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GENERAL LAWS

OF

MINNESOTA.

PASSED AND APPROVED DURING THE TWENTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF
THE LEGISLATURE, COMMENCING JANUARY EIGHTH, ONE THOUS-
AND EIGHT HUNDRED AND NINETY-ONE.

CHAPTER 1.

[S. F. No. 635.]

tion.

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION THIRTY- Sec. 33, art. 4,
THREE (33) OF ARTICLE FOUR (4) OF THE CONSTITU- State constitu
TION OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA, PROHIBITING
SPECIAL LEGISLATION.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota :
SECTION 1. The following amendment to section thirty-
three (33) of article four (4) of the constitution of the state
of Minnesota is hereby proposed to the people of said state
for their approval or rejection, which said section when so
approved shall read as follows:

Sec. 33. In all cases when a general law can be made applicable no special law shall be enacted; and whether a general law could have been made applicable in any case is hereby declared a judicial question, and as such shall be judicially determined without regard to any legislative assertion on that subject. The legislature shall pass no local or special law regulating the affairs of, or incorporating, erecting or changing the lines of any county, city, village, township, ward or school district, or creating the offices, or prescribing the powers and duties of the officers of, or fixing or relating to the compensation, salary or fees of the same, or the mode of election or appointment thereto; authorizing the laying out, opening, altering, vacating or

Proposed lating to special legislation.

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Constitutional

lating to special

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maintaining roads, highways, streets or alleys; remitting amendment re- fines, penalties or forfeitures; regulating the powers, duties and practice of justices of the peace, magistrates and constables; changing the names of persons, places, lakes or rivers; for opening and conducting of elections, or fixing or changing the places of voting; authorizing the adoption or legitimation of children; changing the law of descent or succession; conferring rights upon minors; declaring any named person of age; giving effect to informal or invalid wills or deeds, or affecting the estates of minors or persons under disability; locating or changing county seats; regulating the management of public schools, the building or repairing of school houses, and the raising of money for such purposes; exempting property from taxation, or regulating the rate of interest on money; creating corporations, or amending, renewing, extending or explaining the charters thereof; granting to any corporation, association or individual any special or exclusive privilege, immunity or franchise whatever, or authorizing public taxation for a private purpose. Provided, however, That the inhibitions of local or special laws in this section shall not be construed to prevent the passage of general laws on any of the subjects enumerated.

Form of submission.

Style of ballot.

The legislature may repeal any existing special or local law, but shall not amend, extend or modify any of the

same.

SEC. 2. This proposed amendment shall be submitted to the people of this state for their approval or rejection at the next general election held therein, and each of the legal voters at said election may vote by ballot for or against said proposed amendment, and the returns thereof shall be made and certified and such votes canvassed, and the result thereof declared in the manner provided by law for returning, certifying and canvassing votes at general elections for state officers and declaring the result thereof; and if it shall appear therefrom that a majority of the voters present and voting at said election upon said amendment have voted in favor of the same, then immediately after the result shall have been ascertained, the governor shall make proclamation thereof, and said amendment shall therefrom take effect and be in full force as part of the constitution of the state of Minnesota.

SEC. 3. The ballots used at said election on said amendment shall have printed thereon, "Amendment to article four (4) of the constitution to prohibit special legislation, yes-no;" and each elector voting on said amendment shall, unless otherwise provided by general law, mark across, erase or scratch out one (1) of said words "yes" or "no" on said ballot, and leave the other on the same when deposited in the ballot box, and no ballot shall be counted except those having one (1) only of said words "yes" or "no" thereon, and any ballot having unmarked, not erased

or not scratched, the word "yes" thereon shall be counted in favor of said amendment, and any ballot having unmarked, not erased or not scratched, the word "no" thereon shall be counted against said amendment.

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

Approved April 15, 1891.

CHAPTER 2.

[S. F. No. 124.]

AN ACT PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION THREE
(3) OF ARTICLE NINE (9) OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE
STATE OF MINNESOTA, AUTHORIZING THE TAXATION
OF THE GROSS EARNINGS IN THIS STATE OF RAIL-
ROADS, SLEEPING, DRAWING ROOM AND PARLOR CAR
COMPANIES, TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE COMPANIES,
EXPRESS COMPANIES AND INSURANCE COMPANIES, OR IN
LIEU OF SUCH TAX AUTHORIZING A LICENSE FEE OR TAX
ON EITHER OR ANY OF SUCH COMPANIES, AND AUTHOR-
IZING A SPECIFIC TAX ON MINING PROPERTY.

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

Section 3, art. 9, State constitution.

SECTION 1. The following amendment to section three Amendment (3) of article nine (9) of the constitution of the state of proposed. Minnesota is hereby proposed to the people of said state for their approval or rejection, that is to say, to add at the end of said section the following words:

Taxation of railing car, teletelephone comgraph and panies-on

roads and sleep

express companies-on insur

ance companies.

"And there may be levied and collected annually a tax upon the gross earnings in this state of all railroads, sleep. ing, parlor and drawing room car companies, or owners, whose cars run in or into this state; on all telegraph and telephone companies, or owners, whose lines are in or extend into this state; on all express companies, or owners, doing business in this state; on all foreign insurance companies doing business in this state; on all domestic insurance companies of this state, or on either or any of such companies. Or in lieu of such tax on the gross earnings of such companies, or either or any of them, an annual license fee or tax imposed on them, or either or any of them; but no tax upon the gross earnings of any corporation shall be construed to prevent the taxation, by law, of any real estate owned by said corporation not used in the business of the same. And there may be levied and collected, in lieu of on mine proother taxation on mining property, a specific tax upon the ducts.

Submission to a vote.

Form of ballot.

Congressional apportionment.

Seven districts.

First district.

product of all mines in this state, but no such tax shall be construed to prevent the taxation by law of any real estate belonging to the owners of such mine not used in the business of mining or in connection therewith."

SEC. 2. This proposed amendment shall be submitted to the people of said state, for their approval or rejection, at the next general election for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-two (1892), and each of the legal voters of said state may, at said election, vote by ballot for or against said amendment, and the returns thereof shall be made and certified, and such votes and the result thereof declared, in the manner provided by law for returning, certifying and canvassing votes at general elections for state officers and declaring the result thereof; and if it shall appear therefrom that a majority of the voters present and voting at said election upon said amendment "yes" or "no," have voted in favor of the same, then within ten (10) days after the result shall have been ascertained the governor shall make proclamation thereof, and said amendment shall thereupon take effect and be in full force as part of the constitution of the state of Minnesota.

SEC. 3. The ballots used at said election on said amendment shall have printed thereon, "Amendment to section three (3) of article nine (9) of the constitution, providing for the taxation of sleeping car companies and other companies, yes-no;" and each elector voting on said amendment shall erase, mark across, or scratch out one (1) of said words "yes" or "no" on said ballot box, and no ballots shall be counted except those having one (1) only of said words "yes" or "no" thereon.

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

Approved April 21, 1891.

CHAPTER 3.

[S. F. No. 354.]

AN ACT TO DIVIDE THE STATE OF MINNESOTA INTO SEVEN
CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICTS.

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

SECTION 1. The State of Minnesota is hereby divided into seven (7) congressional districts, each of which is entitled to elect one (1) representative to the congress of the United States.

SEC. 2. The counties of Houston, Fillmore, Mower, Freeborn, Waseca, Steele, Dodge, Olmsted, Winona and Wabasha shall constitute the first (1st) congressional district.

SEC. 3. The counties of Faribault, Martin, Jackson, Second district Noble, Rock, Pipestone, Murray, Watonwan, Blue Earth, Nicollet, Brown, Redwood, Lyon, Lincoln, Yellow Medicine, Lac qui Parle, Chippewa and Cottonwood shall constitute the second (2d) congressional district.

SEC. 4. The counties of Goodhue, Dakota, Rice, Scott, Le Sueur, Sibley, Carver, McLeod, Renville and Meeker shall constitute the third (3d) congressional district.

Third district.

SEC. 5. The counties of Ramsey, Washington, Chisago, Fourth district. Isanti and Kanabec shall constitute the fourth (4th) congressional district.

SEC. 6. The county of Hennepin shall constitute the fifth (5th) congressional district.

SEC. 7. The counties of Cook, Lake, St. Louis, Itasca, Carlton, Aitkin, Crow Wing, Pine, Mille Lacs, Anoka, Sherburne, Wright, Stearns, Benton, Morrison, Todd, Cass, Wadena, Hubbard and Beltrami shall constitute the sixth (6th) congressional district.

Fifth district.

Sixth district.

SEC. 8. The counties of Kittson, Marshall, Polk, Nor- Seventh district. man, Clay, Wilkin, Traverse, Big Stone, Swift, Kandiyohi, Stevens, Pope, Douglas, Grant, Otter Tail and Becker shall constitute the seventh (7th) congressional district.

SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved April 17, 1891.

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

SECTION 1. On the first (1st) Tuesday after the first (1st) Monday in November of each even-numbered year, an election shall be held in the several election districts of the state, which shall be known as the general election; and the several state and county officers, judges of the supreme and district courts, members of the legislature and representatives in congress of the United States shall be elected at the general election next preceding the expiration of the term of each of the said officers, respectively; and on a year when the president and vice president of the United States are to be chosen, a number of electors of president and vice president of the United States, equal to the number of senators and representatives to which this state is entitled in the congress of the United States, shall be elected at said election.

General election bered years.

in even-num

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