Lien of state for all sums so advanced. First payment to be made as A true copy of said list and schedule so transcribed shall be made and signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and certified to by the auditor, and forwarded to the governor; and whenever the amount provided for in any contract filed under the provisions of this act is fully paid, the county auditor is empowered to cancel such contract, and he shall write the word "Satisfied" opposite the name of such person in the book in which said contracts are entered, and shall deliver up said contract to the person entitled thereto. SEC. 9. Upon the filing of the contract as provided in section eight (8) of this act, the state of Minnesota shall acquire a just and valid lien upon the crops of grain raised each year by the person receiving said seed grain, to the amount of the sum then due to the state upon said contract, as against all subsequent creditors, purchasers or mortgagees, in good faith or otherwise, and the said filings of said contract shall be held and considered to be full and sufficient notice to all parties of the existence and extent of said lien, which shall continue in force until the amount covered by said contract is fully paid. Each and every person who has received seed grain under the provisions of this act shall, as soon as his crops can be threshed of the year wherein payment is to be made under his said soon as grain and marketed. Penalty for non the terms of contracts. contract are harvested and threshed, market a sufficient amount of grain to pay the amount then due on his contract, and pay the same over at once to the county treasurer of his county, which payment shall satisfy said lien for that year. SEC. 10. Any person or persons who shall, contrary to compliance with the provisions of this act, sell, transfer, take or carry away or in any manner dispose of the seed grain, or any part thereof, furnished by the state as provided in this act, or who shall use of said seed grain, or any thereof, for any other purpose of sowing and planting his ground, or who shall transfer, take or carry away or in any manner dispose of the crop, or any part thereof, procured by sowing or planting of said seed grain, with the intent to defraud the state, or the applicant for such seed grain, or to deprive said applicant of the use and benefit thereof, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof before any justice of the peace, shall pay a fine of not less than ten (10) dollars or more than one hundred (100) dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a term of not less than ninety (90) days, and shall pay all costs of prosecution; and whoever under any of the provisions herein shall be found guilty of false swearing, shall be deemed to have committed perjury, and shall suffer the pains and penalties of that crime. SEC. 11. It shall be the duty of the supervisors, constables and town clerks of towns, and the commissioners, sheriffs and county attorneys of counties receiving aid under the provisions of this act, having knowledge of any violation of said provisions, to make complaint thereof to any justice of the proper county, and said justice shall thereupon issue a warrant for the arrest of the offender, and proceed to hear and determine the matter in issue in the same manner as provided in other cases; and every person convicted under the provisions of this act shall stand committed to the county jail until his fine is paid, provided such imprisonment shall not exceed ninety (90) days. SEC. 12. The county commissioners of each and every county receiving aid under the provisions of this act, are hereby authorized and empowered to issue the bonds of such county to the state of Minnesota for the full amount of the aid received by such county, which bonds shall be payable on or before four (4) years from the date thereof, with interest at the rate of three (3) per cent per annum, payable annually, and shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners and countersigned by the county auditor and sealed with his seal. Said bonds shall bear interest at the rate of six (6) per cent per annum after maturity, and shall be delivered to the state auditor before the aid contemplated by this act is furnished by the state. All payments made by the county treasurer to the state treasurer, as in this act provided, shall be indorsed and credited, when made, on the bond of said county. SEC. 13. If the said bonds are not paid before the year in which the same become due, the county auditor of the proper county shall, at the time of making the annual tax levy for such year, levy an additional tax upon all the taxable property of such county, for an amount sufficient to pay the sum then remaining unpaid on the bonds of his county issued as aforesaid, said tax to be levied and collected as other county taxes. SEC. 14. That the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of this act. SEC. 15. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 24, 1891. 20 Township and county officers baving knowl edge of violacomplaint. tions to make County commis sioners author ized to issue bonds to reim burse the state. Collections of taxes on account of seed grain to be endorsed on bonds. County tax to be levied if necfull payment of bonds." essary to meet Amending CHAPTER 159. [H. F. No. 607.] AN ACT TO AMEND SECTION ONE (1) OF HOUSE FILE NUM- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That House File Number forty-nine (49), an act entitled "An act to furnish seed grain for distribution in certain counties afflicted by frost or blight or hail during the season of eighteen hundred and ninety (1890)," approved February twenty-fourth (24th), eighteen hundred and ninety-one (1891), be amended as follows: That the words and figures "twenty-fifth (25th) day of March," where they occur in line four (4) of section one (1) of said bill, be stricken out, and insert in lieu thereof the words and figures "eleventh (11th) day of March." SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 16, 1891. Monument over thirteen persons massacred by Sioux Indians. Appropriation of $400. CHAPTER 160. [H. F. No. 271.] AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE MONEY FOR THE ERECTION OF A Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That the sum of four hundred dollars ($100) be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purchase and erection of a suitable monument, with proper inscription, to be erected at the West [Nest] Lake Lutheran church cemetery, in the county of Kandiyohi, over the ons massacred. common graves of D. P. Broberg, Anna Sting Broberg, Alfred Broberg, John Albert Broberg, A. P. Broberg, Chris Names of per tine Broberg, John Broberg, Andrew Broberg, Christina Broberg, A. P. Lundberg, G. Lundberg, L. Lundberg and Johannes Nelson, who were killed while returning from church services on Wednesday, August twentieth (20th), one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two (1862), by Sioux Indians, at the commencement of the Indian war; Provided, That the appropriation made by this act shall be paid from the appropriation made by subdivision twenty-fifth (25th) of section six (6) of Chapter two hundred and seventy-two (272) of the General Laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine (1889). ment. SEC. 2. That John Lundberg of Carver county, Minne- Committee to sota, John Peterson of New London, Minnesota, and Erick erect monuPaulson of Norway Lake, Minnesota, be and the same are hereby appointed a committee to purchase and erect the said monument, which service they shall perform without compensation therefor. SEC. 3. Said committee shall, immediately after the purchase and erection of said monument, report such fact to the state auditor, together with a proper voucher or vouchers, showing the cost of such monument when so erected. SEC. 4. Upon the receipt of the report of said committee, the state auditor shall draw an order on the state treasurer in favor of the committee appointed by section two (2) of this act, for such sum as they may be entitled to, not exceeding four hundred dollars ($100), to be used by said committee in payment of the said monument and the cost of erecting the same. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 20, 1891. To report to the state auditor. CHAPTER 161. [S. F. No. 681.] AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PAYMENT TO THE PIPE Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: Pipestone agricultural society ciety appropria SECTION 1. That, upon the order of the president and Pro rata share cf secretary of the Pipestone County Agricultural Society, the agricultural sostate treasurer shall pay to said society a pro rata share of tion made the annual appropriation provided for such societies in for 1890. section six (6) of Chapter one hundred and forty-two (142) of the General Laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-three (1883) and all amendments thereto. Appropriations for roads and bridges and draining lands. Houston county river at Hokah. -across Root That the state auditor, in fixing the pro rata share of such societies provided for in said section, shall apportion to said Pipestone County Agricultural Society a pro rata share of said appropriation, without its complying, for the year A. D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety (1890), with the requirements of said Chapter one hundred and fortytwo (142) or any amendment thereto. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 21, 1891. CHAPTER 162. [S. F. No. 874.] AN ACT TO APPROPRIATE MONEY TO AID IN BUILDING Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: TITLE A. SECTION 1. That the sum of eight hundred (800) dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the state treasury belonging to the internal improvement fund, or out of the first money that shall come into the state treasury belonging to said fund, not already appropriated, to aid in the rebuilding of the wagon bridge and approaches thereto across Root river in the town of Hokah, in the county of Houston, Minnesota. SEC. 2. That the said bridge shall be rebuilt under the supervision and direction of the supervisors of the said town of Hokah, who are hereby appointed commissioners for that purpose. SEC. 3. That L. T. Lyon, Jacob Becker and Julius Burkhard, of the village of Hokah, are hereby appointed a committee on the part of the state to examine all contracts, vouchers and accounts respecting the reconstruction of and cost of said bridge, and make report of said cost to the state auditor; and any two (2) of said committee may act in the premises; Provided, That the said committee shall act without compensation. SEC. 4. That, upon receipt of the said report from the committee aforesaid by the state auditor, he shall, on demand of said committee, draw his order or orders on the state treasurer in favor of the treasurer of the said town of Hokah, for the use of the said town of Hokah in the reconstruction of said bridge, said order or orders not to exceed the sum of eight hundred (800) dollars. |