Polk county. Repeal of Chap. 109 and 92, Gen eral Laws of 1887, as applicable to this district. In the county of Polk, on the fourth (4th) Monday of May and the first (1st) Monday in December in each year. SEC. 2. All writs, processes, bonds, recognizances, continuances, appeals, notices and proceedings had, issued or returnable to the terms of court in and for each of said counties, as fixed by law prior to the passage of this act, shall be deemed and construed as made, taken and returnable to the terms of said court in each of said counties fixed by this act. SEC. 3. Chapters one hundred and nine (109) and ninetytwo (92) of the General Laws of Minnesota for the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven (1887), so far as they relate to the time of holding general terms of the district court in any of the counties in the Fourteenth (14th) judicial district, and all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 14, 1891. Fifteenth judicial district. Terms of court. Wadena county. CHAPTER 143. [S. F. No. 465.] AN ACT TO FIX THE TIME FOR HOLDING THE GENERAL Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That the general term of the district court of the county of Wadena, state of Minnesota, shall be held on the first (1st) Monday in December in each year; Provided, That it shall be the duty of the judge of the district court of the Fifteenth (15th) judicial district whenever in his opinion it is necessary to call an additional general term of the district court for said county in any year, to call such general term by filing an order to that effect with the clerk of the court of said county, fixing the time for said additional general term, which order shall be published in the official newspaper of said county for at least forty (40) days before the time so set; and such additional term shall be held and deemed to be a general term of said district court as fully and to all intents as though the time of holding the same had been designated by act of the legislature. SEC. 2. That all writs, proofs, bonds, recognizances, continuances, appeals, notices and proceedings had, issued or returnable to the terms of court in and for said county, as fixed by law prior to the passage of this act, shall be delivered and construed as made, taken and returnable to the proper term of court in said county, as fixed by this act. SEC. 3. That all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 9, 1891. CHAPTER 144. [H. F. No. 961.] Fifteenth ju AN ACT FIXING THE TIME FOR HOLDING THE GENERAL Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That the general term of the district court in the county of Itasca, in the Fifteenth (15th) judicial district in this state, shall be held on the fourth (4th) Monday of October in each year. SEC. 2. All writs, processes, bonds, recognizances, continuances, appeals, notices and pleadings had, issued or returnable to any term of court in the county of Aitkin from Itasca county, shall be deemed as returnable to the terms of court as fixed by this act. SEO. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent herewith are hereby repealed. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 15, 1891. CHAPTER 145. [S. F. No. 269.] Term of court. Itasca county. Writs, processes, county returnable to the term etc., from Aitkin in Itasca county. AN ACT FIXING THE TIME FOR HOLDING COURT IN THE Sixteenth ju COUNTY OF STEVENS. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: dicial district. SECTION 1. The general term of the district court in and Term of court. for the county of Stevens, in the Sixteenth (16th) judicial district, this state, shall hereafter be held on the third (3d) Stevens county. Tuesday in March and the third (3) Tuesday in October in each year. SEC. 2. All acts or parts of acts, in so far as inconsist ent with this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 26, 1891. CHAPTER 146. [H. F. No. 1003.] Incorporation of AN ACT RELATING TO VILLAGES OF OVER THREE THOUS- 8,000 inhabit ants. General incorporation privileges and powers. Territory to be divided into four wards. Additions to original boundaries. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : CHAPTER I. SECTION 1. Any village in this state having a population of over three thousand (3,000) shall have the powers generally possessed by municipal corporations at common law, and in addition thereto shall possess the powers hereinafter specifically granted, and shall have perpetual succession. It shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, and of pleading and being impleaded in all courts of law or equity; it shall have a corporate seal, which it may alter at pleasure, and it may purchase, lease, take and hold such real, personal and mixed property as may be required for village uses or purposes, within or without its limits, and may lease, mortgage, sell and convey the same. SEC. 2. The territory comprised in every such village shall be a separate election district for all elections under the laws of this state, and shall be divided into four (4) wards, as equal in population as may be, and the same shall by resolution be so divided into wards by the village council of such villages, respectively, within ten (10) days after the passage of this act. SEC. 3. Whenever the majority of the owners of any property abutting upon any such village, or any addition thereto, shall petition the village council to have such property annexed to the village, the village council may by ordinance declare the same to be an addition to such village, and thereupon such territory shall become a part of such village as effectually as if it had been originally a part thereof; and the village council may by ordinance divide such territory into wards, or shall annex the same to any existing ward or wards in such village. CHAPTER II. OFFICERS AND ELECTIONS. SECTION 1. The elective officers of any such village Elective officers. shall be a president, recorder, treasurer, assessor, and two (2) trustees from each ward, and a municipal judge. SEC. 2. Each ward shall constitute one (1) or more Election preelection precincts, as required by law, for the holding of cincts. all elections provided for under the general laws of this state, and also for all elections provided for by this act. Terms of office All officers shall be qualified electors of the district in which they shall be elected or appointed; and all elective one year. officers shall hold their offices for the term of one (1) year and until their successors respectively are elected and qualified, except the municipal judge, who shall hold his Municipal office for two (2) years and until his successor is elected judge, two years. and qualified. SEC. 3. General elections after the first (1st) shall be General village held on the second (2d) Tuesday of March of each year. At least thirty (30) days before any general election, after the first (1st), the village council shall designate three (3) persons to act as judges or inspectors, and two (2) persons to act as clerks, for each election precinct at such election. All elections shall be held and conducted in the same manner and under the same penalties as required by the general laws of the state regarding elections, and like notice shall be given. elections. Judges and tion. clerks of elec Returns of elec When any election shall be closed, the judges or inspectors shall make return thereof to the village recorder, tion. within twenty-four (24) hours after such election, in the same manner as provided by law for the return of state and county officers to the county auditor; and within one (1) day thereafter the village council shall meet and canvass the returns thereof and declare the result as it appears from such returns, and the village recorder shall forthwith give notice to the persons elected of their respective elections. this act. SEO. 4. The first general election of any such village First general shall be held on the twelfth (12th) day of May in the year election under one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1891), at which time all elective village officers provided for herein shall be elected. The village council of such village shall, at least ten (10) days before said first (1st) general election, designate three (3) persons who are qualified electors to act as judges or inspectors at such election, and two (2) persons to act as clerks at such election, in each ward or election precinct of such village. Such election shall be held at such places within the limits of such village as said village council shall designate, Places of election and notice aries. and the village recorder shall give notice thereof, by postof ward bound- ing notices of the time and places of holding such election in at least three (3) public places in said village, at least ten (10) days before such election. Such notice shall also contain the boundaries of such wards or election precincts as the same shall have been designated by the village council, together with a list of all the officers elective hereunder. When said first election shall be closed, the judges thereof shall make returns thereof to the recorder of the village, within twenty-four (24) hours after such election, in the same manner as provided by law for the returns of state and county officers to the county auditor; and within one (1) day thereafter the council of the village shall meet and canvass the returns thereof and declare the result that appears therefrom, and the recorder of the village shall forthwith give notice to the persons elected of their respective elections. SEC. 5. Special elections in and for such village may be held at any time, for any proper purpose, upon the order of the village council. At least ten (10) days' notice of any such special election shall be given as provided by law, and such notice shall state the object of such election. SEC. 6. All elections by the people shall be by ballot, and each ballot shall contain the names of the persons voted for, with a proper designation of the office, and such ballots may be written or printed, or partly written and partly printed. A plurality of votes shall constitute an election. When two (2) or more candidates for an elective office shall receive an equal number of votes for the same office, the election shall be determined by the casting of lots, in the presence of the village council, at such time and in such manner as the said council shall direct. All persons entitled to vote for state or county officers, and who shall have resided in such village or any election precinct thereof for ten (10) days next preceding any general or special election, shall be entitled to vote thereat. Any person removing from the village or any ward thereof for which he was elected or appointed, or any person who shall refuse or neglect, for ten (10) days after notice of his election or appointment, to qualify and enter upon the duties of his office, shall be deemed to have vacated his office; and any officer having entered upon the duties of his office may resign by giving notice thereof to, or with the consent of, the village council, and it shall then be the duty of such village council to declare the office vacant and to provide that the same shall be filled as hereinafter provided. Whenever a vacancy shall occur in any elective office by removal, resignation or otherwise, the village council shall have power to fill the same by appointment. Every person appointed to fill a vacancy shall hold his office and discharge the duties thereof for the unexpired |