Chief of Police stables' fees. consent of the common council, who shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed by the common council for the preservation of the public peace. All police officers of said city shall possess the powers of constables at common law or by the laws of this state, and it shall be their duties of-Conduty to execute and serve all warrants, processes, commitments, and all writs whatsoever, issued by the city justices, for any violation of the laws of the state of Minnesota, or of the ordinances or by-laws of the said city, and also all writs and processes whatsoever, issued by the city justices in civil actions, when specially ordered by such justice to serve such civil process, but not otherwise. And they shall have authority to pursue and arrest any person fleeing from justice in any part of this state, and when performing the duties of constables aforesaid, shall be entitled to like fees. Watchmen shall have authority to arrest and detain any person guilty of any breach of the peace, or of any violation of the laws of this state, or of the ordinances or by-laws of said city, and for these purposes shall possess the powers of constables at common law, while on duty. There shall be elected in said city, at the regular annual city election in each year, one constable, who shall be styled city constable, who shall possess all the powers of a constable at common law, whose duty it shall be to serve all civil process of whatsoever nature, issued by the city justices, and all criminal process issued by such justices, that shall be placed in his hands. Such constable shall receive the same fees for such services as are allowed constables in towns for similar services, and shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, execute a bond to the city of Minneapolis, in the sum of five hundred dollars, conditioned for the faithful performance of his duties as such constable, which bond shall have two sureties to be approved by the mayor, and shall be filed with the clerk of said city, such constable shall be subject to the same liabilities, and enjoy the same privileges as constables in towns in this state, and his official bond may be sued upon in the same cases as the official bonds of such constables. Said city constable shall hold his office until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified. SEC. 3 That section eleven chapter three be amended to read as follows: Sec. 11. The city justices shall as often as the common council may require, report to the common council all the proceedings instituted before them in which the city City Justice to make report to Council-what to contain. fines collected. is interested, and shall at the same time account for and pay over to the city treasurer all fines and penalties collected or received by them belonging to said city, and said justices shall be entitled to receive from the city of Minneapolis in all crimnal cases arising under the by-laws or ordinances of said city, and from the county or Hennepin in all criminal cases arising under the laws of the state of Minnesota, other than said by-laws (or) ordinances, such tees as are allowed by statutes to justices of the peace for similar services. SEC. 4. That section seven, chapter ten, be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 7. All fines, penalties, judgments and moneys, except officers and justices fees that may be imposed, Disposition of levied or collected by the city justice or that may he collected by any other officers of the city for the violation of any ordinance or by-law of said city, shall be vested in and be the sole and exclusive property of said city, and all fines and moneys that may be collected by any officer of said city for any violation of any law of this state other than a by-law or ordinance of said city, shall belong to the county of Hennepin, and shall be accounted for to said county of Hennepin by the officers collecting the same, at the first meeting of the board of county commissioners of said county held after such collection. SEC. 5. That section four, chapter four, be amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 4. All ordinances, regulations, resolutions and by-laws shall be passed by an affirmative vote of a majoriOrdinances, &c. ty of the members of the common council present, by ayes when admitted and noes, and published in the official paper of said city as evidence-ap- before the same shall be in force, and shall be admitted as how passed propriations how made. evidence in any court in the state without further proof, and they shall be recorded by the city clerk in books provided for that purpose. No appropriation shall be made without a vote of a majority of the members elect of the common council in its favor, which vote shall be taken by ayes and noes and entered among the proceedings of the council. SEC. 6. That section three, of chapter four of said act be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereunto at the end of said section as follows: Thirty Third-To appropriate out of any money in the For what appro- treasury of the city not otherwise appropriated, not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year, such sum priated. or sums as the common council may deem proper for extraordinary expenses of said city, and may include in the estimate of expenses for the city government a sum not exceeding one thousand dollars in any one year for such extraordinary expenses, and levy a tax therefor and collect the same as other taxes are collected for expenses of said city government. issue bonds SEC. 7. That the city of Minneapolis be and is hereby authorized to use and appropriate the bonds of said city to the amount of one thousand dollars, the issue of which are Authorized to provided for in an act entitled "an act to authorize the for what. city of Minneapolis to issue bonds for the construction of water works," approved February twelfth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, to aid in the construction of a road or roads from said city of Minneapolis to Hutchinson, in the county of McLeod, such aid to be given in such manner as the common council of said city of Minneapolis may direct. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. when act to take effect. Approved March 4, 1868. CHAPTER XLI. An Act to amend the charter of the city of Redwing. SECTION 1. Amendment to Section 2, Chapter 4, Session Laws of 1864. Punishment for fines and penalties imposed. 2. When act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That section number two, of chapter four, of an act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the city of Redwing, approved March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, March 4, 1868. Punishment for be amended by adding to the end of said section the following, to stand as the thirty-eight subdivision of said section: Thirty-eighth-The city council of said city may provide by ordinance that any one convicted of an offense before any justice of the peace of said city, subjecting such offenfines imposed. der to imprisonment under the charter and ordinances of said city, may be kept at hard labor in any work-house established by said city for that purpose, or in case of a male offender, may be kept at hard labor during his term of imprisonment, in such work-house or upon the public streets and improvements of said city, or both, and may also provide by ordinance, that any one convicted of an offense before any such justice as aforesaid, and committed upon non-payment of a fine imposed, may be kept at hard labor in any work-house of said city as aforesaid, or in case of a male offender, may be kept at hard labor either in such work-house, or upon the public streets, and improvements or both, until such person shall work out the amount of such fine, at such rate of compensation as said city council may prescribe, for a time not exceeding the term of such commitment, and the city council shall have full power to establish by ordinance, all needful regulations for the security of such prisoners thus employed, and to prevent escape and ensure proper discipline, and shall have power to establish a suitable work-house in said city for the purposes aforesaid, under such regulations as the said city council may provide. Provided, That the city council aforesaid, shall be and is hereby authorized to use the jail of Goodhue county as the work-house of the city of Redwing provided for in this act, the prisoners of the city, to be as at present in the custody of the sheriff of Goodhue county, except when employed upon the public streets and improvements of said city. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force When act to take from and after its passage. effect. Approved March 4, 1868. CHAPTER XLII. An Act to legalize the plat of the town of Albert Lea, and March 4, 1863. conveyances made in reference thereto. SECTION 1. For the purpose of completing the laying out of said town as surveyed, the 2. By whom certificate made stating width of streets and alleys-said certificate 3. What to be deemed a complete and lawful plat of said town-when record 4. All deeds and conveyances heretofore made by the original proprietors are 5. When act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That for the purpose of perfecting and completing the laying out, platting, certifying, acknowledging and recording of the town of Albert Lea, in the county of Freeborn, as surveyed and platted by Charles C. Colby, Who to make and plat thereof recorded in the office of register of deeds, acknowledg in the county of Dodge, on the twenty-ninth day of October purpose. A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-six, and a certified copy of such record filed in the office of register of deeds, in the county of Freeborn, on the twenty-fourth day of February, A. D. eighteen hundred and fifty-nine, the original proprietors of said town or their heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, or any or either of them, may at any time within one year from and after the passage of this act, acknowledge said certified copy on file in the office of register of deeds of said county of Freeborn, before any person authorized to take acknowledgments of deeds, such acknowledgment may be written upon said certified copy of said plot, or may be taken in a separate instrument, particularly specifying the plot and the date of filing thereof, in such register office in the county of Freeborn, and when so taken said separate instrument may be attached to said certified copy, and shall become a part of the record of the same. |