An Act to appropriate money for the erection of a build- February 6, 1866 ing for the State Normal School at Winona. SECTION 1. Appropriation for the erection of a building for a State Normal School at Winona. 2. When Act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: Appropriates SECTION 1. That the sum of ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money money for State in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be Normal School. expended in the erection of a building for the State Normal School at Winona; the same to be paid on warrants drawn by the President and countersigned by the Treasurer of the State Normal School Board; and that on the presentation of such warrants to the State Auditor, it shall be his duty to draw warrants on the State Treasurer for a like amount; such money to be expended under the direction of the "Normal School Board, as provided by law. SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from the time of its passage. Approved February 6, 1866. February 28, 1866 CHAPTER III. An Act to relieve certain soldiers from paying bounty tax. SECTION 1. Soldiers and their widows and minor children to be exempt from paying bounty tax-order to be drawn by town or county authorities upon the Treasurer of county, city or town wherein such tax has been levied for amount so levied; said order to be received as payment for such tax or taxes. 2. Neglect or refusal of authorities to issue such order to subject them to action for twice the amount so levied. 3. No person to derive benefit from this Act who has not served one year as private in a Minnesota regiment, unless discharged for disability. Persons whose bounties exceeded three hundred dollars not entitled to any benefit. Authorities to levy tax to meet deficiencies. 4. When Act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. Whenever it shall appear by satisfactory Proof of service evidence to the authorities of any county, city or town, in the army of that a tax has been levied, for the purpose of paying United States, as bounties to volunteers against the property of any pera volunteer, exempts from pay- Son, who, on or before the first day of January, one ment of bounty thousand eight hundred and sixty-four entered the tax. military service of the United States as a private soldier, and has since been honorably discharged, or still remains in said service, or against the property of the widow or minor children of such person; such authori-ties respectively shall, upon due proof of such facts, issue and deliver to any such parties or their agents, an order upon the Treasurer of such county, city or town, wherein such tax was levied, for the amount of any such tax or taxes for the purpose of paying bounties to soldiers, in such county, city or town, specifyWidows and mi- ing the amount, to whom issued and delivered, and nor children of that it is in behalf of a person, or the widow or minor soldiers entitled children of such person who had entered the military emption. service previous to the first day of January 1864, and to similar ex ing box the Treasurer upon whom such order is drawn, or his Authorities neg SEC. 2. When the authorities of any county, city or town, shall neglect or refuse to issue and deliver the lecting to carry said order in accordance with the previous section, out provisions of they shall be liable in an action at law to the parties this act liable to aggrieved in a sum of twice the amount of his, her or penalty. their tax or taxes so levied. entitled to bene SEC. 3. The benefits of this act shall not apply to persons who have not served one year as privates in Persons who are some Minnesota organization of United States troops, fits of this act. unless discharged for physical disability, nor to persons whose total bounties, received from all sources, have exceeded three hundred dollars, and the authorities issuing said orders are hereby authorized to levy suf ficient taxes for any succeeding year to meet all deficiencies created by the operation of this act. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1866. March 1, 1866. Number of members composing CHAPTER IV. An Act to prescribe the number of members who shall compose the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Minnesota, and to apportion the represen tation in both Houses throughout the different sections of the State. SLOTION 1. Designates the number of Senators and Representatives. 2. How representation shall be apportioned. 3. Repeals all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this Act. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That for the next Legislature and thereafter until a new apportionment shall have been made, Senate and House the Senate of this State shall be composed of twentytwo (22) members, and the House of Representatives shall be composed of forty-seven (47) members. SEC. 2. That the Representation in the Senate and How members House of Representatives be apportioned throughout the State in twenty-two Senatorial and Representaive districts as follows, to wit: apportioned. The first district shall be composed of the county of Ramsey, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and three (3) Representatives. The second district shall be composed of the counties of Washington, Chisago, Pine, and Kanabec, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and two (2) Representatives. The third district shall be composed of the counties of Stearns, Todd, Cass, Wadena, Otter Tail, Andy Johnson, Clay, Douglas, Becker, Polk, Pembina, Morrison, Crow Wing, Aiken, Itasca, Pope, Stevens, Traverse, Carleton, St. Louis and Lake, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and two (2) Representatives. The fourth district shall be composed of that portion of Hennepin county which lies east of the Mississippi river, and the counties of Manomin, Anoka, Sherburne, How members Benton, Isanti, and Mille Lac, and shall be entitled to apportioned. elect one (1) Senator and one (1) Representative; The fifth district shall be composed of that portion of Hennepin county which lies west of the Mississippi river, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and three (3) Representatives; The sixth district shall be composed of the counties of Wright, Meeker, McLeod, Kandiyohi and Monongalia, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and two (2) Representatives; The seventh district shall be composed of the county thy of Dakota, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and two (2) Representatives; The eighth district shall be composed of the county of Rice, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and two (2) Representatives; The ninth district shall be composed of the county of Goodhue, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and three (3) Representatives;, The tenth district shall be composed of the county of Wabashaw, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and two (2) Representatives; The eleventh district shall be composed of the county of Winona, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and three (3) Representatives; The twelfth district shall be composed of the county of Olmsted, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and three (3) Representatives; The thirteenth district shall be composed of the county of Houston, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and two (2) Representatives. The fourteenth district shall be composed of the county of Fillmore, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and four (4) Representatives; The fifteenth district shall be composed of the counties of Mower and Dodge, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and two (2) Representatives; The sixteenth district shall be composed of the counties of Steele, Waseca and Freeborn, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) Senator and three (3) Representatives, of which number of Representatives each county shall elect one each year; The seventeenth district shall be composed of the counties of Blue Earth and Watonwan, and shall be |