Contract for purchase or struction or purchase of any such bridge, shall not be deemed any part of the indebtedness of such city for the purpose of ascertaining whether the limitation of indebtedness of such city has been reached. SEC. 5. Before any such city shall purchase or conconstruction. struct any such bridge as hereinbefore provided for, the common council of such city shall, by resolution passed by a majority of all the aldermen, authorize the making of a contract or agreement for the construction or purchase of such bridge as hereinbefore provided for in this act, and such contract or agreement shall be signed by the mayor and sealed with the seal of the city, attested by the clerk and countersigned by the comptroller of such city, and also be signed by the party, partnership or corporation agreeing to construct or sell such bridge to such city. Such city shall not under any circumstances be authorized to issue bonds for the construction or purchase of any such bridge, but the indebtedness as herein limited shall be incurred in the form of a contract or agreement as hereinbefore provided for. S. F. No. 388. Villages. Dams and ditches. $500 from liquor license fund. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 22, 1901.' CHAPTER 76. An Act to authorize the village councils of incorporated villages in this state to expend money for building and maintaining dams and ditches for the protection of such villages against inundation by high water; and to legalize the expenditure of money and contracts made for such purposes. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minne sota: SECTION I. That the village council of any incorpor、 ated village in this state may appropriate from the liquor license fund of such village a sum not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars annually for the purpose of constructing and maintaining dams and ditches in or adjacent to such village, according to oral or written con tracts between said village and the owner or owners of the lands affected by such dams and ditches, for the pro tection of such village against inundation by high water. SEC. 2. That in all cases where the village council of any incorporated village in this state has heretofore obtained permission, either by oral or written contract. from the owner or owners of the lands affected by the construction and maintenance of dams and ditches at the place or places and for the purposes mentioned in section one of this act, and has expended money out of the village treasury for the purposes aforesaid, such contract or contracts between the said village and said land owner or owners and the expenditure of money by said village council for the construction and maintenance of said dams and ditches, are hereby in all things ratified, legalized and confirmed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 22, 1901. CHAPTER 77. S. F. No. 431. Legislative An Act to amend chapter one hundred and twenty Amendment. (120) of the General Laws of one thousand eight hun dred and ninety-seven (1897), entitled "An act to prescribe the bounds of senatorial and representative districts, and to apportion anew the senators and representatives." Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minne sota : SECTION I. That section two (2) of chapter one hundred and twenty (120) of the General Laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (1897), be and the same is hereby amended where it relates to the Thirty-eighth District, so as to read when amended as follows: THIRTY-EIGHTH DISTRICT. districts re apportioned. The Thirty-eighth (38) District shall be composed 38th Dist. of all the First (1st) ward of the city of Minneapolis. and that portion of the Third (3rd) and Tenth (10th) wards of the city of Minneapolis lying between the Mississippi river and the following described line, to-wit: Beginning at a point in the center of the Mississippi river where Third avenue north intersects. the same; thence southwesterly along the center of said Third avenue north to a point where the same interesects Sixth street north; thence northwesterly along the center of said Sixth street north to a point where the same intersects Seventh avenue north; thence westerly along the center of said Seventh avenue north to a point where the same intersects Hoag avenue; thence north along 44th Dist. S. F. No. 251 Prohibition of imitation butter. the center of said Hoag avenue to a point where the same intersects Eighth avenue north; thence easterly along the center of said Eighth avenue north to a point where the same intersects Fifth street north; thence northwesterly along the center of said Fifth street north to a point where the same intersects Sixth street north; thence north along the center of said Sixth street north to a point where the same intersects Twenty-sixth avenue north; thence east along the center of said Twenty-sixth avenue north to a point where the same intersects Third street north; thence north along the center of said Third street north to a point where the same intersects Thirtythird avenue north; thence east along the center of Thirty-third avenue north to the center of the Mississippi river. and shall be entitled to elect one (1) senator and two (2) representatives. SEC. 2. That section two (2) of chapter one hundred twenty (120) of the General Laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven (1897) be and the same hereby is amended where it relates to the Forty-fourth (44th) District, so as to read, when amended, as follows: FORTY-FOURTH DISTRICT. The Forty-fourth (44th) District shall be composed of that portion of the Third (3rd) and Tenth (roth) wards of the city of Minneapolis not included in the Thirty-eighth (38th) District, and the villages of Crystal Robbinsdale and Osseo, and the towns of Crystal Lake, Brooklin, Champlin, Dayton and Hassan, and all villages included within the limits of said towns in the county of Hennepin, and shall be entitled to elect one (1) senator and two (2) representatives. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 22, 1901. CHAPTER 78. An Act "To prevent deception in the manufacture and sale of imitation butter." Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minne sota: SECTION I. No person by himself or his agents or servants, shall render or manufacture, sell, offer for sale, expose for sale, or have in his possession with intent to sell, any article, product or compound made wholly or partly out of any fat, oil or oleaginous substance or compound thereof, not produced from unadulterated milk or cream from the same, which shall be colored in imitation of yellow butter produced from pure unadulterated milk or cream of the same. SEC. 2. Whoever violates any of the provisions of section one of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred (100) nor more than five hundred (500) dollars, or by imprisonment in the state prison for a term not exceeding one (1) year. SEC. 3. This act shall not be construed as repealing any existing act, but the same shall be deemed to be in addition thereto. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 26, 1901. CHAPTER 79. An Act to provide for the issuing of certificates of indebtedness to defray the cost of paving street intersec tions in certain cases, in cities of over fifty thousand inhabitants. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION I. That in cities of the State of Minnesota now or hereafter containing over fifty thousand inhabitants, according to the last national or state census, the proper authorities of said cities, in providing by order or ordinance for the paving of any street in said city, are hereby authorized to provide therein for the issuing of certificates of indebtedness to an amount sufficient to defray the expense of the paving of street intersections with other streets which intersect the paved street at an angle of less than sixty or more than one hundred and twenty degrees, said certificates of indebtedness to bear interest at such rate and to be payable out of the general fund of such city, at such time as the common council of such city shall prescribe, and shall be signed by the mayor and city clerk. Provided, that such certificates of indebtedness shall be issued only when there is not sufficient money in the general fund properly applicable to the cost of paving such intersections. Provided, further, that where there is any sum in the general fund properly applicable to the payment of such cost, certificates of indebtedness shall only be issued for the amount of the dif S. F. No. 299. cost of pay To detrav tersections S. F. No. 351. District judges to fix terms for petit jurors. H. F. No. 87. Amendment. Cos. Exceptions. ference between such money so applicable and the cost of paving such intersections. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 26, 1901. CHAPTER 80. An Act authorizing district judges to fix the day of the term on which petit jurors shall be convened. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minne sota: SECTION I. The judge or judges of any judicial district may, by order filed with the clerk of the court of the county where a term of court is to be held, at least fifteen days before the sitting of such court, direct that the petit jurors for such or any subsequent term be summoned for any day of the term fixed by such order other than the day now fixed by law, and the venire issued by the clerk for summoning such jurors shall be made returnable on the day so fixed by such order. Such order may be at any time modified or vacated by the court by an order in like manner made and filed with the clerk at any time before the issuing of such venire. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 26, 1901. CHAPTER 81. An act to amend section two of chapter 16 of the General Laws of the State of Minnesota for the year A. D. 1883, relating to insurance, the same being section 3193 of the Statutes of Minnesota for the year A. D. 1894, relating to insurance companies. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minne sota : SECTION 1. That section two of chapter sixteen of the General Laws of the State of Minnesota for the year A. D. 1883, the same being section 3193 of the Statutes of Minnesota A. D. 1894, be amended so as to read as follows: "This act shall not be held to apply to township mutual fire insurance companies organized under the laws of this state, nor to mutual aid associations, benefit associations |