of civilization, after an examination before any district court of this State, in such a manner as may be provided by law, and shall have been pronounced by said court capable of enjoying the rights of citizenship within the State. SEC. 2. This proposed amendment shall be sub- To be submitted to mitted to the people of the several districts of this the voters at the saf State, for their approval or rejection at the next gene- tion. ral election for the year eighteen hundred and sixty five. next general eles read. SEC. 3. The ballots used at said election shall be How ballots to written or printed as follows: For amendment to section one, article seven," or, "Against amendment to section one, article seven," as the case may be. SEO. 4. This act shall take effect on and after its passage. An Act to amend an Act relating to the revision of the Statutes of Minnesota, approved February seventeenth, February 21, 1865. eighteen hundred and sixty-three, as amended by chapter forty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four. SECTION 1. Commissioners appointed to revise statutes. 2. Who to prepare at his own expense a copy for the printer-compensation. 3. Number of copies to be printed-when to be delivered to the Legislature. 4 State Librarian to furnish each Commissioner with copies of Public Statutes and 5. Authorized to expend money for stationery, etc. 6. Necessary expenses incurred, how paid. 7. Repeal of former acts. 8. When act to take effect. Beit enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. Thomas Wilson, S. J. R. McMillan, 25 Commissioners appointed to re vise statues. Who to preparo compensation. Gordon E. Cole and E. C. Palmer, are hereby appointed commissioners to complete the revision of the statutes of this State. SEC. 2. The said commissioner last named in the preceding section shall give his whole time and attencopy for printer- tion to the said work, he shall prepare or cause to be prepared at his own expense, a copy of the statutes when revised for the printer and supervise the printing of the same; for which services he shall receive the sum of two thousand dollars, payable quarterly. The compensation of commissioner Cole shall be fixed by the remaining members of the commission, and it shall be paid by the State Auditor as other expenses of the commission are paid. Number of copies to be printed SEC. 3. Said commissioners or any three of them shall prepare or sanction said revision, and one hunwhen to be deliv- dred copies thereof shall be printed and bound in pamphlet form by the State Printer, and delivered to the Legislature on or before the tenth day of January a. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-six. ered to the Legislature. SEC. 4. Each of said commissioners shall be entiDuty of State Li- tled to receive from the State Librarian such number brarian. Authorized to expend money for stationery, etc. Necessary expen paid. of the copies of the public statutes and of the session laws, not exceeding five, including those heretofore furnished, as may be necessary to the convenient prosecution of said work. SEC. 5. Said commissioners or any three of them are hereby authorized to expend such moneys for stationery, postage and other objects necessary for the purpose of the commission and for personal expenses of the commissioners incurred while absent from their usual places of abode in and about the business of such commission as they may deem reasonable: Provided, That the whole amount shall not exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. SEC. 6. Upon the presentation of a certificate signed by any three of said commissioners certifying the amount due to any person for either of the items ses incurred, how mentioned in the last section, the State Auditor is hereby authorized and required to draw warrants upon the State Treasurer for the same, the whole amount of said warrants not to exceed the said sum of fifteen hundred dollars. |