continue the geological exploration of the country in the valley of the St. Croix, within this State, and that he report to the next Legislature the result of his labors. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1865. ed. March 2, 1865. : CHAPTER XLI. An Act to continue the operation of the joint resolution relative to the taking of soldiers' votes, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. SECTION 1. Provisions for the appointment of eommissioners to receive soldiers' votes extended. 2. When act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That the provisions of the joint resoluProvisions extend- tion, approved March fifth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, entitled joint resolutions for the appointment of additional commissioners to receive soldiers' votes be and the same are hereby extended for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-five. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1865. CHAPTER XLII. An Act requiring the Adjutant General of this State to act as Claim Agent, and providing his compensation therefor. SECTION 1. Adjutant General to act as Claim Agent. 2 Compensation of Claim Agent-may employ one clerk-compensation of clerk. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That the Adjutant General of this State March 2, 18665. to act as Claim shall act as claim agent for all persons having claims Adjutant General against the Government of the United States for pen- Agent. sions, bounty or back pay, where such claims have arisen out of or by reason of the present war, and shall prosecute such claims without pay or compensation from the party seeking such pension, bounty or back pay, or from any other source, except as hereinafter provided. SEC. 2. The Adjutant General shall receive for the services required of him by the preceding section, from compensation. this State, the sum of four hundred dollars per annum, and shall be entitled to the services of one clerk, to be appointed by said Adjutant General, to assist him in the discharge of the-duties hereby required, who shall receive for his services the sum of two hundred dollars per annum. Such salaries to be paid out of the treasury of this State at the time and in the manner provided for the payment of the salaries of other State officers. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1865. March 2, 1865. Secretary of Senate and Clerk of House to preserve all documents. printer-number of copies to be printed. CHAPTER XLIII. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act providing for recording and distributing the journals of the Legislature and the laws and public documents. SECTION 1. The Secretary of Senate and Clerk of House shall preserve all documents-deliver copies as may be ordered to printer-number of copies to be printed-manner of measuring printed matter for the departments. 2. Publication of annual documents-number of copies. 3. Number of copies of Journals and Laws to be printed-Laws to be printed in two volumes. 4. When act to take effect. Beitenacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That section four of chapter eleven [forty] of the general laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be amended so as to read as follows: The secretary of the senate and clerk of the house shall carefully preserve, during the session, all such papers and documents as may be laid before the house of which he is secretary or clerk, and such of those as may be ordered by such house to be printed, he shall forthwith deliver to the printer for his use in printing the same, and the printer shall immediately print two hundred and forty copies of the same, of which num-` Deliver copies to ber each of the executive officers shall receive one, and the librarian five, which he shall preserve. No extra copies of any such paper or document shall be printed, except the same be ordered by joint resolution, passed within three days of the day on which the two hundred and forty copies of the same are printed and delivered to the secretary or clerk, and if extra copies be so ordered, the printer shall print the same without any charge for composition for such extra copies: Provided, That all printing done by the order of either branch of the Legislature or by joint resolution, or by virtue of any law authorizing the same, shall be printed as solid matter, except in the case of blank forms for the use of any of the executive officers of the State, which shall uring matter for be furnished by the quire, or by the hundred, or by ac- Manner of meastual measurement of composition set up, and not by the departments. constructive measurement. The secretary and clerk shall keep a correct list of all papers and documents of which extra copies shall be ordered to be printed, and also of all such as may be ordered to be printed in the appendix to the journal of the house of which he is secretary or clerk, and shall furnish the printer with copies of such lists whenever requested by the printer so to do, and if any such paper or document be ordered to be printed in the appendix to either journal before the same is delivered to the printer, the secretary or clerk having charge of the same, shall endorse upon it, these words, "ordered to be printed in the appendix," and if any such paper or document be ordered to be printed in either appendix within three days after the same has been printed for the use of the Legislature, then no charge for composition shall be made for printing the same in the appendix. And provided further, That whenever the same message, document, or any matter be ordered to be printed by each house, compensation for only one composition shall be allowed, except as hereinbefore provided. SEC. 2. That section eight of the act entitled an act providing for recording, printing, and distributing the journals of the Legislature, and the laws and public documents, approved March seventh, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-one, be, and the same are hereby amended so as to read as follows: Publication of an Section 8. There shall be printed under the provisions of the foregoing section, in pamphlet form, and covered in brochure covers, the following numbers of each of the following documents, to wit: Auditor of State's nual documents report, twelve hundred copies, Treasurer of State's number of copies. report, three hundred copies, Secretary of State's report, three hundred copies, Attorney General's report, two hundred copies, report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction, five hundred copies, report of the Regents of the University, two hundred copies, report of the trustees of the State Normal School, five hundred copies, report of the Warden of the State Prison, two hundred copies, of the Adjutant General, three hundred copies, one hundred copies Number of copies of the report of the Librarian; said reports when thus printed to be used as may be directed from time to time by joint resolution of the Legislature. SEC. 3. That section eleven be so amended as to read as follows: There shall be three hundred copies of each journal and an appendix printed, there shall be five thousand of Journals and copies of the general laws and joint resolutions printed Laws to be printed in one volume, and five hundred copies of the special laws in another volume. But no memorials of the Legislature shall be printed in either the volumes of the laws or in the State paper. -Laws to be print ed in two volumes. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved, March 2, 1865. March 3, 1865. Opinions of At CHAPTER XLIV. An Act providing for the printing and binding of the opinions of the Attorney General, for the use of the Department of State and County Officers. SECTION 1. Secretary of State directed to have printed the opinions of the Attorney Generalsnumber of copies. 2. Secretary of State to supply county officers with a copy when printed. 3. When act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That the Secretary of State is hereby directed to cause to be printed and bound, three huntorney Generals to dred copies of the opinions of the Attorney Generals of the State, for the use of the several departments of the State Government and county officers. 'be printed-numbor of copies. SEC. 2. The Secretary of State shall furnish to the |