Ex-officio mem board. Said board to solicitation, collection, transportation, arrangement and exhibition of the objects sent under the authority of the state to the World's Columbian Exposition of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three (1893), and of such objects sent by individual citizens of the state as may be by them placed in his charge. He shall make a report to the board monthly, and shall hold office at the pleasure of the board. SEC. 5. The governor and the World's Columbian commissioners from the state of Minnesota shall be ex-officio bers of the members of the board of world's fair managers for the state of Minnesota, in addition to said six (6) citizens aforesaid. SEC. 6. The said board shall have charge of the interests of the state and its citizens in the preparation and exhibition, at the World's Columbian Exposition of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three (1893), of the natural and industrial products of the state, and of objects illustrating its history, progress, moral and material welfare and future development; and in all other matters relating to the said World's Columbian Exposition. It shall com municate with the officers of, and obtain and disseminate through the state all necessary information regarding, said exposition, and in general have and exercise full authority in relation to the participation of the state of Minnesota and its citizens in the World's Columbian Exposition of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three (1893). have entire charge of the instate in the general display. terests of the ten report on request, for submission to the To make a writ legislature. exhibits at close of fair. Disposition of SEC. 7. The said board shall make a report of its proceedings and expenditures from time to time to the governor, and at any time, upon his written request, to be by him transmitted to the legislature, together with such suggestions as he may deem important regarding provisions for a complete and creditable representation of the state at the World's Columbian Exposition of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three (1893). At the close of said world's fair all exhibits now belonging to the state or hereafter acquired which cannot be disposed of with pecuniary advantage, shall be turned over to and become the property of the University of the State of Minnesota; but such exhibits as said university cannot conveniently care for shall be turned over to and become the property of the State Agricultural Society of the state of Minnesota. The proceeds of any sale shall be turned into the state treasury. SEC. 8. To carry out the provisions of this act, the sum of Appropriation of $50,000 made fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) is hereby appropriated, and the state treasurer is directed to pay the same from the general fund from time to time, on the requisition of said board, signed by its president and secretary and approved by the governor, and accompanied by estimates of the expenses to the payment of which the money so drawn is to be applied; Provided always, That no portion of said fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) shall be used for the erection of any building, excepting such sum-not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000)—as may be necessary for rooms for state headquarters contiguous to the state exhibit in by the state, but limited in its uses. Prohibition against exceeding appropriation. Collections heretofore used at any buildings erected by the said exposition for the display of state collective exhibits. Any state officer or officers acting under this act, who shall pledge or attempt to pledge the credit of this state beyond the sum appropriated herein, shall be deemed guilty of larceny in the sum so pledged or attempted to be pledged; and this state shall in no manner be liable in law or equity therefor; Provided, That no part of any money appropriated shall be paid as premiums for any exhibits. SEC. 9. All collections, photographs, maps, specimens, furniture or other property of the state used in the state collective exhibit at the World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition of New Orleans in one thousand deem available. eight hundred and eighty-four and five (1884-5), and now New Orleans exposition, to be used by board as they may deposited in any of the state institutions, or at the experimental farm, the state fair buildings, or with the state fish commission, or at the state capitol, or elsewhere in the hands of state officers, shall be furnished to the board of world's fair managers so far as in their judgment such materials may be available for use in the exhibit contemplated by this act, such collections, specimens, etc., as above specified to be returned to said depositories after the close of the exposition; and any new collections of permanent value made by said board, and which may by this act become the property of the state, shall be distributed to and be preserved by such state institutions, societies or archives as the board shall deem most suitable, after such exchanges shall have been made with the other collections and institutions as the board may deem in the interests of science or for the benefit of this state. SEC. 10. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved April 20, 1891. CHAPTER 158. [H. F. No. 49.] AN ACT TO FURNISH SEED GRAIN FOR DISTRIBUTION IN Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. It is hereby made the duty of the county auditors of the counties of Traverse, Big Stone, Stevens, Lac qui Parle and Pope, respectively, in the state of Min nesota, wherein the crop of the year one thousand eight Applications for hundred and ninety (1890) was partially or wholly de- seed grain. stroyed by frost or blight or hail, to give notice, before the tenth (10th) day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1891), to the respective town clerks of the several towns of said counties, requiring them to post notices immediately, in at least three (3) of the most public places in each town, notifying all persons wishing to avail themselves of the benefits of this act to meet at the town clerk's office and file with said town clerk, on or before the twenty-fifth (25th) day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1891), an application duly subscribed and sworn to by the applicant before said town clerk. Statement to be cant. Said application shall contain a true statement of the number of acres the applicant has plowed and prepared made by applifor seeding for the ensuing season's crop; how many acres the applicant intends to have plowed and prepared for such seeding before seeding time; how many bushels are necessary, and of what kinds of grain, to seed the ground so prepared or to be prepared; and also that said applicant's crop was in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety (1890) entirely destroyed by frost or blight or hail, as the case may be, or if only partially destroyed, the extent of such destruction, and how many bushels of each kind of grain the applicant harvested in said year one thousand eight hundred and ninety (1890); also, what amount of seed grain and of what kind of grain the applicant desires to borrow from the state; that the applicant has not procured and is not able to procure the necessary seed grain; that he desires the same for seed grain and for no other purpose, and will not sell or dispose of the same or any part thereof. Description of Said application shall also contain a true and full description of all real and personal property owned by the real estate. applicant, and the incumbrances, if any, thereon, and the full description by government subdivisions of the land upon which the applicant intends to sow said seed grain. SEC. 2. The town clerk of each town shall, on or before the twelfth (12th) day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1891), forward all applications made before him to the county auditor of his county, who shall file the same in his office. All applications filed in any county auditor's office under the provisions of this act shall be open to public inspection, and no applications shall be considered by the board provided for in section three (3) in this act, except such as have been made and filed within the time and in the manner prescribed in section one (1) of this act. SEC. 3. The board of county commissioners of each county where the provisions of this act are applicable shall be and are hereby constituted and appointed a board County commis sioners to be a board of exam ination and ad justment. Appropriation of $25,000, to be apportioned by the governor and distributed to the several counties. County commissioners to purchase the seed grain therefor. County commissioners to ad tions and ap portion amount allowed. of examination and adjustment of the applications for seed grain under this act; and it shall be the duty of said board to meet at the county auditor's office on the seventeenth (17th) day of March, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1891), to examine and consider separately each application as provided in section one (1) of this act, and to decide who are entitled to benefits herein mentioned and the amount to which each applicant is entitled; and said board shall, on or before the twenty-first (21st) day of March, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1891), forward to the governor of the state of Minnesota a statement giving the number of applicants, the number of acres prepared or to be prepared, and the number of bushels of each kind of seed grain needed in the county. Said statement shall comprise and include only such applications as have been approved by said board, and shall be signed by the chairman of said board and countersigned by the county auditor; Provided, No one applicant shall be allowed a greater amount in value of seed grain than one hundred and fifty dollars ($150). SEC. 4. The governor, upon receipt of the statements as provided in section three (3) of this act, if the same shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of twenty-five thous and dollars ($25,000) appropriated for such purpose, shall apportion and distribute the amounts called for to the several counties for which applications are received; but if the amounts applied for shall exceed in the aggregate said sum of fifty thousand dollars ($50,000), then the governor shall apportion and distribute that sum to the counties applying pro rata in proportion to the amounts called for by said counties respectively, as shown by said statements of the county auditors thereof; and thereupon the governor shall inform each county auditor of the amount apportioned to his county, and shall authorize the board of county commissioners to purchase seed grain to the amount so apportioned, and cause the same to be distributed to the applicants in said county who are entitled to receive the same under the provisions of this act. It shall be a misdemeanor for any county commissioner to make any gain or profit from any transaction growing out of or connected with the operation of this act. SEC. 5. Immediately upon receiving notice from the just the applica- governor of the amount apportioned to their county, the board of county commissioners shall meet at the county auditor's office and readjust the applications in their county for seed grain, and apportion the amount that has been allowed to the county among the applicants approved by said board pro rata in proportion to the amount required by each, if there shall not be sufficient grain to supply all in full; Provided, That after all approved applicants for said grain in any county are supplied, if there be a surplus the same shall be sold by direction of the board of county commissioners, and the sum received therefor shall be turned over to the county treasurer, who shall give his receipt therefor, and said sum shall thereupon by him be paid over to the state treasurer, who shall receipt for the same to said county and endorse said amount so received on the county bond of the county making such payment. SEC. 6. The county auditor of each county shall, as soon as the county commissioners shall have performed the duty prescribed in section five (5), issue to each applicant an order for the number of bushels of each kind of seed grain which has been allowed to said applicant. Provided, however, That said order shall not be delivered until said applicant has signed a contract in triplicate, attested by the county auditor, to the effect that said applicant, for and in consideration of ............ bushels of seed grain [naming the amount and kind] received from the state, promises to pay to the State of Minnesota [naming amount]............ dollars, the amount of the cost of said seed grain; that said sum shall be taxable against all the real and personal property of said applicant; that such tax shall be levied by the county auditor of his county and collected as taxes against real and personal property are collected under the laws of this state, and that the sum so levied shall be a first lien upon the crop of grain raised each year by the person receiving said seed grain, until said amount is fully paid. Distribution of grain and conback. tracts to pay Levy of tax, and one-half in 1892. one-half in 1891 SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the county auditor of each county to cause the tax provided for in section six (6) to be levied against the property of each person receiving seed grain under the provisions of this act. One-half () of said tax shall be levied in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (1891), and the other half shall be levied in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninetytwo (1892), and all moneys collected by the county treasurer under the provisions of this act shall be kept separate from other state and county taxes, and shall be paid over to the state treasurer forthwith upon receipt of the same. SEC. 8. The contracts provided for in section six (6) of Filing of conthis act shall be numbered consecutively by the county tracts. auditor; one (1) shall be filed in the office of the county auditor; one (1) shall be transmitted to the state auditor and filed in his office, and the third (3d) shall be filed in the office of the town clerk where the applicant making the contract resides. The county auditor shall keep and transcribe in a book, to be used for that purpose only, said contracts and a correct list and schedule of the applications, giving the name of each applicant, the number of his application, the date of his contract, the cost of each kind of seed grain furnished to him, the description of land occupied by him, and showing also the total amount of money furnished to said county by the state. Auditor to keep complete record of applications, etc. |