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CHARTER
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ORDINANCES.
COURT AND BOARD ACTS
PARK ORDINANCES, SANITARY REGULATIONS,
COUNCIL AND BOARD RULES, ETC.
PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS,
COMPILED AND ANNOTATED UNDER DIRECTION OF
HON. SEAGRAVE SMITH, CITY ATTORNEY,
IN CITY ATTORNEY,
BY
And LARS M. RAND, Asciscanty
ED. A. STEVENS
VOLUME I.
MINNEAPOLIS :
HARRISON & SMITH.
1888.
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CONTENTS-VOL, I.
OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, 1888. .
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"ACT CONSOLIDATING THE CITIES OF ST. ANTHONY AND MINNEAPO-
LIS INTO ONE CITY," etc...
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CITY CHARTER.
Chapter 1.-City and Ward Boundaries.--Taxes levied in 1886.-City
election 1887...
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Chapter II.-Officers and Elections.-Vacancies and removals.-Mis-
conduct, etc.-Conflicting laws....
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Chapter III.—Powers and Duties of Officers.—Jurisdiction of Munici-
pal Court...
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Chapter IV.-City Council: General Powers and Duties.-Restrictions.
relative to sale of liquors.--Ordinances, resolutions, etc.—Adjust-
ing accounts.-Condemnation proceedings.-Industrial Exposi-
tion.-Revocation of licenses.-Powers exercised by resolution,
when..
Chapter V.-Financial.-Assessments and tax proceeds; how appro-
priated.-Licenses and proceeds.-Bonded indebtedness.-Settle-
ments and apportionments.-Orders; how issued, paid and can-
celled.-Depositories..
Chapter VI.-Police Commission: Powers and Duties.-Qualifications
for police appointments.-Reports, etc...
Chapter VII.-Fire Department.-Fire limits.-Chief Engineer and
Assistants. Fire Marshal and Police.-Wooden structures, side-
walks, etc..
Chapter VIII.-Streets, Alleys and Public Grounds.-Bridges, water
courses, sidewalks, pavements, etc.-Improvements and repairs.
-Liability for injuries.-Void contracts....
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87
103
Chapter IX.—Water Works, Mains, Sewers and Drainage.—Gas and
water pipes.--Electric wires.-Water rates, etc..
Chapter X.-Local Improvements. - Special assessments, appraise-
ments, awards, benefits and damages.-Confirmations, appeals,
etc.-Streets, sidewalks, water works, paving, etc..
Chapter XI.-Miscellaneous Provisions.-Ordinances, resolutions, etc.
-Criminal and civil actions.—Official printing, etc..
Chapter XII.-Library Board: Powers and Duties.-Tax-levy and pro-
ceeds. Real estate acquired and sold..
Charter a Public Act.-To take effect.- Tax-levy act not modified..... 163
References to Amendments (1881 to 1887, inclusive). . . . . .
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156
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CONTENTS-VOL. I.
Municipal Court..
Court Reporter.
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City Justices..
COURT ACTS.
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References to Amendments to Municipal Court Act (1877 to 1887)..
BOARD ACTS.
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223
225
226
Board of Education..
References to Amendments (1879 to 1887, inclusive).
Board of Park Commissioners.
Parkway Act...
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References to Amendments to Park Acts (1885 to 1887, inclusive).
City Forester.
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Board of Court House and City Hall Commissioners.
Board of Tax-Levy………..
SPECIAL ACTS.
Layman Cemetery.-Land for street from.
Bonds.-Miscellaneous city purposes
Bonds.-Bridge at Franklin Avenue..
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Bonds.-Bridge at Twentieth Avenue North.
Steel-Arch Bridge.....
Central Market.-Confirming ordinance..
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309
311
331
332
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335
349
401
403
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407
409
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Summary of Legislative Acts Relating to Minneapolis (1855 to 1887)... 411
City Council..
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
Board of Education..
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Same.-Government of Schools.
Board of Park Commissioners.
Library Board.
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Board of Court-House and City-Hall Commissioners.
Board of Police Commissioners.
Same.--Government of Police.
Fire Department..
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460
470
476
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482
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City Charter.
* INDEX.
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Court Acts..
Board Acts.
Special Acts.
Rules and Regulations.
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143
180
182
* Page numbers of Index begin with No. 1, separate Indexes being printed at the end
of each volume.
For City and Board Ordinances, Ordinance Sumamry, etc., see Volume II.
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CITY AND BOARD OFFICERS-1888.
MAYOR,
ALBERT A. AMES
Clerk--Chas. C. Ames.
President oF CITY COUNCIL,
TITUS MARECK
Acting Mayor in Absence of Mayor.
City Clerk,
CHAS. A. CORNMAN
Assistant-Frank J. Lieben.
Cou
CITY COUNCIL.
Aldermen, First Ward... TITUS MARECK, Pres't, E. J. L'HERAULT
CHAS. A. HANSCOM.
Second Ward........DAVID M. CLOUGH, EDWARD M. JOHNSON,
FRED. C. Barrows.
Third Ward......Wм. H. MILLS, WM. MCARDLE, JOHN GILMAN
Fourth Ward.. BERNARD CLOUTIER, Vice Pres't, HENRY C. MORSE,
EMERSON COLE.
Fifth Ward...CALVIN W. CLARK, THOS. Downs, Alonzo PHILLIPS
Sixth Ward....JACOB STOFT, JOHN M. GLEASON, Claus JOHNSON
Seventh Ward...... AUGUST J. NOERENBERG, EDWARD T. GIBSON,
THOS. P. Dwyer.
Eighth Ward.........George W. COOLEY, Albert Lawrence,
ORVILLE A. STONEMAN.
Ninth Ward........Robert Ervin, John Kerr, Herman VogT
HENRY OSWALD, VINCENT Reeves
Tenth Ward……….
Eleventh Ward..
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JAMES D. MULDOON, JAMES L. JOHNSON,
LARS SWENSON.
Twelfth Ward...
.CALEB TINGLEY, JAMES L. PARKER
Thirteenth Ward........CHRIS. C. GARVEY, ALFRED F. NICHOLS
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CITY AND BOARD OFFICERS.
City Comptroller,
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FRANKLIN G. HOLBROOK
Deputy-Edward V. Harman.
City Treasurer,
EDER H. MOULTON
Assistant-James B. Modisette.
City Attorney,
SEAGRAVE SMITH
Assistant--Lars M. Rand.
City Engineer,
ANDREW RINKER
Assistants-W. D. VanDuzee, C. O. Huntress, I. E. Howe, F. W. Cappelen.
Chief Clerk-R. L. Cox.
City Assessor,
SWEET W. CASE
Assistants-T. M. Bohan, John M. Williams, Dwight Crandall, John G. Mc-
Farlane, E. B. Peaslee, W. H. Lackey, E. W. Lowe, Chas. Huntoon,
W. W. Woodward, C. F. Douglas. Clerk-Wm. B. Jones.
Health Officer,
Assistant-Dr. John B Dunn.
DR. SAMUEL S. KILVINGTON
Clerk-Claribel S. Bard.
City Physician,
DR. JAMES H. DUNN
Superintendent of the Poor.
MYRON R. CURTISS
Inspector of Buildings,
HENRY J. BAuman
Assistants-James L. Gavegan, August Siegman, Hugh Jennings, Etienne
St. Hilaire, Paul Nass.
Inspector of Meats and Provisions,
THOMAS F. MEA
Assistant-John Gillesby.
Superintendent of Work-House,
Sealer of Weights and Measures,
MATT. GROSS
MATT. SCHULENBERG
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Chief Engineer,
FRANK L. STETSON
First Assistant,
AUGUST H. RUNGE
Second Assistant,
Superintendent Fire-Alarm Telegraph,
PETER J. KENNEY
ZACHARY T. MORRISON
CITY AND BOARD OFFICERS.
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Supervisor,
Registrar,
WATER DEPARTMENT.
MATTHEW WALSH
FRANK T. MOODY
WM. W. Redfield
Engineer (Assistant,)
Engineer of Pump House, W. D.,
Andrew Bergstrom
Engineer of Pump House, E. D.,
Street Foreman,
SIMEON D. ROLLINS
WM. WINTHIESER
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS.
SAMUEL A. MARCH, Vice Pres't.
DANIEL BASSETT, ALBERT J. BOARDMAN
CHAS. M. LORING, President.
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*ALBERT A. AMES,
BALDWIN BROWN,
JOSEPH INGENHUTT,
ABIEL H. MITCHELL,
Secretary,
P. J. E. CLEMENTSON,
CHARLES JOHNSON,
JOHN C. Oswald,
EUGENE M. WILSON.
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†JOHN A. GILMAN
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WILLIAM H. MILLS
BYRON SUTHERLAND
Ed. A. Stevens | Superintendent, WM. M. BERRY
Treasurer, EDER H. MOULTON Chief of Police,
Attorney,
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JOHN T. BYRNES City Forester,
CHAS. R. HILL
P. P. SCHOTZKA
BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS.
*ALBERT A. AMES, President.
MICHAEL Hoy, Vice Pres't.
GEO. L. BAKER.
JOHN BAXTER,
WILLIAM R. GUILE
Superintendent,
JACOB HEIN
Clerk,
HENRY A. NORTON
Assistant Sup't,
JOHN M. Hoy
Surgeon, Dr. Elijah S. Kelley
Chief of Detectives,
*Mayor-Ex-officio.
JAMES W. HANKINSON.
†Chairman of Council Committee on Public Grounds and Buildings-Ex officio.
‡Chairman of Council Committee on Roads and Bridges - Ex-officio.
City Treasurer-Ex-officio.
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CITY AND BOARD OFFICERS.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
SVEN OFTEDAL, President,
ADIN C. AUSTIN Secretary
ALEXANDER T. ANKENY,
WM. D. HALE, GEORGE H. MILLER
JOHN S. MOORE,
BENJ. F. NELSON.
*Treasurer, EDER H. MOULTON | Superintendent, JOHN E. BRADLEY
LIBRARY BOARD.
THOMAS B. WALKER, President, EDWARD M. JOHNSON, Secretary
†ALBERT A. Ames,
THOMAS LOWRY,
Treasurer,
JOHN B. ATWATER,
ICYRUS W. NORTHRUP,
MARTIN B. KOON
SVEN OFTEDAL
EDER H. MOULTON.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
Fudge,
FRANCIS B. BAILEY
Special Fudge,
STEPHEN MAHONEY
Clerk,
LYCURGUS A. Dunn
Deputies-John M. Rees, Raleigh A. Daly.
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL COMMISSION.
WM. D. WASHBURN, President,
LARS SWENSON, Treasurer
WM. S. CHOWAN,
DAVID M. CLOUGH,
JOHN DELAITTRE
OLIVER T. ERICKSON, TITUS MARECK,
JOHN C. OSWALD
LARS SWENSON,
JOHN SWIFT,
Secretary,
CHAS. P. PRESTON,
*City Treasurer-Ex-officio.
†Mayor-Ex-officio.
President State University-Ex-officio.
For Street Commissioners, Health Inspectors, etc., see Printed
Proceedings of the City Council.
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PART I.
CITY CHARTER.
1872-1888.
"No law of the State, contravening the provisions of this act, shall
be considered as repealing, amending or modifying the same, unless
such purpose be expressly set forth in such law."-Chapter 76, Section
1, Special Laws of 1881.
"This City Charter shall be a Public Act and need not be pleaded
or proved in any case."-Ibid.
CITY CHARTER.
An Act to Amend and Consolidate the Charter of
the City of Minneapolis.
[Approved, March 8, 1881; as Amended to March 5, 1887, inclusive.]
CHAPTER.
1.-City and Ward Boundaries.-Taxes
levied in 1886.-City Election, 1887.
II.-Officers and Elections.-Vacancies
and Removals.-Misconduct, etc.—
Conflicting laws.
III.-Powers and Duties of Officers.-
Jurisdiction of Municipal Court.
IV. City Council; general powers and
duties. Restrictions relative to
Sale of Liquors.-Ordinances,reso-
lutions, etc.-Adjusting Accounts.
-Condemnation proceedings.--In-
dustrial Exposition -Revocation
of Licenses.-Powers exercised by
resolution, when.
V.-Financial -Assessments and Tax
proceeds; how appropriated -Li-
censes and proceeds.-Bonded In-
debtedness.- Settlements and Ap-
portionments.--Orders; how issued
paid and cancelled-Depositories
VI.-Police Commission; powers and
duties.-Qualifications for Police
Appointments.-Keports, etc.
CHAPTER.
VII. Fire Department.-Fire Limits.-
Chief Engineer and Assistants.-
Fire Marshal and police.-Wooden
structures, sidewalks, etc.
VIII.-Streets, alleys, public grounds.—
Bridges and water courses.-Side-
walks, Pavements, etc -Improve-
ments and repairs.-Liability for
injuries. Void contracts.
IX.-Water Works, Mains and Sewers.
Drainage.-Gas and water pipes.-
Electric wires.-Water rates, etc.
X.-Local Improvements.-Special as-
sessments, appraisements, awards,
benefits and damages. -Confirma-
tions, appeals, etc.-Streets, side-
walks, water works, paving, etc.
XI.-Miscellaneous provisions.-Ordi-
nances, resolutions, etc. - - Crim-
inal and Civil Actions.-Official
printing, etc.
XII.-Library Board; powers and du-
ties. Tax-levy and proceeds,-
Real estate acquired and sold.
The Note Numbers used for references in this charter refer to the table of "Amend-
ments to City Charter," at end of charter. See, also, "Summary of Legis-
lative Acts Relative to Minneapolis," (including former cities), supra.
Be it enacted by the Iegislature of the State of Minnesota :
SECTION ONE.
The act entitled “An Act Consolidating the Cities of
St. Anthony and Minneapolis, and Incorporating the
Amending act
of consolida-
tion.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
Amending act
of consolida-
tion.
.Charter to read
Same into One City by the Name of *Minneapolis," ap-
proved February 28, A. D., 1872, and the subsequent acts
of the Legislature amending the same, are hereby con-
solidated and amended so that the same shall constitute
the Charter of said City of Minneapolis, which shall read
as follows:
*St. Anthony was incorporated as a city, March 3d, 1855; Minneapolis as a
town, March 1st, 1856, and as a city, Feb. 6th, 1867. The wo cities were consoli-
dated Feb. 28th, 1872. [See special laws, chapter 10, page 56.]
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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6 CHAPTER I.
SECTION.
CITY AND WARD BOUNDARIES.
1. Municipal Corporation created.-
General powers at common law.-
Special powers.
2. Limits of city.—Taxes levied in 1886,
how applied.-Sale of Liquors pro-
hibited in certain territory.
SECTION.
3. Thirteen Wards. - Boundaries and
descript.on of same.
4. Preceding sections not to affect
tenure of certain officers.--Alder-
manic representation and terms.
-Ward taxes levied in 1886.
[ENTIRE CHAPTER AMENDED 1887.]
❝SECTION I. All that district of country in the county
of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, contained within the
limits and boundaries hereinafter described, shall be a
city by the name of MINNEAPOLIS, and all the people now
inhabiting and those who shall hereafter inhabit the said
district shall be a Municipal Corporation by the name
of the 'CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS," and by that name may
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court;
make and use a common seal and alter it at pleasure; take
and hold, lease and convey all such real, personal and
mixed property as the purposes of the corporation may
require, or the transaction or exigencies of the business
may render convenient within or without the limits of
such district; shall be capable of contracting and being
contracted with; and shall have all the general powers
possessed by Municipal Corporations at common law, and
in addition thereto shall possess all powers hereinaf-
ter specifically granted, and all the authorities thereof
shall have perpetual succession.
city a munici
pal corpora-
tion.
General and
special powers.
6 SEC. 2. The district of country constituting the City Territory com-
of Minneapolis shall include the following described lands prised in city.
and territories:
The southwest quarter of section seven (7), and all of
sections eighteen (18), nineteen (19), thirty (30), and
thirty-one (31), all in township twenty-nine (29),
range twenty-three (23) west.
And all of sections one (1), two (2), three (3) and four
(4), the east half of sections five (5) and eight (8), all
of sections nine (9), ten (10), eleven (11), twelve
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER I.
Territory com-
prised in city.
Taxes of 1886-7
School dis-
tricts 6 and 8.
CITY AND WArd BoundarIES.
(12), thirteen (13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), and six-
teen (16), the east half of sections seventeen (17) and
twenty (20), all of sections twenty-one (21), twen-
ty-two (22), twenty-three (23), twenty-four
(24), twenty-five (25), twenty-six (26), twenty-seven
(27), twenty-eight (28), twenty-nine (29), thirty-two
(32), thirty-three (33), thirty-four (34), thirty-five
(35) and thirty-six (36), all in township twenty-nine
(29), range twenty-four (24) west.
Sections one(1), two (2), three (3), four(4), five(5), eight
(8), nine(9), ten (10), eleven (11), twelve (12), thirteen
(13), fourteen (14), fifteen (15), sixteen (16) and sev-
enteen (17), all in township twenty-eight, (28), range
twenty-four (24) west.
Sections six (6), seven (7), and eighteen (18), and those
parts of sections five (5), eight (8), and seventeen
(17), lying west of the centre line of the Mississippi
river, all in township twenty-eight (28),range(23),west.
All that part of section thirty-two (32) lying west of the
Mississippi river in township twenty-nine (29), range
twenty-three (23) west.
All of section eleven (II) and of fractional section four-
teen (14), and all that part of section twelve (12)
and of fractional section thirteen (13), lying west of
the centre line of the Mississippi river, all in town-
ship one hundred eighteen (118), range twenty-one
(21) west.
All of said district of country being in the county of
Hennepin and state of Minnesota.
All taxes for the current year levied or assessed for
any
purpose upon property within any territory which is
hereby added to the City of Minneapolis, shall belong to
the City of Minneapolis, and be paid into its treasury to
be applied to the various purposes for which they were
levied or assessed, except taxes levied for school pur-
poses in school districts numbered six (6) and eight (8).
All debts owing by school districts, except numbers six
(6) and eight (8), the real estate belonging to which is
included within the city limits, as above described, shall
be assumed and paid by the City of Minneapolis, and all
moneys and property belonging to such school districts
shall belong to the said city.
Provided, however, That for school purposes, school
districts numbered six (6) and eight (8) shall neither of
them be affected by this act.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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1.
CITY AND WARD BOUNDARIES.
It is hereby further expressly provided, That no spirit-
uous or malt liquors shall ever be sold within any terri-
tory which is by this act added to the limits of the City
of Minneapolis as the same existed prior to its passage;
and the City of Minneapolis is hereby expressly forbidden
from ever licensing the sale of any spirituous or malt
liquors within the territory hereby added to the limits of
said city.
CHAPTER I.
Sale of liquor
ited in certain
forever prohib-
territory.,
into wards.
6 SEC. 3. The City of Minneapolis is hereby divided City divided
into thirteen (13) wards, bounded and described as
follows:
First Ward.-The First Ward of the City of Minneapolis First ward
shall comprise all of the following bounded lands and limits.
territory:
Commencing at a point in the centre of the Mississippi
river on the north line of section three (3), township
twenty-nine (29), range twenty-four (24); thence south-
erly along the centre line of the main channel of said
river to a point where the same is intersected by the
middle line of the suspension bridge in said city;
running thence easterly along the middle line of
said bridge, along the middle line of the street cross-
ing the island therefrom, of the stone arch bridge
and of Central avenue to its junction with Fifth street
northeast; thence along the centre line of Fifth street
northeast, and upon a line which would be an exten-
sion of said centre line of Fifth street northeast, to
the north line of section two (2), township twenty-
nine (29), range twenty-four (24); thence west to
the point of beginning.
limits.
Second Ward.-The Second Ward of the City of Minne- Second ward
apolis shall comprise all of the following bounded lands
and territory:
Commencing at the intersection of the centre line of the
Mississippi river in said city with the middle line of
the suspension bridge; thence following down the
centre of the main channel of said river to its inter-
section with the east line of section thirty-one (31),
township twenty-nine (29), range twenty-three (23);
thence north along the line dividing the county of
Hennepin from the county of Ramsey, to a point
which would be intersected by the direct continua-
tion of the middle line of Division street in said city
to said boundary line between the counties of Hen-
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER I.
Second ward
limits.
Third ward
limits.
Fourth ward
limits.
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CITY AND WArd BoundarIES.
nepin and Ramsey: thence westwardly along the line
which would be a direct continuation of the middle
line of said Division street, and thence along the
middle line of said Division street to its intersection
with the centre line of Ninth street southeast; thence
northwestwardly along the centre line of Ninth street
southeast to its intersection with the centre line of
Central avenue; thence along the middle line of Cen
tral avenue, of the stone arch bridge, of the street
crossing the island therefrom, and of the suspension
bridge, to the point of beginning.
Third Ward.-The Third Ward of the City of Minne-
apolis shall comprise all the following bounded lands and
territory:
Commencing in the centre of the Mississippi river at a
point where the centre of the main channel of the
said river would be intersected by the centre line of
Twenty-sixth avenue north, if directly extended
thereto; thence southerly along the centre line of the
main channel of said river to a point where the same
would be intersected by the centre line of Third ave-
nue north, if directly extended thereto; and running
thence southwesterly along said extended line and
along the centre line of Third avenue north to Sixth
street north; thence northwesterly along the centre
line of said Sixth street north to its intersection with
the centre line of Sixth avenue north; thence west
along the centre line of Sixth avenue north, and
along a line which would be a direct continuation of
said centre line of Sixth avenue north to the west
boundary of said city; thence north along the west
boundary line of said city to the centre line of
Twenty-sixth avenue north extended thereto; thence
east to the point of beginning.
Fourth Ward.-The Fourth Ward of the City of Minne-
apolis shall comprise all of the following bounded lands
and territory.
Commencing in the centre of the Mississippi river at a
point where the middle of the main channel of said
river would be intersected by the middle line of
Third avenue north, if directly extended thereto, and
running thence southwesterly along said extended
line and along the middle line of Third avenue north
to Sixth street north; thence northwesterly along the
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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CITY AND Ward BoundAHIES.
CHAPTER I.
limits.
middle line of said Sixth street north to the mid- Fourth ward
dle line of Sixth avenue north; thence west along
the centre line of Sixth avenue north, and along a
line which would be a direct continuation of said
Sixth avenue north to the west boundary line of said
city; thence south along the west boundary line of
said city to the southwest corner of section twenty-
nine (29), township twenty-nine (29), range twenty-
four (24); thence east along the south line of sections
twenty-nine (29), twenty-eight (28) and twenty-
seven (27) to the southeast corner of the southwest
quarter of said section twenty-seven (27), township
and range aforesaid, being at the intersection of
Nicollet and Franklin avenues in said city; thence
north along the middle line of Nicollet avenue to the
middle line of Grant street; thence along the middle
line of Grant street to the middle line of First avenue
south; thence along the middle line of First avenue
south and along a line which would be a direct con-
tinuation of said middle line of First avenue south
to the middle line of the main channel of
the Mississippi river and running thence up said river
along the middle line of its channel to the point of
beginning.
Fifth Ward.--The Fifth Ward of the City of Minneap- Fifth ward
olis shall comprise all of the following bounded lands and limits.
territory.
Commencing at a point where the middle line of First
avenue south extended in a direct line would inter-
sect the middle line of the main channel of the Miss-
issippi river; thence southwesterly along said ex-
tended line and along the middle line of First av-
enue south to Grant street; thence along the middle
line of Grant street to Nicollet avenue; thence south
on the middle line of Nicollet avenue to the centre
line of Twenty-fourth street south; thence east along
the centre line of Twenty-fourth street to the centre
line of Tenth avenue south; thence north and north-
easterly along the centre line of Tenth avenue south
to the middle line of the main channel of the Missis-
sippi river; thence up the middle line of the main
channel of the Mississippi river to the point of be-
ginning.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER I.
Sixth ward
limits.
Seventh ward
limits.
Eighth ward
limits.
CITY AND WARD BOUNDARIES.
Sixth Ward.-The Sixth Ward of the City of Minneapolis
shall comprise all the following bounded lands and terri-
tory:
Commencing at a point in the middle of the main chan-
nel of the Mississippi river which would be intersected
by a line which would be a direct continuation of the
middle line of Seventh street south; thence west and
northwesterly along said line and the middle line of
said Seventh street south, to the centre line of Tenth
avenue south; thence along the centre line of Tenth
avenue south to the centre line of the main channel
of the Mississippi river; thence down the line of the
main channel of the Mississippi river to the point of
beginning.
Seventh Ward.-The Seventh Ward of the City of Min-
neapolis shall comprise all of the following bounded lands
and territory:
Commencing at a point where the middle line of east
Twenty-fourth street extended in a direct line would.
intersect the middle line of the main channel of the
Mississippi river; thence west along said extended line
along the middle, line of said east Twenty-fourth street
to the centre line of Chicago avenue; thence south
along the centre line of Chicago avenue to the centre
line of Thirty-fourth street; thence east along the cen-
tre line of east Thirty-fourth street and of its exten-
sion in a direct line to the middle line of the main
channel of the Mississippi river; thence up the middle
line of the main channel of the Mississippi river to the
point of beginning.
Eighth Ward.-The Eighth Ward of the City of Minne-
apolis shall comprise all of the following bounded lands.
and territory:
Commencing at the intersection of Chicago avenue and
Twenty-fourth street; thence west along the centre
line of Twenty-fourth street to the centre line of
Nicollet avenue; thence north along the centre line
of Nicollet avenue to the centre line of Franklin
avenue; thence west along the centre line of Franklin
avenue and along a line that would be a direct con-
tinuation of said centre line of Franklin avenue to the
west boundary of the city of Minneapolis; thence along
the west boundary line of said city to the southwest
corner of section thirty-two (32), township twenty
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
17
CITY AND Ward BOUNDARIES.
CHAFTER I.
limits.
nine (29), range twenty-four (24); thence east along Eighth ward
the south line of said section to the southeast corner
thereof; thence south to a point which would be in-
tersected by the direct extension of the centre line
of Thirty-fourth street thereto; thence east along said
line and along the centre of Thirty-fourth street to
the centre line of Chicago avenue; thence north to
the point of beginning.
Ninth ward
Ninth Ward.-All that part of the City of Minneapolis limits.
which lies north and east of the First and Second Wards
of said city as above described shall constitute the Ninth
Ward.
limits.
Tenth Ward.-All that part of said city which lies north Tenth ward
of the Third Ward of said city as above described, shall
constitute the Tenth Ward.
1.mits.
Eleventh Ward.-All that part of said city which is Eleventh ward
bounded by the Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Second Wards,
shall constitute the Eleventh Ward of said city.
limits.
Twelfth Ward.--All that part of said city which lies Twelfth ward
south of the Seventh Ward and east of the centre line of
Chicago avenue and of a line which would be a direct
continuation of the centre line of said avenue to the south
limit of the city shall constitute the Twelfth Ward.
A
ward limits.
Thirteenth Ward. All that part of said city which lies Thirteenth
south of the Eighth Ward and west of the centre line of
Chicago avenue, and of a line which would be a direct
continuance of the centre line of said avenue, to the
south limits of the city, shall constitute the Thirteenth
Ward.
• SEC. 4.
The preceding sections of this chapter shall
be construed as continuing and extending the present city
boundaries, and as continuing, extending and creating
wards therein, and it is hereby expressly enacted that no-
thing herein contained shall be construed as legislating
out of office any city or ward officer, but every such offi-
cer, notwithstanding any change in the limits of the city
or ward, shall serve the enlarged city, or ward within
which he lives after the passage of this act, until the ex-
piration of the term for which he was elected, subject
only to removal in the cases and in the manner provided
by law; that is to say, the present Mayor, Treasurer,
Tenure of
affected.
office not
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER I.
of aldermen,
CITY AND WARD BOUNDARIES.
Tenure of office and Comptroller shall continue as such, and the present
Aldermen shall be representatives in the City Council, of
the wards within which they are thrown by the passage
of this act until the expiration of the terms for which
they were elected, except as in this charter otherwise
pro-
vided, and except that the Alderman of the Sixth ward,
as the same was prior to the passage of this act, who was
elected for a term expiring in April, A. D. 1889, shall
serve as one of the Aldermen of the Sixth ward, as the
same is established by this act, until the expiration of the
term for which he was elected (except as may be other-
wise provided in the case of biennial elections) notwith-
standing the fact that under the provisions of this chap-
ter, such Alderman will live in the Eleventh ward of the
city, and notwithstanding any provisions of this charter
which may require an Alderman to live in the ward which
he represents in the City Council.
Aldermen
elected in 1887.
Taxes of 1886
distributed.
At a City Election to be held on the first (1st) Tuesday
in April, A. D. 1887, there shall be elected two (2) Alder-
men for each of Wards Ten (10), Twelve (12) and Thir-
teen (13), and enough Aldermen in each of the other wards
of said city, as such wards are hereby constituted, to give
to each of such wards-One(1), Two (2), Three(3), Four (4)
Five (5), Six (6), Seven (7), Eight (8), Nine(9), and Eleven
(11)-three (3) representatives in the City Council.
The terms of all Aldermen elected in 1887 shall expire
on the first Monday in January, A. D. 1889.
All taxes levied in 1886, for ward purposes, shall be
distributed to the several wards, as hereby constituted,
according to the valuation of the property in such wards
at the time of such levy, upon which a tax for ward pur-
poses was levied.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
19
SECTION.
*
14 CHAPTER II.
OFFICERS, ELECTIONS, ETC.
1 Elective Officers.-Mayor, Aldermen,
Treasurer, Comptroller, Boards.-
Council to appoint other necessary
officers.-Terms of office, etc.
2. Elections to be Biennial. - Vacan-
cies in office of Mayor or Alder-
men filled by Special Election,
when. Other vacancies.-Present
incumbents.
3. Conduct and Return of Elections
Members of Public Boards, City
Officers, etc.
1. Qualification for Voting same as at
a general election.
5. Elect on Precincts and
Polling
Places.--Ballots and Ballot Boxes.
6. Judges of Election, how appointed.
-Aldermen to serve, when
SECTION.
7. Special Elections.-Same Judges,
Precincts, etc., when.
8. Election Returns, how canvassed. -
Notices of election.
9. Removals, Resignations, Failure to
Qualify. Council to fill vacancies,
when.
10. Oath of office to be filed.-Bonds
of certain officers; how executed.
11. Persons Interested in Contracts with
the city ineligible to office.-For-
feiture and Exclusion from Office,
when.
12. Provisions of Charter and other acts
inconsistent with this chapter re-
pealed.
[ENTIRE CHAPTER AMENDED, 1887.]
10*SECTION 1. The elective officers of the City of
Minneapolis shall be a Mayor, a Treasurer, a Comptroller,
the members of the City Council, and the members of such
other Boards as this Charter shall create and declare to Elective
be elective officers of the city.
The City Council shall consist of three (3) Aldermen
for each ward in the city, to be elected by the qualified
voters in their respective wards,
officers.
Provided, That there shall be but two (2) Aldermen in City council,
each of Wards Ten (10), Twelve (12) and Thirteen (13), how composed.
until the first (1st) Monday in January, A. D. 1889.
The Mayor, Treasurer and Comptroller shall each hold Term of mayor,
office for the term of two (2) years from and after the etc.
first (1st) Monday in January next following his election.
The Aldermen shall each hold office for a term of four
(4) years from and after the first (1st) Monday in Janu- aldermen.
ary next following his election.
*Section 1 amended by act approved March 5 1887, (see Special Laws, chapter 12,
section 4.) by adding after the word "Health Officer," in the twenty-seventh line,
the words "Inspector of Meats and Provisions,"-evidently an amendment to the
section repealed the day previous (the words "Health Officer" not appearing in the
new section as printed above) and therefore inoperative.
Term of
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER II.
Council to
appoint certain
officers.
Terms of
appointed
officers.
Biennial elec-
tion of officers.
Vacancies and
special elec-
tions.
OFFICERS, ELECTIONS, ETO.
All other officers necessary for the proper management
of the affairs of the city shall be appointed by the City
Council unless in this Charter otherwise provided.
The appointment of such officers shall be deter-
mined by ballot and it shall require the affirmative vote of
a majority of all the members of the City Council to ap-
point such officers.
All officers required to be appointed by the City Coun-
cil, shall, unless in this Charter otherwise provided, hold
their respective offices for the term of two (2) years from
and after the first (1st) Monday in January of the year of
their appointment; and all officers, whether elected by the
people or appointed by the City Council, or otherwise,
shall continue in office until their successors are appointed
and have qualified;
Provided, however, That the terms of office of all of-
ficers appointed prior to the first (1st) Monday in Janu-
ary, A. D. 1889, shall expire on that date or as soon there-
after as their successors can be appointed, unless in this
Charter otherwise expressly provided.
14 SEC. 2.
The election for city officers, members of
the City Council, of the Library Board, of the Board of
Park Commissioners, and the Board of Education, of the
city of Minneapolis, shall be held biennially on the first
Tuesday after the first Monday of November, at the time
of, and as a part of the General Election for State and
County officers, and the first of said elections shall occur
on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November,
A. D. 1888.
Whenever a vacancy shall occur in the office of Mayor
or Alderman, such vacancy shall be filled by a special
election which shall be ordered and held within twenty
days after such vacancy shall occur. The City Clerk shall
give fifteen days' notice of the time and places of holding
general elections and special elections, and such notices.
shall also designate the officers to be elected at such gen-
eral or special election, but no defect in such notice or
failure to give them, shall invalidate any election.
Provided, That whenever a vacancy in the office of
Mayor or Alderman shall occur within sixty days and
more than ten days before any general election, that in
such case the vacancy shall be filled at the ensuing general
election and not at a special election;
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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OFFICERS, ELECTIONS, ETC.
CHAPTER II.
special election
Provided, That if said vacancy occur within ten days of Notice of
said general election, then said City Clerk need only give
eight days' notice of the time and place of the election to
fill such vacancy.
All elections by the people shall be by ballot, and each Ballots.
ballot shall contain the names of all the persons voted for,
with a proper designation of the office written or printed
thereon. The person receiving the highest number of
votes for any office shall be declared elected to such
office.
vote.
When two or more candidates for any elective city In case of tie
office shall receive an equal number of votes the election
shall be determined by the casting of lots, in the presence
of the City Council, at such time and in such manner as
said Council shall direct.
Special provi-
to terms.
sions relative
For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions
of this chapter relative to the time of elections and the
terms of office of the various officers of said city, it is
hereby expressly enacted that the terms of office of the
present Mayor, Treasurer, and Comptroller and of all
Aldermen of said city holding office after the second
Tuesday in April, 1887, whether said officers were elected
for a term expiring before or after the first Monday in
January, A. D. 1889, shall continue to or expire on said Spring election
first Monday in January, A. D. 1889; that there shall be
no general election after the first Tuesday in April, 1887,
until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in Novem-
ber, 1888.
And it is hereby further expressly provided, That at a
general election to be held on the first Tuesday after the
first Monday in November, A. D., 1888, there shall be
elected a Mayor, a Treasurer, a Comptroller and two Al-
dermen in each ward of said city, each of whom shall
hold his respective office for the term of two years from
and after the first Monday in January, then next ensuing;
that at the same time there shall be elected one Alder-
man in each ward of said city each of whom shall hold
his respective office for the term of four years from and
after the first Monday in January, then next ensuing.
abolished.
General elec-
tion in 1888.
And it is further hereby enacted That, for the purpose City election
of carrying into effect the provisions of this chapter rela- in 1887.
tive to biennial elections, at the city election to be held
in April, 1887, there shall be elected three members of
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER II.
1
Board of edu-
cation.
Park Board,
OFFICERS, ELECTIONS, ETC.
the Board of Education and four members of the Board
of Park Commissioners, each of whom shall hold his re-
spective office until the first Monday in January, A. D.,
1891; that all members of the Board of Education and
of the Board of Park Commissioners whose terms of office
expire in April, A. D., 1888, and in April, A. D., 1889, shall
hold office until the first Monday in January, A. D., 1889,
and no longer; that the terms of office of the present
members of the Library Board or their successors in the
case of a vacancy shall be severally extended from the
2nd Tuesday in April, 1888, 1890 and 1892, to the 1st
Monday in January, 1889, 1891, and 1893, respectively;
that at the general election, in November, 1888, there
shall be elected four members of the Board of Park Com-
missioners and two members of the Board of Education
to serve for four years, and four members of the Board
of Park Commissioners, two members of the Board of
Library board. Education, and two members of the Library Board, to
serve for six years from and after the 1st Monday in
January, 1889.
Mayor, Treasu-
rer and Comp-
troller.
Aldermen.
Members of
city boards.
At every general state and city election occurring bi-
ennially on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in No-
vember, after the year 1888, there shall be elected a Mayor,
Treasurer and Comptroller, each of whom shall hold his
respective office for the term of two years from and after
the first Monday in January next after his election; and
at each of such elections there shall be elected one Ald-
erman in each ward of said city who shall hold his office
for the term of four years from and after the first Monday
in January next after such election.
Provided, That at the biennial election in 1890 and every
fourth year thereafter, there shall be elected two Aldermen
in each ward.
And at each such biennial election there shall be
elected four members of the Board of Park Commis-
sioners, two members of the Board of Education and
two members of the Library Board, each of whom shall
hold his respective office for the term of six years from
and after the first Monday in January next following such
election, and at such election in 1890, and every sixth
year thereafter there shall be elected one additional mem-
ber of the Board of Education, making three such
members to be elected in 1890 and every sixth year there-
after.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
23
OFFICERS, ELECTIONS, ETC.
CHAPTER II.
election.
14SEC. 3.-The mode of conducting city elections shall Conduct of
be the same as is provided by law for the conduct of elec-
tions in cities having a population as great as that of
Minneapolis, except so far as such law is modified by ex-
press provisions of this Charter; and all special provisions
herein contained shall apply to all elections within said
city except that the returns of all elections for city officers,
Aldermen, or officers of any Board having the manage-
ment of any branch of the city government shall be made
to the City Clerk as hereinafter provided, and the returns
of a state or county election shall be made to the Auditor
of the county of Hennepin as provided by law.
branches of
city.
For the purposes of this Chapter it is to be understood Boards
that the Board of Park Commissioners, the Board of Edu-
cation and Library Board are Boards having the manage-
ment of branches of the city government.
14 SEC. 4. All persons entitled to vote for State and
County officers, and who shall have resided for ten days
next preceding the election in the precinct where they
offer their vote, shall be entitled to vote for any officer
hereby provided for.
Qualification
of voters.
Election
14 SEC. 5.
The City Council shall at least twenty days
previous to the general election for State, County and precincts.
City officers to be held on the first Tuesday after the first
Monday in November biennially, designate the bounda-
ries of the several election precincts of said city, and for
that purpose may divide the several wards into such num-
ber of precincts as may be deemed necessary, but no
election precinct shall extend over any territory of more
than one ward nor comprise territory which contained
more than three hundred voters at the last preceding gen-
eral election.
polls.
The City Council shall also at the same time, designate Designation of
the place of holding election in each precinct, and such
place so designated shall not be subject to change by the
voters present at the commencement of such election.
In case such City Council shall neglect or refuse to pro- Polls, etc.,
vide such precincts and place of election, previous to gen- when council
eral elections as herein provided, and in all cases of special
election, the election precincts and places of holding
elections shall continue to be the same as at the general
elections next preceding said election.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER II.
Special elec-
tiens.
Ballot boxes.
Ballots, to be
endorsed.
Park commis-
sion ballots.
Board of edn-
cation ballots.
OFFICERS, ELECTIONS, ETC.
Provided, That when it may be necessary to designate
any other place for holding a special election than the
place where was held the last general election in any pre-
cincts, said Council may so designate some other place
in said precinct for holding the said special election.
It is hereby expressly enacted, That at every general
election, and at any election when city officers or members
of any Board having the control of any branch of the city
government are to be elected, there shall be provided by
the proper officer, ballot boxes at each precinct which
shall be kept by the Judges of Election to receive the bal-
lots cast as follows: One ballot box which shall be
marked "CITY," and one ballot box to be marked "CITY
BOARDS." Such last named ballot box shall be so made
as to be to all intents and purposes three boxes in one,
that is to say, it shall be divided by partitions into three
separate compartments and have three separate apertures
to receive ballots and three separate openings from which
ballots may be taken; such compartments shall be sever-
ally marked "Park Commissioners," "Board of Educa-
tion," "Library Board."
The names of all persons voted for, for the offices of
Mayor, Treasurer, Comptroller and Aldermen, shall be
upon one ballot which, upon the face thereof, shall contain
a designation of the office and the name or the names of
the persons to be voted for, or such of them as any voter
may desire to vote for, which ballot when folded shall be
endorsed or show on the outside thereof the word "City"
and shall be placed in the ballot box marked "City."
The names of all persons voted for, for members of the
Board of Park Commissioners shall be upon one ballot
which, upon its face, shall contain a designation of the
office and the name or names of the persons to be voted
for, which ballot when folded shall be endorsed, or show
on the outside thereof the words "Park Commissioners,"
and shall be placed in the ballot box or compartment of
a ballot box marked "Park Commissioners."
The names of all persons voted for, for members of the
Board of Education shall be upon one ballot which, upon
its face, shall contain a designation of the office and the
name or names of the persons to be voted for, which ballot
when folded shall be endorsed, or show on the outside
thereof the words Board of Education" and shall be
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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OFFICERS, ELECTIONS, ETO.
placed in the ballot box or compartment of a ballot box
marked "Board of Education."
CHAPTER II.
ballots.
The names of all persons voted for, for members of the Library board
Library Board shall be upon one ballot which upon its
face shall contain a designation of the office and the name
or names of the persons to be voted for, which ballot
when folded shall be endorsed or show on the outside the
words "Library Board," and shall be placed in a ballot box
or compartment of a ballot box marked "Library Board."
In addition to the ballot boxes herein provided for, Additional
there shall be such other ballot boxes for Presidential, ballot boxes.
Congressional, State, County and other tickets as the
general election laws of the state require.
Provided, That when Judges of the Municipal Court, or
any other city officers not herein expressly provided for,
are to be elected, they shall be balloted for upon the
ticket herein designated "City."
judges of
election.
14 SEC. 6. The Aldermen of said City shall be ex officio Aldermen,
Judges of Election of the precincts wherein they respec- tion.
tively reside, unless candidates at such election or other-
wise disqualified or declining to serve.
judges.
The City Council shall at least twenty days before any Additional
general election, appoint such number of Judges of Elec-
tion as may be necessary to constitute a full board for
each election precinct as provided by general law.
judges, etc., at
14SEC. 7. It shall not be necessary to make new pre- Registers,
cincts, to appoint Judges or to make new registers of special
voters for special elections, but the Judges of Election at electione.
the last general election in any precinct shall continue to
be Judges of Election for such special election; and vacan-
cies of Judges may be filled the same as in case of gen-
eral elections. And such Judges shall have the right to take
from the City Clerk and use at such special election the
register used at the general election next preceding such
special election.
14 SEC. 8. When an election for Alderman, City Officer Returns of
or Officers of any Board having the management of any election.
branch of the city government shall be closed, the Judges
of Election shall make returns thereof to the City Clerk
within three (3) days of such an election, in like manner
as provided by law for the return of State and County
Elections to the County Auditor.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER II.
Canvass, and
notice of
election.
Removal from
city-neglect,
etc.
Vacancies,
how filled.
Oath of office.
Bonds of
city officers.
Treasurer's
bond.
Approval of
bonds.
Officers not to
be interested
in contracts.
OFFICERS, ELECTIONS, ETC.
Within one week after any City Election the City Coun-
cil shall meet and canvass the returns thereof, and de-
clare the result as it appears from such returns and the
City Clerk shall forthwith give notice to the officers elected
of their respective elections.
14SEC. 9. Any officer removing from the city or the
ward for which he was elected or appointed, or any offi-
cer who shall refuse or neglect for ten days after notice
of election or appointment, to enter upon the discharge
of the duties of his office, shall be deemed to have va-
cated his office, and any officer having entered upon the
duties of his office may resign the same by the consent
of the City Council.
All vacancies, except as hereinbefore provided, shall
be filled by the City Council.
14SEC. 10. Every person elected or appointed to any
office under this act, shall, before he enters upon the
duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath of office
and file the same with the Clerk of the city.
The Treasurer, Clerk, Comptroller, Street Commis-
sioners, and such other officers as the City Council shall
require, shall severally, before they enter upon the duties
of their respective offices execute to the City of Minne-
apolis, bonds in such amounts and upon such conditions
as the City Council may prescribe; and in the absence of
special provisions, such officers shall give bonds in the
amounts and upon the conditions of the bonds of their
predecessors in office.
The bond of the Treasurer shall be executed by at least
four sureties, who shall justify to an aggregate amount of
at least double the penal sum of such bond, and shall be
approved by the City Council by resolution approved and
published.
The bonds of the other city officers shall be such as
shall be approved by the City Council or any proper com-
mittee thereof.
14 SEC. II. No person shall be eligible to or shall be
elected or appointed to any city office whatever who is at
the time either directly or indirectly interested in any
contract with the city, whether said contract is made by
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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CHAPTER II.
OFFICERS, ELECTIONS, ETC.
when.
the City Council or by any Board or officer of said city; Contracts void,
and every such contract in which any city officer shall be
directly or indirectly interested shall be void.
practices.
city property.
Any elective or appointive officer of the city of Minne- Fraudulent
apolis, or any person employed in the service of the city
of Minneapolis, who shall wilfully violate or evade any of
the provisions of law, or commit any fraud upon the city,
or convert any of the public property to his own use, or
knowingly permit any other person to so convert it, or by Conversi‹ n of
gross or culpable neglect of duty, allow the same to be
lost to the city, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and in addition to the penalties imposed by law, and on
conviction, shall forfeit his office and be excluded forever
after from receiving or holding any office under the Char-
ter of the city of Minneapolis, and shall be liable to refund Disqualifica
to the city, at the suit of any tax-payer or citizen, any
amount lost to said city by reason of any such violation
of law.
14 SEC. 12. Any provision of this Charter or of the char-
ters of the Board of Park Commissioners, of the Board of
Education or of the Library Board, inconsistent with this
chapter of the City Charter, is hereby repealed; and in
construing any act creating any of said Boards the pro-
visions of this chapter shall be considered as a part thereof.
tion from office
Provisions of
chapter, how
construed.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
SECTION.
CHAPTER III.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
1. Mayor to see that the laws are en-
forced.-Ordinances and resulu-
tions, how approved.-Action of
City Council in case of veto.-
Mayor to sign certain contracts.
2. President and Vice-President of
City Council, duties of.-Presi-
dent to be Acting Mayor in case
of absence.
3. City Clerk to keep all papers and
records of the city, draw and sign
orders.-General duties.
4. Assistant City Clerk to have power
of City Clerk, and serve as clerk for
City Council committees.
5. City Attorney in addition to other
professional services, to furnish
opinions to City Council, and at-
tend its meetings.-General du-
ties and powers.-City not to
give bond on appeals, when.
6. Health Officer to be executive of
Board of Health.-General du-
ties.-Health Inspectors.
7. Superintendent of the Poor.-Board
of Supervisors of the Poor.
8. City Physician,-General duties of.
9. City Engineer.-City Council to
prescribe duties.-May appoint
assistants.
10. City Engineer to superintend cer-
tain work, and see that contracts
are performed.
11. Surveys, plats, etc., made in En-
gineer's office to be the property
of the city.
12. City Comptroller, to keep accounts
of the city, and Board of Educa-
tion and Library Board.
13. City Comptroller to countersign
bonds, orders, etc.
14. City Comptroller to keep account
of orders drawn, cancelled, etc.
SECTION.
15. City Comptroller to keep accounts
with other city officers, and ex-
amine their books and papers.
16. City Comptroller to make report.
17. City Comptroller to countersign
and record contracts.-Not to be
interested in any city contract.
18. City Comptroller to audit all claims
before allowance.-May use а
seal.
19. City Treasurer to receive all city
funds.-Ex Officio Treasurer of
Board of Education and Library
Board.
20. City Treasurer to give bond to City
Council and Board of Education.
21. City Treasurer to make report.
22. Wharfmaster, how appointed.-
Wharf landings, how regulated.
23. Jurisdiction of Municipal Court.
-Revenue to belong to the city.
-Offenders may be sentenced
to workhouse.
24. Ex-Officer failing to turn over city
property, liable for damages, etc.
25. No city officer or employe to be
interested in any city contract.-
Moneys paid on such contracts
recoverable.
26. City Council may require other
duties from city officials.
27. Salary of Mayor.-Salary of Alder-
men.
28. City officers and employes exempt
from jury duty.
29. City Council to fix compensation
of certain officers by reso-
lution. -Official fees or emolu-
ments to be paid over to the
Treasurer monthly and reported
to City Council. Sealer of
Weights and Measures and cer-
tain other officers excepted.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICE RS.
30. Officers having charge of city 31. City Comptroller may appoint a
property to make yearly inven-
deputy,--Duties and compensa-
tory, and report to Council.
tion.
15 SECTION I. The Mayor shall take care that the laws
of the State and the ordinances of the city are duly ob-
served and enforced within the city. He shall take care
that all other officers of the city discharge their respec-
tive duties, and to that end may maintain an action of
mandamus or other appropriate action against any delin-
quent city officer. He shall, from time to time, give the
City Council such information and recommend such
measures as he may deem advantageous to the city.
CHAPTER III.
Duties of
mayor.
ordinances, etc
All ordinances and resolutions shall, before they take
effect, be presented to the Mayor, and if he approve there-
of, he shall sign the same, and such as he shall not sign he Approval of
shall return to the City Council, with his objections thereto,
by depositing the same with the City Clerk, to be pre-
sented to the City Council at their next meeting thereafter.
of veto.
Upon the return of any ordinance or resolution by the
Mayor, the vote by which the same was passed shall be Action in case
deemed to have been reconsidered, and the question shall
be again put upon the passage of the same, notwithstand-
ing the objections of the Mayor, and if upon such vote
the City Council shall pass the same by a vote of two-
thirds of the members of the Council, it shall have the
same effect as if approved by the Mayor.
If any ordinance or resolution shall not be returned by
the Mayor within five days, Sundays excepted, after it
shall be presented to him, the same shall have the same
force and effect as if approved by the Mayor.
15 The Mayor shall sign all contracts made for the City
of Minneapolis, by authority of the City Council.
If ordinance
not returned
by mayor.
city council.
SEC. 2.
At the first meeting of the City Council in President of
each year they shall proceed to elect by ballot from their
number a President and Vice-President. The President
shall preside over the meetings of the City Council, and
during the absence of the Mayor from the city, or his in-
ability from any reason to discharge the duties of his office,
the said President shall exercise all the powers and dis-
charge all the duties of the Mayor. In case the Presi-
dent shall be absent at any regular meeting of the City
Vice President,
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER III.
Acting mayor.
City clerk and
duties,
Certified
transcripts.
City orders.
Powers of
clerk.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
Council, the Vice-President shall discharge the duties of
such President and act in his place.
The President or temporary presiding officer, while per-
forming the duties of Mayor, shall be styled "Acting
Mayor," and acts performed by him, when acting as Mayor
aforesaid, shall have the same force and validity as if per-
formed by the Mayor.
SEC. 3. There shall be a Clerk of said city, styled the
City Clerk, who shall be elected by the City Council. He
shall keep the corporate seal and all the papers and
records of the city, and keep a record of the proceedings
of the City Council, at whose meetings it shall be his duty
to attend.
Copies of all papers filed in his office and transcripts
from the records of the City Council certified by him
under the corporate seal, shall be evidence in all courts.
the same as if the originals were produced,
He shall draw and sign all orders on the Treasurer in
pursuance of any order or resolution of the City Council,
and keep a full and accurate account thereof in books
provided for that purpose.
The Clerk shall have power to administer oaths and
affirmations: he shall perform all other services by law
required of clerks of cities or townships, within said city,
but when services are required of him by public law, for
which compensation is made from state or county treas-
ury, such services shall not be regarded as services for
said city, and he may retain such compensation in addi-
tion to the salary paid by such city.
16 SEC. 4.
16 The City Clerk may appoint an Assistant
Assistant clerk City Clerk, to be confirmed by the City Council; the sal-
ary of which Assistant City Clerk shall be fixed by the
City Council, unless included in the salary of the City
Clerk; and said Assistant City Clerk shall have all the
powers, duties and responsibilities of the City Clerk.
Duties of
assistant.
It shall be the duty of such Assistant Clerk to assist
the Clerk in the care of the papers and files, and in mak-
ing the records of said city, and also to write out such
records as the Comptroller is required to keep and under
his direction.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARter.
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Powers and Duties oF OFFICERS.
CHAPTER III.
powers of
assistant clerk.
Such Assistant Clerk shall also attend such meetings of Duties and
any of the committees of the City Council as such com-
mittee may designate, and act as clerk of such com-
mittee.
He shall have authority in the disability or absence of
the City Clerk to certify and affix the corporate seal to
copies of files and transcripts of records, and all certifi-
cates so made by him shall have the same validity as if
made by the said City Clerk.
SEC. 5. The City Council shall have power to elect an
Attorney for the city who shall perform all professional City attorney.
services incident to the office, and when required shall
furnish opinions upon any subject submitted to him by
the City Council or its committees. He shall also advise
with and counsel all city officers in respect to their official
duties, and attend the regular meetings of the City Coun-
cil and of such committees as shall request his assis-
tance.
Powers and
duties.
Assistant city
17He may appoint an Assistant City Attorney, who
shall assist him in the duties of his office and act as attorney.
City Attorney in the absence or inability of the City At-
torney to act.
City attorney
appeals.
to control
18 The City Attorney of the City of Minneapolis shall
have the right to decide whether or not, in any case in
which the City of Minneapolis is a party in any court, to
take an appeal from any order, judgment or other deter-
mination of the court; and in case of any such appeal, or
in case of suing out any writ of error, certiorari, manda-
mus, attachment or other writ from any court, said City of
Minneapolis shall not be obliged to give any bond, either bond, when.
for costs, supersedeas or other bond whatever.
City not to give
and duties.
19SEC. 6. 19The City Council shall elect a Health Offi-
cer, who shall be a physician. Such officer shall be the Health officer
executive officer of the Board of Health of the city
of Minneapolis, and as such executive officer, it shall
be his duty, within the city of Minneapolis, to enforce
all the laws of the State of Minnesota and the ordi-
nances and health regulations of the city of Minneapolis
relating to the health of said state or city.
inspectors.
Said City Council may also appoint one or more Health Health
Inspectors for said city, who shall have the same author-
ty as police officers in enforcing the ordinances of said
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER III.
Superintend-
ent of the poor.
Supervisors of
the poor.
City physician.
POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
city for the security of public health, and shall act under
the direction of the Health Officer and Board of Health
of said city.
SEC. 7. Said City Council shall at the time of elect-
ing other city officers, elect a Superintendent of the Poor
of said city, who shall perform such duties concerning the
relief and assistance of the poor of said city requiring
temporary and limited support, as are or may be pre-
scribed by ordinance of said city or the laws of the State.
*The City Council shall also have authority to desig-
nate such Aldermen, or other officers of the city, to act as
a Board of Supervisors of the Poor, whose duty shall be
to advise such Superintendent in respect to his duties in
such manner as may be provided in the ordinance desig-
nating such Board.
20 SEC. 8 The City Council may also appoint a City
Physician, who shall be a physician of regular practice
and of good standing in his profession, and a graduate of
some college of medicine.
He shall attend and furnish medicine to all such poor
of the city as he may be required to attend by said Super-
intendent or Board of Supervisors of the Poor, 20
21SEC. 9. There shall be appointed by the City Coun-
City engineer. cil a City Engineer who shall be a practical surveyor and
engineer. He may, by and with the consent of the City
Council, employ such assistants as may be necessary.
Council to
prescribe
duties.
Assistant city
engineer.
He shall keep his office at some convenient place in
said city, and the City Council shall prescribe his duties
and fix his compensation and the compensation of all
assistants employed by him.
21 The City Engineer may appoint an Assistant City
Engineer, who shall assist him in the duties of his office,
and act as City Engineer in the absence or inability of
the City Engineer to act.
*See section 10, chapter 79, special laws of 1885, relative to care of Minneapolis
poor at Hennepin county Poor Farm.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
33
POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
CHAPTER III.
city engineer.
SEC. 10.
He shall have supervision and general charge Authority of
of all work done for the city and of all work done on any
street, highway or alley in the city; may direct the man-
ner of performing such work, and the constructions of all
sidewalks, street crossings, bridges or other structures in
or upon such streets; may suspend any such work or con-
struction as shall not conform to his requirements, or
those of the City Council, and shall take care that the
terms of all contracts for any work or construction in
behalf of the city, are fully complied with.
SEC. II. All surveys, profiles, plans and estimates
made by him or any of his assistants, for the city, shall
be the property of said city, and shall be carefully pre-
served in the office of the Engineer, open to the inspec-
tion of parties interested; and the same, together with all
the books and papers appertaining to said office, shall be
delivered over by the Surveyor at the expiration of his
term of office, to his successor or to the City Council.
To enforce
with contracts.
compliance
Surveys, plans,
property.
etc, city
ler and duties.
22 SEC. 12.
It shall be the duty of the City Comptroller City comptrol-
to keep regular books of account, both of the city of Min-
neapolis and the 22 Board of Education and Library Board
of said city in which he shall enter all indebtedness of said
city, and said Board of Education22 and Library Board, and
the several wards of said city, and which shall at all times
show the precise financial condition of the city and the
several wards thereof, and of said Board of Education To act for
22 and Library Board, the amount of bonds, orders, certifi- Boards.
cates or other evidences of indebtedness outstanding, and
the redemption of the same when redeemed.
etc., to be
23 SEC. 13.
He shall countersign all bonds, orders, cer- Bonds, orders.
tificates or other evidence of indebtedness of the city, countersigned.
ward or Board of Education 23and Library Board, and
no such bond, order, certificate or other evidence of in-
debtedness shall be valid until so countersigned.
24 SEC. 14. He shall keep accounts of orders drawn on
the treasury in separate books and shall note thereon the
cancellation thereof whenever the same shall be canceled,
and shall keep such other books and records as shall be
convenient for the preservation of the accounts of all
transactions and business of the city, or its wards, or of said
Comptroller to
orders.
keep record of
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER III.
accounts.
POWERS AND DUTIES of Officers.
Preservation of Board of Education 24and Library Board; and all books,
lists and records heretofore kept, or which shall be kept,
in the Comptroller's office, and copies thereof by him
certified, shall be competent evidence of all matters shown
by them.
To keep
accounts with
other officers.
Examination
of books, etc.
Financial
statement.
Contracts to be
countersigned.
Not to be
interested.
Claims against
city to be
audited.
25 SEC. 15.
He shall keep accounts with the City Trea-
surer, and all other receiving or disbursing officers of said
city or its wards or of said Board of Education 25and
Library Board; in such accounts he shall charge such
officers with all amounts received by them from all sources
of revenue, and with all city property in their hands or
control as such officers, and credit them with all amounts
disbursed or property disposed of on proper authority, and
with all money or property turned over to the city or to
their successors in office.
He shall examine the reports, books, papers and vouch-
ers of the Treasurer and of other receiving and disbursing
officers, and perform such other duties as the City Council
may direct.
26 SEC. 16. He shall as soon as may be after the close
of each fiscal year report to the City Council the financial
condition of the city and the several wards thereof,
and of the Board of Education 26and Library Board.
27 SEC. 17. He shall countersign all contracts made in
behalf of said city, and no such contract shall be valid
until so countersigned. He shall keep a book in which
he shall enter all contracts, which shall be open to the in-
spection of all parties interested.
He shall not, directly or indirectly, be interested in any
contract or job to which the city or any ward, thereof, or
Board of Education 27and Library Board, is a party.
28 SEC. 18. All claims and demands against the city,
before the same shall be allowed by the City Council, and
all claims against the Board of Education 28and Library
Board of the city of Minneapolis, before the same shall be
allowed by said Board, shall be audited and adjusted by
the Comptroller, and all orders on the treasury, either
on the part of the city or of said Board, shall be examined
and countersigned by him, and by him kept until delivered
countersigned. to the persons entitled thereto, and he shall take and
preserve receipts for all orders so delivered.
Orders to be
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
35
POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICERS.
CHAPTER III.
may keep a seal
He may keep and use a seal of office which may be used Comptroller
instead of the seal of the city in the execution of licenses
and such other sealed instruments as the Comptroller
shall be specially directed to issue, and any use of such seal
by the Comptroller heretofore, is hereby legalized; or he
may use the seal of the city, in his discretion.
29 SEC. 19. The Treasurer shall receive all moneys be-
longing to the city, including license money and fines,
and keep an accurate and detailed account thereof in
such manner as the City Council shall from time to
time direct. He shall also be ex officio Treasurer of the
Board of Education 29and Library Board of the city of
Minneapolis.
Treasurer to
receive all
moneys.
SEC. 20. The Treasurer shall give separate bonds for Separate bond
the safe keeping of the funds of the city and the Board as board
of Education, in such sums as may be required by the
City Council and the Board of Education respectively.
SEC. 21. The Treasurer shall as soon as may be, after Annual report
the close of each fiscal year and at least fifteen days of treasurer.
before the annual election for city officers, exhibit to the
City Council a full and detailed account of all receipts
and expenditures for the last fiscal year, and also of the
state of the treasury, which account shall be filed with
the Clerk, and a copy of the same shall be published in
the official paper of the city.
SEC. 22. The City Council shall have power to pro- Wharfmaster.
vide for the appointment of a Wharfmaster, with power
of a police officer, or may devolve the duties of such
officer on any member of the police force, and may by
ordinance define the duties of such Wharfmaster, and reg-
ulate all wharf landings and levees in the city.
Jurisdiction of
*SEC. 23. The Municipal Court of said city shall have
exclusive cognizance and jurisdiction of all trials and ex- municipal
aminations within said city, cognizable before a Justice of court.
the Peace under the laws of the State, and of all suits,
prosecutions and proceedings for the recovery of all for-
feitures, fines and penalties, or inflictions of punishments,
*An "Act Relative to City Justices of the Peace" (approved March 3, 1887-see spe-
cial laws, and herein supra,) provides for the election of three Justices of the
Peace in Minneapolis and defines their jurisdiction, and to some extent annuls
the exclusive jurisdiction herein conferred on the Municipal Court.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTer.
CHAPTER III.
municipal
court.
Powers and Duties of Officers.
Jurisdiction of for the breach of any by-laws, regulation or ordinance of
said city, and of all offences against the same; and in all
cases of convictions for assaults, batteries and affrays, dis-
orderly conduct, breach of the peace, keeping or fre-
quenting disorderly houses or houses of ill-fame, the Mu-
nicipal Court may, in addition to any fine or punishment
Bonds to keep authorized or imposed, or without such fine or other pun-
ishment, compel the accused to give security to keep the
peace and be of good behavior, for a period not exceed-
ing six months, and in a sum not exceeding five hundred
dollars ($500).
the peace,
Powers of
municipal
judges.
Fines, part of
city revenue.
Imprisonment.
Workhouse or
public im-
provement.
City property
to successor.
The Judge and Special Judges of said Court shall have
powers of Justices of the Peace, as conservators of the
peace and in all ministerial and ex parte matters, and it
shall have all the powers of Justices of the Peace to take
depositions to be used in other courts.
All fines and penalties imposed by said Court shall
belong to and be a part of the revenue of said city.
Said Court shall also have power in all criminal actions
within its jurisdiction, when the punishment is by im-
prisonment, or by imprisonment in default of payment of
fine, to sentence any offender to hard labor in any work-
house established by the city for that purpose; or in case
of male offenders to sentence them to labor on any public
work or improvement, in like manner and under the same
qualifications as hereinafter provided in case of offences
against city ordinances.
SEC. 24.
If any person having been an officer in said
to be delivered city, shall not, within ten days after notification and re-
quest, deliver to his successor in office all property, books,
papers and effects of every description, in his possession,
belonging to said city, or pertaining to the office he may
have held, he shall forfeit and pay to the use of the city
one thousand dollars ($1,000), besides all damages caused
by his neglect or refusal to deliver, and such successor
may recover the possession of such books, papers and
effects in the manner prescribed by the law of this State.
Penalty for
neglect.
Officers not to
be interested
in city
contracts.
30 SEC. 25. No Alderman 30 or other officer or employee
shall be a party to or interested in any job or contract
with the city or either of the wards thereof, and any con-
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
37
T
h
POWERS AND DUTIES OF OFFICEKS.
CHAPTER III.
if officer
tract in which any Alderman 30 or other officer or em- Contracts void
ployee shall be so interested shall be null and void; and interested.
in case any money shall have been paid on any such con-
tract, the amount so paid may be recovered by a joint
or several action from the parties to such contract, and
Alderman ³°or other officer or employee interested in
the same.
prescribe
official duties.
SEC. 26. The City Council shall have power at any Council may
time to require other and further duties to be performed additional
by any officer whose duties are herein prescribed, not in-
consistent with this act, and to appoint such other officers
as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of
this act, and to prescribe their duties, unless herein other-
wise provided for.
SEC. 27. 33 The Mayor shall receive an annual salary
of two thousand (2,000) dollars. Each Alderman shall
receive an annual salary of seven hundred and twenty
(720) dollars; and in addition thereto members of the
Board of Equalization of Taxes, and Aldermen acting
as Judges of Election may be given compensation for
such special services.
SEC. 28. The Mayor, Aldermen, all city officers and
the men employed in the several departments of said
city, while holding such office or engaged in the service
of the city, shall be exempt from serving as jurors in
any court.
Salary of
mayor and
aldermen.
City officers
jury duty.
exempt from
14 SEC. 29. 35The City Council shall have power, where Council to fix
the same is not herein fixed, to fix the compensation of all compensation
officers elected or appointed under this act.
Such com-
pensation shall be fixed by resolution at the time the of
fice is created and at the commencement of any year, as
soon after election as practicable, and when so fixed shall
not be increased or diminished during the term for which
such officer shall have been elected or appointed.
Not to be
during term of
changed
office.
Official fees
city.
to be paid to
35 All fees and emoluments, of whatever character, ac-
cruing to any city officer, as such officer, shall be reported
to the City Council monthly, and paid monthly
into the city treasury, except that the Sealer of Sealer of
weights and
Weights and Measures shall be entitled to re- measures.
ceive his fees, as fixed by the City Council, and
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER III.
of market
masters, etc.
POWERS And Duties OF OFFICERS.
Compensation shall have no other compensation, and except Market
Masters and such Inspectors, Weighers and Measurers as
the City Council may appoint, whenever the City Council
fixes their fees and gives them the same in lieu of all
other compensation.
Yearly inven-
tory of city
property.
Inventories to'
be filed.
Deputy comp-
etc.
SEC. 30. All officers of the city having charge of any
city property, shall, at the close of each fiscal year, make
and return to the City Council a full inventory of all pub-
lic property in their hands or control, respectively.
Such inventories shall be preserved and filed by the
City Clerk, and kept open to inspection of all parties in-
terested, but need not be printed in the proceedings, un-
less the Council shall so specially direct.
SEC. 31. The City Comptroller shall have the power
troller, powers, to appoint a deputy, who shall be designated "Deputy
Comptroller," and whose official acts shall have the same
force and effect as if performed by the Comptroller, ex-
cept that he shall not be authorized to countersign any
bond or contract of the city, nor make any official state-
ment of the condition of any city fund, 37except in the
case of the absence or inability to act of the City Comp-
troller.
To give bond,
when
Compensation.
36 Such Deputy shall before entering upon the duties of
such office, take and file with the City Clerk, a like oath as
is required of other city officers, and may be required by
the Comptroller to give such bond as may be satisfactory
to himself, for the faithful performance of his said duties,
and the Comptroller shall be responsible to the city for
the acts of such Deputy.
36 The compensation of such Deputy Comptroller shall
be paid by the Comptroller, unless otherwise povided by
the City Council.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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SECTION.
CHAPTER IV.
CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
1. City Council -Constitution and
Quorum.-Presiding officer.
2
Stated, special and adjourned meet-
ings.
3. Judge of the election of Members
-Rules.
4, Removals from office.-Absence or
neglect. -Trials.
5. Ordinances, may adopt.-For what
purposes:
to
-(1) Licensing shows and divers occu-
pations. Provisos relative
Auctioneers, Employment Agen-
cies, Newsboys, etc.-Restrictions
as to sale of intoxicating Liquors
in certain territory.
-(2) Gambling. -Unlicensed Liquor
Dealing.
—(3) Riots, Disorderly Conduct, Houses
of Ill-fame etc.
-(4) Abatement and cleansing of
Tanneries, Stables, Privies, etc.
-(5) Slaughter houses, Markets, etc.
Gunpowder and Dynamite.
-(6) Encumbering of Streets, Side-
walks, Public Grounds, etc.
~(7) Speed of Locomotives.-Steam
Whistles.-Fast Driving.-Hitch-
ing Horses.-Bathing and Swim-
ming.
-(8) Horses, Cattle, Sheep, etc,, run-
ing at large.
-(9) Dogs, Licensing and destruc-
tion of.
~(10) Putrid and Unwholesome Sub-
stances.
- (11) Pounds, Hydrants, etc.-Gas
and Street Lighting
-(12) Board of Health-Births,
Deaths, Burials,
-(13) Bread, assize and weight of.
-(14) (attle. etc on sidewalks
(15) Fireworks and Firearms.
-(16) Drunkenness and Obscenity.
SECTION.
5.-(17) Restrain Porters, Hackmen,
Expressmen, Runners, etc.
(18) Public Markets and Build-
ings.
-(19) Butchers' Stalls and Shops.-
Peddlers.
-(20) Weighing Hay, Straw, etc-
Measurement of Wood and Coal.
-(21) Snow, Ice, Dirt, Rubbish.-
Drainage of Low Grounds.-Spe-
cial Assessments.
(22) Wharves and Piers.-Wharfage
Rates.
-(23) Quarantine of Infectious Dis-
ease on Vessels, etc.
-(24) Public Auctions or Vendues.
-(25) [Repealed-Related toolice.]
-(26) Weig ts and Measures.-City
Sealer.
-(27) Inspection of Meats, etc.-Con-
fiscation and Sale.
-(28) Inspectors, Weighers, Gaugers.
-- (29) [Repealed-Related to City For-
ester.
--(30) Abatement of Nuisances.--Pub-
lic Health.
~(31) Abatement of Nuisances.--Ob.
structions in Streets.
-(32) Preservation of Health.--Sup-
pression of Disease.
−(33) Vagrants, Beggars, Prostitutes.
-(34) Hackmen, etc,- Standing Pla-
ces.-Location of Vehicles
-(35) Construction of Buildings
Inspector - Regulations.
-(36) Hitching Posts and Rings for
Horses.
-(37) Hatchways and Guards for
same.
-(38) Numbering of Houses and Lots,
-(39) Fire Escapes.-Dangers from
Fire or Accident.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IV.
CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
City council.
vuorum, etc.
President.
Regular and
special meet-
ings.
Less than quo-
rum.
Meetings and
sessions
defined.
SECTION.
SECTION.
5.-(40) Steam Boilers, Location, etc. 8. Style of Ordinances-Subject in
−(41) Gas and Gas Meters.-Inspector
of Gas.
(42) Electric Wires and Poles.
-(43) Width of Tires.--Heavily Load-
ed Vehicles excluded from certain
Streets.
-(44) Removal of Garbage, Ashes, etc.
-Special Assessment.
-(45) Removal of Dangerous Struc-
tures. Special Assessment.
-(46) Lumber Piles,where -Location
of Certain Enumerated Establish-
ments and Amusements.
-(47A) Concealed Weapons.-Confis.
cation.
--(478) Removal
of Bodies from
Vaults and Tombs.
-(48) Buildings, Chimneys, Stacks,
Smoke.-Nuisance and Penalty.
6. Penalty for Breach of Ordinance.
7. Imprisonment at Hard Labor.-
Workhouse.--Public Improve-
ments.
Title.
9. Ordinances and Resolutions, how
passed.-Record and Publica-
tion.
10. Copy of Ordinance, etc., prima facie
evidence, when-Official Com-
pilations.
11. Appropriations, majority of entire
Council required for.
12. Powers of Council not a bar in
Nuisance Proceedings.
13. Accounts of Clerk, Treasurer, etc.,
to be audited.
14. Finances and City Property-Coun-
cil to Control and Sell -Real
Estate.--Minneapolis Industrial
Exposition, conveyance to.-
Conditions and Exemption.
15. Condemnations for Public Build-
ings, Streets, etc.
16. Licenses, Revocation of.-By whom
and when.
17. Powers; when exercised by Resolu-
tion instead of Ordinance.
SECTION I. The Aldermen shall constitute the City
Council. A majority of the Aldermen shall constitute a
quorum. The President or Vice President of the Council
shall, when present, preside at all meetings. In their ab-
sence the Council may elect a President pro tem. who shall
for such meeting have the same power as the President.
38 SEC. 2. The City Council shall hold stated meetings.
and the Mayor may call special meetings, by notice to
each of the members, to be delivered personally or left at
their usual places of abode. At such special meeting no
'other business shall be transacted than such as is desig-
nated in the call.
In case of the attendance of less than a quorum at any
stated meeting the members present may adjourn to any
special time they may designate, and all business tran-
sacted at such adjourned meeting shall have the same
validity as if done at a stated meeting.
38 All adjourned meetings of any stated or special meet-
ing shall be a part of the meeting adjourned, but the first
and subsequent meetings of any stated or special meeting,
so adjourned, shall be designated as "sessions" of said
meeting.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETO.
CHAPTER IV.
Council Judge
of election of
SEC. 3. The City Council shall be the judge of the elec-
tion of its own members, and in such cases shall have the members.
power to send for persons and papers. It shall determine
the rules of its own proceedings, and have power to compel May punish
the attendance of absent members, and may provide for absentees.
the punishment of such absent members.
remove
SEC. 4. The City Council shall have power to remove Power to
from office any officer of said city, whether appointed by officials.
the City Council or elected by the people; but no officer
elected by the people shall be removed except for cause,
nor unless first furnished with a copy of the charges, nor
until such person shall have had reasonable opportunity
to be heard, in person or by counsel, in his own defence.
Continued absence from the meetings of the Council in Continued
case of Aldermen, and neglect of duty in case of other
officers, unless for good reason, shall be deemed a good
cause of removal.
The City Council shall fix a time and place for the trial
of such officer, of which not less than ten days' notice
shall be given, and shall have power to compel the attend-
ance of witnesses, and the production of papers, and to
hear and determine the case, and if such officer shall re-
fuse or neglect to appear and answer such charge the City
Council may declare the office vacant.
absence.
Place and
trial.
manner of
ordinances.
of law.
SEC.5. The City Council shall have full power and author- Power to make
ity to make, ordain, publish, enforce, alter, amend or repeal
all such ordinances for the government and good order of
the city, for the suppression of vice and intemperance, and
for the prevention of crime, as it shall deem expedient,
and in and by the same to declare and impose penalties
and punishments, and enforce the same against any person To have force
or persons who may violate the provisions of any ordi-
nance, passed and ordained by it, and all such ordinances
are hereby declared to be and to have the force of law.
Provided, That they be not repugnant to the laws of the Not repugnant
United States or of this State; and for these purposes the to statutes.
said City Council shall have authority, by such ordinances:
&& First-To license and regulate the exhibitions of com-
May license
mon showmen, and shows of all kinds, and the exhi- shows
bitions of caravans, menageries, circuses, concerts,
40 roller skating rinks, places of amusement and
museums for which money is charged for entrance into
the same, newsboys and bootblacks, and theatrical
performances; also to license and regulate all auc- bootblacks.
41
museums, etc.
Newsboys and
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IV.
Auctioneers,
pawn-brokers,
employment
offices, etc.
Billiard tables,
liquor dealers,
etc.
Licenses to
terminate,
when.
Power to
regulate, how
construed.
Dealers in
second-hand
goods.
Employment
agencies.
Rules of legal
evidence.
Home for
newsboys, etc.
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tioneers, pawnbrokers, 39 dealers in second-hand
goods, junk dealers, keepers of intelligence or employ-
ment offices, as well as all persons doing the business
of seeking employment for others or procuring or
furnishing employes for others, billiard tables,
pigeon-hole tables, nine or ten-pin alleys, bowling sa-
loons, shooting-galleries, taverns, victualing houses,
and all persons vending, dealing in or disposing of
spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt liquors.
Provided, That all licenses except for exhibitions,
caravans, menageries, circuses, concerts and theatri-
cal performances, shall extend to and terminate upon
the first Monday in May next after the same shall be
issued, unless sooner revoked.
39 And Provided, further, That the power to regulate,
above given, shall be construed to include among
other powers, the power to define who shall be con-
sidered as auctioneers, pawnbrokers, dealers in second-
hand goods and junk dealers, and to compel each and
every such person, whether licensed or not, to keep in
such manner as it may direct, open at all times for
inspection, a record of all such property as it may
designate, with the time when received, and the
name, residence and description of the person from
whom the same was received, and to make daily re-
ports to the police department of said city, as it
shall direct.
39 And also, among other powers, the power to re-
quire all persons doing the business of seeking em-
ployment for others, or procuring or furnishing em-
ployes for others, to keep open at all times for
inspection, such record of their business as it may
designate, and to furnish to every person with whom
they may deal such written evidences of the trans-
action as it may designate, and to prescribe and punish
all kinds of unfair dealings by such persons in the
course of their said business, and to establish such
rules of legal evidence as it may see fit for the proof
of such unfair dealings.
40 And Provided, further, That the City Council may
appropriate the whole or any part of the money re-
ceived for licenses issued to newsboys and bootblacks,
to the establishing, providing and maintaining a home
for such newsboys and bootblacks.
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41 Provided, further, That no license shall be granted
to any person or persons to vend, deal in or dispose
of any spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt liquors
(except to regularly licensed druggists, to sell for
medicinal, chemical or mechanical purposes, not to be
used or drank upon the premises) outside of the fol-
lowing territory in said city, to-wit:
CHAPTER IV
Liquor licenses
for certain
reption.
not to be issued
territory-
license limits.
First ward
license limits.
41 FIRST--Commencing at the intersection of the east bank of Second ward
the Mississippi river and Second Avenue Southeast; thence along
the centre line of Second Avenue Southeast to the intersection of
Ninth Street Southeast: thence along the centre line of said Ninth
Street and along the centre line of Division Street,easterly to the
centre line and intersection of Tyler Street; thence north along
the centre line of said Tyler Street to the centre line of Spring
Street; thence west to the intersection of Washington Street with
Spring Street; thence across said Washington Street to the inter-
section of Fifth Street, and Sixth Avenue Northeast; thence south-
west along the centre line of said Fifth Street to the intersection
of *Fourth Street Northeast; thence northwest along the centre
line of Fourth Street Northeast, to the centre of Broadway Street,
thence east along the centre of Broadway Street to the intersec-
tion of the centre line of Four-and-a-half Street Northeast; thence
north along the centre line of said Four-and-a-half Street north-
east, to the present north limit of the city of Minneapolis; thence
west on the present north limit of the city of Minneapolis, to the
east bank of the Mississippi River; thence along the east bank
of the Mississippi river to the place of beginning; also all that
part of Nicollet Island embraced within the distance of one hun-
dred and fifty (150) feet on either side of Bridge Street across
said Island.
41 SECOND-Commencing at the intersection of the west bank
of the Mississippi river and Twenty-First Avenue North, and
running thence west along the centre line of said Twenty-First
Avenue North to the intersection of Fourth Street North; thence
South along the centre line of said Fourth Street North to the
centre of Fourteenth Avenue North; thence west along the cen
tre line of said Fourteenth Avenue North to the centre line of
Lyndale Avenue; thence south along the centre of said Lyndale
Avenue to the centre of †Twelfth Avenue North; thence east
along the centre line of said Twelfth Avenue North to the centre
of Third Street North; thence south and southeasterly along the
*So stated in act; Fifth Street and Fourth Street run parallel and therefore do
not intersect.
+Evidently intended to be amended by fourth subdivision of Subdivision First,
supra, and to change the boundaries so as to take in the block bounded by Sixth
Street, Lyndale Avenue and Eleventh and Twelfth Avenues. (See Section 2, Chap-
ter 13, Special Laws of 1887.)
Nicollet Island
license limits.
Third ward
license limits.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IV.
Fourth ward
license limits.
Fifth ward
license limits.
Sixth ward
license limits.
Lower levee
license limits.
Limits south
of Milwaukee
railroad.
Seventh ward
·license limits.
Correction of
North Minne-
apolis limits.
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centre line of said Third Street North to the centre of First Ave-
nue North; thence southwesterly along the centre line of said
First Avenue North to the centre of Sixth Street North; thence
southeasterly along the centre line of Sixth Street North to the
centre of First Avenue South; thence northeasterly along the
centre line of said First Avenue South to the centre of Fourth
Street South; thence southeasterly along the centre line of said
Fourth Street South to the right of way of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & St. Paul Railway Company; thence southeasterly along
said right of way of said railway company to Franklin Avenue;
thence south on the centre line of said Franklin Avenue to the
centre line of Nineteenth Avenue South; thence north along the
centre line of Nineteenth Avenue South to the west bank of the
Mississippi river; thence northerly along the west bank of the
Mississippi river to the place of beginning. Also commencing at
the intersection of the west bank of the Mississippi river and
Washington Avenue South, and running west along the centre
line of said Washington Avenue South to the centre of Twenty-
Second Avenue South; thence south along the centre line of said
Twenty-Second Avenue South to the intersection of Fifth Street
South; thence northeasterly along the centre line of said Fifth
Street South to the west bank of the Mississippi river; thence
northerly along the said west bank of said Mississippi river to
the place of beginning at said Washington Avenue.
41 THIRD-Also all that territory bounded on the northeast by
the right of way of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Company, on the northwest by Eleventh Avenue South, and on
the southwest by Sixth Street South. Also all that other terri-
tory bounded on the northeast by the right of way of the Chi-
cago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway Company, on the northwest
by Thirteenth Avenue South and on the southwest by Seventh
Street South. Also all that territory bounded on the south and
southwest by the right of way of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway Company's so-called short line, on the east by
Twenty-seventh Avenue South, and on the north by Twenty-
fifth Street South, on the west by Twenty-third Avenue South
to the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad.
41*FOURTH-By inserting Eleventh Avenue North in place of
Twelfth Avenue North, thence east along the centre of
Eleventh Avenue North to the centre of Sixth Street North,
thence northerly along the center of Sixth Street North to the
centre of Twelfth Avenue North.
* Evidently offered as an amendment to the second subdivision of Subdivision
First, and by inadvertance placed at end of description of boundaries in the act.
(See Section 2, Chapter 13, Special Laws of 1887.)
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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CHAPTER IV.
confined to
limits.
to druggists.
41 No person shall vend, deal in or dispose of any Sale of liquor
spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt liquors within the foregoing
present or future limits of said city of Minneapolis,
except within the limits herein designated, (except for
medicinal, chemical and mechanical purposes, by
druggists, when duly licensed by the City Council, the
same not to be used or drank upon the premises Exception as
where sold); and any person who shall vend, deal in,
or dispose of spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt
liquors within the present or future limits of said
city of Minneapolis, except when licensed by the
City Council of the city of Minneapolis, and with-
in the limits herein designated, shall be subject to
all the pains and penalties provided by Chapter six-
teen (16) of the General Statutes, one thousand Penalties for
eight hundred and seventy-eight (1878) for selling illegal liquor
spirituous, vinous, fermented, or malt liquors with-
out a license, as well as to any punishment pro-
vided by any ordinance passed by the City Coun-
cil of the city of Minneapolis, as in this charter
provided.
traffic.
Second-To restrain and prohibit all descriptions of Gambling, etc.
gambling and fraudulent devices and practices, and all
playing of cards, dice or other games of chance, for
the purpose of gambling in said city, and to restrain
any person from vending or dealing in spirituous, fer- liquor dealers.
mented or vinous liquors, unless duly licensed by the
City Council.
Restraint of
ances, etc.
ill-fame.
Third-To prevent any riots, noise, disturbance and kiots, disturb-
disorderly assemblages in said city, and to provide for
the arrest and punishment of any person or persons
who shall be guilty of the same; to suppress disorderly
houses and houses of ill-fame, and to provide for the
arrest and punishment of the keepers thereof, and Houses of
to authorize the destruction of all instruments used for
the purpose of gaming.
Fourth--To compel the owner or
occupant of any Cleansing of
cellar, tallow chandler shop, soap factory, tannery, unwholsome
stable, barn, privy, sewer or other unwholesome or
nauseous house or place, to cleanse, remove or abate
the same from time to time, as often as may be neces-
sary for the health, comfort and convenience of the
inhabitants of said city.
places.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IV.
Slaugher-
houses.
markets, ete.
Gunpowder,
dynamite, etc.
Removal of
slaughter
houses.
Coun il to
designate
location.
Obstructing
streets.
Speed of
locomotives,
etc.
Gates and
watchmen.
Escape of
steam
Kind of coal.
CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
42 Fifth-To direct the location and management of
stock yards, slaughter houses and markets, breweries
and distilleries, and to establish rates for and license
vendors of gunpowder, and regulate the storage,
keeping and conveying of gunpowder, dynamite, or
other combustible materials, and regulate the use
thereof in blasting.
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​42 Provided, That when the City Council shall have
established by ordinance the territory within which
no slaughter house shall be established, if there shall
be at the time of the passage of said ordinance any
slaughter house within such territory from which the
same are thereafter to be excluded, then said City
Council may direct within what reasonable time, not
to exceed six months, said slaughter house shall be
removed from such territory within which slaughter
houses are to be excluded.
42 Provided, That no slaughter house shall be hereafter
located within the city limits without the consent, by
an affirmative vote of three-fourths of the whole
Council.
Sixth-To prevent the encumbering of streets, side-
walks, alleys, lanes, public grounds or wharves, with
carriages, carts, wagons, sleighs, boxes, lumber, fire-
wood, posts, awnings, or any other materials or sub-
stances whatever.
43 Seventh--To regulate the movement and speed of rail-
road locomotives and cars, to require the maintenance
of flagmen or construction and maintenance of gates
at the crossings of railway tracks over such streets
or avenues as said City Council shall deem to require
such precautions; to regulate or prohibit the whist-
ling of locomotive engines; 43 to regulate and prohibit
the unnecessary discharging of steam therefrom, and
the causing or permitting steam to escape therefrom
unnecessarily, and to require the use thereon of such
safety-valves or other practical appliances as it may
designate, for the purpose of preventing or lessening
the noise from the discharge or escape of steam;
44 and may direct what kind of coal any yard or
switch engine shall use while being run or operated
for any yard or upon any railroad within the limits of
said city; and to prevent and punish immoderate
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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CITY COUNCIL POWERS, DUTIES, ETO.
:
CHAPTER IV.
Fast driving-
hitching horses
driving or riding in the streets; to compel persons to
fasten their horses or other animals attached to vehi-
cles or otherwise, while standing in the streets; and
to regulate places of bathing and swimming in the swimming,
waters within the city limits.
Pathing and
Eighth--To restrain the running at large of horses, Animals, etc.,
mules, cattle, swine, sheep, poultry and geese, and to at large.
authorize the distraining and sale of the same, and to
impose penalties on the owners of such animals for
violation of the ordinances.
Ninth--To prevent the running at large of dogs, and to Licensing of
require a license for keeping the same, and to author- dogs.
ize the destruction of the same in a summary manner,
when at large contrary to the ordinance.
Tenth-To prevent any person from bringing, deposit- Putrid
ing or having within said city any putrid carcass or substances.
other unwholesome substance, and to require the re-
moval of the same by any person, who shall have upon
his premises any such substance, or putrid or unsound
beef, pork, fish, hides or skins of any kind, and on
default to authorize the removal thereof, by some
competent officer, at the expense of such person or
persons.
Removal of
same.
hydrants,
etc.
Eleventh To make and establish public pounds, pumps, Pounds,
wells, cisterns, hydrants and reservoirs, and to erect street lights,
lamps and to provide for lighting of the city, and con-
tract for the erection of gas-works for lighting the
streets and public grounds and public buildings, and
to create, alter and extend lamp districts.
Twelfth-To establish and regulate Boards of Health, Hospitals-
provide hospitals and hospital grounds, the registra- deaths.
tion of births and deaths, and the returns of the bills
of mortality, and regulate or prevent the burial of
the dead within the city limits.
Thirteenth-To regulate the assize and weight of bread,
and to provide for the seizure and forfeiture of
bread baked contrary thereto.
Fourteenth-To prevent all persons riding or driving any
births and
Assize and
weight of bread
Driving on
ox, mule, cattle or other animal on the sidewalks in sidewalks.
said city, or in any way doing damage to such side-
walks.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
СНАРТЕК 1V.
Firearms and
fireworks.
Drunkenness
and obscenity.
Hotel runners,
hackmen, etc.
Public markets
Butchers' stalls
Peddlers.
Hay, wood,
coal, etc.
Removal of
snow, rubbish,
etc.
Stagnant
water.
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Fifteenth—To prevent the shooting of firearms or crack-
ers, and to prevent the exhibition of any firearms in
any situation which may be considered by the Coun-
cil dangerous to the city, or any property therein, or
annoying any citizen thereof.
Sixteenth-To prevent open or notorious drunkenness.
and obscenity in the streets or public places of said
city, and to provide for the arrest and punishment of
all such persons who shall be guilty of the same.
Seventeenth-To restrain and regulate porters, express-
men, hackmen, and also runners, agents and solicitors
for boats, vessels, stages, cars, public houses or other
establishments.
Eighteenth--To establish public markets and other
public buildings, and make rules and regulations for
the government of the same; to appoint suitable.
officers for overseeing and regulating such markets,
and to restrain all persons from interrupting or in-
terfering with the due observance of such rules and
regulations.
Nineteenth-To license and regulate butchers' stalls,
shops and stands, for the sale of game, poultry,
butchers' meat, butter, fish, and other provisions,
and also to license and regulate all peddlers doing
business within said city.
Taventieth-To regulate the place and manner of
weighing hay and straw and selling the same, and
the measuring and selling of firewood, coal and lime,
and to appoint suitable persons to superintend and
conduct the same.
45 Twenty First- To compel the owner or occupant
of buildings or grounds to remove snow, 45ice, dirt,
or rubbish from the sidewalk, street or alley opposite.
thereto, and compel such occupant or owner to re-
move from the lot owned or occupied by him, all such
substances as the Board of Health shall direct; and in
his default to authorize the removal or destruction
thereof by some officer of the city, at the expense of
such owner or occupant. Also to compel the owners
of low grounds where water is liable to collect and
become stagnant to fill or drain such low places, and
in their default to authorize such filling or draining at
the expense of such owner or owners.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETO.
CHAPTER IV.
districts.
Removal of
substances.
45 Provided, That said Council may require snow and Snow-removal
ice to be removed, as aforesaid, throughout such dis-
tricts in said city as it shall direct; and may make the
expense of any removal or destruction of any such
substances which said Board of Health may direct to unhealthy
be removed, and the expense of filling or draining.
any such low place, a lien upon the property from
which said substances are removed, or on which des-
troyed, or on which said low grounds are filled or Expense a lien
drained, and may make a special assessment for the on property
same, to be collected as other special assessments are
collected.
con-
Piers and
Twenty-Second-To control and regulate the
struction of piers and wharfs, or grading said wharfs wharfs.
into the Mississippi river, within the corporate limits
of said city, and to prescribe and control the prices
to be charged for pierage or wharfage thereon, and to
prevent and remove all obstructions in the water of
said river, and to prescribe and regulate rates of
wharfage and pierage to be charged to any boat or
vessel landing or mooring at any landing, wharf or charges.
pier, within the limits of said city and paid to said
city, and to regulate the landings, levees, wharves and
piers within the limits of said city, and boats and ves-
sels landing and mooring at the same.
Wharfage
Twenty-Third-To regulate, control and prevent the Quarantine.
landing of persons from boats, vessels or other con-
veyances whereon are contagious or infectious dis-
eases or disorders and to make such dispositions of
such persons as to preserve the health of said city.
Twenty-Fourth-To regulate the time, manner and place Public
of holding public auctions or vendues.
46* Twenty-Fifth-[Relative to Police-Repealed.]
auctions.
Police.
measures.
Twenty-Sixth-To provide by ordinance for a standard Weights and
of weights and measures, for the appointment of a
City Sealer, and to require all weights and measures
to be sealed by the City Sealer, and to provide for the
punishment of the use of false weights and measures.
48Twenty-Seventh-To regulate the inspection of 47 wood,
hay, grain, flour, pork, beef, 47mutton, veal, and all
*Powers formerly vested in Mayor and City Council transferred to Board of Po-
lice Commissioners. See Chapter 6, Charter.
Inspection of
sions, etc.
meats, provi-
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IV.
Destruction of
unwholsome
meats, etc.
Flour and
other
provisions.
Weighers and
gaugers.
City Forester.
Abatement of
nuisances.
Obstructions
on streets, etc.
Health
regulations.
Contagious
diseases.
Vagrants and
Prostitutes.
Hackmen,
draymen, etc.
Standing
places.
CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
other kinds of meat, poultry and game, fish, salt, whis-
ky and other liquors and provisions 48 and milk; 49 and
to provide for the taking and summarily destroy-
ing or disposing of to soap factories, to be used only
as soap grease, any diseased, unsound, or unhealthy
pork, beef, mutton, veal, or any other kind of meat,
poultry, game or fish, in case the owner does not at
once so destroy or so dispose of the same, and to
provide for the taking and summarily destroying any
spoiled, unsound or unhealthy flour or other provis-
ions.
Twenty-Eighth--To appoint Inspectors, Weighers and
Gaugers, to regulate their duties and prescribe their
compensation.
——
50*Twenty- Ninth - Relative to City Forester Re-
pealed.]
Thirtieth-To remove and abate any nuisance injurious
to the public health, and to provide for the punish-
ment of all persons who shall cause or maintain such
nuisance.
Thirty-First-To remove and abate any nuisance, ob-
struction or encroachment upon the streets, alleys,
public grounds and highways of the city.
Thirty-Second-To do all acts and make all regulations.
which may be necessary and expedient for the pres-
ervation of health and the suppression of disease, and
to make regulations to prevent the introduction of
contagious diseases into the city, and to make quar-
antine laws, and enforce the same within the city.
Thirty-Third--To restrain and punish vagrants, mendi-
cants, street beggars and prostitutes.
Thirty-Fourth--To license and regulate hackmen, dray-
men, expressmen and all other persons engaged in
carrying passengers, baggage or freight, and to regu-
late their charges therefor; to prescribe standing
places or stations within the streets, where such
hacks, drays or other vehicles used for such carriage
may stand or remain while waiting for business or
orders, and to designate such standing or waiting
*Power of appointment transferred from City Council to the Board of Park Com-
missioners. See Special Laws of 1887; chapter 17.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
places in the licenses to such draymen, hackmen or
other persons, and to prohibit them from standing or
waiting at any other place within such streets, and to
regulate and prescribe standing places for all vehi-
cles, going to or waiting at any railroad depot or sta-
tion in said city, and to authorize the Mayor or Chief
of Police of said city to regulate and direct the loca-
tion of vehicles at such railroad depots or stations.
CHAPTER IV.
Hack stands,
etc., at depots.
of buildings.
51 Thirty-Fifth-To regulate the construction of all build- Construction
ings within said city, and by such regulations to pre-
scribe the depth of cellars, the material and method
of construction of foundations and foundation walls,
the manner of construction and location of drains
and sewer pipes, the thickness, material and con-
struction of party walls, partitions and outside walls,
the size and material of floor beams, girders, piers,
columns, roofs, chimneys, flues and heating appara-
tus, to apportion and adjust such regulations to the
height and size of the buildings to be erected; to reg-
ulate the construction and location of privies and
vaults in such buildings, to prohibit the construction.
of buildings not conforming to such prescribed stand-
ard, either in the whole city or within such building Building limite
limits as it may prescribe; to establish, alter or en-
large such building limits from time to time; to ap-
point an Inspector or Inspectors of buildings, or to
devolve the duties of such Înspector on any city offi-
cer; to give such Inspectors or other officer authority Inspector of
to enter upon, examine and inspect all buildings in buildings.
process of construction in said city or within such
building limits, and to direct the suspension of any
such building operation as does not conform to such
regulations.
Provided, however, That neither said City Council
nor any Inspector or officer of said city shall have
control or regulation of any building erected by the
United States or the State of Minnesota.
Thirty-Sixth--To provide for and regulate the erection
of hitching posts or rings for fastening horses, or to
prohibit them in any portion of the city, in its discre-
tion.
No control over
U. S. or state
buildings.
Hitching posts
Thirty-Seventh-To regulate the opening of hatchways Hatchways.
and compel proper guards about the same.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IV.
Numbering of
houses,
Fire escapes.
Steam boilers.
Gas and gas
inspector.
Telegraph
poles, wires,
etc.
May be ordered
below surface.
CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETO.
Thirty-Eighth-To regulate the numbering of houses and
lots, and to compel the owners of houses and other
buildings to have the numbers of such houses or
buildings designated thereon.
5 2 Thirty-Ninth—-To require the owner or lessee of any
building or structure, now or hereafter built, or con-
structed in said city, to place thereon such fire escapes,
and such appliances for protection against and for
the extinguishment of fire, as it may direct. And
also to require such owner or lessee to construct,
provide and furnish each and every other thing and
to do each and every other act which it may think
necessary or advisable to lessen the danger to human
life in case of fire or accident.
53 Fortieth-To regulate or prohibit the location and use of
such steam boilers, in size and construction, as it may
designate as being dangerous to life or property, or
to prohibit the location of any such steam boiler, ex-
cept where permission therefor is first given by the City
Council, specifying the location and prescribing the
regulations for its use.
54 Forty-First-To regulate and control the quality and
measurement of gas; to prescribe and enforce rules
and regulations for the manufacture and sale of gas;
to provide for the inspection of gas and gas meters,
and to appoint an Inspector and other officers, if
needed for that purpose, and prescribe their duties.
55 Forty-Second-To regulate and control, or prohibit the
placing of poles therefor, and the suspending of electric
and other wires, along or across the streets of said
city, and to require any or all already placed or sus-
pended, either in limited districts, or throughout the
entire city, to be removed or to be placed in such
manner as it may designate beneath the surface of
the street or sidewalk.
Width of tires. 56 Forty-Third-To regulate and designate the width of
tires of all wheels used on any and all vehicles used
in said city, and the highest weight of any load to be
drawn over any street in said city, and may direct
upon what streets heavily-loaded vehicles may be
drawn and from what streets, avenues and boulevards
the same shall be excluded.
Heavy traffic
excluded from
certain streets.
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CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
CHAPTER IV.
garbage.
57 Forty-Fourth-To require and provide for the removal Removal of
in such manner, with private parties or asso-
ciations, or otherwise, throughout the city, or in such
districts, or on such streets as the Council may direct,
of any or all swill, offal, garbage, ashes, barn yard
litter, manure, yard cleanings or other foul or un-
healthy stuff, with the authority to assess the expense speed.
of such removal upon the property from which such
above named matter or things shall be taken.
Expense
assessed.
Removal of
structures.
58 Forty-Fifth-To provide for requiring owners of build-
ings or other structures, which shall have been de- dangerous
stroyed or partially destroyed by fire or otherwise, to
take the same or any part thereof down to prevent
accident; and in case of refusal or neglect of said
owner to so take down the same, when ordered by the
officer designated by said City Council, then to cause
the same to be done at the expense of the owner, the Assessment for
cost thereof to be made by special assessment on the
land on which the same stands.
6
same.
58 Forty-Sixth-59 To designate where lumber, 60shingle or Lumber piles.
lath piles and mill wood piles shall not be main-
tained, and to regulate the piling of lumber,°°shingle
or lath in said city, and to require any person main-
taining any lumber shingle or lath pile in said city to
remove the same when the same is or may become
dangerous to any building or buildings or other prop-
erty near the same; also to regulate and designate Location of
where the following kinds of business or amusement etc.
may be hereafter located or carried on, to-wit: mill
wood yards, wood yards, foundries, tanneries, dye
houses, boiler shops, rendering houses, store houses
certain shops,
for oil and powder, glue factories, soap houses, store Base-ball
houses for hides, stables, roller rinks and base ball grounds.
grounds.
61* Forty-Seventh-To license, prohibit, regulate and con- Concealed
trol the carrying of concealed weapons and provide Weapons,
for the confiscation of the same.
62 | Forty-Eighth-To regulate, and determine the manner Removal of
in which bodies which have been buried or placed in dead bodies.
a vault, or tomb or other place, for the purpose of
burial may be removed.
*Erroneously numbered "43d" in act; see section 1, chapter 6, Special Laws of 1887.
*Not numbered in act; see section 16, chapter 15, Special Laws of 1887.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IV.
Chimneys,
smoke stacke,
etc.
Insecure
buildings,
smoke, etc.
Penalties for
nuisances, etc.
Penalties for
breach of
ordinaoce.
•
Bread and
water.
Bond to keep
peace.
Confinement in
work house,
CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
6 3*Forty-Ninth-To regulate the construction of buildings,
chimneys and stacks within the limits of said city;
also the emission of dense smoke. It shall also have
authority to prohibit and prevent the erection or
maintenance of any insecure or unsafe buildings,
stacks, walls or chimneys, and the emission of dense
smoke in said city, and to declare them to be nuis-
ances, and to provide for their summary abatement.
It shall also have authority to enact ordinances
imposing penalties upon persons or parties who may
create, continue or suffer nuisances to exist; such pen-
alties not to exceed, however, in any case, a fine of one
hundred dollars or ninety days imprisonment.
SEC. 6. The City Council may impose punishment for
the breach of any ordinance of the city to the extent of a
fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and imprisonment
in the city prison or county jail not exceeding ninety
days, or both, and may provide that the offender, during
such imprisonment, be fed on bread and water at the
discretion of the Judge of the Municipal Court; and
offenders against such ordinances may be required to give
security to keep the peace and for good behavior, for a
period not exceeding six (6) months, and in a sum not
exceeding five hundred dollars ($500).
64 SEC. 7. The City Council may also provide by ordi-
nance that any one convicted of an offense before the
Municipal Court, subjecting such offender to imprison-
ment under the ordinances of said city, may be kept at
hard labor in any workhouse established for that pur-
pose, or in case of a male offender, may be kept at hard
Work on
labor during his term of punishment in such workhouse;
public
improvements. Or upon the public improvements of said city, or both;
and may also provide by ordinance that any one convic-
ted of an offense before said Municipal Court, and com-
mitted upon non-payment of fine imposed, may be kept
at hard labor in any workhouse of said city aforesaid;
or in case of a male offender, may be kept at hard labor
either in such workhouse or upon the public improve-
ments, or both, until such person shall work out the
amount of such fine, at such rate of compensation as
said Council may prescribe, for a time not exceeding said
*Erroneously numbered "47th" in act; see section 17, chapter 15, Special Laws of
Fines to ba
worked out.
1887.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
CHAPTER IV.
regulations.
commitment; and the City Council shall have full power Workhouse
to establish by ordinance all needful regulations for
the security of such persons thus employed, and to prevent
escape and secure proper discipline, and shall have
power
to establish a proper workhouse in said city, or outside
thereof, for the purpose aforesaid, and under such regu-
lations as said City Council may prescribe.
Hennepin
commitments
64 Provided, That the City Council aforesaid is hereby
authorized to use the Hennepin county jail as the work- county jail-
house of the city of Minneapolis provided for in this act; to.
the prisoners of the city to be as at present in the custody
of the Sheriff of Hennepin county, except while working
on improvements of said city, when they shall be under
the control of the police force of said city.
And provided further, That the Judge of the Municipal Vagrants, how
Court of said city shall have power, for vagrancy, to com- punished:
mit any person to the city prison, or workhouse, or county
jail, or to order any such person to work on the public
improvements of said city for a term not exceeding
ninety days.
SEC, 8. The style of all ordinances shall be "The City
Council of the City of Minneapolis do ordain." The sub-
ject of every ordinance shall be expressed in its title, and
no ordinance shall embrace more than one subject.
style of ordi-
nances, subject
and title.
and resolutions
how passed,
65 SEC. 9. All ordinances and resolutions of the City Ordinances
Council shall be passed by an affirmative vote of a ma-
jority of all the members of the City Council, by ayes
and nays, which shall be entered in the records of the
Council.
No ordinance shall be passed at the same 5 session,
or at any session, occurring less than one (1) week after
the session.at which it shall have had its first (Ist)
reading, of the Council at which it shall have been pre- Unanimous
sented except by the unanimous consent of all the mem- consent, when
bers present, which shall be noted in the record, but this
shall not preclude the passage of ordinances reported by
any committee of the Council to whom the subject of
such ordinance shall have been referred at any previous
6 5 session.
When approved, they shall be
Clerk in books provided for that
they shall be in force they shall
official paper of the city.
recorded by the City
purpose, and before
be published in the
Ordinances to
be recorded
and published.
56
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IV.
Copy of record
of ordinances,
prima facie
evidence.
Official pro-
ceedings and
compilations
of ordinances.
Municipal
court to take
CITY COUNCIL: POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
SEC. 10. A copy of the record of any ordinance or res-
olution heretofore passed and recorded, or that may here-
after be passed, certified by the Clerk and verified by the
seal of the city, any copy thereof published in the of-
ficial paper of the city or printed in the books contain-
ing the official proceedings of the City Council, or pub-
lished in any compilation of ordinances made under di-
rection of the City Council, shall be prima facie evidence
of the contents of such ordinances and of the regularity
and legality of all proceeding relating to the adoption
and approval therof, and shall be admitted as evidence in
any court in this State without further proof.
In all actions, prosecutions and proceedings of every
judicial notice. kind before the Municipal Court of the city of Minne-
apolis, such court shall take judicial notice of all or-
dinances of the said city, and it shall not be necessary to
plead or prove such ordinances in said Municipal Court.
Majority vote
of council for
appropriation.
Council powers
not a bar in
nuisance pro-
ceedings.
Accounts of
officials to be
audited.
SEC. II.
No appropriation shall be made without a
vote of a majority of all the members of the City Coun-
cil in its favor, which shall be taken by ayes and nays
and entered among the proceedings of the Council.
SEC. 12. The powers conferred upon the City Council
to provide for the abatement or removal of nuisances
shall not bar or hinder suits, prosecutions or proceedings
according to law.
SEC. 13. The City Council shall examine, audit, and
adjust the accounts of the Clerk, Treasurer, Clerk of the
Municipal Court, and all other officers and agents of the
city,at such times as they deem proper, and also at the end
of each year, and before the term for which the officers
of said city were elected or appointed shall have ex-
pired; and the City Council shall require each and every
officer and agent to exhibit his books, accounts and vou-
chers for such examination and settlement, and if any
such officer or agent shall refuse to comply with the
Office vacant if orders of said Council in the discharge of his said duties,
in pursuance of this section, or shall neglect or refuse to
render his accounts or present his books or vouchers to
said Council or a committee thereof, it shall be the duty
of the City Council to declare the office of such person
vacant, and the City Council shall order suits and pro-
ceedings at law against any officer and agent of said city
books not
produced.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
57
CITY COUNCIL; POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
who may be found delinquent or defaulting in his ac-
counts or the discharge of his official duties, and shall
make a full record of all such settlements and adjust-
ments.
6 7
*SEC. 14. The City Council shall have the manage-
ment and control of the finances and all property of the
city, except such control of the property connected
with the water works of said city, as shall be given in
this act to the Board of Water Commissioners, and may
provide for the sale of any such property, in such manner
as it shall consider for the interest of the city.
66 Provided, That no real estate belonging to said city
shall be sold unless ordered sold by a vote of two-thirds
(23) of all the members of the City Council.
CHAPTER IV.
Proceedings in
case of defalca-
tion.
Control of city
finances and
property.
Two-thirds
to sell real
vote required
estate.
to Industrial
Exposition.
67Except that the City Council of said city is hereby Exception as
authorized to authorize the proper city officers by a vote
of the majority of all the members of said City Council
to execute proper deeds of conveyance to The Minneap-
olis Industrial Exposition for any lands upon which the
Exposition Building built by said The Minneapolis Indus-
trial Exposition during the year 1886, stands and the land
pertaining to the same, described as follows, to-wit:
100
67 Lots one, two, three, four, five, six and seven in block Land for
three, and lots one, two, three, four, five, six and the exposition.
southeasterly eleven and 52 (11,52) feet front and
I
100
rear of lot seven of block two, all in the subdivision
of block thirty-nine, Saint Anthony Falls, according
to the plat thereof on file and of record in the office
of Register of Deeds in and for said Hennepin county.
67And also block five and lots one, two, three, four, five, Same.
six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nine-
teen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three,
twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, twenty-seven,
twenty-eight, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-one, thirty-
two, thirty-three, thirty-four, thirty-five, thirty-six,
thirty-seven, thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty, forty-
one and forty-two, in block two, all in the subdivision
of grounds between Pine, Bay, Main and Second
Streets, Saint Anthony Falls, as re-surveyed by R.
*Board of Water Commissioners abolished and duties imposed on City Council.
See Special Laws of 1887, chapter 23; see also chapter 9 of this Charter, supra.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IV.
Land for
exposition.
Same.
To revert to
city in case of
default.
Twenty-two
expositions.
Exposition
from tax.
CITY COUNCIL; POWERS, DUTIES, ETC.
and F. Cook, according to the plat thereof and on
file and of record in the office of Register of Deeds
in and for Hennepin county, Minnesota;
67 Also all such part of Second Street, Prince Street and
Cross Street, and an alley between said blocks two
and three of subdivision of block thirty-nine of
Saint Anthony Falls, as was vacated by a resolution
of the City Council of the city of Minneapolis, passed
July 9th, 1886, and approved July 13th, 1886, which
may belong to the city of Minneapolis;
67 But such conveyance or deed shall provide that said
real estate shall revert to the city of Minneapolis, in case
of default in the agreement which said The Minneapolis
Industrial Exposition shall make with the said city of
Minneapolis in reference to carrying on and maintaining
an Exposition in the buildings on said grounds for such
term of years as said The Minneapolis Industrial Exposi-
tion and said city shall agree upon; not to be less than
twenty-two (22) Expositions in the next twenty-four (24
years.
And all the real estate either now belonging to or
realty exempt which may be hereafter conveyed to said The Minneap-
olis Industrial Exposition, and used for industrial expo-
sition purposes, shall be exempted from taxation (but not
from special assessment for public improvements) for a
term not to exceed thirty years and as long as said city
shall have any possible reversionary or other interest in
said property.
Not from
special
assessment.
Appropriation
to perfect title.
Sites for pub-,
lic buildings.
Streets, alleys,
sic.
Council may
appoint
appraisers.
Said City Council is hereby authorized to expend
thirty--five hundred dollars or less to perfect the title to
any of said real estate.
SEC. 15. The City Council shall have the power to
acquire by purchase or condemnation such private prop-
erty as may be necessary for sites for public buildings
for the use of the city and all departments thereof, for
all structures connected with any department of the city,
and for all streets, alleys and public squares in the city,
and to ascertain and determine the value of all such pri-
vate property taken for such uses, and the amount of all
damages occasioned to any private property by reason of
any public works or structures, and for that purpose may
appoint Commissioners to appraise such values or dam-
ages, or acquire information thereof in any other man-
ner it shall deem advisable.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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CITY COUNCIL; POWERS, DUTIES, ETO.
CHAPTER VI.
Licenses may
when.
be revoked,
c. 16. Any license issued by authority of the City
cil may be revoked, by the Mayor or City Council, at
ime, and upon conviction, before the Municipal Court
of the city of Minneapolis, of any person holding a li-
cense, for a violation of the provisions of any ordinance
relating to the exercise of any right granted by such li-
cense, the said court may, and, upon a second conviction
shall revoke, such license, in addition to the penalties pro- revoked, when.
vided by law or by ordinance for any such violation.
68 SEC. 17. If in any case any of the powers granted to
said City Council, to be exercised by ordinances named in
section five (5) of this chapter, cannot well be exercised
by the passage of ordinances, then said City Council may
exercise any of said powers by means of the passage of
resolutions.
Shall be
Council may
exercise
powers by
resolution,
when.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
City assessor.
CHAPTER V.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
SECTION.
1. City Assessor, Deputies and Clerks,
how appointed -Books, Blanks
and Lists.-Notices, how signed.
2. Assessments governed by general
law.
3. Board of Equalization.-General
laws to apply -Restrictions.
4. Equalization, when made and com-
pleted Rights of Aggrieved Par-
ties.-City Attorney, special duties
of.-Corrections.
5. Revision and Confirmation of Rolls.
Return to County Auditor
Final Action and Validity.
6. Salary of Assessor.-Compensation
of Deputies, Clerks, etc
7. Fiscal year, commencement of.
8. City Comptroller to report Estimate
of Current Expenses.-Tax Levy
Computation.
9. Proceeds of Licenses, Fines, etc, how
applied.-Proceeds of Sales.
10. Tax Levy for Current Expenses.-
Limitations.-Department Appro-
priations,
11. Report of Tax Collected.-Reduced
Expenses, when -Compensation
reduced, when.-Street Lighting.
12. Ward Levy, how made and limited.
13. Interest on Bonded Indebtedness.-
Tax toward payment of principal.
14. Sinking Fund; not to be abolished.
-Commissioners.--Funds, how in-
vested.-Indebtedness, how paid.
-Neglect of duty.-Bond Con-
tracts to be kept in violate.
15 Bonds to aid Sinking Fund, when to
be issued.
16. Permanent Improvement Fund.-
Expenses of Special Assessment,
paid in advance, when.-Not to be
used for currrent expenses.—Tax-
levy for Fund.
69 SECTION I.
SECTION.
17. City Comptroller not to sign con-
tracts or orders, when.
18. Tax-Levy, Not to be Affected by In-
formality.-Surplus.
19. Statement of Tax-Levy to be fur-
nished County Auditor,
20. County Treasurer to pay moneys to
City Treasurer -Settlements and
Apportionment.
21. County Auditor to make State-
ments of Taxes Levied.—Abate-
ments, Corrections and Addi-
tions.-Collection Statement.
22. Orders for Money, how drawn.-
Employes may be Paid on Pay
Rolls.--Board Employes also.
23. Orders to be cancelled and filed.
24. Cancelled Orders, Bonds, etc. Ex-
amination and destruction.
25. Bank Applications for Deposits.-
Bonds of depositories.
26. Funds to be Deposited in Designated
Banks.
27. Interest on Daily Balances -Certi-
ficates of Deposit, when.
28. City Treasurer to make Monthly
Statements.
29. City Treasurer Exempt from Liabil-
ity, when.
30 Deposit in Banks Outside Hennepin
county, when.
31. City Treasurer to Secure Interest.-
Yearly Interest Statement.
32 Newly Organized Banks Designated.
33 Deposits Withdrawn from Banks.
34 Bonds of Depositories, to remain in
force -How Examined and Ap-
proved -Record of Bonds.
35. Ill-Fame fines; how appropriated.
36 Current Expense Funds, what paid
from.
37 Tax-Levy to Pay Judgments.-Spec-
ial Tax, when.-Excess.
The City Council shall at its first regu-
lar meeting in March, one thousand eight hundred and
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
61
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
CHAPTER V.
SEy-three (1883), and at the same time in every third City assessor.
Counyear thereafter, or as soon after said meeting as may
any t'point one (1) Assessor, who shall be an officer of
vacancies.
city, styled "City Assessor," and who shall keep an
office to be provided by said city. The term of office of Term and
the City Assessor shall be three (3) years, commencing on
the last Monday in March, of the year of his appoint-
ment, and until his successor is appointed and qualified.
Vacancies in said office may be filled as in other cases.
Deputy
69 The City Assessor shall in each year appoint such
number of deputies as may be required to enable him to assessors.
properly do his work, such appointments, however, to
be approved and confirmed by the City Council; which
deputies shall serve during the time of the making of
the lists, but only so long as their services may be needed,
the City Assessor discharging such of said deputies,
from time to time as the work proceeds, as he can spare.
clerks.
69 The City Assessor shall also, with approval of the Assessor's
City Council, employ such clerks as may be necessary,
their number to be reduced or increased whenever occa-
sion requires, or the City Council directs.
69 The City Assessor shall, so far as may be, present to
the City Council, at its second regular meeting in March
of each year, the names of such persons as he shall de-
sire to have for deputies, designating in each case the
time when the appointee shall, with the approval of the
City Council,commence to serve as such, which time shall
be long enough before May first (1st), so that each may
before that day be assigned his portion of the work and
be properly instructed and prepared to do the same.
may, however, in case his deputies are not all appointed
or all confirmed at that time, present to the City Council
other names for deputies at subsequent meetings as occa-
sion shall require.
He
69 The City Assessor and his deputies shall qualify in
the manner, and discharge the duties, prescribed by gen-
eral law.
City council to
cont
confirm
appointments.
Subsequent
appointments.
Assessor and
qualify.
deputies to
Preliminary
lists.
69 It shall also be the duty of the City Assessor to
make full preparation and do whatever he can toward assessment
the making of his lists beforehand, and the County Audi-
tor shall deliver to him his assessment books and blanks
in season to enable him to do so.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARter.
CHAPTER V.
Assessment
lists, when
made.
Deputy may
sign notices.
Tenure of
assessors.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
69 He shall commence on the first (1st) day of May of
each year, and as soon as may be thereafter complete his
lists, according to law; but he shall be allowed until the
second Monday in July to revise his lists, correct and
equalize his appraisals, and make out and complete the
assessment of said city.
69 Notices may be signed and given, and other acts in
the line of his duty done by any Deputy Assessor in the
name of the City Assessor.
69 Provided, however, That each Assessor now serving as
office of former such (unless appointed City Assessor) shall, if he desires
to do so, serve as Deputy Assessor until the expiration of
the time for which he was appointed as Assessor, subject,
however, to removal, as in other cases.
General laws
to govern
assessors.
Board of
equalization.
Assessor to
attend board
meetings.
Powers of
board.
Reduction of
total assess-
ment.
Meetings of
board.
70 SEC. 2. In all respects not herein expressly pro-
vided for," "the City Assessor shall,in making assessments
be governed by the rules,both in respect to the property to
be listed and assessed and the manner of listing and assess-
ing the same, which are or may be prescribed by the gen-
eral laws of the State for the government of Assessors
in other parts of the State.
71SEC. 3. The Standing Committee on Taxes of the
City Council shall constitute a Board of Equalization,
who shall be sworn according to law as such Board, and
meet at the City Council room in said city on the second
Monday of July, of every year, and revise, amend and
equalize the assessment on the roll of 71the City Assessor.
It shall be the duty of the¹ City Assessor to be present
at all meetings of the said Board of Equalization; to pre-
sent before the Board all facts relating to the assess-
ment.
Such Board of Equalization is vested with all the pow-
ers which are or may be vested in the County Boards of
Equalization, under the general laws of the State, so far
applicable, but shall not be restricted by any limitation as
in respect to reducing aggregate sum of real or personal
property as returned by the 71City Assessor.
SEC. 4. Such Board of Equalization may sit from day
to day, or adjourn from time to time, as it shall deem
proper, until it shall have completed the equalization of
such assessment.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
63
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
CHAPTER V.
when com-
It shall complete such equalization on or before the Equalizations,
second Tuesday of August of every year, and shall have pleted-Clerks.
power to employ such clerk or clerks as shall be neces-
sary to complete the revision of such assessment rolls
within said time.
Every person aggrieved by any assessment shall have Grievances.
the right to appear before such Board and present his
grievance for its consideration.
City attorney
meetings.
to attend board
It shall be the duty of the City Attorney to attend the
hearing of such grievances before such Board, and, when
ever it appears upon the hearing of such grievances that
any property is listed or assessed at less than its true
value, to call attention of the Board to such undervalua- valuations.
tion and to make application in behalf of the city for the
correction of such undervaluation.
Under-
confirm
assessments.
SEC. 5. When the assessment rolls shall have been re- Council to
vised by the Board of Equalization, they shall be returned
to the City Council who may confirm the same or return
the same to said Board for further revision, to be again
reported to the City Council.
return rolls.
When the City Council shall have confirmed the assess- City clerk to
ment the City Clerk shall enclose therein a memorandum
of such confirmation, and such rolls shall then be returned
to the County Auditor as other assessment rolls.
fails to act.
Certificate of
In case said City Council shall neglect to take final When council
action on such rolls, on or before the second (2d) Thurs-
day after the first (1st) Tuesday of August of every year,
it shall be the duty of the City Clerk to return them to
the County Auditor, with a certificate of the fact, and in city clerk.
such case the assessment rolls, as revised or equalized by
such Board, shall have the same validity as if confirmed
by said City Council.
assessors, etc.
72SEC. 6. The City Assessor shall be paid a stated an- Salary of
nual salary to be fixed by resolution of the City Council.
All Deputy Assessors, Clerks of Assessors and of the
Board, and the members of such Board of Equalization,
shall be paid such reasonable compensation upon ac- of Board.
counts of time, audited by the Comptroller, as shall be
determined by the City Council.
Compensation
73 SEC. 7. The fiscal year of said city shall commence Fiscal year.
on the first (Ist) day of March:
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER V.
Fiscal year,
1889.
City comptrol-
expenses.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
73*Provided, That the fiscal year shall begin on the first
(1st day of each and every year, beginning with the first
(1st) day of January, 1889.
SEC. 8. The City Comptroller shall, on or before the
ler to estimate tenth (10th) day of September of each year, report to the
City Council an estimate of the current expenses of the
city and the several wards thereof, for the fiscal year
commencing on the first (1st) day of March next ensuing,
together with a statement of the amount of all revenues
received by the city for the year ending on the first (1st)
day of September, from other sources than taxation.
Revenue
statement.
Tax-levy
computation.
Ward estimate.
Revenue from
licenses, fines,
etc.
Proceeds of
sales.
City council to
levy tax.
Current
expense tax
limited.
He shall also, as soon as may be after the State Board
of Equalization shall have completed its adjustment of
the assessment of the taxable property in said city, re-
port to the City Council a computation of a rate of tax-
levy which, with the amount of revenue received by the
city for the last year, reported as aforesaid and applicable
to the current expenses of the city,shall be sufficient to de-
fray the current expenses of the city for the next fiscal
year, according to the aforesaid estimate, and, at the
same time, a computation of the amount of tax-levy on
the several wards of the city necessary to defray the ex-
pense of such wards, according to his said estimate.
SEC. 9. The revenues of said city derived from licenses,
rents, fines, except such fines collected from keepers
or inmates of houses of prostitution as may be otherwise
provided for, and all costs and judgments collected in
favor of said city, shall be devoted to the current expenses
of the city.
All receipts from sales of property shall be applied to
the permanent improvement fund.
74†SEC. 10. After the making of the reports of the City
Comptroller, provided for in section eight (8) hereof,
the City Council shall levy such tax on all the taxable
property in said city as it shall deem necessary, in addi-
tion to the other revenue of the city applicable thereto,
to defray the current expenses of the city for the next
fiscal year, but no such taxes for such current expenses
shall in any year amount to more than 74 six-tenths (6-10)
of one per cent. of the assessed valuation.
*Section printed as amended; see Special Laws of 1887, chapter 15, section 18.
+See act relative to Board of Tax-Levy, supra.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
65
TAXATION And Finance.
74 Drior to its levying such tax to defray the current ex-
penses of the city for the next fiscal year, said City Coun-
cil shall, by resolution, appropriate a certain sum of money
for the expenses of said department of the city govern-
ment, which is to be paid out of said current expenses
fund, and no more money than thus appropriated shall be
expended for any fiscal year for any such department of
the city government.
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CHAPTER V.
Appropria-
tions for the
year to be prior
to tax-levy.
Comptroller to
report of
make quarterly
expenses.
SEC. II.
The City Comptroller shall, as soon as may
be after the first (1st) day of June of each year make re-
port to the City Council of the actual expenses of the
city for the first quarter of the then current fiscal year,
the amount of taxes collected and outstanding, and of the
revenues received from other sources, and if, upon the
making of such reports, it shall appear that the current
expenses for such quarter have exceeded the estimates
upon which the tax-levy therefor was based, or that the
revenues of said city are likely to fall short of their esti-
mated amount at the time of making such tax levy, the
City Council shall forthwith proceed to reduce the cur- Reduction of
rent expenses of said city, in such manner as may be expenses.
deemed advisable, and for that purpose may diminish.
the amount of service for lighting streets, reduce the
force or number of men employed in the several depart- Reduction of
ments of the city, except the fired epartment, (but in the employes.
discharge of such employees said City Council, so far as
may be, [shall] provide that such discharge shall be oper-
ative only during the summer months of the year), and
when necessary, for the proper reduction of such expenses,
current
salaries.
may reduce the salaries or compensation of all officers Reduction of
and persons employed by said city, by a uniform rate not
exceeding ten (10) per cent. of such salaries or stated
compensation.
In all future contracts for lighting streets the right of
the city to reduce the amount of service on account of
deficiency of revenues shall be reserved.
Street lighting
reduction of
service.
SEC. 12.
The City Council shall also at the time of Ward levy.
making such levy for current expenses, and upon the
recommendation of a majority of the Aldermen of each
of the several wards of the city, levy upon the taxable
property in such wards such tax, not exceeding one-fourth
(4) of one (1) per cent. of the assessed valuation of such Limitation.
wards, as may be necessary to defray the expenses of
such ward for the next fiscal year.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER V.
Interest on
bonded
indebtedness.
Fund for
payment of
principal.
Sinking Fund.
Not to be
abolished.
Excess of
collection.
Increase of
sinking fund.
Sinking fund
commissioners
Investment of
sinking fund.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
SEC. 13. The City Council shall also at the same time
levy upon all the taxable property in said city, such taxes
as shall be sufficient to pay the interest to become due
during such next fiscal year upon all the bonds or debt of
said city, and an additional tax of one mill on a dollar of
the assessed valuation of all such taxable property, to
provide for the principal of said bonds or debt when the
same shall have become due, and the amounts col-
lected pursuant to this section shall not be applied to
any other purpose than herein named; but this restriction
shall not prohibit the investment of the sinking fund
hereinafter provided for.
SEC. 14. In order to provide for the certain pay-
ment of the bonds and debts of the city, the City Council
is authorized to maintain the sinking fund already estab-
lished, and to provide by ordinance for the care, invest-
ment and security thereof, and from time to time to
amend such ordinances in such manner as may be neces-
sary or expedient, but shall have no authority to abolish
such sinking fund until all the debts of the city are
fully paid, nor shall it divert said fund or any revenue
or increase thereof to any other purpose.
All amounts, if any there be, collected of the tax to
pay the interest on the bonds of the city in excess of the
amount of such interest, the whole amount of the one
mill levy for the payment of the bonds of the city pro-
vided for in the preceding section, and all revenues of
the city not otherwise appropriated, shall be applied to
the increase of such sinking fund.
The City Council shall, by such ordinance, provide
for and appoint a Board of Sinking Fund Commis-
sioners, consisting of three persons, determine the
time such Commission shall serve, and define such of their
duties as are not herein enumerated.
Such Commissioners shall have charge of said sinking
fund, and, by and with the consent of the City Council,
invest the same in the bonds of the said city, or such
other bonds as are permitted for the investment of
the permanent school fund of the State of Minnesota,
or in the bonds of any city in the State of Minnesota
having a population of five thousand or more, or in
such county or school bonds in the State of Minnesota
as may be approved.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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TAXATION AND FINANCE.
CHAPTER V.
Bonds not
cancelled,
In case of investment in the bonds of said city the
same shall not be canceled but shall be held by said when.
Commissioners and the interest thereon paid over and
applied to the increase of such sinking fund.
bonds.
Whenever the principal of any of the bonds of the Payment of
city shall become due such Commissioners shall, by and
with the consent of the City Council, dispose of such of
the bonds belonging to such fund as, with the money on
hand belonging to the same, shall be necessary to pay
such bonds.
omitted, when.
Whenever the amount of such sinking fund shall, with One mill tax
the interest or revenue thereof computed to the time of
maturity of the bonds or debt of the city, be sufficient
to pay all of said bonds or debt at the maturity thereof,
the levy of the one mill tax aforesaid may be omitted;
but in case, by reason of decrease of interest or deprecia-
tion of investments or other cause, said fund shall not
be sufficient the same shall be resumed.
In case the City Council,Sinking Fund Commissioners,or Neglect of duty
other city officers shall violate or neglect to conform to any
Tax-payers and
of the provisions of this section, any tax-payer of the
city, or any owner of any of the bonds of said city, shall bond-owners.
have the right to maintain, in any court of competent
jurisdiction, any appropriate action to enforce compli-
ance therewith.
The substantial maintenance of the provisions of this
and the preceding section, for the payment of the prin-
cipal and interest of the bonds or debt of said city, is
hereby declared to be part of the contract with the holder
of any bonds of the city that may hereafter be issued
and shall be kept inviolate.
Bond contracts
inviolate.
to be kept
interest, when.
SEC. 15. Whenever the sinking fund, provided for in Bonds for
section fourteen (14) hereof, shall be insufficient to pay
all the bonds of the city that may at any time become
due, the City Council may issue the bonds of the city, to
run not exceeding thirty years, on such terms as to place
of payment and rate of interest as may be deemed ad-
visable, to such amount as may be necessary to meet such
deficiency, but neither said City Council, nor any officer
nor officers of said city, shall otherwise, without special
authority of law, have authority to issue any bonds, or
create any debt, or any liabilities against said city, in ex-
cess of the amount of revenue actually levied and appli-
cable to the payment of such liabilities.
Special author-
ity required for
other bonds,
etc.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER V.
Bonds for
permanent
improvement.
TAXATION AŊd Finance.
75SEC. 16. The City Council is hereby authorized to
issue the bonds of said city to an amount not exceeding
forty thousand dollars, for such time, not exceeding
thirty years, and on such terms as to rate of interest, and
place, and manner of payment, as may be deemed advis-
able, and to put the avails thereof into the treasury of
Proceeds to be said city, to be kept distinct from all other funds of the
city, and designated as the permanent improvement
fund.
kept distinct.
Fund may be
used in
advance of
assessment.
And for
bridges, water-
works, etc.
Not for current
expenses.
Proceeds of
special
assessment.
Tax-levy for
permanent
improvement.
Tax limitation.
Comptroller to
notify council
when funds
deficient.
The City Council may provide for the payment, out of
said fund, of the expenses of any such improvement as
may be assessed, in whole or in part, upon any special
property to be benefited by such improvement, and in ad-
vance of the collection of such assessments.
From said fund shall also be paid all such portions of
the expenses of such assessable improvement as shall de-
volve on said city, and also the expense of all bridges,
buildings, water works and other permanent improve-
ments, not otherwise specially provided for by law.
No part of such fund shall ever be applied to the pay-
ment of the current expenses of said city, nor to any
other purpose than such as are herein designated.
All sums collected upon special assessments, whose
costs shall have been advanced out of such fund, shall be
returned to said fund.
The City Council shall annually, at the time of making
the other tax levies of said city, levy a tax sufficient to
replace all expenditures made from said fund, not pro-
vided for by such special assessments, and may by tax-
levy provide for the increase of such fund to such
amounts as may be deemed necessary.
75 Provided, That the whole amount of tax levied in any
year, on account of such fund, shall not exceed 15two-
tenths (2-10) of one per cent. of the assessed valuation
of the taxable property of said city.
76 SEC. 17. Whenever the amount contracted or appro-
priated to be expended out of such permanent improve-
ment fund or of any ward fund shall be equal to the
amount of such fund actually on hand and 76nine-tenths.
of the amount of uncollected taxes levied for the cur-
rent fiscal year as aforesaid, and applicable to such fund,
or when the amount called for by any proposed contract
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARter.
69
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
CHAPTER V.
not to sign
when.
shall, together with the amounts previously appropriated Comptroller
or contracted for, exceed the amount of such fund on contracts,
hand, and such 76nine-tenths of the uncollected taxes,
the City Comptroller shall forthwith notify the City
Council of such fact, and he shall not countersign any
contract payable out of such fund until the amount of
such fund on hand, with 76 nine-tenths of the amount of
uncollected taxes aforesaid, shall be sufficient to meet
the liabilities created by such contract, in addition to all
liabilities previously contracted for; and he shall never
countersign any contract payable out of the revenues of
any other fiscal year than the one in which such contract
shall be performed.
may sign
76 Provided, That where special assessments have been Comptroller
made for any improvement, or where the city has been contracts,
authorized to sell bonds to raise money for any improve- when.
ment, then, in such cases, said Comptroller may counter-
sign any contract for such improvement, where said con-
tract provides that no payments shall be made until such
money is in the treasury; and in any case, where the
money is to be raised by such sale of bonds, such con-
tracts may provide for the construction of such improve-
ment to extend over a period of several years, to be paid
for as finished, or on periodical estimates, out of the
revenues or moneys provided for the year when to be contracts.
so paid.
He shall countersign no order upon the treasury until
there shall be money in the treasury belonging to the
proper fund wherewith to pay the same, and all orders on
the treasury shall be countersigned in the order in which
the claims are allowed, upon each fund respectively.
Periodical pay-
ments on
Orders not to
fund
signed when
exhausted.
Taxes to be
resolution,
levied by
SEC. 18. All taxes shall be levied by resolution of the
City Council, and no tax shall be invalid by reason of any
informality in the manner of levying the same, nor be-
cause the amount levied shall exceed the amount required
to be raised for the special purpose for which the sum is
levied, but in such case the surplus shall go into the fund Surplus funds.
to which such tax belongs and may be applied to the fur-
ther uses of such fund.
tax-levy.
SEC. 19.
The City Council shall cause to be transmit- Statement of
ted to the County Auditor of Hennepin county, on or
before the tenth day of October of every year, a state-
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER V.
Collection of
taxes.
County treas-
urer to pay
over taxes,
Settlements
with city
treasurer.
Advance of tax
collections.
TAXATION and Finance.
ment of all taxes by it levied, and such tax shall be col-
lected and payment thereof be enforced with and in like
manner as State and county taxes are paid and the pay-
ment thereof enforced.
SEC. 20. The County Treasurer of said Hennepin
county shall pay over such taxes, together with all inter-
est and penalties which shall be collected on account of
the same, when collected, to the Treasurer of said city;
and in the several settlements of the funds to be paid
over as provided for by general law, said County Treas-
urer shall account for and pay over to the City Treasurer
such portions of the interest paid by bankers with whom
funds of said county are deposited, as have accrued upon
funds arising from city taxes and assessments so deposited
with such county funds or as parts thereof.
Whenever, previous to any of the settlements provided
for by law, there shall be a lack of funds in the city treas-
ury for any purpose and there shall be funds in the
county treasury which shall have been collected on ac-
count of city taxes or assessments, the County Treasurer
shall, on the application of said City Treasurer, advance
To be accoun- and pay over such sums as shall be estimated to be the
ted for at set-
tlement.
Apportion-
amount collected on account of such city taxes or assess-
ments, and such advances shall be accounted for and ad-
justed at the next regular settlements with said city.
The City Treasurer shall also forthwith, after such set-
ment of funds. tlements, adjust and apportion the funds, so advanced,
among the several city funds in his hands.
County audi-
tor's tax-
statement.
Abatements,
etc.
Delinquent
taxes.
77 SEC. 21 It shall be the duty of the County Auditor of
the county of Hennepin to make out and transmit to the
City Comptroller of said city, on or before the first (1st)
day of December of each year, a statement showing the
exact amount of taxes levied on account of the several
funds of said city, and each ward thereof, and of the Board
of Education of said city, according to the tax lists made
out by said Auditor, and at the same time make out and
transmit to said Comptroller a statement of all abatements,
corrections or additions to said tax lists, and of all amounts
of all taxes cancelled as uncollectable, within the year
next preceding, and the several amounts of such changes
affecting each of said several funds; and also a further
statement of the amount of taxes delinquent and outstand-
ing applicable to said several funds, andin such statetment
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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TAXATION AND FINANCE.
CHAPTER V.
taxes of prior
to be made on the first (1st) day of February, A. D. Delinquent
771882, he shall also state the said several amounts so delin- years.
quent on the tax lists for the years 1878, 1879, and 1880,
and of 1877, and prior years.
He shall also, at the time of making settlements with
the County Treasurer required by law, furnish said Comp-
troller with a certified statement of the several amounts
collected by said County Treasurer on account of each of
said several funds as shown by such settlements.
Certified state-
ment of collec-
tions.
when issued.
78 SEC 22.
No money shall be paid out of the city City orders,
treasury, except for principal or interest of bonds, unless
such payment shall be authorized by a vote of the City
Council, and shall then be drawn out only upon orders
signed by the Mayor and Clerk, and countersigned by the
Comptroller, which orders shall specify the purpose for
which they were drawn, and the fund out which they are Form of orders
payable, and the name of the person in whose favor they
may be drawn, and may be made payable to the order of
such person, or to the bearer, as the City Council may de-
termine.
employes on
pay rolls.
Form of pay-
rolls, etc.
78 Provided, That the City Council may provide by ordi- Payment of
nance for the payment of all employes of said city, which
are paid by order of the City Council, on pay-rolls to be
prepared as directed by said ordinance, by heads of de-
partments or otherwise, audited by the City Comptroller,
ordered paid by said City Council after so being audited,
and paid by the City Treasurer and receipted by the em-
ploye on said pay-rolls, which pay-rolls shall be deposited
by said Treasurer with said Comptroller on receiving war-
rants, drawn as other warrants are drawn, for the sums to-
tal of such pay-rolls; such warrants shall refer to the
date, number, sum total, and department paid for, of such
pay-roll, and, to save time to the employes of said city, the
Mayor may direct the Treasurer to go to any place in said
city at a particular time to pay the employes thereof where
more than ten (10) employes are working on any city work.
78 And also further provided, That when the Board of Edu- Pay-rolls for
cation, the Board of Park Commissioners or the *Board of board
Water Commissioners of said city shall, by resolution,
request the Treasurer of said city to pay the respective
regular employes of said respective Boards on pay rolls,
*Water Board abolished; see chapter 23, Special Laws of 1887.
employes.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER V.
Board
employes,
payment of.
Orders to be
canceled.
Destruction of
canceled
bonds, orders,
etc.
Depositories of
city funds.
Applications
of banks for
same.
Council to fix
bonds, etc.
Approval of
bonds.
Designation of
banks.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
in a similar manner as above named for paying employes
who are paid by order of the City Council, as near as
practicable, then said City Treasurer shall pay the re-
spective regular employes of such Board, so requesting
the same, on such pay-rolls.
Sec. 23. When any such order shall have been paid to or
received by the Treasurer, it shall not again be issued, but
he shall immediately cancel the same and file the same
away in his office, keeping the orders drawn upon each
fund separately.
SEC. 24. The City Council may provide for the exami-
nation from time to time, of such canceled orders, and also
of canceled bonds or other obligations in the hands of the
Treasurer, and for their destruction, preserving such record
or vouchers thereof, as the City Council or any committee
thereof may deem proper.
SEC. 25. Any bank in Hennepin county, with a capital
stock equal to or exceeding fifty thousand dollars, which
desires to receive on deposit, as provided in this act, a
portion of the funds in the hands of the City Treasurer of
said city, shall, prior to the first (1st) Monday in April,
A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine (1879)
file with the City Comptroller of said city an application
for such deposits, stating that they will furnish good and
sufficient bonds payable to the city of Minneapolis for
double the amount of money likely to be received, and
conditioned for the safe keeping and payment of the funds
so deposited and interest thereon; and that they will pay
interest on such deposits as provided in this act.
The applications so filed shall be presented to the City
Council, who shall determine upon the amount of bonds
which shall be required of each bank, and the City Clerk
shall notify the banks thereof.
The banks shall then execute such bonds, with three or
more securities, and present them to the City Council for
approval; and all of such banks, which shall furnish bonds
which shall be approved by the City Council, shall be
designated by the City Council as depositories for funds
in the city treasury.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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TAXATION AND FINANCE.
CHAPTER V.
banks, deposits
SEC. 26. After such designation shall have been made Designated
all the funds then in the hands of the City Treasurer, or in.
thereafter received by him, shall be deposited in the banks
designated, in the name of the city of Minneapolis, and
subject to the order of the City Treasurer; and the funds.
so deposited shall be distributed, as near as may be, in pro-
portion to the paid-up capital stock of the banks receiving
such deposits.
SEC. 27. The banks receiving such funds on deposit
shall pay interest on the same at the rate of three (3) per
cent. per annum on daily balances; which interest shall
be computed at the end of each calendar month, and
placed to the credit of said city at that time.
Banks to pay
deposits.
interest on
Provided, That if the City Treasurer shall at any time re- Certificates of
ceive, or have in bank, funds which will probably remain deposit, when.
on deposit three (3) months or longer, instead of leaving
such funds deposited in open account, he shall take there-
for certificates of deposit, payable to his order on demand
and bearing interest from date at a rate not less than four
(4) per cent. per annum, and at such higher rate as he
may be able to negotiate for.
deposits.
Provided further, That the total amount deposited in any Limitation of
bank (both on open account, and on certificates of depos-
it), shall not at any time exceed one-half the amount of
the bonds of said bank to the city.
Monthly
statement of
deposits.
SEC. 28. The City Treasurer shall make monthly state-
ments of the amount of money deposited, as hereinbefore
provided, giving the amount deposited in open account,
and in interest-bearing certificates, in each bank separate-
ly, and file such statement with the City Clerk, who shall
present the same to the City Council at its next regular
meeting thereafter; and the City Clerk shall furnish a copy publication.
thereof to any local newspaper, applying therefor for pub-
lication, free of charge.
SEC. 29. When the funds in the hands of the City Treas-
urer shall be deposited, as hereinbefore provided, such
Treasurer and his bondsmen shall be exempt from all li-
ability therefor by reason of the loss of any such deposi-
ted funds, from the failure, bankruptcy, or any other acts
of any such bank or bankers, to extent and amount of such
funds in the hands of such bank or bankers at the time of
such failure or bankruptcy.
Copies for
City Treasurer
liability, when.
exempt from
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER V.
When banks
decline to give
bonds etc.
Banks outside
Hennepin
county.
Limitations as
to capital.
City treasurer
to secure
interest.
Annual
statement of
city treasurer.
Newly
organized
banks may
receive
deposits.
How
designated.
Insufficient
security.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
SEC. 30. If all the banks of Hennepin county shall
decline to give bonds and receive deposits, as provided in
this act, or if the bonds offered shall not be of sufficient
amount to cover and make secure the deposits to be made,
then the City Treasurer, with a committee of the City
Council, shall negotiate for such deposits, or such part
thereof as they may deem necessary, with any bank or
banker outside of Hennepin county, which will give bonds,
with sureties to be approved by the City Council; and in
case such negotiation be made and bonds accepted then
the City Treasurer is hereby authorized to deposit the
funds of said city in such bank, in the same manner as in
banks mentioned in section ten (10) of this chapter.
Provided, That no bank outside of Hennepin county shall
be so selected unless it have a paid-up capital of not less
than fifty thousand dollars.
SEC. 31. It is hereby made the duty of the City Treas-
urer to make every endeavor to secure interest on the pub-
lic funds, consistent with their safe keeping, as herein
provided, and to manage such funds in the interest of the
city; but he shall in no case postpone or defer any pay-
ments after the same shall become due, in order to se-
cure additional interest in such funds.
At the close of each fiscal year, the City Treasurer shall
make a statement of the total amount of interest on pub-
lic funds received by him during the year, and such inter-
est shall be placed to the credit cf the several funds from
which it shall accrue.
SEC. 32, Any bank in Hennepin county, newly organ-
ized, or which has not before received any of the city
funds on deposit, having a paid-up capital of not less
than fifty thousand dollars, may at any time make appli-
cation to the City Council for the deposit of a portion of
the city funds, and if they shall give bonds, which shall be
approved by the City Council, and comply with the con-
ditions of the act, the City Council may designate any
such bank as a depository of such funds, as provided in
section twenty-four (24) of this chapter.
SEC. 33. Whenever, from the change in the financial
ability of sureties, or from other causes, the City Council
shall deem the bonds of any bank insufficient security for
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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TAXATION AND FINANCE.
CHAPTER V.
Council m
bonds.
require new
the funds therein deposited or liable to be deposited by
the City Treasurer, the City Council shall require a new
bond with sureties to be approved by the City Council, to
be given by such bank, and if such bank shall fail to
promptly execute and present such new bonds, the City
Treasurer shall at once withdraw all deposits from such
bank, and such bank shall cease to be a depository of city Deposits may
funds until it shall be reinstated as such by vote of the be withdrawn.
City Council upon the execution of bonds, which shall be
approved by the City Council.
continue in
force.
SEC. 34. All bonds given by banks, as provided in this Bonds to
chapter, shall continue in force so long as funds of the
city, or of which the City Treasurer is the custodian in
any way, deposited in such bank, shall be unpaid by the
banks giving such bonds; and the City Council, at its
second regular session in the month of March, in each
year, shall examine all the bonds in the hands of the City Annual
Treasurer, and if any are deemed insufficient, they shall examinati.n
require new bonds to be executed; and the Council may
make such examination and orders at any other time.
bonds,
All of such bonds, given by banks under the provisions Bonds of banks
of this chapter, shall, upon being approved by the City how recorded
Council, be recorded by the City Comptroller, and then
deposited with the City Treasurer for safe keeping; and
the record of such bonds so kept by the City Comptroller,
or copies thereof certified by that officer, shall be compe-
tent and prima facie evidence of the contents and teñor
of such bonds.
appropriated
*SEC. 35. The City Council is authorized to appropri- Fines of bawdy
ate and set apart the whole or any portion of the fines house-keepers,
which may be collected from keepers or inmates of houses how.
of ill-fame, or from persons resorting to such houses, for
the use and support of any institution in said city estab-
lished for the care and reformation of fallen women, or
[for] the building and maintaining of a city hospital.
* "An Act to Amend the Charter," eto., approved March 2, 1887, (special laws,
chapter 16) provides that to the end of section 35, of chapter 6 there being no sec-
tion of that number in said chapter, and said chapter being expressly repealed
three days later the following words and figures be added, viz: "The said City
Council may appropriate out of the current expense fund of said city, sometimes
called the general fund, a sum of money sufficient to defray the expenses of any insti-
tution in said city est iblished for the care and reformation of fallen women, and
the Bethany Home in said city is hereby designated as such an institution, estab-
lished for the care and reformation of fallen women. Said sum of money not to
exceed the sum of six hundred dollars per month. The intention was, doubtless,
to amend section 35, of this chapter, but it was not accomplished.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER V.
Orders paid
from current
expense
account.
Judgments
against city.
TAXATION AND FINANCE.
SEC. 36. All appropriations and expenses of the city,
not otherwise specially provided for, shall be paid out of
the fund for the current expenses of the city.
SEC. 37. No limitation or restriction herein shall be
construed to prohibit the levying of taxes to pay any
judgment that may at any time be recovered against said
city, but in case of such judgment the City Council shall, at
the time of making the last annual levy after the rendi-
tion of such judgment, levy and assess a special tax upon
Special tax for, all the property in the city, or such ward thereof as may
be responsible for the payment of such judgment, suffi-
cient to pay such judgment.
when made,etc.
New levy for
judgment,
when.
paid
urrent
(se fund.
In case of failure to collect taxes or other cause, such
levy shall prove insufficient, new taxes shall be levied until
the whole of such judgment is paid.
Any excess of the amount so levied and collected, over
the payment of such judgment, shall be credited to the
current expense fund of the city, or the funds of the
proper ward, as the case may be.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
77
SECTION.
CHAPTER VI.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
1. [Omitted in act.]
2. Board of Police Commissioners.—
General Powers and Duties.-
Bonds and Compensation of Po-
lice.-Rules and Regulations.
3. Board, how composed.-Mayor, ex-
officio, President.-CityCouncil to
elect four Commissioners.-Suc-
cessors, how elected.-Vacancies.
4. Salary of Commissioners.-Expenses
a valid charge -Oath of Office,
form of.-Fitness, not Favoritism,
to Govern Appointments.
5. Public Peace to be Preserved, and
Laws Enforced.-Commissioners,
may Subpoena Witnesses and Ad-
minister Oaths.-Vice President
and Clerk. Duties of Clerk.
6. Special Policemen in Emergencies.
-Limited Policemen or Watch-
men.-Duties and Limitations.
SECTION.
7. Rules for Board.-Quorum.-Ap-
pointments on and Removal from
Police Force, how.
8. Qualifications for Appointees on Po-
lice Force. Disqualifications.-
Powers of Police.
9. Board Not to Have Jurisdiction over
Park Police.-Park Commission-
ers to control same.
10. Former Folice Organization to Re.
main in Force until Board organ-
izes.- No Removals Therefrom,Ex-
cept for Cause.
11. Commissioners Guilty of Misde-
meanor, etc., how removed.
12. City Council to Audit and Pay Salar-
ies and Expenses.-B、ard to make
Detailed Quarterly Reports.-
Books Examined and Estimates
Furnished, when.
*[ENTIRE CHAPTER AMENDED 1887.]
82 SECTION I. [No section 1, chapter 6, in the act.]
No section 1.
commissioners
82†SEC. 2. There is hereby created and established in Board of police
and for said city an official board, which shall be styled
"The Board of Police Commissioners of the City of Min-
neapolis," in which shall be vested, subject only to the
limitations herein contained, fall the powers of said city General power.
connected with and incident to the establishment, mainte-
nance, appointment, discipline and control of its police.
of department.
Said Board shall have the custody and control of all To have control
books, records, teams, vehicles, telegraph and telephone
lines and instruments, station-houses, lock-ups and all
*See Special Laws of 1887; chapter 9.
†See section 9 of this chapter and section 8 of chapter 7, supra.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VI.
Board to con-
trol buildings
and property.
To appoint and
remove police.
Compensation
of appointees.
1
Rules and
regulations.
Five commis-
sioners, includ-
ing president
(mayor).
Commissioners
how elected.
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
other public property appertaining to the Police Depart-
ment of said city, and may, out of any money appropri-
ated by the City Council for that purpose, provide and
maintain such other buildings, facilities and equipments
as it may deem essential to the efficiency of said police.
It shall have authority to appoint and remove at its
pleasure all members of the police force, including clerks,
detectives, watchmen, jailors, teamsters and other em-
ployes, and to prescribe the title, rank and duties of each;
and it may require a bond from any such members of
said police force and fix the conditions thereof.
It may fix the compensation of all such appointees,sub-
ject to the approval of the City Council, and may make
all needful rules and regulations for the efficiency and
discipline of such police force, and may promulgate and
enforce general and special orders for its government.
SEC. 3. Said Board shall consist of five (5) Commis-
sioners, including the Mayor of said city, who shall be ex-
officio a member of said Board and President thereof.
The City Council of said city shall, within twenty (20)
days from and after the passage of this act, by an affirma-
tive vica voce vote of a majority of the whole Council,
elect four (4) Police Commissioners, no one of whom
shall, during his term of office, hold any other office under
the government of said city, and not more than two (2)
of whom shall be selected from members of one po-
Qualifications. litical party; and such Police Commissioners, together
with the Mayor of said city, shall constitute the Board
of Police Commissioners contemplated and provided for
in this act.
Organization
of board.
Term of office.
The term of office of the said Commissioners, so to be
elected by the said City Council, shall begin on the first
(1st) day of April, one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-seven (1887), and said Commissioners shall, as soon
as practicable after said first (1st) day of April, and on or
before the second (2d) Wednesday in April of said year,
meet and organize as said Board.
One of said elective Commissioners shall serve for one
(1) year, one (1) for two (2) years, one (1) for three (3)
years, and one (1) for four (4) years from said last named
date, and until their successors shall have qualified; and
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARter.
79
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
CHAPTER VI.
said City Council shall, at the time of such election, desig- Terms of office
nate which one of said Commissioners shall serve for one
(1) year, which one (1) for two (2) years, which one (1)
for three (3) years and which one (1) for four (4) years.
after 1887.
In the month of March, of each year after the year one Election of
thousand eight hundred and eighty-seven (1887), the said commissioners
City Council shall in like manner elect one (1) Commis-
sioner to succeed the one (1) whose term is about to ex-
pire; and the term of each such newly-elected Commis-
sioner shall continue for four (4) years from the first (1st)
Wednesday in April of the year in which he is elected,
and until the qualification of his successor.
In case the City Council shall, for any reason, fail to When council
make such election at the time or times herein specified, fails to elect.
the same may be made at any time thereafter, and the
person or persons so elected shall hold office from the
date of his or their qualification until the expiration of
said term, and until the election and qualification of their
successors.
In case of any vacancy, occuring by death, resignation, Vacancies,
removal or otherwise, the City Council shall in like man-
ner fill the same by election for the unexpired term.
two of one
party.
In each election of a Commissioner or Commissioners Not more than
the City Council shall so provide that not more than two
(2) of said elective Commissioners shall at any time be
members of the same political party.
Salary of com-
missioners.
82 SEC. 4.
Said elective Commissioners shall receive a
salary, which shall at all times be equal to the salary re-
ceived by members of the City Council of said city, and
all necessary expense incurred by them, in the discharge charge.
of their official duties, shall be a valid charge against said
city.
Expenses a
Before exercising the duties of their office, they shall Oath of office.
severally take, subscribe and file, in the office of the City
Clerk, an oath that they will support the constitution of
the United States and of the State of Minnesota, and faith-
govern
fully perform the duties of their office; and that in no case Fitness to
will they favor the appointment or removal of any person appointments.
to or from any position connected with said police force
on account of any reason other than his fitness or unfitness,
in their best judgment.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VI.
Board to pre-
serve the
etc.
peace,
May compel
of witnesses.
POLICE DEPARTMI NT.
82 SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of said Board to provide
that at all times of day and night, everywhere within the
limits of said city, and wherever the jurisdiction of said
city shall extend, the public peace and order shall be pre-
served, crime prevented, offenders arrested, the rights of
person and property protected, and all ordinances and
laws in force in said city duly observed and enforced.
Said Board shall have power to issue subpoenas, attested
the attendance in the name of its President, to compel the attendance of
witnesses before said Board, in any proceeding authorized
by its rules and regulations, and any member thereof may
administer oaths to such witnesses.
Vice-president.
Police clerk
and duties.
Special police-
men.
Watchmen for
limited dis-
tricts.
It shall appoint one (1) of its members as Vice Presi-
dent of said Board, and fix the term of his office.
It may also appoint a clerk, to be denominated Police
Clerk, who shall keep a record of all proceedings of the
Board, and he shall also keep such other books, records
and accounts, and perform such other duties as the Board
may from time to time prescribe; and he shall hold his
office during the pleasure of said Board.
82 SEC. 6. Said Board may, in case of any mob, riot,
pestilence, invasion or other emergency, or for election
days and days of public celebration or parade, appoint as
many Special Policemen as it may deem necessary, who
shall have all the powers and perform all the duties of
regular Policemen.
The Board may likewise, at the request of any person
firm, society or organization, appoint Policemen or Watch-
men who shall serve without expense to the city and
have police powers to preserve the peace and protect
property within such limits and at such places as may be
Not to act out- designated in such appointment, but such Special Police-
men or Watchmen shall not exercise any authority to
wear any badge of office outside the limit so designated.
side of limits
named.
Meetings and
quorum.
82 SEC. 7. Said Board shall adopt suitable rules for
the government of its meetings and the conduct of its
business. Four (4) members thereof shall constitute a
quorum, and no person shall be appointed to or removed
from said police force, except by the concurrence of at
least four (4) members of said Board; but the action of
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
81
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
any regular or special meeting of said Board, attended by
only three (3) members thereof, shall be valid when rati-
fied by the approval of an additional member, entered
and subscribed upon the minutes.
CHAPTER VI.
Four members
when.
to concur,
of appointees.
82SEC. 8. No person shall be appointed a member of Qualification
said police force who shall not have been a resident of
said city for at least three (3) years next preceding his
appointment; nor shall any person be so appointed who
cannot read and write the English language, or who has
been convicted of any crime.
policemen.
All Policemen so appointed shall possess all the com- Powers of
mon law and statutory power of Constables, and any war-
rant for search or arrest, issued by any magistrate or
court of record in Hennepin County, may be executed in
any part of said county by any member of said police
force.
police.
82*SEC. 9. Nothing herein contained shall give said No control
Board jurisdiction over any such police force as the over park
Board of Park Commissioners, of said city, may, at any
time, be authorized by law to organize and maintain; but
the creation, management and direction of such Park
Police shall remain where the same now are, or may here-
after be, vested by law.
82 SEC. 10. Until the appointment and qualification of Former organ-
the Board of Police Commissioners, herein provided for, ization in force
the present police organization of said city shall be con-
tinued in force, and all the provisions of said Charter
appertaining thereto, and which are hereby superseded,
shall remain in full force and effect, so far as may be
necessary for the proper police protection of the city;
but immediately upon its organization, said Board shall
assume control of said police, and shall forthwith ap-
point and organize a new force, and thereafter adminis-
ter the Police Department of said city, under the pro-
visions of this act.
Until new
force organ-
ized.
Provided, That no member of the present police force, Removals for
of said city, shall be removed at the time of such re-or- cause only.
ganization, except for sufficient cause.
*See Section 14 of Act Relating to Board of Park Commissioners, supra.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VI.
Removal of
Commissioners
Complaint,
how made.
Council to pay
salaries,
expenses, etc.
1
Board to make
quarterly and
POLICE DEPARTMENT.
82 SEC. II. The said elective Commissioners, or either
of them, may be removed from office by the District
Court of said Hennepin county, after trial and convic-
tion, upon the petition, with sworn charges, presented by
not less than ten (10) reputable freeholders of said city,
if it shall appear at said trial that the said Commissioner
or Commissioners have been guilty of misdemeanor, or
malfeasance in office under this act.
82 SEC. 12. It shall be the duty of the City Council
of said city to admit, allow and cause to be paid, the
salaries of all members and employes of said police
force, and all reasonable and proper charges and expenses
incurred by said Board in and about its administra-
tion of the Police Department of said city.
Said Board shall make to said City Council a detailed
yearly reports. report of its doings at the close of each quarter, and an
annual report at the close of each year; and shall, when-
ever called upon by said Council, submit thereto for ex-
amination any of its books or papers and furnish informa-
tion and estimates as to the needs and requirements of said
department.
Examination
books -Esti-
mates.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
83
SECTIONS.
CHAPTER VII.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
1. Fire Limits, Wooden Buildings in
Prohibited, when and how.
SECTION.
6. Chief Engineer to Nominate Offi-
2. City Council, Powers to Guard
Against Fires, etc.
7.
3. Fire Apparatus, Houses, etc.-Fire
Alarm Telegraph.
8,
4. Fire Department Rules.-Water Pres-
sure During Fires.-Punishment
of Offenders.
cers and Men-Removals, Dis
charges, etc.
Fire Marshal, Duties, etc.
Fire Police.-Duty of Regular Po-
lice.
9. Authority of Chief Engineer.-Pun-
ishment for Refusing to Obey.
10.
\ 5. Chief Engineer, how Appointed--Of- 11.
ficers and Men
Expenses, from What Funds Paid.
Wooden Sidewalks, to be Prohib-
ited, when.
prescribe fire
SECTION I. The City Council, for the purpose of guard- Council may
ing against the calamities of fire, shall have power to pre-limits.
scribe the limits within which wooden buildings, or build-
ings of all other materials that shall not be considered
fire-proof, shall not be erected, placed or repaired, and
to direct that all and any buildings, within the limits pre-
scribed, shall be made and constructed of fire-proof ma-
terials, or of such materials and with such precaution May require
against fire as the City Council shall by ordinance pre- buildings.
scribe; and to prohibit the repairing or rebuilding of
wooden buildings within the fire limits when the same
shall be damaged to the extent of fifty (50) per cent. or
more of the value thereof; and to prescribe the manner Repair of
of obtaining the consent to make repairs in such fire wooden
limits, and of ascertaining the extent of damages.
structures.
of chimneys,
SEC. 2. The City Council shall have power
shall have power to pre- Construction
scribe in what manner, and of what material chimneys ot
shall be constructed, and to prevent the dangerous con-
struction and condition of chimneys, fire-places, hearths,
stoves, stove pipes, ovens, boilers and apparatus used in
and about any building, and to cause the same to be re-
moved or placed in secure condition when considered
dangerous; to prevent the deposit of ashes in unsafe
places, and the throwing of ashes in the streets and Ashes, smoke-
highways; to compel the use of spark-arresters in all
smoke-stacks connected with apparatus where light fuel
stacks, etc.
84
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VII.
explosive
materials.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Fire arms and is consumed; to regulate and prevent the carrying on of
manufactories dangerous in causing and promoting fires,
and the storing of inflammable or explosive materials,
and the use of fire-works and fire arms; to regulate and
prevent the sale, or keeping for sale or use, of any fire-works,
Chinese crackers, rockets, torpedoes or other explosive
contrivances, and to provide for the seizure and destruc-
tion of the same.
Fire escapes.
Also, to compel owners of buildings to have scuttles in
roofs, and stairs and ladders to the same and compel
owners of buildings of three or more stories in height to
maintain ladders or fire-escapes, and to regulate the
number and location thereof; to regulate the location and
construction of smoke-houses, and to prohibit them where
Smoke-houses. they shall be deemed dangerous to other buildings, and to
Engine-houseB
and apparatus.
Fire depart-
ment rules.
Water pressure
Punishment
for interfer-
ence, etc.
make any other provisions to guard against fire, or to
prevent the spreading of fires, which the City Council
may deem proper.
SEC. 3. The City Council shall have power to keep and
maintain fire engines and other fire apparatus, and to
build and maintain engine houses, hose houses, and such
other buildings as may be necessary or convenient; also
to erect and maintain fire-alarm telegraphs and boxes and
every other means of giving notice of fires.
83
88 SEC. 4. The City Council shall have power and au-
thority to make, by ordinance, all needful rules for the
government of the fire department, and for the protec-
tion and use of all engine houses, telegraph lines, and
other property and apparatus pertaining thereto, and of
the water works, mains, pipes, cisterns and hydrants, in
said city, as used in connection with said department,
88 (but the Board of Water Commissioners shall have the
right to determine the highest limit of pressure to be
placed on the force used to force water through the said
mains during a fire); and by such ordinance provide for
the punishment of persons injuring or interfering with
such property, or any portion thereof; and may also by
such ordinance make provision to keep away from the
vicinity of any fire, all idlers and suspected persons, and
to compel all bystanders to aid in the preservation of
property exposed to danger by such fire.
*Board of Water Commissioners abolished; see Special Laws of 1887. Chapter
23. See also Chapter 9 of this Charter, supia.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
85
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SEC. 5.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
CHAPTER VII.
of chief
The City Council shall annually appoint a Appointment
Chief Engineer of the Fire Department, and provide by engineer, etc.
ordinance for such other officers and men as may be
deemed necessary for such department, and define the
respective ranks and duties of such Chief Engineer, and
other officers and men, and their compensation.
tion of other
SEC. 6. The Chief Engineer shall nominate, for the Nomination
approval of the City Council, all other officers and men and confirma-
connected with such department, and may at any time, officers, etc.
by and with the consent of the Standing Committee on
Fire Department of the City Council, remove or discharge
such officers and men as he may deem it for the interest
of the city to discharge; and whenever the City Council
shall deem it necessary to reduce the number of men em-
ployed, said Chief Engineer shall, upon the direction of
the City Council, recommend the discharge of such offi-
cers or men as can be released without impairing the
working efficiency of such department.
Reduction of
force.
SEC. 7. The City Council may designate such officer Fire marshal
of the Fire Department as it may select to act as Fire
Marshal of the city, to see that the ordinances of the
city relating to the building and care of chimneys, and
respecting all other precautions against danger from fire, Powers a
are not violated; and who shall have power and be fully duties.
authorized to enter any dwelling house or other building
at all hours, between seven o'clock in the morning and
six o'clock in the evening, and examine all chimneys,
stoves, furnaces, pipes and other parts of such buildings,
and see that the ordinances of the city respecting the
same are enforced.
It shall further be the duty of such Fire Marshal to Cause of fires,
examine particularly into the cause of every fire which reports on.
shall happen within the city, and to make and keep a
brief record of the same, and make report thereof to the
Council at the first regular meeting in every month.
*SEC. 8. Whenever the City Council shall deem it nec-
essary it may provide for a Fire Police, of such numbers
and with such powers as it may determine, and for that
purpose it may either give police powers to such of the
officers or men of the Fire Department as may be neces-
*Chapter 9, Special Laws of 1887, vests entire authority as to apppointment and
control of the Police of the city in the Board of Police Commissioners. See also
Chapter 6 of this (harter, ante.
Fire police.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VII.
Regular police
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
sary, or authorize the appointment of the necessary Police-
men in *the same manner as other Policemen are ap-
pointed.
*In all cases, all Policemen present at any fire shall be
to assist, when. subject to the direction of the officers of the Fire De-
partment present at such fires.
Refusal to obey
orders.
Penalty.
›
Denses of
SEC. 9.
If any person shall, at any fire, refuse to obey
the orders of the Chief Engineer of the Fire Depart-
ment, or other officer vested with authority at such fires,
such person may be arrested by the direction of the offi-
cer whose orders are so disobeyed, and, upon complaint:
made before the Municipal Court of said city, shall be
punished by fine not exceeding fifty dollars ($50) and
costs of prosecution, and imprisonment until such fine
and costs are paid, not exceeding sixty (60) days.
SEC. 10.
All expenses of the Fire Department, and all
department amounts paid for the purchase of fire apparatus, or any
property for the use of the Fire Department, or the erec-
tion of any telegraph, shall be paid out of the funds de-
voted to payment of current expenses of the city.
ents for
nge.
Wooden side-
walks.
The construction of engine-houses, or other buildings
for the use of such department, may be paid for out of
the permanent improvement fund of the city.
SEC. II. The City Council shall have power to pro-
hibit the construction of wooden sidewalks within the
fire limits of the city, whenever it shall deem the safety
of the city to require it.
*See foot-note on preceeding page.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
87
CHAPTER VIII.
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, Bridges, etc.
SECTION.
1. Streets, Alleys, Public Grounde,etc.,
control of-Water Courses, Bridges
Pavements, etc.
2. Street Grades-Damages, Awards,
Assessments.-Limitations.
3. Vacation of Streets, etc -Exclusive
Powers.
4. Cleansing of Streets, by Contract.
5. City Work, by Contract, when-
Days' Work.-Notice, if by con-
tract, when.
6. Street Commissioners, Appointment
and Duties.-General Street Com-
missioner.
7. Commissioners Not to be Interested
in any Contract.-Gratuities, etc.
8. Contracts Void, if any City Officer
Interested.-Punishment for Brib-
when.
ery,
9. Mississippi River Bridges, and Cer-
tain Railway Bridges a General
City Charge-Other Highway Ex-
penses Chargeable to Wards, when.
10. Opening New Streets-Construction
of Bridges, etc.-Purchase or Con-
demnation of Private Property.-
Special Assessments and Benefits.
-Consent of Cemetery Owners.
11. Paving, Macadamizing, etc.-Special
Assessments.-Ground Between
Railway Tracks.
12. Sidewalks, Duty of Owners to Build
and Repair.-Council May Build
and Assess Expense.
13. Street Commissioner to Repair Side-
walks.-Assessments for Repairs.
-Dangerous Sidewalks Removed.
SECTION.
14. Owner Responsible for Damages
from Defective Sidewalks.-Ac-
tions, Joinder of Owner, Judg-
ments, Executions.
15. Moneys for Sidewalks from Perma-
nent Improvement Fund, when.-
How eimbursed.-Ward to Pay
Damages, when.
16. Grounds to be Graded Before Order-
ing Sidewalk.
17. Sprin、ling Streets, etc.-May be by
Contract.-Water Free. -Special
Assessments per Front Foot.
18. Excavating or Obstructing Streets-
Guards and Lights.-Damages for
Accidents.-Actions, Joinder of
Owners, Judgments, Executions.
19. Service of Summons, when Owner
Non-Resident
20. Limitation of Actions for Injuries.
-Notice to be Given.—When Ac-
tion will Not Lie.
21. Railway Companies Not to Obstruct
Traveled Portion of Street. - Lia-
blity for Damages.
22. City District Adjoining City May be
Established.-Plats of Additions
in Same.
28. Subdivisions of Lots or Grounds
to be Platted and Recorded.-Du-
ties of Owners, City Officials and
Register of Deeds
24. Acceptance to Plat to Create No Re-
sponsibility, when.
25. Bids of Persons in Default to City
Not to be Entertained, when.
84*SECTION I. The City Council shall have the care,
supervision and control of all highways, streets, alleys,
public squares and grounds within the limits of the city,and
may lay out and open new streets and alleys, and extend,
*See also section 8 of Act Relating to Park Commissioners, supra.
Council to con-
trol streets, etc.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
4T
CHAPTER VIII.
Drainage,
bridges, etc.
Diversion of
streams.
Pavements.
Street grades.
Profiles of
same.
Change of
grade
Property
owners may
claim damages.
Certificate of
building
inspector.
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETO.
widen and straighten 84any that now exist, or which may
hereafter exist; also, for the purpose of drainage, construc-
tion of bridges, or making other necessary public improve-
ments, or for the improvement of the health or sanitary
condition of the people of said city, to enter upon, lower,
raise, change the course of or divert any *stream of water
(except the Mississippi river) or any ditch or drain within
the limits of said city; and may build, maintain and repair
bridges across streams or railway tracks; may provide
for the pavement of gutters or the road-beds of any
street or alley.
85 SEC. 2. The City Council shall have power to es-
tablish the grade of any street, when such grade has not
been established, and may, by vote of two-thirds of the
members of the Council, change the grade of any street
after such grade has been established. It shall cause ac-
curate profiles of the grades of all streets to be made and
kept in the office of the City Engineer.
85 Provided, That when the grade of any street has
been once established, and any permanent building has
been constructed on a lot abutting on such street, after
such grade has been so established, and the City Council
shall so vote to change the grade of such street in front of
such permanent building, the owner of such permanent
building may file with the City Clerk, within twenty days
after said City Council shall so vote to change the grade
of any such street in front of any such permanent building,
notice that he will claim damages by reason of such
change of grade in front of his said building, giving the
description of the land on which the same stands, together
with the amount of the value of such building, in his
judgment, and the amount of the damages which such
change of grade will, in his judgment, cause to said per-
manent building, which notice shall be sworn to, and shall
be accompanied by the certificate of the Building Inspec-
tor of said city of the value, in his judgment, of such
permanent building, and of the damages, which, in his
judgment, such change of grade will cause to said
permanent building; and said Building Inspector shall ex-
amine said building and said change of grade, as so voted,
and make said certificate on the request of such owner of
such building.
See section 9 of Act Relative to Board of Park Commissioners, supra.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTer.
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PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETC.
CHAPTER VIII
reconsider
85 After the expiration of said twenty (20) days and Council may
within thirty (30) days after the expiration of said twenty action.
(20) days, if said City Council shall, from the amount of
damages claimed by such notices, deem it unwise to make
such change of grade of such street, it may reconsider
the vote by which such change of grade was made, which
reconsideration of such vote shall be by a majority of all
the members of said City Council.
Action on re-
consideration.
to be appointed
85 But if no reconsideration of such vote shall be had
within forty (40) days after the vote of said City Council
so changing the grade of said street, where damages are
so claimed, or if on such reconsideration two-thirds (23)
of the members of the Council shall again vote for such
change of grade, then after the expiration of six months
after the work of so changing said grade shall have been Commissioners
fully completed, said City Council shall appoint five free-
holders of said city, no two of whom shall reside in the
same ward, as Commissioners, to view the premises and
to ascertain and award the amount of damages and com-
pensation to be paid to the owners of such permanent
buildings, who have so filed such sworn notices and cer-
tificates of such Building Inspector, and to assess the Assessment of
the amount of such damages and compensation upon the
lands and property to be benefited by such improvement,
and in proportion to the benefits to be received by each
parcel and without regard to a cash valuation.
benefits.
85 It shall take at least four of said Commissioners to Award of dam-
make any award of damages, and they shall be notified of ages, how made
their appointment, and vacancies in their number be filled
in the same inanner, and they shall take the same oath
and be subject to the same penalty for refusal or neglect
to attend, to be collected in the same way as is provided Failure to act.
in the case of Commissioners appointed under section
three (3) of chapter ten (10) of the Charter of Minne-
apolis.
85 They shall give notice, by two publications in the offi- Notice of
cial paper of said city, that they will, on a day designated meeting.
in such notice, which shall be at least ten days after the
first publication of such notice, meet at a place, desig-
nated in said notice, on or near the buildings which it is
claimed shall have been damaged by such change in the notice.
grade of such street, and view the same, and ascertain
and award therefor compensation and damages, and view
Nature of
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
A
CHAPTER VIII.
Commission-
ers' notice.
Meeting and
adjournment.
City engineer
to advise.
Appraisement
and award.
Rules govern-
ing same.
Assessment
of damages,
PUBLIO HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETC.
the premises to be benefited by such improvement, and
assess thereon, in proportion to benefits, the amount
necessary to pay such compensation and damage, and
that they will then and there hear such allegations and
proofs as interested persons may offer.
85 And such Commissioners shall meet and view the
premises pursuant to such notice, and may adjourn from
time to time after having viewed the premises; may, for
the hearing of evidence and the preparation of their award
and assessment, adjourn or go to any other convenient
place in said city, and may have the aid and advice of the
City Engineer and of any other officer of the city.
85 After viewing the premises, and hearing the evidence
offered, such Commissioners shall prepare and make a
true and impartial appraisement and award of the com-
pensation and damages to be paid to each person whose
building shall have been damaged by such change of
grade of such street; but if the remainder of the property
on which said buildings stand, or the remainder of the lot
or parcel connected therewith, shall be benefited by such
change of grade of such street, then the Commissioners,
in considering and awarding compensation and damages,
shall also consider, estimate and offset the benefits which
will accrue to the same owner in respect to the remain-
der of the same property, and award him only the excess
of the compensation or damages over and above such.
benefits.
8" These said Commissioners shall then assess the
amount of such compensation and damages so awarded
upon the land and real property benefited by such change
of grade, and in proportion to such benefits; but in no
case shall the amount of said assessment exceed the
actual benefit to the lot or parcel of land, or other real
property so assessed, deducting therefrom any damages
or injuries to the same parcels which are less than such
Report to city benefits, and assessing only the excess, and prepare and
report to the City Council their appraisement and award;
and if, in the judgment of said Commissioners, the whole
amount of such compensation and damages, together
with the cost of making such improvement, shall exceed
the actual benefit to the specific property subject to
assessment, they shall so indicate in their report, and
shall state the amount of such excess.
council.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETO.
CHAPTER VIII.
85 Said Commissioners shall also report to the City Assessment list
Council an assessment list containing their assessment of
such compensation and damages, or so much thereof as
shall not exceed the actual benefits to the property so as-
sessed, which list shall contain a brief description of each
tract or parcel of real property assessed, the name or Nature of.
names of the owner or owners thereof, if known, and the
amount assessed, of the excess of such compensation and
damages aforesaid, which they shall return unassessed.
85 Said report shall be presented by said Commissioners
to the City Clerk of said city, who shall give one
notice in the official paper of said city that said report
and assessment list will be presented to said City Council
for confirmation at the next meeting or session of said
Council occurring at least one week after the publication
of such notice, at which meeting, or at any subsequent
meeting or session of said Council, the City Council may hear com-
act upon such report and hear any complaint touching plaints, etc.
any such award or assessment, or it may refer the matter
to a committee of the Council to hear such complaints
and report thereon.
Clerk to give
posed council
action.
notice of pro-
Council may
85 The Council may confirm such award and assessment, May confirm or
or either, or send the same back to the same Commission send back.
for further consideration; and the Commissioners may,
in such case again, upon giving notice, published once in
the official paper of said city, meet at a time and place to
be designated in said notice, which time shall be at least
two weeks after the publication of such notice, meet and Rehearing by
hear any further evidence that may be adduced by inter-
ested persons, and may adjourn from time to time, and
may correct any mistakes in such award and assessments,
and alter and revise the same as they shall deem just, and
again report the same to the City Council, who may there-
upon confirm or annul the same.
commissioners.
85 Or said City Council may appoint a new Commission, New commis-
with like powers, duties and obligations, of the first sion, when.
Commission, to make such assessment and awards, and
to report the same to said City Council in like manner
that the first Commission might do.
assessment
85 And when the report and assessment lists are finally Award and
confirmed by the City Council, such confirmation shall final.
make such award and assessment final and conclusive upon
all parties interested.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VIII.
Assessment to
be levied.
Assessment
roll.
City clerk to
prepare forms.
Limitation of
award.
Damages, etc.,
when com-
puted.
Vacation of
streets, etc.
Exclusive
powers.
Street cleaning.
Work by con-
tract or day.
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETC.
85 And the City Council shall proceed, at the same or
any subsequent meeting, to levy such assessment upon
the several parcels of land described in the assessment
list reported by the Commissioners, in accordance with
the assessment so confirmed, and cause to be made, and
adopt, an assessment roll of the same, which may be in
the form contained in section five (5) of chapter ten
(10) of said Charter, for opening streets in said city, or
any other form which said City Council may adopt, and
from which award and assessment, as so confirmed by
said City Council, there shall be no appeal.
87 And the City Clerk, under the instructions of the City
Council, shall make and prepare all necessary forms nec-
essary to carry out the provisions of this section.
85 Provided, That no award shall be greater than the
amount so claimed in the sworn notice so filed by any
person with said City Clerk.
85 And provided further, That the damages and compen-
sation so to be awarded, shall be the damages and com-
pensation which shall be apparent at the end of said six
(6) months after the final completion of the work of said
change of grade of such street.
*SEC. 3. The City Council may also, by a vote of two-
thirds of the members thereof, vacate any highway, street,
lane or alley, or portion of either; and such power of
vacating highways, streets, lanes and alleys, within the
city of Minneapolis, is vested *exclusively in said City
Council, and no court, or other body or authority, shall
have any power to vacate any such highway, street, lane
or alley, nor any plat or portion of any plat of lands within
said city.
SEC. 4. The City Council shall have power to desig-
nate districts of portions of the streets and alleys of the
city, for the purpose of cleaning the same, and may pro-
vide for the cleaning of such districts by contract, on such
terms as shall be deemed advisable.
86 SEC. 5. All work done, or constructions made of any
kind by the said city of Minneapolis, may be done by con-
tract, awarded in such manner as the City Council of said
*See section 8, Act Relative to Board of Park ('ommissioners, supra, for excep-
tion to exclusive power apparently vested by this section.
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PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETO.
CHAPTER VIII.
when and how.
city, may deem advisable, or said City Council may, in its Work by day,
discretion, direct any such work, or construction, or any
part thereof, which it shall deem necessary to be made,
to be done by days' work, under the direction of the said
City Council, or any officers of said city, whom the said
City Council may designate.
86 Whenever said City Council shall determine to do any
of said work, or constructions, by contract, if the amount
of expenditure involved in said contract shall exceed the
sum of one hundred dollars ($100), public notice shall be
given and proposals invited for the same, in such manner
as the said City Council shall direct.
Notice of pro-
posals for
contract work,
87SEC. 6. The City Council shall, at its first meeting Street
after each annual election, appoint one Street Commis- commissioners
sioner for each ward of the city, whose term of office shall
be for one year.
It shall be the duty of such Street Commissioner to Duties of
see that all streets and sidewalks, under their charge,which commissiç
have been graded and opened for travel, are kept clear from
obstruction, and in such repair as to be safe and passable;
also, to superintend, subject to the directions of the City
Engineer, the grading of streets and laying of sidewalks,
and to carry into effectallorders of the City Council.
order work.
But no Street Commissioner shall do any work upon the Council to
streets, except such as is necessary to keep traveled streets
and improved sidewalks in repair and passable condition,
and unless such work is especially ordered by the City
Council.
The Street Commissioners shall keep accurate accounts Bi-monthly
of all their work and expenditures, and make detailed reports.
and itemized reports thereof, to the City Council, at least
once in every two months, and oftener if ordered by the
Council; and no bill for compensation to such Street
Commissioner shall be allowed, unless the same shall be Detailed
accompanied or preceded with full and itemized reports
of his work and expenditures up to the time of rendition
of such bill.
statements.
87 The several Street Commissioners of the city, shall To act as health
also act as Health Inspectors for said city, and shall have inspectors.
the same authority as police officers in enforcing the or-
dinances of said city, for the security of public health, and
shall act under the direction of the Health Officer and
Board of Health of said city.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VIII.
Street commis-
sioners work,
PUBLIO HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETO.
87 All work done by the Street Commissioners, shall be
how approved. subject to the approval of the Aldermen of their respec-
tive wards, and the City Engineer.
commissioners
General street | 88 The City Council may also appoint one (1) General
Street Commissioner for the entire city, who shall receive
and observe the instructions of the City Engineer, super-
intend and have general charge of the work of the Street
Commissioners of the several wards, and do all other
things which the City Council may require of him to do.
Street commis-
urnish
materials, etc.
SEC. 7. No Street Commissioner shall be interested in
ioners not to any contract for any work to be done under his charge,
nor be allowed compensation for any use of team, owned
by himself, or in which he shall have any interest, nor for
any material or labor furnished by him, except his per-
sonal services, nor shall he receive directly or indirectly,
any commission, gratuity, money, or valuable thing, from
any person doing work, or furnishing material for any
work, or construction under the charge of such Street
Commissioner, or any other Street Commissioner, or the
City Engineer of the city.
or accept
atuities.
ontract void,
when.
Acceptance of
bribes.
Mississippi
river bridges
a city charge.
.
SEC. 8. If any City Engineer, Street Commissioner,
or any other officer of the city, shall have any interest in
any contract work, or construction done, pursuant to this
chapter, all such contracts shall be void, and all such work
done, material furnished or applied, for the use of the city,
shall be forfeited; and every such City Engineer, Street
Commissioner, or other officer, who shall accept any gift, or
gratuity, or any commission, from any person having con-
tracts with said city, or furnishing material, or performing
labor under the provisions of this chapter, which contract,
material or labor, shall be under the charge or supervision
of such Engineer, Commissioner or other officer, or sub-
ject to acceptance by them, or either of them, shall be pun-
ished in the same manner as provided by law for the
acceptance of bribes by public officers.
SEC. 9. All bridges in said city, crossing the Missis-
sippi river, or any natural stream, or water-course, in said
city, tributary to said river, whatever the form or material
used in the construction thereof, shall, together with the
guards and embankments connected therewith, and the
immediate approaches thereto, which form a necessary
part of the same; and also all such bridges crossing rail-
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
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PUBLIO HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETO.
CHAPTER VIII.
always a city
charge, when.
Bridges over
way tracks, canals, and the approaches thereto, or any
portions thereof, as shall not be chargable to any railway
company, shall be built, maintained, and kept in repair by
the city, as a general city charge; all other expenses con-
nected with the opening, grading and keeping in repair, Street
streets, lanes, alleys, highways and thoroughfares, shall improvements
be paid from taxation upon the several wards wherein
such works shall be done, except where other provision
is made therefor.
a ward charge.
streets, etc.
Drainage.
89 SEC. 10.
Whenever the City Council shall determine Opening of
to lay out or open new streets or alleys in said city, or to
widen, straighten or extend any that now exist or may
here after exist, 89 or, for the purpose of drainage, con-
struction of bridges or making other necessary public im-
provements, or for the improvement of the health or san-
itary condition of the people of said city, shall determine
to enter upon any tract of land and lower, raise, change
the 'course of or divert any stream of water (except the
Mississippi river), or any ditch or drain within the limits water courses.
of said city 89 it may for such purposes, purchase or con-
demn any real estate or interest therein which is private
property, and provide for the payment of the value of
such property as may be taken for such improvement;
Diverting
And all damages done to any private property by reason Damages and
of such improvement, and the expense of making such expenses.
improvement, 89 where it consists in lowering, raising, di-
verting or changing the course of any stream of water,
ditch or drain, by assessing, levying and collecting the
property.
whole expense of such improvement, or such parts thereof Assessed on
as may be considered equitable, upon the property to be
benefited by such improvement, without regard to cash
valuation;
how limited.
But no assessment for such improvement shall exceed Assessment,
the actual benefit to the property upon which the same
shall be assessed, and in case the whole extent of such
improvement shall exceed the benefits accruing therefrom
to any specific property, the excess of such expense shall Excess, how
be made a general city charge and be paid 89 from the
permanent improvement fund of the city.
paid.
cemetery own-
ers required.
Nothing in this section shall be construed as permitting Consent of
the condemnation of any ground of any cemetery or
burial place and occupied for such purposes, without the
consent of the owners of such ground.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VIII.
Pavements,
council may
order.
Special assess-
ments.
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETC.
SEC. II. The City Council is hereby authorized in its
discretion to cause to be paved, repaved or macadamized
any street or alley or any part thereof in the city, or any
gutter along any side of any street or alley or any por-
tion thereof, in such manner as it may direct, and to col-
lect the expense and cost of the same by special assess-
ment upon the property fronting upon such improvements
on the same side of the street; but the expense of paving
or otherwise improving the crossings of such streets and
of such improvements as shall be in front of the property
empt property. exempt from such assessment or belonging to the city
shall be paid from the permanent improvement fund of
the city.
Street cross-
ings and ex-
Railway tracks
Sidewalks,
owners to build
and repair.
Council to
order same.
Order, how
made.
Pusolution to
be published.
Sidewalk
assessments.
No assessments shall be made for paving or macadamiz-
ing any ground occupied by railway tracks or lying be-
tween such tracks.
SEC. 12.
It is hereby made the duty of all owners of
land adjoining any street, lane or alley in said city, to con-
struct, reconstruct and maintain in good repair such side-
walks along the side of the street, lane or alley next to
the lands of such owner respectively as may have been
heretofore constructed, or as shall hereafter be con-
structed, or directed by the City Council to be built, and
of such material and width, and upon such place and
grade as the City Council may by ordinance or otherwise
prescribe.
I
Whenever the City Council shall deem it necessary
that any sidewalk in the city of Minneapolis shall be con-
structed or reconstructed, it shall by resolution direct
such construction or reconstruction, specifying the width
thereof and the material of which the same is to be con-
structed.
The publication of such resolution once in the official
paper of the city shall be sufficient notice to the owners
of the land along which such sidewalk is to be built, to
construct the same, and unless such owners shall each
along his respective land construct and fully complete
such sidewalk within two weeks after the publication of
such resolution as aforesaid, the City Council shall forth-
with proceed to ascertain the expense of constructing the
same and assess and levy such expense upon and against
each lot and parcel of land upon which such sidewalk
shall front.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARter.
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PUBLIO HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETC.
CHAPTER VIII.
Collection of
sidewalk
Such assessment shall be collected in the same way as
in all things as is provided for the collection of special assessments.
assessments under the provisions of chapter ten of this
charter.
And the City Council may either before or after making
such assessment, cause such portion of such sidewalks as
have not been built by the owners of such lands fronting
on the same, and all street crossings, to be built by the
proper Street Commissioner, or upon contract, or by any
other person, as the Council may determine.
Street commis-
sidewalks,
sioner to build
when.
Sidewalk
SEC. 13. If the owner of any lot or parcel of land shall
suffer any sidewalk along the same to become broken, rot- repairs.
ten, or out of repair, it shall be the duty of the proper
Street Commissioner to immediately repair the same in a
good substantial and thorough manner, and to report to
the City Council the cost of such repairs in each case, and
a description of the lot or parcel of land abutting which
such repairs are made, and such report shall be carefully
filed and preserved by the City Clerk; and the City Coun-
cil shall once in each year, at or as near as conveniently Cost to be
may be, the time of levying the yearly city taxes, assess
and levy upon each of the lots and parcels of land front-
ing or abutting upon sidewalks which have been so repaired
by Street Commissioners the cost of making such repairs.
In each case such assessments for all such repairs within
the year may be combined in one assessment roll and be
collected as provided for in chapter ten of this charter.
assessed,
dangerous
In case any such sidewalk shall become so out of repair Removal of
as to become dangerous, and cannot be made safe without sidewalks.
being rebuilt, and there are no funds to defray the expense
of such rebuilding, it shall be the duty of the proper Street
Commissioner to remove the same entirely, and the ex-
pense of such removal shall be added to the cost of re-
building, when the same shall be reconstructed, and col-
lected with the assessment for such reconstruction.
owners of
sidewalks.
SEC. 14. It is not only made the duty of all owners of Liability of
land within said city to keep in good repair all sidewalks defective
constructed or existing along or abutting upon their re-
spective lots and parcels of land, but such owners are
hereby declared to be liable for all damages, to whomso-
ever resulting, arising from their fault or evident neglect
in not keeping any such sidewalk in good repair, and in safe
passable condition; and no action shall be maintained
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VIII.
Actions for
damages by
persons
injured.
Execution to
issue, how.
Owners liable
to city.
Funds for side-
walks ad-
vanced, when.
Damages a
ward charge.
Ground to be
graded before
sidewalk is
ordered.
Street Sprink-
ling.
Water, how
PUBLIO HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETC.
against the city of Minneapolis by any person injured
through or by means of any defect in any sidewalk, unless
the owner of the land along which such sidewalk was so de-
fective is joined in said suit as a party defendant, and in case
of judgment against the defendants in such action, execu-
tion shall at first issue only against the defendant owning
such land, and the city shall not be required to take steps
to pay such judgment until such execution shall be returned
unsatisfied; and if said city shall pay such judgment it
shall become the owner of the same, and may enforce
payment of the same from the other defendant, and shall be
entitled to execution therein against him, and to take such
other proceedings as judgment creditors are entitled to
take.
SEC. 15. Moneys to build or repair sidewalks, when
the same shall be done by the Street Commissioner
under this act, or in case of building by a contractor, may
be advanced from the permanent improvement fund, to
be reimbursed by the special assessment when collected,
and the expense of constructing all street crossings of
sidewalks, shall be chargeable to the proper ward.
And whenever any damages for injuries to any person
through or by means of defective sidewalks shall be paid
by the city, the money to pay the same shall be raised
by taxation upon the ward wherein the injury happened.
SEC. 16. It shall be the duty of the City Council, be-
fore ordering the construction of any new sidewalk, to
cause the ground on which it is built to be properly
graded.
90SEC. 17. 90The City Council shall have power to
sprinkle the streets, avenues and public grounds of said
city, or any part thereof, and may make contracts for so
sprinkling the same by such streets, avenues, public
grounds or districts of said city as it may deem best, for
any time not to exceed three (3) years, on such terms
and conditions and for such portions of each year as it
may deem best.
Water for such sprinkling shall be furnished from the
furnished, etc. city water works free of charge; the supply of such water
shall be deemed the proportion of the expenses for such
sprinkling, for the street crossings and all parts of such
street fronting on land exempt from assessment.
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PUBLIC HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETO.
CHAPTER VIII.
for sprinkling.
The whole cost of sprinkling such portion of the street Assessments
shall be levied and assessed upon the lots and lands
fronting upon that part of the street so sprinkled and
which are subject to assessment, 9°by an equal rate per
front foot of said lots and lands. Such levy shall be
made annually.
Obstruction of
streets.
Liability for
Sec. 18. All persons who shall by means of any ex
cavations in or obstruction upon any street of said city
not authorized by law or the ordinances of said city,
render such street unsafe for travel, or who shall by
negligence in the management of any such excavation or
obstruction as shall be authorized, or by failure to main-
tain proper guards or lights thereat, render such street
insufficient or unsafe for travel, shall be liable for all
damages not caused by the negligence of the party in-
jured, to whomsoever resulting, by reason of such ob- same.
struction or negligence, and no action shall be maintain-
ed against said city for such damages unless such per-
son or persons shall be joined as party defendants; and
in case of judgment against the defendants in such ac-
tion, execution shall at first issue only against the de-
fendant causing such insufficiency, and the city shall
not be required to take steps to pay such judgment until
such execution shall be returned unsatisfied, and if the
city shall pay such judgment it shall become the owner
of the same and may enforce payment of the same
from the other defendant and shall be entitled to ex-
ecution therein against him, and to take such other pro-
ceedings as judgment creditors are entitled to take.
Court proceed-
ings.
summons
SEC. 19. Whenever any party is joined with said city Service of
as co-defendant in any action for the insufficiency of
any street or sidewalk, and such party is not a resident
of and cannot be found within the State, service of
summons in such action may be made upon such de-
fendant upon like evidence, and in the same
same manner
as prescribed by general law for service by publication
in other actions.
SEC. 20.
No action shall be maintained against the city
of Minneapolis on account of any injuries received by
means of any defect in the condition of any bridge, street,
sidewalk or thoroughfare, unless such action shall be com-
menced within one year from the happening of the injury,
nor unless notice shall have first been given in writing to
Action to be
when.
commenced,
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARter.
CHAPTER VIII.
Notice of
action, how
and when.
No action,
when.
Railways not
to pile up
snow, etc.
Liability for
damages.
PUBLIC HIGHways, Bridges, ETC.
the Mayor of said city, or the City Clerk thereof, within
thirty (30) days of the occurrence of such injury or dam-
age, stating the place where and the time when such in-
jury was received, and that the person so injured will claim
damages of the city for such injury; but the notice shall
not be required when the person injured shall, in conse-
quence thereof, be bereft of reason. Nor shall any such
action be maintained for any defect in any street, until the
same shall have been graded; nor for any insufficiency of
the ground where sidewalks are usually constructed, when
no sidewalk is built.
SEC. 21.
No railway company or street railway com-
pany shall have any right, in clearing their tracks through
any part of said city, or otherwise, to pile up snow or other
material and leave the same piled upon any traveled por-
tion of any street in said city, and any such company shall
be liable to any person who shall be injured by means of
any such obstruction caused by such company, or its ser-
vants, for all damages sustained; and in case any damages
shall be recovered against the city for injuries caused by
such obstruction, the city shall have the right to recover
the same again from the company by whom the obstruc-
tion was caused.
" district,
SEC. 22. The City Council shall have power to designate,
designated by ordinance or resolution, such portions of the territory
lying adjacent to or outside of the boundary lines of the
city as it may deem proper as a city district, and may;
from time to time, extend the limits of such district to in
clude any territory not lying at a greater distance than
three (3) miles at any point in direct line from the bound-
ary line of said city, and within said district; the City
Council shall have control of the laying out of streets and
alleys, and the acceptance of plats of additions and the
dedication of property for streets and public grounds
therein, and may require that all streets and alleys laid
out or donated within such district shall conform to and
To conform to be continuous with the system of streets and alleys within
Plats of addi-
tions, streets,
etc.
city system.
City districts
continued,
said city, and to that end may indicate by survey and plat
such streets, alleys and the arrangement and dimensions
thereof, as in its discretion will be best calculated to meet
the wants and conveniences of said city and its surround-
ings or any future extension growth thereof.
The city districts heretofore established shall be con-
tinued until modified or extended by said City Council.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
101
}
PUBLIO HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETO.
CHAPTER VIII.
Subdivision of
etc.
91SEC. 23. Whenever any person shall sub-divide any Subdivis
lot or piece of ground within said city, or city district, he
shall cause the same to be surveyed and platted in accord-
ance with the provisions of chapter twenty-nine (29) of
the general statutes of the State of Minnesota, and when
the survey and plat are so completed and acknowledged
it shall be presented to the City Council.
plats.
91All plats presented to said City Council for accept- Council to
ance and approval must be drawn in triplicate, on such accept or reject
material and of such size as the City Council may direct
by ordinance. Said City Council may accept or reject
said plats, or direct them to be changed or modified in
such manner as it shall deem expedient.
Accepted plats
91 Whenever any plat is accepted and approved by said
Council, the City Clerk shall so certify upon one (1) of to be recorded.
said plats, which shall be the original plat to be recorded,
and certify the other two (2) to be copies of the one ac-
cepted and approved by the said City Council. The origi-
nal plat and one (1) of said copies shall be presented to
the Register of Deeds of Hennepin county for record, and
the other copy shall be filed in the office of the City
Engineer.
91 Whenever said plats shall be presented to the Regis-
ter of Deeds for record, as provided by the general stat- made.
Record, how
utes, the original plat so certified by the City Clerk as
accepted and approved by the City Council shall be filed
of record as the original plat; the other shall be certified
by said Register of Deeds as a true and correct copy of
the original plat. The plat filed as the original shall only
be
plats.
open to inspection in the presence of the Register of Inspection of
Deeds or one (1) of his deputies; the certified copy shall
always be open to the inspection of the public during busi-
ness hours.
91 All the provisions of section nine (9), chapter twenty- General stat-
hine (29), of general statutes, in respect to the manner of utes to apply.
filing town plats, shall be applicable to said city or city
districts; but said Register of Deeds shall exhibit to any
person, free of cost, such original plat on request of any
person.
SEC. 24. The acceptance of such plat or addition of
any ground either within or outside the limits of said city
shall not make the city liable to grade the streets therein
Liability of
city in city
district.
เ
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER VIII.
City not
responsible,
when.
Contracts not
to be awarded
to persons in
default.
PUBLIO HIGHWAYS, BRIDGES, ETO.
designated, nor responsible for any insufficiency of such
street, until the City Council shall direct the same to be
graded and opened for travel.
92 SEC. 25. 92Neither the City Council nor any officer
or Board of said city shall entertain any bid from, or let
any contract to, any person, firm or corporation who is in
default to the City of Minneapolis, or any department
thereof, on any contract or bond, or in any other way,
whether said bid or contract be for doing anything or
furnishing any material under this chapter or any other
provision of said Charter.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
103
SECTION.
CHAPTER IX.
*WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
1. Water Works and Sewers.-Exten-
sions and Improvement.
2. Purchase of Private Property.-Con-
demnation Proceedings.
3. Water-Mains, Hydrants, etc,-Spec-
ial Assessments.-Re-Assessments.
4. Street Sewers, Catch-Basins, etc.-
Special Assessments.-Street Sewer
Defined.-Re-Assessments.
5. Branch Sewers and Pipes.-Special
Assessments.-Regulations as to
Gas and Water Pipes, Electric
Wires, etc,-Excavation Permits.
6. Drainage of Marshy Lands.-Pro-
ceedings in District Court.-As-
sessments and Benefits.-Abandon-
ment,-General Drainage System.
7. Board of Water Commissioners.-
Appointment, Terms, Salaries, etc.
-Certain Contracts Void.
8. Powers and Duties. -Appointed Of-
ficers and Compensation.
9. Superintendent-Secretary, Duties of.
-Orders, How Drawn. -Bonds.-
Secretary and Assistant.-Duties
of City Comptroller.
SECTION.
10. Stated and Special Meetings.-Board
Rules.-Offices, Furniture, etc.
11. Water-Mains, Propositions to be Re-
fered to Board by City Council.-
Board to Direct Laying.-Pro-
ceeds of Special Assessments.-
Comptroller to Countersign Con-
tracts. Board
may Contract,
when.
Sag
12. Pump-House Repairs.-Council to
Appropriate, when.
18. Water Works Fund.-General Ex-.
penses. Surplus, Assessment
Funds.
14. Water Rates.-Rules and Regula-
tions.-Tapping of Mains.-Revo-
cation of Plumbers' Licenses.-
Free Water, when.
15. Owners and Lessees Jointly Re-
sponsible, when.-Actions, How
Brought.-Ordinance Relative to
Injuries, etc.
16. Damage to Board Property.-De-
posit of Garbage in Water, etc.,
Punished by Fine or Imprison-
ment.-Jurisdiction.
*SECTION I. The City Council shall have power to
maintain the water works and sewers now established in
said city, and to enlarge, extend, relay and improve the
same as it shall consider the public good shall require.
*Section 1 of an act to repeal so much of the charter as created a Board of Water
Commissioners (see chapter 23, Special Laws of 1887) provides that so much of sec-
tions 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14 of this chapter "as created a Board of Water Com-
missioners of the city of Minneapolis is hereby discontinued and dissolved and all
property within its possession shall be at once turned over to the City Council of
the city of Minneapolis."
Section 2 of said act reads: "All the rights, powers, duties and privileges hereto-
fore conferred upon, or vested in said Board of Water Commissioners of the city
of Minneapolis by the charter of said city, are hereby conferred upon and vested in
the City Council of said city of Minneapolis, and all contracts entered into by
said Board, and now in force, shall remain valid contracts against said city and
said City Council shall take the place of said Board of Water Commissioners in
said contracts and shall enforce and be responsible for the same in all respecte as
said Board would had it continued to exist: Provided That the water works fund
created and provided for by said sections above designated shall continue and re-
main a separate fund of said city but under the control of the City Council of said
city the same as it has heretofore been under the control of the said Board of Water
Commissioners of said city.
Council to
water works
and sewers.
maintain
104
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARter.
CHAPTER IX.
Extension of
water works
and sewers.
Condemnation
proceedings.
Proceedings
when surface
of land not
required.
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
93 SEC. 2. Whenever in the enlargement or extension
of water works or sewers, it shall in the judgment of the
City Council be necessary to take any private property,
consisting either of land, buildings, water power or other
private property, the City Council shall have power to
acquire the same by purchase, or by condemnation, in the
manner provided in chapter ten (10) of this Charter, and
in such cases of condemnation, as well as purchase, a full
title in fee simple for the property acquired shall vest in
said city.
93 Provided, however, That in case of the purchase or con-
demnation of private property for laying sewers or water
mains, where said City Council may deem it best only to
obtain the right to lay and maintain said sewers or water
mains over, across or through private property, said City
Council may either purchase or condemn the right simply
to lay, construct and maintain said water mains and sew-
ers and the necessary appendages thereto, over, across or
through any private property, giving to the owner thereof
the right to the use of the surface of said land, except at
such times and such places as said City Council or the
upon same for proper Board, officer or department of the city govern-
ment of the City of Minneapolis may find necessary to
enter upon, dig into or disturb said surface for the pur-
pose of laying, re-laying, constructing or re-constructing
or repairing any such water mains or sewer pipe; and the
deed of purchase in such case, or the judgment of the
court in the case of condemnation, shall define the rights.
of said city and its proper boards, officers, agents or said
City Council as well as the land owner therein.
City to enter
repairs, etc.:
Rights of
parties to be
defined.
Water mains.
94 SEC. 3. Whenever water mains shall be laid, relaid or
extended through any street or alley of said city, or any
portion thereof, the City Council shall have the power,
and it shall be its duty, to levy and collect by special
assessment, such portion of the cost or expense there-
of as shall not exceed the estimated cost of laying a
Special assess- six-inch main (including pipe, 94hydrants, valves and all
ments-first
plan.
Increased cost.
necessary specials), by a special assessment upon the
property on both sides of such street or alley fronting
upon such improvement, of an equal sum per front foot
without regard to cash valuation.
The cost not provided for by such assessment, includ-
ing the increased cost of larger mains, and the cost of
laying mains upon street crossings, as well as the pro-
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
105
CHAPTER IX.
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
city.
portion which would otherwise be assessed against any When paid by
property which is by law exempt from such assessment,
shall be paid out of the water works fund hereinafter pro-
vided for.
Water main
94Or, instead of the plan above proposed, the City Coun-
cil may, for all water mains laid, relaid or extended dur- assessment-
second plan.
ing any one (1) season, levy and collect an equal sum
per front foot without regard to the cash valuation of
such property, without regard to the size of the mains,
by a special assessment upon all the property not ex-
empt, on both sides of all the streets and alleys in which
such water mains shall be laid, relaid or extended, and
abutting upon the same, which sum shall not exceed
the sum of two dollars ($2) per lineal foot of such mains.
94 The cost in excess of the sum above named and
the cost of such mains upon street crossings and against.
property which is by law exempt from such assessment,
shall be paid out of the said water works fund.
Increased cost,
foot.
94To authorize the following of this plan the City Council to fix
Council shall first determine what portion of the cost of amount per
such mains not exceeding the sum per lineal foot above
named, is the just and fair proportion of such cost which
should be borne by the abutting property, and shall by
resolution name and fix the amount per lineal foot
which it determines to be such just and fair proportion.
be followed,
when.
94 Thereupon this shall be the plan to be followed, Second plan to
and the amount so named and fixed shall be and re-
main in all cases the portion of the cost of all such mains
laid, relaid or extended in said city, which shall be levied
upon, assessed against and collected of abutting pro- How changed.
perty, until a different amount be, by like resolution of
the City Council, named and fixed, or until the City Coun-
cil by resolution determines to adopt and follow the
other plan first above proposed.
for water
94 Provided, That in case of a re-assessment for any Re-assessment
cause, the City Council may direct that the re-assess- maine.
ment be made upon either of the plans here proposed
without regard to which plan was adopted in the first
instance.
95 SEC. 4.
The City Council may in like manner, when- Assessments
ever it shall deem it necessary, lay, relay or extend for sewers.
any sewer, through any street in said city, and levy
and assess, and collect the cost thereof, not exceeding
the estimated cost of a sewer two feet in diameter, 95 in-
106
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IX.
Sewer assess-
ments-first
plan.
ncreased cost.
Street, sewer
defined.
Sewer assess-
ments, second
plan.
Increased cost.
Council to fix
amount per
foot.
Second plan to
be followed,
when.
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
cluding all necessary catch basins, manholes, lampholes
and flushing valves, by a special assessment upon the
property on both sides of such street and abutting
upon such improvement, of an equal sum per front.
foot without regard to a cash valuation.
The cost not provided for by such assessment, includ-
ing the increased cost of larger sewers and constructing
the same across streets and against property which is by
law exempt from such assessment, shall be paid out of
the permanent improvement fund of said city.
A sewer two feet in diameter is hereby declared to be
an ordinary street sewer within the meaning of this act,
for the drainage of abutting property.
95Or, instead of the plan above proposed, the City Coun-
cil may, for all sewers constructed, laid, relaid or extended,
during any one (1) season, levy and collect an equal sum
per front foot, without regard to cash valuation of such
property, and without regard to the size of the sewers, by
special assessment upon all the property not exempt, on
both sides of all the streets along which such sewers shall
be constructed, laid, relaid or extended, and abutting upon
the same, which sum shall not exceed the sum of four
dollars ($4) per lineal foot of such sewers.
95 The cost in excess of said sum and the cost of such
sewers upon street crossings and against property which
is by law exempt from such assessment, shall be paid out
of the internal improvement fund of said city.
95To authorize the following of this plan the City Coun-
cil shall first determine what portion of the cost of such
sewers, not exceeding the sum per lineal foot above named,
is the just and fair proportion of such cost which should
be borne by the abutting property, and shall by resolution
name and fix the amount per lineal foot which it deter-
mines to be such just and fair proportion.
95 Thereupon this shall be the plan to be followed, and
the amount so named and fixed shall be and remain, in
all cases, the portion of the cost of all sewers constructed,
laid, relaid or extended in said city, which shall be levied
upon, assessed against and collected of abutting property
until a different amount be by like resolution of the City
How changed. Council named and fixed, or until the City Council, by
resolution, determines to adopt and follow the other plan
first above proposed.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
107
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
CHAPTER IX.
Re-assessments
sewers.
95 Provided, That in case of a re-assessment for any cause, fears.
the City Council may direct that the re-assessment be made
upon either of the plans here proposed without regard to
which plan was adopted in the first instance.
97
96
and sewers.
SEC. 5. The City Council may at all times regulate Branch pipes
and control the time and manner of laying and construct-
ing, by private parties, branch pipes and sewers leading
from main lines of water mains and sewers, and of making
connections with main lines and with branch lines both
public and private.
order same.
How
96 The City Council may, too, whenever it shall deem it Council may
necessary to lay or construct branch pipes or sewers in
order to prevent future tearing up of streets or for any
other reason, determine in the case of each main line, or
of any specified portion of a main line, the location, num-
ber and manner of construction, of such branch lines, pro-
viding, in its discretion, one (1) or more for each distinct
lot or parcel of land, or one (1) for two (2) or more ad-
jacent lots or parcels of land-may require the proper constructed.
officer to make surveys, plats and profiles showing the
same, which, when approved and adopted, shall thereafter
be preserved in the office of the City Engineer, and may
thereupon, whether such main line has already been con- When
structed or is in process of construction, forthwith lay and
construct all such branch pipes and sewers not already
constructed by the private parties interested from a con-
nection with the main line to the line of the street.
constructed.
pipes, etc.
96 Whenever the City Council constructs one or more Assessments
such branch pipes or sewers it shall assess the whole cost for branch
of each upon the lot or parcel of land to which it runs
without regard to the valuation or frontage of such lot or
parcel of land, but in case one (1) branch is to serve two
(2) or more lots or parcels of land, it shall assess the whole
cost of the same upon all the lots or parcels of land to be
served by it, an equal sum per front foot without regard
to valuation.
96 The cost of such branches may be assessed and col-
lected in advance of their construction, as in case of other
improvements, in which case the cost shall be estimated
and fixed in manner substantially like the way pointed
out by section eight (8), chapter ten (10) hereof, for the
improvements therein specified, with such variances in the
matters to be reported, and in the other details, as shall be
suggested by the different character of the improvement;
Cost may be
collected
in advance.
108
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IX.
Assessments
for branch
pipes, etc.
Assessments,
WATER-Works DepartMENT.
or such branches may be determined upon and forthwith
constructed without prior estimate or other proceedings,
in which case the actual cost of construction, certified to
by the City Engineer and approved by the City Council.
shall be assessed, after the completion of the same, against
the private property as above specified.
96 In either case the assessment shall be made and col-
how collected. lected substantially as provided in case of other improve-
ments. The City Council may, however, in case it con-
structs any branch at the time it constructs the main line,
assess in the manner above named the whole cost thereof,
and add the same to and include it with the assessment
for the main line.
Branch pipes
and sewers in
areas, when.
Regulations
and permits.
Hydrants.
Drainage of
marshes, etc.
Proceedings
against owners
Contribution
to defray
expenses.
96 The City Council may, subject to such terms, and under
such regulations as it may fix, require all persons using an
area or any space within the lines of any street, to permit
to be laid within such area or space all necessary branch
pipes both water and gas, and branch sewers to a con-
nection with other branches, and also to be laid therein, in-
closed in tubes or otherwise sufficiently protected, any
and all electric and other wires it may at any time require
laid beneath the surface of the street; and in the future no
permits for the excavation or use of any area or space
within the lines of a street shall be given except upon con-
dition that it may be used by others in the manner and
for the purposes above named; 97and to place therein any
hydrant or other part of the water works of said city.
98 SEC. 6. Whenever any sewer of said city shall be ex-
tended to or in the vicinity of any tract of wet or marshy
land, either within or without the limits of said city, and
the City Council shall consider that the public health of
the city demands the drainage of such wet or marshy land
and the extension of such sewer to or into such land and
beyond the lines of the streets of the city, the City Coun-
cil may, by resolution therefor, direct the commencement
of proceedings against the owner or owners of such wet
or marshy land, and thereupon said city shall have the
right to maintain in the District Court of the county of
Hennepin, or in any other court of competent jurisdiction,
an action against such owner or owners to compel a con-
tribution from them, to defray the expense of extending
such sewer to or into such lands, and the additional ex-
pense, if any such may be caused by the necessity, of en-
larging the sewers through the streets of the city from
such tract of land to the outlet of such sewer.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
109
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
CHAPTER IX.
Joinder of
parties
In such action the court shall have power to direct the
joining of other parties to such action as defendants, in defendant.
such manner as it shall adjudge equitable, and shall make
award of such sum or sums of contribution to the expense
of such sewer as it shall deem just and in proportion to
the benefit to each specific parcel of such wet or marshy Centribution
land as shall be affected by such sewer, but in no case to not to exceed
exceed the amount of benefit it shall adjudge to accrue
to each of such specific parcels by reason of such exten-
sion of such sewer.
benefit.
award.
Such award shall stand as the determination of such City to have
court, and said city shall, upon the completion of such judgment on
work, have judgment and execution for the several sums
so awarded, which judgment shall be a specific lien upon
each of the parcels of the land upon which such award
shall be made, which lien shall have priority over every
other lien or charge upon such parcel, and such judgment
may be enforced only against such specific property.
abandon
If upon the making of such award by said court, the Council may
City Council shall consider the whole expense of such im- proceedings.
provement above the amount of such award, to be an ex-
cessive burden on the city, it may abandon the proceed-
ings by paying the taxable costs in such action, or it may
determine to proceed with part of such work and abandon
the remainder thereof, in its discretion, or it may, in its
discretion, delay the performance of the work, not exceed-
ing three years.
marshes.
98 And whenever the City Council shall determine that Drainage of
any wet or marshy district in said city needs to be drained,
for the public health of the city, or for other public ben-
efit, then the said City Council may cause to be devised
and carried into construction and effect a system of drain-
age for such wet and marshy district, by sewers or cov-
ered drains made of wood, stone, brick, or other material,
or partly of one (1) material and partly of other materials, Sewers and
as said City Council shall determine; or by open ditches covered drains.
or canals, where the same will best effect said drainage;
or partly of sewers or covered drains, and partly of open
ditches or canals.
assessed.
98 And said City Council may cause the cost of such Cost to be
system of sewers, covered drains, ditches, or canals, to be
paid by special assessments, to be made upon all the real
property within such wet or marshy district, including any
high land within or adjoining the same which shall be
benefited by said system of drainage, on the assessed value
of each parcel of real property so benefited.
110
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IX.
Drainage of
marshes.
Order of
construction.
Assessment of
benefits.
Board of water
commissioners
Acting
president.
Appointment
ers.
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
98 Said system of drainage for any such wet or marshy
district may be constructed at one (1) time or during one
(1) year, or at different times in different years, and in
different parts or sections, and in case different parts of
any such system of drainage shall be constructed during
different years, said City Council shall first (1), as near as
practicable, cause to be constructed the principal or main
sewers, covered drains, ditches, or canals, and afterwards
branch or lateral sewers, covered drains, ditches, or canals;
and in levying the special assessment for the cost of such
system, or any portion thereof, it shall levy the special
assessment for the principal or main sewer, covered drains,
ditches, or canals, and also the cost of the branch or lateral
sewers, covered drains, ditches, or canals belonging to the
same system of said drainage, upon all the real property
so to be benefited by such system, whether the same shall
be constructed in one (1) year, or whether parts of said
system shall be constructed in different years.
102
1*SEC. 7. There is hereby established in and for the
city of Minneapolis a Board which shall be styled the
Board of Water Commissionners of the City of Minneap-
olis. Said Board shall consist of the Mayor of said city,
who shall be cx-officio a member and the President there-
of, and four other members who shall be resident and
qualified electors of said city, who shall be appointed by
the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the City Coun-
cil, at the time of appointment of other city officers in
April of each year.
100*In case of the absence of the President, or his in-
ability to act, then the President of the City Council or
Acting Mayor shall be ex-offiico a member of the Board of
Water Commissioners, but shall have power only to sign
warrants, contracts and papers pertaining to the business
of the said Board, and to call special meetings of said
Board, as in this act provided, and to perform such other
executive acts as may be authorized by the Board.
*In April, of the year 1881, the Mayor shall appoint, as
of commission- aforesaid, four Water Commissioners, one for the term of
one year, one for the term of two years, one for the
term of three years, and one for the term of four years;
and thereafter at the same time in every year, the Mayor
shall so appoint one Water Commissioner for the term
of four years.
*Water Board abolished. See note on first page of this chapter.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
111
CHAPTER IX.
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
vacancies.
*In case of vacancy in the office of Water Commissioner Water board
from any cause the Mayor shall in the same manner ap-
point a Water Commissioner for the unexpired term. †No
Water Commissioner shall 99feaeh Water Commissioner
shall be entitled to receive from the city an annual salary
etc.
of five hundred dollars ($500), to be audited and paid like Compensation,
the salaries of Aldermen-be interested directly or indi-
rectly in any contract entered into by said Board of Water
Commissioners, and any contract entered into by said
Water Commissioners in violation of this provision shall
be absolutely null, void and no effect.
102*If at any regular, adjourned or special meeting of Meetings and
said Board where there is not a quorum of the members quorums.
of said Board present, a less number of members than
a quorum shall have power to adjourn from time to
time, but when they shall so adjourn they shall cause the
Secretary or other officer to give notice to the other
members of said Board of such adjourned meeting.
T04
103*SEC. 8. Said Board of Water Commissioners shall Powers of
have the charge of the construction, maintainance, re- board.
pair and management of everything pertaining to the
water works of said city, and of all new constructions,
additions and alterations, whether of pump houses, mains,
hydrants, or other constructions, appliances or machin-
ery connected with said water works, and shall have the
supervision and direction of the working and operation
of the same; and shall, in the name of and behalf of said
city, make and execute all contracts for the construction, To make all
alteration and repair of pump houses and of all machin- contracts, etc.
ery and appliances connected therewith, and for the lay-
ing, relaying and construction of water mains and putting
in of hydrants and other appliances connected therewith;
and for the purchase of all material necessary to be used
about said water works, and all extensions thereof, and
have the charge, care and supervision of the execution of
all such contracts.
*Said Board shall also have the right to appoint the Engineer,
superintendent
Engineer of the Water Works, and Superintendent of the etc.
Water Works, 108a Secretary and an Assistant Secre-
tary, and employ such other persons as in the judgment
of said Board may be necessary for the successful opera-
*Water Board abolished. See note on first page of this chapter.
The section, as amended, reads as herein printed. See section 1, chapter 7,
special laws of 1883.
112
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IX.
of employes.
WATER-Works Department.
Compensation tion and management of said water works, and to desig-
nate and fix the compensation of the persons so to be ap-
pointed or employed by said Board, and may remove
such persons at its pleasure.
Limitation.
Superintend-
ent may be
secretary.
Duties of
secretary.
Duties of
*Provided, That such compensation shall not exceed
the limits fixed by this act, 103 which compensation
shall cease when any such Engineer, Superintendent,
Secretary, Assistant Secretary or other employe shall
be so removed by said Board.
185*SEC. 9. The Superintendent of Water Works ap-
pointed by said Board 106may also be the Secretary of
the said Board, and shall give such bond to the city of
Minneapolis as the said Board shall direct and approve
for the faithful performance of his duties and the prompt
payment by him to the City Treasurer of all money's which
shall come into his hands as such Superintendent.
*He shall keep full records of all the proceedings of said
Board, and all contraets by it entered into, and full ac-
counts of all moneys expended by said Board, and of all
moneys collected from water rents or received into the
treasury from any source to the credit of the water
works fund.
*All moneys payable for water rents shall be collected
superintendent and received by said Superintendent, who shall re-
ceipt_therefor, and promptly pay the same over to the
City Treasurer, taking his receipt therefor, and reporting
the same to the City Comptroller.
Water works
fund.
Orders, how
drawn.
*All such moneys, together with all moneys which may
accrue from any bonds issued by said city for water
works purposes, and moneys which may be appropriated
by the City Council for like purpose, shall by the City
Treasurer be kept in a separate fund called the water
works fund, and shall only be paid out upon orders
signed by the President of said Board, (10°in case of
his absence or inability to act, then by the President
of the City Council or Acting Mayor) and said Super-
intendent of Water Works, and countersigned by the
Comptroller of said city, or in payment of bonds of
said city, or coupons thereof, in cases where such
bonds have been or may be issued on account of or for
the construction, alteration or extension of such water
works, all of which bonds and coupons may be paid from
the said water works fund.
*Water Board abolished. See note on first page of this chapter.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
113
CHAPTER IX,
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
appointees, etc.
106*If said Board shall at any time appoint a Secretary, Bonds of
other than the Superintendent of Water Works, then said
Board shall require a like bond of said Secretary, and said
Board shall, in that case, have a right to define the re-
spective duties of said Superintendent and said Secretary.
106*And said Board of Water Commissioners shall have Assistant
secretary.
the further power to appoint an Assistant Secretary, who
shall act as Secretary of the Board of Water Commissioners
in the absence or inability of the Superintendent or Secre-
tary to act; and may at any time, when necessary, appoint
an Assistant Superintendent of Water Works to act in the
place of the Superintendent of Water Works in his absence
or inability to act.
106*The City_Comptroller shall keep regular books of Duties of city
account of the Board, in which he shall enter all indebted- comptroller.
ness of said Board, and which shall at all times show the
precise financial condition of said Board, the amount of
bonds, orders or other evidences of indebtedness outstand
ing, and the redemption of the same when redeemed; and
he shall countersign all bonds, orders or other evidences of Bond record.
indebtedness of said Board, and keep an exact account
thereof, showing to whom and for what purpose issued,
and the amount of each and all moneys received or paid
out by the City Treasurer on account of said board.
106 *All claims allowed by the Board shall, before they claims to be
are paid, be audited by the Comptroller.
109
audited.
188*SEC. 10. The said Board shall hold stated meetings Meetings of
at such times as it shall by by-law, resolution or otherwise board.
appoint, and special meetings thereof may be called by the
President of said Board, 108 or in his absence or inability
to act then by the President of the City Council or Acting
Mayor. And on the written request of any two members
of said Board, other than the President thereof, to call a Special
special meeting of said Board, then said President, or in meetings.
his absence or inability to act, then the President of the
City Council or Acting Mayor, shall call such special
meeting of said Board, which special meeting shall be
called upon two days' notice thereof, either served person- Notice.
ally upon the members of said Board or addressed to such
members respectively and deposited in the post office in
said city of Minneapolis; and any business of said Board
may be transacted at any stated or special meeting.
* Water Board abolished. See note on first page of this chapter.
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114
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IX.
Rules and
amendments.
Meetings
legalized.
Office furni-
ture, etc.
When board
may provide
same.
Water mains.
Council to
order
Board to con-
tract.
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMENT.
*The Board may in its discretion adopt such rules to
govern its deliberations and the manner of transacting its
business as it shall determine upon, (108 which rules shall
not be changed, except upon notice given at least one
week before the proposed change shall be proposed to
said Board, and which change of said rules shall not be
adopted for at least one week after they are so proposed to
said Board), and three members of said Board shall con-
stitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
*And any special meeting of said Board which may be
organized when all members of said Board shall be present
and participate, shall be legal, though no notice of such
special meeting was given.
*It shall be the duty of the City Council of said city to
provide and furnish with suitable desks, furniture and fix-
tures, a suitable room for the meeting of said Board and
office of said Superintendent of Water Works, either in or
conveniently near the city hall building of said city.
108*If said City Council shall fail to so provide and
furnish suitable desks, furniture and fixtures, and suitable
room for the meeting of said Board and office of said
Superintendent of Water Works, then said Board may so
provide and furnish with suitable desks, furniture and
fixtures a suitable room for the meeting of said Board
and office of said Superintendent of Water Works con-
veniently near the city hall building of said city.
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!!!*SEC. II.
The said Board shall have the right to
determine and direct as to the size and quality of all
water mains which shall be laid in said city. And all peti-
tions or propositions for laying of water mains which shall
come before the City Council shall be by it referred to
said Board, who shall report thereon to the Council, des-
ignating the size of main to be laid, in case the laying of
main shall be ordered, with such other recommendations
as to the said Board may seem proper.
*And whenever the laying of mains shall be ordered by
the City Council the said Board shall at once contract for
or cause the same to be laid, provided there are sufficient
funds pertaining to said water works fund that can be
used for that purpose; and at any rate so soon as the
special assessment levied upon abutting property for the
laying of such main shall have been collected.
*Water Board abolished. See note on first page of this chapter.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
115
WATER-WORKS DEPARTMent.
*All such special assessments shall, when and as fast as
collected, be credited to said water works fund, and said
Board may proceed to lay mains in advance of the col-
lection of the special assessments therefor, whenever there
shall be sufficient moneys in said fund in excess of other
necessary or estimated demands thereon, to enable ad-
vances to be made from such fund.
CHAPTER IX.
Water mains in
collections.
advance of
countersign
*But no contract negotiated by said Board shall be bind- Comptroller to
ing upon said city until the same shall be countersigned contracts.
by the Comptroller, subject to the same rules respecting
the possession of funds to meet such contracts as in case
of other contracts entered into on behalf of said city;
110but said Board of Water Commissioners shall have the
right to make contracts for anything pertaining to said
water works of said city, in anticipation of the sales of any when no funds.
bonds which said city shall have been authorized to sell,
the avails of which are required, by the act of the Legis-
lature authorizing the sale of said bonds, to be set apart
to the credit of the water works fund of said city.
Contracts
repairs.
112 *SEC. 12. If it shall happen at any time, that in Pump-house
the judgment of said Board it shall be necessary to make
repairs, additions or alterations, in any pump-house,
or machinery, or water main, when there shall not be
sufficient moneys in said water works fund to defray the
costs thereof, said Board shall report the facts to the City rod, when.
Council, who may thereupon, if said Council shall deem
proper, appropriate from the general fund of said city, to
said water works fund, sufficient moneys to ensure such
repairs.
From general
pump-house,
118* SEC. 13. All expenses of keeping up and operat- Expense of
ing said water works, and of constructing, enlarging, alter- etc.
ing and keeping in repair pump-houses, machinery, hy-
drants, and laying of water mains, and everything con-
nected with said water works, shall, except so far as the
cost of laying water mains be raised by special assessments
upon abutting property, be paid from said water works assessments.
fund, and any excess of such special assessments shall
belong to said water works fund.
Excess of
114*SEC. 14. It shall be the duty of said Board to fix, from Water rates.
time to time, the rates to be paid by the owner, lessee or
occupant, for each house, building or place, or any part of
*Water Board abolished. See note on first page of this chapter.
116
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER IX.
Water rates.
'To make
rules and
regulations.
Revocation of
plumbers'
licenses.
¡Shutting off
water.
Owners of
property
rents.
WATER-Works DeparTMENT.
the same, in or at which water from said water works may
be used, upon such basis as they may deem equitable,and
the time when the same shall be payable, which rates shall
become and be the rates so to be charged for the rent or
use of water used in said city, unless the same shall, as to
any rate so fixed by said *Board, be increased or decreased
by the City Council, when the rate so increased or de-
creased shall become the rate so charged.
114 And said *Board shall have the power to make and
enforce such rules and regulations as may be necessary
to carry into effect the object and intent of this act,
and to protect the property, interest and rights of said
water works of said city; and may make all necessary
rules and regulations concerning the tapping of any mains
or branches, or making connection therewith, by any
private parties or licensed plumbers; which right to make
such rules and regulations shall include the right to re-
port to the City Council of said city the name of any
licensed plumber, licensed by said city, who has disre-
garded said rules and regulations regarding the tapping
of any said mains or branches, or making connections.
therewith, with a request to said City Council that the
license of said plumber shall be revoked; whereupon said
City Council shall revoke the license of said plumber; and
may also include the right to make rules for the shutting
off of water from any premises where rates are payable
and remain unpaid; and said Board shall have the right
to furnish water free to any eharitable or public building,
association or institution.
115SEC. 15. The owner of private property, which
responsible for property has upon it pipes connected with the city water
works to convey water upon such property, shall, as well
as the lessee or occupant of the premises, be liable to the
city of Minneapolis for the rents or rates of all water
from said water works used upon such premises; which
may be recovered in an action against such owner, lessee
or occupant, or against any or all of them.
Punishment'
for injury, etc.
115 The City Council may provide for the punishment
of all injuries to or unauthorized interference with said
water works or anything connected therewith.
*Water Board abolished. See note on first page of this chapter.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
117
!
WATER-Works Department.
CHAPTER IX.
Wilful damage
to water works.
116*SEC. 16. 116 Any person who shall, without au-
thority from said †Board of Water Commissioners or or property.
the City Council, willfully break, remove or in any way
injure or damage any main, branch water pipes, intake
pipes, aqueduct, dam, bulkhead, gate, gate house, con-
duit, air vent, air box, air box cover, mainpipe or cover,
hydrant or any part of the machinery or property of the
water works of said city; or who shall fill up or partially fill
up any excavation, or raise or open any gate,break down or
force open any doors of said works, or who shall perfor- Boring pipes,.
ate or bore, or caused to be perforated or bored, any etc.
main, distributing pipe, branch pipe, aqueduct or pipe, or
cause to be made any connections or communication with
any such main, distributing pipe, branch pipe, aqueduct or
pipes, or who shall put into or cause to be put into or permit
or cause to run into Bassett's creek or the Mississippi river
anywhere in the city limits of said city above the falls of
St. Anthony, or the Mississippi river within three (3)
miles above the north line of said city, or into any reser- Placing gar.
voir, pipe, main, aqueduct, intake pipe, vat or other place
for collecting water for said water works, any garbage,
foul or unhealthy stuff, manure, privy vault deposit or
carcass of any dead animal, or to do any act to pollute
the water in said Bassett's creek or said river at the
above named places, on conviction thereof; shall be Penalty.
punished by imprisonment of not more than ninety
(90) days, or by a fine of not more than one hundred
(100) dollars, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
bage in water.
116 The Municipal Court of said city shall have juris- Jurisdiction,
diction of all offenses under this act.
116 This section shall not apply to any sewers hereto-
fore constructed by said city, or private individuals, to
empty into the said river.
*This section is erroneously numbered "Sec. 17," in act approved Feb. 28, 1885.
See special laws, section 12, chapter 4.
Not to apply to
private sewers,
when.
+Water Board abolished ee note on first page of this chapter.
118
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
SECTION.
CHAPTER X.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
1. Public Buildings, Water Works, etc.
Acquisition of Grounds and Water.
Council to Appoint Committee.-
Duties of Committee and City
Engineer.
2. Report of Committee.-City Clerk to
Publish Notice of Presentation.-
When acted upon.
3. Commissioners, When and How Ap-
pointed.-Failure to Act, Penalty.
-Duties of Commissioners
Council May Confirm or Annul
Award -Re-Hearing, when.—Con-
firmation Final.-Exception.
4. Sufficient Condemnation Defined.-
Payment of Awards.-Abandoned,
if not Paid in One Year.-Indem-
nity Bonds.-Deposits in District
Court.-Vesting Title.-Provisions
of Section Applicable to Entire
Chapter.
5. Streets and Alleys.-Openings and
Improvements. - Water Courses.-
When City Engineer to Make
Plats, Surveys and Estimates.--
Commissioners and Duties.-Ac-
tion of Council.-Public No-
tice Required.-Confirmation of
Awards and Assessments.-Levy
of Assessment.-Form of Assess-
ment Roll.
6. Dissatisfied Property Owners to File
Objections Before Confirmation,
-Appeals to District Court and
Proceedings Thereon.
7. Improvements May be Abandoned,
-When and How.
8. City Engineer to Estimate Cost of
Pavements, Gutters, Water-Mains,
Sewers, etc.-Estimate, How Made
Interested Persons to be Heard.-
Duties of Engineer and Council.-
Assessments and Form of Assess-
ment Roll.
9. Assessinents on Corner Lots.-Dis-
cretion of Council.
SECTION.
10. Construction of Sidewalks.-Pro-
ceedings and Assessment Roll.
11. Repairing Sidewalks.-Form of As-
sessment Roll.
12. Sprinkling Streets.-Form of As-
sessment Roll.
13. Proceedings When Part of Award
Annulled by Court.-Commission-
ers, Award, etc.
14, Void, Irregular and Defective Assoss-
ments.-Re-Assessments,
15. Assessment Rolls, How Recorded.-
Duties of City Clerk and County
Auditor.--Proceeds Paid to City
Treasurer. Cancellation. — Certi-
ficates in Lieu of Money, when.
-Council May Refund when.
-Moneys advanced for Improve-
ments, How Applied.
16. Omissions, Informality, etc.. in
Proceedings Not to Affect Valid-
ity, when.-Assessment Roll and
Record Competent Evidence.-
Variance as to Forms, Immaterial
17. Proceedings when Special Assess-
ment. Invalid.-New Assessments
and Note Thereon.
18. Special Assessments Not Invalid
Because Amount More or Less.
Balances, How Appropriated.
Abbreviations, etc., Recognized.
19. Two-thirds of Entire Council Re-
quired to Make Improvement.-
Exception.
20. Improvements May be Made by Con-
tract or by City.-Assessments May
be Deferred until Contract Let.
21. Council May Determine When to
Proceed with Improvement.
22. Money Collected Before Improve-
ment to be Reserved.
23. Assessments Payable to City Treas-
urer, when.-Interest Deducted.
24. Assessments Heretofore Made Not
Affected.
25. Assessment Lien Not Affected by
Mortgage Foreclosure, etc.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
119
SECTION.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
26. Improvements Requiring Special
Assessments, When Ordered
27. County Auditor to Divide Assess –
ments into Five Equal Parts.-
Owners may Pay all One Year, or
with Interest in Yearly Install-
ments.--To Apply to Assessments
of 1888.-Duties of City Council,
City Engineer, etc.-Consent of
Parties Defined.-Surplus Refun-
ded, how.
28. Permanent Improvement Revolving
Fund.-Duties of Board of Sink-
ing Fund Commissioners.--Fund
Not to be Diverted.
SECTION.
29. Council to Issue Bonds for Perma-
nent Improvement Revolving
Fund.-Conditions and Restric-
tions.-Proceeds, How Used.-Lim-
itation.
30. Court Proceedings where City Takes
Land Before Securing Title.--
Claimant Not to Have Rents or
Profits, when.
31. County Auditor to Prepare Lists of
Property and Owners for City En-
gineer, when.
- Compensation of County Auditor for
Tax-List Entries.
CHAPTER X.
Grounds for
public
improvements.
117SECTION I. Whenever the City Council shall con-
sider it necessary to procure grounds for any public
grounds, engine-houses, markets, or public building, or
for water works, or any water-power for water works,
117 or the right to take from any dam or pond, reservoir,
or other part or portion of the waters of the Mississippi Water privi
river, whether the same be private or public property, or leges.
rights, any and all water necessary or convenient for the
purpose of being forced through the conduits, aqueducts,
mains, pipes, or branch pipes, in the city of Minneapolis,
or through any part thereof, for the benefit and use of the
inhabitants and people residing at or being in the city of Intake pipes.
Minneapolis, and for the use of said city; or the right to
lay intake pipes from any pump station in the city of
Minneapolis belonging to said water works, through any
mill dam, mill pond, whether above, through, or below
water, or through the bed or bottom of any such mill dam
or mill pond, or through any private real estate, whether
the same be water or land, or interests in any water power
or water reservoir, and to land and maintain said intake
pipe or pipes, and to construct the necessary cribs and
other protections of every kind necessary to lay or to pro- issippi river.
tect any such intake pipe or pipes, anywhere in the Mis-
sissippi river, or the islands therein or land adjoining.
thereto; and the right to construct dams and reservoirs,
and wing dams, anywhere in said river, whether within or
above other dams, ponds or reservoirs, the City Council
shall appoint a committee of not less than three of its
members who, together with the City Engineer, shall make
examination and propose to the City Council a location
and description of land suitable for such public grounds,
engine houses, market, or other public building, or for
Cribs in Miss-
Committee on
location of
lands, etc.
120
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER X.
Committee on
location of
water works,
etc.
Report of
committee.
City clerk to
give notice of
action on
report.
Council to con-
sider report.
Interested per-
sons to be
heard.
Plat and survey
Commissioners
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
water works, as the case may be, and if for water works,
the amount of water power deemed necessary to be taken
and appropriated, and the most convenient manner of
taking and using the same, and present to the City Coun-
cil a plat of the land proposed to be taken, and in their
report shall show, so far as the committee shall deem nec-
essary, what canals, tunnels, buildings or structures can
be used in the appropriation, and any other matter which
the committee shall deem proper for the information of
the Council; and such committee may present for the con-.
sideration of the Council more than one location and
plat.
SEC. 2.
Such committee shall file their report with the
City Clerk of said city, who shall give notice, by publica--
tion twice in the official paper in said city, that such re-
port is on file in his office for the inspection of all persons.
interested, and that the same will be presented to the City
Council for action thereon at a meeting of said Council,
to be named in such notice, which shall be the regular
meeting of said Council which shall occur next after one-
week from the second publication of such notice.
At the meeting named in said notice, the City Clerk
shall, next after the reading of minutes of previous meet--
ing, present such report, and the matter may be acted
upon by the Council at the same or any subsequent:
meeting.
The Council, under such rules as it may prescribe, may
hear any person interested in the matter, or refer the
matter to a committee to hear such persons and report.
SEC. 3. Whenever the City Council shall determine
upon the lands, water power and other property to be
taken and appropriated, it shall designate the same as
nearly as may be convenient, and shall cause such plat or
survey as may be necessary to show or explain the same,
to be made and filed therewith with the City Clerk; and
the City Council shall then or afterwards appoint five
Commissioners who shall be freeholders of said city, and
no two of whom shall reside in the same ward, to view
the lands, water power or other premises to be taken and
appropriated, and ascertain and award the amount of
damages or compensation to be paid to the owners of the
property so to be taken and appropriated.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
121
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETO.
act.
CHAPTER X.
Three or more of such Commissioners shall constitute a Quorum may
quorum and be competent to do any act required of such
Commissioners.
They shall be notified by the City Clerk, by notice to Commissioners
be served on them severally, either personally or through to be notified.
the mail, to attend at his office on or before a day fixed
by him, not less than two days after the service or mail-
ing of such notice, to qualify and enter upon their duties;
and if any Commissioner shall refuse or neglect to attend
as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay to the City of Min- Failure to act.
neapolis the sum of fifty dollars ($50), to be recovered to
the use of the city in a civil action in the Municipal Court;
and in case a quorum of such Commissioners shall not so
attend at the time and place designated in said notice, the
Mayor or Acting Mayor of said city may, in writing, ap- Vacancies.
point one or more Commissioners in the stead of any such
absentees.
to be sworn.
The Commissioners shall be sworn by the Clerk or any Commissioners
officer authorized to administer oaths, to discharge their
duties as such Commissioners in the matter, with fidelity
and impartiality, and make due return of their action to
the City Council.
of meeting.
They shall give notice, by two publications in the official Commissioner
paper of said city, that they will, on a day designated in to give notice
such notice, which shall be at least ten (10) days after the
first publication of such notice, meet at a place desig-
nated in such notice, on or near the premises proposed to
be taken and appropriated, and view the property pro-
posed to be taken and appropriated, and ascertain and Interested
award therefor compensation and damages, and that they persons to be
will there and then hear such allegation and proofs as
interested persons may offer.
heard.
premises.
Such Commissioners shall meet and view the premises, View of
pursuant to such notice, and may adjourn from time to
time, and after having viewed the premises may, for the
hearing of evidence and preparation of their award, ad-
journ or go to any other convenient place in said city; and
such Commissioners shall make a true and impartial ap- Appraisment
praisement and award of the compensation and damage
to be paid to each person whose property is to be taken
or appropriated, and report the same to the City Council;
and such award shall lie over until the next regular meet-
ing of the Council, which shall occur at least one week
and award.
122
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER X.
Council to act
on awards.
New commis-
sion, when.
Further
hearing.
Award final,
when.
Condemnation
sufficient,
when.
Compensation.
Proceedings
abandoned,
when.
Owners to fur-
nish abstract
of title.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
after the reception of such award, at which or any subse-
quent time the City Council may act on such award and
hear any objection made thereto, or may refer the matter
to a committee to hear such objection and report thereon.
The Council may confirm such award or annul the same,
or send the same back to the same or a new Board of
Commissioners for further consideration; and such Com-
missioners may in such case, again on giving notice, pub-
lished once in the official paper of said city, meet at a
time and place to be designated in said notice, which
shall be at least two days after the publication of such
notice, and hear any further evidence that may be ad-
duced by interested persons, and may adjourn from time
to time and correct any mistakes in such award, and revise
and alter the same as they may deem just, and again re-
port such award to the City Council, who may confirm or
annul the same.
When any such award shall be confirmed by the City
Council, the same shall be final and conclusive upon all
parties interested, except as hereinafter provided.
118 SEC. 4. Whenever an award of compensation and
damages shall be confirmed by the City Council, and not
appealed from, and whenever the same, when appealed
from, shall not be set aside by the court, the same shall
constitute a lawful and sufficient condemnation and ap-
propriation to public use of the land and property and
rights in property for which compensation or damages
are so awarded; and the City Council shall thereupon
cause to be paid from the permanent improvement fund
of said city, to the owners of such property, the amount
awarded to each severally.
In case such payment is not made within one year after
the confirmation of the award, or the determination of the
appeal thereupon, the proceedings shall be deemed to be
abandoned.
Before payment of such award the owner of such prop-
erty, or the claimant of the award, shall furnish an abstract
of title showing himself entitled to all of the compensa-
tion and damages claimed. In case of neglect to furnish
such abstract, or there shall be any doubt as to who is en-
titled to such compensation or damage or any part of the
same, the amount so awarded shall be by the City Council
appropriated and set apart in the city treasury for who-
ever shall show clear right to receive the same.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
123
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, Ето.
CHAPTER X.
require bonds.
The City Council may in its discretion require of such Council may
claimant a bond, with good and sufficient sureties, condi-
tioned to indemnify and save the city harmless against all
other claims for such compensation or damages, or for the
property for which the same was awarded, and all loss,
costs or expenses on account of such claims.
118 Provided, That whenever the City Attorney shall
certify in writing to the City Council that in his opinion
he is in doubt to whom the said awards shall be paid, said
City Council may order a warrant to be drawn for the
same, payable to the Clerk of the District Court of Hen-
nepin county, and the City Clerk shall deliver the same
to`said Clerk of the Court and take his receipt for the
same, which deposit with said Clerk of the Court shall
have the same effect as if set aside in the City Treasury as
hereinbefore provided; and in which case the parties en-
titled to the same shall establish their right to the same
by a petition to the said District Court, setting up the
facts entitling them thereto, and by proving the same to
the satisfaction of the Court; and when so established the
Court shall make an order directing to whom the same
shall be paid.
Deposit of
when.
award in court,
Right to awar
how estab-
lished.
city.
Upon the payment of said award or appropriation, or Title to vest in
the setting apart of the money in the City Treasury to pay
the same as aforesaid, the city shall become vested with
the title to the property taken and condemned absolutely
for all purposes for which the city may ever have occa-
sion to use the same, and may forthwith enter upon and
use the same.
This section shall apply, as well, to all cases of appro-
priation of private property for public use provided for in
this chapter.
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Section to
chapter.
apply to entire
improvements.
water course.
SEC. 5. Whenever the City Council shall vote to Street
lay out or open any new street or alley, or to straighten,
widen or extend any that now or may hereafter exist,
119 or to lower, raise, change the course of, or divert any
stream of water, or any ditch or drain, which shall make Diverting
it necessary to take, injure or interfere with private prop-
erty, it shall determine and designate in a general way, as
nearly as may be convenient, the character and extent of
the proposed improvement; and thereupon it shall be the City engineer
duty of the City Engineer to make and present to the
Council a plat and survey of such proposed improvement.
showing the character, course and extent of the same,
to prepare plut.
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Nature of plat
and survey.
Estimate of
cost, when.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, Eto.
and the property necessary to be taken or interfered with
thereby, with the name of the owner of each parcel of
such property, so far as the Engineer can readily ascertain
the same, and such statement as may; in the opinion of
the Engineer, be proper to explain such plat and survey
and the character and extent of the proposed improve-
ment, and his estimate of the cost of such improvement,
(119if it consists in lowering, raising, changing the course
of or diverting any stream of water, ditch or drain); and
Amended plat. the City Council may cause such plat and survey to be
modified, amended or changed as it may deem proper,
and shall estimate and fix upon the cost of making such
improvement, 119if it consists in lowering, raising, chang-
ing the course of or diverting any stream of water, ditch
or drain.
ct of
tion.
Plat to show
lands in detail.
Commissioners
Duties of.
Quorum and
vacancies.
Failure to
attend.
When such plat and survey shall be finally adopted by
the City Council, it shall be filed with the City Clerk, and
it shall be held to show correctly the character and extent
of the improvement actually agreed upon and ordered by
the City Council.
Said plat shall also show the amount of land taken from
each owner, so far as the owners may be known, and the
lands contiguous to 119 such improvement.
The City Council shall then or afterwards appoint five
freeholders of said city, no two of whom shall reside in
the same ward, as Commissioners, to view the premises
and to ascertain and award the amount of damages and
compensation to be paid to the owners of property which
is to be taken or injured by such improvement, and to
assess the amount of such damages and compensation
and the expense of the improvement, (119 where it con-
sists in lowering, raising, changing the course of or di-
verting any stream of water, ditch or drain), upon the
lands and property to be benefited by such improvement,
and in proportion to the benefits to be received by each
parcel, and without regard to a cash valuation.
Three or more of such Commissioners shall constitute
a quorum and be competent to perform any duty required
of such Commissioners; and they shall be notified of their
appointment, and vacancies in their number be filled in
the same manner, and they shall take the same oath and
be subject to the same penalty for refusal or neglect to
attend, to be collected in the same way as is provided
in the case of Commissioners appointed under section
119three of this chapter.
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to give notice
They shall give notice by two publications, in the official Commissioners
paper of said city, that such survey and plat is on file in of meeting.
the office of the City Clerk, for the examination of all
persons interested, and that they will, on a day designated
in such notice, which shall be at least ten days after the
first publication of such notice, meet at a place designated
in said notice on or near the proposed improvement, and
view the property proposed to be taken or interfered with
for the purposes of such improvement, and ascertain and Nature of
award therefor compensation and damages, and view the notice.
premises to be benefited by such improvement, and assess
thereon in proportion to benefits, the amount necessary
to pay such compensation and damage and the cost of
making the improvement, 119 where it consists in lowering,
raising, changing the course of or diverting any stream of
water, ditch or drain, and that they will then and there
hear such allegations and proof as interested persons may
offer.
And such Commissioners shall meet and view the prem- Meeting and
ises, pursuant to such notice, and may adjourn from time adjournment.
to time, and, having viewed the premises, may, for the
hearing of evidence and preparation of their award and
assessment, adjourn or go to any other convenient place
to advise.
in said city, and may have the aid and advice of the City City engineer
Engineer and of any other officer of the city.
and award.
After viewing the premises, and hearing the evidence Appraisement
offered, such Commissioners shall prepare and make a
true and impartial appraisement and award of the com-
pensation and damages to be paid to each person whose
property is to be taken or injured by the making of such
improvement; but if the remainder of the same property,
a part of which only is to be taken or damaged by such
improvement, shall be benefited by such improvement,
then the Commissioners, in considering and awarding com- Benefits to be
pensation and damages, shall also consider, estimate and offset.
offset the benefits which will accrue to the same owner,
in respect to the remainder of the same property, and
award him only the excess of the compensation or dam-
ages over and above such benefits.
damages.
The said Commissioners shall then assess the amount Assessment of
of such compensation and damages so awarded, upon the
land and property benefited by such proposed improve-
ments, 119together with the expense and cost of making
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Assessment of
damages.
Commissioners
to report to
council.
When total
cost in excess
of benefit.
Assessment list
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the improvements, as fixed upon by the City Council, (if
such improvements consist in so lowering, raising, chang-
ing the course of or diverting any stream of water, ditch,
or drain in said city,)and in proportion to such benefits,
but in no case shall the amount of said assessment exceed
the actual benefit to the lot or parcel of land so assessed,
deducting therefrom any damages or injuries to the same
parcels which are less than such benefits, and assessing
only the excess, and prepare and report to the City Coun-
cil their appraisement and award; and if in the judgment
of said Commissioners the whole amount of such com-
pensation and damages, together with the cost of making
such improvement, shall exceed the actual benefit to the
specific property subject to assessment, they shall so indi-
cate in their report, and shall state the amount of such
excess.
Said Commissioners shall also report to the City Coun-
to be reported. cil an assessment list containing their assessment of such
compensation, damages and costs, or so much thereof as
shall not exceed the actual benefits to the property so
assessed, which list shall contain a brief description of
each tract or parcel of property assessed, the name or
names of the owners thereof, if known, and the amount
assessed¹19 against each parcel of property and the amount
of the excess of such compensation, damages and costs
as aforesaid, which they shall return unassessed.
Nature of.
City clerk to
give notice of
action on
report.
Lands taken,
how described.
119 Said Commissioners shall, upon the completion of
their said report, file the same with the City Clerk for pre-
sentation by him to the City Council, and thereupon it
shall be the duty of said City Clerk to give notice to all
interested parties, by 120 one (1) publication in the official
paper of said city, that he will at the next meeting of the
City Council, or as soon thereafter as practicable, present
such report to said Council for their consideration and
action, the first (1) of which said notices shall be pub-
lished at least five (5) days before the presentation of
such report to said City Council.
119Such published notices shall contain descriptions of
the several lots and parcels of land taken for such pro-
posed improvements, and the amount awarded for the
taking of each such lot or parcel, together with the names
of the owner or owners of the same, so nearly as they
can be readily ascertained.
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how described.
119It shall also contain descriptions of the several lots Lands assessed,
or parcels of land upon which benefits have been assessed
and the amount assessed against each such lot or parcel,
together with the names of the owner or owners of the
same, as nearly as the same can be readily ascertained.
Such report, 119 after its presentation to the Council, Council to act
shall lie over until the next regular meeting of the Coun- on report.
cil, which shall occur at least one week after the reception
thereof, at which time, or at any meeting, the City Council
may act upon such report and hear any complaint touch-
ing such award or assessment, or it may refer the matter
to a committee of the Council to hear such complaints
and report thereon.
when.
The Council may confirm such award and assessment, or New
either, or annul the same, or send the same back to the commission,
same Commission for further consideration; and the Com-
missioners may in such case again, upon giving notice pub-
lished once in the official paper of said city, meet at a
time and place to be designated in said notice, which time
shall be at least two weeks after the publication of such
notice, meet and hear any further evidence that may be Further
adduced by interested persons, and may adjourn from time
to time, and may correct any mistakes in such award and
assessment, and alter and revise the same as they shall
deem just, and again report the same to the City Council,
who may thereupon confirm or annul the same.
hearing.
Confirmation
final.
Whenever the City Council shall confirm any such award
and assessment, such confirmation shall make such award
and assessment final and conclusive upon all parties inter-
ested, except as is hereinafter provided, and the City
Council shall proceed, at the same or any subsequent
meeting, to levy such assessment upon the several parcels Assessment to
of lands described in the assessment list reported by the
Commissioners, in accordance with the assessment so con-
firmed, and cause to be made and adopted an assessment
roll of the same, which may be in the following form, or
in any other form the Council may adopt:
be levied.
roll.
The City Council of the City of Minneapolis doth hereby assess and Form of
levy upon and against the several lots and parcels of land below de- assessment
scribed, the respective sums of money set against each lot or parcel.
This assessment is made to defray the compensation and damages
awarded for the taking of and injury to private property, and estimated
cost of improvement, in and about the
as shown
on the plat and survey of the same on file in the office of the City
Clerk of said city. This levy is made conformably to the report and
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Form of
assessment
roll.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
assessment of Commissioners duly appointed to make such assess-
ment, and in proportion to benefits from such improvements to accrue
to the parcels and not exceeding the benefits to the parcels so assessed.
Name of owner, if known.
Description of land. Lot, Block.
Amount.
Dollars. Cts.
Interested
persone.
May object to
confirmation.
Appeal to
court.
Appeal, how
made.
Bond to be
filed.
Done at a meeting of the City Council this
A. D. 18..
Attest..
City Clerk.
day of
Pres't of the Council.
121SEC. 6. Any person, whose property is proposed to
be taken, interfered with, or assessed for benefits, under
any of the provisions of this chapter, and who deems that
there is any irregularity in the proceedings of the Coun-
cil, or action of the Commissioners, by reason of which the
award of the Commissioners ought not to be confirmed,
or who is dissatisfied with the amount of damages awarded
to him for the taking of or interference with his property
or with the amount of the assessment for benefits to
any property affected by such proceedings, may at any
time before such award or assessment shall be confirmed
by the City Council, file with the City Clerk, in writing,
his objection to such confirmation, setting forth therein
specifically the particular irregularities complained of, and
containing a description of the property affected by such
proceedings; and if, notwithstanding such objections, the
City Council shall confirm the award or assessment,
such person so objecting shall have the right to appeal
from such order of confirmation of the City Council, to
the District Court of the county of Hennepin, at any
121time within ten days after such order.
Such appeal shall be made by serving a written notice
of such appeal upon the City Clerk of said city, which
shall specify the property of the appellant affected by
such award, and refer the objection filed as aforesaid,
and by also delivering to said City Clerk a bond to the
city of Minneapolis, executed by the appellant, or by
some one on his behalf with two sureties, who shall justify
in the penal sum of fifty dollars, conditioned to pay all
costs that may be awarded against the appellant.
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awards, etc.
Thereupon the City Clerk shall make out and transmit Transcript of
to the Clerk of said District Court a copy of the award of
said Commissioners, as confirmed by the Council, and of
the order of the Council confirming the same, and of the
objection filed by the appellant as aforesaid, all certified
by said City Clerk to be true copies, within ten days after
the taking of such appeal.
duplicated,
But if more than one appeal be taken from any award, Not to be
it shall not be necessary that the Clerk, in appeals subse- when.
quent to the first, shall send up anything except a certi-
fied copy of the appellant's objection.
required.
Court to
There shall be no pleading on such appeal, but the No pleading
Court shall determine in the first instance whether there
was in the proceedings any such irregularity or omis-
sion of duty, prejudicial to the appellant and specified in
his said written objections, that as to him the award or determine,
assessment of the Commissioners ought not to stand, and
whether said Commissioners had jurisdiction to take ac-
tion in the premises.
what.
Case to have
The case may be brought on for hearing, on eight days' precedence.
notice, at any general or special term of the Court, and
shall have precedence of other civil cases, and the judg-
ment of the Court shall be either to confirm or annul the
proceedings only as the same affects the property of the Judgment
appellant proposed to be taken, damaged or assessed for final.
benefits, and described in said written objection. From
such determination no appeal or writ of error shall lie.
Re-appraisal,
when.
In case the amount of damages awarded or assessment
made for benefits is complained of by such appellant, the
Court shall, if the proceedings shall be confirmed in other
respects, upon such confirmation, appoint three disin-
terested freeholders, residents of said city, Commissioners
to re-appraise such damages or benefits. The parties to Parties to be
such appeal shall be heard by said Court upon the ap-
pointment of such, and the Court shall fix the time and
place of the meeting of such Commissioners. They shall Commissioners
be sworn to the faithful discharge of their duties as such to be sworn.
Commissioners, and shall proceed to view the premises
heard.
and to hear the parties interested, with their allegations Interested
and proofs pertinent to the question of the amount of parties to be
such damages or assessments.
heard.
Commissioners
Such Commissioners shall be governed by the same pro- Commverned.
visions in respect to the method of arriving at the amount
of damages and the offset thereto of benefits to other pro-
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how governed.
LOOAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
Commissioners perty of the same owners, and in all other material re-
spects, as are in this chapter made for the government of
Commissioners appointed by said City Council.
Report.
Award final,
when.
Order of court
final.
Compensation
of Commis-
sioners.
Double costs,
when.
Council may
abandon
proceedings.
Limitation.
Pavements,
water mains,
sewers, etc.
They shall, after such hearing and view of the premises,
make report to said Court of their appraisal of damages
or assessment of benefits in respect to such appellant.
The award or assessment of such Commissioners shall
be final unless set aside by the Court for good cause
shown. In case such report is set aside, the Court may,
in its discretion, recommit the same to the same Commis-
sioners or appoint a new board, as it shall deem best; but
no appeal or writ of error shall be allowed from any order
of the Court in the premises.
Said Court shall allow a reasonable compensation to
such Commissioners for their services, and make such
award of costs on such appeal, including the compensa-
tions of such Commissioners, as it shall deem just in the
premises.
In case the Court shall be of opinion that such appeal
was frivolous or vexatious, 'it may adjudge double costs
against such appellant.
122SEC. 7. The City Council shall have the right at
any time during the pendency of any proceedings for the
improvements authorized in this Chapter, or at any time
within 122 ninety (90) days after the final order of the Court,
on any appeal from such proceedings, to abandon all such
proceedings whenever it shall deem it for the interest of
the city to do so, 122 which right to so abandon such pro-
ceedings within ninety (90) days after the final order,shall
apply to all proceedings now pending in which the City of
Minneapolis has not yet paid for or obtained title to any
property condemned by said proceedings for public use.
123 SEC. 8. Whenever the City Council shall determine
to cause to be paved, repaved or macadamized any street,
lane or alley in said city, or any gutter or gutters along
any such street, lane or alley, or to lay, relay or extend
Extent, etc., to any water-mains or sewer-pipes in or through such streets,
be designated. lanes or alleys, or any portion thereof, it shall determine
and designate in a general way, as nearly as may be con-
venient, the character and extent of the improvements,
and the materials to be used therein.
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to estimate
And thereupon it shall be the duty of the City Engineer City engineer
to make and present to the City Council an estimate of cost.
the cost of such improvements, stating therein the pro-
portions of such estimated cost which will be required to
construct such improvements in front of abutting lands,
which cost shall not, in any case of water-mains, exceed
the cost of a six-inch pipe, and in case of sewers shall not
exceed the cost of ordinary street mains in front of such
abutting lands, and the proportion thereof required to con- Rules govern-
struct the same across streets, lanes and alleys, and in ing estimate.
front of lands not subject to asssessment, and also the ex-
cess of cost in case of water-mains and sewers over and
above the cost of such six-inch pipe or ordinary sewer;
also a list of the several lots and parcels of land fronting List of lots,etc.
upon such proposed improvements, with number of feet
front of each extending along such improvements, and
the names of the owners of the several parcels, as nearly
as the City Engineer can readily ascertain the same.
Bids may be
called for in
advance.
A brief minute of the reception of such report shall be Notice to inter-
made and published in the record of the proceedings of ested parties.
the City Council, which shall be held to be sufficient notice
to all persons concerned; and such report shall lie over
without any assessment being made until the next regular Report.
meeting of the City Council, which shall occur at least one
week after the reception of such report; but the City
Council in its discretion may direct the City Engineer to
advertise for and receive in the meantime bids for doing
the work and furnishing the material required to construct
and complete such improvement, and report the same to
the Council, at the meeting of the City Council to which
such report is laid over, or at any subsequent meeting.
The City Council may consider such estimate and list, Action on
and any further communications from the City Engineer
respecting the matter, and, under such rules as it may
make, shall hear all persons interested in the matter of
such improvements, who may desire to be heard, and the Interested
Council may adhere to its resolutions of making such im- parties to be
provements, or may modify the character of the same, or
abandon it.
If the City Council shall determine to go on with such
improvements, whether modified or not, it may, either
before or after having contracted for the construction of
such improvements, estimate and fix upon the cost of
such improvements, and the proportion or amount of
report.
heard.
Council may
fix cost of
improvement.
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('ost, how
ascertained.
Assessment
and levy.
Assessment
roll.
Form of assess-
ment roll.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETO
such cost which is required to construct such improve-
mcnt, not exceeding, in case of sewer, the cost of an or-
dinary street sewer when larger sewers are constructed,
and in case of water mains not exceeding the cost of lay-
ing a six-inch pipe, where a larger pipe shall be laid oppo-
site to or in front of the lots and parcels of land described
in the list so made by said City Engineer, and may assess
and levy such proportion or amount of such cost upon
the same lots and parcels of land upon the basis of an
equal sum per front foot of each lot or parcel, measuring
along the line of such improvements; and the City Coun-
cil shall cause to be made, and shall adopt an assessment
roll thereof, which may be in the following, or any other
form which the City Council may deem proper:
The City Council of the City of Minneapolis doth hereby assess and
levy upon and against the several lots and parcels of land below de-
scribed, the respective sums of money set opposite each lot or parcel.
The assessment is levied to defray the expense of
in the City of Minneapolis along
.and said lots and par
cels of land are assessed upon the basis of an equal sum per front
foot along the line of such improvement.
•
Name of owner, if known. Description of land Lot. Block.
Amount.
Dollars. Cts.
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1
Done at a meeting of the City Council this ... day of..
A. D. 18..
President of the Council.
1
Attest,
Estimate of
cost omitted if
second plan
followed.
When assess-
ment by front
foot.
City Clerk.
128 Provided, however, That in all cases where the second
(2d) plan proposed in section three (3) and in section
tour (4) of chapter nine (9) hereof, for the apportion-
ment of the cost of water mains and of sewers, be the
plan adopted and followed, the City Engineer may omit
from his report all estimates of cost and all apportion-
ments thereof.
128In all such cases, too, when the City Council deter-
mines to go on with such improvements, it shall make
the equal assessment per front foot, previously determined
and fixed upon, without other regard to the cost of the
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
133
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CHAPTER X.
roll-second
work, or to the apportionment of that cost, than was had Assessment
at the time when the amount to be assessed against abut- plan.
ting property was named and fixed, [and shall cause to be
made] and shall adopt an assessment roll thereof sub-
stantially like that prescribed when the other plan is fol-
lowed.
Discretion as
to corner lots.
SEC. 9.
The City Council may, in its discretion, in case
where any lot fronting on two streets has been previously
assessed and the assessment paid for laying any water
main or sewer pipe upon a different street from the one
through which such proposed improvement is to be ex-
tended, remit from the assessment of such corner lot such
portion of such second assessment, not exceeding the
amount of assessment for a frontage of sixty-six feet on
such lot, as it may deem just under all the circumstances Decision of
of the case; but the discretion of the City Council in such council final.
matter shall be final, and the refusal or failure of said
Council to make such remission shall not be a ground for
setting aside such assessment in any court or proceeding.
Neglect to
build side-
walks.
SEC. 10. Whenever the City Council shall have ordered
the construction of any sidewalk, and the owners of the
land along which such sidewalk is to be built shall refuse,
or for the space of two weeks neglect to construct the
same according to the order of the City Council, the City
Engineer shall report to the City Council a description of
each lot or parcel of land along which such sidewalk has estimate cost.
not been built, and his estimate of the cost of building
such sidewalk along each of such lots and parcels; such
estimates shall not be binding upon the City Council, but
advisory merely, and the Council may obtain any
other information as to such cost, and the Council shall
Engineer to
fix upon and designate the cost of building such sidewalk Assessment
in front of each lot and parcel of land, and thereupon the and levy.
City Council shall assess and levy upon and against such
lot and parcel of land so reported (after correcting mis-
takes, if any) along which such sidewalk has not been
built, such sum as will cover the cost of building such
sidewalk along and fronting upon the same lots and par-
cels of land respectively, and cause to be made an assess-
ment roll of the same, which shall be in the following roll.
form, or any other form which the City Council may
adopt:
Assessment
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CHAPTER X.
Form of side-
walk asses8-
ment roll.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
..side of.......
·
•
.from..
The City Council of the City of Minneapolis doth hereby assess and
levy upon and against the several lots and parcels of land below des-
cribed, the respective sums of money set against each lot or parcel.
This assessment is made to defray the cost of
.a sidewalk
along the.
..to
in accordance with a resolution of the City Council, passed
the day of..... A. D. 18..and duly published in the official
.A. D. 18.. The
amount assessed against and levied upon each lot or parcel being the
amount necessary to build such sidewalk along and fronting upon the
same lotor parcel of land.
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paper of said city on the.
day of..
Amount
Name of Owner, if known. Description of Land Lot Block.
Dollars.
Cts.
AT
Done at a meeting of the City Council this.
A. D. 18……….
day of...
!
Attest,
President of the Council.
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City Clerk.
Repairs of
sidewalks.
Form of assess-
ment roll.
SEC. II.
Assessments for repairs of sidewalks, may be
in the following form, or any form which the City Council
may adopt:
The City Council of the City of Minneapolis doth hereby assess and
levy upon and against the several lots and parcels of land below des-
cribed, the respective sums of money set against each lot or parcei.
This assessment is made to defray the cost of repairs of sidewalks front-
ing upon each lot or parcel, which the respective owners have neglec-
ted to make, and which have been made by the proper Street Commis-
sioners since the..
day of.......
.A. D. 18.... The
amount assessed against and levied upon each of said lots and parcels
of land, is the actual cost of repairs of sidewalks abutting upon such
lot or parcel, and so repaired by such Commissioners.
Name of Owner, if known. Description of Land Lot. Block.
Amount.
Dollars. Cts.
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135
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS:
ASSESSMENTS. ETC.
Done at a meeting of the City Council, this...
day of
A. D. 188
Attest,
President of the Council.
City Clerk.
CHAPTER X.
Form of assess-
ment roll.
SEC. 12.
Assessments for sprinkling streets may be in Sprinkling
the following form, or any other form which the City streets.
Council may adopt.
The City Council of the city of Minneapolis doth hereby assess and
levy upon and against the several lots and parcels of land below des-
cribed, and the buildings and improvements thereon, the respective
sums of money set opposite each lot or parcel. This assessment is
levied to defray the expense of sprinkling the streets fronting the said
lots and parcels of land, from
A. D. 18....to..
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A. D. 18.... according to a contract for sprinkling . . .from.
to.. .....for the term of.
of... years from.
..and said lots
and parcels of land, buildings and improvements are assessed by an
equal rate upon the assessed value of the lots, lands, buildings and
improvements fronting on the portion of the street so sprinkled.
Amount.
Name of Owner, if known Description of Land. Lot. Block. Dollars. Cts.
Form of assess-
ment roll.
Done at a meeting of the City Council this... ... ... day of.....
A. D. 18...
Attest,
President of the Council.
City Clerk.
124 SEC. 13. Whenever any portion of any award made
by Commissioners and confirmed by the Council, under
the provisions of sections three (3) and five 5) of this
chapter, shall be annulled by the Court upon appeal, as
hereinbefore provided for, the City Council may again
appoint Commissioners to view the property which was
affected by such appeal, and appraise and amend the
compensation and damages to be paid for the taking or
appropriation of the same, and the like proceedings shall
be had so far as applicable, as is prescribed in said section
124three (3) and five (5), except that such Commissioners
shall make no new assessments of costs and expenses.
Proceedings
when part of
award annulled
on appeal.
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CHAPTER X.
Damages. etc.,
arrived at, how,
Proceedings
when award
again annulled.
Proceedings
when assess-
etc.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS. ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
They shall, however, in arriving at the compensation
and damages to be awarded, take into consideration and
offset any benefits which, in their judgment the contem-
plated improvement will be to the remainder of the prop-
erty, part of which may be taken or appropriated, and
report their award to the City Council, whereupon the
same proceedings may be had as far as applicable as upon
an original award.
And if such award shall again, upon appeal, be annulled
by the Court, still another Commission may be appointed
and award made in the same manner, and so on, until a
valid award shall be made, but no new assessment for
benefits shall be made merely by reason of any change in
the amount of the sum awarded for compensation and
damages, and any sum which may be lacking to pay the
awards shall be paid from the 124 permanent improvement
fund.
SEC. 14. If any special assessment heretofore made by
ment annulled, the City Council, or under its direction, to defray the ex-
penses of any local improvement has been or shall be,
either in whole or in part, annulled, vacated or set aside
by the judgment of any Court, or if the City Council
shall be satisfied that any such assessment is so irregular
or defective that the same cannot be enforced and collected
or if the City Council shall have omitted to make such
ings irregular. assessment at or before the making of such improvement
when it might have done so, the City Council shall anew,
or hereafter compute and determine upon the cost of mak-
ing such improvement in a gross amount, upon such data
as to it shall seem sufficient, not exceeding in the case of
water mains, the cost of laying a six-inch pipe when a
larger pipe was used.
When proceed-
Council may
order new
assessment.
And the City Council may then proceed to cause
a new assessment of the cost of such local im-
provements to be made, either on the property front-
ing upon such improvements, or on the property benefited
by such improvements according to the character of such
improvements, following as near as may be the provisions
of the city charter in force at the time of making such
to be followed. improvement in determining the property to be assessed
and the form and manner of proceeding subsequent to
the determination of the cost of the improvement.
Ordinary form,
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137
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CHAPTER X.
assessment
And in case such second assessment shall be annulled When second
the City Council may proceed to make other assessments annulled.
until a valid assessment shall be made, but nothing in this
section shall authorize any new assessment in cases where
such Court shall determine that the lots or lands are not
subject to assessment.
After such new assessment roll shall have been com-
pleted the City Clerk shall note thereon against any
piece of land upon which a former assessment for the same
improvement has been paid, the words "Paid on Former
Assessment," which shall cancel such assessment on that
parcel.
125SEC. 15. The City Clerk shall record all assessment
rolls of special assessments, in books to be by him kept
for that purpose, and shall, on or before the first day of
October of every year, deliver to the County Auditor of
said County of Hennepin all such assessment rolls 125not
theretofore delivered, and the said County Auditor shall
extend the assessments in proper columns against the
property assessed, and such assessment shall be collected
and the payment thereof enforced with and in the like
manner as State, County and other taxes are collected
and the payment thereof enforced; and such assessments
when collected shall be paid over by the County Trea-
surer to the City Treasurer of said city, together with all
costs, penalties and interest collected thereon, at the time
of making payment of city taxes to City Treasurer.
Former assess-
ment can-
celled.
Assessment
record.
Collection of
assessments.
assessments.
125 Provided, That the City Council may, by resolution, Cancellation of
direct the County Auditor of Hennepin County to can-
cel, on any record, where the same appears any special
assessment theretofore assessed and levied by said City
Council, whether because the same be irregular or erron-
eous, or because the improvement, for the cost of which
said special assessment shal lhave been assessed and levied,
shall have been constructed by the owner of the pro-
perty against which said special assessment shall have County auditor
been assessed and levied; and in any such case of the can-
cellation of any such special assessment the Auditor shall
make the necessary credits of the amounts of such special
assessments so cancelled on the proper books and to the
proper officers.
to note same.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER X.
Certificates of
construction.
Authority for
cancellation.
Certificates in
Sy
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
125 And said City Council may provide by ordinance or
resolution that the certificate of the City Engineer or
other proper officer, that any improvement, for which any
such special assessment shall have been made, has so been
constructed by the owner of the property against which
any such special assessment shall have been made, pre-
sented to the said County Auditor, shall be sufficient
authority for said Auditor to cancel the special assess-
ment so assessed and levied for the cost of such improve-
ment against the property named in said certificate, and
for authority in that case for the said Auditor to so make
said proper credits.
125 And said Council may also provide by ordinance
lieu of money. that the County Treasurer shall receive in lieu of money,
in payment and satisfaction of such special assessments,
said certificates of the City Engineer, or other city officer
named by said ordinance for that purpose, that any such
improvement for which a special assessment has been
made, has been so constructed by the owner or other
person.
Division of
assessments.
Acts of council
etc., legalized.
Assessments
refunded,
Three-fourths
of excess.
125 Said City Council may also direct, by resolution of
motion, the said County Auditor to divide any special
assessment and place parts thereof on any part of the real
estate against which the same is assessed and levied, and.
to make the necessary corrections and records thereof.
125 All acts prior to the passage of this act, of said City
Council, and of all officers of said city or of Hennepin
county, in directing or authorizing the Treasurer of said
city or said county to accept the certificate of the City
Engineer of said city that any owner of any real estate
against which any special assessment has been assessed
and levied for the cost of any improvement has constructed
said improvement, in lieu of cash in payment of or
satisfaction of said special assessment, is hereby confirmed
and legalized.
125 Provided, That when the total cost of any improve-
ment, for which special assessments have been assessed
and levied, shall be less than ninety (90) per centum of the
total special assessments assessed, levied and collected
for the same, said City Council may refund out of the per-
manent improvement fund to the owners of the real estate
against which said special assessments have been made,
who have paid the same, three-fourths (34) of their pro-
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CHAPTER X.
excess.
portionate share of the excess of such total special assess- Refunding
ments so collected over the total cost of such improve-
ments.
Moneys
improvements.
125 And provided also, That after any improvement has
been ordered and the special assessments for the cost advanced for
thereof have been assessed and levied, any person or per-
sons are desirous of having such improvement constructed
before the collection of such special assessment, and such
person or persons shall advance the cost of such improve-
ment and pay the same to the City Treasurer for the
credit of the permanent improvement fund, such money
so advanced to construct such improvement shall not be
used or appropriated for any other purpose; and said City
Council may cause the immediate construction of such Refunding
improvement and shall, when said special assessments
assessed and levied to pay for the same are collected,
cause the same to be paid to such person or persons
advancing the money for the cost of such improvement.
same.
not to affect
SEC. 16. No omission, informality or irregularity in Irregularities
proceedings in or preliminary to the making of any validity.
special assessment shall affect the validity of the same,
where the assessment roll has been adopted by the City
Council; and the assessment roll, and the record thereof
kept by the City Clerk, shall be competent and sufficient
evidence that the assessment was duly levied and the
assessment roll duly made and adopted, and that all other Roll evidence
proceedings antecedent to the adoption of such assess- ceedings.
ment roll were duly had, taken and performed, as required
by this charter.
of proper pro-
And no failure of the City Clerk to record the assess- Failure of
ment roll, or to deliver the same to the County Auditor clerk, effect of
on or before the time prescribed for such delivery, or to
do any other act or thing of him required, shall in any
immaterial.
way invalidate any assessment; and no variance from the Variance
directions herein contained, as to the form or manner of
any of the proceedings, shall be held material, unless it
be clearly shown that the party objecting was materially
injured thereby.
SEC. 17. In case any special assessment shall in any Invalid
suit where its validity shall be questioned, be adjudged assessments
invalid, the City Council may, in its discretion, notify the
County Auditor to cease the collection of the same, if it
shall have been transmitted to him for collection, and
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER,
CHAPTER X.
Discretion of
council.
Payments on
invalid asseSA”
ment to be
noted.
Collection of
new assess-
ment.
invalidate
Assessment.
Deficiency paid
from ward
fund, when.
Surp'us, how
disposed of.
Abbreviations
may be used.
Immaterial
errors.
Two-thirds of
council to
order improve-
ment.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
may proceed anew by proceedings either as in case of an
original special assessment for the same purpose, or by
taking up the previous proceedings at any point; and may
make and levy a new assessment in the place and stead
of the assessment, which shall have been adjudged invalid.
And the City Clerk, before delivering such new assess-
ment to the County Auditor for collection, shall ascertain
and note thereon payments which have been made on
such invalid assessment for the same purpose, which nota-
tion shall cancel the assessments as to the parcels and
lots on which such payments were made to the extent of
the payments. Such new assessments shall be collected
in the same manner as original special assessments.
SEC. 18. No special assessment shall be questioned or
held to be invalid because the amount of such special
assessment shall happen to be either more or less than
the amount of money actually required for the improve-
ment for which such assessment shall be made.
If the amount raised by such special assessment shall
happen to be less than the amount required for such
improvement, the balance shall be paid from the fund of the
ward or wards wherein such improvement shall be made,
except that in the case of water mains and sewers, such
balance shall be paid from the permanent improvement
fund; and if there shall happen to be any surplus from
any such special assessment, the same shall be carried to
the credit of the same fund from which a deficiency would
have been supplied, or be otherwise disposed of as to the
City Council shall seem most just towards the persons
upon whom such special assessment has been levied.
And upon any assessment rolls or other papers made or
used in any of the proceedings, it shall not be necessary
that words shall be written out in full, but abbreviations,
letters, figures and recognized characters may be used,
whenever their use shall be convenient, and no error or
mistake as to the name of the owner of any property
shall be regarded as material in any proceedings under
this act.
SEC. 19. It shall require a two-thirds vote of the mem-
bers elect of the City Council to determine, in the first
instance, to make any improvement for which a special
assessment may be levied, except in respect to sidewalks;
when a majority vote shall suffice.
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subsequently.
But this restriction shall not apply to any subsequent Not necessary
act of the Council touching such improvement, or the
special assessment to provide means therefor.
Improvements
made by con-
SEC. 20. Any improvements, the means to make or
construct which may be raised by special assessment, tract, or city.
may be performed by contract let in the ordinary way, or
directly by the city, by the employment of labor and pur-
chase of material, or in any other manner in which the
City Council may deem proper in each particular case.
And the City Council may, in its discretion, in any case,
instead of causing the special assessment to be made
entirely upon estimates, as hereinbefore provided for,
wait until the letting of the contract for such improve-
ment, or until such improvements shall be made, before
determining and fixing upon the cost and expense of such
improvement and appointing Commissioners to make the
assessment.
SEC. 21.
The City Council may, at the time of order-
ing any improvement for which any assessment may be
made, determine whether to proceed at once with such
improvement, or await the collection of such assessment.
SEC. 22. In case any assessment for improvement is
collected before the making of such improvement, the
money so collected shall be kept separate from the funds
of the city, and not devoted to any other purpose than
such improvement; and as soon as a majority of the
assessments for such improvement are paid, the City
Council shall forthwith cause such improvement to be
made.
Conncil may
await contract
ment.
before assess-
Council may
await collec-
tion.
Special assess-
ment funds to
be kept separ-
ate.
may be paid to
SEC. 23. After any special assessment roll shall have Assessments
been adopted by the City Council and before the same city treasurer.
shall be delivered to the County Auditor for collection,
any assessment thereon may be paid direct to the City
Treasurer of said city; and upon the production of the
City Treasurer's receipt therefor to the City Clerk, he In which event,
shall enter upon such assessment roll, opposite the assess- cancelled.
ment so paid, the words, "Paid to City Treasurer," which
entry shall cancel the assessment so paid.
Interest
In case interest shall have been included in such assess-
ment, so much of such interest as shall not have accrued deducted.
on such assessment at the time of such payment, shall
be deducted therefrom.
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CHAPTER X.
Prior assess-
ments not
affected.
Assessment
lien to have
priority.
Improvements
when.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENts, Eto.
SEC. 24. Nothing herein shall interrupt or interfere
with any assessments which have been heretofore made,
but the collection thereof shall go on according to the
provisions of the charter of said city in force at the time
of making such assessments.
SEC. 25.
No sale under execution, or other proceed-
ings upon a judgment decree, foreclosure or lien, and no
transfer or mortgage shall divest or affect the lien of any
assessment, for any tax or for any improvements charge-
able to or assessed against the property under this char-
ter, although the confirmation of such assessment may be
subsequent to the lien of such judgment decree or other
lien, or to such transfer or mortgage.
126 SEC. 26. 126 No improvement, the cost of which is
to be ordered, required to be made by special assessments, shall be
ordered in any year later than the twentieth (20th) day
of August of that year.
County auditor
to divide
assessments.
Exception.
127SEC. 27. 127 Whenever the City Council shall have
adopted any assessment roll whereby it shall assess and
levy any special assessment against the lots and parcels.
of land abutting on any street, avenue, alley or other pub-
lic ground in the city of Minneapolis, for the purpose of
paying the cost of paving, repairing or macadamizing any
street, lane or alley in said city, or any gutter or gutters
along any such street, lane or alley, or for the purpose of
laying or re-laying any curbstone along any such street,
lane or alley, (but not including the side-walk proper on
any such street, lane or alley) or to lay, re-lay or extend
any sewer pipes in or through any such street, lane or
alley, or other public grounds, or any portion thereof, and
when such assessment roll shall have been delivered to
the County Auditor of the County of Hennepin, as
required in this chapter, said County Auditor shall divide
each assessment for any such paving, re-paving or
macadamizing, or for any such curb or gutter, stone or
stones, or for laying, re-laying or extending any such
sewer pipes or sewers, into five equal parts as nearly as
the same can be divided, and shall in proper books, to be
provided and kept by said Auditor of said Hennepin
County, extend the same in proper columns in such man-
Extending over ner that said assessment shall extend over five successive
years, succeeding to the year in which said assessments
shall have been so ordered-that is to say:
Five equal
parts.
successive
years.
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ments, with
127Said assessments are to be paid in five equal annual Annual install-
installments, with interest to be paid annually on each interest.
one of said installments after the first installment, at the
rate of five per centum per annum, and the owner or
owners, or other person whose duty or right it may be to
to pay such special assessments, shall have the right to
either pay the same at any time after the first year's in-
stallment becomes due, or they may pay the same in said owner.
five annual installments, with interest on each one of said
deferred installments, to be paid annually at the time of
paying the installment due each year.
Option of
interest.
127 And the Auditor of said Hennepin County shall, at Auditor to add
the time of so extending said special assessment on the tax
list in such parallel columns for each year's installment,
add to the amount of each installment, for each year
after the first installment, interest on each installment
remaining unpaid, at said rate of five per centum per an- Interest, how
num on the whole of such unpaid installments; and said
interest on the whole of said installments shall be paid
each year at the same time and in the same manner that
said installments are to be paid.
paid.
1888.
Certificate of
Certificates to
127 The provisions of this section shall apply to all such To apply to
special assessments made by said City Council during the assessments of
year 1886, for improvements to be made during the year
1887; and the City Engineer of said city of Minneapolis,
is hereby authorized to give certificates to any person or
persons, who are charged with paying any such assess-
ments so made in the year 1886, that said assessments
were made on any particular lot or parcel of land for any city engineer.
such improvements to be constructed during the year
1887, and that four-fifths of the same are to be deemed as
deferred installments to be paid during the four follow-
ing years immediately following the year 1887, under the
provisions of this section; and the County Treasurer of be in lieu of
Hennepin County shall receive such certificates and give
credit for the same in lieu of cash for four-fifths of any
such assessment made during said year 1886, for any
of the improvements in this section provided for; and the
City Engineer of said city shall keep a record of all the
material parts of such certificates, and said City Engineer Record of
shall cause a roll of such deferred payments so certified deferred pay-
by him, to be prepared in the same manner as special
assessment rolls are prepared, as near as may be, contain-
ing all the material facts necessary, and send the same to
the City Council of the city of Minneapolis; and when
cash.
ments.
144
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER X.
Roll of
deferred pay-
ments to be
approved.
Consent of all
when.
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
said City Council shall have by motion approved the
same, the City Clerk shall send the same to the Auditor
of Hennepin County in the same manner that special
assessment rolls are sent by said City Clerk to said County
Auditor.
127 The application by the property owner for such cer-
parties implied tificates, together with the receipt of the same by said
Treasurer, and the adoption of said roll by said City Coun-
cil, shall be taken as the consent of all parties to having the
payment of said four-fifths of said special assessment for
said purposes so assessed and levied by said City Council
for the year 1886, for such improvements to be done in
Improvements the year 1887, divided into four equal parts, one part to
of 1886-7.
County auditor
to extend
balances.
be paid each year, for the four succeeding years succeed-
ing the year 1887, and for the authority of the County
Auditor to place and extend the same in the proper man-
ner on the proper tax list books of said county.
127 And said County Auditor is hereby authorized and
directed to so extend and place each respective balance
of said special assessments so deferred upon said proper
tax-lists in such manner that the same may be paid in
four equal installments, one installment in each of the
Per centum to four years succeeding the year 1887; but said Auditor
shall add five per centum of the whole of each of said
deferred payments to the payment to be paid in the year
1888, as the first year's interest on said deferred install-
be added.
Lien of city to
remain intact.
Rolls, when
made and
adopted, etc.
Auditor's
books how
kept.
ments.
127 And the lien of said deferred installments which
attach to each respective lot or parcel of land before this
act passed, shall remain intact the same as though this
act had never been passed.
127Said rolls shall so be made up by said City Engineer
and so sent to the City Council of said city on or before
the first day of September, 1887, and the same shall be
adopted by said City Council and so sent to the Auditor
of said Hennepin County on or before the first day of
October, 1887.
12 Said Auditor shall so keep said books that the
Treasurer of said county can and shall at the times of the
proper settlements with said city of Minneapolis, or with
its proper City Treasurer or other officers, report the
amount of the interest on said deferred installments sep-
arately from the amounts of the installments paid in any
year.
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CHAPTER X.
rer's receipts.
When certifi-
127The County Treasurer of the county of Hennepin County treasu-
whenever he shall receive any such City Engineer's cer-
tificate, in lieu of money, in the payment of such special
assessment taxes so levied and assessed in the year 1886,
shall stamp or print upon the receipt which he gives for
the taxes for the year 1887, the fact that four-fifths of the
special assessment for paving, curb and gutter stones, or
sewers, was not paid in money, but that the certificate of cates are used.
the City Engineer of the city of Minneapolis was received
for the same, because the payment of the same had been
deferred to be paid in four equal annual installments, dur-
ing the four years following 1887, under the provisions of
this act; and shall give the number of said City Engineer's
certificate.
127Any surplus which may be collected under any Surplus
refunded, how.
such special assessments over and above the actual cost
of said improvement, which it is provided by the Charter
shall be refunded to the property owner, shall be refunded
out of said permanent improvement revolving fund.
improvement
fund.
128SEC. 28. There is hereby created a special fund to Permanent
be called "The Permanent Improvement Revolving Fund," revolving
to which shall be credited the principal sum of each of
the installments of all special assessments assessed and
levied by said City Council which are to be paid in five
(5) equal annual installments, as provided in the next
preceding section of this chapter, and all interest on said
deferred installments of any such special assessments
shall be credited to the sinking fund of said city to be
invested the same as provided for the sinking fund of
said city; and the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners
are hereby charged with the duty of investing, so far as
practicable, any accumulations of money in said perma-
nent improvement revolving fund not needed to carry
on the operations to facilitate which the same has been
hereby created.
Investments to
Sinking Fund
be made by
commissioners
invested.
128 Should there at any time be an accumulation of Accumulations
money in said permanent improvement revolving fund
greater than the probable demands upon said fund dur-
ing the two years next following, then it shall be the
duty of the City Council to report such fact to the Board
of Sinking Fund Commissioners who shall, as soon as
practicable, invest the same substantially in the same
manner that funds in said sinking fund are invested.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER X.
Limitation of
assessments
for year.
Not to affert
ordering of
work.
Property
owners may
advance in
excess of
limit.
Re-payment.
Fund, how
used.
Not to be
diverted.
Proceeds of
bonds.
Assessment,
collections..
Issue of bond
authorized.
LOCAL IMPROVEMEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, Eto,
198The aggregate amount of special assessments which
shall be made in any one year for sewers, paving and curb
and gutter stones, as in the next preceding section pro-
vided, shall not exceed the sum of four hundred thousand
(400,000) dollars; but this limit shall not prevent said
City Council from ordering work aggregating more than
said sum of four hundred thousand (400,000) dollars in
any one year.
128 Provided, That the abutting property owners desir-
ing such improvements to be made shall advance and
pay into the City Treasury of said city the cost of any
such improvements over and above the amount of said sum
of four hundred thousand (400,000) dollars and in such
case the entire amount of such assessments so to be
advanced by the abutting property owners, shall be so
prepaid into said City Treasury to the credit of said per-
manent improvement revolving fund.
128 There shall be paid each year out of said permanent
improvement revolving fund, only the whole cost of
all that portion of all such sewer, paving and curb and
gutter improvements as are named in the next preceding
section, the payment of which has been provided for by
such special assessments against such abutting property,
and said fund shall be diverted to no other purpose, except
as in the last paragraph of section twenty-seven provided.
128 There shall be credited each year to said permanent
improvement revolving fund sufficient sums of money
received from the sales of the bonds in the next section
provided for, which, with the installments of such special
assessments received into such fund each year, shall be
sufficient to pay for all of such improvements of sewers, pav-
ing and curb and gutters as are named in the next preced-
ing section and as are constructed during such year.
129SEC. 29. For the purpose of providing sufficient
funds in said permanent improvement revolving fund
at all times to defray the expenses of improvements pro-
vided for in the two sections next preceding, the special
assessments for which are to be paid in five (5) equal
installments, with interest as therein provided, such spec-
ial assessments being for sewers, paving and curb and
gutter stones only, the City Council of the city of Min-
neapolis is hereby authorized and required, in the man-
ner, under the restrictions and for the purpose herein
designated, to issue from time to time as needed, not to
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$320,000 a year.
exceed the sum of three hundred and twenty thousand Not exceeding
(320,000) dollars in any one year of the bonds of said
city in such denominations, at such time of payment not
exceeding thirty (30) years, and such place of payment
as may be deemed best by said City Council, such bonds
to have semi-annual interest coupons at such rate of inter-
est not exceeding four and one-half (4%) per cent per
annum payable at such place or places as said City
Council may deem best.
Rate of
interest.
129 Said City Council is further authorized to negotiate Sale of bonds.
and sell such bonds from time to time upon the best
terms for said city that may be obtained, provided that
the same shall not be sold for less than par.
129 All proceedings as to the issuing of said bonds shall be Proceedings by
by resolution of said City Council to be approved by the resolution.
Mayor and published as provided by the charter of said city.
129 The proceeds of said bonds shall be paid into the
Treasury of said city and credited to said permanent im-
provement revolving fund.
Proceeds to be
credited to
fund.
Not to exceed
limit.
129 Nothing herein contained shall authorize the issue.
at any time of bonds to such an amount that the whole five per cent.
amount of the principal of all bonds actually issued by
said city at the time, together with the proposed issue,
shall exceed five (5) per centum of the aggregate value
of the taxable property of said city as assessed and deter-
mined for the purposes of taxation.
Not to affect
129This act shall not be considered as in any manner
prohibiting or interfering with the issue of any and all other bonds
bonds, the issue of which has heretofore been authorized.
authorized.
evidence of
129 The signing or countersigning of any bonds pur- Comptroller's
porting to be issued under authority of this act by the signature
City Comptroller of said city, in respect to all such bonds compliance.
held by bona fide owners, shall be deemed conclusive
evidence that the limitations of this section have been
observed and complied with.
installment
improvements.
129 The proceeds of said bonds shall never be used for Proceeds for
any other purpose than for the purpose of advancing the
money to pay for sewers, pavements, (not including side-
walks proper) and curb and gutter stones, the special
assessments for which have been made and the same are
to be paid on yearly installments as named in the two next
preceeding sections of this chapter.
129 Not to exceed one million dollars
million dollars shall be issued Issue limited
under this act.
to $1,000,000.
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CHAPTER X.
When city's
right to enter
land, etc., is
questioned.
Notice of
LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
130*SEC. 30. 130 Whenever the city of Minneapolis shall
have made or caused to be made, erected, constructed or
laid on, across, through, in or upon any land or real estate
to which said City Council has not the title, or the right
to enter upon the same for the purpose of so making,
erecting, constructing or laying any water main, sewer,
building, structure, intake pipe, dam, improvement,
improvement. pavement, sidewalk, curb-stone, gutter or other public
work, improvement, structure or street grade, the City
Council shall have the right at any time in any suit in
which the title to said real estate or land, or the right of
said city to so be thereon for said purposes is called in
question, said city may by answer admit and allege the
taking of the claimant's land or other real estate for pub-
lic purposes, and that no compensation has been made for
such taking and that said city of Minneapolis is ready and
willing to pay such compensation on having the same
assessed and ascertained in the manner in this chapter
provided, provided the claimant on the trial shall estab-
lish his right to recover the land or other real estate in
establish right. question, and in such case the Court shall first determine
whether the claimant is entitled to recover the land or
other real estate in controversy.
City may
tender com-
pensation.
Claimant to
When owner
consented not
entitled to
rents, etc.
Powers of
court.
City engineer
to request
descriptions..
Descriptions
of lots, etc.
}
130 Provided, That when it shall appear that the land, or
other real estate was so taken or appropriated by and
with the consent or acquiescence of the owner, such owner
shall not be entitled to recover any rents or profits which
accrued prior to demand for compensation for sueh land
or other real estate, and he shall be limited to a recovery
in such case, to compensation for the land taken and
damages.
130 And the Court shall have power to make all neces-
sary orders and render all necessary judgments to carry out
the provision of this section.
131 SEC. 31. 181 Whenever the City Council shall order
any improvements or work which are to be paid for by
special assessments on the abutting property, the City
Engineer of the City of Minneapolis shall make a written
request of the County Auditor of Hennepin County for a
*Erroneously numbered "Sec. 27" in act approved March 5, 1887. See Special
Laws, chapter 15, sec. 7.
+Erroneously numbered "Sec. 28" in act approved March 5, 1887. See Special
Laws, chapter 15, section 7.
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LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS: ASSESSMENTS, ETC.
CHAPTER X.
lots, etc.
list of the descriptions of lots or other parcels and blocks Description of
or other divisions of real estate or land lying upon or along
the streets, lanes, alleys, avenues or other public grounds
on which said improvements are to be made, together Names of
with the names of the respective owners of each of said lot owners.
or parcel of land or real estate so far as they can be ascer-
tained by said Auditor from the records of his office.
181 And said City Engineer may accompany such request Engineer to
with such plats or other information as may be necessary furnish plats.
to enable such Auditor readily and accurately to make
such list.
131 Upon the receipt of such request said County Audi- County auditor
tor shall promptly make and return to said Engineer such to furnish
list of descriptions and owners' names called for.
descriptions.
List and
books.
auditor's
181 For making such list, and for keeping all of the
books which may be required of said Auditor under the
various special assessment plans which have now or may
hereafter be adopted by the City Council of the city of
Minneapolis, which shall include every kind of entry,
whether ordered or requested by said City Council or any
Court, and which shall include all records of cancella-
tions, re-assessments and re-entering on the tax list the
balance of the assessments made in the year 1886 and not Compensation
paid in the year 1887, said city shall pay said County
Auditor the sum of five (5) cents for each entry of a spec-
ial assessment entered by him upon the tax list of the
county, the same to be payable upon the completion of
the tax list for each year.
of auditor.
*
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER XI.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
Legal successor
of former
cities.
Indebtedness
and obliga-
tions.
Ordinances to
remain in
force.
SECTION.
1. City Legal Successor of Former
Cities of St. Anthony and Minne-
apolis.-Public Property, Indebt-
edness, etc.
2. Ordinances and Resolutions Remain
in Force.-Exceptions.-Official
Books and Pamphlets.-City
Clerk's Certificate.
3. Compilation of Ordinances.-Copies
Sold or Exchanged.
4. Actions Where City a Party.-Inhab-
itants Not Incompetent.
5. State Laws, How Construed as Re-
pealing Charter Provisions, etc.
6. Actions Against City.-Service of
Process.
7. Actions Brought in Name of the City,
when.
8. Warrant Necessary in Prosecutions.
when. Municipal Court Process
in Name of State.
I.
SECTION.
9. Municipal Court.-Punishment of
Offenders.--Where to be Impris-
oned.
10. Board and Jail Fees.- Not Paid by
City in State Cases.-Commitment
Fees.
11. Penalties and Judgments, How
Remitted or Discharged.-New
Trial, Reversing of Judgment,
Suspending Sentence, etc.
12. City Property, Not to be Sold, or Ap-
propriated, when.
13. Proposals for Advertising.-Official
Paper, How Declared.-Discretion-
ary Power of Council, Bond, etc.
14. Official Publications.-Affidavits of
Publication, and effect of.
15. Proposals for Job Printing.-Con-
tract, How Awarded.-Bond, etc.
16-17. [See Note.]
SECTION 1. The city of Minneapolis is hereby declared
to be the legal successor of the former cities of St. An-
thony and Minneapolis. All public property, except
property used for educational purposes, within the limits
of said city, shall belong to said city of Minneapolis, and
all indebtedness and obligations of the former city of St.
Authony, and former city of Minneapolis and of the
former divisions of the present city of Minneapolis, shall,
together with all interest accrued or to accrue thereon, be
assumed and paid by the city of Minneapolis.
SEC. 2. All ordinances and resolutions heretofore made
and established by the City Council of the city of St.
Anthony or by the Common Council or City Council of
the city of Minneapolis, and not inconsistent with the pro-
visions of this act, shall remain in force except as altered,
modified or repealed by the City Council of the city of
Minneapolis.
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151
1
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
CHAPTER XI.
Books and
pamphlets
And all books and pamphlets published, or which may Authorized
be published, purporting upon their title page to be pub- ordinances,etc.
lished by the authority, order or direction of the
City Council, and purporting to contain the ordinances
of said city, standing rules and orders of said City Coun-
cil, or either, are hereby declared to be competent and
prima facie evidence of the contents of such ordinances, prima facie
standing rules and orders of any resolutions or other mat-
ters purporting to be the act of said City Council, which
may be found printed therein, and of the due and legal
adoption, approval and publication thereof.
evidence.
cate of "true
And the certificate of the City Clerk that any printed Clerk's certifi-
slip of paper to which such certificate may be attached, copy"
contains or is a true copy of any ordinance, resolution,
proceeding of the City Council or other paper, the origi-
nal of which is presumably in the possession of said City
Clerk, shall constitute such printed slip or paper compe- Competent evi-
tent and prima facie evidence of the contents and purport dence.
of the ordinance, resolution, proceeding of the City Coun-
cil or other paper, and of the legal passage, adoption, ap-
proval and publication thereof.
SEC. 3. The City Council may from time to time pro- Compilation of
vide for the compilation and publication of the ordinances ordinances.
of the city, and such resolutions as may be designated,
and for the distribution or sale of copies of such compila-
tion in its discretion, and may also provide for exchange Sale and
of such printed compilations for similar publications of
or other cities.
SEC. 4. No person shall be an incompetent judge, jus-
tice, witness or juror, by reason of his being an inhabi-
tant of said city, in any proceeding or action in which the
city shall be a party in interest.
SEC. 5. No law of the State contravening the provi-
sions of this act shall be considered as repealing, amend-
ing or modifying the same, unless such purpose be ex-
pressly set forth in such law.
SEC. 6. When any suit or action shall be commenced
against said city, the service thereof may be made by
leaving a copy of the process by the proper officer with
the Mayor, and it shall be the duty of the Mayor forth-
exchange.
Inhabitants
tent when city
a party.
not incompe-
Charter provi-
sions not
modified,
unless express-
ly stated.
Action against
it, service,
city,
eto."
152
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER XI.
Council to be
notified.
Actions in
name of city.
Violation of
charter, ordi-
nances, etc-
Warrant
No warrant
necessary when
person caught
offending.
Process in
name of State,.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
with to inform the City Council thereof, or to take such
other proceedings as by the ordinances or resolutions of
said Council may have been in such case provided.
SEC. 7. All actions brought to recover any penalty or
forfeiture under this act, or the ordinances, by-laws, or
police or health regulations, made in pursuance thereof,
shall be brought in the corporate name of the city.
SEC. 8. In all prosecutions for any violation of this act,
or of any by-law or ordinance of the city of Minneapolis,
the first process shall be by warrant.
Provided, That no warrant shall be necessary in any case
of the arrest of any person or persons while in the act of
violating any law of the State of Minnesota or ordinance
of the city of Minneapolis, but the person or persons so
arrested may be proceeded against, tried, convicted,
punished, or discharged, in the same manner as if arrested
by warrant.
All processes issued by the Municipal Court for viola-
How directed tion of any ordinance or by-laws of the said city, shall
run in the name of the State of Minnesota, and shall be
directed to the Chief of Police or any police officer of the
said city.
Penalty or fine
in Municipal
court.
SEC. 9. In all cases of imposition of penalty or fine, or
the rendering of a judgment by the Municipal Court of said
city, pursuant to any statute of the State of Minnesota,
or pursuant to any ordinance or by-law of the said city of
Minneapolis, as a punishment for any offense, or for the
Commitments, violation of any by-law or ordinance as aforesaid, the
city prison or
county jail.
Limit of
penalty.
Imprisonment
pending trial.
City not liable
offender shall be forthwith committed to the city prison
of said city, or if there be no city prison, to the common
jail of Hennepin county, and there be imprisoned for a
term not exceeding three months, in the discretion of
said Court, unless the said fine or penalty be sooner paid;
and from the time of the arrest of any person or persons
for any offense whatever, until the time of trial, the per-
son or persons so arrested may be imprisoned in the city
prison, or in case there be no such prison, in the common
jail of Hennepin county.
132SEC. 10. The city of Minneapolis shall not be liable
for board, etc., in any case for the board or jail fees of any person who
may be committed by any officer or magistrate of the
city to the jail of Hennepin county under the State laws.
for statuary
offences.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
153
1
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
CHAPTER XI
for fees, when.
132 And shall not be liable to any jailor or other officer City not liable
for any fee for the committing any person to the county
jail or for the receiving any person so committed in any
case where the warrant of commitment or other process
is served or executed by a police officer of the city.
SEC. II. No penalty or judgment recovered in favor Penalty, etc.,
of said city shall be remitted or discharged, except by a how remitted.
vote of two-thirds of the members of the City Council:
but nothing in this section shall be so construed as to pro-
hibit the Judge of the Municipal Court from granting new Not to affect
trials or reversing any judgment rendered by him accord- new trials, etc.
ing to the usual precedure of courls, nor to prohibit
said Court from suspending execution of sentence, in its
discretion.
not to be held,
etc., when.
SEC. 12. No city officer, or employe of the city, shall City property
sell, dispose of, or convert to his own use, any city pro-
perty in his charge,without special authority from the City
Council.
Official
SEC. 13. The City Council shall at its first meeting in
April of each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, cause advertising.
the City Clerk to advertise in the official paper of the
city, for one week, for sealed proposals for publishing in
some daily newspaper, which shall have been printed, Daily
published and of general circulation in said city at least newspaper.
six months prior to the advertising for such proposals,
the ordinances, official proceedings of the Council and
other matters required in the charter or the ordinances
and resolutions of the city to be published in a public
newspaper, such proposals to state the price per inch for
the first insertion and for each additional insertion of all
matter so to be published; said proposals to be marked
"Proposals for Advertising," and addressed to "The City
Council," which proposals shall be opened at the next Contract, how
meeting of the Council and the contract for such publish- awarded.
ing awarded to such daily newspaper bidding the lowest
therefor, which paper shall be declared the official paper
of the city.
Discretion of
Provided, That in determining which is the lowest bid-
der of the newspapers conforming thereto, regard may be council.
had to the character and value thereof as a medium for
advertising and for placing before the tax payers of said
154
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER XI.
the pan.e.
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
When two bids city the matters herein provided to be advertised; and in
case any two bids are the same, the Council may by vote
select one of such papers.
Maximum
price,
Rejection of
bids.
Written con-
Provided, further, That if each and all of said proposals.
fix a price exceeding thirty (30) cents per inch for any
first or additional insertion of such matters, the Council
may reject all such proposals, and adopt such other
method of publishing such matter as it may, in its discre-
tion, determine.
Provided, further, That the proprietor or proprietors of
tract and bond. such paper shall enter into a written contract for the per-
formance of the duties required of such proprietor or
publisher, and give bond in the sum of twenty-five hun-
dred dollars, ($2,500) with two satisfactory sureties, to be
approved by the Councii, conditioned for the faithful
performance of such contract.
Paper to be
designated as
official.
Affidavits of
publication.
Conclusive
evidence.
Job printing.
Proposals.
The daily newspaper so designated shall be and remain
the official paper of said city, and the contract and bond
aforesaid shall remain in force, for the term designated,
and until the City Council shall designate another paper
as the official paper of the city.
SEC. 14. The publisher or publishers of said official
paper, shall, immediately after the publication of any
notice, ordinance or resolution, which by this act is re-
quired to be published, file with the Clerk of the city a
copy of such publication, with his or their affidavits, or
the affidavit of his or their foreman, of the length of time
the same has been published, and such affidavit shall be
conclusive evidence of the publication of such notice,
ordinance or resolution.
SEC. 15. The City Council shall, at its first annual
meeting in each year, or as soon thereafter as practicable,
cause its City Clerk to advertise, in the same manner as
hereinbefore prescribed in section thirteen (13), for sealed
proposals for doing the job printing of said city; said bids
to state the price per 1,000 ems for composition, the price
per pound for paper and the price per token for press-
work; which said bids shall be marked "Proposals for Job
Contract, how Printing," and addressed to the City Council of the city
of Minneapolis, and opened at its next meeting, and the
contract awarded to the lowest responsible bidder.
awarded.
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155
MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.
CHAPTER XI.
tract and bond.
Provided, always, That such lowest bidder shall enter Written con-
into a written contract for the performance of such job
printing, with like bond and sureties as specified in sec-
tion thirteen (13) of this chapter, for the faithful per-
formance of such contract.
*SEC. 16. [Charter a Public Act.]
*SEC. 17. [Act to take effect, etc,]
*ctions 16 and 17 are so numbered in original act. Instead of being sections
of chapter 11 of the charter, they should have been sections two and three of the act
itself, and are so placed and numbered herein. See end of Charter.
Misplaced
sections.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER XII.
LIBRARY BOARD.
Library board.
General
powers.
Detailed
powers.
Rules and
regulations.
SECTION.
1. The Library Board.-General and
Special Powers.
2. Composition of Board.-Elections,
Resignations, Vacancies, etc.
3. Duties of Judges of Election.-Re-
turns and Canvass.
4. Oath of Offic9.-Officers of
the
Board.-Secretary and Treasurer
to Furnish Bonds.
5. Duties of Officers.-Orders, How
Drawn.-Depositories of Funds.
6. Tax Levy and Proceeds. -County
Auditor's Duties.
SECTION.
7. Real Estate, How Purchased and
Sold.-Donations, Bequests, etc.,
How Accepted.
8. Annual
Meeting.-Regular
Special Meetings.
and
9. Board May Associate With Inde-
pendent Societies Owning Libra-
ries, etc.
10. Libraries and Museumns to be For-
ever Free.-Rules and Regula-
tions.
11. First Directors -Temporary Organ-
ization, How Effected.
*[ENTIRE CHAPTER ADDED 1885.]
133 SECTION I. There is hereby created and established
in and for the city of Minneapolis a Board, which shall be
styled "The Library Board of the City of Minneapolis."
Said Board shall have full power to establish and main-
tain in the city of Minneapolis public libraries and read-
ing rooms, galleries of art and museums for the use and
benefit of the inhabitants of said city, and for the purpose
of so doing it shall have the following powers, that is to say:
It may adopt a common seal, and be capable of suing
and being sued, and of taking by gift, grant, purchase,
devise, bequest, or otherwise, any real or personal prop-
erty, and of using, selling, controlling, conveying and
enjoying the same, and of entering into, making, perform-
ing and enforcing contracts.
It may make and publish, from time to time, by-laws for
its own guidance, rules and regulations for the govern-
ment of its agents, servants and employes, and for the
government and regulation of the libraries and other col-
lections under its control.
*See Chapter 3, Special Laws of 1885.
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
157
LIBRARY Board.
CHAPTER XII.
hired or
It may hire, or erect and maintain, as it shall deem best, Buildings,
buildings suitable for the purposes contemplated by this erected.
act; but it shall never erect any building upon land to
which it has not the title in fee-simple.
ǝmployes.
It may appoint all necessary agents and employes, fix Agents and
their compensation, and may remove such appointees.
It shall have control of the expenditures of all moneys.
collected by taxation or otherwise and placed to the
credit of the library fund.
Expenditures.
And shall, in addition to the herein enumerated pow- Full power and
ers, have full power and authority to undertake and per- authority.
form every act necessary or proper to carry out the spirit
and intent of this act.
Composition
of board.
133* SEC. 2. Said Library Board shall consist of the
Mayor of the city of Minneapolis, the President of the
Board of Education of the city of Minneapolis, the Presi-
dent of the University of the State of Minnesota, who shall
respectively be ex officio members thereof, and six (6) Elective
other members, who shall be elected from time to time members.
*as herein provided, by the legal voters of the city of
Minneapolis, and who shall be resident and qualified
electors of said city.
1886.
134 At the *annual city election, to be holden on the first Election in
(1st) Tuesday of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred
and eighty-six (1886), there shall be elected two (2) Li-
brary Directors for
for the term of six (6) years, and
thereafter there shall every second (2d) year be elected elections.
two (2) Library Directors for the term of six (6) years from
the *third (3d) Tuesday in April after their election.
Subsequent
133*In case any Library Director shall die, resign, re- Vacancies.
move from the district, or otherwise vacate his office
more than one (1) year before the expiration of his term
of office, a Library Director may be chosen, at the *annual
election after such vacancy shall occur, to fill the place of
the unexpired term of the Director so vacating.
133 SEC. 3. All elections for Library Directors shall be
at the annual city election, as a part of such city election,
and such Library Directors shall be voted for upon a sep-
arate ballot, and a separate ballot box shall be provided
*Annual elections abolished. See chapter 10, section 2, special laws of 1887, for
amendment to and construction of this section. See also section 2, chapter 2, char-
ter, page 22, ante.
Library
elected.
directors how
158
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER XII.
box.
LIBRARY Board.
Separate ballot at each precinct, which shall be kept by the Judges to re-
ceive the ballots of such persons as are entitled to vote
for such Library Directors.
Returns and
canvass.
Oath of office.
Officers of the
board.
Bonds of secre-
tary and
treasurer.
Conditions.
Bonds to be
filed.
Duties of
President.
The Judges of Election shall make returns of the votes
cast for Library Directors, and the City Council shall
canvass the same as in the case of city officers, and the
City Clerk shall forthwith notify the persons elected of
their election; and in all matters not herein especially pro-
vided for, touching such election, the rules provided for
the election of city officers of said city shall apply.
138 SEC. 4. Every Library Director, before he shall
enter upon the duties of his office, shall take, subscribe
and file in the office of the City Clerk of said city, an
oath or affirmation that he will support the constitution
and laws of the State of Minnesota, and discharge the
duties of his office to the best of his ability.
The officers of the Library Board of the City of Minne-
apolis shall consist of a President and Secretary, who
shall be Library Directors. The City Treasurer shall be
Treasurer of the Board, and the Comptroller shall per-
form such duties in connection therewith as hereinafter
prescribed.
The Secretary of the Board and the City Treasurer
of the city of Minneapolis shall each, before entering upon
the duties of his office, execute and deliver to the Li-
brary Board of the City of Minneapolis, a good and
sufficient bond, payable to the Library Board of the
City of Minneapolis, in such sum as shall be fixed upon
by the Board, and with sureties who shall be freeholders
of said city, and shall be approved by the Board, and
who shall justify in the aggregate to double the amount
of the bond, conditioned that the principal in the bond
shall well and faithfully perform and discharge all the
duties of his office, and pay and turn over to his succes-
sor, or to whomsoever the Board may direct, all moneys
and every valuable thing, which shall come into his hands
by virtue of his office, belonging to said Board. Such
bonds shall be filed for safe keeping with the City
Comptroller of the city of Minneapolis.
133 SEC. 5. The President, or, in his absence, a Presi-
dent pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of the
Board, and sign all orders on the Treasurer for all moneys
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
159
LIBRARY Board.
CHAPTER XII.
President.
voted to be paid, and shall perform all duties necessary Duties of
for the transaction of the business of the Board, and which
are usually performed by the President of a corporation.
etc.
The Secretary, or, in his absence, the Secretary pro Secretary to
tempore, shall keep a full and fair record of all the proceed- keep record,
ings of the Board at its meetings, and shall draw and at-
test all orders drawn upon the Treasurer, and keep a record
thereof, showing the date, number, amount, purpose for
which drawn, and name of payee of each order separately.
All such orders shall be made payable to the order of the
payee therein named, and shall not be paid without his en-
dorsement, either personally or by his authorized agent or
attorney.
Orders how
drawn and
paid.
Other duties of
The Secretary shall perform such other duties as are
usually performed by such officer, or as may be directed secretary.
by the Board, and shall draw no orders on the Treasurer
except such as have been allowed by the Board, by a ma-
jority vote of all its members, taken by ayes and nays, and
entered on the record of the proceedings of the Board.
Bonds and
The City Comptroller shall keep the regular books of Duties of city
account of the Board, in which he shall enter all indebted- comptroller.
ness of such Board, and which shall at all times show the
precise financial condition of said Board, the amount of
bonds, orders or other evidences of indebtedness outstand-
ing, and the redemption of the same when redeemed; and financial
he shall countersign all bonds, orders or other evidences of
indebtedness of said Board and keep an exact account
thereof, showing to whom and for what purpose issued and
the amount of each, and all moneys received or paid out by
the City Treasurer on account of said Board.
All claims allowed by the Board shall, before they are
paid, be audited by the Comptroller.
The City Treasurer shall receive and safely keep all
moneys of the Board and pay the same only upon orders
signed by the President and attested by the Secretary of
the Board and countersigned by the Comptroller and
properly indorsed by the payee, and shall keep full books,
records and vouchers of all his transactions.
accounts.
audit claims.
Comptroller to
Duties of city
treasurer.
He shall deposit the moneys of said Board, as the Funds, how
moneys of the city of Minneapolis, in any banks which deposited.
shall be designated by the City Council of said city as
depositories of funds of said city, and the funds, while so
on deposit in such banks, shall, for all purposes con-
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER XII.
Funds, how
recovered.
Treasurer
LIBRARY Board.
nected with such deposit, be regarded as the money of
the city of Minneapolis, and may be recovered as such by
said city from said banks, and the sureties of such banks,
upon the bonds which said bank shall execute to the said
city, but when drawn or recovered from such banks shall
be accounted for to its proper fund; and the Treasurer shall
have the same exemption respecting such funds deposited
in such banks as in respect to other funds of said city.
The Secretary of the Board is hereby forbidden from
be signed when signing or issuing any orders upon the Treasurer of said
Board, except when there is money in the hands of the
Treasurer to pay the same.
exempt from
liability.
Orders not to
fands exhaust-
ed.
Bonds, etc.,
when to be
paid.
Tax levy.
Limited to
The said Board shall never issue any bond or promis-
sory note, certificate of indebtedness, or other obligation.
for the payment of money, except the same shall be made
to become due at a date not later than the first day of
July then next ensuing, and then for no greater sum than
can be paid, when due, out of the regular revenues of the
Board, for the fiscal year in which such bond, note, cer-
tificate or other obligation of indebtedness is issued.
133 SEC. 6. Said Library Board is hereby authorized
and empowered to levy upon the taxable property of said
city, in each and every year, such taxes as will raise suffi-
cient sums of money as will be required during the suc-
ceeding year for the establishment, maintenance and gov-
ernment of the libraries and collections contemplated by
this act, and for the payment of all other expenses prop-
erly incidental to the same.
Provided, That the aggregate annual levy of such taxes
oe-half mill. shall never exceed in any one year one-half (3) of one (1)
mill on the dollar upon the assessed valuation of said dis-
Return of tax
levy.
Collection of
tax.
trict.
The Board shall make return of its annual levy of taxes
on or before the first (1st) day of November of every
year to the County Auditor of the county of Hennepin,
and such taxes shall be collected and the payment
thereof enforced with and in like manner as State and
county taxes are collected and the payment thereof en-
forced; and when collected shall, together with all costs,
interest and penalties collected thereon, be paid over by
the County Treasurer to the City Treasurer of the city of
Minneapolis as often as said County Treasurer is required
to make settlement with said City Treasurer in respect to
city taxes.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
161
LIBRARY Board.
CHAPTER XII.
board fails.
Provided, however, That if for any reason said Board Tax levy when
shall in any year fail to make return of its annual levy of
taxes to the County Auditor by the time herein specified,
that in such case the rate of taxation determined and
fixed by the Board of Tax Levy of Hennepin county as
the maximum rate which said Library Board shall levy for
such year, shall be taken to be the rate of taxation de-
termined upon by said Library Board for such year, and
the County Auditor shall govern himself accordingly, and Duty of county
any taxes which shall hereafter be extended upon the tax auditor.
list of Hennepin county by the County Auditor of said
county, based upon the action of the Board of Tax Levy,
said Library Board having for any reason failed to make
a return as herein provided, shall be and remain legal and
valid.
estate.
133 SEC. 7. Said Library Board may purchase real Purchase or
estate for the purposes contemplated by this act, when- sale of real
ever six (6) Library Directors shall vote to make such
purchase, and the Board may also sell and convey any of
its real estate, but only when five (5) of the Library Di-
rectors shall vote to make such sale.
how executed.
In the case of sale of real estate by the Board the deed Conveyance,
of conveyance thereof may be executed by the President
and Secretary officially, having the seal of the Board
affixed thereto.
recorded.
All votes under this section shall be by yeas and nays, Votes to be
and recorded in the record of the proceedings of the Board.
vest title in
board.
Any person desiring to make donations of money, per- Donors may
sonal property, real estate, for any of the purposes herein
contemplated, shall have the right to vest the title to the
money, property or real estate so donated in the Board
of Directors created under this act, to be held and con-
trolled by such Board, when accepted, according to the
terms of the deed, gift, devise or bequest of such prop-
erty; and as to such property the Board shall be held and Board special
considered to be special trustees.
trustees.
ing.
133 SEC. 8. The annual meeting of the Board, for the Annual meet-
election of its officers for the year, shall always be on the
third Tuesday in April, at such hour and place as the
Board may by its rules appoint for its regular meetings;
but vacancies may be filled whenever they shall happen Vacancies
during the year, and officers shall hold until their suc- filled, when.
cessors are elected and qualified, unless they cease to be
eligible.
162
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
CHAPTER XII.
Regular and
special meet-
ings.
Chance meet-
ings legalized.
Association
with societies
for kindred
purposes.
Libraries, etc.,
to be forever
free.
First board of
directors.
Designated
elective mem-
bers.
Library Board,
The regular meetings of the Board shall be fixed by its
rules and laws. Special meetings may be called by the
President or any two Library Directors, by written notice,
stating the time, place and object of the meeting, to be
served, personally or by mail, at least twenty-four (24)
hours before such meeting.
But whenever a majority of all the Directors are pres-
ent at any meeting the same shall be a legal meeting at
which any business which could come before a regular
meeting may be transacted, irrespective of whether legal
notice was given for such meeting or not.
183 SEC. 9.
Said Library Board may enter into associ-
ation with any independent society or other organization
owning libraries, or museums, or existing for purposes
kindred to those contemplated in this act, upon such
terms and conditions as shall best promote the object for
which said Board is created.
133 SEC. 10.
All libraries and museums established
under this act, and, so far as consistent with the preceding
section, all collections in any manner under the charge of
the Library Board herein established. shall be forever
free to the inhabitants of the city of Minneapolis; always
subject, however, to such reasonable rules and regula-
tions as shall be necessary for their effective administration.
133 SEC. II.
That Thomas Lowry, M. B. Koon, John
Atwater, Sven Oftedal, T. B. Walker, E. M. Johnson,
together with the Mayor of the city of Minneapolis,
ex-officio, the President of the Board of Education of the
city of Minneapolis, ex-officio, the President of the Uni-
versity of the State of Minnesota, ex-officio, are hereby
appointed and constituted the first Directors of the Li-
brary Board of the city of Minneapolis, and the six (6)
first above named shall be the elective members of said
Board and shall hold office, two (2) for one (1) year, two
(2) for three (3) years, and two (2) for five (5) years,
from the third (3d) Tuesday in April next following the
passage of this act; and at their first (1st) regular meet-
ing shall cast lots for such respective terms.
*See chapter 2 of Charter, page 22, and note to section 3 of this chapter.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
163
Library Board.
CHAPTER XII.
organization.
The Library Board herein appointed shall meet at the Temporary
office of the City Clerk of the said city of Minneapolis,
on Saturday, the twenty first (21st) day of March, one
thousand eight hundred and eighty-five (1885), or so
soon thereafter as practicable, and may then and there
effect a temporary organization, and attend to the trans-
action of any business.
ORGANIC ACT. -
*SECTION TWO.
Charter a
This City Charter shall be a public act and need not be public act.
pleaded or proved in any case.
*SECTION THREE.
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effect.
not modified.
This act shall take effect and be in force from and after Act to take
its passage; but nothing herein contained shall be con-
strued as repealing or in anywise modifying any of the
provisions of chapter three hundred and thirty-eight (338) Tax levy act
of the Special Laws of eighteen hundred and seventy-
nine (1879) being "An Act to create a Board of Tax Levy
for the County of Hennepin, and define the powers and
duties thereof," approved March 8, 1879.
**Erroneously numbered "Seo. 16" and "Sec. 17," and inserted as part of chapter
11, in act approved March 8, 1881, Special Laws, chapter 76, section 1. See note at
end of chapter 11, of Charter, ante.
1
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MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
See General Laws for provisions restricting or extending powers of
Board of Health and general powers and duties of officers, and in effect
amending foregoing Charter.
See, also, Municipal Court and Board Acts for General Powers and Du-
ties of Officers therein named.
MINNEAPOLIS CITY CHARTER.
165
AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER
FROM 1881 TO 1887, INCLUSIVE.
The Note Numbers in the first column correspond with the small figures
used for references in the Charter as printed herein, ante. See
also "Summary of Legislative Acts Relative to the Cities
of Minneapolis and St. Anthony," supra.

Note
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Division of Charter.
Approved.
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AMENDMENTS.
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AMENDMENTS.
Note
No.
Division of Charter.
Approved.
Special
Laws. Chap. Sec.
小
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Index to City Charter, etc., at end of "Minneapolis City Ordinances."
PART II.
COURT ACTS.
I. MUNICIPAL COURT.
II. STENOGRAPHIC REPORTER.
III. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
An Act to Establish a Municipal Court in the City of
Minneapolis.
SECTION.
[Approved Feb. 13, 1874; as Amended to March 2, 1887, inclusive.]
1. Jurisdiction.-No Jurisdiction, when.
-Laws of General Nature.
2. Municipal Judge.
Term.-Vacancy.
Election and
3. Judicial Qualifications and Powers.
-Special Judge.
4. Clerk. Appointment, Bond and
Oath.
5. Civil and Criminal Powers. - Process
and Forms.
6. Court, When and Where Held.-May
Actin Summary Manner.-Record.
7. Duties and Powers of Clerk.-Bar
Association to Receive Certain
Penalties.- Reports. Suspended
Sentences.-Deputy Clerks.
8. Regular Terms.-Civil Actions.-
Summons and Service.-Items of
Account.-Police Officer, When to
Serve Process.-Pleadings. - Se-
curity for Costs.-Costs and Dis-
bursements.-Taxation of Costs.
9. Attachment.-Form of Writ.-Ser-
vice and Proceedings.
10. Replevin Proceedings.- Form of
Writ.
11. Notice of Trial.-Notes of Issue.-
Calendar.
12. Jury Trials. -Jurors, How Drawn.
-Penalty for Neglect.-Special
Venire. Compensation. — Jury
Fee.-Waiver of Jury.
C
SECTION.
18. Supreme Court Reports.-Removal
of Causes.-New Trials.-Forcible
Entries and Unlawful Detainers.-
Form of Writs.
J
14. Judgment Liens, when. Tran-
scripts.-Execution.
15. Garnishee Proceedings.-Summons
and Garnishee Summons.-Dis-
closure.
16. Clerk, a Conservator of the Peace.-
Criminal Proceedings.-Arraign-
ment and Plea.- Examinations.-
Bastardy.
17. Salaries of Judges and Clerks.-Fees
Collected.-Duties of Chief of Po-
lice and Policemen Witness
Fees.-Balances.
18. Mayor and Chief of Police to De-
tail Policemen.-Court Officers.
-Service of Process.-City to Re-
ceive all Fees.-Exception.
19. District Judge to Act as Municipal
Judge, when.-Transfer of Action,
When Title to Real Estate In-
volved.
20. City Attorney and County Attorney,
When to Prosecute.
21. Books, Blanks, Stationery, Furni-
ture, Light, Fuel, etc.
22. Justices of the Peace Superseded.-
[See note.]
23. Act to Take Effect, when.
The small figures used as reference marks herein, refer to table of amendments at
end of act.
lished.
1 SECTION I. 3 There shall be established in the City of Court estab-
Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin, a Municipal
Court for the transaction of all business which may law-
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of record.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
To be a court fully come before it. Said Court shall be a *Court of
Record, and shall have a Clerk and a seal, and shall have
jurisdiction to hear, try and determine civil actions at
law, where the amount in controversy does not exceed
Civil jurisdic- the sum of five hundred (500) dollars, excepting causes
involving title to real estate.
tion.
Criminal juris-
diotion.
3
It shall also have exclusive jurisdiction to hear all
complaints and conduct all examinations and trials in
criminal cases, arising or triable within the City of Min-
neapolis, heretofore cognizable before a Justice of the
Relative toJus- Peace, and also of fall civil actions and proceedings here-
tices of the
Peace
No equity jur-
isdiction.
Powers same
as district
court.
Laws of gen-
eral nature to
apply.
Municipal
judge, when
elected.
Term, etc.
Vacancies.
tofore cognizable before a Justice of the Peace, the de-
fendant or garnishee in which resides within the limits of
the City of Minneapolis.
3 It shall not have jurisdiction of actions for divorce,
nor of any action where the relief asked for in the com-
plaint is purely equitable in its nature.
"Where no provision is otherwise made in this act, said
Municipal Court is vested with all the powers which are
possessed by the District Courts of the State, and all laws
of a general nature apply to said Municipal Court, so far
as the same can be made applicable, and not inconsistent
with the provisions of this act, and the jurisdiction of said
Court shall be co-extensive with the limits of said Hen-
nepin county.
#SEC. 2. 5 The qualified electors of the city of Minne-
apolis shall, at the general city election, to be held on the
first (1st) Tuesday in April, in the year one thousand eight.
hundred and eighty-three (1883), and on the day of the
Igeneral city election every sixth (6th) year thereafter,
elect a suitable person with the qualifications hereinafter
mentioned, to the office of Judge of said Municipal Court,
to be called "Municipal Judge," who shall hold his office
for the term of six (6) years, and until his successor shall
be elected and qualified.
"In case of any vacancy in the office of Municipal
Judge, the Governor of the State of Minnesota shall
appoint some qualified person to said office until the next
fannual city election, when a Judges hall be elected for a
full term of six (6) years.
*See "An Act for the Appointment of a Short-Hand Reporter," etc., approved
Feb. 28. 1887, supra.
†See "An Act to Establish Justices of the Peace in the City of Minneapolis," ap-
proved March 3, 1887, supra, as to apparent exclusive jurisdiction.
‡Annual elections abolished. See Chapter 1 of City Charter, as to election of
officers.
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of judge.
SEC. 3. 10 The Judge of the Municipal Court shall Qualifications
be a resident of the city of Minneapolis, a person learned
in the law, and duly admitted to practice as an attorney
in the courts of this State. Before entering upon the
dnties of his office he shall take and subscribe an oath, as
prescribed in the general statutes for judicial officers; To take oath.
which oath shall be filed in the office of the City Clerk of
said city.
10 He shall have the general powers of the Judges of General pow
Courts of Record, and may administer oaths, take and cer- ers of judge.
tify acknowledgments in all cases, and as a Conservator of
the Peace, shall have all power and authority which is, or
may hereafter be vested in Justices of the Peace or any
other judicial officer.
1
and powers.
10 There shall be one Special Judge of said Municipal Special judge
Court, whose manner of election, term of office, powers,
duties and qualifications shall be the same as those of
Municipal Judge.
10 And his successors shall be elected and vacancies in Successors, etc.
his office filled in like manner.
>
11SEC. 4. There shall be a Clerk of said Municipal
Court, who shall be appointed by the Judge of said Court,
with the advice and consent of the City Council of the
city of Minneapolis, and the Judge shall have power to
remove said Clerk at pleasure, or he may be removed by a
two-thirds vote of the whole number of Aldermen elected
to the City Council.
Clerk, appoint-
ment and
removal.
Oath and bond
Such Clerk, before he enters upon the duties of his
office, shall take and subscribe an oath to support the of clerk.
constitution of the United States and of the State of Min-
nesota, and to faithfully and honestly discharge and per-
form the duties of his office, and shall execute to the city
of Minneapolis a penal bond, in such sum and with such
sureties as the City Council shall direct and approve, con-
ditioned that he will account to and pay over to the Treas-
urer of said city, on the first Monday of every month, all Conditions
fines, penalties, fees and other moneys belonging to or to of bond.
go to said city, which may have come into his hands
during the month next preceding, and that he will at all
times pay over to all other persons, on demand, all
moneys
to which they may be entitled, which may have come
into his hands in virtue or by reason of his office, and
that at the end of his term of office he will forthwith
pay
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MUNICIPAL COURT.
conditions.
Bond of clerk, over to the city of Minneapolis all moneys to which said
city shall then be entitled, and to his successor in office
all other moneys then remaining in his hands, and which
shall have come into his hands in virtue or by reason of
his office; ¹¹and that at the end of his term of office, he
will forthwith pay over to the city of Minneapolis, all
moneys to which said city shall then be entitled, and to
his successor in office all other moneys then remaining in
his hands, and which shall have come into his hands in
virtue or by reason of his office.
Filing.
Court powers.
Such oath and bond shall be filed in the office of the
City Clerk of said city.
SEC. 5.
The Municipal Court, shall have full power
and authority to issue all process, civil and criminal, nec-
essary or proper to carry into effect the jurisdiction given
to it by law, and its judgments and other determinations.
And it shall have and possess all the powers usually pos-
sessed by Courts of Record at common law, subject to
modifications of the statutes of this State applicable to
Courts of Record, except that it shall not have jurisdic-
No jurisdiction tion to issue writs of habeas corpus, quo warranto, ne ex-
eat, mandamus, prohibition or injunction.
Court of
record.
when.
Process tested,
how.
Forms of
process.
All process shall be tested in the name of the Judge,
and issued under the seal of the Court and signed by the
Clerk, who shall be styled "Clerk of the Municipal
Court."
And the forms of process may be prescribed by the
Court, by rule or otherwise, and any form so prescribed
shall be valid and sufficient, and such forms may be
changed by the Court from time to time. In the absence
When no form of such prescribed forms, the forms of process in use
either in Courts of Record in this State, or by Justices of
the Peace, may be changed and adapted to_the_style of
the Court and used at the discretion of the Court or
Clerk.
prescribed.
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Process, how
directed.
Court held,
where.
Process may be directed for service "To any Police
Officer of the City of Minneapolis, or to the Sheriff or
any Constable of said county.'
SEC. 6. The Municipal Court shall be held in the city
of Minneapolis at some suitable place to be provided
therefor by the City Council.
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judge.
Court open,
Its Judge shall be the Chief Magistrate of the city, and Duties of
shall see that the criminal laws of the State, and the or-
dinances, laws, regulations and by-laws of said city, are
observed and executed, and for that purpose shall open
his Court every morning (Sundays and legal holidays ex- when.
cepted) and proceed to hear and dispose of, in a sum-
mary manner, all cases which shall be brought before
him, by the police officers of the city or otherwise, either Summary
with or without process, for violations of the criminal
laws of this State, committed within the county of Hen-
nepin, or of the ordinances, laws, regulations or by-laws
of said city.
proceedings.
The Clerk of the Court shall keep a record of all pro- Records of pro-
ceedings and enter all orders, judgments and sentences ceedings, etc.
under the supervision of the Judge, and issue commit-
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ments and executions, as well as other process.
SEC. 7. 14The Clerk of the Municipal Court shall Duties of clerk.
have the custody and care of all the books, papers and
records of said Court; he shall be present at all trials, un-
less absent from sickness, or with the consent of the Absence.
Judge, and in case of his absence the Judge may appoint
some person temporarily in his place.
clerk.
15 The Clerk of said Municipal Court is hereby vested Powers of
with all the powers and authority now possessed by
Notaries Public and Clerks of the District Courts of this
State in taking acknowledgments and administering
oaths and affirmations and swearing witnesses.
records.
14 He shall keep minutes of all proceedings, and enter Minutes and
all judgments, and make up and keep the records of the
Court, under the direction of the Judge.
costs.
14 He shall tax all costs and disbursements allowed in Taxation of
any action, subject to review by the Judge, and do all other
things and acts necessary or proper to the enforcing and
carrying out of the jurisdiction of the Municipal Court.
Finances and
accounts.
14 He shall receive all fines, penalties and fees of every
kind accruing to the Court or any officer thereof, includ-
ing police officers, and including also witness fees in crim-
inal cases, and keep full, accurate and detailed accounts
of the same, and shall, on the first Monday of every Monthly
month deliver over to the City Treasurer of the city of reports.
Minneapolis all moneys so received, or proper vouchers
therefor, as herein provided, with detailed accounts
thereof, and take his receipt therefor.
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Forfeited bail,
etc.
Law library.
Judges to have
access to.
Monthly
reports of
commitments.
MUNICIPAL Court.
14 But all penalties collected for the forfeiture of any
bond, recognizance or bail given in said Court shall be
paid to the Minneapolis Bar Association, to be applied
to the support of the Law Library of said Association, and
the receipt of the Treasurer of said Association to said
Clerk shall be a sufficient voucher for such sums so paid.
14 Provided, That the said Minneapolis Bar Association
shall by proper action grant the free use of its library, and
the books therein, to any and all Judges of the Courts of
Record of the State of Minnesota.
14 The Clerk of said Municipal Court shall also make
detailed monthly reports of all persons who are committed
to the county jail of the county of Hennepin under sen-
tence of said Municipal Court, and of all who are com-
mitted in default of bail to await the action of the grand
jury, which reports as to all persons convicted of an
offense under the State laws, and as to all committed in
To anditor and default of bail, shall be made to the County Auditor of
comptroller.
Nature of
reports.
Prisoners
released, how.
On written
orders, only.
Hennepin county, and as to all persons convicted of an
offense under the ordinances of said city, shall be made
to the City Comptroller of said city, and shall in each
case be made on the first (1st) day of each month, or on
the second (2d) if the first (1st) day comes on Sunday
or on a legal holiday, and shall show the name of every
person committed during the previous month and since
the last report, the nature and cause of the commitment,
the length of time for which committed, the offense for
which committed, the date of commitment in each case,
and whether committed by virtue of a prosecution under
the State laws or under the ordinances of said city, and
shall also show the names of all persons discharged from
said jail since the last report by order of said Municipal
Court, the cause of such discharge and the date thereof.
14In all cases where the Judge of said Municipal Court
remits a fine or suspends a sentence after commitment to
the county jail, and in all cases where a person committed
to said jail secures his release by the payment of a fine in
default of which he was committed, the person imprisoned
shall not be released except upon the order of said Mu-
nicipal Court and the presentation to the Sheriff of said
county or to the Jailor a written transcript of said order,
authenticated by the Clerk of said Court under its seal,
which transcript, in the case of a payment of a fine, shall
not be issued or given until the actual payment to the
Clerk of said Municipal Court of the amount of the fine
so paid.
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of sheriff.
14 The Sheriff of said county shall be held strictly ac- Responsibility
countable for a breach of official duty if in any of the
cases above named a prisoner be released without the
presentation of the written evidence above required.
14 The Clerk of said Court may, when authorized so to Deputy clerks.
do by the City Council of the City of Minneapolis, if in
their discretion they deem the appointment necessary,
with the sanction of the Judge of said Court, appoint one
or more Deputy Clerks of said Municipal Court, for whose
acts the said Clerk of said Court shall be responsible, and
said Deputy or Deputies shall be appointed under the
hand of said Clerk and seal of said Court, with the sanc-
tion of said Judge, endorsed on the back of such appoint- How appointed
ment; and before any Deputy Clerk of said Court shall
enter upon the duties of his office he shall take and sub-
scribe the same oath prescribed and required to be taken
by the Clerk of said Court, and execute a bond, to be ap-
proved by said Clerk, which oath, together with the ap-
pointment of said Deputy Clerk and such bond, shall be
filed in the office of the City Clerk of said City of Minne-
apolis, and the Clerk of said Court or the Judge thereof
may at any time remove any deputy appointed under the
provisions of this act.
Oath and bond.
act as attorneys
14 The said Clerk of the Municipal Court and any Clerks not to
Deputy Clerk shall not act as an attorney in any case in
said Court.
deputy clerks.
14 The Deputy Clerks appointed under the provisions Powers of
of this act may administer oaths, take acknowledgments
and perform all the duties pertaining to the office of Clerk
of said Municipal Court.
terms.
SEO. 8. 19The Municipal Court shall hold regular Regular civil
terms for the trial of civil actions on the first (1st) and
third (3d) Tuesday of every month, 2° except during the
months of July and August, which terms shall continue.
from day to day with such adjournment as to the court
may seem proper, until the business of each term shall be Special terms.
finished; and the Court may, by rule or order, appoint
such terms to be held oftener or upon other days than
the days above mentioned.
Civil actions-
The service.
19 Civil actions'in said Court shall be commenced by summons and
the service of a summons as hereinafter provided.
summons must be subscribed by the plaintiff, or his attor-
ney, and directed to the defendant, requiring him to
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MUNICIPAL COURT.
served.
Answer, when answer the complaint and serve a copy of his answer on
the person whose name is subscribed to the summons, at
a place within the State therein specified, in which there
is a post office, within ten (10) days after the service of
the summons, exclusive of the day of service.
Items of
account not
pleaded.
Copy of
account.
Bill of
particulars.
Proceedings
same as in
district court.
Exception.
Police Officer
not to serve
2ºIt shall not be necessary for a party to set forth in a
pleading in any civil action in said Court the items of an
account therein alleged; but he shall deliver to the
adverse party within five (5) days after a demand there-
for in writing, a copy of the account verified by his own
oath, or that of his agent or attorney if within the
personal knowledge of said agent or attorney, to the
effect that he believes it to be true, or he be precluded
from giving evidence thereof. The Court or Judge
thereof may order a further or more particular bill.
19 The notice to be contained in the summons, the man-
ner of service of summons, pleadings, notices and appear-
ances, shall be the same as that required by law in the
District Courts of the State, and the provisions of title
one (1), two (2), three (3), five (5), six (6), seven (7),
eight (8), nine (9), ten (10), thirteen (13), fourteen (14),
fifteen (15), sixteen (16), seventeen (17), eighteen (18),
nineteen (19), twenty (20), twenty-one (21), twenty-two
(22), and twenty-three (23) of chapter sixty-six (66),
general statutes of one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight (1878), so far as the same may be applic-
able, except that the time for demurrer and reply shall
be ten (10) days, and except as the same may be modified,
changed or altered by this act, shall apply to said Muni-
cipal Court.
19 No Police Officer of said city shall serve or attempt
process, when, to serve any summons, process or paper in any civil action
in said Court, unless the complaint in such action shall
have been previously filed with the Clerk of said Court,
and in any case wherein such complaint is so filed, the
said Clerk shall, when requested so to do, note, or indorse
the fact of such filing upon the back of said summons or
process.
Service and
return.
19 And whenever any such summons, process or paper
in any civil action shall have been delivered to any Police
Officer for service, he shall, as soon as practicable there-
after, make proper return to said Clerk, whether said
summons, process or paper shall have been served or not,
and if not served the reason therefor.
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district courts.
19 The pleadings in civil actions in said Court shall be Pleadings as in
the same as in the District Courts of the State, subject to
such modifications as the Court may by rule prescribe.
opened, how.
19 And the Court may, for good cause, in its discretion, Default
and on such terms as it may deem equitable, open any
default at the same term at which it occurred, or within
the term next following thereafter, or allow any amend-
ment of any pleading at any time, and shall disregard ices, etc.
variances between the allegations of a pleading and the
evidence, unless satisfied that the adverse party is preju-
diced thereby.
Amendments,
19 Said Court shall also have authority to provide by Security for
rule, that the plaintiff in any civil action shall by bond, costs.
recognizance, or deposit of money with the Clerk, give
security for costs in such sum as the Court may designate
by such rule, before any summons or other process shall
issue in the action.
19 Costs are allowed the prevailing party in actions Allowance of
commenced in said Municipal Court, as follows:
costs.
19 To the plaintiff, upon a judgment in his favor 20 when the action To plaintiff.
is brought to recover compensation for manual labor or services,
five (5) dollars.
19 In all other cases, to the plaintiff upon a judgment in his favor, upon To plaintiff.
a trial upon the merits, when the amount thereof, or value of personal
property recovered, exclusive of costs and disbursements, exceeds
fifty dollars ($50) and is less than one hundred dollars ($100), five dol-
lars ($5).
19 To the defendant, when judgment is rendered in his favor on the
merits, after trial of an issue of fact, when the amount claimed in the
complaint, or value of personal property in replevin, is less than one
hundred dollars ($100), five dollars ($5).
To defendant.
19 To the plaintiff, upon a judgment in his favor of one hundred To plaintiff.
dollars ($100) or more, or in actions of replevin, when the value of the
property is one hundred dollars ($100) or more, when no issue of fact
or law is joined, five dollars ($5); when an issue is joined, ten dollars
(10).
19 To the defendant, when the amount claimed in the complaint is To defendant.
one hundred dollars ($100) or more, upon discontinuance or dismissal,
five dollars ($5); when judgment is rendered in his favor on the merits,
ten dollars ($10).
costs.
19 Costs and disbursements shall be taxed and allowed Taxations of
in the first (1st) instance by the Clerk upon two (2) days'
notice by either party, and inserted in the entry of [the]
judgment.
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Disbursements
Objections and
appeals.
Attachment.
Bond and
limit.
Writ.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
19 The disbursements shall be stated in detail, and ver-
ified by affidavit, which shall be filed.
The party objecting to any item shall specify in writing
the ground of objection; and the same, in case of appeal,
shall be certified to the Court by the Clerk, and the appeal
shall be heard and determined upon the objections so
certified, and none other.
††SEC. 9. 2¹Any creditor desiring to proceed by attach-
ment in said Court, may, at the time of commencing the
action, or thereafter, and while said action is still pending,
by himself, his agent or attorney, make and file with the
Clerk an affidavit similar to the affidavit required by law
in an application for a writ of attachment in 22the District
Courts of the State, or in Justices' Courts; and also cause
to be filed a bond with sufficient surety to be approved by
the Judge, and similar to the bond required on a like
application in 22 the District Courts of the State, or in
Justices' Courts, except that the limit of liability thereon
shall be mentioned therein as "not exceeding the sum of
two hundred and fifty dollars."
21 The writ of attachment may be in form as follows:
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS,
MUNICIPAL COURT.
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN.
SS.
Form of writ. The State of Minnesota, to any Police Officer of the city of Minneap-
olis, or to the Sheriff or any Constable of said county:
Other forms.
Service and
proceedings.
You are hereby commanded to attach the goods, chattels, moneys,
effects and credits of...
.or so much thereof as
•
•
shall be sufficient to satisfy the sum of.
with interest
and costs of suit, in whosesoever hands or possession the same may be
found in said County of Hennepin, and so provide that the same may
be subject to further proceedings as the law requires, and make due
return of this writ.
Witness the Honorable..
day of………..
[L. S.]
Municipal Judge, this.......
...A. D. 188...
Clerk of the Municipal Court.
21 Or the writ may be in any other form that the Court
may by rule prescribe.
2¹In all other respects the service of the writ and other
proceedings thereon shall be similar as near as may be
to the service of such writ and proceedings in the Dis-
trict Courts of the State or in Justice's Courts.
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MUNICIPAL COURT.
SEC. 10. 24When the object of an action is to recover Replevin.
the possession of personal property, the plaintiff, his
agent or attorney, shall make and file his complaint, in
writing, together with an affidavit, similar to the affidavit
required in the District Courts of the State, or in a Jus-
tice's Court in a like action.
24The plaintiff, or some person in his behalf, shall exe- Bond and
cute a bond, with sureties, to be approved by the Judge, conditions.
conditioned similar to bonds in such actions in the Dis-
trict Courts of the State, or in Justices' Courts, and file
such bond.
bond.
24 And an action may be maintained on such bond as Action on
upon similar bonds filed in like action in the District
Courts of the State, or in the Justices' Courts.
24 The Clerk shall thereupon issue the writ, which may
be in form as follows:
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN.
88
Writ.
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS, Form of writ.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
The State of Minnesota, to any Police Officer of the city of Minneapo-
lis, or to the Sheriff or any Constable of said county:
Whereas
.complains that
become possessed of and [any] unjustly detains from...
the said
has
.the following described goods and chat-
els, that is to say:....
Therefore you are hereby commanded that you cause the same
goods and chattels to be replevined without delay, or in case the de-
fendant or some one in his behalf does not file a bond in this Court
for the delivery of such property, as provided by law, approved by
said Court within three (3) days from said taking, then deliver to said
Witness the Honorable...
day of... ....A. D. 188...
[L. S.]
Municipal Judge, this……….
Clerk of the Municipal Court.
SEC. II. 26 Notices of trials shall be served as in the Notice of trial,
District Courts of the State, at least three (3) days etc.
before the term, and notes of issue, as required in the
District Courts of the State, shall be filed with the Clerk
at least one (1) day before the term, subject to such
modifications as the Court may by rule prescribe.
26 The Clerk of the Court shall, prior to each term of Calendar.
the Court, make up a calendar of causes which will come
up for trial, or for any disposition before the Court at such
term, adopting such arrangement as the Judge may direct;
and the Court shall direct the order of the trial, and other
disposition of causes.
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Jury trials.
Jurors, how
selected.
month.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
SEC. 12. 80Trial by jury in the Municipal Court shall
in all respects be conducted as in the District Courts
of said State, and all laws of a general nature applicable
to jury trials in said District Courts shall apply to said
Municipal Court.
80 Jurors for said Municipal Court shall be provided
and drawn, however, in the following manner, to-wit:
The Mayor or President of the City Council of the city
of Minneapolis, the City Clerk and presiding Judge of
said Municipal Court, shall, on the second (2) Monday of
February, May, August and November in each year, at
the office of the City Clerk of said city, meet, and from
the legal voters of said city select and designate, sixty-
four (64) legal voters of said city, as the jurors of said
To serve three Municipal Court, to serve therein when required and
drawn, during the succeeding three (3) months, and
until their successors are elected and certified; and shall
thereupon certify said names so elected to the Clerk of
said Municipal Court, who shall thereupon write said
names upon separate ballots, and place the same in a
wheel or box; and whenever a jury is required in said
Court, shall thereupon, by lot, draw twenty (20) ballots,
the persons named upon which shall, if practicable, be
summoned to attend the trial of the cause wherein they
were drawn; and the first (1st) twelve (12) so summoned
and attending shall constitute the jury, unless some of
said jurors shall be challenged or excused, in which case
the Clerk shall consecutively call the remaining jurors so
summoned and attending, until the panel so drawn shall
be exhausted.
Drawing of
jury.
Challenges,etc.
Absent jurors.
Penalty.
Three series of
jurors.
Special venire.
3º If any person duly drawn and summoned to attend
as a juror in said Court, neglects to so attend, without
sufficient excuse, he shall pay a fine not exceeding thirty
(30) dollars, which shall be imposed by the Court, and
imprisonment until such fine is paid, not exceeding thirty
(30) days. No talesman shall be summoned, or sit in any
cause in said Court.
30 And the first (Ist) and second (2d) series of twenty
(20) ballots, each so drawn, shall not be returned to said
box or wheel until the third (3d) series shall have been
drawn from said box.
80
'And, whenever deemed necessary, said Court shall
have power to issue a special venire.
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3º The persons selected to serve as aforesaid, shall not
81be obliged to serve upon any other jury during the year
in which they may have been selected.
Jurors not to
serve again
same year.
81 Jurors so summoned and attending as aforesaid in Compensation
said Municipal Court, in the trial of any action, shall be of jurors.
entitled to like compensation as jurors in the District
Court of Hennepin county, and shall be paid out of the
county treasury of said county of Hennepin.
80 The Clerk of said Municipal Court shall deliver to Jurors'
each juror a certificate for the number of days' attendance certificates.
and service, and miles traveled for which he is entitled to
receive compensation.
30 This certificate of the Clerk for service rendered as Auditor's
such juror in the Municipal Court shall be filed with the warrants.
County Auditor, who shall issue his warrant on the Treas-
urer of the county for the amount due, which certificate
shall be a proper and sufficient voucher for the issuance
of such warrant.
3º And the party demanding a jury in any civil action Jury fee.
shall be required to advance and pay to the Clerk of said
Court, on the day when such action is set for trial, a jury
fee of three (3) dollars, and unless such jury is de-
manded, upon the calling of the calendar on the first Waiver of jury.
(1st) day of the term at which the same is set for trial, it
shall be considered to be, and the same shall be waived
and said action be tried by the Court.
81 Any juror who has been regular summoned to attend Jurors
be paid.
in said Court and who shall actually attend said Court summoned to
at the time named in such summons shall be entitled to
his per diem and mileage whether he shall actually have
been sworn as a juror or not.
SEC. 13. Section four (4) of chapter twenty-seven Supreme
(27) of the general statutes, relative to Reporter of the court reports.
Supreme Court and the distribution of the Supreme Court
Reports, shall apply to the Judge of said Municipal Court.
3
causes.
³ ³ And all causes may be removed from the said Mu- Removal of
nicipal Court to the Supreme Court of the State of Min-
nesota, in the same manner and upon like proceedings,
and with like effect, as from District Court.
Motion for new
84 Provided, however, That when a motion for a new
trial is made upon the minutes of the Judge or upon the trial.
minutes of the Stenographic Reporter where there is such
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Motion for new
trial.
Forcible
entries and
unlawful
detainers.
General
statutes to
apply.
For r of
summons.
No lien on real
estate, when.
Executions.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
a reporter, it may be heard at the term of Court next
succeeding the term at which the trial is had, or the ver-
dict or decision rendered.
88 And said Municipal Court shall have jurisdiction of
actions of forcible entries and unlawful detainers and
may fix return days for such actions on other than the
regular return days of said Court, and chapter eighty-
four (84) of the general statutes, relative to forcible en-
tries and unlawful detainers, shall apply to said Munici-
pal Court, and the summons issued by the Clerk in such
actions may be in form as follows:
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN.
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SS
MUNICIPAL Court,
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS.
The State of Minnesota, to any Police Officer of the city of Minne-
apolis; to the Sheriff or any Constable of the county aforesaid:
Whereas,
of .....
.hath
filed in the office of the Clerk of the above named Court a complaint
against...
.of the county of Hennepin, and State
aforesaid, for that the said
..now does at
•
in said Hennepin county, wrongfully and unlawfully detain
from the said..
complainant, the possession of the
following described premises, lying and being..
the county of Hennepin aforesaid, viz.:.
Wherefore
ment against the said
in
complainant asks that he have judg-
for the restitution of
the premises hereinbefore described, according to law, and for the
costs and disbursements of this action.
Therefore, you are hereby commanded to summon the said
.noon, then and there to make
if to be fouud in said county, to appear before said
Court, at the Municipal Court room, in the city of Minneapolis, in
said county of Hennepin, on........day the... .day of....
A. D. 18 ...at
at.. o'clock in the.
answer to and defend against the...
complainant afore-
said, and further to be dealt with according to law, and make due re-
turn to said Court of the summons with your doing thereon.
Witness, the Honorable
at the city of Minneapolis, this........day of
year one thousand eight hundred and eighty.
[L. 8.]
•
•
.Municipal Judge,
in the
Clerk of the Municipal Court.
SEC. 14. No judgment rendered in said Municipal
Court shall attach as a lien upon real estate until trans-
cript thereof shall be filed in the District Court, as here-
inafter provided.
But writs of execution thereon, in civil actions, may
issue against the goods and chattels of the judgment
debtor, returnable within thirty days, as in Justices'
Courts.
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MUNICIPAL COURT.
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judgment.
Every person in whose favor a judgment is rendered in Transcripts of
said Municipal Court, for an amount exceeding ten dol-
lars besides costs, may, upon paying the fee therefor and
all unpaid fees payable to the Clerk in such action,
demand and shall receive from such Clerk, a transcript of
such judgment duly certified, and may file the same in
the office of the Clerk of the District Court of Hennepin To be filed in
County, who shall file and docket the same, as in case of
transcripts of judgments from Courts of Justices of the
Peace.
And every such judgment shall become a lien on the
real estate of the debtor, from the filing of such transcript,
to the same extent as a judgment of the said District
Court, and shall thereafter be exclusively under the con-
trol of said District Court, and carried into execution by
its process, as if rendered in said District Court.
district court.
Judgment,
when lien on
real estate.
when.
The Clerk of said Municipal Court shall not issue such Transcript
transcript while a writ of execution is outstanding in the. not to issue,
hands of an officer or otherwise; and shall note on the
record of such judgment the fact that such transcript has
been given, and shall not thereafter issue any writ of exe- No execution,
cution on the same judgment, but may at any time give when.
to the same party or his representatives a new transcript
of such judgment, in case of the loss of the transcript
first given.
SEC. 15. 86 Proceedings against garnishees may be Garnishment.
instituted in the same manner as in the District Courts
of the State, or in Justices' Courts, but the summons may
be served either by an officer or any indifferent person,
at any place within the State of Minnesota, and the ser-
vice shall in all cases be personal.
36 The summons shall require the garnishee to appear Garni hee
before the said Court, or the Judge thereof, at a time and summons.
place mentioned therein, not less than ten (10) days from
the service thereof, and answer touching his indebtedness
to the defendant and any property, money or effects of
the defendant in his possession, or under his control.
86 And the summons may be made returnable at any Return and
term of said Municipal Court which may be named notice.
therein, and the notice required to be served on the
defendant in the action may be signed either by the
Clerk of said Court or the person who served the gar-
nishee summons, or by the plaintiff or his attorney, and
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Service of
notice.
Disclosure of
garnishee.
Complaints in
criminal cases.
Clerk may
MUNICIPAL Court.
shall be served on the defendant at least three (3) days
before the time specified in the same for the appearance
of the garnishee.
36 The disclosure of the garnishee may be taken and
all further proceedings had in the same manner as if the
proceedings were in the District Court.
·
SEC. 16. 88 Complaints in criminal cases may be
made to the Clerk when the Court is in session, or to the
Judge or Clerk when not in session; and shall be made in
writing or reduced to writing by the Judge or Clerk, and
sworn to by the complainant, whether the offense charged
be a violation of the criminal laws of the State, or of the
ordinances, regulations or by-laws of said city.
38 And the Clerk, as well as the Judge, is hereby made-
issue warrants. a Conservator of the Peace, and vested with the same
authority, discretion and power to act in receiving com-
plaints and issuing the warrants of said Court in criminal.
Form of com-
plaints, war-
rants, etc.
No formal
complaint,
when.
Plea, and
etc.
cases.
38 And complaints, warrants and other process in crim-
inal cases may follow substantially the same forms here-
tofore in use by Justices of the Peace, with such altera-
tions as may seem convenient to adapt the same to the
style of said Municipal Court; or may be in such other
form the Court may prescribe, sanction or approve.
88 In cases where alleged offenders shall be in custody,
and brought before the Court, or the Clerk, without a
process, the Clerk shall enter upon the records of the
Court a brief statement of the offense with which the
defendant is charged, which shall stand in place of a
complaint, unless the Court shall direct a formal com-
plaint to be made.
38 The plea of the defendant shall be "guilty" or "not
failure to plead guilty." In case of a failure to plead, the Clerk shall
enter a plea of "not guilty," and a former acquittal or
conviction for the same offense may be proved under
that plea as well as if formally pleaded.
Examinations.
88 In the examination of offenders charged with indict-
able offenses, the Clerk shall keep such *minutes of the
examination as the Court may direct, and shall make the
proper return to the Court before which the party charged
with the offense may be bound to appear.
*See Act relative to Stenographic Reporter, supra.
MINNEAPOLIS COURT ACTS.
219
MUNICIPAL COURT.
38 In cases where the offense charged is bastardy, pro- Bastardy.
ceedings shall be as near as may be substantially as pro-
vided in chapter seventeen (17) general statutes of one
thousand eight hundred and seventy-four (1874).
Salaries of
Clerk.
Judges and
SEC. 17. 41 The Judge and Special Judge of said
Court shall each receive a salary of twenty-five hundred
(2500) dollars per year, and the Clerk of said Court a sal-
ary of eighteen hundred (1800) dollars per year; and to
the Deputy Clerks who may be appointed to assist the
Clerk in the discharge of the duties of his office, as fol- Deputy Clerk.
lows: to the first Deputy the sum of twelve hundred
(1200) dollars per year, and to the second Deputy the
sum of eight hundred (800) dollars per year, payable
from the city treasury of said city of Minneapolis in quar-
terly installments; and neither the said Judge nor Clerk No other
shall receive any other fee or compensation for his ser- compensation.
vices.
collect fees.
40 But in all proceedings had in said Municipal Court Clerk to
like fees shall be charged and collected by the Clerk, as
costs, as are allowed by law to the Clerk of the District
Court of Hennepin County, or to Justices of the Peace, in
proceedings upon trial before them for similar services.
40*It shall be the duty of the Chief of Police of said city Police to serve
of Minneapolis to serve or cause to be served, forthwith, process.
and it shall be the duty of the Police Officers of said city
to serve all processes issued by said Court, except as
otherwise provided in this act.
fees, etc.
40*Police Officers in making service of any process, or Police to note
doing other duty in respect to causes in said Court, shall
note and return to the Court for collection, such fees for
such services as are allowed to Constables for the like
services in Justices' Courts.
for, how.
4º And all fees so charged by the Clerk or by any Police Fees accounted
Officer, shall be collected by the Clerk as costs, and by
him be accounted for and paid over to the City Treasurer
of said city, as hereinbefore provided.
40 The Clerk shall pay witnesses in criminal actions the
fees to which they may be entitled, when no other provis-
ion shall be made by law for such payment, taking receipts
therefor in such form as the Court may direct; which re-
ceipts shall be sufficient vouchers for payment of the
the sums therein named, which said sums shall be noted
*See chapter 6, City Charter as to Duties of Police,
Witness fees in
actions.
criminal
220
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Receipts for
witness fees.
Unpaid
witness fees.
Balances for
deposits of
costs.
MUNICIPAL COURT.
upon the monthly reports of said Clerk, and deducted
from the amount therein otherwise shown to be due the
city.
4º And all witness fees collected by the Clerk and not
paid to witnesses, as aforesaid, shall be paid over to the
city the same as other fees accruing to the city.
4º And all balances of deposits for costs remaining in
the hands of said Clerk for one (1) month after the ter-
mination of any action, or for a like period after an aban-
donment of or failure to prosecute the same, and all
other deposits of money arising from bail, bonds, recogni-
Other balances, zances, and payments of penalties thereon or otherwise,
shall be paid over to the city on the first (1st) Monday of
the month following.
Fees subse-
quently
claimed, how
paid.
No fees, when.
Police detail.
Gratuities, etc.,
to be paid to
city.
Penalty for
failure.
40 Provided, That in the event that the party or parties
who may be entitled to receive said balances of deposits,
or other moneys, or any portion thereof, may demand
the same of said Clerk at any time thereafter, and, upon
giving a receipt therefor to the Clerk, he shall pay over
the same, and said receipt shall be a sufficient voucher
for the same in like manner as provided herein in the case
of receipts for witness fees.
40 No fees shall be charged against either the city,
county or State.
42*SEC. 18. It shall be the duty of the Mayor and
Chief of Police of said city to see that a sufficient number
of Police Officers are always in attendance upon said
Court, and in readiness to obey its mandates and serve
its process, and preserve order in its proceedings.
*Police Officers of said city shall hereafter receive for
their services no other compensation than the salary paid
them by said city; and if any fee, gratuity or reward shall
be paid to any Police Officer, for any service, he shall
forthwith pay the same over to the Clerk of said Munici-
pal Court, for the use of said city; and the failure to do
so be a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not exceeding
one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment not exceeding
thirty days.
*See Chapter 6 of City Charter as to Control of Police, etc.
MINNEAPOLIS COURT ACTS.
221
MUNICIPAL COURT.
reported, when..
42 And it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police or Failures to be
Clerk of the Municipal Court, or any other official of said
city who may have knowledge of such failure so to pay
over said fees, to forthwith cause complaint to be made
against such Police Officer.
Officers not to
pay over fees,
when.
attorney to
42 Provided, That this section shall not be so construed
as to require any officer or officers so to pay over such
fees in cases in which said officers, being regularly or
specially appointed, designated or detailed for detective
duty, and being in pursuit of any person or persons
charged with any crime or misdemeanor, shall, under the City or county
advice or with the consent of the County Attorney of the authorize
county of Hennepin, or of the City Attorney of the city criminals.
of Minneapolis, pursue said alleged offender or offenders
beyond the limits of said city of Minneapolis, in which
event said officer or officers shall be entitled to receive
for his or their own use and benefit all fees for such pur- verward
suit and all rewards offered for the apprehension of such when.
offenders.
4
8
pursuit of
Officers to
SEC. 19. 44In the case of sickness or absence of the District judge
Judge of the Municipal Court, and of the Special Judge, may act, when.
either of the Judges of the District Court for the county
of Hennepin may and hereby is authorized and empow-
ered to hold said Municipal Court, and perform all the
duties and exercise all the functions of Municipal Judge,
and either of said Judges of said District Court may, upon
request of the Municipal Judge, act as the Judge of said
Municipal Court, in the trial of any particular case pend-
ing therein.
44It case it shall appear from the pleadings, or upon
the trial of any cause, that the title to real estate is in-
volved in the action, the Municipal Court shall not pro-
ceed further therein, but shall transfer the action to the
District Court of said county, and the cause shall be pro-
ceeded with in the Court to which it shall be transferred
as if originally commenced therein.
45*SEC. 20.
45 The City Attorney of the city of Min-
neapolis shall have charge of the prosecution of all crim-
inal proceedings before said Municipal Court except the
trial of persons charged with having committed, within
*This section is numbered section 128 in chapter 55, section 1, Special Laws of
1888, the corresponding section (128) in General Statutes of 1878 being amended at
the same time and in the same act.
Proceedings
real estate
when title to
involved.
City attorney
when.
to prosecute,
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County
attorney
to prosecute,
who.
Blanks, furni.
etc.
MUNICIPAL Court.
*the county of Hennepin but without the city of Minne-
apolis, offenses against the criminal laws of the State,
and except the preliminary examination of all persons
charged with offenses against the criminal laws of the
State, which cases the County Attorney of the county of
Hennepin shall have charge of and prosecute.
SEC. 21. The Clerk of the Municipal Court shall,
ture, supplies, under the direction of the Judge, and with consent of the
City Council of said city (unless otherwise provided),
from time to time procure and furnish all necessary
blanks, stationery, record books, court room, jury room,
and office furniture, lights and fuel, for the use of the
Court and the officers thereof, at the expense of the said city.
Proceedings
before former
Justices of
Peace.
Dockets and
records to be
transferred.
Former Justi-
ces of Peace
not to issue
process .
46+SEC. 22. 46 Upon the election and qualification of
the Municipal Judge, all causes and proceedings then
pending before Justices of the Peace within said city shall
forthwith, by said Justices, be transferred to said Munici-
pal Court, with all papers and records concerning the
same, and said Municipal Court shall take cognizance of
such causes and proceedings, and proceed therein, as if
the same were originally commenced in said Municipal
Court.
46 And the dockets, records, files and papers in the
custody of any and all Justices of the Peace of said city
shall at once be transferred and turned over to said Mu-
nicipal Court, which shall have full jurisdiction to finish
and complete all proceedings pending before any Justice
of the Peace, and to enforce, by execution or otherwise,
all judgments theretofore rendered by Justices of the
Peace within the present city of Minneapolis, and such
judgments shall stand on the same footing as judgments
of said Municipal Court.
46†And after the election and qualification of said Mu-
nicipal Judge, no Justice of the Peace within the city
of Minneapolis, shall issue any process, nor take cogniz-
ance of any action or proceedings, civil or criminal,
but the jurisdiction of said Municipal Court, shall, within
said city, be † exclusive in all cases heretofore cognizable
*See note on preceding page.
†See "An Act to Establish Justices of the Peace in the City of Minneapolis," ap-
proved March 3, 1887, supra. Justices of the Peace now have limited jurisdiction.
MINNEAPOLIS COURT ACTS.
223
MUNICIPAL COURT.
District court
before Justices of the Peace, except that this act shall Jurisdiction of
not affect the jurisdiction of any Court of Record having not affected.
general jurisdiction, such as is conferred upon the Dis-
trict Court.
Jurisdiction of
Justices of the
46*And no Justice of the Peace shall have jurisdiction to
issue any summons or process in any civil action, except- Peace.
ing executions, to be served within said city of Minne-
apolis, and any service of any such summons or process
from a Justice of the Peace made within said city shall
be void.
effect,
SEC. 23. This act shall take effect and be in force Act to take
from and after its passaget.
*See note on preceding page relative to Justices of the Peace.
+Sections 24 and 25 [added Feb. 27, 1875-see chapter 5, section 1, Special Laws]
relative to filing bond where personal service is not had in certain cases, and bond
where default is opened, repealed by act of February
1887.
*COURT REPORTER.
SECTION.
1. Stenographic Reporter to be Ap-
pointed by the Judges.- Bar May
Recommend Appointment.
2. Duties of Reporter.-Record of Pro-
ceedings.-Transcripts, When and
How Made.
SECTION.
8. Salary of Reporter.-Fees for Tran-
scripts. Force and Effect of
Transcript.
4. Reporter under Direction of Court.
-Discharge, Vacancy, etc.
5. Aot to Take Effect.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota.
Bar may
SECTION 1. The Judges of the Municipal Court of the Judges to
City of Minneapolis are hereby authorized, and it shall appoint.
be their duty, upon the recommendation of the Bar of
said city to appoint a Stenographic Reporter, to make in recommend.
short-hand writing a true record or report of all proceed-
ings and evidence taken upon the trial of all cases tried
in said Municipal Court, when required by the Judges of
said Court.
*"An Act to Provide for the Appointment of a Short-Hand Reporter for the
Municipal Court for the City of Minneapolis, County of Hennepin, Minnesota."
Approved February 28, 1887; see Special Laws.
224
MINNEAPOLIS COURT ACTS.
Duties of Re
porter.
Transcripts.
Salary.
Fees for tran-
script.
Transcripts
for county
attorney.
Force and
script.
COURT REPORTER.
SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of said Stenographic Re-
porter, and he shall take an oath to that effect before
entering upon his duties, to keep in short-hand writing, a
true, full and accurate record of all the proceedings had
and evidence given upon the trials of issues of fact in said
Court, when required so to do by the Judges of said Court;
and shall make a true and full transcript of his record or
report in each case, into the words represented by the
signs or characters which he shall use in his short-hand
writing, when required by either of the parties to an action.
SEC. 3. The salary of such Stenographic Reporter
shall be twelve hundred (1,200) dollars per annum, paya-
ble from the city treasury of the city of Minneapolis, in
monthly installments.
And further, That when such Reporter shall be required
by either of the parties to an action to transcribe his
record into long-hand writing, the fees for such transcrip-
tion shall be ten (10) cents per folio of one hundred
words, to be paid by the party requiring the same, and
shall belong to such Stenographer.
Provided, further, That said Reporter, when required to
do so by the County Attorney of Hennepin County, shall
furnish a transcription of all the evidence taken upon any
criminal examination or trial in said Court had, free of
charge, without compensation, except as provided for in
his salary.
And when the record or report of a trial shall have been
effect of tran- so transcribed and approved by the Judge or Judges be-
fore whom such trial was had, it shall have such force and
effect as a record of the Court, and as a case, or a bill of
exceptions, as the Court may, by general rule or order,
prescribe.
Court may d's-
vacancy.
SEC. 4. And such Reporter. in the performance of his
charge and fill duties, shall be subject to the orders and directions of said
Court; and the Judges may at any time discharge said Re-
porter and employ and appoint another to fill such va-
cancy thereby occasioned.
Act to take
effect.
SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
ļ
MINNEAPOLIS COURT ACTS.
225
*CITY JUSTICES.
SECTION.
SECTION
1. Number, Terms and District.
4.
Appeal to be to District Court.
2. Manner of Election - Justice to Re-
side in District.
5.
Inconsistent Acts Repealed.
3. Jur sdi tion.
6. Act to Take Effect.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota.
SEC. I.
There shall be elected at the next municipal Three Justices.
election, to be held in the City of Minneapolis, three (3)
Justices of the Peace.
Said Justices of the Peace shall hold their offices for Terms.
two (2) years from and after their election, or until their
successors are elected.
Justices.
They shall be elected from the following parts of the Districts of
city, to-wit:
One from that portion of the city lying north of First
Avenue South and west of the Mississippi River;
One from that part of the city lying south of First
Avenue South and west of the Mississippi River;
And one from that part of the city lying east of the
Mississippi River.
How elected.
SEC. 2.
Said Justices of the Peace shall be elected at
said election by the voters of the said parts of the city as
specified in section one (1) of this act; and no voter shall Voting qualifi-
vote for any Justice outside of that part of the city in
which both Justice and voter reside.
cations.
district.
Said Justices must be residents of the districts from Mast eside in
which they are elected.
SEC. 3. The said Justices, and each of them shall have Jurisdiction.
jurisdiction of all civil suits involving one hundred dollars
($100) or less, and their jurisdiction and practice shall be
the same as all Justices of the Peace in the State of Min-
nesota, being regulated by the General Laws, revision of
one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight (1878).
Provided, That their jurisdiction shall not extend to any
person outside of the city limits of the City of Minne-
apolis.
**An Act to Establish City Justices of the Peace in the City of Minneapolis."
Approved March 3, 1887; see Special Laws.
Limitation.
226
MINNEAPOLIS COURT ACTS.
Appeals.
Inconsistent
acts repealed.
Act to take
effect.
CITY JUSTICES.
SEC. 4. Appeals shall be made to the District Court as
in other cases..
SEC. 5. All acts or parts of acts conflicting with the
above are hereby repealed.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
AMENDMENTS TO COURT ACT
FROM 1877 TO 1887, INCLUSIVE.
The Note Numbers in first column correspond with the small figures
used for references in the Act as printed herein, ante. See -
also "Summary of Legislative Acts Relative to
the City of Minneapolis,” etc., supra.
Note
No.
Division of Act.
1 Section 1
2
3
-11
to read..
4 Section 2 to read
•
5
to read..
Approved. Year.
Chap.
Sec.
March 8
March 2
1878
1883
48
Feb. 24
1885
March 2
1883
48
1000000
65
74
Feb. 24
1885
74
6 Section 3
7
to read..
Feb. 26
1877
178
March 8
1878
65
8
to read.
' March 8
1879
138
9
10
to read..
March 2
1883
48
112231213
•
to read...
11 Section 4
Feb. 24
1885
74
4
March 2
1883
48
12 Section 7
Feb. 27
1875
4
1
13
Feb. 26
1883
49
1
14
to read.
Feb. 24
1885
74
15
to read..
March 2
1887
21
16 Section 8
to read..
Feb. 27
1875
4
17
to read...
March 8
1878
65
1223
5
18
to read..
March 2
1883
48
6
•
19
to read.
Feb. 24
1885
74
•
20
to read.
March 2
1887
21
21 Section 9
to read.
March 8
1878
65
4
·
•
22
March 2
1883
48
23 Section 10
24
March 2
1883
48
8
to read.
Feb. 24
1885
74
4
•
25 Section 11
to read.
March 2
1883
48
9
• •
26
to read.
Feb. 24
1885
74
8
•
•
• •
1
MINNEAPOLIS COURT ACTS.
227
1
AMENDMENTS.

Note
No.
Division of Act.
Approved.
Year.
Chap.
Sec.
27 Section 12
to read..
Feb. 26
1877 178
2
• •
• •
28
29
30
31
32 Section 13
33
34
35 Section 15
36
to read.
to read...
to read.
to read..
to read..
to read.
··
to read..
•
•
March 8
1878
65
5
March 2
1883
48
10
>
Feb. 24
1885
74
9
March 2
1887
21
4
Feb. 27
1875
4
3
Feb. 24
1885
74
10
March 2
1887
21
5
March 2
1883
48
11
· •
to read..
Feb. 24
1885
74
11
37 Section 16
March 2
1883
48
12
38
to read..
Feb. 24
1885
74 12
39 Section 17
to read.
March 2
1883
48
13'
40
to read.
Feb. 24
1885
74
13
41
to read...
March 2
1887
21
6
42 Section 18
March 2
1883
48
14
43 Section 19
44
45 Section 20
46 Section 22
47 Section 24
48
49 Section 25
50
to read..
to read.
to read..
added.
repealed.
added.
•
repealed……….
March 8
1878
65
6
March 2
1883
48
15
Feb. 17
1883
55
1
Feb. 24
1885
74
14
Feb. 27
1875
1
•
•
•
Feb.
1887
Feb. 27
1875
5
Feb.
1887
..
1
Index to Court Act at end of "Minneapolis City Ordinances."
PART III.
!
BOARD ACTS.
I. FREE SCHOOLS.
II. PARKS AND PARKWAYS.
III. COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
IV. TAX LEVY.
1
}
FREE SCHOOLS.
City one school
district.
*An Act Relating to Free Schools in the City of
Minneapolis.
[Approved March 7, 1878; as Amended to March 4, 1887, inclusive.]
SECTION.
1.
SECTION.
Consolidation of Former Boards.- 7. Tax-Levy and Limit.
Corporate Powers and Duties.-
Real Estate, Schools, Rules, etc.
2. School Directors.-Election, Terms,
Vacancies.
3. Election Rules. Ballots, Return
and Canvass.
4. Oath of Office.-Ex-Officio Officers.
Official Bonds.
5. Duties of Officers.-Proceedings.-
Orders, Accounts, etc.-Auditing.
-Depositories.- Pay Rolls.
6. Regular and Special Meetings.
Rules as to Notice of Meeting.
and Settlement,
Returns
8. Temporary Organization. -- Annual
Meetings.-Vacancies.
9. Real Estate.-Purchase and Sale.—
Record of Proceedings.
10. Orders and Bonds. Not Issued,
when.
11. Duties of Former Boards.-Bonds
Prosecuted, when.
12. Original Act to Take Effect.
13. Condemnation Proceedings.-Fee
Simple Titles.-Assessments, etc.
14. Act to Take Effect.
The small figures used herein for references refer to table of amendments at end
of act, supra.
SECTION I. 2 The city of Minneapolis, in the county
of Hennepin, shall, on and after the first Tuesday of
April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight (1878), constitute in law but fone (1) school district,
and the Board of Education of the East Division of Min-
Consolidation neapolis is hereby united and consolidated with the
of former
Boards.
Board of Education of the West Division of Minneapolis,
such union to take effect on the day above named, and
such united Board shall thereupon constitute and become
one corporation, under the name of "The Board of Edu-
cation of the City of Minneapolis," and shall have a com-
mon seal, and be capable of sueing and being sued, and
*Chapter 22, Special Laws of 1887, provides that this act be "amended by striking
out any provisions therein contained relative to the times and manner of election
and the terms of office of members of the Board of Education in conflict with any
provisions of the charter of the city of Minneapolis in relation thereto; and in
determining the terms of office and the times and manner of election of members
of the Board of Education the provisions of the charter of the city of Minneapolis
in relation thereto shall govern so far as the same are in conflict with the above
entitled aot " See also section 2, chapter 2, City Charter, (page 22) as to terms of
office, election etc.
†See page 12 (section 2, chapter 1) of City Charter, as to Independent School
Districts.
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
301
FREE SCHOOLS.
of taking by gift, grant, purchase, devise or bequest, or
otherwise, any real or personal property, and of using,
selling, conveying, controlling and enjoying the same,
and of entering into, making, performing and enforcing
contracts.
*It shall be the successor in law of the Board of Educa-
tion of the East Division of Minneapolis, and the Board
of Education of the West Division of Minneapolis, and
shall succeed to all the rights and liabilities of every kind.
of said two Boards.
Powers of
Board.
Successor to
former Boards.
estate.
Board.
*The title to all real estate within the limits of the City Title to real
of Minneapolis, whether vested in the Trustees of any
school district, either wholly or in part within the limits
of said city, in the Board of Education of Minneapolis,
the Board of Education of the town of Minneapolis, the
Board of Education of the City of Minneapolis (as the To vest in
same was prior to the consolidation of the cities of Saint
Anthony and Minneapolis), the Board of Education of the
West Division of Minneapolis, the Board of Education of
the city of Saint Anthony, the Board of Education of the
East Division of Minneapolis, as well as the title to all
personal property belonging to either of said Boards of
Education, or to *any school district wholly within the Whole city
limits of said city, shall be and become vested in the
Board of Education of the city of Minneapolis, as hereby
constituted.
included.
2 It shall have the entire control and management of all Entire control.
common schools within the City of Minneapolis.
2 It shall be entitled to demand, have and receive all Finances.
moneys which have accrued or shall accrue to either of
said districts, or to said united district, for school pur-
poses, under any law of this State or otherwise, and may
appropriate and use such moneys for the support and
maintenance of the schools within such district as such
Board may deem best.
2It may also hire or erect and maintain, as it shall deem School houses.
best, school houses and school rooms, but it shall never
erect any building upon land to which it has not the title
in fee simple.
2 It may employ superintendents and teachers, and Teachers, etc.
make rules and regulations for the government of schools,
and for the employment and examination of teachers, and
*See section 2, chapter 1, page 12 of City Charter, ante, for exception to "entire
control."
302
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
FREE SCHOOLS.
etc.
Grades, books, prescribing their powers and duties; and prescribing the
description, grading and classification of scholars and
their management, and the course of instruction and books
to be used, and all other matters pertaining to the gov-
ernment and welfare of schools.
By-laws.
Number of
Directors.
2It may also make by-laws, rules and regulations for its
government.
3*SEC. 2. The Board of Education of the City of Min-
neapolis shall consist of seven School Directors. At the
annual city election to be holden on the first Tuesday of
April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, there shall be elected three School Directors for
Terms of first the term of three years, two School Directors for the term
of two years, and two School Directors for the term
of one year, and thereafter there shall *every year be
elected two School Directors for the term of three years,
and every third year an additional School Director (mak-
ing three) shall be elected for the like term.
Board.
Successors.
Vacancics.
Election of
Directors.
In case any School Director shall die, resign, remove
from the district, or otherwise vacate his office more than
one year before the expiration of his term of office, a
School Director may be chosen at the next *annual elec-
tion after such vacancy shall occur, to fill the place for
the unexpired term of the Director so vacating.
*SEC. 3. All elections for School Directors shall be at
the annual city election, and as a part of such city elect-
tion, and such School Directors shall be voted for upon a
Separate ballot separate ballot; and a separate bailot box shall be pro-
vided at each precinct, which shall be kept by the Judges
to receive the ballots of such persons as are entitled to
vote for such School Directors.
box.
Ballots.
Returns and
canvass.
Election rules.
Whenever such School Directors are voted for to serve
for different terms, the ballots used shall designate the
term for which the person named is voted for.
The Judges of Election shall make returns of the votes
cast for School Directors, and the City Council shall can-
vass the same as in the case of the city officers, and the
City Clerk shall forthwith notify the persons elected of
their election; and in all matters not herein especially
provided for, touching such election, the rules provided
for the election of city officers of said city shall apply.
*See note at bottom of first page of this act as to elections, terms of office, etc.
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4
oath of office.
4SEC. 4.. Every School Director, before he shall enter Director to file
upon the duties of his office, shall take, subscribe and file
in the office of the City Clerk of said city, an oath or
affirmation that he will support the constitution and laws
of the State of Minnesota, and discharge the duties of
his office to the best of his ability.
4 The meetings of said Board of Education shall be held Meetings.
at such times and places as shall be appointed by the
Board.
4Its officers shall consist of a President and Secretary, Officers.
who shall be School Directors.
4 The City Treasurer shall be Treasurer of the Board, Treasurer and
and the Comptroller shall perform such duties in con- Comptroller.
nection therewith as hereinafter prescribed.
Bonds of Sec-
surer.
retary and
4 The Secretary of the Board and the City Treasurer of
the City of Minneapolis, shall each, before entering upon
the duties of his office, execute and deliver to the Board
of Education of the City of Minneapolis, a good and suffi-
cient bond, payable to the Board of Education of the City
of Minneapolis, in such sum as shall be fixed upon by the
Board, and with sureties who shall be freeholders of said
city, and shall be approved by the Board, and who shall
justify in the aggregate to double the amount of the
bond, conditioned that the principal in the bond shall Conditions of
well and faithfully perform and discharge all the duties bonds.
of his office, and pay and turn over to his successor, or to
whomsoever the Board may direct, all moneys and every
valuable thing which shall come into his hands by virtue
of his office, belonging to said Board.
Filing of
4 Such bonds shall be filed for safe keeping with the City bonds.
Comptroller of the City of Minneapolis.
SEC. 5. The President, or in his absence a President
pro tempore, shall preside at all meetings of the Board, and
sign all orders on the treasury for all moneys voted to be
paid by the Treasurer, and shall perform all duties neces-
sary for the transaction of the business of the Board, and
which are usually performed by the President of a cor-
poration.
Duties of
President.
Secretary.
"The Secretary, or in his absence the Secretary pro Duties of
tempore, shall keep a full and fair record of all the pro-
ceedings of the Board at its meetings, and shall draw and
attest all orders drawn upon the Treasurer, and keep a
record thereof showing the number, date, amount, pur-
pose for which drawn, and name of payee of each order
separately.
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Orders, how
paid.
Orders, when
issued.
Duties of City
Comptroller.
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5 All such orders shall be made payable to the order
of the payee therein named, and shall not be paid with-
out his endorsement, either personally or by his authorized
agent or attorney.
5 The Secretary shall perform such other duties as are
usually performed by such officer, or as may be directed
by the Board, and shall draw no orders on the treasury
except such as have been allowed by the Board, by a ma-
jority vote of all its members, taken by ayes and nays,
and entered on the record of the proceedings of the
Board.
5 The City Comptroller shall keep regular books of ac-
count of the Board, in which he shall enter all indebted-
ness of said Board, and which shall at all times show the
precise financial condition of said Board, the amount of
bonds, orders or other evidences of indebtedness out-
standing, and the redemption of the same when re-
Bonds, etc, to deemed; and he shall countersign all bonds, orders or
be counter-
signed.
Claims audited.
Duties of City
Treasurer.
Funds how
deposited.
Bank sureties
liable.
other evidences of indebtedness of said Board and keep
an exact account thereof, showing to whom and for what
purpose issued and the amount of each, and of all moneys
received or paid out by the City Treasurer on account of
said Board.
5 All claims allowed by the Board shall, before they are
paid, be audited by the Comptroller.
5 The City Treasurer shall receive and safely keep all
moneys of the Board and pay the same only upon orders "
signed by the President and attested by the Secretary of
the Board, and countersigned by the Comptroller and
properly endorsed by the payee, or in payment of out-
standing matured bonds or coupons of said Board or
either of the Boards which are united by section one of
this act, and shall keep full books, records and vouchers
of all his transactions.
He shall deposit the moneys of said Board, as the
moneys of the city of Minneapolis, in any bank which
shall be designated by the City Council of said city as
depositories of funds of said city; and the funds while so
on deposit in such bank, shall for all purposes connected
with such deposit be regarded as the money of the city of
Minneapolis, and may be recovered as such by said city
from said banks, and the sureties of such banks upon the
bonds which said banks shall execute to the said city, but
when drawn or recovered from such banks shall be ac-
counted for to its proper fund.
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liable, when.
5 And the Treasurer shall have the same exemption re- Treasurer, not
specting such funds deposited in such banks as in respect
to other funds of said city.
Nothing in this act shall be construed as prohibiting Pay-rolls.
said Board from paying its teachers, janitors and other
employes upon pay rolls, or otherwise, in accordance
with such regulations as said Board may establish.
"SEC. 6. "The regular meetings of the Board shall be Regular meet-
ings.
fixed by its rules and by laws.
ings.
"Special meetings may be called by the President or Special meet-
any two (2) School Directors, by written notice, stating
the time, place and object of the meeting, to be served
personally or by mail, at least twenty-four (24) hours
before such meeting.
"But whenever a majority of all the Directors are
present at any meeting, the same shall be a legal meet-
ing at which any business which could come before a
regular meeting may be transacted, irrespective of
whether there was any notice given for such meeting
or not.
Majority may
act without
notice.
SEC. 7. 12Said Board of Education is hereby author- Tax-levy.
ized and empowered to levy upon the taxable property
in said city, such taxes as will raise sufficient sums of
money for all school purposes of every character, includ-
ing the purchase of sites, and building and repairs of
school houses, and expenses incident to the maintenance
thereof, and as will also provide for the prompt payment
of all indebtedness of said district.
tax.
12 Provided, That the aggregate annual levy of such Limitation of
taxes shall not exceed three (3) mills on the dollar
upon
the assessed valuation of said district, except that in each
of the years of one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
three (1883) and one thousand eight hundred and eighty-
four (1884), said Board may levy an additional tax of one
(1) mill on the dollar upon the assessed valuation of said
district, the money received from which shall be expended
in the purchase of school house sites and for building
purposes.
tax levy.
12 Said Board shall make return of its annual levy of Return of
taxes on or before the first (1st) day of November of
every year, to the County Auditor of the county of Hen-
nepin, and such taxes shall be collected and the payment
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Collection of
taxes.
Fettlements.
First meeting
of Board.
Organization.
Annual meet-
ings.
Vacancies,
when filled.
Real estate-
purchase and
sale.
Deed, how
executed.
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thereof enforced, with and in like manner as State and
county taxes are collected, and the payment thereof
enforced; and when collected, shall, together with all
costs, interest and penalties collected thereon, be paid
over by the County Treasurer to the City Treasurer of
the city of Minneapolis as often as said County Treasurer
is required to make settlement with said City Treasurer
in respect to city taxes.
SEC. 8. The School Directors who shall be elected at
the annual city election to be held on the first (1st) Tues-
day of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight shall meet at the office of the City Clerk of
said city of Minneapolis, on Thursday, the eleventh day
of April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, and may then and
there effect a temporary organization, and may then pro-
ceed to elect permanent officers for the year, and to the
transaction of any business, or may adjourn to any other
time and place to complete the permanent organization
of the Board.
*The annual meeting of the Board for the election of its
officers for the year shall always be on the second Tues-
day after the * annual city election, at such hour and place
as the Board may by its rules appoint for its regular
meetings.
But vacancies may be filled whenever they shall happen.
during the year, and officers shall hold until their succes-
sors are elected and qualified, unless they cease to be
eligible.
SEC. 9. The Board may purchase real estate for school
purposes whenever six School Directors shall vote to
make such purchase; and the Board may also sell and
convey any of its real estate, but only when five of the
School Directors authorized to be elected shall vote to
make such sale.
In the case of sale of real estate of the Board, the deed
of conveyance thereof may be executed by the President
and Secretary, officially, having the seal of the Board af-
fixed thereto.
*Annual city election abolished. See note on first page of this act.
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All votes under this section shall be by yeas and nays,
and recorded in the record of the proceedings of the Board.
Votes to be
recorded.
Orders, not to
when.
SEC. 10. 18 The Secretary of the Board is hereby for-
bidden from countersigning or issuing any orders from be issued,
the Treasurer of said Board except when there is money.
in the hands of the Treasurer to pay the same.
13 The said Board shall never issue any bond or prom- Bonds, etc.,
when payable.
issory note, certificate of indebtedness or other obligation
for the payment of money, except the same shall be
made to become due and shall be paid at a date not later
than the first (1st) day of July then next ensuing, and
then for no greater sum than can be paid when due out Indebtedness,
of the regular revenues of the Board for the school year
in which such bond, note, certificate or other obligation
of indebtedness is issued.14
how restricted.
SEC. II.
After the passage of this act the Boards of Old Boards,
Education of the East and West Division of Minneapolis when to cease.
shall continue in existence until the first Tuesday in
April, A. D. one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight, and no longer; but neither of them shall in the
meantime enter into any new contract which is not to be
fully performed before the date last above mentioned.
And it shall be the duty of the Secretaries of each of
the said two Boards to attend, at the office of the City
Clerk of said city, on the eleventh day of April, one thous-
and eight hundred and seventy-eight, named, at ten
o'clock in the forenoon, and surrender and deliver over
to the School Directors elected under the provisions of
this act all books, records, vouchers, papers and property
in their custody belonging to their respective Boards.
Records, etc..
to be surren-
dered to new
Board.
urer.
Division
And as soon thereafter as the new Board of School Di- Board Treas-
rectors shall organize and elect a Treasurer, and said
Treasurer shall qualify, it shall be the duty of the Treas-
urers of said Division Boards to pay over to the new Treasurers.
Treasurer all moneys in their hands, or for which they are
responsible as such Treasurers, and all records, books,
vouchers and property under their control as such Treas-
urers.
And any failure so to to do shall be held to be a breach Proceedings
against
of the official bond of such Treasurer so failing, and such Treasurers.
bonds may be prosecuted by the Board of Education of
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Treasurer.
Actions against the City of Minneapolis, as may also any other right of
action, which, but for this act, might have accrued in
favor of either of said former Boards of Education.
Misplaced sec-
tion.
Condemnation
proceedings.
Title in fee
simple.
Commission-
SEC. 12. ["Take effect" section in, original act. See
sec. 14.]
+SEC. 13. 16Whenever said Board deems it expedient
to acquire the title to any lands situate within the City
of Minneapolis, either for a school house site or for an
addition to any school house site, the same may be ac-
quired at the option of said Board by proceeding as pro-
vided in sections seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10)
and eleven (II) of chapter thirty-six (36) of the General
Statutes of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-
eight (1878), except as herein otherwise directed.
16 The title which said Board shall acquire to any lands
by the proceedings herein provided, shall be an absolute
estate in fee simple.
16Said Board in its application to the District Court for
ers, application the appointment of Commissioners shall, in addition to
the requirement of section seven (7) of chapter thirty-
six (36) of the General Statutes of one thousand eight
hundred and seventy-eight (1878), state that the title to
be acquired by said Board is an absolute estate in fee
simple.
Judgment.
Entry, how.
made.
Board may
occupy land,
pending pro-
ceedings.
16 In proceedings brought by said Board under the pro-
visions of this act, judgment shall not be entered as pro-
vided in section ten (10) of chapter thirty-six (36) of
General Statutes of one thousand eight hundred and
seventy-eight (1878) but it shall be entered declaring
that upon payment of the amount of the assessment, or
verdict, in case of appeal, with costs, to the owner of such
lands, or to the Clerk of the District Court, an absolute
estate in fee simple in such lands as are in said petition
described, shall be and become vested in said Board of
Education.
16 It is further provided, That said Board may at any time
after the filing of its petition as aforesaid, enter upon and
occupy such lands as are in its petition described, until
the proceedings contemplated by this act shall have been
fully determined, and it shall not during such time be dis-
turbed in such possession or occupancy by any proceed-
ings either in law or equity.
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utes to govern.
16 Said sections seven (7), eight (8), nine (9), ten (10) General stat-
and eleven (11) of chapter thirty-six (36) of the General
Statutes of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight
(1878), as herein amended and qualified to conform to the
intentions of this act, are made a part hereof.
*SEC. 14. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
*This section was numbered 12 in the original act, approved March 7, 1878, the
number not being changed when section 13 was added.
Act to take
effect
AMENDMENTS TO SCHOOL ACT.
FROM 1879 TO 1887, INCLUSIVE,
See
The Note Numbers in first column correspond with the small figures
used for references in the Act as printed herein, ante.
also "Summary of Legislative Acts Relative to the
City of Minneapolis," etc., supra.
Note
No.
Division of Act.
Approved.
Year
Chap. Sec.
1234BSN∞-
Section 1
March 2
1881
114 1
to read..
Feb. 27
1883
283 1
·
3 Section 2
March 4
1887
22 1
4 Section 4
5
Section 5
to read
to read
March 8
1879
62 1
•
March 8
1879
62 2
6
March 5
1885
97
1
7 Section 6
to read..
Feb. 27
1883
233
•
8 Section 7
March 8
1879
62
9
to read
March 2
1881
114
10
to read..
Nov. 8
ex81
49 1
11
to read.
Feb. 27
1883 233
12
to read..
Feb. 12
1835
86
13 Section 10
to read..
March 2
1881
114
2321KIM
14
to read...
Nov. 8
ex81
49
2
15
Section 13
added.
Nov 11
ex-1
52
1
16
to read...
Feb. 27
1883
233❘ 4
Index at end of "Minneapolis City Ordinances."
PARKS.
*An Act Providing for a System of Public Parks, etc.
[Approved Feb 27, 1883; as Amended to Feb. 26, 1887, inclusive.]
SECTION.
1.-Preliminary Organization. - Elec-
ti ns and Vacancies.-Powers and
Duties.-Restrictions.
2.-Parks and Parkways.-Designation
of Grounds.-Improvements.
3.-Title to Lands.- Gifts, Devises, Pur-
chase, etc.
4.-Conden.nation of Land for Parks,
etc.
·(1) Appointment
of Appraisers.—
Penalties.-Vac -ncies.
-(2) Appraisers to be Sworn,
- (3) To Give Notice of Filing of
Plat, etc.
(4) To View Premises and Appraise
Damage.
--(5) When Owner to Elect as to
Removal of Buildings.-Damages.
-(6) When Land and Buildings Have
Different Owners - Award and
Confirmation, How Construed.
-(7) Appraisers' Report.-Schedule of
Damages.-Description of Lands,
etc.-Costs of Proceedings.
-(8) Notice of Report to Persons
Interested, How Made.
(9) Damages, How Paid.-Property
Appropriated.-- Claims, etc.
-(10) Buildings Not Removed May
Be Sold, when,
—(11) Guardian Appointed for Owner
Under Disability.
-(12) Objections to
G
Confirmation.
· Appeals.— Abandonment.— At-
torney's Fees.
SECTION.
4.-(13) Award of Damages to be Re-
corded.-Duty of Register of
Deeds.-Plats to be Filed.
5.-Park Assessors.-To Assess Benefits.
-Exemptions.-Notice of Assess-
ment. Reports. — Confirmation
Proceedings.-Lien for Benefits.-
How Collected.-Duties of C unty
Auditor.
6.-Park Bunds.-Interest and Restric-
tions.-Register.-City Irrevoca-
bly Bound.
7.-General Park Tax-Levy.-How Col-
lected and Appropriated--City
Park Fund.
8.-Vacation of Public Roads.-Excep-
tions.
9.-Bridges and
Viaduct.-Riparian
Rights, etc.-Control of Lakes.
10.-Removal from Office for Misde-
meanor or Malfeasance.
11.-Absence from Successive Meetings
Works Forfeiture, when.
12.-Special Assessment Fund, How
Expended.
13.-Parks to be Perpetual.-Sale of
Lands, when.
14.-Ordinances and Enforcement.—Po-
lice and Control Thereof.
15.-Aot to be Submitted to the People
in 1883.
16.-Inconsistent Ac s Repealed.
17.-Act to Take Effect.
The small figures used for references herein refer to table of amendments at end
of act, supra.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota :
I.
SECTION 1. That the following persons, to-wit: C. M. First Board.
Loring, H. T. Welles, D. Morrison, J. S. Pillsbury, O. C.
*"An Act Providing for the Designation, Acquisition, Laying Out and Improve-
ment of Lands in the City of Minneapolis for a System of Public Parks and Park-
ways, and for the Care and Government Thereof." See Chapter 281, Special Laws
of 1888.
a
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}
!
First Board.
Powers and
purposes.
Organization.
Officers.
Department of
city govern-
ment.
Rules and
meetings.
Ordinances and
regulations.
Quorum.
Ten votes
necessary,
when.
PARK AND PARKWAYS.
Merriman, A. C. Haugan, J. C. Oswald, W. W. Eastman,
George A. Brackett, Judson N. Cross, D. Bassett and A.
C. Austin, together with the Mayor, for the time being, of
the City of Minneapolis, ex-officio, and the Chairman, for
the time being, of the Standing Committee on Public
Grounds and Buildings, and the Chairman of the Standing
Committee on Roads and Bridges of the City Council of
said city, ex-officio, are hereby appointed Commissioners
for the purposes specified in the title to this act, and to
be accomplished in the manner and with the powers and
subject to the restrictions of *this act.
Upon filing a written acceptance of their appointment
and an oath of office in the office of the City Clerk of the
City of Minneapolis, the said Commissioners shall meet
and organize by the designation of one (1) of their num-
ber as President, and one (1) of their number as Vice-
President, and shall appoint a Secretary, and shall ap-
point a President and Vice-President and Secretary, from
time to time, whenever vacancies may occur.
Upon effecting the said organization the said Commis-
sioners and their successors shall constitute a department
of the city government of the city of Minneapolis, to be
known and designated as the "Board of Park Commis-
sioners of the City of Minneapolis.'
The said Board shall make rules to govern its proceed-
ings, and may meet from time to time as it may by rule
or vote determine, and adjourn its said meetings.
It shall adopt a seal, and shall make and publish from
time to time, rules, ordinances and regulations for the
government of its agents, servants and employes, and for
the government and regulation of the parks and parkways
which may be acquired under and pursuant to the provi-
sions of this act.
A majority of the members of said Board shall consti-
tute a quorum, but no action of said Board designating
or purchasing or leasing lands, creating a bonded debt, or
filling vacancies in the Board of Park Commissioners,
shall be valid unless voted for by ten (10) members of
said Board.
*See also "An Act in Relation to Parkways in the City of Minneapolis," (Special
Laws of 1885, Chapter 304) supra, and "An Act to Repeal Subdivision 29, Section 5,
Chapter 4, of the Charter of the City of Minneapolis [relating to appointment of City
Forester] and to confer the power thereby granted upon the Boa d of Park Com-
missioners of said city," (Chapter 12, Special Laws of 1887) supra.
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nual report.
And a record of its proceedings shall be kept, and the Record-An-
said Board shall make and publish in the official
paper of the city, an annual report setting forth their
general proceedings, and containing a statement of the
receipts and expenditures of said Board.
Provisional
The twelve (12) persons hereinbefore named, and their Board.
successors. shall, with the three (3) ex-officio members
above provided for, constitute a Provisional Board of
Park Commissioners, to hold their offices until the annual
city election in the year one thousand eight hundred and
eighty-four (1884), and until their successors shall be
elected and qualified.
Commis-
At the * annual city election in the year one thousand Election of
eight hundred and eighty-four (1884), there shall be sioners.
elected by general ticket twelve (12) Commissioners,
four (4) of whom shall be elected for one (1) year, four (4)
for two (2) years, and four (4) for three (3) years, who
with the three (3) ex-officio Commissioners above desig-
nated, shall constitute the Board of Park Commissioners,
and *thereafter four (4) Commissioners shall be elected
annually, to serve for three (3) years, and all vacancies in
the office of the above twelve (12) appointed, or of the vacancies.
elected Commissioners, shall be filled by the remaining
members of the Board.
Terms and
The said Commissioners shall receive no compensation Compensation
for their services, but may receive such sums for actual Expenses.
and necessary expenses incurred in performing their
official duties as may be audited and allowed by the said
Board.
The Board of Commissioners shall be authorized to em- Employes and
ploy and dismiss such attorneys, surveyors, agents and compensation.
employes as may be necessary, and to fix the compensa-
tion of all its appointees and employes, which shall be
payable from the fund hereinafter established for the pur-
pose of this act, upon the order of said Board, counter-
signed by the City Comptroller.
*Chapter 20, Special Laws of 1887, provides that this act "is hereby amended by
striking out any provisions therein contained relative to the terms of office and
times and manner of election of members of the Board of Park Commissioners in
conflict with any provisions of the charter of the city of Minneapolis in relation
thereto; and in determining the terms of office, and the times and manner of elec-
tion of members of the Board of Park Commissioners, the provisions of the charter
of the city of Minneapolis in relation thereto shall govern so far as the same are in
conflict with the above entitled act."
The amendments to the City Charter make the terms of Commissioners elected in
April, 1887, expire on the first Monday in January, 1891-all other terms in January,
1889. At the election in 1888 four Commissioners are to be elected to serve for four
years and four to serve for six years, from the first Monday in January following,
and thereafter four Commissioners are to be elected at each biennial election, to
serve for six years.
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Commissioner
not to be inter-
ested in con-
tracts.
May receive
compensation
for lands.
Park system.
Surveys and
plats.
Title, how
acquired.
Condemnation
proceedings.
How perfected.
Parks and ParkwayS.
No Commissioner shall be interested in any contract
made under the authority of said Board, or in any lands
to be acquired by said Board, except that if any Com-
missioner shall be the owner of or interested in any lands
which may be designated or appropriated for the uses of
this act, he shall be entitled to receive compensation
therefor as provided herein, but shall not act officially in
respect to any matter in which he may be pecuniarily in-
terested.
1SEC. 2. The Board of Commissioners herein appointed
and their successors, shall have power and it shall be its
duty to devise and adopt a system of public parks and
parkways within ¹and adjacent to the limits of and for
the use of the city of Minneapolis, to designate the lands
and grounds to be used and appropriated for such pur-
poses, to cause the same to be surveyed, platted, and the
plat thereof to be filed in the office of the City Engineer,
and upon obtaining title or the right of possession to the
same or any part thereof, to take possession of, hold,
govern and administer the same, and to lay out and im-
prove the same, according to such plan as the said Board
may adopt for such purposes.
Sec. 3. The said Board of Commissioners and their
successors shall have power, and it is hereby authorized,
to obtain title for and in the name of the city of Minneap-
olis, to any lands so designated by it for the purposes of
this act, by gift, devise, purchase or lease, and shall have
power to accept and receive donations of money, property
or lands for the use of the said city for the purposes con-
templated in this act.
SEC. 4. The said Board of Commissioners shall have
power and it is hereby authorized to condemn for the use
of said city, any tract or tracts, parcel or parcels of land,
or any interest therein which it may have designated as
hereinbefore provided in the second (2d) section of this
act, and when such condemnation shall have been com-
pleted and the lands paid for as herein provided, the title
to such lands shall pass and be vested in fee simple in the
said city.
For the purpose of making and perfecting such con-
demnation, the said Board of Commissioners shall proceed
in the manner following:
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2 First (1). The Board of Park Commissioners shall
give the parties owning the land they desire to con-
demn at least ten (10) days notice in person and by
publication in the official newspaper of said city, fix-
ing the time and place where they will meet said land
owners to appoint Appraisers who shall award the
damage which may be occasioned by the taking of
said property for park purposes.
Property own-
ere to be
notified.
select
The Board of Park Commissioners and the land Meeting to
owners shall meet at the time and place fixed as above appraisers.
named and shall appoint as many Appraisers as there
may be wards in said city, selecting one from each
ward, who shall be a disinterested freeholder and
qualified voter of said city.
One-half of said appraisers shall be selected by How selected.
the Board of Park Commissioners and one-half by
the parties present, whose land is to be condemned,
to view the premises and appraise the damages which
may be occasioned by the taking of private property
or otherwise in making said improvements.
be notified.
neglect.
Said Appraisers shall be notified as soon as practic- Appraisers to
able, by the Secretary of said Board to attend, at a
time to be fixed by him, for the purpose of qualifying
and entering upon their duties, and in case any such
Appraiser, upon being so notified, shall neglect or re-
fuse to attend as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay a Penalty for
fine to said city, not exceeding fifty dollars ($50),
and shall be liable to be prosecuted therefor before
the Municipal Court of said city as in case of fines
imposed for violation of an ordinance of said city.
And the Appraisers in attendance shall be author- fill vacancies.
ized to appoint another Appraiser or Appraisers in
place of any absentee or absentees aforesaid selected
in each case from the ward not represented, and pos-
sessing the qualifications aforesaid.
Appraisers to
Risti vacant
District Court
2In all cases of vacancy of Appraisers, such vacancy
shall be filled by the District Court of Hennepin cies.
county upon the hearing and recommendation of the
Board of Park Commissioners and the parties whose
land is to be condemned, which hearing shall be had
upon personal notice of at least eight (8) days, or if
any of the parties interested in such lands are with-
out the State of Minnesota and have no place of resi-
dence therein, then such notice may be made by
Personal no-
tice, when and
how.
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Notice by
publication.
Appraisers to
be sworn.
Appraisers to
give notice of
meeting.
Meetings and
adjournments.
Appraisement.
When build-
ings on lands.
Damages, how
determined.
estates.
PARKS AND PARKWAYS.
publication in the official paper of said city of Min,
neapolis, for at least ten (10) days before the time of
such hearing.
Second (2). The Appraisers shall be sworn to discharge
their duty as Appraisers in the matter with impar-
tiality and fidelity, and to make due return of their
acts to the Board of Park Commissioners.
Third (3). The said Appraisers shall, with all reason-
able speed, give notice by publication in the official
newspaper of said city for at least ten (10) days, to
the effect that a plat of the lands designated by the
Board of Park Commissioners has been filed and that
the said Appraisers will meet at a place and time
designated by them, and thence proceed to view the
premises, and appraise the damages for property to
be taken, or which may be damaged by such improve-
ment.
Fourth (4). At the time and place, according to said
notice, the said Appraisers shall view the premises
and may hear any evidence or proof offered by the
parties interested, and adjourn from day to day for
the purpose aforesaid.
When their view and hearing shall be concluded,
they shall determine and appraise the amount of
damages to be paid to the owner or owners of each
parcel of property proposed to be taken or which
may be damaged by such improvement.
Fifth (5). If there should be any building standing in
whole or in part upon the land to be taken, the said
Appraisers shall in each case determine the amount of
damages which should be paid to the owner or own-
ers thereof in case such building, or so much thereof
as may be necessary should be taken, and shall also
appraise and determine the amount of damages to
be paid such owner or owners, in case he or they
should elect to remove such building; and the dam-
ages in relation to building aforesaid shall be ap-
praised separately from the damages in relation to
the land upon which they are erected.
Separate 3 Sixth (6). If the lands and buildings belong to different
persons, or if the land be subject to lease, mortgage
or judgment, or if there be any estate in it less than
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Estates.
an estate in fee, the injury or damage done to such Separate
persons or interests respectively, may be awarded to
them by the Appraisers.
Awards not to
3 Provided, That neither such award of the Ap- be paid, when.
praisers, nor the confirmation thereof by the Board of
Park Commissioners, shall be deemed to require pay-
ment of such damages to the person or persons named
in said award in case it shall transpire that such per-
son or persons are not entitled to receive the same.
Seventh (7). The said Appraisers having ascertained Report of
and appraised the damage aforesaid, shall_make and
file with the Secretary of said Board of Park Com-
missioners, a written report to said Board of Park
Commissioners, of their action in the premises, em-
bracing a schedule or appraisement of the damages Schedule and
in each case, with a description of the land and names descriptions.
of the owners, if known to them, and also a statement
of the cost of the proceedings.
Appraisers.
4*Eighth (8). Upon such report being filed, the Sec- Notice of filing
retary of the Board of Park Commissioners shall of report.
give at least ten (10) days' notice (in person) which
notice shall be served upon all persons interested in
such lands personally and by publication in the offi-
cial paper of said city of Minneapolis for the same
time*
5 Ninth (9). The damages appraised shall be paid out
of the park fund and shall be so paid or tendered or
be deposited and set apart in the treasury of said
city, to and for the use of the parties entitled thereto,
within six (6) months after the confirmation of such
appraisement and report; but in case any appeal or
appeals shall be taken from the order confirming said
appraisement, then the amount of such damages shall
* As amended by section 1, chapter 19. Special Laws of 1887. The intention was,
probably, onl to so amend as to require personal as well as public notice, the
subdivision before such amendment reading as follow: "(8). Upon su h report
heing filed, the Secretary of the Board of Park Commissioners shall give at least
(10) days' notice by publication in the official newspaper of said city, to the effect
that said appraisement has been returned, and that same will be confirmed by the
Board of Park Commissioners, at a meeting thereof to be named in said notice, un-
less objections are made in writing by persons interested in any land required to be
take. Any persons interested in buildings standing in whole or i part upon any
land required to be taken by such improvement shall, on or before the time speci-
fied in such notice, notify the said Board of Park Commissioners in writing of their
election to remove such building. The Board of Park Commissioners, upon the
day fixed for the consideration of such report, or at such subsequent meetings to
which the same may stand over or be referred, shall have power in their discretion
to confirm, revise or annul the appraisement, giving due consideration to any ob-
jectious interposed by parties interested.'
Damages to be
paid from park
fund.
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Deposit, when
appeal is taken.
Land not to be
taken, until
damages paid.
Board may
deposit amount
of award in
Court.
When owner
elects to re-
move build-
ings.
Removal before
payment.
When owner
elects not to
remove build-
ings.
Failure to re-
move same.
Proceedings
when owner
under legal
disability.
Parks and ParkwayS.
not in any case be required to be paid, or tendered,
or deposited and set apart as aforesaid, until thirty
(30) days after the determination of all appeals which
shall have been so taken.
"The land and property required to be taken for
the purposes aforesaid shall not be appropriated until
the damages awarded to the owner thereof shall have
been paid or tendered to such owner, or deposited
and set apart for his use as aforesaid; and in case
the said Board of Park Commissioners shall be un-
able to determine to whom the damages so awarded
should in any particular case be paid, or in case of
disputed claims in relation thereto, the amount of
damages in any such case may be deposited by order
of the Board of Park Commissioners, in the District.
Court of Hennepin county, and said Court, upon the
proper application of any person claiming the award,
or any part thereof, shall determine to whom the
same shall be paid.
Tenth (10). In case any owner or owners of buildings
as aroresaid, shall have elected in manner aforesaid
to remove his or their buildings, he or they shall so
remove them within thirty (30) days from the con-
firmation of said report, or within such further time
as the Board of Park Commissioners may allow for
the purpose, and shall thenceforth be entitled to pay-
ment from said park fund of the amount of damages
awarded in such case in case of removal.
When such person or persons shall not have elected
to remove such buildings, or shall have neglected.
(after having elected to remove) to remove the
same within the time prescribed, such buildings, or
so much thereof as may be necessary, upon payment
or depositing the damages awarded for such taking in
manner aforesaid, may be taken and appropriated,
sold or disposed of as the said Board of Park Com-
missioners shall direct, and the same or the proceeds.
thereof shall belong to the said park fund.
Eleventh (11). When any known owner of lands or
tenements affected by any proceeding within this act,
shall be an infant, or shall labor under any legal dis-
ability, a Judge of the District Court of Hennepin
county may, upon application of said Commissioners,
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or of said Board of Park Commissioners, or such Appointment
of guardian.
party or his next friend, appoint a suitable guardian
for such party, and all notices required by this act
shall be served upon such guardian.
confirmation.
Twelfth (12). Any person whose property is proposed Objection to
to be taken or interfered with under any provisions
of this act, and who deems that there is any irregu-
larity in the proceedings of the said Board of Park
Commissioners, or action of the Appraisers, by reason
of which the award of the Appraisers ought not to be
confirmed, or who is dissatisfied with the amount of
damages awarded to him for the taking of or inter- When and how
ference with his property, may at any time before such made.
award shall be confirmed by the Board of Commis-
sioners, file with the Secretary of said Board, in writ-
ing, his objection to such confirmation, setting forth
therein specifically the particular irregularities com-
plained of, and containing a description of the prop-
erty affected by such proceedings.
Right of
And if, notwithstanding such objections, the said
Board shall confirm the award, such person so ob- appeal, when.
jecting shall have the right to appeal, from such order
of confirmation of the Board, to the District Court of
the county of Hennepin, at any term, within ten (10)
days after such order.
appeal.
Such appeal shall be made by serving a written Appeal, how
notice of such appeal upon the Secretary of said made.
Board which shall specify the property of the appel-.
lant affected by such award, and refer to the objec-
tion filed as aforesaid; and by also delivering to said
Secretary a bond to the City of Minneapolis, exe- Bond on
cuted by the appellant, or by some one on his behalf,
with two (2) sureties who shall justify in the penal
sum of fifty dollars ($50) conditioned to pay all costs
that may be awarded against the appellant.
Thereupon the said 'Secretary shall make out and
transmit to the Clerk of the said District Court a
copy of the award of said Commissioners, as con-
firmed by the Board, and of the order of the Board
confirming the same, and of the objection filed by the
appellant as aforesaid, all certified by said Secretary
to be true copies, within ten (10) days after the tak-
ing of such appeal.
Certified copy
of award and
objection.
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Certified copy,
when more
than one
appeal.
Cowt
proceedings.
Case to have
precedence.
Judgment.
No appeal.
Court may
appoint
appraisers.
Parties to be
heard.
Duties of.
appraisers.
Rules for
appraisers.
PARKS AND PARKWAYS.
But if more than one (1) appeal be taken from any
award, it shall not be necessary that the Secretary, in
appeals subsequent to the first (1st), shall send up
anything except a certified copy of the appellant's
objection.
There shall be no pleading on such appeal, but the
Court shall determine in the first instance whether
there was in the proceedings any such irregularity or
omission of duty, prejudicial to the appellant and
specified in said written objections, that as to him
the award or appraisement of the Appraisers ought
not to stand, and whether said Appraisers had juris-
diction to take action in the premises.
The case may be brought on for hearing on eight
(8) days' notice, at any general or special term of
the Court, and shall have precedence of other civil
cases; and the judgment of the Court shall be either
to confirm or annul the proceedings only as the same
affects the property of the appellant proposed to be
taken or damaged and described in said written ob-
jection.
From such determination no appeal nor writ of
error shall lie:
In case the amount of damages awarded is com-
plained of by such appellant, the Court shall, if the.
proceedings shall be confirmed in other respects
upon such confirmation, appoint three (3) disinter-
ested freeholders, residents of said city, Appraisers
to re-appraise such damages.
The parties to such appeal shall be heard by said
Court upon the appointment of such Appraisers, and
the Court shall fix the time and place of meeting of
such Appraisers.
They shall be sworn to the faithful discharge of
their duties as such Appraisers, and shall proceed to
view the premises and to hear the parties interested,
with their allegations and proofs pertinent to the
question of the amount of such damages.
Such Appraisers shall be governed by the same pro-
visions in respect to the method of arriving at the
amount of damages, and in all other material re-
spects, as are in this act made for the government of
Appraisers appointed by said Board.
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appraisers.
They shall, after such hearing and view of the Report of
premises, making report to said Court of their ap-
praisal of damages in respect to such appellant.
when.
The award of such Appraisers shall be final, unless Award final,
set aside by the Court for good cause shown.
In case such report is set aside, the Court may, in New
its discretion, re-commit the same to the same Ap- when.
appraisers,
praisers or appoint new Appraisers, as it shall deem
best, but no appeal or writ of error shall be allowed
from any order of the Court in the premises.
of appraisers,
Said Court shall allow a reasonable compensation Compensation
to such Appraisers for their services, and make such costs, eto.
award of costs on such appeal, including the com-
pensations of such Appraisers, as it shall deem just
in the premises.
In case the Court shall be of opinion that such ap- Double costs,
peal was frivolous or vexatious, it may adjudge when.
double costs against such appellant.
abandon
6 The Board of Park Commissioners shall have the Board may
right, at any time during the pendency of any pro- proceedings.
ceedings for the acquisition of lands for any improve-
ment authorized by this act, or at any time within
thirty (30) days after the final disposition by the
Court of all appeals taken in such proceedings, to
abandon all such proceedings in respect to the whole
improvement or any part thereof, whenever they
shall deem it for the interest of the city so to do.
"Provided, If they abandon all such proceedings in Attorneys' fees
respect to the taking of such land for park purposes,
and do not take the same, then they shall pay all
attorneys' fees and expenses incurred by said property
owners in all proceedings of said condemnation,
which in the first instance may be agreed upon be-
tween the Board of Park Commissioners and said
land-owners, or if said parties should fail to agree How
then such fees and expenses shall be fixed by the ascertained.
District Court of said Hennepin county after notice.
of at least eight (8) days to either of such parties by
the other party to said condemnation proceeding.
and expenses.
to make
description of
Thirteenth (13). As soon as said proceedings for ac- Commissioners
quiring the title to such lands shall have been com-
pleted, it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to
make or cause to be made an accurate description of
land.
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Statement of
award, etc.
To be recorded.
How recorded,
effect of.
Plats to be
recorded
Board to
determine
percentage of
benefits.
Park assessors
to be
appointed.
Notice of
application for
appointment.
Court to
appoint
assessors.
Duties of
assessors.
PARKS And Parkways.
all such lands as shall have been so acquired, with a
statement of the amount of damages awarded and
paid to each former owner for the land so acquired,
which shall be certified by the President and Secre-
tary of said Board, under the official seal of the said
Board, and be filed for record in the office of the
Register of Deeds of said county of Hennepin.
And it is hereby made the duty of said Register of
Deeds to record the same among the records of
transfers of real estate in said county, which records
shall be prima facie evidence of title to such land, and
of the transfer of all the interest of such former
owner in the same to said city of Minneapolis.
It shall also be the duty of said Commissioners to
file with said Register of Deeds correct plats of all
such lands as they may acquire for the purposes of
this act, which shall be kept on file and of record in
the office of said Register of Deeds in like manner as
plats of additions to the city of Minneapolis.
8 SEC. 5. As soon as the amount required for the pur-
chase and condemnation of the lands selected for any
park or parkway shall have been ascertained by said Board
of Park Commissioners with reasonable certainty, it shall
determine what percentage, if any, of the amount so as-
certained shall be assessed upon the lands benefited by
said park or parkway, and it shall apply to the District
Court of Hennepin county for the appointment of three
(3) freeholders of the City of Minneapolis as Park Asses-
sors.
Notice of such application shall be given by publication
thereof in the official newspaper of said city, at least six
(6) days successively, the last of which publication shall
be at least three (3) days prior to the date fixed there-
for; and all persons interested may appear and be heard
by the Court touching said appointment.
After such hearing the Court shall appoint three (3)
disinterested Assessors, who shall proceed to assess upon
such lots, blocks, tracts and parcels of land in the City of
Minneapolis, as they shall deem to be specially benefited
by such park or parkway, whether such lands shall adjoin
and abut upon such park or parkway or not, such sum as
they shall deem a just proportion, respectively, of the total
sum so to be assessed for benefits.
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Assessors to
include all
lands
benefitted.
And the determination of said Assessors as to what lots,
blocks, and parcels of land are specially benefited shall be
deemed to include all the lands so specially benefited.
In case of the purchase of lands for any such parks or Purchase of
parkways, or of any part thereof, it shall be competent lands.
for said Board of Park Commissioners to agree with the
vendor or vendors of the lands so purchased, upon a price
therefor, which may, in addition to the purchase price Exemption
thereof, include exemption from an assessment for bene- assessment.
fits upon any remaining contiguous or adjacent lands.
owned by such vendor or vendors.
from
And in that case such remaining lands shall be free When exempt.
from any liabilities to assessment and contribution for
benefits to be assessed upon lands as in this act provided.
Record of
exempted
In all such cases a record shall be made by said Board,
specifying the lands so to be exempted, which shall be lands.
filed in the office of the Secretary of said Board, and may
be recorded in the office of the Register of Deeds of Hen-
nepin county.
sworn.
Before proceeding to act under such appointment, the Assessors to be
said Assessors shall make oath before the Clerk of the said
District Court, faithfully and impartially to discharge the
duties of their said office; and shall then give notice, by
publication thereof, for six (6) successive days, in the
official newspaper of said city, the last of which publica- Notice of
tions shall be at least three (3) days before the time of
meeting, of the time and place of the meeting for the
purpose of making said assessment.
meeting.
Parties to be
All parties interested may appear before said Assessors
and be heard touching any matter connected with the heard.
assessment.
The Assessors shall have power to administer oaths to Meetings of
witnesses, and shall hear and consider any pertinent tes- assessors.
timony offered; and they may adjourn their meetings from
time to time, until the assessment is completed.
When completed the assessment shall be signed by the Assessment to
Assessors or by a majority who shall concur therein, and be filed.
shall be returned to and filed in the office of the Clerk of
said District Court.
The Board of Park Commissioners shall cause to be Notice of filing
published in the official newspaper of the city of Minne-
apolis, at least six (6) days successively, a notice of the
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Confirmation
of assessment.
Notice of
confirmation
and service.
Vacant lands.
Confirmation
to bind all
parties.
New
assessment,
when.
Parties to be
heard.
Objections not
available,
when.
Copy of
confirmation
to be filed.
PARKS AND PARKWAYS.
filing of said assessment roll, and that they will, on a day
named therein, apply to said Court for the confirmation
of said assessment, the last of which publications shall be
at least five (5) days prior to said application.
Said notice shall set forth the boundaries of the district
in which said assessments have been levied, and a copy
thereof shall be served personally upon the occupant, if
any, of said several tracts or parcels of land described
therein, by leaving the same with such occupant or some
member of his family upon said premises, at least five
(5) days prior to the date of such application.
Proof that any of such tracts or parcels of land were
vacant or unoccupied at the time when such service would
have otherwise been made, may be made by affidavit.
And the confirmation of such report by the Court, upon
service by publication and copy as aforesaid, shall bind
the owners and all parties interested in said lands in all
respects as though personal service had been made upon
each.
Said District Court shall have power to revise, correct,
amend or confirm said assessment, in whole or in part,
and may make or order a new assessment, in whole or in
part; and the same revise, correct, amend and confirm
upon like notice.
All parties interested may appear before said Court at
the time of such application and object to said Assess-
ment, either in whole or in part, but all objections shall be
in writing, specifying the tracts or parcels of land in re-
spect to which objection is made, and shall be filed at
least two (2) days before the time fixed for the applica-
tion.
Objections which relate merely to the amount assessed
upon the premises specified shall not be available unless
the Court shall be satisfied that the Assessors in fixing
such amount were governed by improper motives, or
proceeded upon erroneous principles, or under an obvious
mistake of facts.
After the confirmation of such report the Board of Park
Commissioners shall cause a copy thereof, as amended
and confirmed, to. be filed in the office of the Auditor of
Hennepin county; and the copies of such assessment rolls
as have heretofore been filed in the office of the Clerk of
said Court shall be transferred to and filed in the office
of said County Auditor.
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lien-10 per
Such assessments shall be a lien upon the several tracts Assessments
or parcels of land so assessed for benefits as aforesaid, cent. to be
and ten (10) per cent. of the amount thereof shall be due paid annually
and payable annually.
The Auditor of said Hennepin county shall include in
the general tax list for the collection of State, county
and city taxes, ten (10) per cent. of said assessment for
each year until the whole sum is paid, setting opposite
the several tracts or parcels of land assessed the amount
of such assessment in an appropriate column, to be
headed "Park Assessments;" and like proceedings in all
respects shall be had for enforcing the collection of the
same as is now provided by law for the collection of State,
county and city taxes.
To be included
in general tax
list.
How collected.
are subdivided.
In case any of the tracts or parcels of land which have When tracts
been, or which may hereafter be, assessed for benefits as
aforesaid, have been, or shall hereafter be, replatted or
otherwise subdivided, said County Auditor shall have
power to apportion the amount originally assessed thereon
among the several lots, blocks or parcels into which the Auditor to
same has or shall be so subdivided, in such manner that
the several subdivisions thereof shall bear their just pro-
portion of the benefit tax as so assessed and confirmed.
subdivide tax.
Auditor's
Said County Auditor shall provide and keep as one of
the records of his office a suitable book or books in which record.
he shall enter the several tracts and parcels of land so as-
sessed, with a statement of the amounts assessed thereon
respectively, and all payments made on account of such
assessments, together with such other facts in relation Compensation
thereto as he may deem advisable, and the Board of Park of auditor.
Commissioners may compensate said Auditor for such ser-
vices in any sum not exceeding five hundred (500) dollars.
If the owner of any tract or parcel of land assessed as
aforesaid shall at any time make payment of such sum as
being but simple interest at seven (7) per cent. per annum
would amount to the sum of the several installments of
such entire assessment at the time they would respec- Lands freed
tively become due under the provisions of this section, from lien.
the said lands shall henceforth be free from the lien of
the assessments so paid and discharged.
Entire
paid.
ment may be
SEC. 6. For the cost of acquiring a title to lands for Board may
said parks and parkways, if it shall be authorized so to do borrow money
by a majority of the legal voters of the City of Minne-
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Board may
borrow money.
Park bonds.
Interest.
Issue of bonds
limited.
Register of
bonds.
Parks pledged
for bouds.
Sale of bonde.
Sums to be
realized.
Estimate for
tax levy.
PARKS AND Parkways.
apolis, voting in the manner hereinafter provided, the said
Board of Park Commissioners shall have power to borrow
from time to time, for such time as it shall think expe-
dient, not exceeding fifty (50) years, a sum of money the
annual interest upon which, for all the moneys so bor-
rowed, shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars
($25,000), and for that purpose shall have authority to
issue bonds of the City of Minneapolis, to be denomin-
ated "Park Bonds," secured upon said parks and the im-
provements thereon, which bonds shall issue under the
seal of said Board of Park Commissioners, and shall be
signed by the President and Secretary of the said Board,
and countersigned by the Comptroller of the city of
Minneapolis, and shall bear interest not exceeding four
and a half (4%) per cent. per annum.
Provided, however, That no more than two hundred
thousand dollars ($200,000) of said bonds shall be issued
during the year 1883, and in no case shall bonds be issued
by said Commissioners so that the bonded debt of the
city shall exceed the limit fixed by law.
It shall be the duty of said Board of Park Commission-
ers and of the City Comptroller to keep an accurate reg-
ister or all bonds issued, showing the amount, number
and date of each bond.
And for the payment of the principal and interest of
said bonds, the said parks and improvements thereon
shall be irrevocably pledged with a first lien thereon, and
the City of Minneapolis shall be irrevocably bound.
And said bonds may be sold by said Board of Park
Commissioners upon such terms and for such prices as in
its judgment are the best which can be obtained for the
same.
Provided, That the sums realized by said Park Commis-
sioners from the sale of such bonds shall be equal to or
exceed a sum four and a half (4%) per cent. upon which
shall equal or exceed the amount of annual interest pay-
able on the bonds so sold.
SEC. 7. The said Board of Park Commissioners shall
annually, on or before the first (1st) day of October in each
year, transmit to the Auditor of Hennepin county, an esti-
mate, in writing, of the amount of money necessary for the
payment of interest on bonds issued by said Board, and
that will be required for the purchase, improvement, main-
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327
PARKS AND PARKWAYS.
tax levy.
tenance and government of said parks and parkways dur- Estimate for
ing the succeeding year, which amount shall not exceed
what will be raised by a tax of one (1) mill upon each dol-
lar of valuation of the taxable property in said city.
Auditor to de-
termine per
And the said Auditor shall proceed to determine what
per cent. said sum is on the taxable property of said city, centage.
according to the Assessor's returns, and shall in the next
general tax list for the collection of city, State and county Tax-list.
taxes in said city set down the amount chargeable to the
several persons, corporations, lots or parcels of ground in
a separate or appropriate column.
And the proper officers shall proceed to
to collect the Tax collections
same in the manner now provided by law for the collec-
tion of city, State and county taxes, and all the provis-
ions of law in respect to the collection of city, State and
county taxes, and proceedings to enforce the same, so
far as applicable, shall apply to said assessments and
taxes.
Moneys, how
The said sum of money, together with all other moneys credited.
provided for the purpose of this act, shall be placed by
the Treasurer of the city of Minneapolis to the credit of
said Board of Park Commissioners and shall be drawn by Warrants, how
said Board from the City Treasurer by warrant, signed by drawn.
the President and Secretary of the Board, and counter-
signed by the City Comptroller, and in no other way, and
shall constitute a special fund, to be known and denom-
inated the "City Park Fund."
roads, etc.
*SEC. 8. It shall be lawful for said Board of Commis Vacation of
sioners to vacate and close up any and all public roads
and highways, excepting railroads, which may pass
through, divide or separate any lands selected or appro-
priated by it for the purpose of parks; and no such road, Construction
highway or railroad shall be laid out through said parks,
or any of them except as the said Board of Commission-
ers shall lay out and construct or shall consent thereto.
of roads.
viaducts.
9 †SEC. 9. The said Board shall have power to con- Bridges and
struct all necessary bridges and viaducts over water
courses and railroads within or on the line of said parks
and parkways.
*See section 3, 8hapter 8, City Charter, (page 92, ante) as to vacation of bridgways.
† See section 9, chapter 8, (page 94, antè), as to bridges crossing railways, etc.
328
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
Parks and Parkways.
Control of
lakes, streams,
etc.
9*Whenever the title shall have been acquired for the
purpose of this act, to the lands constituting the shore or
shores of any stream of water, lake or pond, said Board
may regulate and control the use of such shore or shores
and of the waters contiguous thereto, and in case such
ownership shall embrace the entire shore of any such
lake or pond, said Board is hereby empowered to take
and penalties. and have exclusive charge and control of the waters of
said lake, and may in all things regulate and govern the
use of such waters, and may prescribe penalties for the
violation of such rules and ordinances as it may adopt
for that purpose.
Regulations
Boats.
Commissioner
• Provided, That said Board shall not prohibit the use of
sail or row boats on such waters.
SEC. 10.
The said Commissioners, or either of them,
removed, how. may be removed from office by the District Court of said
county, after trial and conviction, upon the petition, with
sworn charges, presented by not less than ten (10) reput-
able freeholders of said city, if it shall appear at said trial,
that the said Commissioner or Commissioners have been
guilty of misdemeanor or malfeasance in office under this
Non-attend-
ance.
Vacancy.
Benefit-funds,
how expended.
Parks, etc.,
perpetual.
act.
SEC. II.
The office of any Commissioner under this
act who shall not attend meetings of the Board for three
(3) successive months, after having been duly notified of
said meetings, without reasons satisfactory to the Board
or without leave of absence from said Board, may by said
Board be declared, and thereupon shall become vacant.
SEC. 12. The funds which may be received for and
upon the special assessments of benefits herein provided.
for, shall be paid into the city treasury as a part of the
park fund, one-half (%) of which benefit money shall be
expended in the improvement of the park or parks on
account of the benefits of which such money was as-
sessed.
10SEC. 13. The lands which may be designated and
obtained under the provisions of this act shall remain for-
ever for parks and parkways for the use of all the inhabi-
tants of the said city, subject to such rules and regulations
as the Board of Park Commissioners shall prescribe; said
* See section 1, chapter 8, City Charter, (page 88, ante), as to control of streams
etc.
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
329
Parks and ParkwayS.
Parks subject
parks being subject to the lien of the bonds which may Park for
be issued for their purchase, which lien in case of non- bonds.
payment of said bonds at the maturity thereof, may be
enforced by sales pursuant to any decree of a Court of
competent jurisdiction.
doned realty.
10 Provided, That whenever the title to any piece or parcel Sale of aban-
of real estate that has been or may hereafter be acquired
under the provisions of this act, either by purchase or
condemnation, and the proceedings for the establishment
of the particular park or parkway of which said piece or
parcel of land was designated to form a part, has been or When and how
may hereafter be abandoned by said Board, as by this act
authorized, in consequence or which abandonment said
piece or parcel of land has or may become unavailable as
a part of said park system, such lands may be sold and
conveyed by deed executed by the President and Secre-
tary of said Board at such price and upon such terms as
said Board may direct or approve.
Court to
10 No such sale shall be valid, however, unless author-
ized by the District Court of Hennepin county, by its or- authorize sale
der describing the premises to be sold and entered upon
the petition of said Board, after a hearing of all interested
parties, upon such notice, by publication or otherwise, as
such Court may prescribe.
10 And said District Court is hereby empowered to make
and enforce all such orders, judgments and decrees, as it
may deem proper in the premises and all conveyances so
authorized and executed shall vest in the grantee all
right, title and interest of the city of Minneapolis in such
lands acquired by such condemnation or purchase.
Court powers
title.
relative to
ordinances.
11*SEC. 14. 11 Said Board shall have power to adopt rules Rules and
and ordinances to secure the quiet, orderly and suitable
use and enjoyment of said parks and parkways by the
people, and to fix and ordain penalties for the violation
thereof, which ordinance shall take effect from and after
the publication thereof in the official paper of said city; How enforced.
and the same shall be enforced by prosecution in the Mu-
nicipal Court of said city as in the case of other ordi-
nances of said city.
11The Mayor of the City of Minneapolis shall, upon re- Park Police.
quest of the Board of Park Commissioners, appoint as Po-
licemen such persons as said Board may request, and
*See, also, Chapter 9, Special Laws of 1887, creating Police Commission, [Chapter
6, City Charter.]
330
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
-
1
Park Police.
Act to be
accepted by
voters.
Ballots.
Board to act,
when.
Not to act, if.
Inconsistent
acts repealed.
Act to take
effect.
PARKS AND PARKWAYS.
which Policemen shall be under the control and direction
of said Board and may be discharged by said Board; and
said Board shall provide for the payment of such Police-
men out of the Park Funds.
SEC. 15. The Board of Commissioners appointed by
this act, or their successors, shall take no proceedings for
the condemnation or purchase of lands, or the issue or
sale of bonds, until the provisions of this act shall have
been accepted by the legal voters of the City of Minne-
apolis at the annual city election in said city, to be held
on the first (Ist) Tuesday in April, one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-three (1883).
The legal voters of said city shall vote upon the accept-
ance of said provisions:" Park System, Yes," or "Park
System, No," which said votes shall be cast, canvassed
and certified in the manner now provided by law or ordi-
nance for casting, canvassing and certifying votes at a
city election.
If a majority of the legal voters voting thereon shall
vote "Park System, Yes," then the said Board of Commis-
sioners shall proceed to exercise all the powers granted
in this act.
If the majority of such voters voting thereon shall vote
"Park System, No," the said Board of Commissioners shall
exercise none of the powers specified in this section.
SEC. 16. All acts and parts of acts, whether in the
Charter of the city of Minneapolis or elsewhere, incon-
sistent with any of the provisions of this act, are hereby
repealed.
SEC. 17. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
331
PARKWAYS.
*An Act in Relation to Parkways in the City of Min-
SECTION.
neapolis.
SECTION.
1. Board of Park Commissioners to 3. City Council to Control Water
Control.-City Council to Consent.
Mains.
•
Opening, Vacation and Improve-
4.
Parkways Outside of City Limits.
ment of Streets.-Sidewalks and
Sewers. Special Assessments.
5.
Inconsistent Acts Repealed.
6.
Act to Take Effect.
1
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota :
I.
control
SECTION 1. All parkways which have been or which Board to
may be acquired in or adjacent to the City of Minneap- parkways.
olis shall be subject to the control and government of the
Board of Park Commissioners of the said city, in respect
to the construction, maintenance, regulation and govern-
ment thereof, and to the use, travel and traffic over and
upon the same.
Provided, That no street, alley or public place, or any
part thereof, shall be made a parkway without the con-
sent of the City Council of said city.
Consent of
Council when.
Powers of
Board relative
to parkways.
+SEc. 2. The said Board of Park Commissioners shall
have and exercise all such powers and jurisdiction over
and in relation to parkways as now is or hereafter may
be conferred upon the City Council in respect to the lay-
ing out, opening, vacation and discontinuance of streets, Opening and
the grading, paving and curbing thereof, the construction vacation of
of sidewalks and sewers, and the levying and collection
of special assessments for the cost of the same.
streets, etc.
Council may
mains.
lay water
SEC. 3. The City Council of said City of Minneapolis
shall have the same power and jurisdiction in respect to
laying water mains along parkways in the said city as it
now has in respect to laying the same along the public
streets, and the same proceedings for levying and collect- Assessments,
ing special assessments for water mains along such streets
shall apply to levying and collecting the same for water
mains laid along the parkways.
*Approved March 9, 1885, chapter 304, Special Laws.
†See section 3, chapter 8, City Charter (page 92, ante) as opening and vacation of
streets, etc.
etc.
332
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
I
Lands outside
city limits.
Inconsistent
acts repealed
Act to take
effect.
PARKS AND PARKWAYS.
SEC. 4.
The said Board of Park Commissioners may
acquire by gift lands without the corporate limits of said
city, for the purpose of continuing or completing any
system of parkways within said limits, and shall possess
the same powers and jurisdiction over said parkways as
if they were wholly within the city limits.
SEC. 5.
All acts and parts of acts, whether in the Char-
ter of the city of Minneapolis or elsewhere, inconsistent
with any of the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.
SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
AMENDMENTS TO PARK BOARD ACT.
FROM 1885 TO 1887, INCLUSive.
The Note Numbers in first column correspond with the small figures
used for references in the Act as printed herein, ante. See
also "Summary of Legislative Acts Relative to
the City of Minneapolis," etc., supra.
Note
No.
Division of Act.
Section 1-See, also...
1 Section 2..
2 Section 4-Subd'n 1.
3
6.
•
8..
9 to read..
6
7
12..
12.
8 Section 5-to read..
9 Section 9...
10 Section 13....
11 Section 14-to read.
•
Approved.
Year. Chap. Sec.
March 5
1887
20
Feb. 26
1887
18
1
Feb. 22
1887
19
1
Feb. 24
1885
96
1
Feb. 22
1887
19
2
Feb. 24
1885
96
·
Feb. 24
1885
96
Feb. 22
1887 19
3
Feb. 24
1885 96
4
Feb. 26
1887
18
Feb. 26
1887
18
Feb. 26
1887
18
4
}
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
333
*CITY FORESTER.
SECTION.
1. Provisions in Chapter Four, City
Charter, Relating to City Forester
and Planting of Shade Trees, Re-
pealed.
SECTION.
2. Park Commissioners May Appoint
City Forester.-Duties and Com-
pensation.-Ordinances.
3. Act to Take Effect.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota,
SECTION I.
Inconsistent
That the twenty-ninth (29th) subdivision
of an act entitled "An Act to Amend and Consolidate the act repealed.
Charter of the City of Minneapolis," approved March 8th,
1881, be and the same is hereby repealed.
Planting of
SEC. 2. That the Board of Park Commissioners of the City
of Minneapolis shall hereafter have authority to direct and shade trees.
regulate the planting and preservation of shade and orna-
mental trees and shrubbery in the streets, alleys and pub-
lic grounds of said city, and to appoint, upon the recom-
mendation of its President, a City Forester whose general
duties shall be to inspect, and in his discretion condemn, City Forester.
any trees or shrubs offered for sale in said city; to super-
intend and regulate the planting and culture of the same
duties.
in said streets, alleys and public grounds; and to perform Powers and
such other similar duties as said Board may by ordinance
prescribe.
Ordinances.
Said Board is also authorized to enact such ordinance
or ordinances as it may deem proper to carry out the pur-
poses of this act; and shall provide for the proper com- Compensation,
pensation of such City Forester, to be paid out of the
park funds.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from Act to take
and after its passage.
*"An act to repeal subdivision 29, section 5, chapter 4, of the Charter of the City
of Minneapolis, and to confer the power thereby granted upon the Board of Park
Commissioners of said city." Approved February 19, 1887; see Special Laws,
Chapter-
effect.
Index to Board Acts at end of "Minneapolis City Ordinances."
1
PART V.
RULES-REGULATIONS
I. CITY COUNCIL.
II. BOARD OF EDUCATION.
III. PARK COMMISSION.
IV. COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
V. LIBRARY BOARD.
VI. POLICE COMMISSION.
VII. FIRE DEPARTMENT.
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
335
COURT HOUSE
AND CITY HALL.
*An Act to Create a Board of Court House and City
Hall Commissioners.
[Approved March 2, 1887.]
SECTION.
1. Designation of Site.-Purpose Stated.
2. First Board of Commissioners
Terms.-Vacancies, etc.-Compen-
sation.
3. Organization and Officers.-Oath of
Office, Bonds, etc.
4. Board May Purchase or Condemn
Lands.-Site to be Conveyed, how.
-Rules and By-Laws.
5. Transfer of School House Site.-
Board of Education.
6. Appraisers,How Appointed.-Notices
and Hearing.-Standing Buildings.
-Separate Damages, when.-Re-
port of Appraisers.
7. Removal of Buildings.-Action on
Appraisers' Report.-Re-appraise-
ment, when.-Payment of Dam-
ages.-Deposit in Court, when.-
Failure to Remove Buildings.—
Disability of Owners.
8. Objections and Appeals.-Bond for
Costs.-Copy of Record.-Plead-
ings, Proceedings, etc.-No Ap-
peal or Writ of Error.
SECTION.
9. Description of Lands Taken, etc.,
to be Recorded.-Duty of Register
of Deeds.-Record prima facie
Evidence of Title.
10. Building to be Erected.-- Court
House and City Hall.-Furnish-
ings --Prison Labor.-Order of
Building.-Passage-ways.--Deeds.
11. Issue of Bonds.-Limit, $1,500,000.-
County and City Series.-Bonds
a Lien on Land and Building.-
Conditions and Restrictions.
12. Each Series Limited to $750,000.-
How Issued and Disposed of--
Adjustment Between City and
County.-Books and Accounts.
13. County Commisioners to Levy Tax
for Interest.-One Per Cent. per
Year for Sinking Fund.
14. City Council to Provide for Interest
in Tax-Levy.—Sinking Fund One
Per Cent. per Year.
15. City Series Not to Increase Bonded
Indebtedness of City Beyond a
Five Per Cent. Total.
18. Act to Take Effect.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota.
SECTION I. That block seventy-seven (77), in the town Designation
(now city) of Minneapolis, in the County of Hennepin and of site.
State of Minnesota, be and the same hereby is designated
* "An Act to Designate a Site for a Public Building in the City of Minneapolis,
to be used as a Court House for Hennepin County and a City Hall for said city, and
to create a Board of Commissioners to purchase or condemn said site and to con-
struct a suitable building thereon, and to authorize said Board to issue and sell
bonds to pay for said site and building." Chapter-, Special Laws of 1887.
336
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
Designation
of site.
Board of
Commission-
ers.
COURT House and CITY HALL.
as a site for, and the same shall be the site of, a public
building to be erected thereon, as herein provided for, to
be used as a Court House for said Hennepin County and
a City Hall for the City of Minneapolis, as herein or here-
inafter by law provided for.
SEC. 2.
That William D. Washburn, Charles W. Loring,
John C. Oswald, John Swift, Oliver T. Erickson, W. Š.
Chowen, David H. Clough, Lars Swenson and Titus
Mareck, who are residents and citizens of said county of
Hennepin, be and they hereby are appointed Commis-
sioners, who, together with their successors in office, to be
appointed as herein named, are hereby created and shall
Style of Board. hereafter be known and designated as "THE BOARD OF
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL COMMISSIONERS."
Term of office.
Vacancies.
Compensation.
Oath of office.
Each of said Commissioners shall hold said office until
said site shall have been purchased or condemned as
herein provided, and a suitable building for a Court
House and City Hall shall have been built, fully com-
pleted and furnished, as herein provided.
And in case of vacancy occurring in said Board of Court
House and City Hall Commissioners, said vacancy shall
be filled by the appointment of a suitable person to fill
such vacancy, who shall be a resident and citizen of said
Hennepin county, to be elected by the remaining mem-
bers of the said Board of Court House and City Hall Com-
missioners, at any meeting of said Board called for that
purpose.
No member of said Board shall receive any compensa-
tion for his services.
SEC 3.
Said Commissioners shall as soon as practica-
ble, within ninety days after the passage of this act, meet
at the Court House in the city of Minneapolis, and each
one of said Commissioners shall take an oath before one
of the Judges of the District Court of said Hennepin
county, to support the Constitution of the United States,
the State of Minnesota, and that he will faithfully and
Nature of oath. honestly perform the duties of said office, as one of said.
Commissioners, and that he will not knowingly permit
any fraud, dishonest practice or cheating by any con-
tractor or other person, doing work or performing labor
in or about the purchase or condemnation of said site, or
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
337
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
missioner.
the erection or furnishing of said public building contem- Oath of Com-
plated by this act; nor will he knowingly permit any such
fraud, dishonest practice or cheating by any person or
persons whomsoever.
Said Commissioners shall elect one of their number to
act as President of said Board, and one of its members to
act as Treasurer of said Board, each of whom shall hold
his respective office until the first Tuesday after the first
Monday of January, 1888, unless sooner removed by said
Board, and until his successor shall have been elected and
shall have entered on the duties of his office; and on every
Tuesday after the first Monday of each January thereafter,
a like election of President and Treasurer shall take place,
who shall hold their respective offices, unless sooner re-
moved by said Board, until their successors are elected
and enter upon their duties.
President and
treasurer,
Successors.
agents.
Said Board may appoint a Secretary and such other Secretary and
employes and agents, to be paid such compensation as
said Board may designate, and as to said Board may seem
best.
Said Board shall require such proper bond, with two or Treasurer's
more good sureties, to be given by said Treasurer to said bond.
Board for the benefit of said Board, or said county or city,
as the case may be, as said Board shall require.
Acquisition of
SEC. 4.
Said Board shall have the power to acquire in
itself, (for the purposes herein named
purposes herein named and on behalf block 77.
of the county of Hennepin and city of Minneapolis)
either by purchase or by condemnation as herein pro-
vided, the title to said block seventy-seven (77), but it
shall, at the time herein designated, convey such part of Purchase or
the same respectively to said county of Hennepin and to
said city of Minneapolis, in severalty, as shall be determ-
ined upon by said Board and as ought, under the designs
of this act, to be conveyed to each said county and said
city.
condemnation.
by-laws.
Said Board may make all necessary rules and by-laws Rules and
for their own government, or for the government of their
employes or agents, or the transaction of its business.
SEC. 5. Said Board and "The Board of Education of Sale of block77
the City of Minneapolis," shall have the right to enter
into such arrangements as they can agree on for the sale
338
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
Board of
education, etc.
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
of any lands in said block seventy-seven (77), now held
or owned for school house or other school purposes, or
otherwise, by said The Board of Education of the City of
Minneapolis, or by any other Board, trustee or trustees,
or corporation, or by said city of Minneapolis, and such
Terms of sale. arrangements may include the taking of the bonds here-
inafter provided for by said The Board of Education of
the city of Minneapolis, or may include the sale of the
same on time, on such terms as may be agreed on; or in
case satisfactory arrangements cannot be made for such
Condemnation sale and purchase of such school house property, or other
school property, then the same may be condemned by
the Board hereby created, as herein provided, for the pur-
poses herein named.
of school
property,
Appraisers
appointed,
when,
Notice of
meeting of
appraisers.
Parties to be
heard.
Evidence to be
taken.
Award of
damages.
SEC. 6. Whenever said Board is unable to make satis-
factory arrangements for the purchase of any part of said
block seventy-seven (77), said Board, hereby created,
shall have the authority and it is hereby authorized to
appoint three disinterested citizens of Hennepin county,
who shall be freeholders therein, as Appraisers to appraise
the damages to the owner or owners or incumbrancers of,
or to any person having a lien on or interest in any part
of said block seventy-seven (77), or of any portion thereof.
Such Appraisers shall, after being duly sworn to faith-
fully and impartially discharge their duties, give notice as
soon as practicable of the time when and place where they
will meet to attend to the business of their appointments,
which notice shall be published at least ten days in two
daily newspapers published in the city of Minneapolis.
And at the time and place specified in such notice
they shall proceed to hear all persons interested in the
subject of said appraisement, at which time they shall
also view the premises.
And they may hear any evidence offered by any
parties interested, and may adjourn from day to day for
the purpose aforesaid. They shall so hear the owner or
owners and also any person having any interest in or lien
upon any part of said block.
When their view and hearing shall be concluded they
shall determine the amount of damages to be paid the
owner or owners, and to each person who may have any
interest in or lien upon any part of said block.
1
t
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339
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
buildings-
If there should be any building standing in whole or in Standing
part upon any part of said block to be taken, said Ap- Damages.
praisers shall in such case determine the amount of dam-
ages which should be paid to the owner or owners
thereof in case such building, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, should be taken.
And shall also appraise and determine the amount of When building
damages to be paid such owner or owners, in case he or removed.
they should elect to remove such building.
And the damages in relation to the building aforesaid, Separate
shall be appraised separately from the damages in rela- damages.
tion to the land upon which the same is erected.
owner.
If the lands and buildings belong to different persons, Damages, when
or if the land be subject to lease, mortgage or judgment, more than one
or if there be any estate less than an estate in fee, the
injury or damage done such persons, so interested respect-
fully, may be awarded to them by the Appraisers.
when.
Provided, That neither such award made by the Ap- Payments not
praisers, nor the confirmation thereof by the Board to be made,
herein created shall be deemed to require payments of
such damages to the person or persons named in said
award,in case it shall transpire that such person or per-
sons are not entitled to receive the same.
The said Appraisers having ascertained and appraised Award to be
the damages aforesaid shall make and file, with the Secre- filed.
tary of the Board hereby created, a written report to said
Board of their action in the premises, which report shall
contain a schedule of the appraisement of damages made Schedule and
to each person, with a description of the lands and names description.
of the owner, if known to them, and of the interests
therein of each person to whom they award damages;
and also a statement of the costs of the proceedings.
confirmation.
Upon the filing of such report the Secretary of the Notice of
Board hereby created shall give notice by publication in propo:ed
the newspaper in which said Appraisers gave their first
notice, by publication therein for ten days, to the effect
that said appraisement has been returned and filed with
sáid Secretary, and that the same will be confirmed by
the Board hereby created, at a meeting thereof to be Objections to
named in said notice, unless objections are made, in writ-
ing, by persons interested in any land required to be
taken.
be in writing.
340
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
Notice of
removal of
buildings.
Action of
board on
award.
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
SEC. 7.
Any persons interested in any building or
buildings standing in whole or in part upon any land re-
quired to be taken shall, on or before the time specified
in such notice, for such confirmation notify said Secre-
tary, in writing, of their election to remove such building.
The Board hereby created upon the day fixed for the
consideration of such report, or at such subsequent meet-
ing to which the same may stand over, or be referred,
shall have power in their discretion to confirm, raise, re-
vise or annul the appraisement, giving due considera-
tion to any objections interposed by parties interested;
New appraisers and, if so annulled, said Board may appoint other Apprais-
ers in like manner as the first Appraisers, to act in the
same manner, to reappraise the same.
when.
Payment or
tender of
damages.
The damages appraised shall be paid by said Board,
and shall be so paid or tendered, or be deposited with the
Clerk of the District Court of said county, as hereinafter
provided, within three months after the confirmation of
such appraisement and report; but in case any appeal or
appeals shall be taken from the order confirming such ap-
praisement, then the amount of such damages shall not in
Deposit in case any case be required to be paid or tendered, or deposited
with said Clerk of the District Court, as aforesaid, until
thirty days after the determination of all appeals which
shall have been so taken.
of appeal.
Payment]
befo e
possession.
Disputed
ownership, etc.
Buildings,
when removed.
The land and property required to be taken for the
purposes aforesaid, shall not be taken possession of until
the damages awarded to the owner thereof, or other person
entitled thereto, shall have been paid or tendered to such
owner, or deposited with the Clerk of said Court, as here-
inafter provided; and in case said Board shall be unable
to find the owner or other person to whom such damages
are due, in order to pay or tender the same, or in case
said Board shall be unable to determine to whom the
damages so awarded should in any particular case be paid,
or in case of disputed claims in relation thereto, the
amount of damages, in any such case, may be deposited
by order of said Board in the District Court of Hennepin
county. The said Court upon proper application of any
person claiming the award or any part thereof, shall de-
termine to whom the same shall be paid.
In case any owner or owners of buildings, as aforesaid,
shall have elected in manner aforesaid to remove his or
their buildings, he or they shall remove them within.
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Court House and CITY HALL.
thirty (30) days from the confirmation of said report or
within such further time as the Board may allow for the
purpose, and shall thenceforth be entitled to payment of
the amount of damages awarded in such case.
Buildings,
when removed.
remove.
In case of removal, when such person or persons shall Failure to
not have elected to remove such buildings, or shall have
neglected (after having elected) to remove the same with
in the time prescribed, such buildings, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, upon payment or depositing the
damages awarded for such taking, in manner aforesaid,
may be taken and appropriated, sold or disposed of, as Buildings may
the said Board shall direct; and the same or the proceeds
thereof shall belong to the fund hereinafter named.
be sold.
ility of owner.
When any known owner of lands or tenements affected Legal disa-
by any proceeding within this act, shall be an infant, or
shall labor under any legal disability, a Judge of the Dis-
trict Court of Hennepin County may, upon application of
one of said Commissioners, or of said Board, or of such
party by his next friend, appoint a suitable guardian for
such party; and all notices required by this act shall be
served upon such guardian.
When and how
SEC. 8. Any person whose property is proposed to be Objections to
taken or interfered with, under any provision of this act confirmation.
and who deems that there is any irregularity in the pro-
ceedings of the said Board, or action of the Appraisers
by reason of which the award of the Appraisers ought not
to be confirmed, or who is dissatisfied with the amount of
damages awarded to him for the taking of or interference
with his property, may at any time before such award
shall be confirmed by the Board of Commissioners, file
with the Secretary of said Board, in writing, his objection made.
to such confirmation, setting forth therein specifically the
particular irregularities complained of, and containing
a description of the property affected by such proceedings.
And if, notwithstanding such objections, the said Board Right of
shall confirm the award, such person so objecting shall appeal.
have the right to appeal, from such order of confirmation
of the Board, to the District Court of the County of Hen-
nepin, at any time within twenty (20) days after such
order.
made,
Such appeal shall be made by serving a written notice Appeal, how
of such appeal upon the Secretary of said Board, which
shall specify the property of the appellant affected by
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Bond on
appeal.
Certified copy
of award and
objection.
Certified copy,
additional
appeals.
Court
proceedings.
Case to have
precedence.
No appeal.
Jury to deter-
when.
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
such award, and refer to the objection filed as aforesaid;
and also by delivering to said Secretary a bond to the
said Board, executed by the appellant, or by some one
on his behalf, with two (2) sureties, who shall justify in
the penal sum of fifty dollars ($50), conditioned to pay all
costs that may be awarded against the appellant.
}
Thereupon the said Secretary shall make out and trans-
mit to the Clerk of the said District Court a copy of the
award of said Commissioners, as confirmed by the Board,
and of the order of the Board confirming the same,
and of the objection filed by the appellant as aforesaid,
all certified by said Secretary to be true copies, within
ten (10) days after the taking of such appeal.
But, if more than one appeal be taken from any award,
it shall not be necessary that the Secretary, in appeal
subsequent to the first, shall send up anything except a
certified copy of the appellant's objection.
There shall be no pleading on such appeal; but the
Court shall determine in the first instance whether there
was in the proceeding any such irregularity or omission
of duty prejudicial to the appellant, and specified in said
wiitten objections, that as to him the award or appraise-
ment of the Appraisers ought not to stand, and whether
said Appraisers had jurisdiction to take action in the
premises.
The case, on such irregularities, may be brought on for
hearing on eight (8) days' notice, at any general or
special term of the Court, and shall have precedence of
other civil cases; and the judgment of the Court shall be
either to confirm or annul the proceedings only as the
same affects the property of the appellant proposed to
be taken or damaged, and described in said written ob-
jection.
From such determination no appeal or writ of error
shall lie.
In case the amount of damages awarded is complained:
mine damages, of by such appellant, the Court shall, if the proceedings
shall be confirmed in other respects, upon such confirma-
tion, submit the question of damages sustained by appel-
lant to a jury, at a general term of said Court; and said
jury shall find the value of the real estate of the appellant
as well as of the buildings therein separately, or of the
value of the real estate and the buildings thereon together,
Separate
values.
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COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
what.
as the Court may direct, in accordance with the facts in Jury to find,
the case, whether or not the appellant has elected to re-
tain the buildings, as hereinbefore provided.
entered.
Upon said verdict, unless set aside by the Court as Judgment how
in the case of other verdicts of juries, on the motion for
new trial by appellant, or by said Board, the Court shall
enter judgment as in any other civil case; from which
judgment or from any other order of the Court, whether No appeal.
the same be from an order granting or refusing a new
trial or otherwise, there shall be no appeal or writ of
error.
be recorded.
Receipts and
certificates.
SEC. 9.
As soon as said proceedings for acquiring the Award, etc., to
title to such lands shall have been completed, said Board
shall make an accurate description of each parcel of land
so condemned, together with the names of the owners.
thereof, and any incumbrancer thereof, or other person
having any lien or interest therein, with a statement of
the amount of damages awarded therefor, either by said
Appraisers, or by the Court or jury, together with a copy
of the receipt of such owner, incumbrancer, or other per-
son having a lien upon or interest therein, or in case the
same has been paid to the Clerk of said Court, and has
not been received by such owner, incumbrancer or other
person having a lien upon or interest in said land, then a petiolatan.
copy of the receipt of said Clerk of the Court therefor, all
of which shall be certified to by the President and Secre-
tary of said Board, under the official seal of said Board,
and be filed for record in the office of the Register of
Deeds in said county of Hennepin, which said Register
of Deeds shall record the same in his office, in the usual Record, and
way of recording transfers of real estate in said county, effect of.
and when so recorded the same shall be prima facie evi-
dence of title to such parcel of land, and of the transfer
of all the interests of such former owner, incumbrancer or
other person having any lien upon or interest in said par-
cel of real estate to said The Board of Court House and
City Hall Commissioners.
erected.
SEC. 10.
It shall be the duty of said Board to plan, Building to be
devise and construct, upon said block seventy-seven (77),
when they shall have acquired full title to the same, a
public building, so planned and devised that the same may
be of architectural symmetry; and the same shall be so
planned, devised and constructed that one part of the
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MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
Character of
building.
To be com-
pleted.
Prison labor.
Court House
first.
City Hall de-
layed.
Access to
buildings.
Deeds, when
completed.
Court House.
City Hall.
Deeds, nature
of.
Issue of bonds,
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
same can be used for a County Court House, for all proper
county purposes for said county of Hennepin, and the
other part of the said building shall be so planned, devised
and constructed that the same may be used for City Hall
and other proper city purposes; and in constructing said
part to be used for City Hall and other city purposes, said
Board may advise with the Committee on Public Grounds
and Buildings of the City Council of said city.
Said Board shall also fully complete and furnish said
building.
No prison labor or product of prison labor shall be em-
ployed on or used in the construction of said building.
Said Board shall proceed to construct that part of said
building which is to be used for said Court House for said
Hennepin County first; and if practicable may delay the
building of said City Hall portion of said building, for
such time as to them may seem best, not to exceed three
years.
Said building shall be so constructed that there shall
be a convenient passage-way on each floor from said county
part of said building to said city part of said building.
When said building shall have been so completely finished
and furnished said Board shall cause a proper deed of
conveyance to be made for that part of said block upon
which said part of said building, so constructed for said
Court House for said county, and the land properly apper-
taining thereto, to the County of Hennepin; and shall
cause a like deed to be made to the City of Minneapolis
for that part of said block on which said City Hall shall
have been constructed and the land appertaining thereto;
both of which deeds shall be ordered to be made by said
Board and shall be made, executed and delivered by the
President and Secretary of said Board, and each of said
deeds shall contain as a consideration the respective
amounts of the cost of the respective parts of said block
and the respective parts of said building thereon, as near
as the same can be estimated by said Board.
SEC. II. For the purpose of providing money for ac-
quiring title to said block of land, and constructing said
building thereon, said Board of Court House and City
Hall Commissioners is hereby authorized to issue bonds
to run not to exceed thirty (30) years, bearing interest
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
345
COURT House and CITY HALL.
limit.
payable semi-annually, not to exceed four and one half Interest and
of one per centum per year, in such amounts as
they may need for such purpose, from time to time, not
to exceed in all the sum of fifteen hundred thousand dol-
lars, which bonds shall not be sold for less than
par value thereof, and which bonds shall be denom-
inated "Hennepin and Minneapolis Court House and
City Hall Bonds.
Sale and name.
Two series of
bonds.
And there shall be added on such bonds either the
words "County Series" or "City Series," as the case may
be, which bonds are hereby made a lien upon said block
of land and any such building constructed thereon, from
the time only when said Board shall have acquired full
title to every part of said block seventy-seven (77); but
after said Board shall have deeded to each said county when
and city itspart of said block of land, then each series cf
said bonds shall only be a lien on the respective part of
said block of land which shall have been so deeded to
the said municipality which is hereby charged with the
payment of the same.
Said bonds shall be issued under the seal of said Board
and shall be signed by the President and Secretary
thereof, and said "County Series" shall countersigned by
the Auditor of Hennepin county, and said "City Series"
shall be countersigned by the Comptroller of said city;
and said Auditor and said Comptroller shall keep an ac-
count and record of the amount, date, number and rate
of interest of each bond of the series relating to the
municipality of which he is the accounting officer, that is
to say said Comptroller shall keep said account of said
"City Series" and said Auditor of said "County Series."
Bonds a lien,
•
How issued and
signed.
Bond records.
Said Board shall not be obliged to issue equal amounts When issued.
of each series at any one time, but may issue larger
amounts of one series than of the other, at any one time
during the progress of carrying out their trust, as said
Board may deem best.
Each series
limited.
SEC. 12. Said Board of Court House and City Hall
Commissioners shall not issue of either series of bonds.
more than the sum of seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars ($750,000) in all. And after the title has been ac- Issue of bonds
quired to said block seventy-seven (77), as herein com- restricted.
templated, said Board shall thereafter issue from time to
time such portion of each of said series of bonds as may
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MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
how applied.
COURT HOUSE AND CITP HALL.
Bond proceeds, be necessary to pay the expenses on that
that part of said
building which is to be constructed for the purposes of
that municipality, either said county or said city, which
is to assume and pay for the series of said bonds so issued
to raise money to pay for said part of said building so
to be constructed for it.
Accounting be-
tween city and
-county.
Sale of bonds.
Proportionate
shares.
Adjustment of
interest.
Final account-
ing.
Books of ac-
.count.
Said Board shall, when they shall have so constructed
and furnished said buildings, make an accounting be-
tween said city and said county in such manner that said
county and said city shall have paid, or had bonds of the
proper series issued for paying, its proper proportion of
the cost of both the acquiring of the title of said block of
land and of the construction and furnishing of said build-
ing.
And said Board shall, as nearly as practicable, from time
to time, after the said acquiring the title of said block,
issue and sell said bonds in such proportionate amounts,
in each of said series, that each of said municipalities,
said county and said city, shall be obliged to assume and
pay of said bonds and the interest thereof, its proper pro-
portionate share of the cost of said block of land, and of
said building and the furnishing thereof.
And said Board, in such accounting and consideration,
shall take into consideration whether or not at any time
either said county or said city has been obliged to pay
the interest upon its proper series of said bonds, for any
material length of time, for any material sum of money
more than it ought to have assumed and paid; in such
case said amount of said interest, which one municipality
has paid more than its proper proportion, shall be ad-
justed between said county and said city, by said Com-
missioners, in said final accounting between said county
and said city, as to the cost of said block and said build-
ing and its furnishing, and shall properly and equitably
adjust the same between said municipalities.
And for this purpose proper books of account shall
always be kept showing the state of the expenditures for
each of said municipalities and its respective share of the
cost of said building, and of said land after said Board
shall have determined the quantity of said land each of
said municipalities shall be entitled to.
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COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
series.
SEC. 13. The County of Hennepin is hereby charged Tax for county
with the payment of the principal and interest of said
series of bonds so to be denominated as "County Series,"
and the Board of County Commissioners of Hennepin
county is hereby charged with the duty of providing by
tax upon all the taxable property in said Hennepin
county each year with sufficient sums of
sums of money to pay
the interest on said series of said bonds to be denomin-
ated "County Series."
And also a sum sufficient to create a sinking fund for Sinking fund.
the payment of said principal of said bonds amounting
to the sum of one per cent. of said bonds each year,
which sinking fund shall be invested by said Board of
County Commissioners of Hennepin County in any
manner in which any of the sinking fund which the city
of Minneapolis is required to raise by taxation for the
payment of the bonds of said city, as may be invested.
SEC. 14.
The City of Minneapolis is hereby charged Tax for city
with the payment of the principal and interest of said
series of said bonds which shall be denominated "City
Series," and it is hereby made the duty of the City Coun-
cil of the city of Minneapolis to raise by a levy on any
taxable property within said city, sufficient money each
year to pay the interest on said series of said bonds to be
denominated "City Series."
And said City Council shall also raise by like tax a Sinking fund.
sum of money equal to one per cent. of the principal of
said bonds, to be invested and held as a sinking fund for
the payment of the principal of said bonds, which shall
be invested in like manner, as other sinking funds pro-
vided for the payment of other bonds of said city.
SEC. 15. Nothing herein shall authorize the issue at
any time of said bonds so to be named "City Series" to
such an amount that the whole amount of the principal
of all bonds actually outstanding (less the amount in the
sinking fund of said city for the payment of the bonds of
said city) against said city at the time, together with the
proposed issue of said "City Series" of said bonds, shall
exceed five (5) per cent. of the aggregate value of the
taxable property of said city, as assessed and determined
for the purposes of taxation.
ited to 5 per
City debt lim.
cent.
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MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
Countersign-
ing evidence of
legality.
Act to take
effect.
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HAIL.
The countersigning of any bonds purporting to be is-
sued under the authority of this act, by the City Comp-
troller of said city, shall, in respect to all such bonds held
by bone fide purchasers, be deemed conclusive evidence
that the limitations of this act have been observed and
complied with.
SEC. 16. This act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage.
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MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
349
TAX LEVY.
*An Act to Create a Board of Tax Levy for the
County of Hennepin, and Define the
SECTION.
Powers and Duties. Thereof.
[Approved March 8, 1887; as Amended to March 7, 1887. inclusive.]
1. Composition of Board -County
Auditor to be Secretary.-Presi-
dent, How Chosen.
2. Powers and Duties of Board.—
Meetings and Qiorum.-Maxi-
mum Tax Levy.-Records.
SEC. I.
SECTION.
3. Auditor to Certify Results to Board,
etc.-Tax Must be Limited Ac-
cordingly.-Not to Exceed Maxi-
mum Rate Determined on.-Tax
in Excess Absolutely Void.
4. Act to Take Effect.
There is hereby created and constituted in Board of Tax
and for the county of Hennepin, a Board which is hereby Levy.
designated and shall be known as the Board of Tax Levy,
and which shall be composed of the chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners, the County Auditor, the
President of the Board of Education of the city of Min-
neapolis, the President of the Board of Park Commission-
ers of the city of Minneapolis, the Chairman of the Com- Composition.
mittee on Ways and Means of the City Council of the
city of Minneapolis, the Comptroller of the city of Min-
neapolis, and the Mayor of the city of Minneapolis, which
several officers shall be cx-officio the members of the said
Board of Tax Levy.
The County Auditor shall serve as the Secretary of the President and
said Board, and one (1) of the other members thereof Secretary.
shall be chosen by the Board to preside at the meetings
thereof.
Board.
SEC. 2. The said Board of Tax Levy are hereby em- Meeting of
powered and required to meet at the office of the County
Auditor on the second (2d) Monday in September in each
*The entire act was amended March 4, 1885 (see Special Laws, chapter 84) to read
as printed herein, save amendment of March 7, 1887, to section 1, adding the Presi-
dent of the Park Commission, and the Chairman of the City Council Committee on
Ways and Means, to the Board.
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MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
Meetings and
adjournment.
Quorum.
Board to fix
maximum rate
of county tax.
General city
tax-rate.
School tax-
rate.
Park tax-rate.
Library tax-
rate.
Maximum to
be reduced.
Record of pro-
ceedings.
Transcripts
evidence.
TAX LEVY.
year, and may adjourn from time to time as may be nec-
essary for the performance of the duties hereby required
of them, but not later than the first (1st) Tuesday in Octo-
ber, and it shall be the duty of the County Auditor to
notify the members of said Board of its meetings.
A majority of said Board shall constitute a quorum,
and a majority vote of the whole Board shall decide all
questions coming before said Board.
The said Board at its meeting or meetings shall con-
sider, determine and fix a maximum rate of taxation for
the various purposes, respectively, for which the Board
of County Commissioners is, or hereafter may be, author-
ized to levy taxes for such year;—
A like maximum rate of taxation for the various pur-
poses, respectively, for which the City Council of the city
of Minneapolis is, or hereafter may be, authorized to levy
taxes for such year;—
A like maximum rate of taxation for the various pur-
poses, respectively, for which the Board of Education of
the city of Minneapolis is, or hereafter may be, author-
ized to levy taxes for such year;—
A like maximum rate of taxation for the various pur-
poses, respectively, for which the Board of Park Commis-
sioners of the city of Minneapolis is, or hereafter may be,
authorized to levy taxes for such year;-
And a like maximum rate of taxation for the various
purposes, respectively, for which the Library Board of
the city of Minneapolis is, or hereafter may be, author-
ized to levy taxes for such year.
Board, in the dis-
maximum rate of
And it shall be the duty of the said
charge of its functions, to reduce the
taxation for the various purposes aforesaid, to the lowest
practical limit.
The Secretary of said Board of Tax Levy shall keep an
accurate record of all the proceedings of said Board, in a
book to be provided for that purpose, which book shall
be a public and permanent record in the office of said
County Auditor, and the same, as well as transcripts
thereof, duly certified under the hand and seal of said
Auditor, shall be prima facie evidence in all the Courts of
this State.
MINNEAPOLIS BOARD ACTS.
351
TAX LEVY.
County Audi-
tor to certify
results.
SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the County Auditor,
on or before the first (1st) Thursday of October in each
year, to certify under his hand and official seal, and trans-
mit to the Board of County Commissioners, the City
Council of the city of Minneapolis, to the Board of Edu-
cation of the city of Minneapolis, to the Board of Park
Commissioners of the city of Minneapolis and to the
Library Board of the city of Minneapolis, respectively,
the maximum rates of taxation for the various purposes
for which said bodies are respectively authorized to levy
taxes, as fixed and determined by said Board of Tax Levy, Tax limited to
and no tax shall be levied for such year by either of said
bodies, for any of said purposes, in excess of the maxi-
mum rate, respectively, so fixed and determined by said.
Board of Tax Levy; and the levy of any tax in excess Excess void.
thereof shall be absolutely null and void as to such ex-
cess.
rate fixed.
SEC. 4.
This act shall take effect and be in force from t
and after its passage.
Act to take
effect.
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I
PART IV.
SPECIAL
ACTS.
I. STREETS IN LAYMAN CEMETERY.
II. BONDS FOR CITY PURPOSES.
III. BONDS FOR BRIDGES.
IV. CONFIRMING MARKET ORDINANCE.
SPECIAL ACTS
Relating to Minneapolis, Passed at the Legislative
Session in 1887.
I.
Relative to Street in the Layman IV. Bonds for Bridge at Seventeenth
Cemetery.
II. Bonds for Sewer-Tunnels, Board
of Education and Other City
Purposes.
III. Bonds for Franklin Avenue Bridge
-Conditions, etc.
V.
Avenue North.
Relative to Bonds for Stone Arch
Bridge.
VI. Confirming Central Market Ordi-
nance.
See, also, "Summary of Legislative Acts Relative to Minneapolis," etc. supra.
*LAYMAN CEMETERY.
SECTION.
Preamble: Location of Cemetery;
SECTION.
Necessity for Condemnation of
Same.
2. Condemnation Proceedings
other Cases.
as in
1. Council Authorized to Purchase or
Condemn for Street Purposes.
3.
Inconsistent Acts Repealed.
4.
Act to Take Effect.
1
Preamble-Lo-
WHEREAS, The cemetery in the city of Minneapolis, Ption of cem
known as the Layman Cemetery, consisting of the twenty etery.
(20) acres, more or less, situate in the southwest corner of
section thirty-six (36), township twenty-nine (29), range
*An Act Authorizing the City of Minneapolis to Purchase or Cause to be Con-
demned, Taken and Appropriated for Street Purposes, a Portion of the Layman
Cemetery, so called, in said city." Approved March 4, 1887. See Special Laws,
chapter-.
1
402
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
LAYMAN CEMETERY.
Preamble-
width of Lake twenty-four (24), was laid out and platted when Lake
Street, which forms its southern boundary, was only sixty-
six (66) feet in width; and—
Street.
Council desires
to widen.
Portion of cem-
etery needed.
No interments
therein.
Council may
purchase or
condemn.
Amount.
Condemnation
proceedings.
Inconsistent
acts repealed.
Act to take
effect.
WHEREAS, Said city of Minneapolis is desirous of im-
proving said Lake Street, and widening it for its entire
length, from the Mississippi River to Lake Calhoun in said
city; and
WHEREAS, To give said street a uniform width of from
eighty (80) to one hundred (100) feet, it will be necessary
to appropriate for street purposes a portion of said ceme-
tery, from the south side thereof, not exceeding seventeen
(17) feet in width; and-
WHEREAS, No interments have been made, in said ceme-
tery, within the portion thereof that will be required for
widening and improving said Lake Street; therefore-
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:
SECTION I. That the City Council of said city of Min-
neapolis be and is hereby authorized and empowered to
purchase, or caused to be condemned, taken and appro-
priated for street purposes, so much of said cemetery
grounds, from the south side thereof, not exceeding a
strip or piece seventeen (17) feet in width, the entire
length, east and west, as may be necessary to widen said
Lake Street, where it adjoins said cemetery, so as to make
the north line of said street uniform with the north line
thereof either east or west of said cemetery.
SEC. 2. The proceedings for condemnation of said.
portion of said cemetery, for said street improvements,
shall be such as are now provided by law for taking private
property for street purposes.
SEC. 3. That all acts or parts of acts in conflict with
this act, including any and all provisions of the Charter of
said city of Minneapolis that are in conflict with the
provisions of this act, are hereby repealed.
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
403
*BONDS FOR CITY PURPOSES,
SECTION.
1. Council to Issue Bonds.-Form and
Sale.
2. Not to Exceed Charter Limit and
Limited to $1,110,000.-Signature
of Comptroller Conclusive.
SECTION.
3. Proceeds of Bonds Appropriated
How.
4. Bonds Not to be Issued, When.
5. Act to Take Effect.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota :
issue bonds
SECTION I. The City Council of the city of Minne- Council to
apolis is hereby authorized and required, in the manner,
under the restrictions, and for the purposes hereinafter
designated, to issue, from time to time, as needed, the
bonds of said city, in such denominations, at such time of
payment not exceeding thirty (30) years, and at such Thirty years.
place of payment as may be deemed best; such bonds to
have semi-annual interest-coupons at such rate of interest, Interest.
not exceeding five (5) per cent. per annum, payable at
such place or places as said City Council shall designate.
And said City Council is further authorized to nego- Sale of bonds.
tiate and sell such bonds from time to time upon the best
terms for said city that may be obtained.
when.
Provided, however, That no such bonds shall be sold Not to be sold,
upon any terms that will make the rate of interest on
the price actually received for such bonds greater than
five (5) per cent. per annum on bonds sold at par.
by resolution.
All proceedings under this act shall be by resolution of Proceedings
said City Council, to be approved by the Mayor, and pub-
lished as provided by the charter of said city.
stricted.
SEC. 2. Nothing herein shall authorize the issue at Issue re-
any time of bonds to such an amount that the whole
amount of the principal of bonds actually issued by said
city at the time together with the proposed issue, shall limit.
exceed five (5) per cent. of the aggregate value of the
*"An Act to Authorize the City of Minneapolis to Issue Bonds," Approved Feb.
22, 1887; See Special Laws, Chapter
Five per cent.
404
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
Total issue.
Not to affect
former issue.
Countersign-
legality.
BONDS FOR CITY PURPOSES.
taxable property of said city, as assessed and determined
for the purpose of taxation; and the entire amount of the
bonds issued under this act, shall not exceed in amount
the sum of eleven hundred and ten thousand (1,110,000)
dollars.
This act shall not be construed as in any manner pro-
hibiting or interfering with the issue of any and all bonds
the issue of which has heretofore been authorized.
The signing or countersigning of any bonds purporting
ing evidence of to be issued under authority of this act, by the City
Comptroller of said city, shall, in respect to all such
bonds held by bona fide purchasers, be deemed conclusive
evidence that the limitations of this section have been
observed and complied with.
Proceeds, how
applied.
North Minne-
apolis sewer
tunnel.
Northeast
sewer tunnel.
Second Ward
sewer tunnel.
Seventh Ward
sewer tunnel.
Board of Edu-
cation.
Pump-house
and site.
SEC. 3. The avails of all bonds issued and sold under
this act shall be placed in the city treasury of said city,
and credited to the proper fund; but the same shall be
used for no other purpose than for the purpose for which
said bonds are hereby authorized to be issued and sold,
that is to say:
Not to exceed one hundred thousand (100,000) dollars
of said bonds may be used for the North Minneapolis
sewer tunnel.
Not to exceed one hundred thousand (100,000) dollars
of said bonds may be used for the Northeast Minne-
apolis sewer tunnel.
Not to exceed twenty-five thousand (25,000) dollars of
said bonds may be used for the Second Ward main sewer
tunnel.
Not to exceed twenty-five thousand (25,000) dollars of
said bonds may be used for the Seventh Ward main sewer
tunnel.
Not to exceed fifty thousand (50,000) dollars of said
bonds shall be credited to the proper fund for the use of
the Board of Education of said city.
Not to exceed three hundred and twenty-five thousand
(325,000) dollars of said bonds shall be credited to the
proper fund for the use of the *Board of Water Commis-
*Board of Water Commissioners abolished. See note on page 103 (Chapter 9)
City Charter, ante.
;
!
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
405
*
Bonds for CITY PURPOSES.
pumphouse.
sioners of said city for the purpose of purchasing a site Site for
for and constructing a new pump house in the northerly
part of said city.
water mains.
Not to exceed one hundred and seventy-five thousand Extension of
(175,000) dollars of said bonds shall be credited to the
proper fund for the use of the *Board of Water Commis-
sioners of said city, to be used for the extension of the
water main system of said city.
Not the exceed thirty thousand (30,000) dollars of said Work-house.
bonds may be used for paying for, improving and en-
larging the work-house of said city.
1
Not to exceed fifty thousand (50,000) dollars of said Engine houses.
bonds may be used for the purpose of purchasing sites
for and constructing engine houses for the Fire Depart-
ment of said city.
Not to exceed thirty thousand (30,000) dollars of said City lock-up.
bonds may be used for the purpose of purchasing a site
for and erecting, or erecting on the present site, a so-
called lock-up prison for said city.
improvements.
Not to exceed two hundred (200,000) dollars of said Permanent
bonds may be used for the purpose of paying that portion.
of the permanent improvements of said city, during the
years 1887 and 1888, that the said city, by the terms of the
Charter thereof, is obliged to pay.
what funds
The avails of all said bonds shall be paid into the Per- Proceeds, to
manent Improvement Fund of said city, except the sev- paid.
eral sums hereby authorized for the Board of Education
of said city and for the use of the *Board of Water Com-
missioners of said city.
Issue re-
SEC. 4.
No more of said bonds shall be issued or sold
than shall be necessary for the use herein contemplated. stricted.
SEC. 5.
This act shall take effect and be in force from Act to take
and after its passage.
effect.
*Water Board abolished. See note on page 103 (Chapter 9) City Charter, ante.
406
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
-
Council to
issue bonds.
Amount and
when due.
Interest.
Sale of bonds.
Restrictions.
Proceedings by
resolution.
Not to
exceed five per
cent. limit.
Issue limited.
SECTION.
*BRIDGE BONDS.
[Franklin Avenue.]
1. City Council to Issue Bonds.-Form
and Sale.
2. Not to Exceed Charter Limit, and
SECTION.
3. Proceeds for Iron Truss Bridge,
Foot of Franklin Avenue.
Bonds Not to be Issued, When.
Act to Take Effect.
Limited to $10,000.-Signature of
Comptroller Conclusive.
4.
5.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:
SECTION I. The City Council of the city of Minneap-
olis is hereby authorized and required in the manner,
under the restrictions and for the purpose hereinafter des-
ignated, to issue from time to time, as needed, the bonds
of said city in such denominations, at such time of pay-
ment not exceeding thirty (30) years, and at such place
of payment as may be deemed best, such bonds to have
semi-annual interest-coupons at such rate of interest not
exceeding five (5) per cent. per annum, payable at such
place or places as said City Council shall designate.
And said City Council is further authorized and required
to negotiate and sell such bonds from time to time upon
the best terms for said city that may be obtained.
Provided, however, That no such bonds shall be sold on
any terms that will make the rate of interest on the price
actually received for such bonds greater than five (5) per
cent. per annum on bonds sold at par.
All proceedings under this act shall be by resolution of
said City Council, to be approved by the Mayor, and pub-
lished as provided by the Charter of said city.
SEC. 2. Nothing herein shall authorized the issue at
any time of bonds to such an amount that the whole
amount of the principal of all bonds actually issued by
said city at the time, together with the proposed issue,
shall exceed five (5) per cent. of the aggregate value of the
taxable property of said city, as assessed and determined
for the purpose of taxation; and the entire amount of the
bonds issued under this act shall not exceed in amount the
sum of one hundred and ten thousand (110,000) dollars.
*An Act to Authorize the City of Minneapolis to Issue Bords for a Bridge."
Approved January 14, 1887. See Special Laws, chapter-.
1
1
^
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
407
BRIDGE BONDS.
former issues.
This act shall not be constructed as in manner prohibit- Not to affect
ing or interfering with the issue of any and all bonds, the
issue of which has hithertofore been authorized.
Signing evi-
dence of
The signing or countersigning of any bonds, purporting
to be issued under authority of this act, by the City Comp- legality.
troller, of said city, shall in respect to all such bonds held
by bona fide purchasers, be deemed conclusive evidence
that the limitations of this section have been observed
and complied with.
SEC. 3.
The avails of all bonds issued and sold under Proceeds how
used.
this act, shall be placed in the Permanent Improvement
Fund of said city, but shall be used for no other than
the following purpose: The construction of an iron truss Franklin
bridge, having a roadway of eighteen (18) feet in the bridge.
clear, and two sidewalks six feet each in the clear, over
the Mississippi river, at the foot of Franklin Avenue in
said city.
avenue
SEC. 4.
No more of said bonds shall be issued or sold Not to be
issued, when.
than shall be necessary to build said bridge as herein con-
templated.
effect.
SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from Act to take
and after its passage.
SECTION.
*BRIDGE BONDS.
[20th Ave. North.]
1. City Council to Issue Bonds.-Form
and Sale.
2. Not to Exceed Charter Limit, and
SECTION.
3. Proceeds for Iron Truss Bridge, Foot
of Twentieth Avenue North.
Limited to $100,000.-Signature of
Comptroller Conclusive.
4.
5.
Bonds Not to be Issued, When,
Act to Take Effect.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota.
issue bonds.
SECTION I. The City Council of the City of Minneap- Council to
olis is hereby authorized and required in the manner,
under the restrictions and for the purpose hereinafter
*"An Act to Authorize the City of Minneapolis to Issue Bonds for a Rridge,” Ap-
proved Jan. 14, 1887. See Special Laws, Chapter
408
+
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
Amount and
when due.
Interest.
Sale of bonds.
Restrictions.
Proceedings by
resolution.
Not to exceed
five per cent.
limit.
Issue limited.
Not to affect
former issues.
Signing
evidence of
legality.
Proceeds, how
used.
Bridge at 20th
avenue north.
BRIDGE Bonds.
designated,to issue from time to time as needed, the bonds
of said city in such denominations, at such time of pay-
ment not exceeding thirty (30) years, and at such place
of payment as may be deemed best, such bonds to 'have
semi-annual interest-coupons at such rate of interest not
exceeding five (5) per cent. per annum, payable at such
place or places as said City Council shall designate.
And said City Council is further authorized to negoti-
ate and sell such bonds from time to time upon the best
terms for said city that may be obtained.
Provided, however, That no such bonds shall be sold on
any terms that will make the rate of interest on the price
actually received for such bonds greater than five (5) per
cent. per annum on bonds sold at par.
All proceedings under this act shall be by resolution of
said City Council, to be approved by the Mayor, and pub-
lished as provided by the Charter of said city.
SEC. 2. Nothing herein shall authorize the issue at any
time of bonds to such an amount that the whole amount
of the principal of all bonds actually issued by said city
at the time, together with the proposed issue, shall ex-
ceed five (5) per cent. of the aggregate value of the tax-
able property of said city, as assessed and determined for
the purposes of taxation; and the entire amount of bonds
issued under this act, shall not exceed in amount the sum
of one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars.
This act shall not be construed as in any manner pro-
hibiting or interfering with the issue of any and all bonds
the issue of which has heretofore been authorized.
The signing or countersigning of any bonds purporting
to be issued under authority of this act by the City Comp-
troller of said city, shall, in respect to all such bonds held
by bona fide purchasers, be deemed conclusive evidence.
that the limitation of the section have been observed and
complied with.
SEC. 3. The avails of all bonds issued and sold under
this act shall be placed in the Permanent Improvement
Fund of said city, but shall be used for no other than
the following purpose, to wit: The construction of an iron
truss bridge, having a roadway of thirty-six (36) feet in
the clear, and two (2) sidewalks, six (6) feet each in the
clear, over the Mississippi River at the foot of Twentieth
Avenue North, in said city.
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SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
409
T
BRIDGE Bonds.
SEC. 4. No more of said bonds shall be issued or sold
than shall be necessary to build said bridge as herein con-
templated.
Not to be
issued, when.
Act to take
SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from effect.
and after its passage.
*BRIDGE BONDS.
SECTION.
SECTION.
1. Iron or Steel, Instead of Stone Arch 2. Act to Take Effect From and After
Bridge.
Passage.
Be it Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:
"stone arch.”
SECTION I.
That section three (3) of an act entitled Strike out
"An act to authorize the City of Minneapolis to issue
bonds for bridges," be and the same is hereby amended by
striking out the words "stone arch," wherever they occur
in said section, and by inserting in the place thereof the
words, "iron or steel arch."
Insert "iron or
steel arch."
effect.
SEC. 2.
This act shall take effect and be in force from Act to take
and after its passage.
***An act to amend an act entitled 'An Act to Authorize the City of Minneapolis to
Issue Bonds for Bridges, approved February 27, 1885, being chapter 150, Special
Laws of 1885." Approved Jan. 14 1887. See Special Laws, chapter
SECTION.
*CENTRAL MARKET.
SECTION.
1. Central Market Ordinance Con- 2. Act to Take Effect From and After
firmed.
Passage.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota,
SECTION I. That the ordinance passed by the Com- Ordinance.
mon Council of the City of Minneapolis and approved
January twenty-first eighteen hundred and eighty-
seven, granting and extending to Harlow A. Gale,
*"An Act to Confirm and Legalize Certain Ordinances and Contracts Based
Thereon, of the City of Minneapolis, Concerning a Public Market." Approved
Feb. 24, 1887. See Special Laws, chapter-
410
}
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
1
Central
Market.
Contract and
ordinance.
Legalized and
confirmed.
Act to take
effect.
CENTRAL MARKET.
his associates, heirs and assigns, the time within which to
provide and furnish a Public Market to be known as the
"Central Market" in said city, to and until the first day of
June, A. D. 1888, provided that the site and plans for
such market building be reported to the City Council of
the city of Minneapolis on or before June first, A. D. 1887,
and the provisions thereof, together with the provisions
of the former contract and ordinance therein mentioned
and made a part thereof concerning the same, and the
contract provided therein be, and the same and all the
provisions thereof, and of each thereof, are hereby legal-
ized and confirmed to the extent of the rights and privi-
leges set forth therein; and the conditions of said ordi-
nance and of such contract are made operative and bind-
ing upon the respective parties thereto.
SEC. 2.
This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
For Index see end of "Minneapolis City Ordinances."
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
411
SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTS
FROM 1855 TO 1887, INCLUSIVE,
Relating to the City of Minneapolis and the Former Citles of St. Anthony
and Minneapolis.
*ST. ANTHONY-Former City.
Approved
Laws.
Special Chap. Page.
Incorporating City....
March 3
1855
3
10
Amended.
March 1 1856
48
78
•
-Amended..
-Amended..
Amended.
Amended.
• ·
Amended...
-Amended..
•
Taxes-Return and Collection.
Inspection of Wood..
Common Schools-Regulating.
Amended..
-Amended..
Amended
Amended.
-Amended.
• •
Bonds Authorized-Schools..
March 10
1860
1
3
March 11
1861
57
303
March 4
1864
18 264
Feb. 25
1865
20
133
·
Feb. 23
1869
91 300
March 3
1870
16 216
Feb. 19
1864
18 264
• •
•
Feb. 2
1.865
21 149
Feb.
28
1860
40 71
Jan. 26
1861
77 334
Feb.
24
1864
13 238
Feb. 23
1865
32 169
•
•
· · ·
Feb. 6
1868
66 344
March 3
1871 108 333
•
Feb. 16
1867 103 311
Feb. 6
1868 65 342
March 6
1871 109 334
Feb. 28
1872
64 379
•
Preservation of Falls..
Jan. 31
1868
82
365
(amended 1870) March 4
1869
24 182
Feb. 24
1872
73
395
-Amended.
• •
Minnesota & Western RR...
City Consolidated with Minneapolis.
School Boards Consolidated…….
Incorporating Town..
Amended..
•
• •
Repealing Town Incorporation Acts.
Legalizing Election of Town Council...
Delinquent Corporation Tax......
*MINNEAPOLIS.-Former Town and City.
Board of Supervisors..
Amended...
Inspection of Wood.
· • •
Reducing Town Acts into One Act
Incorporating City
Incorporating City
-Amended..
Amended...
•
*See also "Miscellaneous”
•
Feb. 29 1864 33
March 4 1864 10 219
•
•
March 2
1865
18 126
Feb.
2 1865
21 149
17 64
18 88
19 43
25
175
•
March 1 1866
March 6 1866
Feb. 6
E
1867
March 7 1867
March 4 1868
40 | 299
March 4
1870
51
305
Feb. 28
1872
10 56
March 7
1878
157 444
March 1
1856
127❘ 187
May 25
ex57
12 60
March 8
1860
4 29
March 4
1862
6
217
July 22
1858
283
92 288
285
412
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
*MINNEAPOLIS.-Former Town and City.
Approved.
Special
Laws.
Chap.
Chap. Page.
Incorporating Act-Amended.
• •
Amended...
-Amended.
March 9
1870
25 266
Feb. 3
1871
30 190
March 1
1871
28 187
•
-Amended...
City Boundaries (and of Town of Brighton)
Free Schools and Tax..
March 1
1871
29 189
March 7
1867 25 175
•
•
May 23
ex57
85 168
-Amended..
July 26
1858 85 281
• • • ·
Amended (Repealed March 3, 1863) March 5
1.60
42 77
-Amended.
-Amended..
Erection of School House and Bonds
Confirming Acts of Board of Education.
Board to Levy Tax.
Repealing part of act of 1887..
-Amended....
-Amended
Free School Acts Collated and Revised.
Amended..
Bonds Authorized-Schools..
Preservation of Falls.
March 6
1862
44 295
March 2
1865
28 157
•
•
•
Aug. 11
1858
94 291
March 3
1863
42 | 226
March 1
1864
27 278
March 2 1865
28 157
March 1
1866
49 187
March 7
1867
25
175
March 6
1868
53 318
Feb. 27
1869
88
296
Aug. 11
1858
94 291
March 7
1867
102 309
Jan. 31
1668
82
364
• •
· 1 •
•
•
1
March 6
1868
83 367
March 4
1869
24
182
Feb. 28
1870
27
268
Feb. 20
1872
78 403
Water Works.
Feb. 12
1868
84
368
March 4
1868
40 299
Feb. 1
1871
43 229
and Sewerage.
..
Sewerage.
March 3
1870
31 274
Feb. 29
1872
78
404
Feb. 14
1871
42 227
•
Minn. & Western R. R. (amended '74, 75, 76)
Water Works Superintendent, etc.
City Consolidated with St. Anthony.
School Boards Consolidated..
•
*MINNEAPOLIS.-City of
Consolidation of St. Anthony and Minneapolis.
-Amended (Amended March 8, 1875)
Amended
• • ·
• •
-Amended...
-Amended.
-Amended.
-Amended..
Feb. 9
1870
46 318
Feb. 27
1871
41 226
Feb. 28
1872
10 56
March 7
1878
157 444
Feb. 28
1872
10 56
March 5
1874
2 106
March 2
1876
31 101
March 6
1876
29 98
March 6
1876
30 99
Feb. 16
1877
29 86
March 1
1877
26 81
-Amended
March 9
1878
25 203
•
• •
•
• •
-Amended.
City Charter Amended and Consolidated..
-Amended..
-Amended..
-Amended
• •
Amended (City Limits).
Amended (City Limits).
-Amended...
-Amended.
*See also "Miscellaneous.”
March 7
1879
59 173
March 8
1881
76 418
Nov.
Nov.
4
ex81
39 90
12
•
• •
•
Nov. 19
Nov. 22
Feb.
·
• • •
•
Feb. 27
222227
ex81
41 91
Νυτ. 17 ex81
40 90
ex81
198 211
ex81
53 105
1883
7 98
1883
3
70
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
413

*MINNEAPOLIS.-City of
Special
Laws. Chap. Page.
| Approved.
City Charter Amended……
Amended.
Amended.
-Amended..
-Amended..
Amended
.
Amended.
-Amended...
Amended
Amended.
Amended
Jan. 29
1885
38 146
Feb. 26
1885
4
March 2
1885
March 5
1885
March 7
1885
•
•
March 9
1885
6
8*488
54
45
63
66
Feb. 22
Feb. 28
228
Feb. 19 1887 17
1887
11
1887
13
March 2 1887
16
March 4
1887
10
• •
Amended
•
·
Amended..
March 5
1887
9
•
March 5
1887 12
•
-Amended.
Amended..
-Amended (Water Board Abolished).
Apportionment of School Tax...
March 5
1887
14
•
•
March 5
1887 15
March 3
1887
23
•
March 9
1875
93 317
School District No. 119-Indebtedness
Free Schools-Boards Consolidated.
·
Amended..
March 7
1881
175 729
March 7 1878
157 444
March 8 1879
62 183
•
-Amended...
March 2
1881
114
655
Amended..
Nov. 8
ex81
49 101
-Amended…….
Nov.
11
ex81
52 103
Amended
Feb. 27
1883
233
365
*
+
-Amended..
Amended
Amended..
Municipal Court.
Amended.
Amended
Feb. 12
1885
86 257
March 5
1885
•
97 268
March 4
1887
22
Feb. 13
1874
141
362
Feb. 27
1875
5
41
March 4
1875
4
38
•
Amended.
Feb. 26
1877
178
240
•
•
Amended..
-Amended.
Amended..
March 8
1878
65
328
•
March 8
1879
87 210
Feb 17
1883
55 | 193
Amended
• ·
Feb. 26
1833
49 188
-Amended..
-Amended.
-Amended..
-Amended
Park Commission..
Amended.
·
March 2
1883
48 182
>
Feb. 24
1885
74 236
Feb.
1887
•
-
Feb.
Amended.
Amended.
Feb.
March 2
27
Feb. 24
6
1887 21
1883 281
1885 96 265
404
1887
18
Feb. 22
1887
19
Amended..
Amended...
Amended…….
Parkways..
Bonds Authorized-Preservation of Falls.
--East Division Indebtedness.
-Minnesota & Western R. R.
Minneapolis & St. Louis Ry
Minneapolis & Northwestern Ry
City Hall..
-Water Works, etc.
*See also "Miscellaneous."
March 4
1887
20
March 9
1885 304 546
•
•
•
Feb. 24
1873
185 406
March 9
•
1874 39 254
March 9
1874
52 268
March 9
1875
123 339
March 6
1876 68 134
March 1
1877
76 144
Feb. 14
•
·
1879
182 310
Jan. 28
1874
47❘ 263
•
Feb. 9
1874
65 284
414
SPECIAL ACTS RELATING TO MINNEAPOLIS.
MINNEAPOLIS.-City of
Approved.
Special
Laws.
Chap.
Chap. Page.
Bonds Authorized-Water Works, etc...
March 5
1877
74 142
March 4
1881
260 829
Feb. 26
1883 150 292
Sewer Tunnel..
Feb. 22
1887
Bridges..
Feb. 27
1875 124 340
•
• •
(Repealed March 3, 1885) Feb. 1
1881 231 798
Feb.
27
1885
150 398
Amended.
(Franklin Avenue)..
(20th Avenue North.)
Fire Department....
Permanent Improvement.
(Proceeds of)
Railroad Approaches..
Board of Education
Library Board.
•
General Purposes.
Firemen Exempt from Jury, etc.
Fines of Fallen Women.
Road Appropriations.
D
Portland and Park Avenues.
Relief of Policemen's widows...
Stenographic Reporter, Municipal Court
Court House and City Hall Commission.
City Justices of the Peace
•
Maple Hill Cemetery, Streets through.
Layman Cemetery, Streets through.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hennepin County established; boundaries, etc.
-Boundaries changed.
-Boundaries extended
Jan. 14
1887
•
Jan.
14
1887
Jan. 14
1887
.
Feb.
22
1887
Oct.
28.
ex81
88 129
•
March 2
1883
271 398
Feb. 24
1885
144 388
Feb. 26
1883
149 291
Feb. 13
1885
14387
•
Feb. 22
1887
Feb. 28
1885
145 391
Feb. 22
1887
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March 6
1873
82 278
March 11
1878
143 419
March 3
1885
311 552
March 5
1885
117 427
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Feb. 26
1885
287❘ 526
Feb. 28
1887
March 2
1887
March 3
1887
Feb 24
1881
210
771
March 4
1887
March 6
1852
48
112.
Feb.
20
1855
6
27
Feb. 25
1856
71
105
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-Boundaries extended-Joint resolution
-Boundaries defined..
Feb. 25
1856
331
March 9
1861
30 271
County Seat established.
-Site for County Buildings designated..
Court House and City Hall Commission
Board of Tax Levy (Hennepin County).
Feb. 21
1854 34 86
Feb. 25
1856
71 105
March 2
1887
March 8
1879
338 447
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-Amended.
March 7 1881
112 650
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-Amended..
-Amended..
Franchise Confirmed-Street Railway.
Gas Company..
-Market Ordinance.
-Market Ordinance.
Support of Minneapolis Poor
Amended..
Cattle at Large (Hennepin County)
Bridges-Transfer by County to City
Post Office-Site Ceded to United States..
Reimb❜t of H. T. Welles for $10,000 as damages
Sale of Liquors, Restrictions in Hennepin Co..
County Highways-City Appropriation for
Feb. 24
March 4 1885
84 253
March 7
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March 4
March 6
1887
1879
299 410
1879 301 411
Feb.
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.(Sec. 10)
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Feb.
March 2
Feb. 28
March 7
322
13 1885
March 8
26
March 7 1879 324 435
79 248
1883 274 399
1872 216 614
1881 352 908
1879 300 411
1887 |
1883 255 384
March 8
1881 388 940
Feb. 23
1881 209 771
COUNCIL AND BOARD RULES.
*RULES OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
RULE.
1. Duties of President.- Roll Call.-
Reading of Minutes, etc.-Deco-
rum.-Appeals.
2. Voting.-Yeas and Nays.
3. Motions in Writing, etc.
4. Motions, How Withdrawn.
5. Debate, Recognition, etc.
6.. Same, How Limited.
7. Interruption.
8. Violation of Rules.
9. Floor Privilege.
10. Motions to Adjoarn.
11. Reports of Committees, etc.
12. Privileged Questions.
13. To Lay on the Table.
14. Committee of the Whole.
15. Same-Rules.
RULE.
16. Same-May Rise.
17. Same-Records.
18. Previous Question.
19. Amendments, How Acted Upon.
2). Ordinances, How Introduced.
21.
ame-Two Readings.
22. Same-For Amendment.
28. Same-Copy for Mayor.
24. Movers' Names to be Recorded.
25. Reconsideration, Notice of and Action
Thereon.
23. Petitions, How Presented.
27. Duties of Clerk.
28. Standing Committees.
29. Order of Business.
30. Parliamentary Practice.
31. Suspension of Rules, etc.
RULE 1. The President (and, in his absence, the Vice-President) of the
Council shall take the chair at the appointed hour for the Council to meet,
whether in regular or special session, and call the members to order.
At which time the roll of members of the Council shall be called by the
Clerk.
And if a quorum is present and answer to their names the minutes of the
preceding session shall be read; and all mistakes, if any, in the minutes
shall then be corrected.
Or, the further consideration of such minutes may be made the special
order for any subsequent session of the Council.
And if such minutes shall not be corrected, inside of forty days from the
taking thereof, they shall be considered as approved.
The President shall preserve order and decorum and shall decide all
questions of order; which decisions shall be final unless an appeal shall be
taken to the Council.
On every appeal so taken he shall have the right, in his place, to give his
reasons for his decision.
RULE 2. Every member present, who refuses to vote on any question,
shall be recorded as "declining to vote”.
The yeas and nays shall be called on any question at the request of three
members of the Council.
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​RULE 3. Every motion (except to adjourn, postpone or commit) shall be
reduced to writing, and, if the same shall be seconded, shall be fairly
stated by the presiding officer.
RULE 4. A motion may be withdrawn by the member offering the same,
with the consent of his second.
Provided, The same shall be done before a decision, amendment, or any
disposition thereof has been had, or a vote taken thereon.
RULE 5. When a member desires to speak, give notice, make a motion
or report, or present a petition or other paper, he shall arise, address the
presiding officer, and shall not proceed further unless recognized by him.
RULE 6. No member shall speak more than twice to the same question.
without leave of the Council; nor more than once, in any case, until every
member desiring to speak upon the question pending shall have spoken.
RULE 7. No member shall in any way interrupt the course of debate,
except by a call to order, or for the enforcement of the rules of the Council,
or on a motion to adjourn, to postpone or to commit.
RULE 8. If a member in speaking, or otherwise, transgress the rules of
the Council, the President, or any member, may call him to order.
In which case the member, so called to order, shall immediately sit down,
unless, by permission of the presiding officer, he shall be permitted to
explain.
RULE 9. When two or more members arise and address the presiding
officer at the same time, he shall designate which shall speak first.
RULE 10. A motion to adjourn shall always be in order, and shall be de-
cided without debate.
But a second or subsequent motion to adjourn shall not be in order un-
til after the intervention of some other motion, resolution or other business.
RULE 11. Committees to whom any matter may be referred shall, in all
cases, report the facts and their opinion thereon.
The reception or acceptance of a committee's report shall not be con-
strued as conferring any authority upon such committee, nor upon any city
officer.
But the adoption of a report shall have the same effect as a motion or
resolution, except in cases where a resolution or ordinance would be re-
quired under the provisions of the Charter.
RULE 12. When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received
unless for an adjournment, for the previous question, to postpone indefi-
nitely, to postpone to a certain day, to lay on the table, to commit, or to
amend.
These several motions shall have precedence in the order in which they
are stated.
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RULE 13. A motion to lay a question on the table shall be decided with-
out debate.
RULE 14. On forming a Committee of the Whole, the President shall
leave the chair and call some other member to preside.
RULE 15. The rules of the Council shall be observed in Committee of the
Whole, so far as may be applicable, except that the previous question shall
not be enforced nor the order of speaking limited.
RULE 16. A motion that the committee rise shall always be in order,
and shall be decided without debate.
RULE 17. The Clerk shall not enter upon the journal the proceedings of
the Committee of the Whole, except as the same may be reported to the
Council.
RULE 18. The previous question shall be admitted on the demand of
any two members, and shall be put in these words: "Shall the previous
question be now put?”
And until decided shall preclude all amendments under debate of the
main question.
RULE 19. A motion to lay on the table, to postpone, or to commit an
amendment to a motion, resolution or ordinance, shall not be in order
But a motion to table, postpone or commit a motion, resolution or ordi-
nance, shall carry with it all pending subsidiary motions.
RULE 20. Every ordinance shall be introduced by a committee, to
whom the subject matter thereof may have been referred, by resolution or
otherwise, or by any member.
Provided, That such member shall have given notice thereof at a
previous session of the Council.
RULE 21. Every ordinance shall receive two several readings previous
to its passage.
Such readings shall not be had at the same session; unless, in case of
urgency, two-thirds of the Council shall deem it expedient to dispense with
this rule.
RULE 22. The second reading of an ordinance shall be by sections, at
which time amendments are to be offered.
But the reading of a succeeding section shall not preclude the offering
of an amendment to a preceding one.
If no amendment is made, the question shall be: "Shall the ordinance
pass?"
If amendments are made, the chair shall so report the same.
And the ordinance shall be read as amended before the question on its
passage is taken.
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RULE 23. After an ordinance has passed the Clerk shall make a fair
and correct copy of the same.
And the same shall be, by the Clerk, presented to the Mayor for his ap-
proval.
RULE 24. In all cases where an ordinance, motion, resolution or order
shall be entered on the journal, the name of the Alderman moving the
same shall be also entered thereon.
RULE 25. When a question has been once put to vote and decided, it
shall be in order for any member who voted with the prevailing party to
move for the reconsideration thereof, at the same or any subsequent meet-
ing of the Council.
Provided, The subject matter for reconsideration has not passed from
the control of the Council.
And any member of the Council having the right to move for the recon-
sideration, as aforesaid, may, at the same meeting said question was acted
upon, give notice of his intention so to do at the next regular meeting of
the Council thereafter.
And, when such notice is given, it shall be the duty of the Clerk to
retain the matter proposed to be reconsidered until the expiration of such
subsequent meeting.
And, if not then reconsidered, it shall take the usual course.
A motion for reconsideration having been put and lost, it shall not be in
order to make the same motion a second time.
In case of a notice of a motion to reconsider at the next meeting or
session of the Council, any member of the prevailing party may at said
next meeting or session of the Council make said motion.
And a motion to reconsider at the same meeting shall not be entertained.
after such notice be given.
RULE 26. Petitions, or other papers addressed to the Council, shall be
presented by the Clerk or one of its members.
RULE 27. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to keep a correct journal
of the proceedings of the Council.
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To cause committees, members of the Council, and city officers to be
informed of such duties as they may be charged with by the Council from
to time.
And perform such other duties as appertain to him as Clerk.
He shall give such information to the members of the Council, when
requested, as he may be in possession of, relating to the city, its affairs, or
the action of the Council.
He shall suffer no journal, accounts or papers to be taken out of his
custody other than by the regular mode of business of the Council.
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Nor shall he suffer any paper or writing in his possession to be altered,
amended or abridged, without special order of the Council for that partic-
ular purpose.
And, if any paper, book or memorandum of which he has had, (or should
have had) charge, shall be missing, he shall immediately report the same to
the Council.
RULE 28. Standing Committees, consisting of five members, shall be
appointed on the following subjects:
(1). Ways and Means.
(2). Salaries.
(3). Claims.
(4). Taxes.
(5). Licenses.
(6). Bonds of City Officers.
(7). Accounts of City Officers.
(8). Public Grounds andBuildings.
(9). Roads and Bridges.
(10). Street Grades and Additions.
(11). Fire Department.
(12). Water Works.
(13). Gas.
(14). Sewerage.
(15). Markets.
(16). Printing.
(17). Railroads.
(18). Police.
(19) .Workhouse.
(20). Paving.
And of three members on the following subjects:
(1). Health and Hospitals.
(2). Cancellation.
(3). Ordinances.
(4). Bethany Home.
(5). Rules.
RULE 29. In the ordinary transaction of business the following order
shall be observed:
First--Presentations of petitions and other communications.
Second-Reports from Officers of the City.
Third-Reports from Standing Committtees.
Fourth-Reports from Special Committees.
Fifth-Presentation of accounts and other claims against the city.
Sixth-Unfinished business.
Seventh--Resolutions, motions and other business.
RULE 30. The rules of parliamentary practice, embraced in Jefferson's
Manual, shall govern the Council in all cases to which they are applicable,
and in which they are not inconsistent with the standing rules of the
Council.
RULE 31. No rules of the Council shall be suspended, altered or
amended without the concurrence of two-thirds of the whole Council.
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BOARD OF EDUCATION-BY-LAWS.
SECTION.
1. Annual Meeting for Organization.
2. Appointing Standing Committees.
3. Regular Meetings.-Special Meetings.
4. Roll Call.-Reading Minutes, etc.
5. Order of Business.-Resolutions and Re-
ports in Writing.
6. President, Duties of.-Annual Report.
7. Secretary Duties of.-Annual Report,—
Clerical Assistance.
8. Committee Meetings. Committees to
Report in Writing.
9. Committee on Rules and Regulations.—
Rules, How Amended, etc.
10. Duties of Finance and Claims Com-
mittee.
SECTION.
11. Committee on Buildings and Repairs,
Duties of.-School Buildings, Furni-
ture, etc.,
12. Committee on Teachers, Janitors and
Salaries, Duties of.-Vacancies Filled.
13. Committee on Printing and Insurance.
Duties of.
14. Committee on Fuel and Supplies, Du-
ties of.
15. Committee on Text Books, Course of
Study and Library, Duties of.
16. Erection and Alteration of Buildings,
etc.
17. Directors to Visit Schools, Attend
Exercises, ete.
SECTION 1. The annual meeting of the Board, for organization, shall be
held at the time fixed by law in each year.
A President pro tem. shall be chosen, and the Board shall at once
elect a President and a Secretary for the ensuing year, as provided by law.
At any other meeting of the Board, when the President is absent, a
President pro tem. shall be chosen.
SEC. 2. On or before the next regular meeting after each election, the
President shall appoint the following Standing Committees, consisting of
not less than three members each, viz.:
(1). Rules and Regulations.
(2). Finance and Claims.
(3). Buildings and Repairs.
(4). Teachers, Janitors, Salaries.
(5). Printing and Insurance.
(6). Fuel and Supplies.
(7). Text Books, Course of Study
and Library.
The member first named shall be chairman; and the President, a mem-
ber, ex-officio, of all committees.
SEC. 3. The regular meetings of the Board shall be at its office on the
last Wednesday of each month at 7:30 P. M.
Special meetings may be held as provided by law.
SEC. 4. The meeting shall be called to order by the President, the roll
called, the members present and absent noted, and the minutes of last
meeting read and errors corrected.
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SEC. 5. The Order of Business shall be as follows:
(1). Communications.
(2). Report of Superintendent.
(3). Reports of Committees.
(4). Resolutions.
(5). Unfinished Business.
(6). New Business.
(7). Claims and Accounts.
(8). Adjournment.
All reports and resolutions shall be in writing.
SEC. 6. The President, or in his absence the President pro tem., shall
preside at all meetings of the Board, and perform such duties as are pro-
vided by law.
In addition to the duties so defined, he shall from time to time bring
before the Board such matters as in his judgment may require the atten-
tion of the Board.
And shall, at the close of the school year, submit a written report of the
general condition of the public schools, with his recommendations for
changes.
At the request of any member, he shall take the sense of the Board upon
any motion, by yeas and nays.
SEC. 7. The Secretary shall perform such duties as are provided by
law; and in addition thereto he shall make and keep a list of all property,
real and personal, belonging to the Board.
He shall file all reports, resolutions and documents acted upon by the
Board, and make an estimate necessary for the annual tax levy.
And at the close of the year submit a report of all receipts and dis-
bursements.
The Board shall provide such clerical assistance as may be necessary
in the discharge of his duties, and the duties of the several committees.
SEC. 8. All Committees shall hold meetings, as often as may be necessary,
for the due consideration of matters properly belonging to each.
And no recommendation shall be made to the Board, unless acted upon
in committee on a day previous to the meeting of the Board.
They shall promptly report in writing upon all matters referred to them,
and return all papers with their reports.
SEC. 9. The Committee on Rules and Regulations shall have charge of
all rules and regulations necessary for the guidance of the Board and the
management of the schools and buildings.
These rules shall be printed and a copy kept at all times at the office of
the Board, at the office of the Superintendent, and in each of the schools.
They shall be amended only by a vote of five members of the Board.
SEC. 10. The Committee on Finance and Claims shall prepare and re-
port estimates of all appropriations for the expenses of the coming year.
They shall quarterly compare the vouchers of the Secretary with the
warrants drawn upon the Treasurer, and report to the Board the result of
such examination.
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BOARD OF EDUCATION.
They shall fully examine all claims against the Board, and see that the
items thereof have been duly authorized, and the prices charged therefor
correct.
They shall report to the Board, with their approval, such as are proper:
to be paid.
All claims shall be filed with the Clerk at least two days before the regu-
lar meeting.
SEC. 11. The Committee on Buildings and Repairs shall have the imme-
diate care and control of all school buildings and the furniture thereof, to-
gether with the real estate belonging to the Board.
They shall, when duly authorized by the Board, cause to be erected new
buildings, upon plans approved by the Board.
They shall have the superintendence of altering, improving or repairing
the school buildings and out-houses which may be authorized by the Board-
In case of sudden injury, by fire or otherwise, to any of the school build-
ings or premises, they shall at once proceed to repair the same and report
to the Board at its next meeting for approval.
All accounts pertaining to their work shall be certified by the said Com-
mittee.
SEC. 12. The Committee on Teachers, Janitors and Salaries shall, at the
regular meeting in May, submit to the Board a list of teachers.
And at the regular meeting in August, a list of janitors and other
employes for the various schools, with the salary thereto attached, for the
ensuing year.
And the Board shall as soon thereafter as practicable select the same.
When for any cause a vacancy shall exist, they shall fill the same and re-
port to the Board at the next meeting for its approval.
They shall see that the rules prescribed by the Board for the guidance of
janitors are faithfully carried out, and see that such rules are kept posted
in each school building.
SEO. 13. The Committee on Printing and Insurance shall have charge of
all printing ordered by the Board.
They shall submit to the Board an estimate of the insurance proper to
be kept on the buildings and other property of the Board.
They shall keep a register of policies, giving the date, time to run, rate of
insurance, and amount insured, with the date of expiration and property
insured.
They shall, at the close of the year, report the condition of the business
entrusted to them.
SEC. 14. The Committee on Fuel and Supplies shall, at the regular meet-
ing in July, submit to the Board an estimate of the fuel and all other sup-
plies needed for the ensuing school year.
They shall submit such proposals for furnishing the same as may be re-
ceived upon due public notice.
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They shall attend to the distribution, measurement, weight and delivery
of all fuel and supplies.
All supplies shall be issued on the requisition of the Principal or Super-
intendent of Schools.
At the close of the school year they shall submit a full report.
All accounts pertaining to their work shall be certified by said Com-
mittee.
SEC. 15. The Committee on Text Books, Course of Study and Library,
in conjunction with the Superintendent, shall have charge of the selection
of text books and the course of study, subject to the approval of the Board.
This shall include the department of music, drawing and penmanship.
They shall have charge of the purchase of all books for the library, sub-
ject to the approval of the Board.
They shall see that the books are properly classified, arranged and cata-
logued, and that they are kept in good condition; and shall see that the
rules of the Board for its management are faithfully carried out.
SEC. 16. All work, in the erection or alteration of school buildings, shall
be done under the supervision of the proper committee and the duly ap-
pointed agents of the Board.
Where any work is done under contract, and in all cases of the purchase
of materials or supplies of any kind for the Board in a sum in any one case
exceeding two hundred dollars, the same shall be only after due public no-
tice and upon bids according to specifications duly reported to the Board.
Before executing any contract, the Board may require a proper bond for
the faithful performance of any work.
SEC. 17. Each Director shall devote himself to the general interests of
the schools, and visit the schools as often as practicable.
He shall aim to attend all public exercises of the schools, and to do all in
his power to acquaint himself with the conduct and discipline of the
schools, and to promote their efficiency.
*BOARD OF EDUCATION--RULES FOR SCHOOLS, ETC.
SECTION.
1. Public Schools Classified.
2. Primary Schools, Grades and Control.
3. Pupils to be Six Years Old or Over.-
Vaccination.
4. Intermediate,
Grammar and High
Schools.-Grades and Control.
5. High School.-Qualification of Pupils.
-Advancing or Reducing Pupils.
SECTION.
6. Course of Study-Diplomas.
7. Graduating Classes.-Public Exhibi-
tions, etc.
8. Superintendent, Duties, etc.
9. Classification and Grading of Schools,
Boundaries, etc.
10. Superintendent to Visit Schools. -Ac-
countability of Teachers, etc..
* Rules relative to Course of Study, etc., will be found in pamphlet issued by the Board.
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SECTION.
11. Suspension of Pupils.
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
12. Examinations of Teachers, etc.
13. Rules for School Examinations.
14. Promptness of Teachers.--Substitutes,
etc.
15. Blanks for Registers and Reports.'
16. Classification of Teachers in Grades.
17. Report of Condition of Schools, En-
rollment, etc.
18. Sessions of Board.-Superintendent to
Attend.
19. Principals, Duties of.
20. Examination and Admission of Pupils.
21. Advice to Teachers.-Teachers' Meet-
ings.
22. Opening and Closing Schools.
23. Program of Daily Exercises.-Reports
of School Work.
24. Teachers to Observe and Enforce Rules.
- Duties.
25. Teachers to be at Post of Duty, When.
26. Teachers During Intermission.
27. Teachers to Prepare Themselves in
Studies Pursued.
28. Teachers, When Unable to Perform Du-
ties.
29. Absence or Tardiness of Pupils.-Duty
of Teacher.
30. Respect and Obedience of Pupils.-Un-
ruly Pupils.
31. Agents for Books or Apparatus Re-
strained.-Award of Medals, etc.
32. Rules to be Read to School.
33. Enrolling Names, Marking Absentees,
etc.-Vaccination Register.
34. Care and Responsibility of Teachers.-
Good Order and Neatness in Halls,
etc.
35. Discharge or Suspension of Teachers.
36. Teachers to Devote Themselves Exclu-
sively to Duties.
37. Special Teachers of Music, Penmanship
and Drawing. -Duties.
38. Pupils Entering School First Time.
39. Application for Admission.
40. Pupils to Live in District.
SECTION.
41. Tuition of Non-Residents.
42. Regularity of Attendance.-Deportment,
Cleanliness, etc.
43. Excuses for Absence or Tardiness.-Res-
toration of Suspended Pupils.
44. Pupil to Forfeit Seat, When.-Permis-
sion to Return.
45. Leaving School Without Permission.-
Truants.
46. Damaging School Furniture, etc.
47. Absence from Examination. - Pupils
Around Building-Tardiness, etc.
48. Time for Opening Buildings:-Pupils at
Recess.
49. Passing from One Grade to Another.
50. High School Examinations.-Average to
Promote.
51. Written Examinations. - Average Re-
quired.
52. Evening Schools.-Management, etc.
53. Sessions of Evening Schools.
54. Age of Pupils in Evening Schools.
Courses of Study.-Compensation of
Teachers, etc.
55. Janitor to Open, Heat and Light Rooms.
-Compensation.
56. Examination of Applicants for Teach-
ers' Positions.
57. Janitors, Duties of.-Responsibility for
Damages. -Drinking and Smoking.
58. Clerk of Board, Duties of-Pay Roll.-
Visit Schools.-Claims Examined, etc.
59. Superintendent of Buildings, Duties of.
-Construction, Repairs, Trees, Grass
Plots, etc.
60. Library.-Books, Maps, etc.
61. Classification of Books, etc.
62. Record of Pupils Taking Books.
63. Library to be Kept Open.-Manner of
Drawing Books.
64. Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, Maps, etc.
65. Time-Books May Be Retained.
66. Damaged or Lost Books.
67. Violations to be Reported.
68. Rules to be Kept Posted.
69. Annual Report of Librarian.
SECTION 1. The Public Schools of the City of Minneapolis shall be
classified as follows:
(1). Primary Schools.
(2). Intermediate Schools.
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(3). Grammar Schools.
(4). High Schools.
SEO. 2. The Primary Schools shall consist of the first, second and third
grades.
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They shall be under the supervision of their respective teachers, but
subject to the principal of the school building.
SEC. 3. No pupil shall be admitted under six years of age, and who
shall not furnish satisfactory evidence of vaccination, or evidence that the
same cannot be safely done.
SEC. 4. The Intermediate Schools.shall consist of the fourth and fifth
grades.
The Grammar Schools shall consist of the sixth and seventh grades.
The High School shall consist of the eighth, ninth, tenth and eleventh
grades. It shall be under the supervision of a Principal.
Branch High Schools may be established by the Board, but in no case
to extend beyond the ninth grade.
SEC. 5. No pupil shall be admitted to the High School who has not
passed a satisfactory examination in the branches taught in the Grammar
School.
If, at the end of the first or any term, he does not maintain a fair posi-
tion in the classes, he may be reduced to the proper grade.
Nor shall he pass from a lower to a higher class except upon a satisfac-
tory examination.
SEC 6. The course of study in the High School shall occupy four years.
On its completion each pupil shall receive a diploma, signed by the Presi-
dent and Secretary of the Board of Education, the Principal of the High
School, and the Superintendent of Public Schools.
Sec. 7. The graduating class in each year shall, under the direction of
the Board and Superintendent, give a public exhibition of their attainments
at such time and place as the Board of Education may designate.
But no presents of any kind, except the diplomas, shall be given or re-
ceived on the platform at such exercises.
SEC. 8. The Superintendent of Public Schools shall have general super-
vision over all the schools, teachers, janitors and apparatus; and shall act
at all times under the immediate direction of the Board.
He shall see that all the rules and regulations of the Board, regarding
the government of the public schools, are observed and enforced.
SEO. 9. He shall superintend the classification and general arrangement
of the different schools, grading the scholars in accordance with the course
of study laid down by the Board, and seeing that the progress of all schol-
ars of the same grade shall be uniform in all schools.
And to this end he may designate and establish the boundaries for each
school, subject to the approval of the Board.
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SEC. 10. He shall, as often as practicable, visit each school, observe the
action of teachers, their methods of instruction, modes of discipline, and
their peculiar fitness for the work with which they are charged.
He shall carefully keep watch of the general progress of the schools, and
point out such defects as are apparent, and suggest the necessary remedies.
He shall aim to keep, so far as may be practicable, all the schools under
his personal supervision, and hold Principals and teachers to a strict ac-
countability in their work, so that it may be faithful, efficient, and produc-
tive of the best results.
SEC. 11. He shall give prompt attention to every instance of a pupil duly
reported to him by the Principal, and if after due examination it shall ap-
pear that such pupil is not willing to obey the rules and regulations of the
schools, he shall suspend such pupil and report the same to the Board at
its next meeting.
SEO. 12. He shall examine all teachers as to their fitness for the work,
and, on or before the regular meeting in May, shall submit to the Commit-
tee on Teachers a list of all teachers recommended for the ensuing year,
and the places which in his judgment they are best fitted to fill.
SEO. 13. He shall make all necessary regulations for conducting exam-
inations in the schools, and see that they are faithfully carried out.
SEC. 14. He shall see that all teachers are prompt at their post of duty,
and in case of absence of any teacher, he shall procure a substitute, and re-
port the same in his monthly report.
SEC. 15. He shall see that all teachers are furnished with the necessary
blanks for school-registers, and for reports required by the regulations of
the Board, and see that in their use uniformity be secured.
SEO. 16. He shall classify the teachers into such grades as he may deem
best, and shall call them together at his discretion Saturdays for imparting
to them such information as to him may seem best.
SEC. 17. He shall submit to the Board a written report monthly of the
condition of the schools, the number of enrollments and efficiency of the
work.
At the close of the school-year he shall submit an abstract of the re-
ports of teachers, and a comprehensive statement of the work to him
entrusted.
SEO. 18. He shall attend the regular sessions of the Board, and, when
called upon, those of the Standing Committees.
He shall have regular office hours.
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SEC. 19. The Principal of each school, under the direction of the Super-
intendent, shall have supervision over the different departments therein,
and see that all teachers faithfully discharge their duties, that they are
punctual in attendance, preserve good order, and keep their registers
properly.
In case of any difference between Principal and teacher, the case shall
be reported to and promptly decided by the Superintendent.
SEC. 20. He shall admit pupils to the school at such time as shall be
prescribed by the Board, and after examination by him shall assign the
same to the proper classes.
SEC. 21. He shall see that the teachers under him are advised as to the
rules and regulations regarding the government and classification of the
schools, and that they carry out the same.
He shall hold meetings of the teachers in the school when necessary.
SEC. 22. He shall be at his school twenty minutes before the time of
opening the morning session.
He shall see that the opening and closing of the schools are regular and
uniform, and that the clocks in his building are kept at uniform standard
time.
SEC. 23. He shall, within two weeks after the commencement of each
term, furnish the Superintendent and Clerk of the Board with the pro-
gramme of the daily exercises in the school under him.
And at the end of each month he shall furnish to the Superintendent
and Clerk of the Board full reports of the work in said school.
SEC. 24. All teachers, under the supervision and direction of the Prin-
cipals and Superintendent, shall observe and enforce the rules and regula-
tions of the Board in relation to the instruction and discipline of their
school, and attend all meetings of the teachers called by the Superinten-
dent and Principal.
SEC. 25. They shall be at their post of duty twenty minutes before the
morning or afternoon session, and every violation of this rule shall be re-
ported on the monthly report by the Principals.
SEC. 26. During intermission one of the teachers in turn shall remain
in the building, under direction of the Principal, whenever the state of the
weather or extent of the district makes it necessary for pupils to remain.
SEC. 27. They shall thoroughly prepare themselves daily in the studies
pursued in their classes, and shall exercise careful supervision over the
pupils while on the premises, and admonish them, when necessary, to be
orderly while going to or returning from school.
SEC. 28. Any teacher unable to perform his duties shall notify the
Principal, so that a substitute may be on hand.
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SEC. 29. Each teacher shall, at the close of each day of school, notify
the parent or guardian of the pupil of the absence or tardiness of such
pupil, and so note the fact in the register.
SEO. 30. Teachers are entitled to the respect and obedience of the
pupils; the best disciplinarian is he who can preserve order by gentle in-
fluence.
Unruly pupils may be sent to the Principal for reprimand, and by him,
if necessary, to the Superintendent.
SEC. 31. No agent or other person shall be allowed to exhibit in the
school any books or articles of apparatus, unless specially authorized by the
Superintendent.
No contribution for any purpose shall be allowed to be taken up in the
schools, and no teacher shall receive presents of any kind from pupils, nor
shall a teacher award medals or prizes to pupils without the permission
of the Superintendent.
SEC. 32. Each Teacher shall, at least once each term, read to his school
such rules of the Board for the government of the schools as he deems
necessary, and see that a copy of the rules is at all times kept in the room
under his charge.
SEC. 33. He shall enroll the names of his pupils as soon as admitted,
carefully mark all absences each half-day, and report monthly to the Prin-
cipal the number admitted and average attendance.
He shall also keep a vaccination register.
SEC. 34. Teachers shall have the immediate care of their respective school
rooms, and shall be held responsible for the preservation of all furniture
and apparatus therein.
They shall also co-operate with the Principal in securing good order and
neatness in the halls and about the school premises.
SEC. 35. Any teacher may be discharged by the Board or suspended by
the Superintendent for improper conduct, unfaithfulness in the perform-
ance of duty, or the want of that success necessary in the progress of the
school; such suspension shall be reported to the Board for its approval at
its first meeting.
SEC. 36. Teachers shall devote themselves exclusively to the duties of
their position, and shall not engage in the instruction of private classes nor
any other outside employment.
SEC. 37. The special teachers of music, penmanship and drawing shall
meet the regular teachers, for instruction in these branches, at such times
as the Superintendent may designate.
They shall each, at the beginning of the term, furnish to the Superin-
tendent a programme of exercises, showing the days when and the parts of
hours they will require for instructing the schools, and the Superintendent
shall regulate the same.
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During such exercises in the schools, the teacher of the room shall at
all times remain and co-operate in the preservation of order and discipline,
and in enforcing observance of the instructions given.
They shall report in writing monthly to the Superintendent and through
the Superintendent to the Board, the progress of the work, and in person
to the Superintendent at such hours as he may designate for consultation.
SEC. 38. Pupils entering the school for the first time shall apply to the
Principal. They must be accompanied by a parent or guardian, who shall
furnish satisfactory evidence that the pupil is six years old and has been
vaccinated, or evidence that the same cannot be safely done.
SEC. 39. Such application should be made on Mondays, and to the
Principal of the school within the boundary for such school·
Any pupil about to remove to another district, shall notify the Principal
of his school, who shall grant him a certificate of transfer, which shall en-
title him to admission to a corresponding grade.
SEC. 40. No pupil shall be admitted to a school, outside of the school
boundaries in which he lives, without a permit from the Superintendent.
SEC. 41. No pupil, whose parents or guardian are not actual residents
of the city, shall be admitted to the schools without first paying to the
Secretary of the Board the tuition in advance, and no one shall be retained
in any school when the school-room facilities are only sufficient to accom-
modate the children of parents who are residents. Said tuition shall be as
follows:
Primary and Intermediate Schools..
Grammar Schools....
High School..
1st term.
$5.00
2d term. 3d term.
$4.00 $4.00
6.00
5.00
5.00
8.00
6.00
6.00
The school year shall consist of forty weeks. It shall commence on the
first Monday in September and shall be divided into three terms, by a va-
cation of one week at the Christmas holidays, and a vacation of one week
commencing on the first Monday in April.
There shall be no session of the schools on any legal holiday, nor on the
day following, when such holiday occurs on Thursday.
SEC. 42. Every pupil is expected to attend school constantly and punct-
ually, to conform to all the rules of the school, to obey all the directions of
the teachers, to observe good order and propriety of deportment, to be dili-
gent in study, respectful to teachers, and kind and obliging to schoolmates,
to refrain from all hasty or improper language, and to be clean and neat in
person and attire.
SEC. 43. Any pupil absent or tardy from any cause shall, after one ses-
sion at most, bring to the teacher a written excuse from his parent or guar-
dian for such absence or tardiness.
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Such excuse shall only be for the sickness of the pupil, sickness in the
family, or the avoidance of exposure to the weather.
When not deemed sufficient the teacher shall mark on the record "not
accepted;" any pupil absent three consecutive days shall be marked "left."
If absent on account of the above reasons, restorations may be made by
the Principal; if from other cause, by the Superintendent.
SEC. 44. Any pupil absent two half days or tardy twice in two consecu-
tive weeks without proper excuse, shall forfeit his seat in the school, and
the teacher shall notify his parent or guardian, and the Superintendent,
through the Principal, that the pupil is suspended.
And he shall not return to school until his parent or guardian shall have
given to the Superintendent satisfactory evidence that the pupil will be
punctual in the future, and shall have obtained permission from the Su-
perintendent.
SEC. 45. Leaving school without permission and truant-playing are
strictly forbidden, and no pupil violating this rule shall be received with-
out his first obtaining permission from the Superintendent.
SEC. 46. Pupils guilty of injuring any of the school-furniture or pro-
perty shall pay in full for all damage; in default of which they may be
suspended, and re-admitted only on permission of the Superintendent.
Scc 47. No pupil shall absent himself from any regular examination of
the school without proper excuse from his parent or guardian.
They shall not be permitted to assemble about the building, at an un-
reasonable hour before the opening of school, nor remain after the schools
are dismissed.
If any pupil comes to school untidy in person or attire, he may be sent
home to be properly prepared for the school-room.
If afflicted with any contagious disease or exposed thereto, he shall not
be allowed to remain.
SEC. 48. All school buildings shall be opened by the janitors for the
admission of pupils twenty minutes before the opening of school each
Lorning.
In special cases, where pupils are allowed to remain at noon, a teacher
shall also remain and maintain order and decorum during such time.
All pupils in health shall be expected to pass out of the school-room at
recess, but not to remain out when it would occasion an exposure of health.
The recess shall be arranged by the Principal.、
SEO. 49. Before passing from one grade to another, pupils must sustain
a satisfactory examination in their previous studies, under the direction of
the Superintendent.
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In the fourth grade an average per cent. of sixty-five, including term-
examinations, shall be required; in the fifth, sixth and seventh grades,
seventy per cent., including term-examinations; and for admission to the
High School, a general average of seventy-five per cent., including term-ex-
aminations, unless otherwise ordered by the Superintendent.
SEC. 50. No pupil of the High School shall be permitted to pass any
branch of study in the course selected by said pupil, whose standing on final
examination of such study, including the final examination, shall not reach
an average of seventy-five per cent.
SEC. 51. Classes in the High School, Grammar and Intermediate grades
shall, twice a year, be subject to a written examination; and any pupil in the
High School and Grammar grade whose average per cent. shall be below
seventy-five during two successive term-examinations, and any pupil in the
Intermediate grade whose average per cent. shall be below seventy for two
successive term-examinations, shall be reported to the principal for as-
signment to a lower class.
SEC. 52. Evenings Schools, when ordered by the Board in any year,
shall be under the care of the Superintendent.
And shall be opened on the first Monday in November and continue
until the last Friday in February succeeding, and have the same vacations
as the regular schools.
Whenever the average attendance in any of these schools does not ex-
ceed thirty, it may be discontinued at the end of the month.
SEC. 53. There shall be five sessions each week, from 7:15 to 9:15
o'clock, P. M.
SEC. 54. Pupils must be at least ten years of age, and shall be subject to
the same rules and discipline as pupils of the regular schools.
The instruction shall be confined to reading, writing, spelling and arith-
metic, and such other branches as the Committee on Text Books and Course
of Study may designate.
And the teachers, except Principals, shall be other than those regularly
employed as teachers in the public schools.
The wages shall be fixed by the Board, on a list furnished by the Super-
intendent.
Each Principal shall report monthly to the Superintendent the progress
of his work, who shall report to the Board.
SEC. 55. The janitors of such buildings as may be designated by the
Board for evenings schools, shall promptly open, heat and light the rooms
designated.
And for such services shall be paid twenty-five cents per evening extra
for each room so used.
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SEO. 56. Applicants for positions as teachers shall be examined in
arithmetic, grammar, United States history, geography, reading, spelling,
penmanship, music and drawing, and theory and practice of teaching and
physiology.
Those to teach the ancient or modern languages, or other branches,
shall be examined therein.
The general average therein of any applicant shall be seventy-five per
cent.
SEO. 57. Each janitor shall be subject to the Superintendent of Schools,
the Clerk of the Board, and Superintendent of Buildings.
He shall engage in no other occupation, but shall devote himself en-
tirely to the care, cleaning and heating of the building, and keeping the
grounds and outhouses in neat condition.
He shall open his building promptly for the schools, and remain in and
about the same during school hours.
Where evening schools are in operation, he shall open, light, and heat
the rooms necessary.
He shall do all scrubbing and cleaning, make all needed repairs, such
as mending walks, glazing windows, whitewashing basements, closets or
fencing, and do any work required in his line by the Clerk of the Board,
Superintendent of Schools or Superintendent of Buildings.
He shall aim to faithfully keep the temperature in the class-rooms at a
standard of seventy degrees Fahrenheit, and shall freely consult with the
Principal as to the manner of heating.
Teachers and pupils shall have nothing to do with the apparatus for
heating.
He shall, when school is not in session, keep his building properly closed;
and his place of residence shall be kept posted on the outer door of the
basement.
He shall be responsible for all damage done to the building, grounds,
or property contained therein, occasioned by his neglect.
During vacation of the schools he shall continue in charge of the build-
ing and grounds, and devote his time to putting and keeping the same in
proper condition, under the direction of the Clerk of the Board and Su-
perintendent of Buildings.
In case of needed repairs, he shall immediately notify the Committee on
Janitors, Clerk of the Board, or Superintendent of Buildings.
Drinking and smoking are absolutely forbidden on the premises.
SEO. 58. The Clerk of the Board shall do such clerical work as may be
required by the Board and the Secretary.
He shall also act as Clerk for the various Committees and carry out such
instructions as may be given by them in the performance of their various
duties. He shall also make a report thereof.
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He shall, also, under the direction of the Committee on Janitors, regu-
larly visit the school buildings, and see that all janitors faithfully perform
their duties.
He shall, under the direction of the Committee on Supplies, properly
distribute the same.
His office shall be at the room of the Board, for which he shall have
regular hours, and the remaining time shall be used in the performance of
his duties for the Board elswhere.
All claims against the Board shall be by him accurately examined, see-
ing that the same have been properly authorized, that the prices charged
are correct, and seasonably lay the same before the appropriate committee.
He shall do any other work required by the Board.
SEC. 59. The Board may appoint a Superintendent of Buildings, whose
business shall be to superintend the construction of buildings, seeing that
the materials used are of the required standard and the work properly done.
He shall supervise all repairs to be made in and about the buildings,
the placing of furniture, the work of cleaning and repairs by janitors; and
generally, see that all buildings, heating apparatus, gates, fences, trees
shrubbery, and grass-plots are kept in good order and condition.
He shall engage in no other business, and devote his entire time and
attention faithfully to his work.
He shall report monthly in writing the work done, and suggest needed
repairs, if any.
SEC. 60. All books, maps and other articles belonging to the Library
shall be kept in care of the Librarian, in its room at the High School.
SEC. 61. All books shall be kept thoroughly classified, arranged and
catalogued, and shall be drawn out only by the pupils and teachers of the
public schools.
SEC. 62. The Librarian shall keep a strict record of the names of per-
sons taking books, the date when taken, when returned, and the condition
of the books when taken and returned.
SEC. 63. The Library shall be kept open, every school-day and Saturday
of each week, from nine a. m. till twelve m., and one p. m. till five o'clock p.
m., for the return and delivery of books.
Pupils shall present a card from the Principal of the school to which
they belong, stating their names and position in the schools.
SEC. 64. Dictionaries, encyclopedias, maps or atlases shall not be taken
from the library-room.
SEC. 65. No person shall be allowed to retain a book longer than two
weeks, and no more than one at a time.
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SEC. 66. If a book is seriously damaged or lost, the person to whom it
is charged, at the time of its injury or disappearance, shall furnish a new
book of the same kind for the Library, or pay for the same.
And any person refusing to replace or pay for such book shall thereafter
be deprived of all benefits of the Library.
SEC. 67.
Any violation of these rules shall at once be reported by the
Librarian to the Superintendent.
SEC. 68. These rules shall be constantly kept posted in the Library.
SEC. 69. The Librarian shall submit a full report to the Board, through
the Superintendent, at the close of the school year.
He shall perform such other duties as may be required by the Superin-
tendent.
*BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS' RULES.
SECTION.
1. Regular Meetings.
2. Special Meetings.
3. Hour of Meetings.
4. Quorum and Adjournment.
5. Place of Meeting.
6. Notice of Meeting.
7. "General Business."
8. Transactions at Special Meetings.
9. Called to Order.
10. Roll-Call, Minutes, etc.
11. Order of Business.
12. Reports, etc., in Writing.
13. Duties of President.
14. Duties of Vice President.
15, Duties of Secretary.
16. Standing Committees.
17. Appointment of Committees.
18. Chairmen of Committees.
19. Committee on Improvements.
SECTION.
20. Committee on Finance.
21. On Judiciary.
22. On Designation of Grounds.
23. On Employment and Supplies.
24. On Police.
25. On Shore Rights and Privileges.
26. On Entertainments and Winter Sports.
27. On City Forestry.
28. Reserved Powers of Board.
29. Special Committees.
30. Appointed Officers, Employes, etc.
31. Superintendent of Parks.
32. Payment of Employes.
38. Orders for Supplies.
34. Sale of Trees, Shrubs, etc.
35. Payment of Interest, etc.
36. Authority to Bind Board.
37. Bonds for Payment of Labor, etc.
38. Suspension of Rules, etc.
SECTION 1. Regular meetings of the Board shall be held on the first and
third Saturday in each month, from April to October, inclusive.
And on the first Saturday in each month, from November to March, in-
clusive.
*Adopted April 14, 1888.
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SEC. 2. Special meetings may be called by the President whenever he
deems the same expedient.
And shall be so called whenever three Commissioners shall request the
same in writing.
SEC. 3. The hour of meeting shall be at half-past two o'clock in the
afternoon, unless a different hour shall be determined upon by the Board
for any meeting.
Provided, That the President may select such hour as he deems best,
when a special meeting is called.
SEC. 4. The Board may adjourn from time to time, absentees being
notified thereof.
And in case there shall be no quorum present on the day fixed for a
regular, adjourned, or called meeting, the Commissioners present may
adjourn from time to time, until a quorum be obtained; or may adjourn
said meeting sine die.
SEC. 5. The place of meeting, unless otherwise ordered by the Board, or
otherwise specified in the call for a special meeting, shall be at the office of
the Board.
SEC. 6. Each Commissioner shall be notified, at least two days previous
to any special meeting, of the time, place and purpose of the same.
Said notice shall be given by the Secretary and shall be in writing, and
served personally, or deposited in the post-office at least two days before
the day appointed for holding such meeting.
SEC. 7. A call for a special meeting, "for the transaction of general busi-
ness,” shall be deemed to cover any and all business that might properly be
transacted at a regular meeting.
SEC. 8. No business shall be transacted at any special meeting other
than that named in the call therefor.
Except by consent of two-thirds of the entire Board (or unanimous con-
sent, if less than two-thirds are present), in which event any measure adop-
ted by a vote of a majority of the entire Board shall have the same effect
as if so adopted at a regular meeting.
SEC. 9. Meetings shall be called to order by the President, or in his ab-
sence by the Vice President.
In the absence of both, the Secretary shall call the meeting to order,
when those present may elect a President pro tem.
SEC. 10. The roll shall be called at the opening of each meeting, and a
record made of Commissioners present or absent.
The minutes of previous meetings shall then be read for approval, and
errors noted, after which the regular order of business shall be taken up.
Provided, That the reading of the minutes may be laid over to a subse-
quent time.
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SEC. 11. The Order of Business, after roll-call and reading of minutes,
shall be as follows, unless otherwise ordered by the Board:
(1.) Petitions and Communications.] (5.) Of Special Committees.
(2.) Presentation of Claims.
(3.) Reports of Officers.
(4.) Of Standing Committees.
(6.) Unfinished Business.
(7.) New Business, Motions, etc.
(8.) Adjournment.
SEC. 12. All reports shall be in writing; as shall also motions and reso-
lutions, when it is desired that more than the substance thereof be
entered on the minutes.
Reports shall be presented by the Secretary in the order of their recep-
tion by him, unless the Board shall otherwise direct.
And the same rule shall apply to written resolutions and motions, which
shall have priority over other new business.
SEO. 13. The President shall perform the duties devolving upon him by
law, and shall preserve order and decorum, and enforce the rules and regu-
lations of the Board.
He may present to the Board such matters as, in his judgment, require
attention, and need not vacate his chair for that purpose unless proposing
to discuss the same.
He shall direct the yeas and nays to be taken and entered on the record,
on any question before the Board, at the request of any Commissioner.
Where the Board has no established rule of parliamentary practice, the
the President shall be guided, as near as may be, by Roberts' Rules of
Order.
The President shall exercise a general supervision over the business,
papers and property of the Board.
He shall execute all bonds, deeds, contracts, or other instruments re-
quired or directed to be executed on behalf of the Board, the same to be
attested by the Secretary.
SEO. 14. The Vice-President shall act, in the absence of the President,
at any meeting.
And, when the President is absent from the city, all the duties of his office
or as a member of any Committee of which he may be a member, shall
temporarily devolve upon the Vice-President.
But shall not sign park-bonds, incurring indebtedness, unless expressly
authorized by the Board.
SEC. 15. The Secretary shall perform the duties required by law, and
all duties properly devolving upon such officer.
He shall have charge of and attend the office of the Board when the
Board shall not be in session, as the Board may from time to time direct.
He shall attend all meetings of the Board, and of its Committees, when
required.
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He shall keep a true and complete record of the proceedings of said
Board, and have charge of all books, documents and papers, which properly
belong to his office.
He shall draw all orders on the City Treasurer, payable out of the "City
Park Fund," for all bills ordered paid by the Board, which orders shall be
signed by the President.
He shall keep, in proper form, books of account, showing the moneys re-
eeived by and paid out of the "City Park Fund."
He shall cause all paid-vouchers to be filed and properly preserved and
have custody of the corporate seal, attaching the same to all documents
which require sealing.
He shall furnish any information obtainable from the books of the
Board, at the request of any Commissioner.
And shall perform such other duties as the Board may from time to
time require.
SEC. 16. Standing Committees shall be appointed at the first regular
meetings in each year, or as soon thereafter as may be, as follows:
(1. On Improvements.
(2). On Finance.
(3). On Judiciary.
(4). On Designation of Grounds.
(5). On Employment and Supplies.
(6). On Police.
(7). On Shore Rights and Privileges.
(8). On Entertainments and Winter
Sports.
(9). On City Forestry
SEO. 17. Except as otherwise ordered by the Board, Committees shall
consist of three members each.
Except the Committee on Improvements, which shall consist of five
members.
The President shall appoint all Committees, unless the Board shall other-
wise direct.
And shall be ex-officio a member of and Chairman of the Committee on
Improvements.
The Board may at any time increase the number of members on any
Committee in such way as it may deem best.
SEC. 18. The first member named on a Committee shall be the Chairman
thereof, unless a majority of the Committee shall decide otherwise.
The Chairman of a Committee shall call the same together at such time
and place as he may deem proper whenever there is any business requiring
the attention of the Committee.
SEC. 19. The Committee on Improvements shall have general supervision
of work ordered by the Board.
In an emergency, the Committee may act for the best interests of the
Board, without awaiting instructions.
They shall make monthly reports to the Board, and recommend such
improvements from time to time as they may deem advisable.
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SEC. 20. The Committee on Finance shall have general supervision of
the finances of the Board, examine and pass upon claims before the same
are allowed, and fix the compensation of all employes when not otherwise
provided for.
They shall estimate and present a rate for tax-levy, audit the books of
the Secretary, and pass upon the financial reports of officers.
No claim shall be considered by them unless it shall have first have been
presented to the Board.
Nor shall any claim be presented to the Board, which is not certified by
the Commissioner or officer ordering the material or labor charged for, un-
less the attention of the Board is called to the fact that it is not so certified.
The Committee on Finance may approve any pay-roll for park employes,
pending a meeting of the Board, whenever they may deem the same advisable.
In which event a warrant may be drawn therefor and the facts subse-
quently reported to the Board.
SEC. 21. The Committee on Judiciary shall prepare such enactments as
may be deemed proper; and if the same are approved by the Board, cause
the same to be presented to the Legislature for action thereon.
They shall prepare such rules and regulations, for the government of
the Board and its employes, and ordinances for the proper government and
use of the Parks and Parkways, as may be deemed proper, submitting the
same to the Board for approval.
They shall perform such other duties as the Board may from time to
time require.
SEC. 22. The Committee on Designation of Grounds shall examine and
report upon all propositions for extensions of, or new parks or parkways,
and take charge of the purchase and sale of lands for or by the Board.
They shall, subject to the approval of the Board, designate names for
Parks and pieces of land coming into the control of the Board, and perform
such other duties as may be proper.
SEC. 23. The Committee on Employment and Supplies shall have general
supervision of the hiring of employes, the purchase of supplies, printing of
reports, etc., subject to the directions of the Board.
SEC. 24. The Committee on Police shall have general supervision of the
Park Police, and shall see that all police regulations and ordinances are
properly enforced.
They may at any time suspend or discharge any Park Policeman.
SEC. 25. The Committee on Shore Rights and Privileges shall have
general supervision of the use of shores for boating purposes, etc., and of
all buildings erected on any Park or Parkway by the Board, or under its
authority.
All matters relating to privileges for refreshment-stands, bathing-houses,
boat-landings, etc., shall, subject of approval of the Board, be passed upon
by said Committee.
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SEC. 26. The Committee on Entertainments and Winter Sports shall
have general supervision over the use of park grounds for picnic purposes,
band-performances, fireworks-displays, etc.
They shall further supervise the use of said grounds for skating-rinks,
toboggan-slides, speeding-tracks, etc., subject to the approval of the
Board.
SEC. 27. The Committee on City Forestry shall exercise a general
supervision over the work of the City Forester and his assistants.
And shall superintend the sale and planting of shade and ornamental
trees, for the adornment of private grounds, etc., when the same is done by
the Board or its employes.
SEC. 28. Nothing in the foregoing shall be so construed as to waive the
right of the Board at any time to increase or curtail the duties of any com-
mittee, or to direct and control their action.
SEC. 29. Special Committees may at any time be appointed by the
Board, in such manner and for such purpose as may deemed best.
Said special committees, unless otherwise ordered, to consist of three
members each.
SEC. 30. The Board may elect a Superintendent of Parks, a Board At-
torney, a Chief of Park Police, a City Forester, and such other officers and
employes as it may deem proper.
Their duties shall be such as may from time to time be determined; and
their terms of office, compensation, etc., shall be fixed by the Board.
SEC. 31. The Superintendent of Parks shall have general charge thereof
and shall, except as otherwise expressly directed, act under the direct
supervision of the Board.
In addition to his other duties he shall cause to be made out a monthly
pay-roll of park employes, certify to its correctness, and deliver the same
to the Secretary at as early a date as practicable.
When employes shall have been discharged, and hardship would other-
wise ensue, he may give a time-check for the amount due, entering the fact
thereof on the pay-roll.
He shall make a yearly inventory of property coming into his hands and
account for all he may have received, and perform such other duties as the
Board may require.
SEC. 32. Discharged employes having time-checks, as provided in the
last-above section, may, on presentation of the same to the Secretary, be
paid from the Contingent Labor-Revolving Fund, the same being reim-
bursed at each settlement of the monthly pay-roll.
SEC. 33. Written orders, on blanks prepared for the purpose, shall be
given for all supplies ordered for the Board, the same to be signed by the
party ordering the same.
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Said orders shall accompany the claims for payment, when presented to
the Board.
SEC. 34. No trees, shrubs, etc., shall be sold to private parties, nor shall
the same be planted by Board employ es, unless payment therefor be made
in advance, in such manner as the Board may from time to time direct.
SEO. 35. In the event that, by reason of lack of quorum or any oversight,
the Board should neglect to provide for a warrant for funds for payment of
interest, the proper officers shall draw such warrant, reporting the fact to
the Board at its next meeting.
In like manner warrants may be drawn for express-charges, railroad-
freightage, etc., when the interests of the Board would suffer by delay.
SEC. 36. No Commissioner or Committee shall in any way bind the Board
to do or not do any certain thing, unless expressly authorized so to do; and
no such action shall in any way be recognized by the Board, unless ex-
pressly ratified or approved.
SEC. 37. No contract shall be awarded to any person for any construc-
tion or other work to be done in any park or parkway, where the contract-
price exceeds one hundred dollars, and in which the materials and labor are
in whole or in part to be furnished by others, unless a bond, conditioned,
among other things, for the payment for such material and labor, shall be
executed and approved, unless such bond is expressly waived by the Board
Said bond shall be in a sum double the amount to be paid on said con-
tract, and shall be approved by the Board Attorney as to form, and by the
President and Chairman of the Committee on Finance as to the responsi-
bility of sureties, etc.
SEC. 38. These rules and regulations, or either of them, may be suspended
by a two-thirds vote at any regular meeting.
And may be amended or repealed at any regular meeting, subsequent
to the meeting when the same is proposed, by a vote of a majority of the
entire Board.
LIBRARY BOARD BY-LAWS.
SECTION.
1. Meetings.
2. Quorum and Adjournment.
3. Order of Business.
4. Standing Committees.
5. Finance Committee.
SEOTION.
6. Building Committee,
7. Library Committee.
8. Acts of Committees Subject to the
Approval of Board.
9. Amendments, etc.
SECTION 1. There shall be regular meetings of the Board on the first
Tuesday of each month.
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SEC. 2. In case there shall be no quorum present at any regular or
adjourned, or called meeting, the Directors present may adjourn from time
to time until a quorum be obtained, or may adjourn the meeting sine die.
SEC. 3. The Order of Business at all meetings of the Board shall be as
follows, (except as the same may be suspended by a majority vote of the
members present) viz:
(1). Reading of Minutes.
(2. Reading of Communications.
(3). Reports of Officers.
(4). Original Resolutions.
(5). Reports of Committees.
(6). Unfinished Business.
(7). New Business.
(8). Adjournment.
SEC. 4. There shall be three Standing Committees of the Board, ap-
pointed by the President as follows:
(1). Finance.
(2). Buildings.
(3). Library.
SEC. 5. The Finance Committee shall pass upon the financial reports of
all officers and shall prepare and present to the Board, on the first Tuesday
of September in each year, a budget for the succeeding year.
It shall have general supervision of the collection and disbursement of
the moneys of the Board.
SEC. 6. The Building Committee shall have charge of the care and
maintenance of the Library Building, and shall make the necessary rules
and regulations for the management of the museum and art gallery, and
for their use by the public.
It shall have charge of all specimens and works of art of which the
Board may have control. It shall select a Janitor, Curator or other employes
required in the building, except those in the Library room.
It shall have general charge of all matters connected with the occupancy
of the building not especially assigned to other committees.
SEC. 7. The Library Committee shall make the necessary rules and
regulations for the management of the reading-rooms and for their use by
the public.
It shall select a Librarian and assistants, when required, supervise the
selection, purchase, cataloguing and binding of books, and of their acquisi-
tion, arrangement and preservation.
And in general shall have charge of all matters pertaining to the books
and Library and reading rooms, and of persons employed therein.
SEC. 8. The acts of all committees shall be subject to the supervision
and approval of the Board, and in all material matters shall be reported to
the Board for its final determination.
SEC. 9. These By-Laws may be changed or amended at any meeting of
the Board by a two-thirds vote of all the members thereof.
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COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL COMMISSION.
SECTION.
1. Officers of the Board.
2. Election of Vice President.
3. Duties of President.
4. Duties of Vice President.
5. Duties of Treasurer.
6. Duties of Secretary.
SECTION.
:
7. Standing Committees and Duties.
8. Order of Business.
9. Quorum and Adjournments.
10. Debts, Contracts, etc.
11. Meetings.
12. Amendments, etc.
SECTION 1. The officers of this Board shall consist of a President, a
Vice-President, a Treasurer and a Secretary.
SEC. 2. The Board shall elect a Vice-President, who shall hold said office
until the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January, 1888, unless.
sooner removed by said Board, and until bis successor shall have been
elected and shall have entered upon the duties of his office.
Annually, at the time provided by law for the election of a President and
Treasurer, a Vice-President shall be elected.
SEO. 3. The President shall preside at all meetings of the Board, shall
sign all contracts and all orders on the Treasurer for the payment of all
funds, and shall be ex-officio a member of all standing committees.
He shall have power to call special meetings of the Board whenever he
deems it expedient, and it shall be his duty to call special meetings when-
ever three Commissioners request him in writing so to do, stating the object
of such special meeting in their request.
SEO. 4. The Vice-President shall perform all the duties and have all the
powers of the President during his absence, except such powers and duties.
as are by law conferred only upon the President.
SEC. 5. The Treasurer shall be the custodian of all the funds of the
Board, and shall pay all warrants drawn on him, signed by the President
and countersigned by the Secretary.
He shall keep a correct account of all receipts and expenditures, and
make a report at each regular meeting on the financial condition of the
Board.
The amount of the Treasurer's bond shall be fixed by the Board at its
annual meeting in each year; and the amount of said bond may be fixed.
or changed at any time by the Board.
SEO. 6. It shall be the duty of the Secretary to be present at all regular
and special meetings of the Board and of all its committees, and to keep a
record, in books provided for that purpose, of all proceedings of the Board
and of all its committees.
He shall notify all members of the Board of all its meetings, and on the
request of the Chairman of any committee, he shall notify members of
meetings of their committees.
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He shall keep a correct set of books of account, shall prepare and coun-
tersign all warrants on the Treasurer for the payment of funds, keep cor-
rect vouchers for all moneys paid, and shall, with the President, sign all
contracts.
He shall have charge of and attend the office of the Board, when the
Board shall not be in session, as the Board may from time to time direct,
and also have charge of all books, documents and papers which shall prop-
erly belong to his office.
He shall make a report to the Board at each regular meeting thereof,
and at any other time as the Board may direct.
He shall be custodian of the corporate seal of the Board, and shall at-
tach the same to all documents which require sealing, and which have been
executed by the President.
SEC. 7. The Standing Committees shall be as follows:
(1. Finance Committee.
(2). Construction Committee.
(3). Committee on Site.
(4). Auditing Committee.
The Finance Committee shall consist of four members of the Board, be-
sides the President, and shall have general supervision of the finances of
the Board, and pass upon the financial reports of all officers.
The Construction Committee shall consist of four members of the Board,
besides the President, and shall supervise the erection of the building, and
have general charge of all matters connected with construction, but all sub-
ject to the approval of the Board.
The Committee on Site shall consist of four members of the Board, be-
sides the President, and shall have charge of all matters pertaining to the
purchase or condemnation of land.
The Auditing Committee shall consist of two members of the Board, be-
sides the President, and shall audit all bills and accounts before the pre-
sentation of the same to the Board for its action.
All bills, before being audited, shall be signed by the chairman of the
committee authorizing the expenditure, or by two members of the same.
committee.
And shall be presented to the Auditing Committee for action at least
twenty-four hours previous to the meeting of the Board.
Special Committees may be appointed from time to time, as the Board
may direct.
The President shall appoint all committees.
SEO. 8. The following shall be the Order of Business at the meetings of
the Board:
(1). Reading of Minutes.
(2). Reports of Officers.
(3). Reading of Communications.
(4). Reports of Committees.
(5). Unfinished Business.
(6). New Business.
SEC. 9. Five members of the Board shall constitute a quorum, but a
less number may adjourn from time to time.
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SEC. 10. No debt or obligation shall be incurred, no contract shall be
entered into, and no bills shall be ordered paid, except with the approval
of a majority of the full Board.
SEC. 11. Regular meetings of the Board shall be held on the first Tues-
day after the first Monday in each month.
The regular meeting in January of each year shall be denominated
"The Annual Meeting of the Board."
SEC. 12. These By-Laws, or any of them, may be altered, amended or re-
pealed at any regular meeting of the Board, by a majority vote of the full
Board; but at least ten days' notice must be given at a regular meeting of
intention to move to so alter, amend or repeal.
*BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS' RULES, ETC.
SECTION.
1. Meetings.
2. Duties of President.-Procedure.
3. Order of Business.
4. Standing Committees.
5. Rules and Regulations.
6. Purchases and Property.
7. Appointments and Discipline.
8. Salaries and Rewards.
SECTION.
9. Finance.
10. Complaints.
11. Duties of Clerk.
12. Du'ies of Surgeon.
13. Duties of Superintendent and
Officers of the Force.
14. Construction of Rules.
15. Amendments, etc.
Board shall be held on each and
SECTION 1. Regular meetings of the
every Monday at half-past two o'clock.
Special meetings may be called by the President at any time, and shall
be called by the Clerk upon the written request of any Commissioner.
SEC. 2. The President, and in his absence the Vice-President, shall per-
form all duties by law devolving upon him.
He shall preside over all meetings and see that the same are conducted
in accordance with law and the rules of the Board.
When no rule has been prescribed, Roberts' Rules of Order shall be the
guide.
SEC. 3. At regular meetings the Order of Business, unless otherwise
ordered, shall be :
(1). Roll Call.
(2). Reading Minutes.
(3). Communications.
(4). Report of Superintendent.
(5). Standing Committees.
(6). Special Committees.
(7). Unfinished Business.
(8). New Business.
(9). Investigations of Charges.
(10). Adjournment.
SEC. 4. All Committees shall be appointed by the President, unless
otherwise ordered by the Board, and shall consist of two members each.
* Proposed April 16, 1888.
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Standing Committees (to be appointed at the first meeting in each Board
year or as soon thereafter as practicable) shall be as follows:
(1.) Rules and Regulations.
(4.) Salaries and Rewards.
(2.) Purchases and Property.
(3.) Appointments and Discipline.
(5.) Finance.
(6.) Complaints.
SEC. 5. The Committee on Rules and Regulations shall, from time to
time, prepare and report such rules, orders, etc., or amendments thereto, as
may be proper for the government of the Board or its employes.
SEC. 6. The Committee on Purchases and Property shall, except as
otherwise ordered, have general supervision of the purchases made for the
Board, and of all property under its control.
SEC. 7. The Committee on Appointments and Discipline shall examine
all applications for appointments, etc., watch over the esprit du corps of
the Force, and report such matters in connection therewith as from time to
time shall be deemed proper.
SEC. 8. The Committee on Salaries shall prepare and report schedules
for payment of employes, or changes therein, from time to time, and, after
approval by the Board, see that the same are properly presented to the
City Council.
SEC. 9. The Committee on Finance shall examine all claims against the
Board, as well as the accounts of its employes, pay-rolls, etc., and have gen-
eral supervision of all financial transactions of the Board not inconsistent
with law or these rules.
SEO. 10. The Committee on Complaints shall examine into all charges
referred to them for investigation, and pending any meeting of the Board
may examine into any matter complained of and proper to come before the
Board, reporting thereon at the next meeting.
SEC. 11. The Clerk shall be Chief Clerk of the Department, and shall at-
tend the meetings of the Board, keep a record of its proceedings, as well as
of the Department, and perform such other duties as may be prescribed in
the regulations for the government of employes, or as may be required by
the Board.
SEC. 12. The Surgeon shall be a graduate in medicine, of at least three
consecutive years' general practice in the city of Minneapolis, and shall per-
form such services, not inconsistent with his profession, as the Board may
from time to time direct.
SEO. 13. The Superintendents, Inspectors, Captains, Lieutenants, Ser-
geants, Patrolmen, and other employes of the Board, shall be guided by the
regulations especially provided for their government, as enlarged upon or
modified by the orders of the Board, or in connection therewith.
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SEC. 14. Nothing herein shall be construed as in any way affecting com-
pliance with the provisions of the act constituting this Board, or as curtail-
ing the powers of the Board over its committees or employes.
SEC. 15. These rules may be annulled, repealed, modified or amended at
any regular meeting, notice of the proposed change having been given at
the next preceding meeting.
*RULES FOR GOVERNMENT OF POLICE.
Qualifications for Membership.-Citizens
and Residents.
Superintendent. General Duties. En-
forcement of Laws, Ordinances and Or
ders of Board.-Records, etc.
Assistant Superintendent. General Du-
ties
Inspectors. -Duties of Chief and Assist-
ants.-Record of Arrests. -Daily Re-
ports. Suspicious Persons, Stolen
Property, etc.
Captains.-General Duties.- To Report
Delinquent Officers. Preserve the
Peace.-Present Offenders at Court.-
Daily Record of Offenses -Pawnbrok-
ers, etc.-Riots.
Lieutenants and Sergeants.-General Pow-
ere and Duties.
Patrolmen.-General Duties.-Answer Calls
and Obey Orders.-Remain on Beat.-
Note Removals. --Render Aid, and Assist
Strangers.- Estray Children.- Note Bad
Characters.
Unlicensed Liquor Dealers. -Junk-Shops
and Second-Hand Dealers.-Pawnbrok-
ers.-Gambling, Prize-Fighting, etc.-
Houses of Ill-Fame.
Obstructions of Streets.-Dangerous Places.
-Openings and Excavations -Coal-
Holes.-Street Lamps. - Nuisances.-
Store Doors, etc.-Vacant Buildings.-
Sidewalk Obstructions.
Dead Animals.-Garbage, etc.-Street Beg-
gars.-Fast Driving.-Cruelty to Ani-
mals.-Street Blockades.-Disturbances.
Suspicious Persons.
Negligence.-Arrest Without
Warrant.-
General Deportment.-Visiting Houses
of Ill-Fame, Saloons, etc.-Disorderly
Occurrences.
Arrests, How Made.-Self-Defense.-Abuse
of Prisoners.-Preservation of Property.
-Private Records.-Daily Reports.
Special Policemen.-Conformity to Rules.
Abuse of Trust.-Discharge.
Violation of Rules by Force.-Penalties
-Offences in Detail.
Force to Devote Entire Time.--Cleanliness
and Deportment.-Use of Liquor.-
Smoking.-Card-Playing and Gaming.
Attorneys for Accused Persons.-Bail.-Es-
cape of Prisoners.-Secretion of Goods.
-Gossipping.-Compromises.
Gratuities. Rewards, etc.-Presents to Of-
cers from Patrolmen.-Contributions.-
Stolen Property.
Efficiency.-Arrest of Party, When Issue of
Warrant Known.-Unseemingly Con-
duct and Vulgar Language.--Use of
Batons and Weapons.-Formal Com-
plaint Necessary, When.
Suspension.-Political Discussions.-Resi-
dence of Members.-Uniforms and
Badges -Enforcement of Rules.
No person will be appointed in the police force unless (1) able to read
and write the English language understandingly; (2) a citizen of the
United States; resident of Minneapolis for three years next preceding his
appointment; (4) never been convicted of a crime; (5) at least five feet six
inches in height, and weight not less than one hundred and forty pounds
avoirdupois; (6) more than twenty-one and less than thirty-five years of
age; (7) of good health and sound in body and mind; and (8) of good moral
character and habits.
* Only such rules are published herein as are of interest to applicants or the general
public; the rules prescribing miscellaneous duties of the Force will be found in pamphlet
issued by the Board of Police Commissioners.
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The Superintendent of Police, subject to the orders, rules and regula-
tions of the Board of Police Commissioners, shall be chief executive officer;
devote his whole time to the discharge of his duties; see that all laws of
the State and ordinances of the City are duly enforced; execute all orders
and observe all rnles aud regulations.
All orders to the Superintendent of Police shall be issued only by the
Board of Police Commissioners; all orders to the police force by the Su-
perintendent to the Inspectors or Captains of Police; and by him or them
communicated to the force.
The Superintendent may, in his discretion, suspend from duty, and re-
port to the Police Commissioners, any member of the Department for
insubordination, drunkenness, or failure to perform his proper duties, or
against whom a written complaint has been made.
The Superintendent shall make report to the Commissioners at every
meeting of the doings of the police force for the preceding week, and at the
first meeting of every month submit a synopsis of all the work done by the
force during the month preceding. When necessary he shall repair to
serious fires, and to all riots or tumultous assemblages, and take command of
the police present.
The Superintendent shall keep at his office books in which shall be en-
tered (1) a record of orders issued from his office; (2) a record of current
and incidental expenses of his own office; (3) a record of suspicious places
and the names of the keepers thereof, in the city of Minneapolis; and (4)
a record of houses of prostitution, assignation houses, gambling houses, and
disorderly or disreputable houses, with the names of the owners and
keepers thereof.
The Assistant Superintendent shall assist the Superintendent, and in
his absence have and exercise all the powers conferred on the Superintend-
ent, and perform such other duties as may be required by the Board.
The Chief Inspector shall, subject to the control and direction of the
Superintendent, have charge of the Inspectors detailed for detective ser-
vice at the said office. He shall keep a record of all arrests made by In-
spectors, entering therein the name and description of the persons, time
and cause of arrest, disposition, and if it appears necessary, have photo-
graphs obtained. He shall report to the Superintendent on the first day
of each month all such arrests made during the preceding month.
Members of the police force when detailed for secret service shall be
known as Inspectors, and must heartily co-operate in the prevention and
detection of crime, and arrest of criminals. To secure unity of action in
the Inspectors' force, each member shall report daily all matters of interest
engaging his attention, and any information relative to suspicious persons
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or places, or any circumstances tending to throw light on any crime that
may have been committed. Any Inspector withholding such informa-
tion, or failing to report the same, shall be deemed guilty of neglect of
duty, and will be liable to dismissal or other punishment. They shall
deliver to the Police Clerk all property coming into their possession,
whether stolen, found, or otherwise by them recovered.
The Captains of Police shall be at their several station-houses at all
times when on duty, unless necessarily called away. Each Captain shall
be held strictly responsible for the preservation of the peace in his precinct,
visiting every part of it as often as once a week, noting the condition of
streets, sidewalks, street-lights, obstructions, nuisances, and non-compli-
ances with the city ordinances; daily inspect his men, reform any negli-
gence in attire or other improper personal habit, and report every case of
sickness, misconduct, or neglect of duty.
He shall prefer charges against any officer who shall fail to discover a
homicide, burglary, or serious breach of the peace, committed on his beat
during his tour, or who shall fail or neglect to take proper measures to
arrest any person or persons guilty of such offences.
He shall receive into his custody and safely keep all persons arrested
in his precinct, and shall, before the opening of the next session of the
Municipal Court, unless they be otherwise lawfully disposed of, cause them
to be conveyed to the central station. Each Captain (or one of the Lieu-
tenants or Sergeants,) to be present at the Municipal Court each morning
when required to attend to cases from his precinct.
He shall keep a daily record of burglaries, larcenies, etc., amount of
property lost or stolen, assaults, disturbances, lost children, fires, dangerous
places, accidents, etc., with cause and proofs, etc.
Also, a record of pawnbrokers, second-hand dealers, junk-shops, intelli-
gence-offices and licensed places of amusement within his precinct, and
cause the laws and ordinances concerning them to be observed.
Also, keep a record of all drinking saloons, gambling houses and houses
of ill-fame; and all places where idlers, tipplers, gamblers, sellers of lot-
tery tickets, thieves, and other disorderly and suspicious persons congre-
gate.
In case of any riot or sudden emergency, the Captain shall forthwith
proceed to the scene of disturbance with the necessary force to suppress
the disorder. Should he doubt his ability to preserve the peace, or to re-
store order, he will immediately send notice to the Superintendent.
The Lieutenant, in the absence of Captain, shall have charge of the
precinct, and exercise all his powers and duties, and be held to the like
responsibility.
Sergeants of Police shall perform such duties and at such hours as
may be ordered by their respective commanding officers.
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Every Patrolman shall hold himself in readiness at all times to answer
the calls and obey the orders of his superior officers; he shall treat his
superiors with respect, be courteous and considerate, guard himself against
envy, jealousy, or other unfriendly feeling; and inform his superior officer
of every neglect or disobedience of orders that may come to his knowledge.
Patrolmen shall confine their patrol within the limits of their beats, (ex-
cept in case of fire, arrest of a prisoner, or other necessary absence) until
relieved; but are not to refuse to give assistance for the protection of per-
sons or property near their own beats, if called for in any case requiring
immediate attention, returning as soon as possible. If he hear any call for
assistance, he shall proceed to render aid with all possible dispatch, making
every practicable precaution for his beat, when he leaves it for this or for
any other purpose.
Patrolmen must not walk together; or talk with each other, or with any
other person on their beats, while on duty, unless in the line of duty, and
such communication must be brief as possible. They must not stand still
while on duty, but constantly patrol their beats.
Each patrolman shall, as far as possible, without intruding on the
privacy of individuals, note all removals from or into the limits of his beat,
and acquire such a knowledge of the inhabitants as will enable him to
recognize them. He must make himself perfectly acquainted with all parts
of his beat, and with the streets, thoroughfares, alleys and houses within
it, and shall furnish such information and render such aid to all persons,
when requested, as is consistent with his duty.
He shall keep his number in sight and give his name and number to all
who demand them; direct strangers and others, when requested, the near-
est and safest way to their places of destination, and, when necessary,
cause them to be accompanied. He shall not leave his beat for that pur-
pose, but shall pass such persons from his beat to the next.
He shall cause all estray-children, or infants who have been abandoned,
to be returned to their parents, if known and within the beat, and if not, to
the station house; take note of all cases of sudden death, where there is
reasonable ground to suspect criminality; render immediate aid in case of
accident or illness in the streets, ascertaining all important particulars con-
nected therewith, and making report thereof.
He must strictly watch the conduct of all persons of known bad charac-
ter, fixing in his mind such impressions as will enable him to recognize
them; note their movements and the premises they enter, learn their names,
residence, and occupations, and report to his commanding officer any in-
formation he may obtain; and also note, during the night, all vehicles which
in any manner excite suspicion.
He shall take particular note of all places where intoxicating liquors are
sold, and report all unlicensed places, and places where the terms of the
license are not complied with; note all junk-shops and shops of second-
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hand dealers and pawnbrokers, all places of amusements, and all suspicious
persons and places within his route; and also all suspected gambling houses,
dancing, or prize-fighting places, mock-auction rooms, venders of lottery
tickets, and houses of ill-fame, keeping a list thereof in his book for refer-
ence, and reporting the same to the officer commanding his precinct.
He shall note all street and sidewalk obstructions, and defects from
which accidents may occur, removing them when practicable; all places for
which temporary permits are granted for building; or where openings or
excavations are being made, and see that suitable accommodations are pro-
vided for the public travel; all coal-holes left exposed or insecure; all street
lamps out of repair, not lighted at proper times, or extinguished too early;
all buildings where any noisome, dangerous, or unwholsome trade is carried
on; all nuisances and other matters affecting the safety and convenience of
the public, or the interests of the city; and shall make report thereof, with-
out delay, in writing.
In the night-time he shall examine all doors, gates and windows of stores
on his beat to see that they are properly secured, and if not, give notice to
the inmates, if any. Where the buildings are unoccupied he must fasten
all doors and windows found open, and notify the owners in the morning.
He must take special notice of all vacant dwelling-houses, to prevent dep-
redations; be vigilant to prevent fire or waste of water; call the attention
of abutters to the state of their sidewalks, where, by snow, ice or other
cause, they are rendered dangerous, or when obstructed by fuel, boxes or
other articles, or with goods or signs extending more than three feet over
the same; and take note of all ashes, garbage, dead animals, or other offen-
sive matter thrown into the street, or when the street is improperly ob-
structed.
Where the laws and ordinances, upon notice given, are not forthwith
obeyed, he shall do what he can to make the way safe and convenient, as-
certain the names of the parties offending, and report the same for com-
plaint and prosecution; and when any person begs on the street, or goes
from door to door soliciting alms, he shall inquire the name and abode of
such person, and make a record of the same.
He shall note all cases of fast driving; of brutality to animals; horses
or vehicles left unattended; cases where the drivers of licensed vehicles
are uncivil, or demand illegal fares; where street-cars, hacks, etc., stop
opposite the intersection of streets or on crossings, or do not conform to
any other lawful provision made for their regulation.
He shall use his best efforts, when streets become blockaded by teains,
etc., to disentangle the same; and when the stream of travel is continuous,
shall open the way for foot-travelers wishing to cross, attending women,
children and aged persons, who would be otherwise exposed to danger;
and shall at once proceed to the spot where a disturbance occurs and use
his best efforts to restore quiet.
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If any person has committed a felonious assault, or any other offense,
or, by loud outcries or otherwise, persists in disturbing the peace, the per-
son offending shall be taken into custody and conveyed to the station
house; and if the patrolman is opposed in the performance of his duty,
and no other officer is within call, he may, in the name of the State, demand
the aid of any citizen present.
He may also examine any person, whom he shall see walking abroad in
the night after ten o'clock, whom he shall have reason to suspect of any
unlawful design, and may demand of him his business abroad at such a
time, and whither he is going, which authority must be exercised with
great caution.
He must, by his vigilance, render it extremely difficult for any one to
commit a crime on his post; and the absence of crime on any beat will be
considered the best proof of efficiency; and if offenses frequently occur, it
will be deemed negligence or want of ability on the part of the patrolmen
or officer in charge of the precinct.
When any person charges another with the commission of a crime, and
insists that the person charged shall be taken into custody, the patrolman
shall require the accuser (if unknown to him) to accompany the prisoner,
as a witness, to the police station, and with as little delay as possible, re-
turn to his beat and inspect the same with great care, to see that no depre-
dations have been committed during his absence; if more than three
squares from the central station, he may summon the patrol-wagon and
deliver the accused to the officer in charge.
Patrolmen are forbidden to enter houses of prostitution, places of
amusement, or places where intoxicating liquors are sold (except in the
strict discharge of duty), it being understood that this is not intended to
impair their efficiency, but to preserve the dignity of the members and the
reputation of the Department from attacks which needlessly frequenting
such places would invite; they are strictly enjoined to keep a watch over
all such places, acquaint themselves with the manner in which they are
conducted, report any disorderly occurrence therein, and see that the law is
respected and observed.
When it becomes necessary to take a party into custody it shall be done
in as quiet a manner as possible, using only sufficient force to secure the
prisoner; in no instance shall the prisoner be struck, except in self-defense,
and unnecessary abuse of prisoners while in custody, either by word or act,
will be severely punished.
All property, coming into the possession of an officer in his official ca-
pacity, shall be carefully preserved, marked and placed in the hands of the
officer in charge of the station, without delay.
It shall be the duty of each officer to keep a private record of his work,
with day and date, and to enter therein all matters of importance in which
he is engaged in an official capacity, (whether at court, on his beat, or else-
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where,) and also any other matter of official importance that comes to his
knowledge; and at such hour as shall be appointed, make daily report to
the officer in charge of the station house, of all that he has done, and all.
important information that has come to his knowledge during the previous
twenty-four hours, or since his last report, exhibiting his book if requested.
Persons who may be appointed as Special Police-Officers, without pay
from the city, must conform to the rules and regulations of the Depart-
ment, so far as relate to their habits, conduct, mode of performing police
duty, in every particular in which they are applicable; and all, who abuse
their trusts, violate the rules, or are unfit for duty, will be deprived of their
authority so to act.
Any member of the force may be punished by the Police Commissioners.
in their discretion, either by reprimand, forfeiture and withholding of
pay (not exceeding thirty days for any one offense), by being reduced in
rank, or by dismissal from the force on conviction of any one of the follow-
ing offenses, to-wit: (1) Intoxication; (2) any act of insubordination or dis-
respect towards a superior officer; (3) any acts of oppression or tyranny;
(4) neglect of duty; (5) violation of the rules; (6) neglect or disobedience of
orders; (7) any legal offense; (8) absence without leave; (9) immoral con-
duct; (10) conduct unbecoming an officer; (11) conduct injurious to the
public peace or welfare; (12) incapacity,-mental, physical, or educational;
(13) any breach of discipline; (14) neglecting or refusing to pay debt for
uniform-clothing, or for rent, or the necessaries of life; (15) contracting a
debt under false or fraudulent pretences; (16) continuous and persistent
neglect to pay just debts; (17) sitting down while on patrol duty, or con-
versing during the tour of patrol duty with any other member of the force or
with a citizen, without any cause therefor; (18) not patrolling, or not prop-
erly patroling his beat during his tour of patrol duty; (19) failing to de-
tect a crime committed on his beat during his tour of patrol duty; (20)
unnecessary absence from his beat during his tour of patrol duty; and
(21) any other act contrary to good order and discipline, or constituting
neglect of duty or a violation of the rules of the Department.
Each member shall devote his whole time and attention to the business.
of the Department, and is expressly prohibited from following any other
calling, or being employed in any other business; and although certain
hours are allotted to the respective members for the performance of duty
on ordinary occations, yet at all times they must be prepared to act im-
mediately on notice that their services are required.
Every member, at all times when entering upon duty, must be neat in
person, his clothes and boots clean, and his dress in conformity with the
rules and regulations; at all other times he shall be dressed in like manner,
unless on account of the weather or other sufficient cause arising from the
immediate discharge of his duty, his dress becomes soiled or deranged, in
which case it shall be put in proper order as soon as circumstances will
permit.
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POLICE COMMISSION.
Each member, in his conduct and deportment, must be quiet, civil, and
orderly; in the performance of duty he must maintain decorum and atten-
tion, command of temper, patience and discretion, but, act with firmness
and sufficient energy to perform his dnty.
He must at all times refrain from violent, coarse, profane and insolent
language; and no member of the force shall, in any station house or else-
where, while on duty, or while in uniform off duty, drink any kind of
liquor, or smoke.
No liquor or intoxicating drink shall, upon any pretext, be introduced
into any station house (except for medicinal purposes, and then only when
ordered by the Surgeon of Police) nor shall smoking, or profane or obscene
language be allowed at any time in the public offices of any station house,
or of Police Headquarters.
The members of the force are forbidden to play at any games in a sta-
tion house, or to meet at any other place for the purpose of playing cards
or any other game, while in uniform, the playing of any games for stakes
or wagers being positively prohibited.
No member of the force will be allowed to sign a petition or recom-
mendation for any person to be appointed to or to be removed from the
force, nor to sign the bond of any person appointed on the force; nor inter-
est himself or interfere in any manner whatever, either directly or indi-
rectly, in the employment or retainer of any attorney to aid in the defence
of persons arrested or accused; nor become or furnish bail for any person
arrested.
No member shall communicate to any person any information which
may enable persons to escape from arrest or punishment; or enable them
to dispose of or secrete any goods or other valuable thing stolen or em-
bezzled; or which might disclose any private information or purpose of
the Department; nor communicate, except to such persons as directed by
his superior in office, any information respecting orders he may have re-
ceived, or any special regulations that may be made for the government of
the police force.
No member shall, directly or indirectly, be concerned in making any
compromise or arrangement between thieves, or other criminals, and other
persons who have suffered by their acts, with a view to permitting the
criminals to escape the penalties provided by law; and any officer who has
any part in such compromise or arrangement, or knowledge thereof which
he fails to give to his superior officer, shall be subject to immediate dis-
missal.
No member shall accept or receive from any person or persons, any gra-
tuity, reward, gift, or any article or thing, directly or indirectly, as com-
pensation or pay for services rendered in the discharge of his duty (except
his regular stipulated pay from the city) without special permission from
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the Board of Police Commissioners; nor shall any officer receive a present
from the men under his command, or any subscription, solicitation for
subscription, or contribution, be made by or of any member of the force for
the purpose of making a present to any other member.
No member shall allow the use of his name at any fair, festival or exhi-
bition, for the purpose of selling tickets, setting or promoting any raffle or
gift enterprise, or of having a present voted to him, or voted for in his
name.
No member shall solicit, or be obliged to make any contribution in money
or other thing, (on any pretext, to any person, committee or association) for
any political purpose; nor will any member of the force be allowed to
collect money from citizens for the purpose of presenting a testimonial to
any member of the force.
No member shall ask for a free-pass to any place of amusement, or upon
railroads leading from the city, except through the Superintendent, and
then only when required for official business.
All property or money taken on suspicion of having been feloniously
obtained, or of being the proceeds of crime, and all stolen or other property
seized officially by members of the police force, shall be deposited with the
Police Clerk.
When a crime has been committed and the Superintendent has reason
to believe that negligence has been shown by the patrolman on whose beat
or precinct the crime was committed, the patrolman will be required to
show by his own affidavit, or testimony of other persons, that he was strictly
attending to his duties, or be subject to suspension or dismissal from the
force.
If an officer knows that a warrant has been issued for the arrest of a
party, and that the same has not been withdrawn, it shall be his duty to ar-
rest that party whenever he meets him, although he may not have the war-
rant in his possession.
Officers are strictly enjoined not to make an arrest a personal but an
official matter; they should pay no attention to coarse or vulgar language,
or abuse which may be directed towards them, and avoid all language or
conduct that may provoke resistance.
Officers must use batons only in self-defense, or when forcible or violent
resistance is made to them in the discharge of their duties, and then
only in extreme cases, and with great prudence; if a felon escape, or seek
to escape, every effort should first be made to secure his capture without
resort to weapons.
Offences such as non-payment of licenses, uncleanly premises, and all
that class of acts which consist in neglect to do something prescribed by
law, and not in violent opposition to law, should be complained of before
arrest.
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POLICE COMMISSION.
In case of drunkenness or other violation of the rules and regulations,
by any member of the Police Force, unfitting him for duty, he may be re-
lieved from duty by the officer in charge of the precinct and ordered to re-
port to the Superintendent.
Members must avoid all political discussions in the station house, or else-
where, while on duty.
Members are required to report their residence accurately to the Police
Clerk, and also to report any change of residence within twenty-four hours
after its occurrence.
Uniforms and parts of uniforms must be made in strict accord with the
regulations. All uniform-coats must be worn closely buttoned except when
the wearer is on house-duty. The police (silver star) badge shall be worn
on the left breast of the outside garment when in uniform, and upon the
vest at all times when in citizen's dress. Every officer must wear the pre-
scribed badge and uniform when on duty or in court.
Every officer and patrolman will be furnished with a copy of Rules and
Regulations, which he must keep in his possession in order to become per-
fectly familiar with his duties.
Any member violating any of the rules shall be subject to suspension,
reprimand, deductions from pay, or dismissal from the force, according to
the nature of the offense.
The officers are directed to strictly enforce the foregoing rules and to
report any and all violations of the same to the Superintendent.
*FIRE DEPARTMENT RULES, ETC.
Duties of Officers -Rules and Regulations
to be Enforced.
Captains To Prevent Non-Members Rid-
ing on Apparatus.-Report Violation of
Ordinances. -Escort Visitors.-Exam-
ine Buildings, Hydrants, Cisterns, etc.
-Suspend Members, When.
Superintendent of City Telegraph.—Charge
of Men, Material and Apparatus.-In-
structions.-Interference.
Superintendent of Horses.-Medical Aid,
etc., Feed and Care.-Inspection.
Responding to Alarms.-Reckless Driving.
-Crossing Bridges, etc.
Racing Prohibited.--Collisions and Acci-
dents.-Gong to be Rung.
Injury to Vehicles.-Recompense for Same.
-Penalty for Carelessness, etc.
Ansistance to Police.-Officer to Make Nec-
essary Detail.
Gratuities and Rewards to be Turned Over
to Relief Association.-Roll of Merit.
Death of Members.-Houses to be Draped
in Mourning.
*Adopted by the Board of Engineers and approved by the Council Committee on Fire
Department. Only such are published herein as are of general interest; the rules in detail
are issued in pamphlet form by the Department.
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FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Religious and Political Discussions Pro-
hibited. -Elections.
Society Influence.-Subscriptions, Sale of
Tickets, etc,
Presents from Members.-Fairs, Festivals,
etc.-Public Property.
Fire-Hats and Badges.-Losses to be Ac-
counted For.
Hydrants, etc., Out of Order.-Same to be
Reported.
Fund for Newspapers, and Miscellaneous
Company Purposes.
Membership. Qualifications.
Appoint-
ment, etc.-To Devote Entire Time.
Candidates.-Assignment to Duty.-Com-
pensation. etc.
Probation.-Reports on Efficiency to be
Made by Captains After Sixty Days.
Members.-Uniforms and Badges, When
and How Worn.
Promotion.- Applications for Same.-Re-
newals, etc.
Resignation of Membership, When and
How.
Misconduct of Members.-Offences and
Penalties.
Members Always on Duty.-Not to Visit
Saloons.-Smoking in Uniform, etc.
Intoxicating Liquors and Gambling Pro-
hibited. Social Gatherings, etc.
False Reports Concerning Members.-Duty
to Report Violations.-Penalty for Fail-
ure to Report.
Suspensions, When and How.-Restoration
and Transfers. -Return of Public Prop-
erty.
Charges, When and How Made.-Limitation
of Time.
Laws, Ordinances, Rules, etc.-Necessity of
Enforcement.
Officers shall be just, dignified and firm in their intercourse with su-
bordinates, being careful to abstain from violent, abusive or immoderate
language in giving orders and directions, as well as in conversation with
them; see that all rules and orders are strictly carried out and obeyed, and
promptly report, by well-founded charges, any transgression of law, ordi-
nance, rules or order.
Captains must not allow any citizen or any member of the Department,
(unless his company responds to the alarm) to ride upon any apparatus in
going to the fire; and in returning from the fire, none but his own company.
They shall promptly report all violations of the fire ordinance, and all other
violations of the ordinances, in their respective districts, in reference to fire
hydrants, cisterns and street-ends, and obstruction to same by snow or ice;.
also as to repairs needed to hydrants and cisterns, and all hoistways open.
after business hours or otherwise, in violation of law or ordinance, with
name and address of occupants and owners of the premises. They shall
politely escort visitors, and make proper explanations to them, but not al-
low habitual lounging in or about the quarters, nor permit visitors in
quarters while apparatus and quarters are being cleaned.
They shall see that the front of building, sidewalk, gutters, and street
in front of quarters to the middle of the street, are kept clean and free
from snow and other obstructions; and shall examine all buildings, except
dwellings, within their company district at least twice in each year, in order
to become familiar with their construction, the class of business carried on,
the class of goods on each floor, and whether combustible or non-combus-
tible, and see if the entrances, stairways, halls and exits are accessible, thus
learning the most expedient manner of attack in case of fire.
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Captains shall also examine all fire-hydrants and cisterns, as to their
location and condition; keep themselves familiar with the street-ends and
landings, and platforms, and set engines along the river, in order to determine
the best manner in which the apparatus can be brought into service with-
out delay. They shall have the power, under circumstances of emergency,
such as intoxication, willful refusal to obey orders, or where the interests
of the Department would suffer by his remaining on active duty, to sus-
pend from duty any member of their companies, and prefer charges in
manner and form as prescribed.
The Superintendent of the City Telegraph shall, under the direction of the
Chief Engineer, have the superintendence and care of the construction,
repair and operation of the city telegraph, and see that the same is kept
constantly in good working order; also to have full charge of the men, ma-
terial, and apparatus used for the same. He shall give such practical in-
structions to persons using the instruments, in the employ of the city, at
the different houses of the Department, and elsewhere, so as to enable them
to use and keep the same in good working order. The attaching of any
device or instrument, either electrical or mechanical, to any of the tele-
graphic apparatus or wires of the department, excepting under the direc-
tion of the Superintendent, is prohibited.
The Superintendent of Horses shall give such medical and surgical aid
and attention as may be required, and such directions regulating the feed-
ing and care of the horses as may be necessary. He shall report all deaths
of horses occurring, and may recommend the sale or other proper disposi-
tion of all horses becoming unfitted for further service. At least once a
month he shall visit each company-quarters, inspect the horses and the for-
age or feed furnished, and report any deficiency, together with such recom-
mendations as he may deem proper.
All proper dispatch must be used in reaching a fire, consistent with
safety. Officers will direct and hold the drivers responsible for any reckless
or imprudent driving. When turning corners, or from one railroad track to
another (especially in crowded or slippery streets), drivers will lessen the
speed, even to a walk if necessary.
On approaching bridges or steam railroad crossings, between the hours
of sunset and sunrise, commanding officers of companies will dismount and
satisfy themselves that the same can be crossed with safety. None of the
apparatus will be allowed to cross over any of the viaducts or bridges at a
gait faster than a slow-trot.
Racing to or from fires is strictly prohibited, and if the apparatus of sev-
eral companies proceed on the same street to or from a fire, they shall do so
in single file. To guard against collisions and accidents, the gongs on all
apparatus will be rung at short intervals when going to fires, and always
when approaching a crossing.
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Driving any of the machines carelessly or maliciously in such a manner
as to collide with and injure the vehicles or other property of citizens, or
any other wanton conduct whereby damage to citizens or their property
shall result, shall subject the offender to payment of damages incurred, and,
in the discretion of the Board of Engineers, to reprimand, forfeiture of not
exceeding one month's pay, or discharge from the service.
Members shall assist the police officers in making arrests or quelling dis-
turbances, when called upon to do so, when away from company quarters.
When word is received asking for such assistance, the commanding officer
shall detail as many members as may be necessary, not exceeding one-half.
All moneys received from private parties, corporations or individuals, for
services, ordinary or extraordinary, rendered as firemen, shall be reported
in writing, by the member receiving the same, to the Chief Engineer,
through his ranking officer, within five days after the receipt of such
moneys; and all such moneys shall be paid, into the Relief Association of
the Fire Department of the city of Minneapolis, unless otherwise ordered.
The names of such officers and members as may have distinguished them-
selves in the discharge of their duties, by saving human life at risk of their
own, will be entered upon a "Roll of Merit," which will be annually pub-
lished in the report of the Department. Officers will make a special report
whenever any member performs a meritorious or daring act, giving a full
statement of the facts.
Upon the death of a member, from injuries received while in the dis-
charge of his duties, the several houses shall be draped in mourning for
one day after the funeral, except the quarters to which the deceased was
connected, where the same may remain for a time not to exceed thirty days.
Members must avoid all religious or political discussions at the Depart-
ment houses. They must not interfere or make any use of the influence of
their office in elections, or attend any political convention as delegates, or
take any part whatever in political matters, other than to exercise the right
of suffrage. On election days sufficient time will be allowed to vote.
No officer or member shall, directly or indirectly, solicit the influence or
intercession of any person or persons, with the Chief Engineer or any of the
Assistants, to effect his transfer or promotion; nor will solicitations or sub-
scription papers be allowed to be circulated, or tickets for entertainments,
raffles, etc., offered for sale in the Department, without permission from the
Chief Engineer; neither will any member be allowed to solicit subscrip-
tions among the citizens, for company or any other purposes, without per-
mission from the Chief Engineer.
Neither officers or members shall receive presents from the men under
their command (without the permission of the Chief Engineer), or allow the
use of their names at any fair, festival or exhibition, for the purpose of sell-
ing tickets, setting up or promoting any raffle or gift-enterprise, or having
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a present voted to him or voted for in his name; nor shall they loan, sell or
give away any public property, but carefully protect the same from waste
or abuse, particularly gas, horse-feed and forage, and fuel in quarters and
at fires.
Whenever a fire-hat or badge is lost by any member, or destroyed in any
manner, it must be reported immediately to the Chief Engineer, who will
furnish another and charge the value to the member so reporting, the
amount to be deducted from his wages, unless evidence is furnished that
the loss was not the result of carelessness or neglect. Fire-hats are fur-
nished for the protection of the members, and must be worn by officers and
men at all fires, except in the case of enginemen, assistant enginemen and
drivers, who will be required to wear them only when located where protec-
tion is necessary.
Any officer or member becoming aware of any fire-hydrant, cistern, fire-
alarm line or boxes being obstructed or out of order, shall at once notify
his immediate superior officer of the fact.
Each member shall pay into the treasury of his company a sum, not to
exceed fifty cents each month, for the purchase of blacking, firemen jour-
nals and newspapers, and for company purposes.
No person shall be appointed to membership or continue to hold mem-
bership therein, who is not a citizen of the United States, a legal voter in
the city of Minneapolis, and between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-
five years, or who has ever been convicted of crime, or who cannot read and
write the English language understandingly, or who shall not have resided
within the State two years; nor shall any person be placed in service, or en-
tered upon the list of applicants, until some respectable physician, to be
named by the Chief Engineer, shall certify upon the proper Department
form that said person is in good health, and of sound physical constitution.
Applicants be not less than five feet six inches in height, or weight and
circumference of chest below that provided in regulation tables; difference
of at least two inches at forced expiration and full inspiration. The respir-
ing murmur must be clear and distinct over both lungs, in character full
easy and regular, and the organs of respiration and their appendages free
from any indication of disease. The character of the heart's action must
be uniform, free and steady, its sound and rhythm regular and normal, and
without indications of disease of the heart or blood vessels. The condition
of eyes, ears, brain and nervous system must be in a healthy state, and
the brain and spinal-cord must not have been diseased, and there must not
be any predisposition, either hereditary or acquired, to any constitutional
diseases, such as pythisis, scrofula or rheumatism. Habits must be good,
and moderate as to the use of stimulants and tobacco, and the effects of
serious illness or injuries must not be perceptible in the heart, lungs, liver,
kidneys or other abdominal organs, or in the skin, eyes, ears, limbs, etc.
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Deception or attempt at deception, previous dismissal from the police or
from any fire-department, or obesity or syphilitic taint in the applicant shall
be regarded a good cause for rejection.
In addition to the above qualifications, the applicant must be shown to
possess such practical fitness, intellectual and physical capacity, as the
Chief Engineer shall consider requisite; but nothing herein shall prevent
the appointment of an applicant to full membership, without his serving as
candidate, if he shall have served before and left without dishonor, or, in
the opinion of the Chief Engineer, the practical or mechanical worth of the
applicant may warrant.
Any person who may hereafter be appointed shall at first be placed in
the service as a substitute, to supply any vacancy which may at any time
exist by reason of the absence, suspension, discharge, resignation, or death
of any member.
Each member shall take the oath of office, that he will support the
constitution of the United States, and of the State of Minnesota, and dis-
charge the duties of his office to the best of his ability, and such other pro-
visions as may be prescribed. He shall devote his whole time to the busi-
ness of the Department, and is expressly prohibited from being employed
in or giving his personal attention to any other business.
Upon being assigned to duty as a candidate to fill any vacancy, he shall
be placed on trial for sixty days, during which time his pay shall not ex-
ceed the rate of fifty-five dollars per month. At the end of said term he
shall be appointed to membership in the Department, if he shall in all
respects prove, in the judgment of the Chief Engineer, to be fully qualified.
When candidates have served sixty consecutive days, in their respective
companies, the Captains shall report to the Chief Engineer whether they has
proven capable and efficient or not. If, however, at any time before the
expiration of the above time, a candidate shall have proven to be ineffi-
cient, the fact must be reported.
Each member shall provide himself with the regulation uniform, within
thirty days after being appointed a regular member of the Department,
and no such uniform or portions of uniform shall be accepted unless in-
`spected and approved. He shall wear the uniform at all times, except when
suspended from duty or by permission granted by a superior officer, such
permission to be given only where the wearing of the uniform would be
improper. On the street (except in going to or from a fire) the coat shall
be buttoned entire; the legs of pants are not to be turned up or tucked
into their boots; the boots, buttons and devices are to be properly pol-
ished, and the person at all times neatly and tidily dressed.
No member shall appear on duty without wearing such badge as may be
prescribed, unless he can furnish a reasonable excuse therefor; nor shall
any member of a company appear at a fire without the regulation fire-hat.
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RULES AND REGULATIONS.
497
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Applications for promotion must be made in the handwriting and over
the signature of the applicant, setting forth the length of his service, and
various positions held in the Department, and qualifications for the posi-
tion to which he desires promotion; to be addressed to the Chief Engineer,
and forwarded through the immediate commanders for endorsement by
them. Any member of the Department who has presented his application
for promotion and failed to pass the required standard, may renew his ap-
plication after an interval of six months.
When any member shall wish to resign, he shall, in writing, give the
Chief Engineer five days, notice thereof, stating therein the time when he
desires the resignation to take effect. In case of emergency the resigna-
tion may be accepted by the Chief Engineer without the required notice.
Any member guilty of gross or habitual carelessness, resulting in the
injury of the members, or the machines, apparatus or other property be-
longing to the department, driving any of the machines or apparatus of the
department, across hose, especially charged lines, without orders from a
superior officer, inefficiency or incapacity in the service, intoxication, disor-
derly conduct, failure to pay within a reasonable time a just debt incurred
while in the service, making a false report or gossip of a member, concern-
ing personal character or conduct, or business of the department, to the
dircredit or detriment of any member of the department, making inten-
tionally a false official report, neglecting to wear the department uniform,
or badge, leaving the service without giving the required notice, except in
emergency cases herein provided for, or refusing to obey the authorized
orders of a superior officer, when the same are not properly countermanded
by his superior in rank, shall, in the discretion of the Board of Engineers,
be subject to penalties according to the gravity of the offense.
Repeated complaints against any member for incurring and evidence of
persistent neglect or refusal to pay just debts, especially those for uniform,
rent, and the necessaries of life, shall be cause for the dismissal of such
member.
Each member shall be considered to be always on duty, for the purpose
of discipline, and shall not enter places where intoxicating liquors are
sold, or smoke on the street, or in public places while in uniform, lounge
upon the sidewalk, or near the front doors; nor will seats be allowed in or
about the front doors, or in front of company quarters; nor shall he fre-
quent or loiter in or about the house of a company with which he is not
connected; or loiter or remain about a saloon, grocery, or other place where
intoxicating liquors are kept.
No intoxicating liquor shall be kept or drank in or about any of the
houses or premises occupied by the Department; nor shall gambling with
any instrument or device for money, liquor, or any article of value, be done
or permitted; nor shall dancing parties, social gatherings, etc., be allowed,
except as expressly authorized by the Chief Engineer.
498
RULES AND REGULATIONS.
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
No member shall wantonly or maliciously make any false report of any
other member, either as to any offense or as to the business of the depart-
ment, calculated to create disturbance, or to bring any member into dis-
credit, but any failure on the part of any member to report a violation of
any of the rules and regulations shall subject him to censure, reprimand,
forfeiture of pay of not exceeding one month's service, discharge from the
service, or any two or more of such penalties, unless such member shall
show, to the satisfaction of the Board of Engineers, that such neglect or
failure was on his part unavoidable.
Any person in the service of the Fire Department who may be dis-
charged therefrom for cause, or leave the service under charges or suspen-
sion, shall not afterwards be substituted or employed in the department
in any capacity, within one year from the time of him leaving the depart-
ment; not to include persons who may resign and leave the department
without dishonor. Suspension shall be made by demanding of the member
to be suspended the surrender of his badge, if he have one, and giving him
personal notice. When any member shall be suspended, he shall, when
properly notified of such suspension, cease to wear the uniform of the de-
partment, in whole or in part, during the time he may be suspended
from duty.
When any substitute or candidate has been suspended, and the facts in
the case reported to the Chief Engineer, he may, if such suspension is not
approved, be placed in some other position, for further trial, but if the
suspension is approved, said candidate or substitute shall be discharged
from service without trial of the case. In case the member is inaccessible,
absent from the city or his whereabouts unknown, so that he cannot be
notified for more than twenty days' time, such notice given by his com-
manding officer or the Assistant Chief of his district, and posted conspic-
uously in the quarters of the company to which he is attached, shall be
sufficient to constitute the suspension.
When a member acts in obedience to the orders of a superior in rank,
where the right to give the order did not at the time and under the cir-
cumstances exist, the superior given such order, will, in the case of
harmful results, be liable to the prescribed penalties; and the subordinate
member, acting in obedience to such order, will be protected against any
penalty prescribed in these rules, provided that it shall appear, to the satis-
faction of the Chief Engineer, that no collusion to commit a wrong existed
between the parties, and that the order. thus erroneously given, was not
palpably wrong to a person of ordinary judgment.
Whenever any member resigns or is discharged, or in any way vacates
his office, he shall surrender to the Captain of his company or other of-
ficer in command, or to Chief Engineer, all the property in his possession
belonging to the Department.
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RULES AND REGULATIONS.
499
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
No charge will be entertained against any member, unless it be made
within thirty days after the violation or offense shall have been committed,
except it be a charge against an officer or member for neglecting to report,
as required by these rules, a complaint against a member under his charge.
Nor will any charge be entertained against any substitute or candidate,
but a written statement of all the facts in the case must be made out and
forwarded at once to the Chief Engineer.
However perfect the equipment and mechanical appliances for the ex-
tinguishing of fires, and however ample the supply of water may be, yet all
these are insufficient, especially at large fires, without the skill, courage,
and good judgment of the firemen. The only method by which intelligent
and proper action can be had is by the establishment and carrying out of
a system, as perfect as possible in its details, and to this end members must
conform promptly to and cheerfully obey all laws, ordinances, rules, regul-
ations, circulars, and orders, whether general, special or verbal, for the
government of the department or individuals, be strictly on time to the
minute, and obedience must be prompt, implicit, unqualified and une-
quivocal.
The observance of these orders is especially enjoined upon the mem-
bers of the Department. Members should understand that these rules
and regulations are not intended to cover every case which may arise in
the discharge of their duty. Something must necesserily be left to the
intelligence and discretion of individuals; and according to the degree in
which they show themselves possessed of the qualities, and to their zeal,
activity, and judgment on all occasions, will be their claims to future pro-
motion and reward.
INDEX.
CITY CHARTER.
·ALSO-~
I. ACTS RELATING TO COURTS.
II. ACTS RELATING TO BOARDS.
III. SPECIAL ACTS-BONDS, ETC.
IV. RULES OF ORDER, ETC.
INDEX-CITY CHARTER.
[See "INDEX TO SPECIAL AOTs” in connection herewith. For COURT ACTS, BOARD AUTS
ORDINANCES, etc., see separate Indexes, supra.]
SUBJECT.
ABATEMENTS--
County Auditor to report to Comptroller..
5 21 70
ABSENCE--
Council may punish its absentees.
4 3 41
City officers may be removed for
4
4 41
ABSTRACT OF TITLE-
To be furnished by owners of lands to be taken by city... 10
In case of failure to furnish.....
4 122
10
4 122
ABUTTING PROPERTY-See IMPROVEMENTS——
ACCEPTANCE--
Of bribe by Street Commissioner.
Of plats..
ACCOUNTS--See CITY COMPTROLLER-
To be kept by Comptroller..
Of officials, Council shall audit.
Office vacant, if books, etc., not produced
Proceedings, if officer delinquent or in default
Of Street Commissioner..
ACTION AGAINST CITY—
Inhabitants not incompetent.
Manner of service..
•
Duty of the Mayor to inform Council.
ACTIONS BROUGHT BY CITY--
•
•
•
•
• •
Shall be brought in corporate name of city.
Library Board may sue and be sued...
•
•
94
8 8
8 23 101
3 12
4 13
• • D
• •
•
•
4 13
4 13 56
8 6
11
93
4 151
11 6 151
333
33
56
56
•
•
•
ACQUIRING LANDS, ETC.--
Property to be acquired by purchase or condemnation....
Deeds of purchase to state rights of parties...
Manner of procedure
• •
Interested parties to be heard.
Plat and survey
• • •
Power of Library Board..
►
1
• •
·
•
·
11
6 151
11
12
9
9
10
7 152
1 156
2 101
2 101
1 119
10
2 120
10 3 120
11 1 153
4
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
ADDITIONAL SALARY-
SUBJECT.
Judges of Election..
How made and adopted...
Board of Equalization.
3 27 37
•
3 27 37
ADDITIONS, PLAT OF-See PLATS OF ADDITIONS-
8 23 101
8 23 101
8 24 101
4 2 40
•
4 2
40
May be recorded, when.
• •
Effect of accepting same.
ADJOURNED MEETINGS-
• •
Of Council, validity of transaction.
In case of less than quorum..
ADVANCED COLLECTIONS—
5 20 70
County Treasurer to advance tax collections, when........ 5 20
ADVERTISING-See OFFICIAL ADVERTISING
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION--
How made.………….
Conclusive evidence..
•
AGENCIES, EMPLOYMENT-
May be licensed...
To keep public record..
AGENTS-
• •
Authority to restrain, etc...
Library Board may appoint...
AIR VENTS AND BOXES--See WATER WORKS—
11 14 154
11
14 154
•
4 5
42
4 5
42
4
5 48
12
1
157
• •
22
ALDERMEN-
Shall be representatives in Council from former ward..... 1
4
18
Sixth Ward, special provision...
1
4
18
Elected in 1887, terms expire....
1
4
18
Three from each ward, except the Tenth, Twelfth and
Thirteenth..
2
1
19
•
Term of office...
2
2
19
•
General election in 1888.
•
To be elected biennially.
Two from each ward for one year, one for four years.
Special provision as to term of office...
Ex-officio Judges of Election, except when candidates..
Not to be interested in city contract..
Contract to be null and void if Alderman be interested...
Payments made on such contracts may be recovered...
Compensation for acting as Judges of Election..
Compensation for acting as Board of Equalization.
Exempt from jury duty.
Shall constitute City Council...
Council may punish its absentees...
2
2
20
2
2
21
2
2 21
•
2
2 21
2 6
25
•
·
3 25
36
3 25
36
•
3 25 37
3 27 37
3 27 37
3 28 37
• • •
·
4 1 40
4
3
41
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
5
LO
ALDERMEN-CONTINUED—
SUBJECT.
Continued absence cause for removal..
To approve work of Street Commissioners..
ALLEYS, PUBLIC--See STREETS—
ALLEYS, TEN-PIN—
Council may license..
AMENDMENTS TO CITY CHARTER-
Notes, references to...
ANIMALS-
Authority to prevent running at large.
Authority to restrain sale..
ANNUAL MEETINGS-
Library Board...
Election of officers of Board
Vacancies may be filled, when.
ANNUAL REPORTS-
4
4 41
•
8
6
94
4 5 42
-
165
4
5
47
·
4
5
47
12
8 161
12
8 161
12 8 161
•
•
City Comptroller to make to Council.....
City Treasurer…..
Police Commissioner..
•
APPARATUS, HEATING—
Regulate size and material..
APPEAL TO DISTRICT COURT-
By owners of property to be taken.
Manner of making
...
Appellant shall file bond with City Clerk..
City Clerk shall make transcript of award .
Judgment of Court final... . . .
•
Court to appoint Commissioners to re-appraise, when.
Rules governing re-appraisals, no pleading necessary.
Court to determine if proceedings were irregular.
Case to have precedence..
APPOINTIVE OFFICES—
To be determined by ballot in Council.
Terms of office ....
Shall continue until successor qualifies
• •
Officers appointed prior to January, 1889...
Appointment of police vested in Police Board.
ANNUAL INVENTORY--
Of city property by officials..
Shall be preserved by City Clerk.
Shall be open to inspection.
APPORTIONMENT OF FUNDS—
•
City Treasurer to adjust and apportion.
Time of doing same...
•
•
3 16 34
*28
3 21 35
6
12 82
4 5 51
10 6 128
•
10 6 128
•
10 6 128
→
10
6 129
10 6 129
10
6 129
•
10
6 129
•
10
6 129
10
6 129
2
1 20
2
1 20
2
1
20
•
2
1 20
6 2
78
38
3 30
3 30 38
888888888888
3 30 38
5 20 70
•
5 20
70
6
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
APPRAISERS—
Council to appoint.
Duty of Appraisers
APPRAISEMENT AND AWARD-See PERMANENT IMPROVE-
MENTS, SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS, etc.—
Streets, shall be made after viewing the premises..
Rules governing same.....
Only excess of damages over benefits to be awarded....
Of lands, to be made by Commissioners.
In case of street improvements
Rules governing Commissioners
•
Not to exceed amount of benefits.
When total cost exceeds benefits
APPROPRIATION—
•
• •
D
Shall require majority vote of Council... .
Vote shall be by ayes and nays, and recorded
To perfect title to Exposition grant.....
Council to make from current expense fund.
Fund for care of fallen women and city hospital.
From fund, for current expenses…..
AQUEDUCT--See WATER WORKS--
ARREST-
•
•
•
•
4 15 58
4 15 58
5 00 20 00
8 2
90
8
2
90
8 2
90
10
3
121
10
5 125
10
5 125
10
5 126
10
5
126
• • •
•
4 11
56
4
11
56
•
•
4 14
58
5 10
65
5 35
75
•
5 36
76
Of persons guilty of violation of ordinances.
Keepers of disorderly houses and houses of ill fame
Duty of Police Board...
4
5
45
•
4
5 45
6
5
80
ART GALLERIES—
Power of Library Board to establish and maintain ....... 12 1 156
ASHES-
Council to prevent depositing in streets, etc.
To prevent depositing in dangerous places.
ASSEMBLIES, DISORDERLY—
Authority to suppress.
·
ASSESSMENTS--See SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS, PERMANENT Im-
PROVEMENTS, etc.--
7
2
83
7
2
83
4 5 45
Expense of removing rubbish, snow, stagnant water, etc.. 4
Council to levy on property benefitted, form.
No appeal from final award...
·
5 49
8 2
92
8
2
92
Clerk to prepare all necessary forms.
8
2
92
• ·
•
•
For improvements, how limited
Excesses, how paid.
For sidewalks, when..
·
•
Collection of assessments
Council shall levy same, when.
Shall proceed to levy same, when.
8 10 95
8 10 95
•
8 12 96
8 12 97
8 13 97
10
5 127
1
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
7
SUBJECT.
ASSESSMENTS-CONTINUED
Collection enforced, how..
Shall be paid by County Treasurer to City Treasurer.
Council may direct Auditor to cancel..
ASSESSMENT BOOKS-
County Auditor shall deliver...
ASSESSMENT LEVY--
For various street improvements
Discretion of Council as to corner lots.
Decision of Council final...
For sidewalks built by city
For repairs made by city
For sprinkling streets.
· •
ASSESSMENT LISTS-
Assessor shall make, when..
10 15 137
10 15 137
• •
•
10 15 137
•
5 1 61
10
8
132
10 9 133
•
10 9 133
10 10 133
10 11 133
10 12 133
5
1
62
8
2 91
8
2 91
10 5 126
•
•
10
5 126
5 1 62
5 3
62
5
4 63
5
5
63
5 6 63
•
Appraisement Commissioners to report to Council...
Nature of such report.... . .
•
Street improvements to be reported to Council.
Nature of list....
ASSESSMENT NOTICES-
May be given and signed by Deputies....
ASSESSMENT ROLL-
Board of Equalization shall revise, etc.
Board to appoint Clerks to complete ..
When revised by Board of Equalization.
In case returned to Board by Council.
City Clerk to return to County Auditor.
When Council fails to take final action.
Validity in case Council fails to confirm
To be made at instance of Council.
Form of roll....
• D
• •
Interested persons may object to confirmation..
Interested persons may appeal to court..
For various street improvements....
Discretion of Council as to corner lots.
Decision of Council final..
For sidewalks built by city
For repairs of sidewalks.
For sprinkling streets..
•
City Clerk shall keep record....
To be delivered to County Auditor.
Evidence of proper proceeding....
Failure of City Clerk to copy not to affect
Variance from form not material.
•
5 5 63
5
5 63
5
• ·
5
63
10 5 127
10
5 127
10 6 128
•
10 6 128
10 8 132
109 133
10 9 133
10 10 133
10 11 134
•
10 12 135
• •
10 15 137
10 15 137
10 16 139
10 16 139
10 16 139
1
8
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
ASSESSING PROPERTY--
Governed by general laws..
Board of Equalization not restricted.
ASSESSOR-See TAXES —
How appointed..
• •
Style of office..
Tenure of office.
Shall appoint deputies..
Vacancies, how filled.
5
2
62
5
3
62
•
Present names of appointees to Council.
5
1
61
5
1
61
5
1
61
•
5
1
61
5
1
61
5
1
61
•
•
5
1
61
5
1
61
5 1
61
51
61
• •
Action in making subsequent appointments.
To qualify.
Duty to make preliminary lists..
•
Assessment book, County Auditor shall deliver.
Shall make assessment lists, when..
Tenure of office of former Assessor
General laws to govern Assessor.
•
•
Shall attend meetings of Board of Equalization..
Shall present Board with facts and information....
Salary to be fixed by Council....
ASSESSOR'S CLERKS—
Assessor to appoint..
Council to approve.
Increase of clerks.
Compensation....
•
•
ASSISTANT CITY CLERK--
City Clerk may appoint...
Salary fixed by Council, when.
Same powers and duties as Clerk.
Shall assist Clerk......
•
Shall write records required by Comptroller.
· •
Shall attend meetings of Council Committees..
Authority in absence of City Clerk.....
Validity of his acts....
ASSISTANT CITY ATTORNEY—
City Attorney may appoint..
Shall assist City Attorney.
•
Powers in absence of City Attorney.
ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER-
City Engineer may appoint.
Shall assist City Engineer..
Duties in absence of City Engineer..
5 1 62
5
1 62
5
2
62
5 3 62
NNNNNX
5 3 62
5
6
63
5
1 61
•
5
1
61
5
1
61
5
6
63
•
•
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3
4
30
3
4
30
3
4
30
3
4
30
3 4
30
3 4 31
•
•
3
4
31
3 4 31
•
3 5 31
3
5 31
3
5
31
•
3 9 32
3 9 32
3 9
2222
32
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
9
SUBJECT.
ASSIZE AND WEIGHT OF BREAD--
Seizure and forfeiture..
ATTACHMENT—
4 5 47
3 5 35
City not to give bond....
ATTENDANCE OF ALDERMEN--
Council may compel..
•
ATTORNEY-See CITY ATTORNEY--
ATWATER, JOHN—
Library Director, first Board
AUCTIONEERS—
May be licensed..
AUDITOR-See COUNTY AUDITOR--
AUTHORITY-
Of Council to license and regulate....
To provide for cleansing unwholesome places
AUTHORIZED PUBLICATION—
Of ordinances, etc., prima facie evidence
AVENUES-See STREETS—
4 3 41
12 11 162
4 5 41
4 5 41
4
5 45
•
11 2 151
AWARDS AND ASSESSMENTS-See SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS—
Re-hearing by the Commissioners..
Notice of re-hearing....
•
• + •
Commissioners may correct, alter and revise.
List as revised to be reported to Council...
Council to hear complaints of property owners.
May be referred to a committee to hear complaints.
Council may confirm or refer back to Commission.
City Clerk shall prepare all forms
Limitation of award....
Damages when computed.
•
AWARD OF DAMAGES-See DAMAGES
How made..
For property taken by city.
Confirmation of Council final
Condemnation sufficient, when.
•
May be set aside in City Treasury, when..
• •
8
2
91
•
•
8
2
91
8
2 91
8 2 91
8 2
91
8
2
91
༦ •
8
2
91
8
2 92
8 2 92
223
8
2 92
8
2 98
10
3 121
10 3 122
•
10
4 122
•
10 4 122
10
4 122
10
4 122
10
4 122
•
Right of property-owners to award, how established.
Action of Court, when established...
10
4 123
10
4 123
AWNINGS-
To prevent obstructing streets, sidewalks, etc....
4 5 46
May be deposited in District Court, when
Duty of City Clerk in making deposit..
Effect of deposit....
10
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
AYES AND NAYS—
SUBJECT.
Required to make appropriations...
BADGE OF OFFICE--
Watchmen not to wear outside limits designated.
BALLOTS-
All elections must be by ballot.
Ballots may be written or printed.
Office must be designated..
Form.....
Must be endorsed.
How deposited in boxes..
•
•
•
4 5 50
•
6 6 80
2
2 21
2
2
21
2
2
21
2
5
24
•
•
•
•
•
•
2
5
24
2
5
24
2
5
25.
12
3
157
2
5
24
2
5
24
• •
體 ​•
1
•
2
5
24
!
2
5
24
2
5 25.
·
12
3 157
City tickets to include Municipal Judges, when
For Library Directors..
BALLOT BOXES-
Shall be kept by Judges of Election....
One to be marked "City".
One to be marked "City Boards"
•
• •
Box for City Board to be divided into compartments...
For County, State and National offices..
For Library Directors....
BANKS--See DEPOSITORIES-
Designated as Depositories.
5 26 73
BANKS OUTSIDE HENNEPIN COUNTY--
Depositories, when..
5 30 74
BANKRUPTCY—
Failure of City Depositories..
5 29 73.
BARN-
Authority to compel owner to cleanse..
4 5 45
BARN-YARD LITTER--
Removal..
4 5 53
BASE BALL GROUNDS--
BASSETT'S CREEK-
4 5 53
Authority to designate location..
Pollution of water..
9 16 117
BATHING--
Authority to regulate in waters of city.....
4 5 47
BAWDY HOUSES--
Fines collected from keepers and inmates.
`5 35 74
BEEF-
Inspection..
. 4 5 49
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
11
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page
BEQUESTS-
Library Board held as special trustees..
BIENNIAL ELECTIONS—
When held...
BEGGARS-
Authority to restrain and punish.
4 5
5 50
• •
BENEFITS-
Assessment for property benefitted, street improvements.. 5 16
Assessed against property owners for same.
68
8
2
90
12 7 161
2 2 20
4 5 42
8 6 93
• •
4 5 47
4 5 46
BILLIARD AND POOL TABLES—
May be licensed....
BI-MONTHLY REPORTS—
Of Street Commissioner.
BIRTHS-
Authority to provide registration.....
BLASTING—
Regulations..
BOARD OR JAIL FEES—
Responsibility of city.
•
BOARD OF DIRECTORS-See LIBRARY DIRECTORS-
Of Library Board..
•
Members and terms of office designated..
BOARD OF EDUCATION—
t
To be elected biennially....
City election of 1887....
To hold office until 1889.
Election in 1888.
•
•
•
Accounts to be kept by Comptroller..
... 11 10 152
•
12 11 162
12 11 162
2 2 2 2
2 2 20
2
22
2
2
22
2 2
22
• • •
•
3 12
33
3 13
33
3
18
34
3 19 35
5 21 70
5 22 71
•
12 2 157
Comptroller shall countersign evidence of indebtedness..
All claims to be audited by Comptroller...
City Treasurer shall be ex-officio Treasurer
Auditor to report amount of taxes levied..
Payment of employes...
· · • •
President member ex-officio of Library Board..
BOARD OF EQUALIZATION—
How constituted......
Shall meet at Council rooms, when
•
Shall revise and amend assessment roll, etc,
City Assessor shall attend meetings
Assessor to present facts and information.
Vested with powers of County Boards
Not restricted in making reductions
Meetings of Board until work completed..
•
•
5 3 62
5 3
62
5 3
62
5 3 62
+
5
3 62
5 3 62
5 3 62
•
5 4
62
12
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
4995
5 4
63
•
5 4
63
5
4
63
5 4 63
5
4
5 5
63
D
5 5 63
5
6
63
3333
63
3
6
31
•
3
6
32
•
4
5
47
4
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BOARD OF EQUALIZATION-CONTINUED –
Limitation for completing equalizations.
Power to employ clerks
Persons aggrieved to come before the Board.
City Attorney to attend....
Duty of same in case of undervaluation.
Return assessment rolls to Council when.
In case rolls returned to Board by Council.
Compensation of Board...
BOARD OF HEALTH-
Health Officer the executive....
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Inspectors to act under direction of.
Authority to establish and regulate...
May direct removal of unhealthy substances.
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS –
To be elected biennially.
City election in 1887……….
To hold office until 1889.
Election in 1888...
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BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS-
Creation and general powers..
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Control of Police Department..
Custody of books, records, property, etc.
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Authorized to expend money appropriated...
Power to appoint and remove members of Department... 6
To prescribe title, rank, and duties...
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To fix compensation of appointees
To make rules and regulations...
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To issue general and special orders
To consist of five members....
Mayor President and ex-officio Commissioner
Council to elect Commissioners.
Time of such election.
Qualifications
Rules governing election
Cannot hold other city office
Political complexion..
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Tenure of office..
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Organization of Board..
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Election after 1887...
When Council fails to elect.
Vacancies, how filled....
Salaries..
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6 3 79
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS--CONTINUED-
Expenses of Board a valid charge..
Shall file oath of office...
Oath of office prescribed.
Appointment and removal of members of police force....
Shall preserve public peace and order....
Duties of the Board named..
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May compel attendance of witnesses..
May administer oaths to witnesses..
Shall appoint Vice-President....
Fix term of office of same.
May appoint a Clerk....
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May prescribe additional duties of Clerk...
May appoint Special Policemen and Watchmen.
Shall adopt rules to govern meetings of Board.
Quorum of meetings...
Action of three Commissioners valid, when..
No control over Park Police...
Former organization to continue, when.
Assume control of force, when....
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Shall appoint and organize new force..
Shall remove no member of force except for cause
Commissioners may be removed from office.
Council to allow salaries and expenses.
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Board to make quarterly and yearly report..
Shall submit books, etc., for examination..
BOARD OF SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS--
Council to provide for appointment.
Board how composed
Term of office and duties.
Commissioners to have charge of Sinking Fund
Investment in bonds.....
Board not to cancel bonds, when..
•
To pay interest on bonds into Sinking Fund.
To pay bonds, when....
Neglect of duty of Board....
Action to enforce compliance..
• •
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF POOR--
Council shall designate Aldermen to serve.
Shall advise Superintendent as to his duties.
BOARD OF TAX LEVY--
To fix tax levy of Library Board, when.
Validity of action.
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6 11 82
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6 12 82
6 12 82
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12 6 161
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
*BOARD OF WATER COMMISSIONERS—
How established and constituted...
9 7 110
Mayor, ex-officio and President.
Qualification of members……
To be appointed by Mayor
President of Council to act in absence of the Mayor...
Power to sign warrants, contracts, etc.
9
7 110
9
7 110
9
7 110
9
7 110
9
7 110
Date of appointing Commissioners.
In case of vacancy.
9
7 110
9 7 111
Compensation.
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Powers of Board…….
Officers of Board...
Compensation of employes
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Superintendent may be Secretary
Superintendent to give bond
Duties of Superintendent
Secretary to give bond....
.
May appoint an Assistant Secretary.
May appoint an Assistant Superintendent
Duties of Comptroller.....
Meetings, stated and special.
Rules and regulations…..
Meetings legalized, when
Office furniture, etc., purchase of.
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Shall contract for or cause mains to be laid..
To fix water rates..
Right to enforce compliance.
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9 113
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9 113
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9 10 114
9 10 114
9 10 114
9 11 114
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Right to shut off water.
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9 14 116
9 14 116
9 14 116
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Right to furnish water free, when
BOATS-
Agents may be restrained and regulated
BODIES-
Removal from tombs....
BOILERS AND BOILER SHOPS-
Authority to designate location..
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Council to prevent dangerous conditions.
BOOT-BLACKS-
May be licensed .....
Home for newsboys and.
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BONA FIDE OWNERS-See CITY BONDS-
BONDS OF CITY-See CITY BONDS, etc.-
Shall be countersigned by Comptroller...
Council to make tax levy to meet interest.
*Board abolished. See note on page 103.
4 5 48
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7 2 83
4 5 41
4 5
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3 13 33
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
BONDS OF CITY-See CITY BONDS, etc.-
Council to provide for payment of principal..
Moneys collected to meet same, not to be diverted..
Sinking Fund may be invested..
Bonds not to be cancelled, when.
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5 13 66
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5 14
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Payment of Bonds.....
Contracts to be kept inviolate.
Of Library Board, when payable..
Limitation.
BONDS OF CITY OFFICERS-
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5 14 67
12 5 160
12 5 160
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Treasurer's bondsmen to justify in double sum of bond.. 2 10 26
Council to approve Treasurer's bond by resolution.
Shall be executed before entering upon duties..
Amount may be fixed by Council....
Amount to be same as predecessor, when..
•
Bond of Treasurer shall be executed by four sureties.
Treasurer shall give separate bond as Board Treasurer...
Superintendent of Water Works....
Secretary to Water Board.
•
Treasurer and Secretary of Library Board.
Conditions of same......
Bonds filed with Comptroller...
BONDS TO CITY
To keep the peace, power of Municipal Court..
Authority to require...
Limitation of bond..
Of depositories for city funds.
• •
When banks decline to give bonds.
Council may require new bonds..
•
Bonds of depositories to continue in force.
•
Council shall examine all bonds....
Council shall require new bonds, when..
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2 10 26
2 10 26
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5 33
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5 34 75
How recorded....
Council may require from claimant of award of damages.. 10 4 123
Conditions of such bonds……..
For official advertising..
BOND CONTRACTS--
Shall be kept inviolate.
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BOND OWNERS-
May maintain action to enforce compliance....
BONDED INDEBTEDNESS--
Limited to five per cent. of assessed valuation.
Limited to $1,000,000 for certain improvements..
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11 13 154
5 14 67
5 14 67
10 29 147
10 29 147
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page.
BOUNDARIES-
Of city
Of the thirteen wards.
First ward....
Second ward.
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Third ward.
Fourth ward...
Fifth ward
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Sixth ward..
Seventh ward.
Eighth ward..
Ninth ward..
Tenth ward.
Eleventh ward.
Twelfth ward…..
Thirteenth ward.
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BOXES-
Ballot boxes...
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Not to obstruct streets, sidewalks, etc.
BRANCH PIPES-
Council may proceed to construct...
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To control construction by private parties..
Council may order laid, when
How constructed..
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Cost may be collected in advance.
Council may require same to be laid in area.
Punishment for interfering with..
BREACH OF ORDINANCE-
Authority to impose penalty
BREAD-
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Authority to regulate assize and weight.
To provide for seizure and forfeiture..
BREAD AND WATER-
Offenders may be sentenced to be fed on.
BREWERIES AND DISTILLERIES-
Authority to direct location, etc.
BRIDGES-
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3 10 38
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City Engineer to have charge of construction...
Expenses to be paid from permanent improvement fund..
Council may build, maintain, or repair...
Crossing the Mississippi, a city charge..
Crossing railway tracks, a city charge, when...
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
BRIBES, ACCEPTANCE OF—
By Street Commissioner....
BRICK DRAINS-See DRAINAGE-
BUILDINGS-See PUBLIC BUILDINGS-
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Authority to regulate construction.
Authority to appoint Inspector....
Shall be constructed of fire-proof materials.
Council may prohibit repairs or re-building.
Library Board may hire or erect, etc..
Board must first acquire building site..
BUILDING INSPECTOR-
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Shall examine buildings in case of change in street grades 8
Shall make certificate of damages...
BUILDING LIMITS-
Authority to regulate materials and construction of build-
ings in same.
BUILDINGS, REPAIRS OF-See REPAIRING BUILDINGS--
BULKHEADS-See WATER WORKS--
BURIALS-
Authority to provide for…..
To regulate and prevent.
BUTCHERS' STALLS-
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5 47
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Authority to license and regulate.....
4 5 48
BUTTER-
Authority to license and regulate sale.
4 5 48
BYSTANDERS--
May be compelled to give aid at fires...
7 4 84
CALAMITIES OF FIRE-
Council to guard against....
7 1 83
CANALS-See DRAINAGE—
CANCELLATION—
Comptroller shall note cancellation on orders on Treasurer 3 14 33
Auditor to report tax cancellation....
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Orders on Treasurer to be cancelled, when..
5 23
Examination of bonds and destruction...
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Preservation of vouchers or orders...
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Council may examine cancelled orders.
CARAVANS-
License and regulation
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CARDS, DICE AND OTHER GAMES-
Restraint and prohibition...
4 5 41
4 5 45
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
CANVASSING ELECTION RETURNS-
Council shall canvass.
CARCASSES-
Authority to prevent persons from depositing .
Authority to compel removal…….
Expense of removal..
CARE OF STREETS-See STREETS.—
Chap
Sect
Page
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CARRIAGES-
Not to obstruct streets, etc.,. . . .
CARS-
Authority to regulate speed...
CARTS-
To prevent obstruction of streets sidewalks, etc.,
CATTLE-
Authority to prevent running at large.
CAUSE FOR REMOVAL FROM OFFICE-
Continued absence of Aldermen..
Police Commissioners,.
CAUSE OF FIRES-
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To be reported to Council
Fire Marshal to keep records..
CELEBRATIONS AND PARADES-
Special police for.....
CELLAR
Authority to compel owner to cleanse...
CEMETERY OWNERS-
Consent required to acquire lands....
CERTIFIED TRANSCRIPTS—
Made by City Clerk, evidence in all courts.
CERTIFICATE—
Shall be countersigned by Comptroller....
Of deposit to be taken by Treasurer, when.
Payable to order of Treasurer.
Rate of interest....
Limitation...
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4 3 46
...
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4 4
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6 11 82
7 7
85
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6 6 80
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8 10 95.
3 3 30
3 13
33.
5 27
73
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Of construction, authority for cancellation, when.
County Treasurer shall accept in lieu of money.
CERTIORARI-
City not to give bond....
CHARTER-
How amended……….
5 27 73.
5 27
73.
5 27 73.
10 15 138
10 15 138.
3 5 31
2 12 27
References (notes) to amendments.
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CHEMICAL PURPOSES-
Sale of liquor..
SUBJECT.
CHIEF ENGINEER FIRE DEPARTMENT-
Council shall appoint.
•
Council shall define rank and duties.
Chief shall nominate officers and men.
May remove or discharge members..
CHIEF OF POLICE-See POLICE--
CHIMNEYS-
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Authority to regulate construction..
Manner of construction..
Materials to be used.
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Council to prohibit dangerous construction
CHINESE CRACKERS-
Regulate or prevent sale of....
CITY, ACTIONS AGAINST See ACTIONS—
CITY ATTORNEY-
Council power to elect...
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7 2 84
Shall perform all legal services incident to city
Shall furnish Council with opinions, when..
Shall advise and counsel all city officers
Shall attend regular meetings of Council
May appoint an Assistant City Attorney.
Shall have right to control appeals
•
• • •
To attend meetings of Board of Equalization
Duty in case of undervaluation of property
CITY BOARDS—
How elected after 1888 ...
Branches of city government....
CITY BOUNDARIES-See BOUNDARIES
CITY BONDS—
Interest on bonded indebtedness
Council to provide a fund for payment..
Sinking fund for payment of bonds..
Interest to be applied to sinking fund
Payment at maturity
• •
Council may issue, when
Limitation of same
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Special authority required
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Bonds for permanent improvement
Rate of interest....
Manner of payment.
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Proceeds to be kept distinct.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
CITY BONDS-CONTINUED-
Payment of principal or interest...
Examination and destruction of cancelled bonds
Preservation of records and vouchers.
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Proceeds of bonds
Authority of issue
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Limitation of bonds authorized
Limitation of time to run
Rate of interest...
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5 24
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10 28 146
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10 29 146
10 29 146
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10 29 147
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10 29 147
Manner of selling.
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Proceeds of sale to be credited to fund.
Comptrollers' signature evidence of compliance
Issue limited to $1,000,000 for certain improvements.
CITY CHARTER-
Not repealed by State law...
To be public law-See end of...
CITY CLERK--
To give notice of special election..
Eight days' notice, when...
Shall notify officers of election.
Shall be elected by Council..
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Shall keep corporate seal and papers.
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10 29 147
10 29 147
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Shall keep records of proceedings of Council.
Shall draw and sign all orders on Treasurer.
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Shall keep account of all orders....
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Shall have power to administer oaths.
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Shall perform services required by law..
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Compensation for services other than for city
May appoint an Assistant Clerk....
Shall preserve annual inventories of city property
Shall record and publish ordinances.
Council shall audit accounts of..
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Office vacant, if books, etc., be not produced.
Proceedings, if delinquent or in default...
To return assessment rolls to County Auditor.
Make memorandum of confirmation of rolls..
When Council fails to confirm..
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To sign pay-rolls....
Shall notify depositories of approval of bonds
Shall prepare statements of Treasurer.
Shall furnish copy thereof to any newspaper
Shall give notice when assessment list shall be presented
to the Council.....
Shall prepare all necessary forms for making awards and
assessments
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
CITY CLERK-CONTINUED—
To give notice of action on report of Committee on Loca-
tion of Grounds....
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Shall notify Commissioners.
10 3 120
Shall deposit amount of award in District Court when.
To give notice of action on Commissioners report...
Same, to describe lands taken...
10
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10
5 126
10
5 126-
Shall make transcript of award in event of appeal...
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Same, to describe lands assessed.
Shall keep record of assessment rolls....
Shall deliver same to County Auditor....
Shall note payments on invalid assessments.
Forward approved roll of deferred payments.
Certificate, prima facie evidence....
Shall notify Library Directors of election
CITY COMPTROLLER-
Shall continue in office....
Special provision relative to term of office..
General election in 1888
To be elected biennially.
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Shall keep books of account of city and all Boards.
Shall keep record of bond, order, or other evidence of in-
debtedness..
Shall keep record of redemption of indebtedness...
Shall countersign all bonds, orders, or other evidence of
indebtedness of city......
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10 6 129
10 15 137
10 15 137
10 17 140
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Shall keep account of orders on treasury
Shall note cancellations..
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3 14
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Shall keep accounts with Treasurer and all receiving or
disbursing officers....
Shall charge such officers with city property, etc., in their
hands...
Shall examine all accounts, etc., of Treasurer.
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3 15
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Shall perform duties prescribed by Council.
Report financial condition of city to Council.
Shall countersign all contracts......
Shall not be interested in a contract.
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Shall adjust and credit all claims against the city..
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Shall take and preserve receipts for all orders delivered... 3 18
May keep and use a seal of office.
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May use seal of city..
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May appoint a Deputy Comptroller...
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Responsible for acts of Deputy Comptroller....
Audit accounts of time of Board of Equalization, etc..
To estimate expenses of city, etc..
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
CITY COMPTROLLER-CONTINUED-
To roport estimate to Council....
Make statement of revenues received by city
Report computation of rate of tax levy.
Rule governing same.....
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Make estimate of tax levy for ward purposes
To report quarterly expenses of city......
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To report quarterly revenues received and outstanding..
To notify Council when funds deficient..
Not to sign contracts, when..
May sign contracts, when..
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Orders on Treasurer not to be signed, when....
Shall sign orders in the order claims are allowed.
To audit pay-rolls of employes.....
Pay-rolls to be deposited with Comptroller...
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To receive application of banks for city funds...
Deposit and keep all city bonds....
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Keep separate books for water works.
Shall keep record of, and countersign all bonds, orders, etc 9
Shall audit all claims against Boards..
Shall keep accounts of Library Board.
Shall keep record of bonds, orders, etc..
Shall countersign all bonds, orders, etc..
Shall audit claims of Library Board.
CITY CONTRACTS-
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No person interested in contracts eligible to office.
Void if city officer be interested...
City Engineer shall enforce compliance.
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9 113
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2 11 27
3 10
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Officers must not be interested..
3 25
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Void if any officer be interested...
3 25
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Money paid on such contracts may be recovered.
Comptroller not to sign, when....
3 25
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5 17 69
Comptroller may sign contracts, when.
Periodical payments on contracts.
CITY COUNCIL-
Shall consist of three Aldermen from each ward……….
Special provisions for wards ten, twelve and thirteen.
Shall determine appointive offices by ballot..
To be elected bi-ennially..
Shall settle tie-vote [of people] for office....
Shall establish election precincts..
Rules governing same.
In case of failure..
Shall designate polls.
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Shall appoint Judges of Election..
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
CITY COUNCIL--CONTINUED--
Shall canvass election returns.
To fill vacancies..
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May prescribe conditions of bonds of city officers..
Shall approve Treasurer's bond by resolution.
Shall approve bonds of other officers...
Action in case Mayor vetoes ordinance.
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Two-thirds vote required for ordinance vetoed...
Action if Mayor neglects to return ordinance.
Shall elect President and Vice-President.
Shall elect City Clerk.....
Power to elect City Attorney.
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May require opinions from Attorney..
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Shall elect a Health Officer.
May appoint Health Inspectors
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Shall elect Superintendent of Poor
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Shall appoint City Engineer.
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Power to provide for appointment of Wharfmaster
May define the duties of same..
May regulate all wharf landings
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Power to appoint additional officers
Power to fix compensation of officers
Manner of fixing compensation..
Quorum.
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Shall hold stated meetings....
Mayor may call special meetings
Business of special meetings
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Meetings and sessions defined..
Shall be judge of election of its members
Power to summon in canvassing elections.
Shall determine rules of its proceedings
May punish absentees
Power to remove officials.
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Continued absence reason for removal
Fix place and manner of trial of officers
Power to compel attendance of witness, etc..
If officer refuses to answer charge.
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SUBJECT.
Chap
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Page.
CITY COUNCIL-CONTINUED—
Power to make ordinances
To amend or repeal.
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To license and regulate shows and showmen
Same as to caravans, menageries, etc..
Same as to concerts, museums, etc.
Same as to newsboys and boot-blacks.
Same as to roller-skating rinks ...
Same as to theatrical performances.
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Same as to auctioneers, pawnbrokers, junk-dealers, etc.
Same as to employment offices
Same as to billiard tables, bowling saloons.
Same as to shooting galleries.....
Same as to taverns, victualing houses..
Same as to dealers in spirituous liquors, etc.
Restrictions as to termination of license
• •
Special provisions as to auctioneers, pawnbrokers, second-
hand and junk-dealers.
Same as to employment offices
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May make appropriation for home for newsboys, etc.
Restrictions as to sale of liquor..
To restrain and prohibit gambling.
To restrain liquor dealers.
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To prevent riots, disturbances, etc.
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Provide for arrest and punishment
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Authorized to destroy gambling instruments.
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charge of steam.....
To compel abatement of nuisances ..
To direct location of stock-yards, slaughter-houses, mar-
kets, breweries, etc.
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To locate and license venders of gunpowder, etc. .
To designate time for removal of slaughter houses.
May consent to location of slaughter houses
Power to prevent obstruction of streets.
To regulate speed of locomotives, etc..
To require gates and flagmen....
To prohibit whistling of locomotives and unnecessary dis-
To designate safety-valves on locomotives
May direct kind of coal used by locomotives
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SUBJECT.
CITY COUNCIL
CONTINUED--
Power to license dogs.
To prevent putrid substances, etc.,..
To prevent for removal of carcasses, etc.,
To establish Boards of Health, etc.,.
To provide hospitals....
To provide for registration of births, deaths, etc.,.
To prevent burials in city....
To regulate the assize and weight of bread.
To provide for seizure of bread.
To prevent driving on sidewalks.
To prevent discharge of fire arms.
To prevent exhibition of firearms..
To prevent drunkenness and obscenity.
To restrain hotel runners, hackmen, etc.,
To establish public markets..
To appoint overseers of markets..
To regulate weighing hay, straw, etc.,
•
To regulate measuring and weighing fuel
To appoint person to measure wood, etc.,
To compel removal of straw, etc......
To compel abatement of stagnant water nuisances.
To make special assessments for removals..
To control and regulate piers and wharfs.
To prescribe charges for pierage and wharfage.
To provide for quarantine..
To regulate public auctions...
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To require all weights and measures to be sealed.
To regulate inspection of meats, etc.,.
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To provide for destruction of unwholesome meats, etc.....
To appoint inspectors, weighers and gaugers.
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To make regulations for suppression of disease..
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To restrain and punish vagrants, prostitutes and beggars.. 4
To license and regulate hackmen, draymen, etc.,
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To provide hack stands at depots...
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To prescribe building limits.....
To authorize Mayor or Chief of Police to regulate same 4
To regulate construction of buildings.
Has no control over United States or State buildings.
Power to provide and regulate hitching posts, etc.,.
To regulate hatchways
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SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page.
CITY COUNCIL-CONTINUED——
To compel owners to number houses.
To require fire escapes, etc.,
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To regulate, locate or prohibit steam boilers.
To regulate and control quality and measurementof gas... 4
To provide for inspection of gas, meters, etc.,. . .
To appoint Gas Inspector and other officers
To prescribe duties of Gas Inspector.
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To regulate placing of telegraph poles, etc.,
To regulate suspending of electric wires.
To have wires placed beneath the surface.
To regulate width of wagon tires .
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To regulate weight of load to be drawn in streets..
To prohibit heavy traffic on certain streets..
To provide for removal of garbage..
To assess expense for removal...
To provide for removal of dangerous structures.
To assess expense for same.
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To regulate piling lumber, mill-wood, etc..
To designate location of wood yards, boiler shops, etc.....
To designate location of rendering houses, soap houses,
glue factories, etc.....
To designate location of store-houses for oil and powder..
To designate location of roller rinks and base ball grounds
To license, regulate and prohibit concealed weapons......
To regulate removal of dead bodies placed in vaults, etc...
To regulate construction of chimneys, smoke-stacks, etc.. 4
To prohibit erection of insecure buildings, smoke-stacks,
emission of dense smoke, etc....
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To impose penalties for nuisances, etc.
May impose penalties for breach of any ordinance..
For sentence of prisoners to confinement on bread and water
That offenders may be required to give security.
May require bonds to keep the peace..
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May provide for confinement in work-house.
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That offenders may be kept at hard labor in work-house
Male offenders may be sentenced to labor on public works
May provide for sentence to both..
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That offenders be kept at hard labor for non-payment of
fines until fines worked out.
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May prescribe rate of compensation of same.
May establish work-house regulations...
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Provide for security against escape of prisoners..
Power to establish work-house inside or outside of city... 4
Authorized to use Hennepin County jail as work-house...
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27
SUBJECT.
CITY COUNCIL-CONTINUED
Style of city ordinances..
Subject of ordinance expressed in title..
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No ordinance to embrace more than one subject.
Ordinances and resolutions passed by affirmative vote....
Ordinances and resolutions require majority of entire
Council
Ordinances and resolutions recorded in proceedings..
No ordinance passed at session of first reading, save by
unanimous consent......
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Not to preclude passage of ordinance reported by Commit-
tee on Ordinances, etc......
A majority vote necessary for appropriations.
Vote taken by ayes and nays for same..
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Council powers not a bar to nuisance proceedings.
Audit and examine accounts of officials……….
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May audit when deems proper, also at end of year. .
Each officer and agent to exhibit his books, accounts, etc. 4 13
Offices vacant if books, etc., not produced.
Proceedings at law against delinquent officer or agent...
Record of all such settlements and adjustments.
Control and management of finances and property.
Except property of water works.
Sale of city property.
Authorized to convey lands to Industrial Exposition..
Description of land so authorized to be conveyed..
Such real estate revet to city in case of default..
Not less than twenty-two expositions...
Authority to make appropriation to perfect title.
Sites for public buildings.....
Power to purchase by condemnation...
To condemn property for streets and alleys.
Appoint Appraisers to ascertain values of lands, amount
damages and benefits.....
Licenses may be revoked at any time.
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May exercise its powers by resolution, when..
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Shall appoint Assessor.
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Confirm Deputy Assessors.
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Direct increase or decrease of Assessor's clerks.
May confirm or return assessment rolls...
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Shall fix salary of Assessor....
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Fix compensation of Board of Equalization, deputies, etc 5
Make tax levy for current expense fund
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Make appropriation from current expense fund.
Shall make reduction in expenses, when..
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SUBJECT.
Chiap
Sect.
Page
CITY COUNCIL-CONTINUED—-
Reserve right of reduction in street lighting contracts.... 5 11
Make ward tax levy.
65.
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Limitation of same..
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To provide for payment of interest on bonds.
Make tax levy to provide payment of principal..
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To maintain sinking fund...
Provide for care and investment of same.
No power to divert or abolish same until debts are paid..
Shall appoint Board Sinking Fund Commissioners...
Determine term of office of Board, etc
May omit one-mill tax levy, when...
May resume same, when..
May issue bonds, when.
Limitation of same..
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Special authority required to issue bonds..
Authorized to issue bonds for permanent improvement...
Limitation of same....
Authorized to make expenditures.
Shall make tax levy for permanent improvement.
Comptroller to notify when funds deficient...
Taxes to be levied by resolution....
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Make statement of tax levy to County Auditor..
May determine as to orders on treasury.
May provide for payment of employes.
Examination of cancelled orders, and other obligations...
Direct preservation of records and vouchers...
Shall fix amount of bonds of banks receiving city funds
on deposit...
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Bonds of such banks to be approved by Council.
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Authorized to negotiate for deposits in foreign banks, when
May designate newly organized banks as depositories.....
May require new bonds, when.
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Shall examine all bonds....
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Shall require new bonds, when..
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May appropriate fines for reformation of fallen women..
And for building and maintaining a city hospital.
Levy special tax to pay judgments....
Shall make new levy, when....
To approve compensation of Police Department.
To elect Police Commissioners.
Time of such election.
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Rule governing same..
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Designate terms of office of Police Commissioner.
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CITY COUNCIL-CONTINUED-
SUBJECT.
In case of failure to elect Police Commissioner
Shall fill vacancies in Board ....
Shall not elect more than two of one party to Board..
Shall allow payment of salaries of Police Board...
Shall allow reasonable expenses of Police Board....
May call upon Police Board for books, etc...
To receive reports from Police Board..
May prescribe fire limits....
May require fire-proof buildings.
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May prohibit repairing buildings, when..
Prescribe manner of constructing chimneys.
May cause removal of dangerous materials, etc.
To prevent deposit of ashes in street....
To compel use of spark-arresters..
To regulate and prevent use and sale of explosives, etc...
To compel owners of buildings to provide fire-escapes
May prescribe scuttles in roofs....
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May regulate and locate smoke houses..
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May make any provision to guard against fire..
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May maintain fire alarm telegraph, etc......
Make rules for fire department....
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Provide for punishment for interference with apparatus.. 7
Make rules for water works..
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May keep idlers and suspected persons from vicinity of fires 7
May compel bystanders to aid at fires
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Shall appoint Chief Engineer of fire department.
Provide for officers and men of same....
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Define rank and duties...
Confirm nominations to fire department.
May designate Fire Marshal
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Shall define powers and duties of same.
May give police powers to firemen ...
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May prohibit construction of wooden sidewalk.
To have control of streets..
May lay out and extend streets.
To have control of streets and highways..
May lay out, widen and straighten same.
May provide drainage.....
May make improvements for health.
May build and maintain bridges.
May provide for pavements..
May establish grade of streets..
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May reconsider action in case of changing street grades... 8
Shall appoint Appraisers..
To act upon assessment list, when....
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May hear complaints touching awards and assessments 8
May confirm assessment and award or refer back to com-
mission....
May confirm or annul revised assessment list.
May appoint a new commission.
When confirmed, action final….
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To levy assessments on property.
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Form of such levy, may adopt a form.
May vacate streets.
Exclusive powers.
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May designate districts for street cleaning purposes.
May contract for cleaning streets...
May contract for all work or construction.
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All work or construction may be done by the day
Day work under direction of Council.....
May designate officers to have charge of day work
Shall appoint Street Commissioners.
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improvements.
May order gutters or paving
To order sidewalks...
Manner of ordering sidewalks.
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Shall levy sidewalk assessments, when.
Shall grade before ordering sidewalks.
May order streets and public grounds sprinkled..
May designate city districts
May extend same ....
Control laying out streets, etc.
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Shall have control of acceptance of plats of additions.
Power to maintain waterworks and sewers.
To enlarge, extend, re-lay and improve same
Right to acquire property..
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Proceedings where surface of land is not required..
May enter upon private property to make repairs
Shall levy assessments for mains
To fix cost of laying mains
In re-assessments may direct plan
To determine the cost of sewers
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
31
SUBJECT.
CITY COUNCIL-CONTINUED-
May proceed to construct branch pipes
May proceed to lay sewer connections
May control manner and time of constructing branch pipes 9
May order branch pipes laid, when
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May require surveys, plats and profiles, when
May order sewer connections made .....
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May require branch pipes, sewer connections, electric wires,
etc., laid in area
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May bring action against owner to drain wet lands, etc..
May abandon proceedings
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May effect a system of drainage of marshes.
Shall revoke plumbers' license, when
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May provide punishment of persons injuring or interfering
with water works.
Provide office-furniture, etc., for water-works..
Shall order main laid...
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May appoint committee to select lands for city purposes.. 10
City Engineer to act with committee on location of lands. 10
To consider report of committee on location of grounds.. 10
To hear interested persons...
May refer award to new Board of Commissioners.
To act on report of appraisement..
To hear any objections thereto.
May refer report to committee.
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May confirm or annul report..
Confirmation of award final..
Shall pay for condemned lands..
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Set aside amount of award of damages in treasury, when 10
May require claimant of award to give bonds..
Designate character and extent of street improvements.. 10
Shall appoint Commissioners in street improvements..
To act upon report of Commissioners.
May refer to committee to hear objections..
May appoint a new commission, when...
May confirm or annul revised appraisement.
Confirmation final....
Shall proceed to levy assessments.
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Shall cause to be made an assessment roll, form of...
May abandon proceedings, when, limitation... . .
To designate character and extent of pavements.
To designate character and extent of water mains..
To designate character, extent and materials to be used
in water mains, sewers,etc.
May direct Engineer to advertise for bids for paving, gut-
ters, water mains, etc……..
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SUBJECT.
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CITY COUNCIL--CONTINUED--
Shall hear interested parties....
10
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May abandon proposed improvements.
10
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May fix cost...
10
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May levy assessment and order assessment roll for street
improvements
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Discretion as to assessing corner lots, decision final..
Shall fix cost of building sidewalk, when..
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10 10 133
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Shall assessproperty...
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Order new assessment for street extensions, etc., when.. 10 14 136
When second assessment is annulled..
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May provide for validity of certificates of construction... 10 15 137
May provide that County Treasurer shall accept certifi-
cates in lieu of money...
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May direct Auditor to divide special as sessments...
May order immediate construction of improvements when
money is advanced....
May order assessment collections to cease, when
Action in case of invalid assessments..
Majority vote to order sidewalks...
May await contracts before assessing.
May await collection of assessments.
Shall cancel assessments, when...
Shall deduct interest not accrued.
Authorized to issue bonds.
Authorized to sell bonds.
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Proceedings by resolution to be approved by the Mayor
Authorized publication of acts, prima facie evidence...
May provide for compilation of ordinances.
Penalties and judgments, how remitted...
Shall invite proposals for advertising.
Manner of inviting proposals...
Style of proposals to be received.
Contract, how awarded..
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8 22 100
8 22 100
Discretion in awarding advertising contracts.
In case two bids on the same
Rejection of bids ....
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Shall invite proposals for job printing
Shall canvass vote for Library Directors.
CITY DISTRICTS—
Council may designate.
May be extended ...
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Shall be continued until extended or modified
CITY ELECTION--See ELECTION--
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
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CITY ENGINEER-
Council shall appoint ......
Qualifications..
May employ assistants..
Council to prescribe duties..
Shall keep his office in convenient place
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May appoint an Assistant City Engineer.
Shall enforce compliance of contracts .
Shall deliver property and instruments to successor or to
Council.....
Shall preserve surveys, plans, estimates, etc..
Shall have supervision of all city work
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May suspend work not conforming to requirements
Shall make and keep profiles of street grades
To advise Commissioners..
To direct Street Commissioners
To approve work of Street Commissioners
To act with Committee in locating grounds.
Report to Council ..
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Shall make plats and surveys for improvements.
Nature and form of plat
Shall estimate cost of improvement
Estimate cost of pavements, water mains, sewers, etc.... 10
Rules governing making estimates..
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May omit estimate of costs in street improvements, when 10
Duty when property owner neglects to build sidewalks... 10
Authorized to give certificates for assessments of 1886... 10 27 143
Shall prepare roll of deferred payments...
May request Auditor for description of lands.
Engineer to furnish plats
CITY EMPLOYES-
Exempt from jury duty.
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CITY FINANCES AND PROPERTY—
Council to have control and management...
CITY FUNDS—
Costs of special assessments to be returned
Council may provide for increase...
Comptroller to notify when deficient..
Comptroller not to sign contracts, when
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10 31 148
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10 31 149
3 28 37
4 14 57
Comptroller to sign contracts, when
No order to be signed until money be in treasury
Disposition of surplus....
City Treasurer shall receive..
Treasurer shall adjust and apportion
Orders on to be kept separately...
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CITY FUNDS-CONTINUED –
SUBJECT.
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May be deposited in banks.
Qualification of depositories.
Applications of banks for same.
Designation of banks………...
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Banks to pay interest on deposits...
Council to fix and approve bonds of banks.
Funds deposited subject to order of Treasurer.
Apportionment of deposits..
Rate of interest on deposits.
Computation and disposition of interest.
Certificates taken on certain deposits...
Rate of interest on such funds..
Limitation of deposits.
·
Monthly statement of deposits..
Bankruptcy of city depositories...
• •
May be deposited in foreign banks, when.
Capital of banks receiving city funds.
Treasurer to secure interest on funds.
To be managed in interest of city..
Debts to be met at maturity...
Interest collected to be placed, how..
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Newly organized banks may receive funds.
In case of insufficient security..
Deposits shall be withdrawn, when
Provision for maintenance of reformatory..
Provision for building and maintenance of city hospital.. 5 35 75
Appropriations for current expenses.
Provisions for paying judgments....
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Excess special tax collection, disposition of...
Library Board fund……….
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12 1 157
CITY GOVERNMENT-
All Boards to be branches………..
CITY HOSPITAL-
Fund for building and maintaining……….
CITY LIMITS, EXTENSION-
How affecting tenure of office...
CITY LIGHTING-See LIGHTING CITY-
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS-
A municipal corporation..
May sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded...
May make and use a seal, etc.......
May take, hold, lease and convey property
Such power not restricted to city limits.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS-CONTINUED—
Shall be capable of contracting and be contracted with..
Territory comprising the city
Taxes of 1886-7...
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Taxes levied for school districts.
Special legislation for districts six and eight
Debts of school districts assumed.
Moneys and properties of school districts.
Sale of liquor prohibited in certain territory.
Forbidden to issue liquor licenses, where.
Divided into thirteen wards.
Boundary lines of wards...
Tenure of office not affected, where...
Alderman of Sixth ward, special provision.
Distribution of taxes of 1886..
City not to give bonds, when.
Legal successor of former cities...
Puplic property....
Assume indebtedness, etc., of St. Anthony.
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Resolutions and ordinances of St. Anthony not incon-
sistent, etc., to remain in force.
Publication of ordinances authorized.
Ordinances, rules and orders of Council, prima facie evi-
dence, when...
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Certificate of City Clerk, "true copy".
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Council may provide for compilation of ordinances, etc... 11
Distribution and sale of copies of publications..
11
No inhabitant incompetent when city party to suit.. 11
Charter provisions not modified unless expressly stated... 11
Manner of service in case of action....
Actions brought to enforce compliances..
Actions for violations shall be by warrant
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Warrant not necessary, when..
Process for violations in name of State.
Inprisonment for default of fine....
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Imprisonment pending trial, etc.,
City not liable for board of prisoners, when.
11 9 152
11 10 152
City not liable for jail fees, when...
11 10 153
11 11 153
Penalties or judgments, how remitted...
No officer or employe to dispose or convert city property 11 12 153
Council shall invite proposals for official advertising.
Contracting for job printing.…….
CITY OFFICERS--
Elective officers of the city...
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Three Aldermen for each ward except wards ten, twelve
and thirteen..
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SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect,
Page,
CITY OFFICERS-CONTINUED-
Terms of office..
Council to appoint certain officers by ballot.
To continue in office until successor qualifies.
Officers appointed prior to January, 1889.
Biennial election...
Vacancies, how filled.
•
Council to determine tie vote.
• •
Special provision relative to term.
Spring election abolished...
•
City Board elected be-ennially after 1888...
City Clerk shall notify of election....
Removal from city or ward.....
Refusal to qualify and enter upon duties.
Vacancies to be filled by Council...
Bonds of Officials..
Not to be interested in contracts.
Duties of the Mayor....
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Mayor may maintain action against officer, when..
Discharge of official duties to be enforced by Mayor.
Duties and powers of President of Council.
Duties and powers of City Clerk..
•
Duties and powers of Assistant Clerk..
Duties and powers of City Attorney
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•
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City Attorney shall advise and counsel all officers
Duties and powers of Assistant City Attorney.
Duties and powers of Health Officer..
Duties and powers of Health Inspector
Duties and powers of Superintendent of Poor.
Duties and powers of Supervisors of Poor..
Duties of City Physician..
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Duties and powers of City Engineer .
Duties of Assistant City Engineer.
Authority of City Engineer ..
Duties and powers of Comptroller..
Duties and powers of City Treasurer
Duties and powers of Wharfmaster.
Shall deliver city property to successor
Must not be interested in city contract
Payments made on such contract may be recovered from
interested Aldermen...
•
Additional duties may be required by Council
Exempt from jury duty ....
Duties and powers of Street Commissioners
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Duties and powers of General Street Commissioner
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
37
SUBJECT.
CITY PHYSICIAN--
City Council may appoint.
Qualifications
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Shall attend and furnish poor with medicines.
CITY PRISON—
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Judge of Municipal Court may to commit vagrants to..... 4 7 55
CITY PRINTING—
Shall be let to lowest bidder
Proposals and contract for job work.
CITY PROPERTY—
•
Engineer's surveys, profiles, plans and estimates
Officers to deliver to successor...
Penalty for neglect to deliver
•
Officers shall report annual inventory..
•
Council to have control and management.
May provide for sale of...
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Purchase of office furniture for water works.
Punishment for interfering with....
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No officer or employe shall depose of or convert...
CITY'S REAL ESTATE
Two-third vote required to sell.
Exceptions in case of Industrial Exposition
Land to revert in case of default..
CITY SEALER-See SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES-
Authority to appoint..
CITY TREASURER-
Special provisions relating to term of office.
General election in 1888..
To be elected biennially
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Bond shall be executed by at least four sureties.
Bondsmen to justify in double the sum of the bond
Shall be approved by Council by resolution...
Council shall audit accounts...
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Office vacant if books, etc., be not produced.
Proceedings if delinquent or in default....
Shall give separate bond as Board Treasurer.
Shall make detailed annual report to Council....
Report to be filed with Clerk.
Shall receive all moneys belonging to city.
11 15 154
11 1 154
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4 14 57
9 10 114
9 16 117
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Shall keep detailed accounts as Council may direct… . . . . .
Shall be ex-officio Treasurer of Board of Education and
Library Board...
To receive tax collections, penalties and interest.
To make settlement with County Treasurer.
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3 19 35
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5 20 70
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SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page.
CITY TREASURER--CONTINUED-
Shall receive tax collections in advance, when
Shall adjust and apportion funds....
Mayor may direct where employes shall be paid.
To keep orders drawn on each fund separately
To take certificates of deposit, when..
Make monthly statement of deposits..
Shall file same with Clerk..
•
Exempt from liability, when.
Authority to deposit in outside banks, when.
To secure interest on public funds..
To manage funds in interest of city..
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Not to postpone payments when due..
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Shall make annual statement of interest received.
Shall withdraw funds deposited, when.
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Shall keep water rents in water works fund……
Shall only pay out on orders signed by President of Board 9
Shall be Treasurer of Library Board..
•
Shall give bonds to Library Board
•
Duties relating to Library Board..
Exempt from liability when...
CITY WORK-
Engineer shall have supervision and charge
By the day, when....
CIRCUSES--
To be licensed..
CISTERNS-
Authority to establish, etc....
CLAIMS-
To be audited and adjusted by Comptroller.
Against water works department..
Comptroller to audit...
CLERK-
Of Municipal Court, council shall audit books..
Office vacant if books, etc., be not produced.
Proceedings in case of delinquency or defalcation.
Board of Equalization power to appoint...
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4 5 41
4 5 47
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9 9 113
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Compensation of Clerk of Board of Equalization..
Police department, how appointed.
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Duties and term of office..
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COAL-
Authority to designate kind to be used by locomotives... 4 5 46
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
39
SUBJECT.
COLLECTIONS-
Excess to current expense fund.
Taxes to be collected, how..
•
Advanced by County Treasurer, when.
Certified statement of tax collections.
Of sidewalk assessments.
COLUMNS--
Regulate size and material.
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COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS--
Authority to regulate storage, etc.
Authority to license vendors...
Authority to regulate the use.
COMMITMENT FEES--
City not liable for...
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COMMISSIONERS, PUBLIC GROUNDS--
Penalty in case of failure to act……..
Recovery of penalty....
To award compensation for property taken.
Qualification of Commissioners.
Quorum...
How notified.
•
To be sworn by Clerk or other officer.
Nature of oath...
•
To give notice by publication of meeting.
To hear interested persons.
•
Shall meet and view premises...
May adjourn from time to time...
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5 20 70
5 21 71
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Report appraisement and award to Council..
COMMISSIONERS, STREET GRADES-
How appointed....
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Benefits to be assessed.
Damages, how awarded.
Penalty for neglect of duty.
Notice of meetings....
Meeting and adjournments.
City Engineer to advise.
Rules governing.
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May have aid of any city officer..
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To report appraisement and award to Council.
Style and form of report ...
May give re-hearing to property-owners.
Must publish notice of re-hearing ...
May correct, alter and revise award and assessment
Report revised list to Council ....
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page.
COMMISSIONERS, STREET IMPROVEMENTS, ETC.-
City Council shall appoint
Quorum and vacancies.
Penalty for failure to attend
Shall give notice of meeting.
City Engineer to advise ..
Appraisement and award.
To report to Council....
To make assessment list
Nature of list.
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COMMISSIONER, POLICE SEE POLICE—-
COMMISSIONERS, STREET-SEE STREET COMMISSIONERS—
COMMITTEE ON LOCATION OF GROUNDS—
Report to Council
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10 1 120
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4 5 41
4 7 54
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11 3 151
6 11 82
3 3 30
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3 27 37
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If for water works.
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COMMITTEE ON TAXES--
To constitute Board of Equalization.
COMMON SHOWMEN–
License and regulation.
COMPENSATION—
Of offenders in lieu of fine....
COMPILATION OF ORDINANCES-
Prima facie evidence..
Council may provide for
COMPLAINT-
•
Manner of making against Police Commissioner..
COMPENSATION—
Of Clerk for services other than for city
Of Engineer and assistants......
Of Aldermen acting as Judges of Election
Of Board of Equalization
Council to fix compensation of officers
When fixed not to be changed during term
Sealer of Weights and Measures..
Market Masters, Inspectors, etc..
Of Deputy Comptroller
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Council may reduce, when
Limitation of such reduction.
To be fixed by Police Board..
Subject to approval of Council
Of Water Commissioners
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Of employes of Water Board..
Of County Auditor....
City may tender compensation for lands taken.
Of property owner to be limited, when..
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
41
SUBJECT.
COMPEL ATTENDANCE---
Of Aldermen, Council may
COMMON SEAL-
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City may make, use and alter.
COMPTROLLER-See CITY COMPTROLLer.
CONCEALED WEAPONS.—
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Authority to license, prohibit, and regulate the carrying.. 4 5
CONCERTS-
License and regulation...
CONDEMNATION--
Right of Council for public buildings.
For streets, alleys and public squares.
Manner of condemnation...
Proceedings abandoned, when.
Owners to furnish abstract of title.
If owners fail to furnish abstract.
Lawful and sufficient, when
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Compensation from permanent improvement fund.
Lands taken, how described..
Lands assessed, how described.
CONFISCATION—
Of concealed weapons..
CONSTABLES--
Police to have power of
CONTAGIOUS DISEASES--
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Authority to prevent landing of boats.
To make disposition of persons afflicted.
Authority to regulate and quarantine
CONTRACTS--
City may contract...
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Shall be signed by the Mayor.
Comptroller shall countersign…….
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10
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Comptroller shall keep book in which shall be entered....
Interested parties may inspect.....
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Authority to contract for erection of gas works.
Right reserved to reduce street lighting service..
Void if Street Commissioner or Engineer be interested..
Not to be awarded to person in default to city.
For laying water mains..
In case no funds...
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Not binding until countersigned...
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Improvements may be performed on contract.
Council may await contract before assessing.
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9 11 114.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
CONTRACTS--CONTINUED-
For official advertising..
Discretion of Council in awarding.
Term of contract..
For job printing.
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Library Board may make and enforce.
CONTRACT WORK-
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Council may contract for street cleaning....
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All work done or constructions made may be contracted for 8
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Notice for proposals....
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Work forfeited if Commissioner be interested.
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CONTRIBUTION—
Of owners to draining wet lands..
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Not to exceed benefits
CONTROL OF POLICE-
Vested in Board of Police Commissioners..
CONTROL OF STREETS-See STREETS--
CONVERSION OF CITY PROPERTY-
By officer or employe
COPIES OF BONDS-
Prima facie evidence of contents
CORPORATE SEAL-
Shall be kept by City Clerk..
Assistant City Clerk authorized to affix.
Comptroller authorized to use
COST OF IMPROVEMENTS--
City Engineer to make estimate..
COUNSEL—
Officer may be heard by
COUNTY AUDITOR--
Shall deliver assessment books, etc.,.
Duty to transmit tax statement to Comptroller.
Time for transmitting statement
To report abatements to Comptroller..
To report delinquent taxes....
To report delinquent taxes of prior years.
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To make certified statement of collections..
Shall extend assessments against property.
Shall note cancellation of assessment..
Certificate of construction authority for cancellation...
Council may order assessment collection to cease, when.. 10 17 139
Shall divide assessments, how.
Shall add interest, how..
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10 27 143
Page.
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
43
SUBJECT.
COUNTY AUDITOR-CONTINUED
Manner of keeping his books..
To extend balances of deferred payments.
Per centum to be added...
To furnish Engineer detailed description of property
Engineer to furnish plats....
Compensation ..
•
Duty concerning library tax levy
COUNTY JAIL-
Authority to use as work-house.
· •
Prisoners to be in custody of Sheriff.
Prisoners to be in custody of Police, when.
COUNTY TREASURER-
To pay over taxes...
To pay over interest and penalties...
•
10 27 144
10 27 144
10 27 144
10 31 149
•
10 31 149
10 31 149
12. 6 161
4
7 55
4
7 55
4
7
55
• · •
5 19
70
5 20
70
5 20
70
5 20 70
15 138
10 27 145
To make settlements with City Treasurer.
Shall advance tax collections, when...
Shall accept certificates of construction in lieu of money.. 10
Receipts where certificates are used..
To pay library tax to City Treasurer.
COURTS-SEE DISTRICT COURT and MUNICIPAL COURT—
• •
Action to enforce compliance by Council or Board of Sink-
ing Fund Commissioners...
District Court may remove Police Commissioners from
office..
Library Board may sue and be sued.
COVERED DRAINS--SEE DRAINAGE—
CRIME-
Duty Police Board to prevent.
CRIBS IN MISSISSIPPI RIVER-
Right to construct....
CURB STONES-See PAVEMENTS.-
CURRENT EXPENSES-
12 6
160
•
5 14 67
•
6 11 82
12 1 156
•
6 5 80
10 1 119
Comptroller to report estimate.
Revenues to be devoted to....
Council to make tax levy to meet same.
Limitation of such levy..
•
5 8 64
5 9
• •
5 10
•
5
10
5
10
5 11
5 11 65
5 11
65
5 16 68
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64
64
64
65
65
Limitation of appropriation from fund...
Comptroller to make quarterly report...
When in excess of estimates...
Council shall make reductions, when
►
Permanent improvement fund not to be applied..
•
• • •
44
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
CURRENT EXPENSE FUND-
Appropriations from..
• •
Excess of tax collections..
Defray expenses of fire department..
DAMAGES-
•
• •
• •
•
Chip
Sect.
fag
5 36 76
5 37 76
7 10 86
Awarded property owners for change of street grades .... 8
When and how computed...
For improvements assessed to property benefitted.
Sustained by persons from defective sidewalks.
Execution to issue, how....
City owner of execution, when
•
•
·
•
City entitled to execution against property owner
By means of defective sidewalks, a ward charge
For insufficiency of streets or sidewalks
Service of summons in action to recover
Action to be commenced, when..
Notice of action to recover
No notice required, when..
Liability of railway companies
DAMS AND WING DAMS-
Right to construct.
DANGEROUS SIDEWALKS-
· •
2
90
8 2
92
8 10
95.
• ·
·
· •
8
14
97
8 14
97
8 14
98
8 14
98
•
•
8
15
98
8 19
99
8 19
99
8 20 99
•
• •
•
• •
•
•
Street Commissioner shall remove, when
Expense of removal to be assessed..
Liability of owners
DANGEROUS STRUCTURES--
Authority to compel removal.
Expense to be assessed, when
•
DAY OF ELECTION-See ELECTION DAYS--
DAY WORK-See WORK BY THE DAY-
DEAD-
Burial of may be regulated.
DEAD ANIMALS-
• •
Deposit in water, sewers, etc..
DEATHS-
Authority to provide for registration
To provide for burials..
DEBTS-
1
8 20 100
8 20 100
8 21 100
10 1 119
8 13
97
1
8 13 97
8
14 97
4 5
53
4 5 53
4 5 47
9 16 117
4
5 47
• •
•
4
5 47
Of school districts assumed by city……….
DELINQUENT OFFICIALS—
Council shall prosecute..
DELINQUENT TAXES-
Auditor to report to Comptroller...
Of prior years.
• •
1 2 12
4 13 56
5 20 70
5 21 71
•
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
45
!
SUBJECT.
DESTRUCTION OF INSTRUMENTS-
Used for purpose of gambling....
DEPOSITORIES-
Manner of designating
Qualification...
Application of banks for city funds.
Council to fix bonds..
·
Banks to pay interest on city deposits..
Amount and approval of bonds...
Apportionment of funds deposited
Rate of interest on deposits....
Computation and disposition of interest
Certificates of deposit taken, when..
Rate of interest on certificates...
Bankruptcy of bank....
•
May be located outside county, when..
Amount of capital required...
Treasurer to secure interest from
Newly organized banks ....
• •
•
In case of insufficient security..
Deposits shall be withdrawn, when.
Reinstatement of depository.
Bonds to continue in force..
DEPUTY ASSESSORS-
• •
How appointed, term, etc...
May give and sign notices
Compensation fixed by Council.
DEPUTY COMPTROLLER—
City Comptroller may appoint.
Validity of his acts...
•
•
•
4 5 45
5 23
72
5
23
72
•
5 23
72
5 23
72
5 23
72
5 25
72
•
5 26
73
5 27 73
5 27 73
5 27
73
5 27
73
5 29 73
5 30 74
5 30 74
5 31
74
5 32
74
•
5 33
74
•
5 33 74
5 33 75
5 34 75
5 1
61
5
1 62
5
6
63
•
3 31
38
3 31
38
3
31
38
3 31 38
3 31 38
3 31 38
•
3 31
38
4 5
45
Cannot countersign bond or contract, or make financial
statement..
Exception...
Shall file oath of office....
May be required to give bond to Comptroller.
Compensation
• •
DICE, CARDS, ETC.--
Restraint and prohibition....
DIRECTORS--SEE LIBRARY DIRECTORS—
Names of first Library Board..
DIRT, RUBBISH, ETC.--
Removal of.
• ·
DISBURSING MONEYS--
Law governing same.
12 11 162
.
4 5 48
... 5 22 74
46
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
DISBURSEMENTS-SEE FINANCES--
DISCHARGE-
Penalty on judgment, how
DISEASED MEATS-
Authority to inspect, condemn and destroy.
DISEASES--See CONTAGIOUS DISEASES –
DISORDERLY ASSEMBLIES--
Authority to prevent..
DISORDERLY HOUSES—
Authority to suppress.
• •
DISQUALIFICATION FOR OFFICE-
Officer guilty of fraud forever disqualified.
DISTILLERIES--
Location and management....
DISTRICT COURT-See APPEALS and COURTS-
dey.?
Sect.
Page
. 11 11 153
4 5 50
4 5 45
4 5 45
Warrant in favor of Clerk of.
Parties may petition....
Shall make an order, when.
Right of parties to appeal to..
City Clerk to furnish copy of award.
No pleading on appeal.
Precedence of case.
Judgment of court..
•
•
Shall appoint Appraisers, when.
Parties to appeal shall be heard.
2 11 27
4 5 46
10
4 123
10
4 123
10
4 123
10
6 128
10
6 129
•
10
6 129
10
6 129
10
6 129
10
6 129
10 6 129
10 6 129
10
6 130
10
6 130
10 6 130
10 6 130.
10
6 130.
•
10 6 130
Shall fix time and place of meeting.
Shall allow compensation of Appraisers..
May re-commit award....
May appoint new Appraisers.
•
No appeal allowed....
No writ of error allowed.
May adjudge double costs.
DISTURBANCES--
Authority to prevent..
DIVERSION OF STREAM--See BRIDGES-
DOGS--
Authority to prevent running at large.
To license....
To summarily destroy, when.
DOUBLE COSTS--
In case of frivolous appeals..
DONORS—
Of money, etc., may vest title in Library Board.
4 5 45
4 5 47
4 5 47
4
5
47
10 6 130
•
12 7 161
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
47
DRAINAGE--
SUBJECT.
City Council may provide.
DRAYMEN AND EXPRESSMEN
Authority to regulate...
DRIVING ON SIDEWALKS-
Authority to prevent....
DRUGGISTS-
May sell liquors, for what purposes
8 10 95
4 5 50
4 5 47
4 5 43
4
5
48
4
5
48.
3
1
29
2
78
DRUNKENNESS—
Authority to prevent on streets and public places ..
To provide for arrests....
Mayor shall see that they are enforced...
DUTIES OF OFFICERS-See CITY OFFICERS-
Duties of Policemen to be designated by Police Board.... 6
DYE HOUSES-
Authority to designate location
DYNAMITE-
Storage
•
•
4 5
53
4 5 46
EDUCATION-See BOARD OF EDUCATION——
EIGHTH WARD-
Boundaries.
ELECTIONS-
To be held biennially....
At time of general State election.
Special elections to fill vacancies.
.
Not to be held within sixty days of general election.
Not invalidated by defect in notice...
Eight days' notice may be given, when.
All elections shall be by ballot..
Office to be designated on ballot.
Spring elections abolished..
General election in 1888.
City election in 1887.
•
·
•
Council to settle tie vote of people...
Officers to be elected biennially after 1888.
Mode of conducting elections...
All returns to be made to City Clerk.
Qualifications of voters....
Council to divide wards into precincts.
Council shall designate polls...
In case Council fails or neglects.
Manner of depositing ballots..
Ballot boxes to be provided..
•
•
• •
• •
•
•
•
•
1 3 16
2
2
2 20
2
220
2
2
2
2
20
2
20.
2
20
2
21
2
2
21
2
2
21
2
2
21
2
2
21
2
2
21
2
2
21
2 2
22
2
3
23
2
2
2
2
3
23.
3
23
5
23.
5
23
2
5
23
2 5 24
2 5 25
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
i
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect,
Page
ELECTIONS-CONTINUED
Ballot boxes, how marked.
Ballots must be endorsed..
Additional ballot boxes..
Municipal Judges to be balloted for..
Council shall canvass returns..
City Clerk shall notify officers of their election.
Vacancies to be filled by Council....
Members of Police Commission
Rules governing same....
Police Commissioners after 1887.
Of Library Board....
Of Library Directors in 1886.
Subsequent elections...
Library Directors...
•
•
•
Returns and canvass for Library Directors.
ELECTION DAYS--
•
2 5 25
2
5 25
2
5
25
2
5
25
2
8
26
8
26
•
•
• •
2
9
26
6
3
78
6
3
78
6 3
79
12
2
157
12
2
157
12 2 157
•
12
3 157
•
Police Board may appoint Special Policemen..
ELECTION, NOTICE OF-See NOTICE OF ELECTION-
ELECTION, JUDGE OF--See JUDGE OF ELECTION-
ELECTION PRECINCTS-
To be established by Council....
Date for making designation
Limitation of Precincts.
•
222
12 3 158
6 6 80
2
5
23
2 5
23
2 5
23
•
•
·
2
5 23
In case Council neglects or fails.....
ELECTION, SPECIAL-See SPECIAL ELECTION-
ELECTION RETURNS-
For city officers to be made to Clerk....
For State and county officers to Auditor
Judges shall return to City Clerk...
Limitation for making returns.
•
2
3
23
2 3 23
2 8 25
2
8 25
Council shall canvass..
ELECTIVE OFFICERS-
2
8
26
Mayor, Treasurer, Comptroller, Aldermen and Boards of city 2
ELECTRIC WIRES-
1
19
Authority to regulate, etc..
4
5
52
Council may require laid in area.
9
5 108
•
Council may require to be laid beneath surface of street.. 9
ELEVENTH WARD-
5 108
Boundaries..
1 3 17
ENDOWMENTS-See FEES and EMOLUMENTS——
EMPLOYES OF CITY-See CITY EMPLOYES--
Council may reduce force, when.
5 11 65
Payment of...
Library Board may appoint..
•
5 22 71
12
1
157
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
49
SUBJECT.
EMPLOYMENT AGENCIES –
May be licensed..
To keep public record...
ENCROACHMENT ON STREETS-
Removal and abatement...
ENCUMBERING OF STREETS-
To be prevented.....
ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES-
Power of City Council.
ENGINE HOUSES—
Council to build and maintain.....
Rules for use and protection..
Punishment for interference with
Manner of acquiring grounds for.
ENGINEER-See CITY ENGINEER-
ENGLISH LANGUAGE-
Police to read and write...
ENLARGING SEWER-See SEWERS—
ENLARGING WATER WORKS-See WATER WORKS-
EQUALIZATION-See BOARD OF EQUALIZATION—
When completed.....
ESCAPES-See FIRE ESCAPES-
4
5
42
4 5 42€
4 5 50
4 5 46
•
4 5 41
3
84
7
4 84
7
4 84
•
10
1
119
•
... 7
6 8 81
5 4 63
J
:
ESTIMATES—
Police Board shall furnish.
6 12 82
EVASIONS-See VIOLATIONS—
EVIDENCE--See PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE—
Of indebtedness invalid unless signed by Comptroller.... 3 13
In Court, certified records of Comptroller...
33
3 14
34
•
EXAMINATION--
Police Board shall submit books, etc..
Fire Marshal's powers.
Of bonds by Council.
• •
EXCESS OF COLLECTIONS--
Credit to current expense funds...
EXHIBITIONS—
License and regulation...
EX-OFFICIO--See OFFICERS—
City Treasurer to be Treasurer of Library Board..
Mayor member Police Board...
Same, Board of Education..
Mayor Library Director...
6 12 82
7 7 85
• •
5 34 75
5 11 65
4 5 41
3 19 35
3 19 35
•
6 3 78
12 11 162
50
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
EXPENDITURES--
Council given authority to make…..
Authority of Library Board..
•
Authority of Street Commissioners.
EXPENSE
•
5 16 68
12 1 157
8
6
93
City's portion of for permanent improvement, how paid.. 5 16 68
Watchmen to serve without expense to city.
Reasonable expenses of Police Board.
Of Fire Department……..
Of Library Board met by taxation.
EXPENSE FUND-See CURRENT EXPENSE-
EXPLOSIVE MATERIAL-
Power to prevent storing
· •
·
•
EXPOSITION--See INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION—
EXPOSURE-See INDECENT EXPOSURE--'
EXPRESSMEN--
Authority to restrain, etc...
EXPRESS REPEAL-
6 6
80
6 12
82
7
10 86
12
6
160
7 2 84
4 5 48
Necessary as to charter provision..
.. 11 5 151
EXTENDING STREETS--See STREETS-
EXTENDING WATER WORKS -See WATER Works-
EXTENSION--
Of city limits not to affect tenure of office
Council may acquire land and buildings for water works..
Condemnation proceedings...
FACTORIES-
Soap, removal or abatement.
•
1
4
17
9 2 104
9
21 04
4 5
45
Soap, cleansing..
4 5 45
•
•
Glue, location of...
FALLEN WOMEN-
4 5 53
Provision for reformation and care.
5 35 75
FALLS OF ST. ANTHONY--
Pollution of water above..
9 16 117
FALSE WEIGHTS AND MEASURES—
Use of...
4 5 48
FASTENING HORSES--
FAST DRIVING—
Hitching posts and rings.
Authority to prevent..
FAVORITISM—
4 5 51
4 5 46
Not to govern Police appointments..
6 4 79
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
51
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page.
FEES AND EMOLUMENTS--
Accruing to officer shall be reported to Council monthly.. 3 29 37
Shall be paid monthly into City Treasury. . .
Exception in case of Sealer of Weights and Measures..
FERMENTED LIQUORS-See Liquors.—
FIFTH WARD--
Boundaries of.
Liquor license limits.
FINANCE-
Fiscal year of city....
Fiscal year, proviso for 1889
•
•
•
City Comptroller to estimate expenses.
Time for reporting estimate to Council.
Statement of revenue received by city..
Comptroller to make a tax levy computation.
Requirements of such computation . .
Time for making same....
Comptroller to make ward estimates.
Revenues from licenses, rents, fines, etc.
•
3 29
37
•
•
3 29 37
•
D
•
•
•
Fines collected from houses of prostitution.
Costs and judgments collected for city
Proceeds of sales of property.
City Council to levy tax, when.
Current expense tax limited.
•
•
•
•
• ·
Appropriations for year to be prior to tax levy..
1 3 15
4 5 44
5 7 63
5 7
64
8 64
5
5
8
5
8
5 8
5
8
5 8
5
8
5
9
5
9
•
•
•
5
9
5
9
·
City Council to make appropriation for current expenses.
Limit of current expense fund......
Comptroller to make quarterly report of expenses...
Comptroller to report taxes collected and outstanding.
Council to reduce current expenses when in excess.
May reduce expense of street lighting...
May reduce force of employes except in fire department..
May reduce salaries of officers and employes.....
Right to reduce to be reserved in street lighting contracts
Council to make ward tax levy.
Limitation of ward levy.
•
Interest on bonded indebtedness.
Council to provide for payment of same.
·
•
• •
•
•
•
•
• •
To provide a fund for payment of principal
Fund not to be applied to other purpose.
Not restrict investment of sinking fund..
Sinking fund for payment of bonds, etc..
Authority of Council to maintain, etc.
No power to abolish nor divert fund.
Excess of collections..
•
•
64
64
64
** 3** F F F F F F F F F F F F
64
64
64
64
64
64
64
64
5 10
64
5 10
65
5 10
65
5 10
5 10 65
5 11
65
5 11 65
5 11 65
5 11 65
5 11
65
5 11 65
•
5 11 55
5 12 65
5 12 65
5 13
66
5 13 66
5 13 66
5 13 66
5 13 66
5 14 66
5 14 66
5 14 66
5 14 66
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect,
Page,
FINANCE- CONTINUED.
Increase of sinking fund..
•
Sinking Fund Commissioners, their duties..
Power of Council to appoint same.
Investment of sinking fund.
Permanent school fund..
·
Bonds not to be cancelled, when..
•
Interest to be applied to sinking fund..
Payment of bonds at maturity.
One mill tax omitted, when..
• • •
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
• •
•
•
Decrease of interest and depreciation of investment..
Dereliction of Council or Sinking Fund Commissioners.
Tax payers or bond owners may enforce compliance...
Bond contracts to be kept inviolate...
When sinking fund be insufficient.
Council may issue bonds to meet deficiency
Special authority required for other bonds.
Council cannot create debts or liabilities without special law
Council may issue bonds for permanent improvement ....
Limit of such bonds...
Terms and rate of interest of bonds.
•
•
• • •
5 14 66
5
5
5
14 66
14 66
14 66
5 14 66
5 14 67
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5 14 67
5 14 67
5 14 67
5 14 67
5 14 67
5 14 67
5 14 67
5 15 67
5 15
67
5 15
67
· • •
5
15
67
5
5
16
16
68
5
16
68
5 16
68
5 16
68
5 16
68
•
5 16
68
5 16
68
•
5 16
68
5 16
68
•
5 16
68
5 16
68
5 16
68
•
5 16
68
5 16
68
•
• •
5 17 68
5 17 68
•
5 17 69
5 17 69
•
•
Proceeds to be kept distinct....
Council may provide for payment.
• •
•
• •
Fund may be used in advance of assessment.
Expense of improvement may be assessed.
Expense of any improvement assessed...
Expenses of bridges, water works, etc., how payable.
Permanent improvement fund exclusive.
Proceeds of special assessment.....
•
Council shall make levy for permanent improvement.
May contemplate increase of fund………
Limitation of such tax levy....
•
•
Comptroller to notifiy Council when funds deficient.
When funds insufficient to meet proposed contracts.
Comptroller not to sign contracts, when....
In case of special assessments for improvement.
Comptroller may sign contracts, when..
•
Contract may contemplate improvements to extend over
period...
Perodical payments on contract.
• •
Comptroller not to sign orders when fund exhausted.
Orders on Treasury signed in order of claims..
All taxes levied by resolution of Council..
No tax invalid by reason of informality.
5 17 69
5 17 69
5 17 69
·
5 17 69
•
•
5 17 69
5 18 69
5 18 69
Not invalid because levy may exceed amount required.... 5 18. 69.
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
53
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Fage.
FINANCE-CONTINUED.
Disposition of surplus fund………
Council to make statements of tax levies.
Limitation of furnishing statement..
Collection and enforcement of tax levies.
County Treasurer to pay over taxes..
Interest and penalties collected.
•
5 19
69
5 19
69
• •
•
5 19
69
5 19
70
County Treasurer to account to City Treasurer.
County Treasurer shall advance tax collections.
Advances to be accounted for at settlement.
City Treasurer shall apportion such funds..
County Auditor's tax statement..
•
•
Limitation to transmit statement to Comptroller.
Statements of abatements, corrections, etc..
Taxes cancelled as uncollectable..
Statement of delinquent taxes.
Delinquent taxes of prior years.
•
•
•
•
•
5 20 70
5 20 70
5 20
70
5 20
70
• •
70
Orders must be signed by Mayor and Clerk and counter-
•
signed by Comptroller.
Form of orders on City Treasury.
City Council may provide for employe pay-rolls.
Forms of pay-rolls....
Warrants to meet pay-rolls.
Mayor may direct Treasurer to pay employes in any partic-
ular place in city...
Pay-rolls of Board employes..
5 20
5 20 70
5 21 70
5 21
70
•
•
5 21
70
5 21
70
•
5 21
70
5 21 71
Auditor to furnish Comptroller statement of collections.. 5 21
City orders, when issued...
71
5 22
71
5 22
5
22
5 22
5 22
5 22
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71
71
71
71
71
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•
5
22
71
5 22
71
5 23
•
5 23
72
5 24
5 24
5 25
72
5 25
Application of banks for same.
•
•
Interest on deposits.....
5 25
72
•
5 25
72
•
Council to designate depositories..
Council to fix bonds of banks..
City Clerk shall notify bank of amount of bonds.
Council to approve bonds..
Treasurer to deposit funds in banks designated.
Funds distributed in banks, how..
Subject to order of Treasurer.
5 25
5 25
72
5 25
5 25
5 26
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72
72
72
72
72
72
72
73
•
•
Treasurer to cancel orders when paid...
Orders to be filed separately by Treasurer.
•
Council may examine cancelled orders and bonds.
Destruction of cancelled instruments.
Depositories of city funds...
Qualifications of such depositories.
Rate of interest on deposits..
•
•
Interest computed end of each month.
•
•
· •
•
5 26 73
5 26 73
5 27 73
5 27 73
54
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page.
FINANCE-CONTINUED.
Computed interest placed to credit of city..
City Treasurer to take certificates of deposit, when.
Rate of interest on certificates of deposit..
Limitation of amount of deposits....
Treasurer to make monthly statement of deposits.
• •
5 27 73
5 27 73
5 27 73
5 27
73
5 28 73.
City Clerk shall furnish copies of statement for publication 5 28
Treasurer exempt from liability, when...
•
When banks decline to give bonds for deposits.
City Treasurer and Council Committee to negotiate with
banks outside county.....
Treasurer to deposit in banks outside county, when.
Limitation of capital of such banks..
City Treasurer to secure interest.
Treasurer to manage funds in interest of city.
Treasurer shall not defer payments after due
Treasurer to make annual statement.....
73
5
29
73
•
5
30
74
•
5 30
74
5 30
74
5 30
74
•
•
5 31
74
5 31 74
5 31 74
•
•
•
5 31
74
5 31
74
5 32
74.
Interest collected to be credited to various funds.
Newly organized banks may receive deposits...
Qualification and designation of such banks.
Council may require new bonds, when.
City Treasurer may withdraw deposits, when.
Council may reinstate banks as depositories.
Bonds to continue in force...
•
Council shall examine all bonds..
Council may require new bonds...
•
Bonds to be recorded by Comptroller.
Bonds to be deposited with Treasurer.
• ·
•
5 32 74
5 33 75
5 33 75
•
5 33 75
5 34
75
5 34
75 75 75 75 75
5 34
5 34
5 34
5 34
5 35 75
5 35 75
• ► •
5 35 75
·
5 36 76
Records and copies of bonds prima facie evidence....
Council authorized to set aside fines of keepers, etc., of.
bawdy-houses.
•
• • •
Institution for care and reformation of fallen women
Building or maintaining city hospital...
Orders paid from current expense account.
Tax levies to meet judgment against city..
Council shall make special levy for judgments.
New levy for judgment against city, when.
Excess of levy paid into current expense fund.
FINES-
Shall be received by City Treasurer.
Belong to revenue of city.
May be worked out..
Revenues from...
Of keepers and inmates of bawdy-houses. .
Of persons resorting to houses of ill fame.
D •
•
• • •
•
·
•
•
•
•
5 37 76
5 37 76
5 37 76
5 37
76
3 19
35
•
3 23
36
4 7 54
5 9
64
5 35 75
5 35
75
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
55
FINES CONTINUED.
SUBJECT.
For refusing to obey orders at fires..
Imposed by Municipal Court
Imprisonment for default..
FIRES--
• •
·
•
Authority to compel owners of buildings to provide pro-
tection.....
FIRE ALARM TELEGRAPH—
Council to erect and maintain.
Rules for use and protection...
Punishment for interference with.
FIRE APPARATUS—
Council may keep and maintain.
Rules for use and protection..
Punishment for interference with..
FIREARMS-
Authority to prevent use or exhibition...
Power to prevent use of.
FIRE DEPARTMENT—
7 9 86
11 9 152
11 9 152
4 5 52
•
7 3 84
7
4 84
7 4
84
7
3
84
7 4 84
•
•
7 4
84
•
4 5
48
7
2
84
Force not subject to reduction.
5 11 65
Council may prescribe fire limits..
7 1
83
•
•
Council may require fire-proof structures.
7
1
83
•
•
• •
Council may prescribe precautions against fires...
Council may prohibit repairing of buildings, when….
Council to prescribe manner of consent to make repairs.. 7
Council shall have power to prescribe construction of
chimneys....
7
1
83
7
1
83
• •
1
83
7
2
83
May cause same to be removed, etc.
7 2
83
May prevent deposit of ashes in streets, etc..
Council may compel use of spark arresters.
Council may prevent and regulate dangerous manufacto-
ries, etc...
7 2
83
7
2 83
•
7
2
84
May prevent storing of explosive materials.
7
2
84
May prevent use of firearms and fireworks.
7 2 84
►
•
May provide for seizure and destruction of same.
7 2
84
• •
May compel owners of buildings to provide fire escapes...
May regulate the location and construction of smoke
houses..
7
2
84
7
2
84
Council may keep and maintain fire engines, etc…….
Power to build engine and hose houses, etc...
To erect and maintain fire alarm telegraph...
To make rules for government of department..
To provide for punishment of persons injuring property.. 7
To keep idlers and suspected persons from vicinity of fire. 7
7 3 84
7 3 84
7
3
84
7
4
84
•
4
84
4
84
56
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT,
Chap
Sect.
Page.
FIRE DEPARTMENT--CONTINUED.
84
7 5 85
To compel bystanders to aid in preservation of property.. 7
Shall annually appoint Chief Engineer...
Shall provide for other officers and men.
Rank and duties of Chief and other officers.
Compensation of members of department..
4 DO SO LO
7 5 85
•
•
7
85
7
5
85
7
6
85
· •
Chief Engineer to nominate other officers and men.
Chief may remove members with consent of Council.
Council may reduce force..
Council may designate a Fire Marshal....
Duties of Fire Marshal..
Authority to enter any dwelling house or building.
Duty to examine into cause of fires...
To keep record of fires and report to Council.
Council may provide fire police...
7 6 85
7 6 85
7 7
85
7 7
85
77
85
7 7
85
7 7
85
•
7
8
85
Council may determine powers of same.
May give full police powers to firemen ..
Policemen subject to direction of officers of fire department 7
7
8
85
• •
7
8
85
8
86
Refusal of persons to obey orders.
7 9
86
Penalty for refusal.
7 9
86
Expenses of Fire Department..
7 10 86
•
Payment for buildings....
7 10 86
Council power to prohibit wooden sidewalks.
FIRE ESCAPES-
Authority to compel erection.
To be maintained on buildings..
FIRE LIMITS—
Council may prescribe...
Wooden sidewalks may be prohibited..
7 11 86
888888
4
5
52
7 2
84
મ
Number and location regulated by Council..
7 2 84
7 1 83
7 11 86
FIRE MARSHAL-
Council may designate.
Shall enforce fire ordinances.
Power to enter buildings to make examinations.
Report cause of fires...
FIRE PLACES-
FIRE POLICE--
Council to prescribe manner of construction.
Council may provide for......
Council to designate number and powers.
FIRE PROOF STRUCTURES---
Council may require....
FIRE WOOD-
To prevent obstructing public ways.
Regulate selling..
7 7 85
7
7 85
7
7 85
• •
7
7
85
7 2 83
7 8 85
7 8
85
7 1 83
4
5
46
4
5
48
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
57
FIREWORKS--
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page
Authority to prevent display.
Power to prevent display...
FIRST WARD-
Boundaries of.
Liquor license limits
•
FISCAL YEAR OF CITY--
When to begin..
Provision for 1889...
FISH--
Authority to license and regulate sale...
To inspect....
FITNESS--
To govern appointments to Police force.....
FLAGMEN—
Authority to compel employment....
FLOOR BEAMS-
Regulate size and material.
69
4
5 48
7 2
84
•
·
1
3
13
4
5
43
5 7 63
5
7 64
3+3
4 5 48
1 5
50
6 4 79
4 5 46
4 5 51
Authority to inspect, condemn and destroy....
4 5 49
4 5 51
4 5 41
10
5 127
FLOUR--
FLUES-
Regulate size and material.
FORCE OF LAW-
Provisions of ordinances to have....
FORM--
Assessment roll-Opening street...
Assessment roll-Paving..
Assessment roll-Sidewalk.
•
Assessment roll-Repair of sidewalk.
Assessment roll-Sprinkling
FOUNDATIONS-
Regulate construction
FOUNDRIES-
Authority to designate location..
FOURTH WARD--
Boundaries of ...
Liquor license limits.
FUEL, LIGHT-
Spark arresters to be used.
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
10 8 132
10 10 134
10 11 134
10 12 135
4 5 51
4 5 53
1
3 14
•
4
5
44
FUNDS--See CITY FUNDS; See, also, APPORTIONMENT OF
FUNDS, BOARD OF SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS, CUR-
RENT EXPENSE FUND, GENERAL FUND, LIBRARY FUnd,
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT FUND, PERMANENT IMPROV-
EMENT REVOLVING FUND, SINKING FUND and FINANCE.-
7 2 83
58
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page.
GAME-
Authority to license and regulate sale.
To inspect and destroy..
GAMBLING—
Must be restrained and prohibited...
Destruction of instruments..
GALLERIES-
Shooting, license of...
Art, establishment of....
GARBAGE-
Authority to require removal...
Expense for removal to be assessed.
Punishment for placing in water.
GAS-
•
4 5 48
4 5
50
!
•
4
5
45
4
5 45
4
5
42
12 1
156
4 5
53
4 5 53
Authority to control quality and measurement.
To regulate manufacture and sale..
To provide for inspection...
GAS WORKS—
•
Authority to contract for erection.
GATES--
9 16 117
Authority to compel construction at railway crossings.... 4 5
GAUGERS--See WEIGHERS and GAUGERS.-
City Council may appoint.
GEESE-
At large distraint and sale
GENERAL FUND—–
•
Appropriations for water works, when..
GENERAL AND SPECIAL ORDERS--
Police Commissioners to promulgate....
GENERAL POWERS--
Of city, to acquire and convey property
Of city, to contract ...
City to have perpetual succession.
Of Board of Police Commissioners.
Limitation of power....
•
GENERAL STREET COMMISSIONER—
City Council may appoint.
•
Shall observe instructions of City Engineer..
4 5
52
4 5
52
4
5
52
.... 4 5 47
46
1
F
4 5 50
4 5 47
•
9 12 115
6 2 78
1
1
11
1
1
11
•
1
1
11
6
2
77
6
2
77
8 6
94
8 6 94
8 6 94
Have general charge of work of Street Commissioners..
Do all work Council may require...
GIRDERS-
Regulate size and material...
8 6 94
4 5 51
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
59
SUBJECT.
de૫૦
Sect.
Page.
GLUE FACTORIES-
Authority to designate location....
GOOD BEHAVIOR-
Bonds for...
GOVERNMENT AND GOOD ORDER-
Power of Council to ordain....
GRADES-See STREET GRADES-
GRAIN-
Inspection
GRIEVANCES-
Persons aggrieved by assessments.
4 5 53
4 5 54
4 5 41
·
GROUNDS-See PUBLIC GROUNDS; See, also, BASE-BALL
GROUNDS, HOSPITAL GROUNDS, etc.-
GUARDS-
For hatchways...
GUNPOWDER--
4 5 49
5 4 63
4 5 51
Authority to regulate storage, etc.
•
Authority to license vendor..
GUTTERS-
Council may order.....
Expense from permanent improvement fund, what portion
Council to designate character, extent and material.
Interested parties to be notified by publication..
Bids may be called for in advance.
Council may fix cost....
Rules governing fixing cost...
City Engineer to estimate costs...
•
Engineer may omit estimate of costs, when.
HACKS AND HACKMEN—
Authority to restrain hackmen.
•
Authority to regulate charges....
Authority to locate and regulate stands
HARD LABOR-
When punishment by imprisonment..
HATCHWAYS-
Authority to regulate....
HAY-
Authority to regulate sale....
•
To appoint person to superintend same.
To inspect....
•
HEALTH-See BOARD OF HEALTH-
•
•
·
►
4
4
LO LO
5 46
5 46
8 11 96
•
8 11
96
+
10 8 130
10 8 131
•
10
8 131
10 8 131
10
10
8 131
10
8 131
8 132
4 5
48
• •
4 5 50
4
5
51
3 23 36
•
·
4 5 51
4
5
48
4
5
48
4
5 49
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监​岗​岗
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
HEALTH INSPECTORS—
Council may appoint....
Police powers in enforcing health ordinances..
Shall act under direction of Health Officer.
HEALTH REGULATIONS-
Authority to provide for..
Actions to recover penalties, etc., how brought…...
HEALTH OFFICER-
3
6
31
3 6 31
3
6 32
4 5
50
11 7
152
Council shall elect.
3
6
31
Qualifications ……….
3
6 31
Shall be executive officer of Board of Health.
3
6
31
Shall enforce laws and ordinances pertaining to health
regulations......
3
6 31
To direct Street Commissioners.
8
6
93
HEARTHS-
Council to prescribe manner of construction.
. 7 2 83
ì
HEATING APPARATUS-
Regulate size and material.
4 5 51
HEAVY TRAFFIC-
Authority to designate streets upon which it may be
conducted...
HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS—-
Regulations.
HENNEPIN COUNTY JAIL-
May be used as work house of the city...
Imprisonment in, allowed when....
HIDES-See STOREHOUSES—
4 5 52
4 5 51
4
7
54
11
9 152
• ·
•
HIGHWAYS-See STREETS—
HITCHING HORSES-
Authority to compel persons to hitch horses in streets.... 4 5 46
HITCHING POSTS AND RINGS —
Authority to provide and regulate....
HOGS--
May be prohibited from running at large..
HORSES--
Authority to compel owners to hitch in streets..
To prevent running at large...
HOME FOR NEWSBOYS AND BOOTBLACKS-
Money to be appropriated for...
HOSPITALS—
4 5 51
•
4 5 47
4 5 46
4 5 47
4 5 42
Authority to provide....
Authority to provide grounds.
• •
•
4 5 47
стот
4 5 47
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
61
SUBJECT.
HOUSES, DISORDERLY-See DISORDERLY HOUSES; See,
also, DYE-HOUSES, HOSE HOUSES, ENGINE HOUSES,
PUBLIC HOUSES, PUMP-HOUSES, WORK-HOUSES, SLAUGH-
TER HOUSES, RENDERING HOUSES, POWDER HOUSES,
NUMBERING OF HOUSES, etc.-
HOUSES OF ILL-FAME-
Jurisdiction and authority of Municipal Court.
Authority to suppress.
Revenue from..
Appropriation of fines of keepers and inmates.
Fines from persons resorting to......
HYDRANTS—
Authority to establish, etc..
Cost from Water Works fund
Punishment for interfering with.
Excavations for...
ICE AND SNOW—
Removal of...
IDLERS-
May be kept from vicinity of fires....
ILLEGAL LIQUOR SELLING-See LIQUORS—
Penalties...
•
IMPROVEMENTS-See CITY IMPROVEMENTS; See, also, PUB-
LIC IMPROVEMENTS, PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS, STREET
IMPROVEMENTS, etc.—-
IMPRISONMENT-See PENALTIES-
Power of Municipal Court....
For refusing to obey orders at fires
For default in payment of fines.
Pending trials
•
•
·
City not liable for board, etc., of prisoners, when.
City not liable for jail fees, when.
INAUGURATION-
Police Board..
INDEBTEDNESS-See Bonded IndebTEDNESS—
INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION
Authority to convey lands to.....
Description of lands...
Land to revert in case of default
•
Realty not exempt from special assessment.
Appropriation to perfect title......
Chap
Sect.
Page
3 23 36
4
5
45
5
9
64
5 35 75
5 35 75
4 5
47
9 13 115
9
16 117
9 5 108
4 5 48
7 4 84
4 5 45
3 23 36
79
11 9 152
86
•
11 9 152
11 10 152
INFECTIOUS DISEASES-See CONTAGIOUS DISEASES—
11 10 152
6 10 81
4 14 57
4 14 57
4 14
58
4 14 58
4 14
58
62
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page
INFLAMMABLE MATERIALS-
Power to prevent storing.
INFORMALITY-
No tax levy invalid by reason of...
INHABITANTS-
Not incompetent as jurors, witnesses, etc..
INSPECTORS-See HEALTH INSPECTORS--
•
D
• •
May be authorized by Council to retain fees..
Authority to appoint, regulate and compensate
Of buildings, authority to appoint..
INSUFFICIENCY OF STREETS AND SIDEWALKS-
Notice of action to recover damages...
INTAKE PIPE-
Punishment for interfering with...
Procedure in acquiring right to lay
INTELLIGENCE OFFICES-
May be licensed..
INTEMPERANCE-
• • •
Council may ordain the suppression.
INTEREST-
On bonded indebtedness.
To be applied to sinking fund.
•
1
•
7 2 84
5 18 69
11 4 151
3 29 38
∞ + ∞
4
59
50
8 2 88
8 20 100
9 16 117
10 1 119
4 5 42
4 5 41
5
13
66
5 14
67
• •
• D
5 14
67
•
5 20
70
•
5 20
70
5 22 71
•
• •
Decrease of interest and depreciation of investment..
Paid by bankers on funds deposited.
On taxes and assessments..
Payment of interest on bonds.
Banks to pay interest on city deposits.
Rate on deposits of city funds....
Computation and disposition of same.
Rate on three months, or longer deposits..
Treasurer to secure interest on public funds
Treasurer to make annual statement..
To be placed to credit of certain funds.
On city bonds..
INTERESTED PARTY-
Competency as judge, witness or juror.
INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT FUND-
• •
73
5 25 72
5 27
5 27 73
5 27 73
5 31 74
•
5 31 74
5 31 74
Cost of laying sewers in excess of assessments.
JAIL OR BOARD FEES -
Responsibility of city...
JOBS AND CONTRACTS-See WORK-
City officers not to be interested.
Such contracts null and void.
Amounts paid recoverable..
·
•
·
10 29 147
11 4 151
9 4 106
11 10 152
3 25 36
·
•
• •
•
•
•
4 •
3 25 37
3 25 37
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
63
SUBJECT.
JOB PRINTING--
Council shall invite proposals.
Form of proposals....
JOHNSON, E. M.—
Library Director, first board……..
JUDGES OF ELECTION—
Shall keep ballot boxes...
Alderman ex-officio Judge except when candidate.
Council to appoint full board..
Chap
Sect.
Page
11 15 154
•
11 15 154
.. 12 11 162
2 5
24
•
2 6
25
2
6
25
2
7
25
2
8
25
•
12
3
158
4
•
444
4 7 55
6 54
7 54
Of last previous election to serve at special elections...
Shall make returns to City Clerk....
Shall return votes cast for Library Directors.
JUDGES OF MUNICIPAL COURT—
May commit vagrants...
May sentence offenders to be fed on bread and water..
May sentence offenders to work-house..
JUDGE, SPECIAL-See MUNICIPAL COURT-
Power of Justice of the Peace.
JUDICIAL NOTICE-
• •
Shall be taken by Municipal Court of ordinances..
JUNK SHOPS AND SECOND HAND DEALERS-
May be licensed by City Council....
JURISDICTION-
Board of Park Commissioners.
JUROR OR WITNESS-
Inhabitant not incompetent..
JURY DUTY—
Officers and employes exempt.
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE-
Municipal Court to have jurisdiction...
JUDGMENTS—
Revenue from.
How remitted..
JUDGMENTS AGAINST CITY-
Levying of taxes to pay.
Time of making levy.
• •
New levy to be made, when...
Disposition of taxes collected in excess.
KEEP PEACE-
Bonds to..
KEEPERS OF INTELLIGENCE OFFICES, ETC.—
License and regulations.
•
• •
•
3 23 36
4 10 56
:
4 5 42
6 9 81
11
4 151
• •
3 28 37
3 23 35
5 9 64
11 11 153
5 37 76
5 37 76
5 37 76
•
5 27 76
4 6 54
4 5 42
64
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
KEEPING DOGS-
License
KOON, M. B.-
Library Director, first board..
LABOR, HARD—
Offenders may be sentenced to.
LADDERS AND STAIRS-
To scuttles in roof..
•
LANDS-See REAL ESTATE; See, also PUBLIC LANDS, RE-
APPRAISEMENT OF LANDS, PROPERTY, etc.--
LAMPS-
Authority to errect, etc.
LAMP DISTRICTS:
Authority to create, alter and extend...
LATH-
Regulate piling.....
LAWS-
Ordinances to have force of.
Duty of Police Board to enforce.
LAW SUITS-See ACTIONS; See, also, Courts, JUDGMENTS,
NOTICES, TRIALS, etc.
How commenced against city.
Process, how served..
How brought by city..
•
LAYING OUT STREETS-See STREETS—
LEGAL MEETINGS-See MEETINGS—
LEVEE-
Lower levee, liquor license limits
LEVYING OF TAXES-See TAX LEVY-
No restriction of charter to prohibit..
LIABILITY—
Treasurer exempt, when...
LIBRARY BOARD—
To be elected biennially.
Extension of term of office.
•
Election in 1888...
4 5 47
12 11 162
3 23 36
7 2 84
4 5 47
4 5 47
4 5
53
4
5 41
6 5
80
•
11 6 151
11 6 151
11 7 152
4 5 44
•
5 37 76
5 29 73
2
2 20
2
2 22
2 2
22
3 12
33
3 13 33
3 18 34
3 19 35
•
12 1
156
Accounts to be kept by Comptroller...
Evidence of indebtedness shall be countersigned by
Comptroller
• •
All claims shall be audited by Comptroller...
City Treasurer shall be ex-officio Treasurer of.
Board created and established..
•
•
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
65
SUBJECT.
LIBRARY BOARD-CONtinued.
General powers.
Detailed powers
•
·
Rules and regulations.
May hire or erect and maintain buildings.
May appoint agents and employes...
Fix compensation of employes
•
Control of expenditures of moneys
Power to carry out spirit and intent of act
Composition of Board....
Ex officio and elective members.
·
Election in 1886 ..
Subsequent elections
Vacancies how filled...
•
Chap
Sect.
Page.
12
1 156
12
•
•
1 156
•
•
12
•
1 156
12 1 157
12
1 157
•
12
1 157
·
12 1 157
12 1 157
12
2
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157
D
12
2 157
12
2 157
12
2
157
12
•
•
2 157
12
12
22
3
157
3 158
12
3 158
12
4 158
•
• •
•
•
12
4 158
12
4 158
• •
12
4 158
•
·
4
•
• •
• •
12
5 158
12
5 159
12
5 159
1
12
5 159
• •
•
12
5
159
·
•
•
12
5 159
12
5 159
12
5 159
12
5 159
•
•
•
•
12
Library Directors, how elected
•
Judges of Election shall make returns.
City Council shall canvass the vote.
Director shall take oath of office.
Officers of the Board....
Bonds of Secretary and Treasurer.
Bonds to be filed with Comptroller.
Duties of President.
•
Duties of the Secretary
Orders on Treasurer
Miscellaneous duties of Secretary
Duties of Comptroller.....
Bonds and indebtedness of Board..
Comptroller to audit claims..
Duties of Treasurer
Funds of Board, how deposited
Funds of Board, how recovered
Treasurer's exemption from liability
Orders not to be signed, when...
Bonds, when to be made payable
Authority to make tax levy
Return of tax levy
Limitation of tax levy
Collection of tax..
D
·
•
Tax levy, when Board fails to return
Duty of County Auditor...
•
•
Purchase or sale of real estate.
Conveyances, how executed.
Votes to by yeas and nays.
Donors may vest title in Board.
Board special trustees of property
+ •
•
•
•
•
• •
•
•
•
•
•
•
• •
•
5 159
12 5 160
22
12 5 160
12 5 160
12
6 160
12
6 160
12
6 160
•
12 6 160
12
6 161
•
12 6 161
12 7 161
12 7 161
12
7 161
12
7 161
12
7 161
66
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
!
SUBJECT.
LIBRARY BOARD--CONTINUED
Vote of six for purchase of lands
Vote of five to sell and convey.
Annual meeting of Board..
Vacancies filled, when..
•
•
Regular and special meetings.
Chance meetings legalized..
•
• •
Chap
• •
•
•
•
12
Board may associate with kindred societies.
Libraries, etc., to be forever free..
First Board of Directors.
Elective Members designated.
Temporary organization..
LIBRARY FUND-
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•
•
•
Sect.
Page
12 7 161
12 7 161
222 22
8 161
12 8 161
8
162
12 8 162
12 9 162
12 10 162
12 11 162
12 11 162
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•
•
•
•
•
12 11
63
12
1 157
12
5 159
•
Fund to be expended by Library Board…...
Deposited in banks, how.
LICENSES-
Not be granted for liquor in certain territory.
Council power to license shows, etc..
Termination of licenses..
Construction of power to regulate.
Pawnbrokers, junk shops, etc., to keep records.
Daily reports to police of goods bought...
Names, etc., of persons from whom bought.
Records of employment agencies..
Home for newsboys-special proviso.
Liquor license limits..
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Sale of liquor confined to certain territory.
Exception as to druggists...
Penalties for illegal liquor selling.
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Vendors of gunpowder, etc..
License of dogs..
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Butchers, vendors of game and fish.
Peddlers....
Carrying concealed weapons.
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May be revoked by Mayor or Council...
Shall be revoked, when.
Revenues from licenses..
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Plumber's license revoked, when,.
LICENSE MONEY-
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Shall be received by City Treasurer.
LIGHTING-See STREET LIGHTING—
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SUBJECT.
LIGHT FUEL-
Spark arresters to be used..
LIME-
Council may regulate manner of measuring..
LIMITS-
City...
Liquor license.
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LIQUOR See WHISKY AND LIQUOR; See, also, SALE OF
LIQUOR-
LIQUOR DEALERS--
Council may license.
LIQUOR LICENSES-
Not to be issued for certain territory
License limits or boundaries....
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LOCK-UPS—
Under control of Police Board.……..
LOCOMOTIVES--
Authority to regulate speed.
Authority to designate kind of coal to be used.
Authority to regulate or prohibit whistling..
To prevent unnecessary escape of steam.
To require use of certain safety-valves.
LOTS-See SUBDIVISION OF LOTS--
LOW PLACES-
To be drained……..
LOWRY, THOMAS-
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LUMBER—
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To prevent obstructing streets, sidewalks, etc...
LUMBER PILES--
Authority to designate location and control piling..... 4 5 53
MAINS-See WATER MAINS---
MAJORITY VOTE-
Required of Council to make appropriation..
MALE OFFENDERS-
Work on public improvements..
MALT LIQUOR-See LIQUOR—
Sale forbidden, where.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
MALFEASANCE-
Cause for removal of Police Commissioner..
MANDAMUS-
May be brought against officers by Mayor, when.
City need not give bonds in
MANUFACTORIES-
Dangerous in causing fire, to be regulated
MANURE-
Removal of....
MARKET MASTERS--
May be authorized by Council to retain fees..
MARKETS-
Authority to direct location and management..
Authority to establish, and regulate....
To restrain persons from interrupting or interfering.
Manner of acquiring lands for....
MARSHAL-See FIRE MARSHAL
MARSHES--
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Council may effect system of drainage.
Sewers and covered drains.
Cost to be assessed...
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MATERIALS-
Combustible
To be used in chimneys..
Explosive and inflammable.
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Street Commissioners not to furnish..
Forfeited if Commissioners be interested...
MAYOR-
Shall continue in office..
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To be elected biennially
Shall care that laws and ordinances are enforced.
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Care that all officials discharge their duties..
May maintain action against officer, when
Shall give Council information and recommendation
Approval of ordinances
Duty in case of veto ..
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Salary..
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SUBJECT.
MAYOR--CONTINUED--
May revoke licenses
May direct Treasurer where to pay city employes
To sign pay-rolls....
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To appoint members of Board.
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President and ex-officio member of Police Board
Ex-officio member and President of Board of Water Com-
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To call special meetings of Water Board, how
May appoint to fill vacancy in Commission to appraise
damages
Duty to inform Council of action against city.
To approve proceedings for sale of bonds.
Member ex-officio of Library Board
MEASURES--See WEIGHTS and MEASURES
MEAT-
Authority to license and regulate sale.
To inspect, condemn and destroy..
MECHANICAL PURPOSES -
Sale of liquor..
MEDICINE-
To be furnished poor……..
MEDICINAL PURPOSES-
Sale of liquor..
MEETINGS -See SPECIAL MEETINGS, etc--
Of City Council……..
Mayor may call special meetings, how.
In case less than quorum present.
Defination and style of meetings.
Of Board of Equalization..
Same
Board of Police Commissioners.
Rules governing same...
Of Board of Water Commissioners.
Special meetings of
Notice of meetings.
Of Library Board.
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Special meetings, how called..
Meetings legalized.
MENAGERIES—
License and regulation…...
MENDICANTS AND BEGGARS—
Authority to restrain and punish..
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MILK-
SUBJECT.
Chap
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Inspection...
MINNEAPOLIS-See CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS--
MINNEAPOLIS INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION--
Conveyance of real estate to.
To revert in case of default.
Exemption from tax……….
Not from special assessment.
MISDEMEANOR--
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Culpable neglect of duty of officers.
Conversion of city property.
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Shall forever disqualify officer.
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Cause for removal of Police Commissioner..
MISSISSIPPI RIVER-
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Authority to construct and regulate piers and wharfs...
To regulate landings, wharfages, etc......
To quarantine boats....
Cribs...
MOB OR RIOT-
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Authority to prevent . .
MONEYS-See CITY FUNDS--
Of school districts belong to city.
Revenue from license money.
Title of donations vested in Library Board.
MORTALITY--
Authority for providing returns and burials...
MULES--
At large, distraint and sale...
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION--
The City of Minneapolis..
MUNICIPAL COURT-See JUDGES and CLERKS~~
Exclusive cognizance and jurisdiction...
Infractions of ordinances, etc.
Trials and examinations...
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All fines imposed shall be a part of revenue of city.
Power to imprison in workhouse..
Power of Judges....
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Shall take judicial notice of ordinances.
Jurisdiction in water works offenses..
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Process for violations, in name of State, etc..
Penalty or fine.
Imprisonment for default..
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SUBJECT.
Chip
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MUNICIPAL JUDGES--
Names part of city ticket..
MUSEUMS--
Power of Library Board to establish and maintain..
Under charge of Library Board, forever free..
Subject to rules and regulations..
MUTTON
Inspection
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NATURAL STREAMS--See BRIDGES--
NAUSEOUS PLACES--
To be cleansed..
NEGLECT OF DUTY--
Cause for removal of officer……….
NEW BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS ON AWARDS--
Council may appoint...
To hear further evidence.
To correct revise and alter awards..
To report revised award to Council...
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May be again appointed, when....
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To hear further evidence from interested persons.
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NEW POLICE FORCE-
To report to Council...
Board shall appoint and organize..
NEWSBOYS--
May be licensed
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Home for....
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NEW TAX LEVY-
When made....
NEW TRIAL AND REVERSIONS--
Municipal Court..
NICOLLET ISLAND--
Liquor license limits....
NINE-PIN ALLEYS--
License and regulation....
NINTH WARD-
Boundaries..
NOISES-
Authority to prevent.
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NORTH MINNEAPOLIS-
Correction of liquor license limits
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NOTES--See PROMISSORY NOTES--
Notes to Charter Amendments.
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SUBJECT.
Chap
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NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT--See ASSESSMENTS
NOTICE FOR DAMAGES -
Property owners to file with City Clerk.
Description and value of property.
Form of notice..
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NOTICES OF ELECTION-
Form....
No defect to invalidate election.
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Time of, to fill vacancy, when within ten days of a general
election..
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Shall be given by City Clerk.
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NOTICE, JUDICIAL-See JUDICIAL NOTICE—
NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS--
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To be published in case of assessments and awards.....
NOTICE OF SPECIAL MEETINGS--
Of Council, to be delivered to Aldermen
NOTICE OF TRIAL--
Shall be given officer....
NOTORIOUS DRUNKENNESS---
Arrest and punishment.
NUISANCES--
Authority to remove and abate....
To provide punishment for maintaining
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Authority to declare emission of dense smoke a nuisance
To provide summary abatement and penalties .....
Council provision for abatement not to bar legal action...
NUMBERING HOUSES--
Authority to regulate and compel owners to number...
OATHS-
Clerk shall have power to administer
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Police Commissioners may administer to witnesses.
OATH OF OFFICE-
Persons elected shall take..
Shall be filed with City Clerk
Of Deputy Comptroller...
Of Police Commissioners.
Of Commissioners of Award.
Of Library Directors
To be filed with City Clerk..
OBSCENITY--
Authority to prevent..
To provide for arrests.
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Chap
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OBSTRUCTIONS--
Authority to prevent in streets.
Same on sidewalks..
Liability of persons for
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City entitled to execution, when
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Railway companies not to pile up snow
Liability for damages..
Offal, removal of
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OFFENSES-See ARRESTS, PENALTIES, etc.--
No warrant necessary, when..
Process in name of State..
Fines imposed by Municipal Court.
Imprisonment for default...
Same pending trial....
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City not liable for board, etc., of prisoners, when..
City not liable for fees, when..
OFFICERS, APPOINTIVE-See APPOINTIVE OFFICERS—
OFFICERS--See CITY OFFICERS-
To serve until expiration of term...
Alderman sixth ward, special provision.
Aldermen elected in 1887.
Fraudulent practices.
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Guilty of misdemeanor, forfeit office
Forever desqualified for same.
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Liable to suit of any citizen, when..
Duty and powers of Deputy Comptroller.
Council has power to remove....
Elected officers removed for cause only.
Continued absence, cause for removal.
Neglect of duty, cause for removal.
Assessors, how appointed...
Deputy Assessor, same.
Assessor's Clerks, same.
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Vacancies, same, how filled.
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Board of Equalization to appoint Clerks..
Shall not dispose of or convert city property.
Of Library Board...
Of Library Board, annual election.
Vacancies filled, when....
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OFFICE VACANT-See VACANCIES and REMOVAL-
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
OFFICIAL ADVERTISING--
Council shall invite proposals for.
Manner of inviting proposals..
Qualifications of official paper.
Style of proposals to be received.
Contract, how awarded…….
Discretion of City Council...
In case two bids are the same.
Maximum price.
Rejection of bids.
Term of contract.
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Affidavit of publication
OFFICIAL PAPER--
How designated..
OFTEDAL, SVEN--
Library Director, first Board..
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Authority to designate location...
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ORDERS--See GOVERNMENT AND GOOD ORDER; See, also, GEN-
ERAL AND SPECIAL ORDERS, and REFUSAL TO OBEY ORDERs--
ORDERS ON TREASURER--
Drawn and signed by Clerk..
Countersigned by Comptroller
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Signed in order in which claim is allowed.
Order of same....
Cancelled and filed when paid.
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Orders to be kept separately.
Council to examine cancelled orders..
Of Library Board, how drawn and paid.
Secretary of Library Board shall not sign, when
ORDINANCES--
Shall be presented to Mayor before taking effect.
If he approves, Mayor shall sign
In case Mayor vetoes..
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If Mayor neglects to return to Council.
Council full power to make...
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Authority to enact for punishment of persons maintain-
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To impose punishment for breach of ordinance
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Style of ordinances
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ORDINANCES--CONTINUED- -
SUBJECT.
Subject to be expressed in title.
Only one subject touched in one ordinance.
How passed by City Council.
Shall be recorded and published.
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Copy of records prima facie evidence.
Municipal Court shall take judicial notice.
Duty of Police Board to enforce..
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Of former cities remain in force, when.
Publication authorized.
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Prima facie evidence, when.
Certificate of City Clerk...
Council may provide for compilation.
Distribution and sale of publication.
Imprisonment for default of payment of fines
OVENS--See STOVES, PIPES, etc.-
OWNERS - See PROPERTY OWNERS, BOND OWNERS, CEMETERY OWNERS, etc.
OWNER OR OCCUPANT—
In default of removing snow, ice, rubbish, etc.
PAPERS AND TRANSCRIPTS--
Certified copies....
Production of papers.
PARADES--See PUBLIC CELEBRATIONS--
PARK BOARD-See BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS--
Payment of employes..
PARK POLICE--
Police Commissioners no authority..
PARTIES--
May be restrained and regulated..
PARTY WALLS-
Regulate construction.
PAWNBROKERS, ETC-
May be licensed....
To keep public record.
PAVEMENTS--
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Council may provide for...
Council may order.....
Council to designate character, extent and materials……..
City Engineer to estimate cost
Interested parties to be notified by publication.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
PAVEMENTS-CONTINUED-
Bids may be called for in advance.
Council may fix cost...
Engineer may omit estimate of cost, when
PAVING--
No assessment made for railway tracks.
PAY ROLLS--
How to be prepared....
Subject to order of Council..
To be audited by Comptroller.
How paid and receipted....
To be deposited with Comptroller.
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City Boards....
Mayor may direct place of payment on.
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For Board employes...
PEACE-
Bonds to keep ..
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Preservation of.
PEDDLERS-
Authority to license and regulate...
PENALTIES
Council may enforce upon violators of ordinances.
For illicit liquor selling....
Authority to punish owners of animals...
Authority to prescribe in case of nuisances.
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Authority in case of breach of ordinance..
County Treasurer to pay over tax penalties..
For refusing to obey orders at fires.
Of Street Commissioners, when..
For violating water works provisions
In case Commissioner fails to act.
Recovery of penalty....
Failure of Commissioners to Award, to attend.
Actions to recover, how brought..
How remitted....
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS—
Council authorized to issue bonds.
Limitation of same.
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Disposition of proceeds.
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Council authorized to make expenditures.
Assessments on property benefitted..
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Fund may be used in advance of assessment.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS-CONTINUED,
City's portion of expenses paid from fund..
Expense of building bridges.
Expenses of water works..
Expense of public buildings.
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Not specially provided for by law.
Tax levy for permanent improvement
Report on file for inspection...
Council to consider report..
Interested persons to be heard..
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Council to cause plat and survey to be made.
Interested persons to be heard.
Commissioners shall view premises.
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Council to act on award.
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Appraisement and award………
Commission to report to Council.
May confirm or annul..
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May refer back or to a new Board of Commissioners.
Commission to report revised appraisement....
Award final, when....
Condemnation sufficient, when..
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Price to be paid from permanent improvement fund……
Proceedings abandoned, when.
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Owners to furnish abstract of title.
In case of neglect to furnish abstract.
Council may require bond from claimant.
Conditions of bond....
Award to be deposited in court, when.
Claimants to establish their rights..
Title to be vested in city...
Street improvements..
Diverting water courses.
City Engineer to prepare a plat.
Nature of plat and survey.
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Engineer to furnish estimate, when.
Council may amend plat....
Adopted plat to be filed with Clerk.
Effect of adoption....
Plat to show land in detail.
Commissioners to award...
Duties of Commissioners.
Quorum and vacancies.
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Failure of Commissioner to attend...
Commissioners to give notice of meeting.
Nature of such notice...
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS---CONTINUED.
Meeting and adjournment.
City Engineer to advise Commission.
Appraisement and award.
Benefits to offset damages.
Assessment of damages..
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Commission to report to Council.
When total cost exceeds benefits.
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Commission to report an assessment list...
Nature of assessment list...
City Clerk to give notice of action.
Lands taken, how distributed.
Lands assessed, how described..
Council to act on report..
To hear complaints
May refer to committee.
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New Commission, when.
Hearing of further evidence.
Report revised appraisement...
Council may accept or annul.
Confirmation final......
Assessment to be levied
Form of assessment roll..
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Persons interested in property to be taken.
Objections to confirmation...
Manner and form of objections.
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Right to appeal to District Court..
Bond in case of appeal...
Transcript of awards.
To be transmitted to Clerk of District Court.
Not to be duplicated, when...
No pleading in case of appeal..
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Court to determine regularity and jurisdiction
Case to have precedence..
No appeal from judgment of Court..
Court shall order re-appraisal, when.
Parties to be heard.....
Commissioners to be sworn.
Provisions to govern Commissioners..
Commissioners to report to Court..
Award final, when...
Order of Court final.
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Compensation of Commissioners.
Court may order double costs, when.
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Council may abandon proceedings, when.
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SUBJECT.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS--CONTINUED-~
Limitation of action to abandon..
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Pavements, water mains, etc ...
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Council to designate extent and character of improve-
ments....
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City Engineer to estimate the cost..
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Rules governing estimate..
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List of lots and lands..
Names of owners..
Notice to interested parties..
Report to lie over.
Bids may be called for in advance.
Council may act on report...
Interested parties to be heard..
Council may fix cost of improvement.
Cost of improvement, how ascertained.
Council may assess and levy . .
Assessment roll to be adopted...
Form of assessment roll
Estimate of cost omitted, when..
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In case of assessment by front foot.
Discretion as to corner lots....
Assessment paid for laying mains, etc
Decision of Council final.....
Failure not to invalidate proceedings.
Neglect to build sidewalks..
City Engineer to estimate cost...
Assessment and levy for sidewalks.
Assessment roll for same.
Form of assessment roll.
Repairs of sidewalks...
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Form of assessment roll..
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Cancellation of assessments.
County Auditor to note cancellation..
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Engineer's certificate of construction sufficient.
County Treasurer to receive certificate, when.
In lieu of money for assessments....
Division of special assessments.
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Prior acts of Council legalized..
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Assessments refunded, when...
Moneys advanced for improvements.
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Refunding moneys advanced.....
Irregularities of assessment not to affect proceedings.
Assessment roll competent evidence.....
Negligence of City Clerk not to invalidate assessment..... 10 16 139
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SUBJECT.
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PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS-CONTINUED
Variance from stipulated forms not material.
Action in case of invalid assessments..
Payments on invalid assessments to be noted.
Notations shall cancel assessments.
Assessment for street sprinkling..
Form of assessment roll . . .
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Proceedings when Court annuls part of award.
Council may again appoint Commissioners.
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10 17 140
10 17 140
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10 12 135
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Commissioners shall make no new assessments of costs
and expenses.
Damages, etc., arrived at, how.
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Same proceedings as upon original award...
Proceedings if Court again annuls award..
10 13 135
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10 13 136
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10 13 136
Deficiency to be paid from permanent improvement fund 10 14 136
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When proceedings are irregular...
Council may order new assessment.
Form of assessment....
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When second assessment be annulled.
Former assessment cancelled, when..
City Clerk shall record assessment rolls.
To be delivered to County Auditor....
County Auditor shall extend assessments...
Payment of assessments enforced.
Collection of new assessments..
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Variance in amount not to invalidate assessment.
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Deficiency paid from ward fund, when
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10 18 140
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10 20 141
10 21 141
Surplus, how disposed of.....
Abbreviations used in assessment rolls.
Error as to name of owner immaterial.
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Requirements of Council to order improvements.
Improvements may be by contract or by city...
Contracts may be awarded prior to assessment.
Improvements may await collection..
Special assessment fund to be kept separate.
Assessments may be paid to City Treasurer.
City Clerk to cancel assessments, when.
Unaccrued interest deducted.
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Prior assessments not affected.
Assessment lien to have priority
Limitation of time in ordering improvements
County Auditor to divide assessments, when.
Assessments to extend over successive years.
Annual installments with interest...
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10 23 141
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS--CONTINUED--
Auditor to add interest
Manner of paying interest
Provisions to apply to assessment of 1886....
Certificate of City Engineer....
Certificate to be in lieu of money.
Record of deferred payments..
Roll of deferred payments to be approved..
Consent of all parties implied, when....
Improvements of 1886–7 ..
County Auditor to extend balances.
Per centum to be added...
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Lien of city to remain intact.
Rolls, when made and adopted.
Manner of keeping Auditor's books.
County Treasurer's receipts, how given
Assessment surplus refunded, how
Permanent Improvement Revolving Fund.
Sinking Fund Commissioners
Surplus accumulations invested.
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Limitation of assessments for the year
Not to affect ordering work done……..
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10 27 143
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10 27 143
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10 27 144
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10 27 144
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10 28 146
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Property owners may advance in excess of limitation.
Provision for reimbursing property owners.
Manner of expending fund
Proceeds of sales of bonds.
Authority to issue bonds.
Limitation of bonds
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Rate of interest on bonds
Manner of selling bonds...
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Proceedings must be by resolution
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10 29 147
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Bonds not to exceed five per cent. limit...
Not to affect other bonds issued......
Proceeds of installment improvements.
Issue of bonds limited to $1,000,000...
10 29 147
10 29 147
10 29 147
10 29 147
Comptroller's signature evidence of compliance
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10 29 147
When City's right to enter land, etc., is questioned..
City may tender compensation....
10 30 148
10 30 148
Claimant to establish his right to recover.
10 30 148
Owner not entitled to rents, etc., when...
Power of Court......
City Engineer to request description of Auditor...
Engineer to furnish Auditor with plats..
County Auditor to furnish description.
Compensation of Auditor for keeping lists.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT FUND—
Receipts from sales of property...
City's portion of expenses to be paid from .
Expense of building bridges...
Tax levy to meet same..
Limitation of tax levy.
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Comptroller to notify when deficient..
Comptroller not to sign contracts, when..
Comptroller to sign contracts, when..
Expense of erecting public buildings.....
Expense of other Permanent Improvements..
Fund not to be used for current expenses.
Cost of building engine and hose houses.
Expense of paving, etc..
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Money may be advanced for sidewalks, when.
Defray expense of laying sewers, when..
Compensation for lands condemned..
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT REVOLVING FUND-
How maintained...
How invested....
Duty of Council in case of surplus.
Sinking Fund, Commissioners to invest.
Not to be diverted...
Proceeds of sale of bonds..
Rules governing use of fund.
PERPETUAL SUCCESSION--
City to have....
PERSONAL PROPERTY—
City may take, hold, lease and convey.
PERSONS-See SUSPECTED PERSONS-
PERSONS AND PROPERTY--
Duty of Police Board to protect.
PERSON IN DEFAULT—
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Not eligible to contract with city....
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10 28 146
10 29 146
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Shall not be given in future, except...
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PERMITS-
PHYSICIAN-See CITY PHYSICIAN-
PIGEON-HOLE TABLES-
License and Regulation..
PIERS--
Authority to construct and regulate..
Regulate size and materials.....
PILES-See LUMBER PILES, WOOD PILES, etc.—
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4 5 49
4 5 51
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SUBJECT.
PIPES-See BRANCH PIPES. See, also, INTAKE PIPES and
STOVE PIPES, etc.-
PLATS AND PROFILES-
To be preserved by City Engineer....
PLAT AND SURVEY--
Of lands to be taken by city.
To be filed with City Clerk for inspection.
Shall be filed with the City Clerk after adoption....
Shall be held to be correct......
Shall show names of respective owners of land and of con-
tiguous lands..
PLATS OF ADDITIONS--
Council shall have control of acceptance.
Shall conform to city's system.
Acceptance to be recorded..
Manner of recording.
Inspection
General statutes to apply.
City not liable, when...
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PLEADING AND IMPLEADING-
City may be party……….
PLUMBERS' LICENSES—
City Council shall revoke, when....
POLICE COMMISSIONERS-See POLICE-
When and how elected..
POLICE DEPARTMENT-
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8 23 100
8 23 101
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8 24 101
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9 14 116
6 3 79
Board of Police Commissioners
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General power of the Board...
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To have custody and control of property.
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Board may provide and maintain buildings and equipments
Money appropriated by City Council for the purpose..
Power to appoint and remove police....
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Power to prescribe rank, title and duties.
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Power to affix compensation of appointees.
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Compensation subject to confirmation by Council...
Board may make rules and regulations for the force.
May promulgate and enforce special orders..
Board to be composed of five Commissioners.
Mayor member ex-officio and President of Board
City Council shall elect Commissioners, how..
No Commissioner to hold other office....
Not more than two members of Board from one political
party...
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SUBJECT.
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POLICE DEPARTMENT-CONTINUED
Organization of Board…….
Terms of office of Commissioners.
Council power of designation....
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Election of Commissioners after 1887
When Council fails to elect..
Commissioner to serve until successor qualifies...
Council shall fill vacancies....
Council shall never elect more than two from one political
party..
Salary of Commissioners..
Expenses incurred by Board a valid charge..
Commissioners shall file oath of office...
Oath of office of Commissioner prescribed.
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Commissioners shall not appoint to or remove from force
save by reason of fitness or unfitness..
Board to preserve the peace...
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Duty of Board to prevent crime, enforce laws, etc.
Board may compel attendance of witnesses.
Any member of Board may administer oath.
Board shall appoint Vice President and fix term of office.
Board may appoint a Police Clerk.
Clerk shall keep records, etc......
Clerk shall hold office at pleasure of Board..
Board may appoint special policemen.
Powers of special policemen.
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Board may appoint watchmen, when.
Powers of watchmen...
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Board to adopt rules for government of its meetings.
Four members a quorum...
Four members required to appoint or remove.
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6 11 82
Action of three members valid, when...
Qualifications of members of police force..
Must have resided in Minneapolis three years.
Must read and write English language..
Must never have been convicted of crime.
Policemen to possess power of constables.
Policemen may execute warrants throughout county
Board has no jurisdiction over Park Police...
Former organization of force to continue, how long...
No member of the force to be removed except for cause.
Commissioners may be removed by District Court.
Cause for removal of Commissioners....
Complaint against Commissioners, how made.
Council to pay salaries and expenses.
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SUBJECT.
POLICE DEPARTMENT-CONTINUED--
Board shall make quarterly and yearly reports..
Must submit its books, when.....
To furnish Council information and estimates.
POLICE, FIRE-See FIRE POLICE--
Police powers may be given firemen
POLLS-See ELECTIONS---
Council shall designate.
In case Council fails or neglects.
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Proviso in case of special elections.
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Not necessary to appoint for special election...
POOL AND BILLIARD TABLES--
Council may license....
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POOR-See Board SupeRVISORS OF Poor. See, also, RELIEF
OF POOR and SUPERINTENDENT OF THE POOR-
PORK.-
Inspection.....
PORTERS-
Authority to restrain and regulate...
POSTS-See HITCHING POSTS AND RINGS-
POULTRY-
At large, distraint and sale...
Authority to license and regulate sale.
To inspect, condemn and destroy
POUNDS-
Authority to establish, etc.,..
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POWER AND PRIVILEGES-See WATER POWER-
POWER TO REGULATE LICENSES-
How construed ...
POWDER HOUSES--
Authority to designate location
PRECAUTION AGAINST FIRE-
Council may prescribe....
PRECINCTS-See ELECTION PRECINCTS--
PRELIMINARY LISTS—
4 5 42
4 5 53
7 1 83
To be made by Assessor.
PRESERVATION OF HEALTH-
Regulations....
PRESERVATION OF PEACE--
Duty of Special Policemen.
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PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY–
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4 5 50
. 6 6 80
Bystanders may be compelled to aid at fires..
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
PRESIDENT OF BOARD OF EDUCATION—
Member ex-officio of Library Board.
PRESIDENT OF CITY COUNCIL-
Shall be elected by Council
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Shall preside over meetings of Council.
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Shall discharge duties of Mayor, when…..
To preside at meetings....
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To act as President of Water Board in absence of Mayor.. 6 7 110
Shall sign warrants, contracts, etc.
PRESIDENT OF LIBRARY BOARD-
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Duties prescribed...
To execute conveyance of real estate.
PRESIDENT OF STATE UNIVERSITY—
Member ex-officio of Library Board……….
PREVENTION OF CRIME-
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Power of Council to ordain....
PRIMA FACIA EVIDENCE-
Certified copies of ordinances...
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4 10 56
5 34 75
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11 2 151
Certified copies of Comptroller's records.
Authorized publication of acts of Council.
Certified "true copy" of City Clerk.....
PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST--See CITY BONDS—
PRINTING-See JOB PRINTING
PRIVATE SEWERS—
Provisions of chapter nine not to apply, when...
PRIVIES-
Authority to compel owners to cleanse..
Authority to remove or abate......
PROCESS-
How served on City
Of City, how to run.
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PROFILES-See PLATS AND PROFILES-
PROMISSORY NOTES, ETC.—
Of Library Board..
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PROPERTY-See REAL ESTATE-See, also, ACQUIRING PROP-
ERTY, SCHOOL PROPERTY, SALE OF PROPERTY, PUBLIC
PROPERTY, PERSONAL PROPERTY, PERSONS AND PROPER-
TY, PRESERVATION OF PROPERTY, etc.—
PROPERTY OWNERS-
May be compelled to remove snow, ice, rubbish, etc……..
May claim damages on account of change of street grade.
Notice of same to be filed with City Clerk, when... . . . .
May state grievances respecting awards and assessments.
May be given a rehearing....
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4 5 45
4 5 45
11 6 151
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12 5 160
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SUBJECT.
PROPERTY OWNERS--CONTINUED---
Have no appeal from final award.
To build and repair sidewalks..
Liability for defective sidewalks.
City entitled to execution, when
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8 12
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8 14 98
6 108
To be assessed for drainage..
May be compelled to contribute to draining wet lands.... 9
City to have judgment and execution, when.
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Manner of assessing benefits..
Responsible for water rents.
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Rents may be recovered by action..
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To furnish abstract of title of lands to be taken by city... 10 4 122.
In case of failure to furnish abstract...
To be designated in plat and survey.
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May advance money for improvements in excess of limit.. 10 28 146
To establish right to claims..
Compensation to be limited, when..
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PROPERTY OF POLICE DEPARTMENT--
Under control of Police Board...
PROPOSALS--
For contract, how invited……….
For advertising..
For job printing..
PROSECUTIONS--
Instituted how...
PROSTITUTES--
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Authority to restrain and punish.
PROTECT PROPERTY—
Duty of special policemen...
10 30 148
10 30 148
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11 13 153
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PROVISIONS--See INSPECTOR OF MEATS——
Inspection, etc....
. 11 8 152
4 5 50
6 6 80
4 5 49
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5 28 73
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PUBLICATIONS-See OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS, REPORTS, etc.-
Power of Council...
Treasurer to make monthly.
City Clerk to furnish copy for.
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Exchange of..
PUBLIC AUCTIONS--
Authority to regulate time, place and manner of holding. 4 5 49
PUBLIC BUILDINGS—
Authority to provide for lighting.....
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Authority to construct and regulate..
4 5 48
To restrain persons from interrupting or interfering.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
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Page
PUBLIC SITES-
Council authority to acquire..
Manner of acquiring..
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Expenses paid from permanent improvement fund.
Manner of acquiring grounds for.....
PUBLIC CELEBRATION OR PARADE--
Police Board may appoint special policemen ..
PUBLIC GROUNDS--
Authority to prevent obstruction.
Sidewalks, etc...
Authority to provide for lighting.
Council may order sprinkled
Manner of acquiring
PUBLIC HEALTH—
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Duties of Street Commissioners
PUBLIC HIGHWAYS--See STREETS——
PUBLIC HOUSES-
Authority to restrain and regulate.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS—
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4 15 58
5 16 68
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6 6 80
4 5 46
4 5 46
4 5
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8 17 98
10 1
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. 8 6 93
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Offenders may be sentenced to work on....
Damages assessed against property benefitted.
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8 10 95
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When Council considers it necessary to procure grounds.. 10 1 119
Water privileges..
Intake pipes....
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Cribs in Mississippi River.
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Dams, reservoirs and wing dams..
Committee on Location of Grounds, etc.
Mode of procedure of Committee.
Report of Committee
Notice of action on report...
Commissioners to make appraisals.
Quorum of Commissioners
•
City Clerk to notify Commissioners.
Commissioners to qualify
Failure to act....
Vacancies to be filled by Mayor.
Commissioners to be sworn in.
•
· • •
•
• •
•
Commissioners to give notice of meetings.
PUBLIC LANDS--
10
1
119
10
1
119
10
1 119
• •
10
1 119
10
1 119
10
1 119
10
1 119
•
•
10
1 119
•
10 3 121
•
10
3 121
10
3 121
10
3 121
10
3 121
10
3 121
•
10
3 121
10
3 121
Title to vest in city, when condemned, after payment for.. 10 4 123
PUBLIC PEACE AND ORDER--
Police Commission shall preserve..
6 5 80
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
89
PUBLIC LIBRARIES-
SUBJECT.
Power of Library Board to establish and maintain……….
12
1 156
To be maintained by taxation..
12
6 160
To be forever free..
12
10 162
Authority to prevent drunkenness.
4
5 48
•
4
5 48
PUBLIC PLACES--
To prevent obscenity....
PUBLIC PROPERTY–
Shall belong to City of Minneapolis, except...
PUBLIC SQUARES-
City Council to have control....
PUMPS AND PUMPHOUSES—
Authority to establish, etc..
•
•
Repairs, alterations or additions.
Cost met by General Fund, when...
Expense of maintaining and operating.
PUNISHMENT--
Council may declare and enforce...
Of persons guilty of violations..
11 1 150
•
•
8 1 87
4
5 47
Keepers of disorderly and houses of ill-fame.
For drunkenness and obscenity, authority granted..
For interfering with fire apparatus....
For interfering with water works system..
PUTRID SUBSTANCES-
Authority to prevent depositing in city
Authority to compel removal..
Expense of removal.
QUALIFICATIONS--
Of voters...
Of Police Commissioners.
•
Of appointees to Police Department.
Of members of Library Board.
QUARANTINE—
•
Authority to prevent landing of boats..
Authority to make quarantine laws..
QUORUM-
Of City Counicil....
Of Police Commission...
Of Commissioners to award damages, etc.
RAILWAY TRACKS-
No assessment for paving..
RANK AND DUTIES—
Of members of the Fire Department...
9 12 115
9 12 115
·
D
9 13
115
4
5
41
4 5
45
4
5
45
4 5
48
•
•
•
7
4
84
•
• •
7
4
84
4
5
47
4
5
47
4
5 47
2 4 23
·
6 3 78
6
8 81
12
2 157
•
4
5
49
4 5
50
•
4 1 40
67
80
10 3 120
8 11 96
7 5 85
90
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page.
RATE OF TAX LEVY---
Comptroller to report to Council..
Rule governing computation.
Ward estimate....
RATES--See WATER RATES--
READING ROOMS-
5 8 64
5
• •
•
•
8 64
5
8 64
Power of Library Board to establish and maintain....
REAL ESTATE-See CITY REAL ESTATE, PROPERTY, Etc.—
• ·
City may take, hold, lease and convey..
Library Board may acquire and convey.
Same, conveyance, how executed....
Donors may vest title in Library Board.
RE-APPRAISAL OF LANDS-
Ordered by Court...
Court to appoint Commissioners.
Parties to appeal to be heard...
Commissioners to be sworn.
Interested parties to be heard.
Rules governing Commissioners..
•
•
• •
• •
12 1 156
1 1 11
12 1 156
222
12
7 161
12 7 161
10
6 129
10
6 129
•
•
•
•
•
10
6 129
•
Commissioners to report their appraisal to Court.
Award final unless set aside by Court.
Compensation of Commissioners..
•
Court may double the costs, when.
RE-ASSESSMENTS—
•
Council to direct mode of proceedure..
To determine course to pursue...
RECORD-
•
Proceedings of Council to be kept by Clerk...
To be kept by pawnbrokers, junk dealers, etc.
Open to public inspection...
Form of records
Employment agencies..
Of bonds to city, to be kept by Comptroller.
Custody of police records...
Fire Marshal to keep record of cause of fires.
REFORMATION OF FALLEN WOMEN-
Fund for an institution
REFUSAL TO OBEY ORDERS-
Of Chief of Fire Department at fires...
REGISTERS—
Of previous election used at special election..
Judges to take from City Clerk...
•
•
·
10 6 129
10
6 129
10 6 129
•
•
•
10
6 130
10
6 130
10 6 130
10
6 130
9
3 105
9
4 107
3
3
30
+
5
42
•
•
4.
5
42
4
5
42
•
4 5
42
5 34 75
•
•
6 2 77
77
85
5 35 75
7 9 86
2 7 25
2
7 25
1
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
91
SUBJECT.
REGISTER OF DEEDS--
Plats shall be presented to..
Shall certify to copy of plats
Inspection of Plats...
Shall exhibit plat to any person
To assist at fires
REGULAR POLICE-
8 23 101
8 23 101
8 23 101
•
8 23 101
7
8 86
7
8
86
• •
Subject to direction of firemen
RELAYING SEWERS-See SEWERS
RELAYING WATER WORKS-See WATER WORKS-
RELIEF OF THE POOR--
Duty of Superintendent of Poor..
Duty of City Physician..
•
REMITTING PENALTY OR JUDGMENT-
How..
REMOVAL OF OFFICERS, ETC.-
Council has power to remove.....
Officers elected removed for cause only.
Continued absence cause.
Neglect of duty cause.
• ·
•
If officer refuses to answer charge.
• •
Power as to police vested in Police Board.
From police force for cause only.
From Police Commission...
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
Chief of Fire Department may remove members..
RENDERING HOUSES--
Authority to designate location..
RENTS--See WATER RENTS--
Revenue from..
REPAIRING BUILDINGS-
Council may prohibit, when..
Consent to make repairs..
REPEAL-
D
•
• •
D •
•
•
Power of Council to repeal ordinances...
REPORTS-
To police by junk and second hand dealers, etc....
Police Board to report, how....
Fire Marshal to report cause of fires..
·
Street Commissioners to make monthly reports..
Of Committee on Location of Grounds.
Report on file for inspection..
Council to consider......
•
Of Commissioners of Award……..
Action of Council...
•
3
7
32
3
8 32
11 11 153
4
4
41
4
4
41
4
41
4
4
41
4
4
41
6
2
78
•
+44 +
6 10 81
6 11 82
7 6
85
4 5 53
5 9 64
7
1 83
7 1 83
4 5 41
4 5
42
6 12 82
10
7 7
85
8
6 93
•
1 120
10
2 120
•
10
2 120
10
3 122
10
3 122
92
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
REPUGNANT TO LAW--
Ordinances not to be...
RESERVOIRS-
Authority to establish, etc..
Right to construct..
RESOLUTIONS--
SUBJECT.
Council may exercise powers by, when..
•
Of former cities remain in force, when.
Certificate of City Clerk, prima facie evidence.
Council may provide for compilation...
Distribution and sale of publication.
RETURNS-See ELECTION RETURNS—
REVENUES-
Comptroller to make statement..
From licenses, rents, fines, etc..
D
Chap
Sect.
Page.
4 5 41
4 5 47
10
1 119
> •
4
16
59
+ •
•
• •
•
• •
•
Keepers and inmates of houses of prostitution, costs and
judgments collected....
When falling short of estimates..
To be applied to sinking fund..
•
Periodical payment on contracts.
•
11 2 150
11 2 151
11 3 151
11 3 151
5 8 64
5
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64
5 9
64
5
11 65
5 14 66
5 17 69
•
•
11 11 153
REVERSIONS AND NEW TRIALS-
Municipal Court..
REVOLVING FUND-See PERMANENT IMPROVEMENT—
RINGS FOR HORSES-See HITCHING POSTS-
RINKS--See SKATING RINKS-
Designation of roller rinks... .
RIOTS-
Authority to prevent
ROAD BEDS-See STREETS—
ROCKETS-See FIREWORKS
ROOFS-See STAIRS and LADDERS—
Council may regulate size and material.
RUBBISH-
4 5 53
4 5 45
4 5 51
•
4
5 48
4
5 48
Owner or occupant of property to remove.
In default of compliance....
RULES OF EVIDENCE-
Council may establish....
•
RULES AND REGULATIONS--
Council shall determine its own.
Police Board to formulate....
Governing appointment or removal of police.
4 5 42
4
3 41
6 2 78
6 4 79
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
93
SUBJECT.
•
•
•
RULES AND REGULATIONS-CONTINUED.
Governing meetings of Police Board..
For the government of Fire Department.
For government of Water Works system.
Governing appraisements and awards.
Of Board of Water Commissioners.
Prima facie evidence, when...
Certificate of City Clerk..
For government of Library Board...
·
6 7 80
7
7
8
744 O
84
84
2
90
9 10 114
11 2 151
11 2 151
12 1 156
Public libraries, museums, etc., to be subject to..
12 10 162
4 5 48
RUNNERS, ETC.--
Authority to restrain, etc..
RUNNING AT LARGE-
Authority to prevent animals..
SAFE KEEPING OF FUNDS-
City Treasurer to provide for
SAFETY VALVES-
Authority to designate..
SALARIES —
Of Assistant City Clerk..
Of Mayor and Aldermen..
• •
When fixed, not to be changed during term of office..
• •
Council may reduce, when..
Limitation of such reduction.
4 5 47
5 31 74
4 5 46
3 4
30
3 27 37
Of Police Commissioners...
SALE OF ANIMALS-
Authority to restrain………….
SALE OF BONDS—
3 29 37
•
5
11
65
5 11
65
•
* •
•
•
•
•
6
4 79
4 5 47
5 17
69
5 17
69
1 2
13
1
2
13
• •
4 5
45
•
4
5 45
4 5 45
∞ ∞ 10 10 10 2
Comptroller may sign contracts, when.
Periodical payments on contracts...
SALE OF LIQUOR--
Forever prohibited in certain territory.
Forbidden to license in certain territory.
Confined to certain territory.
Exceptions
•
•
Penalties for illegal selling.
Authority to restrain...
SALE OF PROPERTY-
Council shall have control...
• •
•
•
•
•
Two-thirds vote required to sell real estate.
Exception in case of Industrial Exposition.
Land to revert in case of default..
•
4 5
45
4 14
57
•
4 14
57
•
• ·
•
• •
4 14
57
4 14 58
Proceeds, how to be applied.
•
•
·
·
•
►
5 9 64
94
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
SALT--
Inspection
SANITARY-
Council may make improvements..
SCHOOL DISTRICTS-
Taxes of 1886-7
Districts six and eight, special provision.
Debts assumed by city.
•
Property belonging to city.
SCHOOL PROPERTY—
Shall belong to city.
SCUTTLES IN ROOFS-
•
Power to compel owners of buildings..
SEAL-
Common Seal of City..
Comptroller authorized to keep and use..
Library Board may adopt.
·
Library Board to affix to conveyances.
• •
:
4 5 50
8 1 88
1
2
12
1
2
12
1
2
12
· · •
•
•
1
2
12
SEALER OF WEIGHTS AND MEASURES-
Entitled to receive fees as fixed by Council...
1 2 12
7 2 84
1
1 11
3 18 35
•
•
12 1 156
•
12 7 161
· •
3 29
37
3 29
37
Shall receive no compensation save fees collected...
SECOND-HAND DEALERS-See JUNK DEALERS-
SECOND WARD-
Boundaries of..
Liquor license limits...
SECRETARY--
Of Library Board...
Shall give bonds...
Duties of Secretary.
Secretary not to sign orders when fund is exhausted..
To join in conveying real estate.....
SEIZURE AND DESTRUCTION~-
Of explosives, power in Council.
SENTENCE, SUSPENSION OF
By Municipal Judge...
SEVENTH WARD-
Boundaries....
Liquor license limits...
1 3
13
4
5
43
12
4
158
12
4 158
12 5 159
12 5 160
12 7 161
7 2 84
11 11 153
1
3 16
4 5 44
SEWERS-
Authority to cleanse..
4
5 45
• •
Council may maintain, enlarge, extend, relay and improve 9
1 103
Action in case of extensions...
9
2 104
Private property may be acquired...
9
2 104
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
95
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect.
Page.
SEWERS--CONTINUED-
Condemnation proceedings...
•
D
Proceedings when surface of land not required.
City may enter upon private land to repair..
Rights of parties thereto to be defined in deed..
Assessments for sewers (first plan)..
Limitation of assessment.....
Cost above assessments.
•
Definition of a street sewer
Assessment for sewers (second plan).
Limitation....
Increased cost..
Council to fix amount per foot...
Second plan for assessment, when to be followed
How it may be changed.
·
Special provision for re-assessment.
•
•
Council to control laying of branch sewers.
May order corrections made, when.
Manner of constructing same
Council may construct branches.
Assessments for branches..
•
Costs may be collected in advance.
Manner of estimating cost...
Assessments, how collected.
•
•
•
Council may require branches laid in areas.
Style of branches in areas.....
•
• •
Council may effect drainage for public health.
• •
9
2 104
9
2 104
•
•
►
•
9
2 104
9
4 105
9
4 105
9
4 105
9
4 106
9
4 106
9
4 106
9
4 106
•
9
4 106
9
4 106
9
4 106
• •
•
9
4 106
9. 4 107
9
5 107
9
5 107
9 5
107
9
5 107
9
5 107
9
5 107
6
9
5 107
9
5 108
a a a
9
5 108
9
5 108
9 6 108
•
May bring action against owner to recover portion of cost
of extension for drainage.
•
Powers relating to property outside city limits.
Power of Court to join parties in action...
Court shall make award according to benefits..
Amount not to exceed benefit....
City to have judgment and execution on award.
Judgment a specific lien on property...
Council may abandon proceedings, when..
Drainage of marshes inside city..
•
• • •
9
6 108
9
6 108
•
9
6 109
•
9
9
9
6 109
6 109
6 109
•
9
6 109
9
6 109
9
6 109
Covered drains for marshes..
• •
Cost of draining marshes..
9
6 109
9
6 109
Drainage may be constructed at one time or different years 9
Order of construction..
Assessment of benefits.
•
6 110
9
6 110
9
6 110
Council to designate character, extent and material..
City Engineer to estimate cost....
10
8 130
•
Interested parties to be notified by publication.
10
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​10 8 131
8 131
•
•
+
96
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
}
SUBJECT.
SEWERS-CONTINUED--
Bids may be called for in advance.
Council may fix cost.....
Rules governing fixing cost.
•
•
Engineer may omit estimate of costs, when..
SEWER CONNECTIONS—
Council may order private parties to lay, when...
Council may have work done.
Assessments
Cost may be collected in advance.
Persons may be required to lay in area.
SHEEP-
Authority to prevent running at large...
SHERIFF-
To have custody of prisoners, when.
SHINGLES-
Regulating piling
SHOOTING—
Fire arms and fireworks..
SHOOTING GALLERIES--
Council may license.
SHOWS-
May be licensed
SIDEWALKS-
•
•
·
Engineer shall have supervision of construction.
Authority to prevent obstruction.
Authority to prevent driving on.
To prevent damaging in any way.
Owners to build and repair..
Council to order ..
Manner of ordering.
•
• •
Resolution for same to be published...
Assessments to be made, when..
Collection of assessments....
Street Commissioner to build, when
May be built by contract..
·
10 8 131
10 8 131
10 8 131
•
10 8 132
•
9
5 107
9
5 107
9
5 107
9
5 107
•
9
5
108
:
4 5 47
4 7 55
4 5 53
4 5 48
•
4 5 12
4 5 41
3 10
33
4 5 46
4 5 47
4
5
47
8 12
96
8 12 96
8 12
96
8 12
96
8 12
96
8 12 97
8 13
97
8 12
97
8 13
97
•
•
8 15
98
8 16
98
10 10 133
•
10 10 133
·
•
•
10 10 133
Repairs, duty of Street Commissioners, when.
Funds may be advanced, when.....
Ground to be graded before ordering.
Neglect of property owners to build
City Engineer to estimate cost
•
Estimate not to be binding on city.
• •
Council shall designate cost of building.
•
•
10 10 133
Council shall levy assessments and cause roll to be made.. 10 10 133
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
97
SUBJECT.
SIDEWALKS--CONTINUED-
Assessment for repairs...
Majority vote only, required to order.
SINKING FUND--
Council to maintain same..
Care and investment...
•
Not to be abolished until debts are paid..
Not to be diverted...
Revenues to be applied to fund...
Board of Commissioners to have charge.
May be invested in city bonds..
Interest on same to be paid to fund
Bonds to be paid from fund, when..
SINKING FUND COMMISSIONERS-
• ·
• •
•
+
•
10 11 134
10 19 140
*******
•
5 14 66
5 14 66
5 14 66
5 14
5 14 66
5 14 66
5 14 66
66
5 14 67
5 14 67
Shall invest Permanent Improvement Revolving Fund.... 10 28 145
SITES FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS-
How acquired..
SIXTH WARD-
Boundaries....
•
Liquor license limits..
SIZE OF BUILDINGS.
Regulations..
SKATING RINKS—
May be licensed...
SLAUGHTER HOUSES-
• •
Authority to direct location and management
To direct removal....
Special consent required to locate.
SMOKE HOUSES--
Council to regulate and locate.
To prohibit, when
SMOKE STACKS--
Authority to regulate construction...
Spark arresters to be used
•
•
4 15 58
+
1 3
16
•
4
5
44
4 5 51
4 5 41
4
5
46
•
4
5 46
4 5
46
7
2
84
7 2 84
4
5 54
Authority to compel property owners to remove.
SNOW AND ICE--
No railway company to pile in streets.
SNOW-REMOVAL DISTRICTS-
Council authority to designate...
Expense may be assessed..
•
•
•
7 2 83
4 5 48
8 21 100
4
5 49
4 5
49
5
45
4
5
53
SOAP FACTORY—
Authority to compel owner to cleanse, remove, or abate... 4
Authority to designate location
•
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98
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
SOCIETIES-
May be associated with Library Board….
SOLICITORS-See AGENTS--
SPARK-ARRESTERS-
To be used in smoke stacks……..
SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS--
12 9
162
7 2 83
Exposition realty not exempt..
Proceeds of same.....
Benefits from improvements..
Permanent Improvement Fund used in advance of.
Comptroller may sign contracts, when.
For street paving and gutters.
No assessment for paving railway tracks.
For street sprinkling..
•
• •
Levy to be made annually.
Levied for water mains.
Plan of making levy.
Cost over assessment.
•
• •
•
•
•
Second plan for water mains..
Increased cost.
•
•
Second plan to be followed, when..
How changed..
For sewers.
Street sewer defined..
• •
Second plan for sewers.
Increased cost....
For laying branch pipes...
·
4 14 58
5 16
68
► •
5 16
68
5
16
68
•
•
5
17
69
8
11
96
8 11 96
8 17
99
•
3
8 17 99
9
9
104
3 104
9
3
104
9 3 105
9
3 105
9
3 105
9
,
•
•
*
•
•
• •
•
3 105
9
4 105
¡
9
4 106
9
4
106
9
4
106
•
•
9
5 107
9
5 107
9
5
108
9
6 109
•
•
•
•
9
6 110
•
•
•
For making sewer connections for private parties.
For branch pipes and sewer connections, how made.
Against property for drainage of marshes, etc.
Manner of assessing benefits..
Credited to Water Works fund..
•
Excess collections credited to Water Works fund.
Council may direct Auditor to divide....
May be refunded, when……….
Amounts may be advanced..
•
The same to be refunded, when...
Validity not affected by irregularities.
Roll evidence of proper proceeding..
In case Council determine them invalid..
Council may order collections to cease, when.
Actions in case of invalidity..
Payments on invalid assessments to be noted..
Collection of new assessments.
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•
•
•
• • •
•
9 11 115
9 13 115
•
10 15 138
10 15 138
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10 15 139
10 15 139
10 16 139
10 16 139
10 17 139
10 17 139
10 17 140
10 17 140
10 17 140
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
99
SUBJECT.
SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS-CONTINUED---
Not invalid because in excess
Deficiency paid from Ward fund, when
Surplus, how disposed of.
• •
Funds shall be kept separate.
•
Chap
Sect.
Page
10 18 140
10 18 140
10 18 140
• •
• •
•
•
10 22 141
•
10 22 141
4
10 22 141
10 23 141
·
Improvements to be made immediately....
May be paid direct to City Treasurer.
Interest not accrued to be deducted.
Prior assessment not affected..
Priority of assessment liens...
To be paid in annual installments.
May be paid any time after first year.
Payment of interest...
• •
•
•
•
• •
·
Provisions to apply to assessments of 1886..
Certificates of City Engineer....
Engineer's Certificates in lieu of cash.
Record of deferred payments..
City Council to approve...
Consent of parties implied, when.
Lien of city in deferred payments remains intact.
Rolls, when made and adopted....
Surplus refunded, how..
Limitation of assessments for year..
•
Property owners may advance in excess of limit..
SPECIAL ELECTIONS--
How conducted....
Notice to be given by Clerk.
•
Not to be held within sixty days of general election..
Council may change location of polls....
Not necessary to make new register
•
•
Not to appoint new judges, or new polls...
Judges to take register from City Clerk..
SPECIAL JUDGE-See MUNICIPAL Court-
Power of Justice of Peace...
SPECIAL MEETINGS-
Of Council, Mayor may call
Business must be designated in call
• •
•
•
•
10 24 142
10 25 142
10 27 143
10 27 143
•
•
•
•
10 27 143
10 27 143
10 27 143
10 27 143
10 27 143
•
•
10 27 144
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
SPECIAL ORDERS--See GENERAL AND SPECIAL ORDERS—
SPECIAL POLICEMEN—
• •
• +
•
•
•
10 27 144
10 27 144
10 27 144
•
10 27 144
10 28 146
10 28 146
2
2
2
2
20
20
2
20
5 24
25
2 2 26777
N ~ ~ 61 61 Q2
2
25
2 7 25
3 23 36
4 2 40
4 2 40
Police Board may appoint, when.
6
Powers and duties...
6 80
6 6 80
SPECIAL TAX--
For payment of judgments against city
Time of making levy....
5 37 76
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100
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
SPECIAL TAX-CONTINUED-
New levy to be made, when..
Disposition of excess collected.
SPECIAL TRUSTEES-
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SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR--See LIQUOR -
Sale forbidden, where..
SPRING ELECTIONS--
Abolished after 1887..
STABLE-
Authority to compel owners to cleanse
Authority to designate location..
STAGES--
May be restrained and regulated.
STAGNANT WATER-
Authority to compel owner to drain.
In default of owner's complying.
STAIRS AND LADDERS--
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STALLS-See BUTCHERS' STALLS--
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Sealing
STANDING COMMITTEE ON FIRE DEPARTMENT--
To consent to removals, etc..
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STANDING COMMITTEE ON TAXES-
To Constitute Board of Equalization
STANDING PLACES-
For hacks, drays, etc.....
ST. ANTHONY-
City of Minneapolis the legal sucessor of...
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Indebtedness and obligations assumed by Minneapolis... 11 1 150
Ordinances, etc., not inconsistent to remain in force.
STATE BUILDINGS-
No control of..
STATION HOUSES
Under control of Police Board.
STEAM-
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STEAM BOILERS—
Authority to regulate construction and prohibit location. 4
STOCK YARDS--
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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SUBJECT.
STONE DRAINS--See DRAINAGE--
STORE HOUSES FOR HIDES-
Authority to designate location
STOVES, PIPES, OVENS, ETC.--
Council to prevent dangerous condition..
STRAW--
Authority to regulate sale...
To appoint person to superintend same.
STREETS-
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Authority to prevent obstruction.
Authority to prevent fast driving.
To compel persons to hitch horses.
Council may condemn lands for..
Manner of condemnation...
Council to have control of streets, etc..
Public squares and grounds...
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May provide drainage of streets, etc...
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Sanitary condition of city...
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Council power to divert streams of water..
May bridge railway tracks...
May provide for paving……
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Power to establish grade of any street.
May change grade by two-thirds vote
To have profiles made...
City Engineer to file same.
Change of grade...
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Limitation of making claim....
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Council may reconsider action.
Majority vote to reconsider.
Action on reconsideration.
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Commissioners to award damages.
Qualifications of Commissioners.
Assessments of benefits..
Four Commissioners to award.
Vacancies, how filled...
Oath of Commissioners.
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Notice of meetings.
View property...
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
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STREETS--CONTINUED-
Commissioners to hear evidence.
Meeting and adjournment…...
City Engineer to give advice.
Appraisement and award...
Award only excess of damages over benefits.
Commissioners to report to Council..
Cost of making improvements..
Assessment list...
Description of all lands affected.
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Council may act or refer to committee.
May confirm or send back.....
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Republish notice of meeting, when..
Commissioners to have rehearing of evidence..
Again report to Council..
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Award and assessment final...
City Council to perfect assessment levy
Adoption of assessment roll..
City Clerk to prepare forms..
Limitation of awards..
Damages, etc., when computed..
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Council may vacate streets, alleys, etc.
Exclusive powers vested in Council..
Council may designate districts for street cleaning.
May provide for cleaning by contract..
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Work may be done by contract or day..
Disposition of work within discretion of Council..
Work may be done under direction of any officer.
Notice of proposals for contract work....
Council shall appoint Street Commissioners.
Duties of Street Commissioners
Streets to be kept clear from obstruction.
Streets to be safe and passable....
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Commissioners to execute orders of Council...
Shall keep account of work and expenditures
To report to Council bi-monthly or oftener
No bill for compensation allowed, except..
Street Commissioners shall act as Health Inspectors...
To have authority of police officers
Act under direction of Health Officer.
All work subject to approval of Aldermen
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General Commissioner to receive and observe instruction.
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SUBJECT.
STREETS
CONTINUED-
Shall superintend and direct Street Commissioners
Do as City Council may require
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Street Commissioners not to be interested in contracts... 8
Not allowed compensation for use of teams
Not allowed to furnish materials
Shall not accept gratuities
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Materials forfeited, when
Penalty in case of violation.
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Mississippi river bridges a city charge
Bridges over railways a city charge, when
Street improvements a ward charge..
Opening of new streets by Council.
Straightening or widening existing streets.
Drainage of streets
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Directing water courses....
Council may purchase or condemn lands.
Provision for payment for such property
Damages to private property...
Property benefitted may be assessed
Limitation of assessment..
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Consent of cemetery owners required, when.
Council authorized to order pavements
Special assessment for paving.
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No assessment for paving railway tracks.
Property owners to lay and maintain sidewalk
Council to order same.
Council to designate material and width.
Order to be made by resolution
Resolution to be published..
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Sidewalk assessments, how made..
Collection of sidewalk assessments
Street Commissioner to build, when.
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Council may have walks built by contract, when.
Sidewalks out of repair... . .
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Cost of repairs assessed against property.
One assessment roll for the year...
Duty of owners to keep sidewalks in repair.
Liability of owners of defective sidewalks.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Chap
STREETS CONTINUED
No action shall be maintained against city, except.
Owner to be joint party to suit.....
Execution in case of judgment for injury..
City not to pay judgments, unless...
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May enforce payment by property owner..
Form of proceedings to collect judgment…….
Moneys to build or repair sidewalks..
Advanced from permanent improvement fund.
City reimbursed by special assessment..
Street crossing expense a ward charge.
Damages a ward charge..
Money for damages, how raised...
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Ground to be graded before ordering walks.
City Council has power to sprinkle streets, etc.
Council may contract for street sprinkling.
Limitation of contract....
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Water works to furnish water for sprinkling.
Supply of water city's proportion of sprinkling expense.
Cost of sprinkling to be assessed upon lands..
Street sprinkling assessments, how made.
Street obstructions not authorized
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Negligence in management of street excavations, etc.....
Failure to maintain guards and danger lights..
Liability of persons for damages
Judgment for damages, how to issue..
If city pays unsatisfied judgment...
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Service of summons for insufficiency of street or sidewalk 8 19
Service by publication, when....
Action to be brought within a year
Notice of action to be given the Mayor or City Clerk.
Time of serving notice....
Form of notice on Mayor or Clerk.
No notice required, when....
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Not liable when no sidewalk is built....
Railway companies not to pile up snow.
Liability for damages....
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City's right to recover from railway company.
District, how designated.
Council power to extend limits of territory..
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
105
SUBJECT.
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Council to have control of laying out streets, etc.
Control of plats of additions ..
Charge of dedications for streets, etc.
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Council may indicate arrangement and dimension of streets 8 22 100
City District continues until Council modifies or extends. 8 22 100
Subdivision of lots, etc......
Plats of lots, etc., to conform to statutory provisions.
When completed, to be presented to Council .
Must be drawn in triplicate ..
Council may direct material and size of plats.
May accept, reject, change or modify plats.
Plats, accepted and approved.……
City Clerk shall certify to approval of plats.
Original plat and one copy filed with Auditor...
Copy of plat to be filed with Engineer..
Plats, how recorded....
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Register of Deeds shall certify to copy of plat..
Original plat only to be open to inspection, when.
Certified copy always open to inspection……….
General statutes, respecting filing plats, to apply.
City not liable to grade streets, when....
Not responsible for insufficiency of streets, when.
Contracts not to be awarded to any person in default..... 8 25 102
Proceedings when Court annuls award of Commissioners. 10 13 135
Proceedings when award again annulled....
When proceedings are irregular..
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Form to be followed...
Former assessment cancelled, when
STREET BEGGARS--
Restraint and punishment...
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STREET CLEANINGS-
Council may designate districts.
May be done by contract
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STREET COMMISSIONERS--See GENERAL STREET COMMIS-
SIONER--
City Council shall appoint.
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Term of office and duties..
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No bill to be paid unless accompanied by detailed statement 8
To act as Health Inspectors...
Police powers for enforcing health ordinances.
Act under direction of Health Officer..
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SUBJECT.
STREET COMMISSIONERS--CONTINUED—
To superintend grading of streets..
To be directed by City Engineer...
To carry into effect orders of Council.
Shall make bi-monthly reports to Council
To report as often as Council orders..
Approval of work..
Not to furnish material for work.
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Not to be allowed compensation for team..
Not to receive gratuity from interested persons
Punishment for fraud..
To build sidewalks, when.
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To repair sidewalks, when.
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To report cost and description of abutting property.
Commissioners' report to be filed with City Clerk.
Shall remove dangerous sidewalks, when....
STREET CROSSINGS –
A ward charge..
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STREET GRADES-
Council may establish...
May be changed, how..
Property owners may claim damages..
Manner of appraising damages....
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Benefits to be assessed against property..
Council may reconsider action, when....
Street Commissioner to superintend.
STREET IMPROVEMENTS--
A ward charge....
Mode of proceedure..
City Engineer to prepare plat
Nature of plat and survey…...
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Property owners to be designated in plat.
Commissioners of Award..
Duties of Commissioners.
Quorum and vacancies.
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Penalty in case of failure to attend.
Manner of appraising awards, etc..
City Engineer to advise Appraisers. .
Benefits to be an offset to damages.
Lands taken, how described....
Lands assessed, how described ...
Council to act on report of Commissioners.
Council may appoint new Commission.
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
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To revise and report appraisement
Council may confirm or annul..
Confirmation final.......
Council shall proceed to make levy, when..
Council to order assessment roll, form.
Interested persons may objectand appeal.
Court to order re-appraisal, when...
Rules to govern re-appraisal...
Award of re-appraisement final, unless set aside.
Council may abandon proceedings, when.
STREET LIGHTING—
Authority to provide for....
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To reserve rights in contracts..
STREET OBSTRUCTIONS-See OBSTRUCTIONS IN STREETS--
STREET OPENINGS-
Council may purchase or condemn lands..
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Council may order...
May be done by contract..
Limitation...
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Water furnished free of charge.
Supply of water city's proportion of expense
Expense assessed upon lands...
Form of assessment roll...
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SUBDIVISION OF LOTS—
How made....
Plat to be presented to Council..
Acceptance to be recorded...
SUCCESSION, PERPETUAL--
City to have..
SUNDAYS-
Excepted, for veto purposes.
SUPERINTENDENT OF POOR-
Council shall elect...
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Shall perform prescribed duties for relief of poor.
SUPERINTENDENT OF WATER WORKS-
May be Secretary..
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SUPERSEDEAS-
SUBJECT.
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City not to give....
SUPERVISOR OF THE POOR -See BOARD--
SUPERVISION OF STREETS--See STREETS-
SUPPRESSION OF DISEASE-
Regulations
SURVEY--See PLAT AND SURVEY-
SUSPECTED PERSONS—
May be kept from vicinity of fires.
SUSPENSION OF SENTENCE-
By Municipal Judge....
SWIMMING--
Authority to regulate..
SWINE-
Authority to prevent running at large.
SWILL-
Removal....
TALLOW CHANDLER SHOPS-
Authority to compel owners to cleanse.
Authority to remove or abate the same.
TANNERIES-
Authority to compel owners to cleanse.
Authority to remove or abate....
Authority to designate location
TAPPING MAINS-See WATER MAINS-
TAVERNS-
Council may license.
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TAXES-See ASSESSMENTS—
Assessed for 1886-7....
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School districts six and eight..
Shall be paid into City Treasury
Of 1886 distributed
Exposition realty exempt from..
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City Assessor, Council shall appoint.
Style and term of office..
Vacancies, how filled..
Deputy Assessors..
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Term of Deputies....
Assessor's Clerks.
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City Council to confirm all appointments
Instruction of Deputies and assignment of work..
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SUBJECT.
TAXES-CONTINUED--
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Subsequent appointments...
Assessor and Deputies to qualify
Preliminary assessment lists....
County Auditor to deliver books, etc..
Assessment lists, when begun...
Limit in which to revise lists....
Deputy may sign notices..
Term of office of former Assessors, etc.
General laws to govern Assessors.
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Board of Equalization, how constituted..
Time and place of meeting of same...
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Board to revise, amend and equalize assessment roll…..
Assessor to attend meetings of Board......
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Assessor to furnish Board with facts and information...
Powers of Board of Equalization.
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Board not restricted by limitation...
Reduction of total assessment...
Meetings of the Board of Equalization…….
Board to continue until equalization completed
Limit for completion of same...
Power of Board to employ clerks
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City Attorney to attend meetings of Board.
Duty of City Attorney in case of undervaluation..
Assessment rolls completed to be reported to Council..
Council may confirm or return rolls to Board.....
In case rolls returned to Board for revision..
City Clerk to return rolls to Auditor..
Memorandum of confirmation of rolls.
When Council fails to act on rolls.
Validity of City Clerk's certificate....
Council to fix salary of Assessor.
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Compensation of Board, deputies and clerks..
City Comptroller to report tax levy computation..
Levy to meet Ward expenses.
City Council to make levy.
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Limitation of current expense tax.
Appropriations prior to levy...
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Levy to meet interest and principal of bonds.
Excess of collections..
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One-mill tax omitted, when……..
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Levy for permanent improvement.
Tax limitation..
Levys to be made by resolution
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INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
TAXES-CONTINUED--
SUBJECT.
Chap
Sect,
Tage
Statement of tax levy..
Collection of taxes..
County Treasurer to pay over tax collections.
Advance of tax collections....
County Auditor's tax statement.
Delinquent taxes...
Delinquent taxes of prior years.
5 19
69
5 19
70
5 20
70
5 20 70
5 21 70
5 21
• •
Special tax, when levied and for what.
Collected for Library Board.
•
County Treasurer to pay to City Treasurer.
TAX LEVY-See BOARD OF TAX LEVY—
Council to make levy for current expenses.
Limitation of same.....
For permanent improvements.
Time for making levy..
Council may provide for increase of fund.
Limitation of levy..
All taxes to be levied by resolution..
No tax invalid by reason of informality.
Nor because of any excess in amount.
Council to make statement to Auditor.
Date of statement by Council...
Library Board authorized to levy.
Limitation......
Return to be made to Auditor..
•
•
•
70
5 21
71
5 37 76
12
6
160
·
12 6 160)
5 10
64
5 10 64
5 16
68
5 16
•
►
68
5 16
68
5 16
68
5 17
69
•
• •
• •
•
•
5 18
69
5 18
69
5 19 69
5 19 69
•
•
• •
•
12 6 160
12
6 160
12
6 160
12
6 161
►
• •
When Library Board fails to return to Auditor.
TAX-PAYER—
May bring action against officer, when.....
May maintain action to enforce compliance of Sinking
TAX COLLECTIONS-
2 11 27
Fund Commissioner..
5 14 67
Shall be advanced, when....
5 20 70
Advanced collections to be accounted for...
4
5 20 70
TEAMS AND VEHICLES-
Under control of Police Board....
6 2 77
TELEGRAPHS AND TELEPHONES-See FIRE-ALARM
TELEGRAPH and UNDERGROUND WIRES-
Authority to regulate location of poles, etc……..
To order removal of poles....
Authority to regulate, etc.
Under control of Police Commissioners..
TEMPORARY ORGANIZATION-
Of Library Board
•
4
5 52
4 5 52
4
5 52
• •
•
6
2
77
12 11 163
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
111
TEN-PIN ALLEYS—
SUBJECT.
Council may license.
TENTH WARD-
Boundaries..
TERM OF OFFICE-
Not affected by extending city limits.
Alderman Sixth Ward, special provision.
Mayor, Treasurer, and Comptroller..
Aldermen after January 1, 1889.
Officers elected by Council..
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
+
4 5 42
1 2 2 2 2 10 LO
1 3 17
1 4 17
4
18
2 1 19
2 1
19
2
1
20
2
21
5 1
61
5
1
61
6
3
78
6
5
80
6
3
80
D
• •
•
•
7
5 85
8
6
·
93
Special provision relating to officers holding after April, 1887 2
Assessor...
Deputy Assessors and Clerks..
Police Commissioners..
Vice-President, Police Board
Police Clerk ………..
Chief Engineer of Fire Department.
Street Commissioners.
TERRITORY—
Comprised in the City.
THEATRES-
May be licensed……..
THIRD WARD-
Boundaries
Liquor license limits.
THIRTEENTH WARD—-
Boundaries
•
TIE-VOTE OF PEOPLE-
Council shall determine..
TIRES---
TITLE AND RANK-
•
1 2 11
4 5 41
1
3
14
4
5
43
.. 1 3 17
2 2 221
Authority to regulate width...
4 5 52
Police Commissioners to designate.
Fire Department
6 2 78
7
5 85
TOMB-
Removal of bodies from... . .
4 5 53
TORPEDOES-
Prevent use of....
7 2 84
TRACKS-See RAILWAY TRACKS-
TRAFFIC-See HEAVY TRAFFIC-
TRANSCRIPTS-See CERTIFIED TRANSCRIPTS-
TREASURER--See CITY TREASURER and COUNTY TREASURER—
112
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
TRIAL OF OFFICERS--
Place and manner of..
•
SUBJECT.
Ten days' notice to be given.
Council may compel attendance of witnesses.
If officers refuse to appear.
Trial of Police Commissioner.
TWELFTH WARD-
•
4
4
41
4
4
41
4
4
41
•
• •
4
4 41
6
11
82
•
Boundaries..
UNANIMOUS CONSENT-
1 3 17
Required to pass ordinances on night of presentation..... 4 9 55
UNDERGROUND WIRES-
Authority to order and regulate...
4 5 52
UNHEALTHY SUBSTANCES-
Board of Health may direct removal.
4
5 49
Expense assessed against property
4 5 49
UNITED STATES BUILDINGS-
Council or Building Inspector not to control....
4 5 51
UNIVERSITY—
President of Library Director....
12 2 157
4 5 54
UNSAFE BUILDINGS-
Authority to prevent construction..
UNWHOLESOME FOOD—See MEATS, etc.—
UNWHOLESOME PLACES-
Authority for cleansing.
VACANCIES IN OFFICE-
How filled....
. •
4 5 45
;
2 2
2
229
20
20
26
• •
4 4
41
5
1 61
!
6 3
79
Special provision if within sixty days of general election.. 2
To be filled by City Council..
•
Council power to declare office vacant..
In Assessor's office, how filled...
Police Board, how filled
Water Board, how filled
•
• •
Mayor may appoint Commissioners of Award.
Library Board, how filled..
VACATION OF STREETS-See STREETS-
May be made by Council...
Exclusive powers..
VAGRANTS-
Authority to restrain and punish.
Imprisonment at hard labor...
How punished...
VALID CHARGE--
9 7 111
10
3 121
•
12
2 157
8 3
92
•
8 3 92
•
•
•
•
4 5
50
4
7 55
4
7 55
;
Salaries and expense of Police Board
6 4 79
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
113
Construction and location....
SUBJECT.
VALVES AND SPECIALS-See WATER WORKS-
VAULTS AND PRIVIES-
VEAL-
4 5 51
Inspection...
4 5 49
VEHICLES-
To prevent obstructing streets, sidewalks, etc.....
4 5 46
4 5 46
VENDERS OF GUNPOWDER, ETC. —-
License, etc....
VENDING OF LIQUORS—
License and regulation...
VENDUES-
Regulation....
VETO-
Of ordinance, etc……….
VICE -
Council may ordain the suppression of..
VICE PRESIDENT-
Shall be elected by Council
Shall discharge duties of President, when.
Shall be styled Acting Mayor, when
Validity of his acts
•
To preside in absence of President.
Police Commission shall appoint..
Term of office
•
VICTUALING HOUSES-
License and regulations..
VINOUS LIQUOR-See LIQuor—
VIOLATION OF ORDINANCES—
Council may declare penalties..
•
•
•
Actions for shall be brought by warrant..
Warrant not necessary, when...
Process in name of State ..
VOTERS-
Qualification of………
VOTES-See MAJORITY VOTE and TIE-VOTE-
VOUCHERS-
Preservation of same..
WAGONS-
•
To prevent obstructing streets, sidewalks, etc.
WAITING PLACES-
For hacks, drays, etc.
4 5 42
4 5 48
3 1 29
4 5 41
3
2 27
3
2
27
3
2
30
3
2
30
•
4
1
40
• • •
•
6
5
80
6
5
80
4 5 42
4
5 41
11 8 152
·
11 8 152
· .
►
11 8 152
2 4 23
5 24 72
4 5 46
►
4 5 50
114
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
WALKER, T. B.—
Library Director, first Board.
WALLS-
Regulate construction...
WARDS--
City divided into thirteen.
•
Boundaries designated..
12 11 162
4 5 51
1
3
13
1
3
13
3
12
33
•
Accounts to be kept by Comptroller...
Evidence of indebtedness countersigned by Comptroller.. 3 13
WARD CHARGES--
Street improvements....
WARD TAX LEVY-
33
8 9 95
To be made by Council.
Limitation of same..
•
WARRANTS (Orders)——
For the sums total of pay-rolls.
Form prescribed...
•
WARRANTS (PROCESS)——
May be served by policemen throughout county...
Not necessary, when....
WATCHMEN—
Police Board may appoint..
Serve without expense to city.
Appoint at request of parties..
Powers, not to act outside limits designated.
WATER BOARD-See WATER WORKS--
Abolished by Legislature [Note].
WATER COURSE--
Council may divert, except..
WATER MAINS, ETO.—
Council to control.
•
Punishment for interference with
Property owners to be assessed.
Plan of making assessment
Cost over assessment..
•
•
•
Board to determine size and quality
Council to order mains laid....
Board may contract for laying, when..
• •
•
5 12
65
5 12 65
5 22 71.
5 22 71
6 8
81
11 8 152
6 6 80
6
6
80
6
6 80
6
6
80
-
103
8 10 95
7 4 84
7 4 84
9
3 104
9
3 104
9 3 104
9 11 114
•
•
9 11 114
9 11 114
May be laid in advance of assessment collections.
Expense above assessments..
Punishment for interfering with……..
Council to designate character, extent and materials..
City Engineer to estimate cost...
9 11 115
9 13 115
9 16 117
• •
10 8 130
•
10 8. 131
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
115
SUBJECT.
WATER MAINS, ETC.-CONTINUED—
Interested parties to be notified by publication...
Bids may be called for in advance..
Council may fix cost......
Rules governing fixing cost.
•
·
Engineer may omit estimate of costs, when...
WATER POWER AND PRIVILEGES--
Manner of acquiring for water works..
WATER PRESSURE--
Highest limit..
WATER RATES--
To be fixed by Water Board..
Increased or decreased by Council.
Shutting off water from delinquents.
Water may be furnished free, when..
Property owner responsible for rents.
May be recovered by action...
WATER RENTS-
Superintendent shall collect..
WATER WORKS—
•
•
10 8 131
10 8 131
10
8 131
10
8 131
•
10
8 132
... 10 1 119
8 4 84
9 14 115
9 14 116
• •
9 14 116
9 14
116
•
• ·
•
• •
•
9 15 116
9
15 116
9 9 112
Expenses to be paid from permanent improvement fund.. 6 16
Council to govern...
Punishment for interference with.
Council power to maintain..
•
•
May extend, enlarge, relay, improve, etc..
May acquire property...
Condemnation proceedings.
Title in fee-simple vested in city.
68
• •
7 4 84.
·
•
•
•
Proceedings when surface of land is not required.
City to enter upon private property for repairs, etc.
Deeds to state rights of parties...
Assessments for laying water mains, first plan.
7 4 84
9
1 103.
1
103
9
2 104
9
•
9
2
104
9
2 104
9
2 104
9
2 104
9
2 104
•
9
3 104
3 104
Cost over assessment to be paid from water works fund... 9
City to pay expense for property exempt……….
Second plan of assessment...
3 105
9
9 3 105
9
3 105
Limitation of such assessment
Increased cost of same.
Water Works Fund available.
Council to adjust amount per foot.
Such action to remain in vogue until changed.
•
•
• •
►
•
In re-assessments first plan may be employed.
Council may regulate construction of branch pipes.
May order branch pipes laid, when.
May require plats and surveys.
9
9
3 105
3.105
9
3 105
9
3 105
9
3 105
9
5 107
9
5 107
9 5 107
116
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
Do
WATER WORKS-CONTINUEd-
•
Plats and surveys to be preserved by Engineer.
Council may proceed to construct branch pipes.
Shall assess property for branch pipe.
Manner of making assessment.
Cost may be collected in advance..
Manner of estimating and fixing cost.
Assessments after completion, when.
Assessments, how collected..
Branch pipes in arrears.
Regulations and permits.
•
•
•
Special provisions for future excavations.
Excavations for hydrants...
Board of Water Commissioners.
Manner of appointment.
In case of vacancies.
Compensation of Commissioners.
•
• •
D
9
5
107
9
5
107
•
•
·
•
9
5
107
9
5
107
9
5
107
• •
·
• •
•
9
5 107
9
5 108
9
5 108
·
•
•
9
5 108
•
·
•
•
1
9
5
108
•
9
5
108
9
5
108
• •
D
9
7
110
• •
9
7
110
9
7 111
• •
·
•
•
9
9
7 111
7
111
9
8 111
9
8 112
• •
·
9
9
112
9
9 112
9
9 112
9
9
112
•
9
9
113
9
9 113
9
9 113
9
9 113
• 醯
​•
•
•
•
9
9 113
9 10 113
Meetings, quorums and powers of Board.
Board may appoint officers...
Compensation of employes.
Superintendent may be Secretary...
Duties of Secretary and Superintendent.
Water Works fund..
Orders, how drawn..
Bonds of appointees, etc.
• •
Assistant Secretary, duties, etc.
Assistant Superintendent, duties, etc.
Duties of City Comptroller...
Claims to be audited by Comptroller.
Meetings of the Board...
Rules and regulations..
Council to provide office furniture...
•
Board may provide furniture, when...
·
•
•
Board to determine size of water mains, etc..
Council shall order mains...
Board may contract for laying mains..
Board shall cause mains to be laid, when..
Special assessments...
•
Board may lay mains in advance of collections.
Comptroller to sign contracts......
Contracts may be made when no funds.
Sale of bonds..
Pump house repairs, etc...
Expense of operating and maintaining.
Water Works fund..
·
D •
·
•
9 10 114
•
9 10 114
9 10 114
• •
9 11 114
9 11 114
9 11 114
9 11 114
9 11 114
9 11 115
9 11 115
•
9 11 115
9 11 115
9 12 115
9 13 115
9 13 115
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
117
WATER WORKS-CONTINUED
SUBJECT.
Duty of Board to fix water rates.
Board to fix date of collecting.
Council may increase or decrease.
•
•
•
9 14 115
• •
•
•
•
9 14 115
• •
•
Board may make rules for enforcing provisions.
Rules concerning tapping mains, etc..
Plumbers' licenses, revocation of
Shutting off water of delinquents....
Owners of property responsible for rents
Punishment for injury or interference.
Wilful damage of Water Works…..
Excavations, raising gates, etc.
Dumping garbage, penalty for same.
Municipal Court to have jurisdiction.
Not to apply to private sewers, when
Manner of acquiring grounds for.
Manner of acquiring water power.
•
9 14 115
9
14 116
9 14 116
9 14 116
9 14 116
9 15 116
9
15 116
9 16 117
9 16 117
9 16 117
9 16 117
•
• •
9 16 117
•
10
1 119
10
1 119
•
Right to construct intake pipes, cribs, dams, reservoirs, etc. 10
1 119
9
3
105
9
3
105
• •
• ·
•
• ► •
9
9
112
9
9 112
•
9
9 112
WATER WORKS FUND-
Defray expense of laying mains, when
Council to fix cost...
Superintendent shall collect water rents...
Rents to be kept in separate fund by Treasurer.
Form of orders on fund...
Uses of the fund..
•
Assessment collections, to be credited to.
Appropriations from general fund,, when.
Hydrants...
Excess of assessment collections.
• •
9 9 112
9 11 115
9 12 115
9 13 115
9 14 115
WEAPONS-See CONCEALED WEAPONS—
WEIGHERS AND GUAGERS-
Authority to appoint, regulate and compensate.
WEIGHTS AND MEASURES--
Authority to regulate weight of bread.
Authority to appoint a City Sealer.
To punish for fraud...
WELLS-
Authority to establish, etc.....
WET LAND -
• •
Council may proceed against owners.
Action to compel contribution.
Joinder of parties defendant..
Court shall make awards....
Contribution not to exceed benefits.
City to have judgment and execution, when.
Council may abandon proceedings..
4 5
50
4 5 47
4 5 49
4 5 49
•
4 5 47
9
6 108
•
•
9
9
6 108
6 109
9
6 109
9
6 109
9
6 109
•
9
6 109
118
INDEX TO CITY CHARTER.
SUBJECT.
WHARFS-
Council power to provide, appoint Wharfmaster
To have power of police officer...
Duties to be designated by Council.
Authority to construct and regulate.
Authority to regulate charges..
WHEELS-
Width of tires..
• •
3 22 35
3 22
35
3 22
35
4 5
49
•
4
5
49
4 5 52
WHISKY AND LIQUORS--See LIQUORS-—
Authority to inspect..
WHISTLING OF LOCOMOTIVES--
Authority to regulate or prohibit.
WIDENING STREETS--See STREETS—
WING DAMS-See DAMS-
WITNESSES-
4 5 50
4 5 46
Council may compel attendance.
Police Board may compel attendance..
·
Not incompetent in city suit because inhabitant.
WIRES-See ELECTRIC WIRES and UNDERGROUND WIRES--
WOMEN-See FALLEN WOMEN-
4
4 41
6
5 80
11
4 151
WOOD-See FIREWOOD-
Authority to regulate sale...
To appoint person to superintend same.
Authority to inspect.
WOODEN DRAINS-See DRAINAGE-
WOODEN SIDEWALKS--
Council may prohibit construction.....
WOOD PILES-
4
5
48
4 5
48
•
4 5
49
1 7 11 86
Authority to designate location....
4 5
53
To compel removal of same...
4
5
53
WORK-See CITY WORK and CONTRACT WORK——
Council may have all work and construction done by the day 8
5
93
To be done under direction of Council.......
Council may designate officer to have charge of.
8 5
93
8
5
93
WORK-HOUSE-
Offenders may be sentenced to.
4
7 54
•
Council may establish rules..
WRIT OF ERROR—
City not to give bond..
YEAR-
•
Officers to make yearly inventories.
Fiscal of City, to begin....
Special provision for 1889..
·
4
7
55
3 5 31
3 30
38
5 7 63
•
•
•
•
•
+
5 7
64
•
INDEX-COURT ACTS.
*MUNICIPAL COURT.
SEC. PAGE
ABSENCE--
Of Clerk...
ABSENT JUROR—
Penalty...
ACCOUNTS—
Municipal Court..
ACT--
To establish Court....
Amendment notes.
ACT AS ATTORNEY—
Clerk and Deputies forbidden....
ACTION-
Divorce.
Civil....
Criminal.
•
7 207
... 12 214
•
7 207
1 203
226
7 209
1 204
1 204
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• •
• •
•
•
•
•
•
•
• ► •
• •
1
204
Equity.
·
Civil, how commenced.
Replevin.
•
Criminal, witness, fees in.
•
• •
•
· •
· ·
To be transferred when title to real estate is involved..
Former Justice of Peace not to take cognizance..
AFFIDAVIT--
In attachment proceedings....
In action of replevin...
AMENDMENTS--
Of pleadings...
•
1 204
8
209
10 213
17 219
19 221
22 222
9 212
10 213
To Court act, and notes...
8 211
226
"See "Index-Stenographic Reporter" and "Index-City Justices," supra, in connec-
tion herewith.
120
INDEX TO COURT ACTS.
SUBJECT.
ANSWER--
Defendant to serve on plaintiff..
Time of serving answer.
APPEAL-
From taxation of cost...
4
Objection to be certified to....
Heard on the objections certified..
To Supreme Court..
APPOINTMENT-
•
Municipal Judge, by Governor, when....
Clerk of Municipal Court..
Deputy Clerks....
ATTACHMENT—
Process by.
Affidavit and bond…….
•
•
SEC.
PAGE
8 210
8 210
8 212
8 212
8 212
•
•
13 215
2 204
4 205
7 209
Limit of liability.
Form of writ.....
• • •
Service and proceedings..
ATTORNEY-
For plaintiff, may subscribe summons.
AUDITOR-See COUNTY AUDITOR-
BAIL FORFEITED—
To be paid to Law Library.
BALANCES OF DEPOSIT-
Shall be paid city.....
BALLOTS-
For drawing jury.
•
•
9 212
9 212
9 212
9 212
• • •
9 212
1 8 209
7 208
· •
... 17 .220
12 214
BAR ASSOCIATION OF MINNEAPOLIS—
To receive forfeitures in Court for Law Library..
To grant Judges free use of Library.
BASTARDY—
• •
Proceedings in..
•
General statutes to apply....
BILL OF PARTICULARS--
Court may order...
BLANKS-
Clerk to procure...
BOND-
•
In attachment proceeding
Limit of liability.
In action of repliven....
7 208
7 208
16 219
16 219
... 8 210
21 222
9 212
9 212
•
• •
10 213
і
INDEX TO COURT ACTS.
121
SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
BOND TO CITY-
Clerk....
Forfeitures to be paid to Law Library.
Deputy Clerk....
BOX OR WHEEL-
For drawing juries....
BREACH OF OFFICIAL DUTY—
If Sheriff releases prisoner, when
BY-LAWS OF CITY-
Municipal Judge to execute.
CALENDAR OF CAUSES-
Clerk shall make ...
4 205
7 208
•
7 209
12 214
7 209
6 207
•
11 213
Judge to direct arrangement....
11 213
CASES--
Municipal Judge shall dispose of...
6 207
CAUSES--
Removed to Supreme Court..
13 215
Causes and proceedings of Justices of the Peace
22 222
CERTIFICATE—
Of Clerk for jury attendance.
12 215
Filed with Auditor
12 215
Execution may issue.
CHATTELS-
CHIEF OF POLICE-
Shall make police detail....
CHIEF MAGISTRATE-
14 216
18 220
Complain against police officer, in default..
18 221
Of city, Municipal Judge..
6 207
CITY-
Shall receive unpaid witness fees..
17 220
CITY COUNCIL—
Shall receive balances of deposit...
No fees shall be charged against.
CITY ATTORNEY—
To prosecute, when....
May authorize pursuit of criminals..
CITY CLERK—
Assist in drawing jurors.
Advise and consent to appointment of Clerk..
Shall approve bond of Clerk..
Provide place for Court.
•
Direct purchase of supplies, etc..
•
17 220
17 220
20 221
18 221
•
... 12 214
•
•
4 205
4 205
6 206
•
21 222
122
INDEX TO COURT ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SEC PAGE
2 204
3 205
•
•
CITY ELECTION--
Municipal Judge.
Special Judge
D
U
CITY REGULATIONS-
Municipal Judge to execute....
CITY TREASURER—
Receipts to be delivered to.
CIVIL ACTIONS—
How commenced...
Proceedings same as in District Court..
Not necessary to plead items of account
Copy of items of account to be delivered.
In case of failure to deliver
Court may order bill of particulars.
Executions..
CIVIL JURISDICTION—
Municipal Court...
CIVIL TERMS-
Municipal Court...
CLERK—
Authority for....
Appointment and removal..
Oath of office, bond, conditions.
Shall sign processes.
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May change forms.
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6 207
... 7 207
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•
•
•
8
209
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8 210
8 210
8 210
8
210
1
8 210
14 216
1 204
8 209
1 204
4 205
4 205
•
•
5 206
5 206
6 207
7 207
7 207
•
• •
7 207
7 207
7 207
7 207
7 207
7 207
7 208
·
• •
•
•
7 208
7 208
7 208
•
7 208
·
•
•
•
7 209
7 209
8 210
8 210
Keep records, etc...
Have custody of books, etc.
Powers vested in, etc....
• • •
Act under direction of Judge.
Taxation of costs
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Receive fines, fees, etc..
Keep detailed account of same.
Deliver all monies to Treasurer.
Make monthly report of finance
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Shall pay forfeitures to Law Library.
Make monthly report of commitments.
Reports to County Auditor.
Reports to Comptroller...
Orders for release of prisoners.
May appoint or remove deputies.
Shall not act as attorney.
Papers to be filed with.
Note or indorse fact of filing.
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8 211
8 211
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212
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CLERK-CONTINUED-
Returns to be made to..
Plaintiff, civil action, deposit of costs.
Costs and disbursements..
Certificates in appeal..
•
Filing of affidavit in attachment.
Issue of writ in replevin.
Notice of trial...
Shall make calendar.
Drawing of jury.
• •
Jurors' certificates..
•
Collect jury fee in advance..
Issue of summons..
• •
Shall make transcript of judgment.
Shall not issue transcript, when.
May sign notice...
• ·
•
May make complaints in criminal cases.
Conservator of the Peace..
Record statement of offense.
• ·
Shall enter plea......
Keep minutes of examination..
Salary ....
9 212
10 213
11 213
11 213
12 214
12 215
12 215
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14 217
14 217
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14 217
16 218
16 218
16 218
16 218
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16 218
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17 219
17 219
17 219
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17 220
17 220
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17 220
18 220
18 221
21 222
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To collect and account for fees..
Shall pay witnesses in criminal actions.
Unpaid witness fees...
Balances of deposits for costs.
Fees may be demanded of Clerk.
Police officer to pay over gratuities to, etc..
Duty to make complaint against officer...
•
To procure blanks, stationery, books, furniture, etc.
CLERK, DEPUTY-See DEPUTY CLERK-
COGNIZANCE OF COURT-
Justices of the Peace proceedings..
22 222
COLLECTION OF FEES--
Clerk of Court......
17 219
COMMITMENTS TO COUNTY JAIL-
Clerk shall report monthly...
7 208
For default of bail..
7 208
Under sentence..
7 208
To await action of Grand Jury ..
7 208
COMPENSATION--
Jurors
12 215
Judges and Clerks..
17 219
Witnesses..
17 220
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COMPLAINTS-
Municipal Court to hear.
Must be filed before service.
Filing to be noted by Clerk.
In replevin...
In criminal cases
•
Formal complaints not necessary, when..
Violation of ordinances, form…..
· •
Against Police officers, when fees not paid over.
CONSERVATOR OF PEACE-
Municipal Judge..
Clerk...
COSTS-
Clerk shall tax...
Court to require security.
Allowed prevailing party in action
Allowed plaintiff, when...
.
4 · •
Allowed defendant, when.
•
Time for taxation..
Appeal from taxation.
Unclaimed deposits..
COUNTY--
No fees shall be charged against.
COUNTY ATTORNEY--
May authorize pursuit of criminals..
To prosecute, when.
COUNTY AUDITOR-
Warrant for jurors' fees...
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN-
Jurisdiction of Court:.
COUNTY JAIL, COMMITMENTS-See COMMITMENTS--
COUNTY TREASURER-
Warrants for jurors' fees....
COURT-See MUNICIPAL COURT-
Act....
Amendments
COURT, DISTRICT-See DISTRICT COURT--
COURT OF RECORD-
Municipal Court...
Judge to have power of .
CRIMINALS-
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8 210
8 210
10 213
16 218
16 218
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16 218
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18 221
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16
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7 207
8 211
8 211
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8
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8 211
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17 220
18 221
21 222
... 12 215
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12 215
1 203
226
1 201
3 205
Pursuit of, how directed.
Rewards, when...
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CRIMINAL ACTION--
Examinations..
Complaints..
Witness fees.
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION—
Municipal Court...
CRIMINAL LAWS-
Municipal Judge to execute....
CRIMINAL PROCEEDINGS-
City Attorney to prosecute...
1 204
16 218
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•
•
•
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17 219
1 204
...
6 207
20 221
County Attorney to prosecute.
20 222
DEBTOR, JUDGMENT-
Execution against.
14 216
DEFAULT-
Court may open..
DEFAULT OF BAIL-
8 211
.. 7 208
Prisoner to await grand jury.
DEFENDANT—
Summons must be directed to..
8 209
Required to answer complaint..
8 209
Serve copy on person subscribing summons
8 210
•
To be allowed costs, when...
DEMURRER-
Time for...
DEPOSITS FOR COSTS-
Balances to be paid city..
DEPUTY CLERKS-
Clerk may appoint, when
Judge to sanction.
•
Clerk to be responsible.
Manner of appointment..
Shall take oath of office.
May administer oaths...
• •
May take acknowledgments.
May perform all duties of Clerk.
Compensation....
DETECTIVES-
May keep fees and rewards, when...
DISBURSEMENTS—
Clerk shall tax
Time for taxation.
•
In detail and verified..
8 211
8 210
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17 220
7 209
7 209
7 209
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7 209
7 209
7 209
7 209
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7 209
17 219
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7 207
8 211
8 212
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SUBJECT.
SEC PAGE
DISCHARGE—
Clerk....
Deputy Clerks.
Prisoners from jail.
DISCLOSURE-
Of garnishee...
DISPOSITION-
•
Of moneys by Clerk at end of term
DISTRICT COURT-
Transfer to, of real estate title cases.
Judge may act, when..
•
Jurisdiction not affected.
DIVORCE-
No jurisdiction....
DOCKET-
Transcript of judgment ...
Of Justices of the Peace..
DRAWING JURORS—
Manner, time and place....
EFFECT
Removal of causes to Supreme Court..
ELECTIONS—
Municipal Judge...
Special Judge
EQUITY ACTIONS-
No jurisdiction...
EXAMINATIONS-
In criminal cases
Indictable offenses.
EXECUTION-
•
May issue against goods, etc…….
When returnable.
Not to issue, when.
Of judgment..
FEES-
•
Clerk of Court shall account for.
Jury fees to be paid in advance.
Clerk to collect....
Same as in District Court..
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4 205
7 209
8 206
15 218
4 206
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19 221
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19
221
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Police officers shall not serve process, when.
To be paid to City Treasurer.
Witnesses in criminal actions.
Unpaid witness fees...
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. 1 204
14 217
22 222
12 214
13 215
2 204
3 205
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1 204
1 201
16
218
14 216
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14 216
14 217
14 217
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7 207
12 215
17 219
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17 219
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17 219
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17 220
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FEES-CONTINUED—
Shall not be charged against city, county or State.
Failure of officer to return..
Police officers not entitled to..
Duty of officers to report fact.
Penalty
May be paid to officer, when..
FILES-
Of former Justices of Peace..
FINANCES AND ACCOUNTS--
Municipal Court...
FINES--
Clerk shall receive pay to Treasurer..
If remitted, prisoners to be released.
•
17 220
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18 220
•
18 220
18
221
18 221
18 221
FORCIBLE ENTRIES AND UNLAWFUL DETAINERS-
Return days......
General statutes applicable..
Summons..
• • •
FORFEITED BAIL-
Paid to Law Library....
FORMS-
Process, Court may prescribe.
Shall be valid, when
May be changed by Court..
Writ of attachment..
Writ of replevin...
•
Summons, forcible entry, etc.
Complaints in criminal cases.
Warrants... . . . . .
FORMAL COMPLAINTS—
Not necessary, when…….
FUEL-
Clerk to provide...
D •
22 222
7 207
7 207
7 208
13
216
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13 216
13
216
7 208
5 206
5 206
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5 206
9 212
10 213
13 216
16 218
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16 218
FUNCTIONS OF MUNICIPAL JUDGE--
District Judges may exercise...
FURNITURE-
Clerk to procure..
GARNISHMENTS—
Proceedings in..
... 16 218
21 222
19 221
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21 222
15
217
15 217
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Service of summons.
Disclosures..
•
GENERAL CITY ELECTION—
Municipal Judges...
Special Judge.....
15 218
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2 205
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1
GENERAL LAWS--
Apply to Court...
GENERAL POWERS
Of Municipal Judge...
GENERAL STATUTES-—
Prescribe Judges' oath...
Supreme Court reports
Applicable in bastardy cases.
GOODS-
Execution may issue.
GOVERNOR—
Appoint Municipal Judge, when....
GRAND JURY—
Prisoners to await.
GRATUITIES
•
Police officer to account for....
1 209
3 205
3 205
•
13 215
16 219
•
14 216
2 204
7 208
18 220
Failure to turn over, a misdemeanor.
Penalties
18 220
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18 220
•
"GUILTY" OR "NOT GUILTY".
Plea of defendants.
HABEAS CORPUS--
Court cannot issue writ.
HENNEPIN COUNTY--
Jurisdiction of Municipal Court....
HENNEPIN COUNTY JAIL-See COUNTY JAIL--
16 218
5 206
1 204
INDICTABLE OFFENSES--
Examinations...
INJUNCTION—
Cannot issue writ……..
ITEMS OF ACCOUNT--
Not necessary to plead.
JUDGE, MUNICIPAL-See MUNICIPAL COURT--
How elected, term of office, style of office, vacancy, etc……….
Qualifications and general powers.
May administer oaths..
•
Take and certify acknowledgements..
Power as Conservator of Peace..
May appoint or remove Clerk...
Processes tested in name of
•
•
Chief Magistrate of City
See that laws and ordinances are executed.
Shall open Court every morning..
16 218
5 206
•
8 210
2 204
3 205
3 205
•
3 205
3 205
3 205
5 206
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6 207
6 207
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JUDGE, MUNICIPAL-CONTINUED-
Hear and dispose of cases.
Supervise records of Court
· •
May appoint in absence of Clerk.
Shall review taxation of costs, etc..
Free access to Law Library. .
May remit fines, suspend sentences.
·
May sanction appointment of Deputy Clerks..
May remove Deputy Clerk
• •
May order bill of particulars.
Shall approve bonds
•
•
· D •
Direct arrangement of calendar
Duty in selecting jurors...
Record of motion for new trial
•
·
•
Requirements of garnishee summons
Complaints in criminal cases
A Conservator of the Peace
Salary.....
In absence or sickness
傻
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6 207
6 207
•
7 207
7 207
7 208
7 208
7 209
7 209
8 210
•
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9
212
11 213
12 214
13 215
•
• •
15 217
16 218
16 218
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• •
•
•
•
•
•
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•
17 219
19 221
19 221
•
21 222
• • • •
•
• •
May request District Judge to serve.
Direct purchase of furniture, supplies, etc.
Justices' cases to be transferred, when..
JUDGE SPECIAL-
Election of
When to act.
• • • •
Compensation.
JUDGE OF DISTRICT COURT-
May act, when...
JUDGMENT—
Not a lien on real-estate, when
Lien against real estate, when
Not to issue, when...
Of Justice of the Peace to be enforced..
JUDGMENT DEBTOR -
Execution to issue against..
JURISDICTION~
Municipal Court..
Co-extensive with Hennepin County
District Court..
Justice of the Peace
JURORS-
Manner of drawing
Time and place of drawing.
Qualifications
To serve three months..
•
•
22 222
3 205
3 205
• • •
•
3 205
19 221
14 216
•
14 217
14 217
22 222
• •
11 216
1 204
•
1 204
22 223
22 223
•
12 214
12 214
12 214
12 214
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SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
JURORS--CONTINUED-
Penalty for absence.
Three series to be drawn.
Compensation
JURY
•
Manner of drawing..
JURY FEE-
To be paid in advance..
JURY TRIALS
•
Conducted as in District Court…...
General laws applicable....
JURY TRIAL-
Considered to be waived ....
JUSTICE OF THE PEACE-See CITY JUSTICES
Jurisdiction of Municipal Court.
To transfer cases.
Not to act, when..
Dockets to be turned over to Municipal Court..
JURYMEN—
To serve three months.
LAW LIBRARY-
To receive forfeitures..
Judges to have free access
LAWS--
General, apply to Court....
•
Of State, Municipal Judge to execute.
LEGAL VOTERS-
Qualification of jurors....
12 211
12 214
12 215
12 214
12 215
12 214
12 214
12 215
12 204
•
•
22 222
22 222
22 222
·
•
1 204
7 208
7 208
1 204
6 207
•
12 214
LIEN-
Judgments rendered..
14 216
Against real estate, when
14 217
•
LIGHTS--
Clerk to procure…..
21 222
LIMIT--
Liability in attachment suits...
9 212
MANNER--
Of service of summons..
8 210
MANDATES OF COURT--
Police officer to obey....
MANDAMUS--
Court cannot issue writ.
MAYOR-
Assist in drawing jurors
Shall make police detail
18 220
5 206
12 214
•
18 220
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SUBJECT.
•
•
MILEAGE AND PER DIEM-
Jurors...
MINNEAPOLIS BAR ASSOCIATION-
+ •
To receive forfeitures in Court for library
To grant Judges free use of library
MINUTES-See STENOGRAPHIC REPORTER-
Municipal Court proceedings....
Of Judge, motions for new trial...
Of Reporter, motions for new trial.
Examinations..
MISDEMEANOR--
Failure of officer to account....
Penalty...
MODIFICATIONS---
Of pleadings..
Of notes of issue..
MONTHLY REPORT-
Clerk of Court.
MOTION FOR NEW TRIAL--
May be heard...
MUNICIPAL COURT-
Established...
Court of record..
Shall have Clerk and seal..
Civil and criminal jurisdiction..
No jurisdiction in divorce action..
No jurisdiction in equity.
Vested with District Court powers.
General laws apply....
Jurisdiction throughout county.
Municipal Judges....
Election of Judges, term of office, vacancies.
Qualification of Judges
Judges to take oath.
Special Judge....
Election and powers, vacancies.
Judge shall appoint Clerk..
City Council to give consent.
Power to remove Clerk..
•
•
•
•
City Council may remove.
•
•
Clerk to take oath of office.
Clerk's bond to city..
Bond to be approved by Council ..
Condition of bond..
SEC. PAGE
12 215
7 208
7
208
7 207
13 215
13 215
16 218
18 220
18 220
8 211
11 213
7 207
. 13 215
1
203
1 204
•
•
1 204
1 204
1 204
1 204
·
1 204
1 204
1 204
2 204
2 204
3 205
3 205
3 205
3 205
4 205
•
4 205
4 205
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•
4 205
4 206
4 205
4 205
4 205
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MUNICIPAL COURT-CONTINUED-
Authority to issue processes.
Powers of courts of record..
No jurisdiction, when..
Forms of process...
•
In absence of prescribed forms.
Process, how directed.
Place of holding Court.
Duties of Judge..
Opening Court..
5 206
5 206
• •
•
•
•
• •
5 206
•
5 206
5 206
• •
•
•
5 206
6 206 1
6 207
6 207
• ►
•
•
•
•
•
6 207
6
•
207
•
•
Hearing and disposal of cases.
Summary proceedings.
·
Duties and powers of Clerk.
In case of absence of Clerk..
• •
Minutes, judgments and records.
Costs and disbursements..
Fines, penalties, fees, etc..
Money to be paid to Treasurer..
Forfeited bail, etc., support of Law Library.
Judges to have free use of library
Monthly report of commitments.
•
Reports to County Auditor and Comptroller.
Release of prisoners
Responsibility of Sheriff.
Deputy Clerks....
Appointment of Deputies .
Deputies' oath and bond.
Power of Deputies....
•
• ·
•
•
• • •
·
•
Regular civil terms, special terms.
Civil actions.
Service of summons
Plaintiff must subscribe
Nature of summons....
•
Items of account not pleaded
Copy of account
• ·
Bill of particulars
•
•
•
Proceedings same as District Court
·
Time for demurrer and reply...
Complaint to be filed before service
Clerk to note filing...
Police officer to serve and return
Pleadings as in District Court.
Default, how opened.....
•
•
• · • •
•
•
. •
•
May allow amendments and disregard variances.
Plaintiff to give security for costs..
•
•
7 207
7 207
·
• •
7 207
7 207
7 207
7 207
7 208
7 208
7 208
>
•
7 208
7 208
•
7 208
7 209
•
•
7 209
7
209
7
209
8 209
•
8 209
8 209
8 209
• •
•
•
•
8 209
8 210
8 210
8 210
8 210
8 210
8 210
8 210
•
•
8 210
8 211 :
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8 211
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SUBJECT.
MUNICIPAL COURT-CONTINUED—
Allowances of costs....
Taxation of costs and disbursements
Disbursements in detail and verified.
Objections and appeals, and hearings.
Affidavit in attachment, process, bond and limit
Writ of attachment, form of.
Attachment proceedings
Replevin ....
Affidavit in replevin, bond and conditions.
Action on bond…….
Form of writ of replevin.
Notices of trial
Calender of causes.
Order of trial...
Jury trials....
•
• •
General laws applicable..
Jury, how selected....
Jury to serve three months.
Clerk to draw jury for trials.
When jurors are challenged or excused.
Penalty for neglect to serve.
Special venire.....
•
SEC.
PAGE
8 211
8 211
•
•
8 212
8 212
9 212
9 212
9 212
10 213
10
213
• •
•
• •
•
•
10 213
•
10 213
11 213
11 213
•
·
•
11 213
•
•
•
12 214
12 214
•
12 214
•
12 214
12 214
•
12 214
•
12 214
• •
•
12 214
12 215
12 215
• •
• •
•
•
12 215
•
12 215
►
12 215
12 215
12 215
•
•
•
13 215
13 215
13 215
•
13 216
•
13 216
14 216
14 216
•
•
•
•
· •
• •
•
•
14 217
• •
14 217
•
14 217
•
14 217
•
•
•
14 217
14 217
15 217
•
15 217
Jurors not to serve again.
Compensation of jurors
Jurors' certificates.
Auditor's warrants..
Jury fee to be advanced.
Jury waived, when..
•
Juror summoned, to be paid.
Supreme Court reports....
Removal of causes to Supreme Court.
Motion for new trial
•
•
•
Forcible entries and unlawful detainers.
•
General statutes to apply, form of summons
Judgment not a lien, until
Writs of execution..
Transcript of judgment.
•
▸ • ·
To be filed in District Court
Judgment a lien on real estate
Judgment executed, when
Transcript not to issue, when.
New transcript may be given..
Garnishment proceedings
Garnishee summons
•
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•
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SUBJECT.
MUNICIPAL COURT-CONTINUED
Service and return....
Disclosure of garnishee
•
Complaints in criminal cases
Clerk or Judge to issue warrants
Form of complaints
Court may direct formal complaint..
When offenders shall be in custody.
Plea of defendant.....
In case of failure to plead...
Examinations in indictable offences.
Clerk shall keep minutes....
·
Bastardy proceedings, General Statutes to apply.
Salaries of Judges..
Salaries of Clerk and Deputies..
·
•
Judges nor Clerks to receive other compensation..
Police to serve process.
Fees for service...
Witness fees, criminal actions..
Unpaid witness fees..
•
Balance of deposits for costs.
Fees, if subsequently paid
No fees against city, etc..
Police detail..
·
•
Police officer to pay over gratuities
Penalty for failure to pay over...
Duty of Chief and Clerk in case of failure.
Officers may retain fees and rewards, when.
·
SEC. PAGE
15 217
15 218
·
•
•
16 218
16 218
·
•
•
16 218
16 218
16 218
16 218
►
16 218
16 218
•
16 218
16 219
17 219
17 219
17 217
17 219
17 219
17 219
·
17 220
17 220
19 220
• •
17 220
18 220
18 220
18
220
•
•
• •
18
221
18 221
18 221
•
•
19 221
19 221
20 221
•
222
County or City Attorney to authorize pursuit of criminal.
District Judge may act, when.
Real estate title proceeding..
•
•
22 222
City and County Attorney to prosecute,.
Blanks, stationery, records, furniture, light and fuel, purchase of 21
Proceedings before former Justices of Peace.
Dockets, records, etc., to be transferred.
Jurisdiction to complete pending trials.
Former Justices of the Peace not to act..
Jurisdiction of District Court not affected
Jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace
MUNICIPAL COURT-
Amendments and notes...
NE EXEAT--
Court cannot issue writ...
NEGLIGENCE--
Of jurors, penalty..
•
• •
•
•
•
22 222
22 222
•
22 222
22 223
22 223
226
5 206
12 214
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NEW TRIAL-
SUBJECT.
Motion for ...
"NOT GUILTY ".
Plea, when ....
NOTARY PUBLIC-
Powers vested in Clerk..
NOTES-
Of issue filed with Clerk
Subject to modifications.
Amendments to court act
NOTICE-
Of taxation of costs.
•
Of trial served as in District Court
To defendant, garnishment proceedings.
OATH-
Judge may administer
Clerk to administer.
•
Deputy to administer...
OATH OF OFFICE-
Judges
Prescribed by general statutes
Clerk
•
Deputy Clerk..
OBJECTIONS—
•
Grounds to be stated in writing...
OFFENDERS—
When in custody
Arraigned without process.
•
Plea....
•
Failure to plead..
Examinations
Pursuit of..
Reward for capture...
OFFENCES-
To be entered on records.
OFFICIAL DUTY—
Breach of, by Sheriff.
OPEN COURT-
Duty of Judge, daily.
ORDER
SEO.
PAGE
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13 215
16 218
2 207
11 213
•
11 213
226
8 211
D
11 213
15 217
3 205
7 207'
7 209
3 205
3 205
4 205
•
7 209
8 212
16 218
16 218
16 218
16 218
16 218
18 221
18 221
16 218
7 209
. 6 207
Police officer to preserve
18 220
•
ORDER OF TRIALS-
To be directed by Judge .
11 213
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ORDINANCES--
SUBJECT.
SEC. PAGE
Judge to execute.
PAPERS-
Police officers shall serve.
Of former Justices of the Peace.
PENALTY—
Jurors neglecting to attend..
Police officers withholding fees...
PER DIEM AND MILEAGE—
Jurors attending to receive..
PERSONAL PROPERTY--
Recovery by replevin..
PERSONAL SERVICE-
Garnishee summons.
PLAINTIFF-
•
•
Or Attorney, must subscribe summons
To be allowed costs, when..
Requirements in action of replevin..
PLEA—
"Guilty," or "Not Guilty"
•
PLEADING IN CIVIL ACTION-
Items of account not necessary.
Same as in District Court..
Subject to modifications
Court to allow amendments..
Court shall disregard variances..
POLICE OFFICERS-
Bring cases promptly before Judge...
Not to serve process, when..
To make return to Clerk..
•
State reason of failure to serve.
To serve papers....
Note and return fees, etc..
Sufficient number in attendance.
Obey mandates of Court.
Preserve order...
Not to retain fees......
1 6 207
17 219
22 222
12 214
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18 220
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12 215
... 10 213
15 217
8 209
8 211
. . 10 213
16 218
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8 210
8 211
8 211
8 211
8
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6 207
8 210
8 210
8 210
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17 219
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17 219
18 220
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18 220
18 220
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18 220
18 221
May retain fees and rewards, when
POWERS-
Court, same as District Court
•
1 204
Municipal Judge
Municipal Court..
Clerk......
Deputy Clerks.
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5 206
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7 209
INDEX TO COURT ACTS.
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PRESERVE ORDER-
SUBJECT.
SEC.
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Duty of Police Officers.
PRESIDENT OF COUNCIL-
To draw jurors in absence of Mayor....
PREVAILING PARTY—
In action, allowed costs
PRISONERS-
Committed in default of bail ..……..
Committed to await grand jury
Committed under sentence...
How released after commitment..
PROCEEDINGS—
•
Civil actions, same as in District Court
Attachment cases.
Replevin cases.
•
Against Garnishee.
Bastardy cases....
•
• •
Of former Justices of the Peace.
PROCESS-
Court may prescribe form.
In absence of form.. . .
How directed for service..
How tested, issued, and directed..
Attachment
Police officers shall serve.
•
Former Justices not to issue..
PROHIBITION—
Court not to issue writ....
PROSECUTIONS-
Duty of City Attorney.
Duty of County Attorney.
PURSUIT OF CRIMINALS—
.... 18 220
12 214
8 211
7 208
7 208
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7 208
7 208
8
210
9 212
10 213
15 217
16 219
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22 222
5 206
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5 206
5 206
5 206
9 212
17 219
22 222
5 206
20 221
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20 222
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City or County Attorney may authorize..
Reward of officers and detectives....
QUALIFICATIONS—
Of Municipal Judges..
Jurors.
QUALIFIED ELECTORS--
To elect Municipal Judge...
To elect Special Judge.
QUO-WARRANTO-
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Court cannot issue writ.....
•
18 221
18 221
3 205
12 214
2 204
3 205
5 206
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INDEX TO COURT ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
14 216
14 217
19 221
6 207
16 218
21 222
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22 222
10 213
8 209
6 207
7 208
7 208
7 208
7 208
4 205
13 215
13 215
•
10 213
10 213
•
10 213
8 210
7 207
•
7 208
•
7 208
7 208
REAL ESTATE-
Judgment not a lien, when.
Judgment a lien, when...
When title is involved
RECORD-
Court proceedings...
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Of offences, in lieu of complaint.
Clerk to procure books for
Of former Justices of the Peace...
RECOVERY OF PERSONAL PROPERTY-
Action in replevin....
REGULAR CIVIL TERM--
Municipal Court...
REGULATIONS OF CITY-
Municipal Judge to execute...
RELEASE OF PRISONERS-
When fine is remitted.
When fine is paid.....
• •
When sentence is suspended
Manner of release.
REMOVAL-
Of Clerk....
• •
Of causes to Supreme Court.
•
Proceedings same as in District Court..
REPLEVIN—
Plaintiff's complaint in writing.
Affidavit required...
Bond and conditions.
REPLY-
Time for
REPORTS-
Of Clerk
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Of commitments to County Jail
To County Auditor..
To City Comptroller
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Of Supreme Court, application of statutes.
RETURN DAYS-
Forcible entry and unlawful detainers.
General Statutes applicable..
REWARD-
Police officers not to retain....
•
Failure to turn over a misdemeanor
Penalty ..
Officers may receive, when
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13 216
13 216
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18
220
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18 220
18 221
INDEX TO COURT ACTS.
139
SALARIES-
SUBJECT.
SEC.
PAGE
Judges, Clerks and Deputies
No other compensation..
SEAL-
Of Court..
Process issued under..
SECURITY—
For costs to be required...
SENTENCE SUSPENDED—
Prisoner to be released.
SERVICE~
Of Process.
• •
Complaint must be filed before..
Filing to be noted by Clerk....
Police officer to make return.
Jurors to be compensated for.
SHERIFF-
Held accountable for prisoners.
Breach of official duty, if……..
SPECIAL JUDGE-See JUDGE-
Manner of election
Term of office....
Powers and duties.
Qualifications.
Salary....
•
SPECIAL TERMS-
Municipal Court.
SPECIAL VENIRE-
Court may issue..
STATE-
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17 219
17 219
1 204
5 206
8 211
7 208
•
5
206
8 210
8 210
8 210
12 215
7 209
7 209
3 205
3 205
3 205
3 205
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17 219
8 209
12 214
No fees to be charged against..
17 220
STATUTES-
Prescribe oath of Judges..
3 205
Applicable in bastardy cases.
SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS-
16 219
Municipal Court....
SUMMONS-
6 207
Service in civil action....
8 209
Plaintiff or attorney must subscribe..
8 209
Must be directed to defendant...
$ 209
Forcible entry and unlawful detainer.
13 216
Form of summons.
13 216
In garnishment proceedings.
15 217
140
INDEX TO COURT ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SUMMONS- CONTINUED
Requirements...
Returnable...
Notice to defendant.
SUPPLIES-
Court to procure..
SUPREME COURT-
•
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Reports of to be furnished....
Causes may be removed to..
SURETIES-See BONDS-
SWEARING WITNESSES-
Power of Clerk...
TALESMEN--
None in Court..
TERM OF COURT--
For civil actions..
TERM OF OFFICE-
Municipal Judge....
Special Judge
Clerk....
Deputy Clerk..
• • •
TITLE OF REAL ESTATE-
When involved
TRANSCRIPTS-
Of judgment to be filed ....
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Of judgment may be issued anew
Clerk shall issue...
To be filed and docketed.
Not to be issued, when..
•
•
TRANSFER OF PROCEEDINGS-
To District Court, when..
Of Justices of the Peace.
TRIALS
Criminal cases.....
D ·
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Judge to direct the order of.....
Notice of served as in District Court.
By jury...
Conducted as in District Court
UNLAWFUL DETAINERS-
Return days......
General statutes applicable
• •
Summons
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SEC. PAGE
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15 217
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15 217
15 217
21 222
13 215
13 215
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12 214
8 209
2 204
3 208
4 205
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19 221
14 216
14 217
14 217
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14 217
14 217
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19 221
22 222
1 204
11 213
11, 213
12 214
12 214
13 216
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13 216
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INDEX TO COURT ACTS.
141
UNPAID WITNESS FEES-
Shall be paid to city
SUBJECT.
May be subsequently claimed
VACANCY IN OFFICE-
•
Governor shall appoint Municipal Judge
Same, Special Judge..
Judge to appoint Clerk
•
Clerk to appoint Deputy.
VARIANCES--
• •
Between allegation and evidence
VENIRE, SPECIAL-
Court may issue..
VOID--
•
Service from Justice of the Peace, when...
VIOLATIONS-
Criminal laws of State
Ordinances..
• •
Regulations and by-laws
•
Of Ordinances, complaint
VOUCHER--
• • •
For issuance of warrants..
WAIVED--
Jury trial, when..
WARRANTS, CRIMINAL-
Clerk may issue
Form
•
•
•
•
•
WARRANT ON COUNTY TREASURER-
For jurors' fees..
WHEEL, OR BOX--
For drawing jurors...
WITNESSES-
Clerk to administer oath
Clerk shall account for fees of.
Clerk shall pay over fees of....
WRIT-
•
•
Habeas corpus, Court cannot issue
Ne exeat, Court cannot issue..
Prohibition, Court cannot issue.
Quo warranto, Court cannot issue
Attachment, manner of proceedure.
Bond and limit..
Form of writ...
Service and proceedings.
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17 220
17 220
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2 204
3
205
4 205
7 209
8 211
... 12 214
•
22 223
6 207
6 207
6 207
16 218
•
12 215
•
12 215
16 218
16 218
•
•
•
12 215
12 214
7 207
•
•
7 207
•
17 219
•
5 206
5 206
5 206
5 206
9 212
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9 212
9 212
9 212
142
INDEX TO COURT ACTS.
SUBJECT.
WRIT-CONTINUED-
Replevin to recover personal property
Form of writ...
Execution issued against goods, etc.
When returnable...
SEO. PAGE
10 213
10 213.
14 216
• • •
• •
14 216
COURT-
STENOGRAPHIC REPORTER.
May appoint Reporter, when and how.
To require short-hand records...
Transcript of record.
To approve same..
• •
•
Removal of Reporter, vacancies.
REPORTER-
To keep record in short-hand..
Make transcripts, when....
Salary and fees....
J
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•
Free transcripts for County Attorney..
Discharge from office, vacancy.
1 223
1 223
2 224
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3 224
4
224
2 224
2 224
3 224
3 224
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4 224
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•
CITY JUSTICES.
ELECTION AND TERMS-
Three City Justices of the Peace to be elected.
Terms of office and districts....
Election, qualification of voters, etc..
JURISDICTION, ETC.-
1 225
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1 225
•
2 225
Co-extensive with city limits..
3 225
Limitation of jurisdiction.
3 225
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Practice, regulated by general laws.
3 225
Appeals to District Court..
4 226
Conflicting acts repealed..
5 226
INDEX-BOARD ACTS,
FREE SCHOOLS.
SEC. PAGE
ACCOUNTS-
To be kept by Comptroller.
ACQUIRING REAL ESTATE-
Proceedings
•
Board may occupy land pending proceedings.
ACTIONS--
Board of Education...
Judgment, when action brought by Board.....
ADDITIONAL TAX LEVY-
How made..
•
AMENDMENTS-
To school act…..
ANNUAL MEETINGS-
Time of holding……..
APPLICATION-
To District Court for Commissioners
AUDIT-
Duty of Comptroller....
AUTHORITY-
To levy taxes.
•
AYES AND NAYS-
Vote to draw orders..
To be taken for purchase or sale of real estate...
BALLOTS--
For School Directors.
• •
Designate term of candidate.
BALLOT BOXES –
For School Directors....
BEQUESTS-
Board of Education may take...
BOARD OF EDUCATION—
East and West Division consolidated.……..
May sue and be sued
May acquire real or personal property.
Successor to former Boards....
•
5 304
... 13 308
13 308
1 300
13 308
•
• •
7 305
309
8 306
16 308
5 304
·
7 305
5 304
9 307
3 302
3 302
•
•
•
3 302
1 301
1 300
1 300
•
D • •
1 301
1 301
144
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
BOARD OF EDUCATION-CONTInued.
Title to real and personal property...
Hire, erect, and maintain school houses
Employ superintendents and teachers.
Receive all moneys accrued, etc....
May appropriate and use moneys
May make and enforce contracts.
Entire control of schools..
May make By-Laws
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SEO. PAGE
1 301
1 301
1 301
1 301
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1 301
• •
•
1
301
1
301
•
1
302
D
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•
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•
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•
2 302
2 302
4 303
•
4 303
•
•
5 305
6 305
7 305
10
307
•
Election of first Board, term of office.
Subsequent elections..
Officers....
City Treasurer shall be Treasurer of Board.
Not prohibited from issuing pay-rolls...
Regular meetings..
•
May make tax levy..
Rules regulating bonds and indebtedness..
Acquiring real estate..
Judgment, when action brought by Board.
May occupy land pending proceedings to acquire..
BONDS--See SURETIES——
Comptroller shall countersign..
Not to be issued except..
To be made payable, how.
BOOKS-
Board to prescribe.
BUILDINGS-
•
•
Tax-levy for purchase or erection....
BY-LAWS-
Board may make....
13 308
13 308
•
13 308
•
•
5 304
10 307
10 307
1 302
7 305
•
•
1 303
Fix regular meetings.
5 305
CERTIFICATE-
Of indebtedness
10 307
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS-
Constitute one School District ...
1 300
CITY CLERK-
Shall notify Directors of election....
3 302
CITY COMPTROLLER-
Keeps books of account.
Countersign all bonds....
Keep account of bonds and moneys.
CITY COUNCIL-
Shall canvass returns.
5 304
5 304
5 304
• •
3 302
•
Shall designate depositories.
5 304
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INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
145
SUBJECT.
SEC.
PAGE
CITY TREASURER –
Treasurer of Board.
•
Shall give bond to Board....
Shall receive and keep all moneys
Shall keep full records...
Exemption from liability
Make settlements with County
CLAIMS-
Comptroller to audit...
CLASSIFICATION—
Of Scholars..
COLLECTION OF TAXES--
How enforced..
COMMON SCHOOLS--
Board to manage.
• •
• •
•
CONDEMNATION PROCEEDINGS—
To acquire real estate. ...
CONSOLIDATIONS-
Boards of East and West Divisions..
CONTRACTS-
4 303
4 303
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5 304
5 304
5 305
7 306
5 304
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•
1 302
7 305
1 311
13 308
1 300
•
Board may make and enforce.
•
CONTROL OF SCHOOLS—
Vested in Board of Education.
•
1 301
1 301
COUNTY TREASURER-
Shall make settlements with city.
•
COURSE OF INSTRUCTION—
Of Scholars..
COURTS-
Judgment, when action brought by Board……..
COUNTY AUDITOR—
Return of tax-levy.
To pay taxes to City Treasurer.
CREATION-
Of Board.... . .
DEED OF CONVEYANCE-
How executed..
DEPOSITORIES--
For school funds.
Sureties of banks liable.
•
DIRECTORS-See BOARD OF EDUCATION-
DISTRICT COURT--
Appointment of Appraisers....
1 302
13 308
7 305
7 306
7 306
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•
• •
1 300
9 306
5 304
5 304
•
13 308
146
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
DUTIES-
Teachers, Board to prescribe.
President and Secretary
Comptroller..
EAST DIVISION—
•
• • •
•
•
•
Board of Education consolidated with West....
ELECTION -
First Board...
Subsequent Boards.
Rules of city election to apply.
Return, judges to make...
Same-Council shall canvass.
EMPLOYMENT-
Superintendents.
Teachers...
Rules...
ERECT SCHOOL HOUSES-
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SEO.
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1
301
5 303
5 304
1 300
2
302
2 302
3 302
3 302
3 302
1 301
1 301
1 301
Board
1 301
• •
•
EVIDENCE OF INDEBTEDNESS-
Comptroller to keep record..
EXAMINATIONS-
Of teachers, rules
FINANCES-
5 304
1 301
•
•
•
Board may demand and receive.
Board may appropriate and use
1 301
1 301 :
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FINANCIAL CONDITION-
Comptroller to keep record....
FREE SCHOOLS-
City one School District
Board to constitute one corporation
Style, seal and powers...
Acquiring real and personal property
•
Making and enforcing contracts...
5 304
1 300
1 300
1 300
•
1 300
1 301
Successor of former Boards......
Title to real estate and personal property.
Control and management of schools and finances.
Superintendent and teachers.
Rules and regulations....
Classification and management of scholars.
Election of Directors and term of office.
Subsequent election and vacancies
Annual elections, ballot boxes and ballots.
Returns and canvass...
1 301
1
301
•
• •
1 301
1 301
1 301
1 302
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•
2 302
2 302
• •
•
•
3 303
3
303
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
147
SUBJECT.
SEC. PAGE
FREE SCHOOLS-CONTINUED.
City Clerk, notice of election..
Rules of election....
Oath of office of Director.
Meetings and officers of Board.
•
Bonds of Secretary and Treasurer.
Orders on Treasurer..
•
Duties of Comptroller, bonds to be countersigned.
Accounts of bonds, claims audited, etc...
Funds, how deposited...
Exemption of Treasurer from liability
Employes' pay rolls...
•
3 303
3 303
4 303
D
4 303
5
303
5
304
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5 304
5 304
5 304
5 305
•
5 305
6 305
7 305
7 305
•
•
7 305
7 306
7 306
8 306
8 306
8 306
•
9
306
•
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•
• •
•
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•
Regular and special meetings, quorum.
Tax levy.....
•
•
Purchase of sites, buildings and repairs.
Additional tax levy, return, etc.
Collection of taxes...
County Treasurer to settle.
First meeting of Board..
Temporary organization..
Annual meetings, vacancies, etc..
•
• •
•
Real estate, purchase and sale.
Votes to be recorded...
Orders, when to be issued.
Bonds, etc., when issued, etc
Restriction of indebtedness.
Old Boards to cease, when..
Condemnation proceedings.
Title in fee simple....
Application for Appraisers.
Judgments how entered.
Entering upon lands, etc..
Possession not to be disturbed.
General Statutes, part of act.
FUNDS-
How deposited ....
• •
•
9 307
10 307
10 307
10 307
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•
•
•
11 307
•
•
13 308
13 308
13 308
• 4 •
•
13 308
13 308
13 308
13 309
•
5 304
Shall be regarded city money.
5 304
...
When deposited, may be recovered by city.
5 304
GIFT-
Board may take..
1 301
GOVERNMENT OF SCHOOLS--
Rules...
GRADING-
Of scholars.
1 301
1 302
148
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
INDEBTEDNESS—–
SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
Duty of Comptroller....
Purposes of tax levy..
How restricted...
JUDGMENTS-
In proceedings brought by Board.
How entered.....
LANDS--
Acquisition of and title...
LEGAL MEETING-
Whenever majority be present....
LEGAL PROCESS--
Service, etc....
LIABILITY—
Banks, having school funds...
Treasurer's exemption....
MAJORITY VOTE—
Necessary to draw orders...
MANAGEMENT-
Schools
Scholars
MEETINGS-
Board....
President to preside
•
•
Fixed by rules and by-laws.
• •
5 304
•
7 305
10 307
13 308
13 308
•
President or two Directors may call special meetings.
For annual election of officers.
MONEYS-
Board to receive...
Board may appropriate and use
City Treasurer shall receive.
Shall pay out, when...
NOTES--
To amendments to school act..
NOTICE-
Election....
Special meetings.
To state time, place and object..
OATH OF OFFICE--
School Directors.
OFFICERS—
Board....
Duties
Election..
•
•
•
•
•
• ...
13 308
6 305
1 300
5 304
•
5 305
5 304
1 301
•
1
302
•
4 303
5 303
6 305
6 305
8 306
•
1 301
1 301
•
·
5 304
•
•
5 304
309
3 302
6 305
6 305
4 303
4 303
5 303
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•
8 306
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INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
149
OLD BOARDS—
To cease....
•
SUBJECT.
To surrender property.
Treasurers to turn over funds..
Penalty for neglect..
•
ONE-MILL TAX—
When levied....
ORDERS ON TREASURER-
President shall sign and Secretary attest...
How payable. . . . . .
Not to be drawn, when.
PAY-ROLLS--
·
•
Compensation of employes.
PERSONAL PROPERTY--
Board may acquire..
PRESIDENT OF BOARD-
Election...
Shall preside at all meetings
Sign orders on Treasurer.
May call special meeting.
•
•
•
And Secretary, to execute deed of conveyance.
PROCEEDINGS-
To acquire real estate....
PROPERTY-
Title vested in Board....
Board may purchase, when..
Vote to authorize sale..
Board may occupy land pending proceedings.
REGULAR MEETINGS-
Board..
REPAIRS OF SCHOOL HOUSES--
Purposes of tax levy.
•
RETURN OF TAX LEVY--
To County Auditor..
•
RULES AND REGULATIONS—
For examination of teachers..
For government of schools.
To regulate meetings..
•
•
• •
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​Regulating bonds and indebtedness
SALE OF REAL ESTATE--
Require vote of five Directors
Votes to be ayes and nays....
• •
SEC. PANE
10 307
•
•
10 307
10 307
•
10 307
7 305
5 303
5 304
•
5 304
... 5 305
1 301
4 303
5 303
·
5 303
•
6 305
9
306
13 308
1 301
9 306
•
9 306
13 308
6 305
7 307
7 305
1 301
1 301
6 305
10 307
•
9 306
9 307
•
•
150
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
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SCHOOLS-
Board to control, support and maintain.
Rules for government of
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Grading, classification and management of scholars..
Board to prescribe books....
SCHOOL DIRECTORS—See BOARD OF EDUCATION—
SCHOOL DISTRICT-
City of Minneapolis..
SCHOOL FUNDS-
Shall be regarded as city money
May be recovered as such...
Deposited in banks..
SCHOOL HOUSES--
Board may hire, erect and maintain..
May erect on land it does not own.
Purposes of tax levy..
SCHOOL PROPERTY-
Title vested in Board.
•
·
• •
Board to receive moneys.
May appropriate and use same.
SEAL--
•
To be affixed to deed of conveyance.
SECRETARY—
Election of, etc………..
To keep record of proceedings.
Orders, how drawn...
Not to issue orders, when..
SETTLEMENTS—
For tax collections.
SPECIAL MEETINGS-
May be called by President..
•
1 301
1 301
1 302
1 302
. 1 300
5 304
5 304
•
5 304
1
301
• •
• •
•
•
• •
1 301
7 305
1 301
1 301
•
1
301
•
9 306
4 303
• •
•
•
5 303
5 303
•
10 307
May be called by two Directors..
Notice to state time, etc.....
Majority may act without notice.
STATUTES-
A part of act.....
SUPERINTENDENTS-
Board may employ.
SURETIES—
Treasurer and Secretary.
Nature and conditions
...
•
To be filed with Comptroller
•
•
7 306
6 305
•
6 305
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6 305
6 305
... 13 309
1 301
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4 303
4 303
4
303
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
151
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SUBJECT.
SEO.
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TAXES--
Collection enforced.
Board to make levy...
Purposes of and limitation.
Return to County Auditor.
TEACHERS-
Board may employ.
Rules for examination.
Board to prescribe powers and duties..
TITLE-
To all school property vested in Board.... . .
To sites
TREASURER-
To give bonds
UNION-
•
7 305
7 305
7 305
• •
•
•
1
7 305
1 301
1 301
1 301
1 301
13 308
4 303
1 300
2 302
8 306
•
• •
5 304
5 304
9 306
•
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9 307
1 300
Boards of East and West Divisions.
VACANCIES IN OFFICE--
School Directors.
Officers..
VOTE-
To draw orders by ayes and nays
Entered on proceedings..
•
•
For purchase or conveyance of real estate.
To be by ayes and nays..
WEST DIVISION—
Board of, consolidated with East....
PARKS AND PARKWAYS,
ABANDONMENT--See BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS—
ABSENCE-
From meetings, creates vacancy when.
Leave of absence, effect of
ABSENTEE-
Appointment of Appraisor by Appraisers, when and how...(1)
Same-by District Court...
ACCEPTANCE AND OATH-
Commissioners to file with City Clerk..
SEO. PAGE
11 328
11 328
4 315
(1)
4 315
1 312
152
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
ACT-
To be accepted by voters.
Annual city election, 1883.
SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
15 330
·
•
15 330
15
330
15 330
• •
16 330
17 330
6 332
332
1 333
•
1 312
1 312
1 313
Ballots, etc.....
Board not to act until acceptance by legal voters.
Inconsistent acts repealed.
Act to take effect..
Relative to Parkways to take effect
Amendments to Park Board act....
• •
Section of Charter relatives to City Forester, repealed.
ADJOURNED MEETINGS—-
Of Board...
AGENTS-See EMPLOYES—
Rules and regulations for ..
May be employed or dismissed
AGGRIEVED PARTY-See PROPERTY OWNER-
ALLEY-See STREETS--
Made a parkway, how……..
ANNUAL CITY ELECTION--See ELECTION--
ANNUAL REPORT--
1.331
Board to make and publish
1 313
Same to be published in official paper
1 313
D
To contain general proceedings and financial statement of..
1 313
APPEAL-See DISTRICT COURT-
APPOINTEES-See EMPLOYES-
Park Assessors.
APPRAISERS-
Appointment and general duty..
Notice and qualification..
Fine for failure to act.
May fill vacancies...
•
Appointees from non-represented wards.
District Court to fill vacancies....
Recommendation of parties.
Time and notice of hearing..
Notice by publication, when
Appraisers to be sworn.
Meeting of Appraisers..
• •
•
•
5 322
(1) 4 315
(1) 4 315
•
•
(1) 4 315
(1) 4 315
(1) 4 315
(1) 4 315
•
•
(1) 4 315
(1) 4 315
•
(1) 4 315
•
•
Notice to be published, contents...
To view premises and hear evidence.
May adjourn from day to day....
Appraisal of damage to property.
Buildings, damage if taken..
(2) 4 316
(3) 4 316
(3) 4 316
•
(4) 4 316
•
(4) 4 316
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•
(4) 4 316
(5) 4 316
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
153
SUBJECT.
SEC. PAGE
APPRAISERS-CONTINUED-
Same, if owner removes.
Separate appraisal, buildings and land.
Same, if belonging to different persons.
Same, if land subject to lease,
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•
(5) 4 316
(5) 4 316
•
Same, if subject to mortgage or judgment.
Same, if estate less than in fee.
(6) 4 316
• • • •
•
(6) 4 316
•
(6) 4 316
(6) 4 316
Confirmation not to require payment to parties not entitled (6) 4 317
Report to be filed with Secretary.
(7)
4 317
Same, to embrace schedule, description, names, costs, etc...(7)
4 317
APPROPRIATION OF LAND-See DESIGNATION—
ASSESSMENTS-See PARK ASSESSORS—
Board to determine amount to be assessed.
Appointment of Park Assessors..
To distribute total on lands benefited.
Proceedings, etc., assessment roll filed.
Notice of application for confirmation.
Service of same, proofs, etc.
Confirmation to bind all parties..
...
Court may revise, correct, amend or confirm..
New assessments when, proceedings
Interested parties to be heard..
Objections to be specific, etc..
5 322
5 322
5 322
•
•
5 323
5 323
5 324
•
5 324
5 324
5 324
5 324
•
•
5 324
•
Objections to amount not available, when.
5 324
Copy of report as confirmed to be filed with County Auditor.. 5
Copies of former roll to be re-filed...
Assessments a lien for benefits..
Ten per cent. to be paid annually.
County Auditor to include same in general tax list .
Collection, etc.. how enforced...
•
Apportionment of amount, if tracts subdivided.
Record in County Auditor's office..
324
5 324
• • ·
5 325
5 325
5 325
5 325
5 325
5 325
Compensation of County Auditor..
5 325
•
Entire assessment may be paid at any time.
Allowance to be made for interest.
5 325
5 325
5 325
7 326
Lands to be freed from lien, when.
Of tax for payment of interest.
ATTORNEY-See EMPLOYES—
•
May be employed or dismissed ...
Fees of paid by Board, when.
AUDITOR--See COUNTY AUDITOR—
AUSTIN, A. C.-
Provisional Park Commissioner
•
1 313
•
•
(12) 4 321
1 312
154
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
AUTHORITY—
SUBJECT.
To obtain titles to land..
To condemn land and method of procedure..
AWARD--See DAMAGES.
BASSETT. D.—
Provisional Park Cornmissioner
•
SEO.
PAGE
3 314
·
•
4 314
1 312
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS
Act creating...
1 311
Names of first Board.
1 311
Mayor, ex-officio member...
1 312
Same, Chairmen Council Committee on Public Grounds and
Buildings, and Committee on Roads and Bridges
1 312
•
Purposes as specified in title of act..
1 312
Powers subject to restrictions of act.
1 312
•
Acceptance of office to be filed.
1 312
•
Oath of office....
Meeting for organization.
President to be designated..
Vice-President to be designated.
Secretary to be appointed..
Vacancies, how filled……..
To constitute a Department.
Designation of Department..
•
►
•
Rules for government of proceedings.
Meetings and adjournments...
Seal to be adopted....
1
312
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•
•
•
1
312
1 312
1 312
1
312
1 312
1 312
1 312
D
•
•
1 312
· •
1 312
1 312
Rules, ordinances, etc., for agents and employes.
1 312
•
Same to be published..
1 312
Rules, ordinances, etc., for parks and parkways
1 312
Same to be published..
1 312
•
Quorum, majority to constitute..
1 312
Purchase or lease of lands, ten affirmative votes necessary.
Vacancies, filling of, ten affirmative votes necessary.
1 312
•
Bonded debt, creating same, ten affirmative votes necessary... 1 312
1 312
•
Record of proceedings to be kept..
1 313
Annual report and publication...
1 313
Statement of receipts and expenditures.
1 313
•
•
Provisional Board, how constituted...
Same, term of office....
Election of Commissioners in 1884..
Terms of same...
•
Subsequent elections and terms.
Vacancies filled by Board....
Compensation, to receive none.
•
Necessary expenses may be allowed.
1 313
1 313
1 313
1 313
• •
•
1 313
1 313
1 313
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•
• •
•
1 313
...
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
155
SUBJECT.
SEO
PAGE
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS-CONTINUED
Attorneys, surveyors and employes, employment and dismissal 1 313
Compensation of employes..
Same, how payable...
• •
Contract, Commissioner not to be interested in.
Exception, as to owner of lands
May receive compensation for same.
Not to act officially in such cases..
· • ·
Parks and Parkways, system to be devised
Adjacent to and for use of city..
Same to be designated..
Survey and plat
Plat to be filed..
• •
•
• •
•
•
1 313
1 313
1 314
1 314
1 314
1 314
2
314
2
314
•
•
•
2
314
2 314
2 314
2 314
2
314
1
•
314
3 314
3
314
•
•
•
•
• •
•
•
To take possession of lands acquired.
Improvement, plan, etc....
Title to land in name of city
Gift, devise, purchase or lease.
Donations of money, lands, etc.
Condemnation of land
•
•
Title to vest in fee simple
Condemnation proceedings.
Property owners to be notified.
Ten days' notice in person.
Public notice in official paper
Time and place of meeting.
·
•
· •
•
Appointment of Appraisers to award damages.
*
Board and land-owners to appoint....
Appraisers, selection and qualification..
Report of Appraisers to be made to Board.
Interested parties to be notified....
Damages, when and how paid.
Same, tender or deposit.
Same, pending determination on appeal
Same, payable before land is taken..
•
•
•
3
4 314
4
314
•
4 314
(1) 4 315
(1) 4 315
(1) 4 315
"
•
•
(1) 4 315
·
·
•
·
"
• • ·
·
(1) 4 315
(1) 4 315
•
(1) 4 315
•
(7) 4 317
•
• •
(8) 4 317
•
•
(9) 4 317
•
(9) 4 317
•
(9) 4 317
•
•
(9) 4 318
(9) 4 318
Same, deposited in District Court in disputed case.
Removal of building when owner so elects..
Same, time of removal......
Same, payment after removal.
•
Same, when owner does not so elect or fails to remove
Legal disability of owner, guardianship..
Objection to confirmation, when and how
If award confirmed, party may appeal.
Appeal and proceedings thereon
• •
(10) 4 318
•
•
(10) 4 318
•
(10) 4 318
(10) 4 318
·
•
(11) 4 318
·
(12) 4 319
· • •
•
·
•
(12) 4 319
(12) 4 319
(12) 4 321
··
(12) 4 321
Abandonment of proceedings for acquisition of land.
Board may abandon after determination of appeal
156
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS-CONTINUED-
In which case to pay all attorney fees and expenses.
Same, how determined
•
Description of land when title completed...
•
(12 4 321
(12) 4 321
(13) 4 321
Statement of same and of damages awarded and paid, and
plats to be filed in Registry of Deeds..
Benefits, percentage to be determined
•
Park Assessors, application for appointment of.
Notice of application......
►
•
Purchased lands adjacent of vendor, when exempted..
Same, record of exempted lands to be filed in Registry of Deeds
Assessment rolls, filing of same in Court and application for
confirmation. :
•
Same, notice of application, and service thereof
Same, copy of confirmation to be filed with County Auditor..
Same, re-filing of former rolls....
•
•
•
•
Cost of lands for parks and parkways.
Voters may authorize issue of bonds
Limit as to amount, interest, terms, etc..
Register of bonds to be kept...
Parks, etc., pledged for payment.
Sale of bonds, when and how
•
Annual estimate to be sent to County Auditor.
•
1
.(13) 4 322
5 322
5 322
5 322
•
5 323
5 323
5
323
5 323
5 324
5 324
5 324
•
6 325
6 326
6
326
•
•
•
6 326
6 326
6 326
7 326
•
Same, to show amount of money needed for succeeding year..
Same, to include payment of interest, improvements, etc......
Same, total amount not to exceed tax of one mill on dollar. 7 327
Proceeds of tax to be placed to credit of Board
7 326
7 326
•
7 327
Same, to be drawn on warrants on City Treasurer.
7 327
Same, to be known as "City Park Fund".
Vacation of public roads, etc...
7 327
8 927
Highways and railroads through parks
8 327
Bridges and viaducts over water-courses..
9 327
Railroads within or on line of parks and parkways.
9 327
Lakes, ponds and streams, regulation and control of.
9 328
•
Shore of lakes, exclusive control.
9 328
• •
Penalties for violation of rules, etc.
9 328
Sail or row boats not prohibited.
9 328
Removal of Commissioner for misdemeanor or malfeasance... 10 328.
Ten freeholders to present charges.
• •
Vacancy in office, how created....
Leave of absence, Board may grant.
•
Special assessment of benefits; funds, how expended.
Use of parks by public, subject to regulations of Board..
Sale of realty, when proceedings abandoned.
Same, deed, how executed...
10 328
11 328
11 328
12 328.
•
13 328
13 329
13 329
• •
• • •
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
157
SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS-CONTINUED-
Same, District Court to authorize sale..
13 329
Rules and ordinances, orderly use and enjoyment of parks.... 14 329
Same, penalties for violation....
Same, to take effect from official publication.
Same, prosecutions in Municipal Court.....
Park Police, Mayor to appoint on request of Board
Same, under direction of Board..
• •
Same, to be paid out of park funds..
• ·
14 329
14 329
*
14 329
14
329
14 330
•
•
14 330
15 330
•
15 330
·
15 330
•
•
•
6 326
7 326
13
328
• ·
•
Act providing for Board to be accepted by legal voters.
Same, no proceedings, etc., until so accepted..
Same, vote on acceptance, regulations, etc.
BONDS-See SURETIES-
Issuance of..
Assessment of tax to pay interest on..
Land required subject to lien of...
BONDED DEBT-
•
Creating same, ten members to consent.
Bonds, when and how issued...
Limit of bonds to be issued.
•
• •
• •
Interest not to exceed four and a half per cent..
Register of bonds, Comptroller to keep..
Bond limit for 1883..
1 312
Issue of bonds not to make debt of city exceed legal limit.. €
Bonds a first lien on parks and improvements.
Estimated interest for year...
BRACKETT, GEÓ. A.—
•
Provisional Park Commissioner.
BRIDGES AND VIADUCTS--
May be constructed over water-courses and railroads..
BUILDINGS-
Damages when owner removes.
·
6 326
•
•
•
6 326
6 326
6 326
6 326
326
6 326
7 326
1 312
•
9 327
(5) 4 316
•
(5) 4 316
• •
(6) 4 316
•
(10) 4 318
(10) 4 318
·
·
Damages belonging to different persons.
Damages when not removed..
When to be removed
• • •
Further time, when.
Damages payable after removal.
When Board may appropriate..
Proceeds to park fund...
•
•
•
•
•
CERTIFIED COPY-See TRANSCRIPT-
CITY CHARTER--
Provision in, not to affect
CITY COMPTROLLER-
To countersign warrants.
•
To keep register of bonds, etc....
(10) 4 318
(10) 4 318
(10) 4 318
16 330
1 313
6 326
158
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SEC. PAGI
1 312
1 331
3 331
3 331
2 314
1 333
2
333
2 333
•
2 333
2 333
2 333
2 333
2 314
(9) 4 318
CITY COUNCIL--
Chairmen of Committees on Public Grounds and Buildings
and on Roads and Bridges ex-officio Commissioners...
Consent as to designation of Parkways.
May lay water-mains in parkways.
Special assessments for same..
CITY ENGINEER-
Plats of parks to be filed with..
CITY FORESTER-
•
Provision for, in city charter, repealed..
Board may appoint ....
President to recommend
General duties.
•
Inspection of trees, shrubs, etc., offered for sale
Planting and culture of trees in streets..
Compensation
CITY LIMITS--
Parks to be within and adjacent.
CLAIMANTS—
• ·
•
Of award, when to apply to District Court..
COMMISSIONERS--See BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS-
COMPENSATION—
Commissioners not to receive...
Except for necessary expenses.
•
Appointees and employes, to be fixed by Board.
·
Park Appraisers...
Court Appraisers..
City Forester.
•
1 313
1 313
1 313
1 313
(12) 4 321
2 333
CONDEMNATION-See BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS,
APPRAISERS, Park Assessors, Damages, etc.
Board may condemn designated lands
When condemned, title to vest in fee simple..
Condemnation proceedings
CONFIRMATION-See Board OF PARK COMMISSIONERS and
DISTRICT COURT.
Awards to be paid within six months.
Exception in case of appeal..
CONSTRUCTION--See STREETS.
No highway or railroad without consent of Board……….
Bridges and viaducts...
Parkways
•
CONTRACT-
•
-
• • *
Commissioner not to be interested in.
Exception as to land designated..
4 314
4 314
4 314
(9) 4 317
(9) 4 317
8 327
9 327
1 331
1 314
1 314
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
159
SUBJECT.
CONTROL AND GOVERNMENT
Parkways
CONTROL OF STREAMS, ETC.-See WATER-
CONVICTION-See MISDEMEANOR.
COPY-See TRANSCRIPT-
COSTS-
Of Appraisers' proceedings, statement of.
Appellant's bond for……..
On appeal, to be fixed by Court.
Double costs, when....
COST OF LANDS--See PARKS AND PARKWAYS--
Board may borrow money for.
COST OF
Grading, paving, sidewalks, sewers, etc....
Water mains..
SEO, PAGE
1 331
(7) 4 317
·
(12) 4 319
•
(12) 4 321
•
(12) 4 321
6 325
2 331
3 331
5 324
5 324
COUNTY AUDITOR-
Copy of assessment roll, as amended, to be filed with………
Copies of former assessment rolls to be filed...
Ten per cent. of assessment to be included in yearly tax list.. 5
Same to be headed "Park Assessments".
Proceedings for collecting, same as for other taxes.
Subdivision of tracts, when and how.
Special records in County Auditor's office.
Compensation of County Auditor...
•
• •
325
5 325
•
5 325
5 325
5 325
5 325
7 326
To receive estimates of amount needed for succeeding year...
Amount not to exceed proceeds of a tax of one mill on dollar.. 7 327
Auditor to determine and enter same on general tax list..... 7 327
COURT-See DISTRICT COURT--
Municipal Court to enforce ordinances.
CREATION—
Of Board of Park Commissioners..
14 329
1 311
CREATING BONDED DEBT-See BONDED DEBT—
CROSS, JUDSON N.—
Provisional Park Commissioner.
•
1 313
CURBING-See STREETS—
Power same as City Council...
DAMAGES-
To property, appraisal of ………….
Interested parties to be heard..
To buildings, how ascertained..
Separate ownership..
Estate less than fee...
•
• · •
Award, objections and confirmation.
2 331
•
(4) 4 316.
•
(4) 4 316
•
•
(5) 4 316
..(6) 4 316
•
•
•
(6) 4 316
•
(7) 4 317
160
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
DAMAGES--CONTINUED--
District Court to determine proper claimant.
Appeals to District Court and proceeding.
Re-appraisal, when and how..
Frivolous appeals, costs..
Attorney's fees and expenses, when.
Assessment of benefits..
Objections, proceedings, adjudication.
•
DEPARTMENT OF CITY GOVERNMENT
Board to constitute..
·
•
SEO, PAGE
(9) 4 318
·
•
•
•
•
(12) 4 320
(12) 4 320
(12) 4 321
• •
•
(12) 4 321
5 322
5 324
1 312
(7) 4 317
DESCRIPTION OF LAND-See TRANSCRIPTS-
In report of Appraisers...
DESIGNATION OF BOARD-
"Board of Park Commissioners of the City of Minneapolis"... 1 312
DESIGNATION OF LANDS—
|
Ten members to consent....
Commissioner not to act, if owner.
• •
For parks and parkways...
1 312
1 314
2 314
3 314
1
3 314
Condemnation of designated lands....
DEVISE-See PARKS AND PARKWAYS--
Board may receive lands by..
DISTRICT COURT-
To fill vacancy of Appraiser, when.
Deposit of award in, when disputed claim.
To determine party entitled to receive..
To appoint guardian for infant, etc..
Appeal from order of Board on award.
Transcript to be filed with Clerk....
Of objection only, if additional appeals.
No pleading on appeal...
Court to first pass upon irregularities..
Hearing, notice and precedence..
•
(1) 4 315
•
•
(9) 4 318
•
(9) 4 318
•
•
(11) 4 318
• ·
(12) 4 319
•
•
(12) 4 319
•
(12) 4 320
•
•
•
•
(12) 4 320
•
•
(12) 4 320
•
(12) 4 320
(12) 4 320
(12) 4 320
·
(12) 4 320
•
•
(12) 4 320
• •
(12) 4 320
(12) 4 320
Judgment to confirm or annul as to property of appellant.(12) 4 320
No further appeal or writ of error.
• •
If award complained of, and proceedings otherwise confirmed,
Appraisers to be appointed
•
Qualifications etc., to re-appraise damages.
Parties to appeal to be heard on appointment.
Court to fix time and place of meeting..
Appraisers to be sworn
Proceedings on report of Appraisers..
•
(12) 4 320
If report is set aside, may re-commit to same Appraisers. .(12) 4 321
Or appoint new Appraisers
•
(12) 4 321
No appeal or writ of error from any order in the premises. (12) 4 321
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INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
161
SUBJECT.
SEC. PAGE
Court to appoint Park Assessors, when and how..
Notice of hearing
Costs on appeal
DISTRICT COURT--CONTINUED-
Compensation of Appraisers....
Double costs, when..
•
•
(12) 4 321
•
(12) 4 321
•
(12) 4 321
Court to determine attorneys' fees and expenses of property
owner, when
•
•
•
.(12) 4 321
5 322
5 322
5 323
5 323
•
•
5 324
5 324
•
5 324
•
1
5 324
•
•
·
•
5 324
•
Assessment roll to be filed ...
Notice of application for confirmation
Confirmation to bind all parties
Court may revise, amend or confirm
New assessment, when...
Interested parties to be heard.
* •
Objections to be specified, etc...
•
Objections to amount only, how considered
•
5 324
May remove Commissioners for misdemeanor or malfeasance. 10 328
May authorize sale of real-estate abandoned for park purposes 13 329
Interested parties to be heard..
Notice as directed by Court..
Court may enforce orders, judgments and decrees.
DONATION-See MONEY-
EASTMAN, W. W.-
13 329
13 329
•
13 329
• •
Provisional Park Commissioner.
ELECTION AND TERMS-
1 312
Twelve Commissioners in 1884
Four Commissioners annually.
Commissioners in 1888 and subsequently-[Note]
EMPLOYES-
Rules and regulations for
May be employed or dismissed
· •
Compensation of, to be fixed by Board..
Same, payable from City Park Fund..
ESTATE-See FEE-
•
When less than fee simple, damages, how appraised....
EVIDENCE-
Appraisers to hear interested parties..
Record of description of lands acquired, prima facie.
EXEMPT LANDS-See PROPERTY OWNER-
1 313
•
1 313
1 313
1 312
1 313
1 313
•
•
•
1 313
•
•
(6) 4 316
• •
(4) 4 316
•
(12) 4 322
Board may exempt adjacent lands as part consideration...
Record of exempted lands kept by Secretary.
May be recorded in Registry of Deeds..
•
5 323
5 323
•
5 323
EX-OFFICIO COMMISSIONERS-
Mayor and Chairmen of Council Committees on Public
Grounds and Buildings and on Roads and Bridges...
Provisional Commissioners.
1 312
1 313
162
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
EXPENDITURES-See RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES
Of money received for benefits
EXPENSES-
Of Commissioners may be allowed....
Of property owners paid by Board, when..
FEE-
Title to land to be in fee simple
SEC. PAGE
12 328
•
1 313
•
•
•
(12) 4, 321
4 314
Land to be paid for before fee vests.
4 314
When estate less than fee simple, damages, how appraised.. (6) 4 316
FORESTER-See CITY FORESTER--
FREEHOLDER-
Appraiser to be...
FUNDS--See MONEYS-
GIFT-See PARKS AND PARKWAYS--
Board may receive lands by..
Lands for parkways outside of corporate limits.
GOVERNMENT-See RULES, etc.-
GRADING-See STREETS--
·
(1) 4 315
•
D
•
3 314
•
4 332
Powers same as City Council..
GUARDIAN-
Appointment, for one under legal disability
Notices to be served upon....
HAUGAN, A. C.~
Provisional Park Commissioner..
HIGHWAY-See ROAD--
IMPROVEMENT OF PARKS-See PARKS AND PARKWAYS--
Proceeds of special assessment, how expended .
INFANT See LEGAL DISABILITY-
INJURY-See DAMAGES—
IRREGULARITIES-See DISTRICT COURT--
ISSUE-
Of bonds....
INTEREST--See BONDED DEBT, etc.—
On bonds..
Payment of.
•
·
INTERESTED PARTY-See PROPERTY OWNER-
JUDGMENT-
When land subject to damage, how appraised.
JURISDICTION—
Police control of lands....
LAKE-See WATER -
2 331
(11) 4 319
·
(11) 4 319
1 312
12 328
6 326
6 326
9 326
• •
(6) 4 316
14 329
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
163
LANDS-
SUBJECT.
SEC.
PAGE
Power and authority to obtain title.....
Authority to condemn, method and procedure..
Acquired, subject to lien for bonds issued ..
Acquired, police control of ……..
LAND OWNERS-See PROPERTY OWNERS--
LEASE-
· •
When land subject to, damages how appraised...
LEASING OF LANDS--
Ten members to consent....
LEGAL VOTERS-See VOTERS-
LEGAL DISABILITY-
1
3 314
4 314
13 328
14 329
•
(6) 4 316
1 312
District Court may appoint Guardian on application......(11) 4 318
LIEN--
Assessments for benefits...
Same, how discharged..
• •
Bonds on Parks and improvements.
Enforcement of, for payment of bonds.
LORING, C. M.—
Provisional Park Commissioner.
MAJORITY--
Of members to constitute quorum
•
5 325
5
325
6 326
•
•
• • •
13
329
1 311
1 312
MALFEASANCE-See MISDEMEANORS-
Removal from office for....
10 328
MAYOR--
Ex-officio Park Commissioner...
1 312
Shall appoint Police, at request of Board
14 329
Board to designate same
14 329
•
MEETINGS—
Of Board....
1 312
Absence from, creates vacancy, when
11 328
• •
MERRIMAN, O. C.—
Provisional Park Commissioner
MISDEMEANOR-See PENALTIES-
1 312
Commissioner guilty of, may be removed.
Same, as to malfeasance..
10 328
•
10 328
Trial and conviction in District Court
10 328
•
MONEY—
Ten freeholders to sign petition
Board may receive donations..
Tax collections to be placed to credit of Board ..
To be drawn on warrants, how signed, etc....
10 328
3 314
7 327
7 327
·
•
To constitute special fund known as "City Park Fund,"
Proceeds of special assessments, how expended...
7 327
•
•
12
3.8
164
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
MORRISON, D.-
SUBJECT.
SEC. PAGE
Provisional Park Commissioner...
MORTGAGE-
When land subject to, damages how appraised...
MUNICIPAL COURT-
Appraisers, when prosecuted therein
•
•
Penalty for failure of Appraiser to act.
Enforcement of ordinances in..
NAMES OF OWNERS--
To be given by Appraisers, if known....
NEXT FRIEND-
1 311
(6) 4 316
(1) 4 315
•
(1) 4 315
14 329
..(7) 4 317
May act for infant, etc., in appointment of Guardian ......(11) 4 319
NON-RESIDENTS-
How notified of appointment of Appraiser by District Court (1) 4 313
NOTICE-See NOTICE BY PUBLICATION, PERSONAL NOTICE, etc.--
NOTICES--
When to be served on Guardian.
Of appeal in District Court…..
(11) 4 319
•
(12) 4 320
As to hearing on application for attorney's fees, etc..
Of proposed sale of real estate.....
•
.(12) 4 321
NOTICE BY PUBLICATION—
To non-residents, of hearing in District Court and to fill va-
cancy of Appraiser...
3 329
·
(1) 4 313
To property owners, of meeting to appoint Appraiser.......(1) 4 315
By Appraisers, of plat and meeting to view premises and ap-
praise damage.....
By Secretary, of filing of Appraisers' report, etc..
Details of notice [note].
•
•
(3) 4 316
.
·
(8) 4 317
(8) 4 317
Application to District Court for appointment of Park As-
sessors...
Meeting of Park Assessors, etc...
Application for confirmation of assessment rolls.
Sale of real estate [note]…….
Sale of real estate....
OATH AND ACCEPTANCE-
•
C
Commissioner to file with City Clerk.
OATHS--
Appraisers to be sworn.
·
Court, Assessor may administer.
OBJECTIONS--See DISTRICT COURT--
To be filed with Secretary.
Proceedings thereon...
•
5 322
5
323
5 323
•
•
10 327
13 329
·
1 312
(2) 4 316
5 323
(12) 4 319
.(12) 4 319
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SUBJECT.
OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER--See NOTICE BY PUBLICATION——
SEC. PAGE
Ordinances to be published in.
ORDERS--See WARRANTS-
To be countersigned by City Comptroller.
OPENINGS--See STREETS---
Powers same as of City Council.
ORDINANCES-See RULES, etc.-
Board may enact rules and ordinances.
To be published in official paper...
Relative to City Forester, shade trees, etc.
• •
ORNAMENTAL TREES-See TREES AND SHRUBBERY--
OSWALD, J. C.—
Provisional Park Commissioner
OWNERS-See PROPERTY OWNERS--
•
Within what time to remove buildings.
In case of infant, what to do....
.
PARK ASSESSO RS-See ASSESSMENTS--
•
When and how appointed, qualifications, etc..
Application to District Court..
Notice of hearing to be published.
Court to appoint three Assessors.
· •
• •
14 329
1 313
2 331
14 329
14 329
2 333
1 312
•
.(10) 4 318
(11)
318
5 322
10 10
Assessors to apportion total upon property specially benefited 5
Whether abutting on park or not....
• •
Determination deemed to include all lands benefited.
Exemption of lands of parties from whom purchased, when..
Assessors to be sworn...
Notice of meeting for making assessment.
•
•
Interested parties may be heard...
Assessors may administer oaths.
May adjourn from time to time.
5 322
5 322
5 322
322
5 322
5
332
5 322
5 322
5 322
5 322
•
•
•
6 322
5 322
5 322
•
•
5 322
5 323
•
Assessment roll to be filed with Clerk of Court.
Majority of Assessors may concur therein.
Proceedings, findings, etc..
PARK ASSESSMENTS-See ASSESSMENTS--
Heading in general tax list..
PARKS AND PARKWAYS--See BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS--
5 325
Rules and regulations.
System to be adopted..
Lands to be designated
•
To be surveyed and platted
Plat to be filed....
•
Possession and improvement.
Gift, devise, purchase or lease.
•
1 312
2 314
• •
2 314
2 314
2 314
•
2 314
3 314
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INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
PARKS AND PARKWAYS - CONTINUED
Board may borrow money to purchase.
Majority of voters to authorize same
Bonds to run not exceeding fifty years.
When and how issued, conditions.
Limit as to amount, interest, etc...
Not to exceed bonded debt limit of city
Sale of bonds and restrictions..
Estimate for succeeding year.
• •
•
•
•
•
• •
Parkways to be controlled by Board..
Same, construction, maintenance, etc
Same, regulations as to use, travel and traffic.
•
SEC.
PAGE
6 325
6
326
6 326
6 326
6 326
•
6 326
•
6 326
•
•
•
6 326
• •
•
•
•
•
•
1
331
1 331
1 331
Same, not to be made of street unless City Council consents..
Same, powers and jurisdiction of Board......
1 331
2 331
Same, relative to opening and vacation, same as City Council.. 2 331
Same, grading, paving and curbing...
Same, construction of sidewalks and sewers.
Same, special assessments for costs..
Same, City Council may lay water mains
2 331
2 331
2 331
3 331
3 331
•
• •
•
•
3 331
4 332
4. 332
4 332
•
• •
•
5 332
6 32
Same, proceedings same as with public streets
Same, special assessments for water mains.
Same, lands outside corporate limits....
Same, Board may acquire by gift for extension.
Same, Board to have jurisdiction over same.
Same, inconsistent acts repealed...
Same, act to take effect.
PARK COMMISSIONERS--See BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS—
PARK POLICE--
Designated by Board....
Appointed by the Mayor...
Under control and direction of Board.
•
May be discharged....
Board to provide for payment .
PARK SYSTEM-
Creation of Board for..
14 329
14 329
14 330
•
14 330
•
14 330
•
Board to devise and adopt..
To be within and adjacent to city limits.
PARKWAY-See PARKS AND PARKWAYS-.
PAVING-See STREETS—
... 1 311
2 314
2 314
Power same as City Council.
2 331
PAYMENT--
Not to be made to party not entitled,even though confirmed (6) 4 316
Of damages, when and how.
Same, in case of appeal.
• •
(9) 4 317
•
(9) 4 317
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PAYMENT-CONTINUED -
SUBJECT.
Same, to be made before occupancy
Same, when claims disputed
•
•
•
SEO, PAGE
(9) 4 318
(9) 4 318
.(12) 4 322
5 325
5 325
Statement of, to each former owner, to accompany description
of land for record......
Of assessment, when and how.
If at one time, interest deducted
Assessment of tax for interest
Police ...
+
•
PENALTIES--
For failing to act as Appraiser.
• •
•
•
•
•
7 326
14 330
•
(1) 4 315
9 328
9 328
14 329
For violation of rules relative to use of shores, control of
water, etc...
•
Board may ordain
•
•
Enforced in Municipal Court..
PERCENTAGE-See ASSESSMENT—
PERPETUAL PARKS--
Lands to remain forever parks, et c.
Use subject to restrictions
•
Abandoned parks, when and how sold
PERSONAL NOTICE--
To property owners, of meeting to appoint Appraisers.
To same, of hearing in District Court to fill vacancy of Ap-
praisers...
Same, of filing of Appraisers' report, etc.
Details of notice [note]
•
Application for confirmation of assessment roll.
Personal service of copies and proof of same.
Proof as to vacant or unoccupied land
PILLSBURY, J. S. --
Provisional Park Commissioner..
PLACE-See TIME AND PLACE-
PLATS-See SURVEYS AND PLATS-
Register of Deeds to file and record..
PLEADING-See DISTRICT COURT—
POLICE-See PARK POLICE-
PONDS-See WATER--
POWERS OF BOARD-
•
13 328
13 328
13 329
• • • •
•
(1) 4 315
•
(1) 4 315
•
(8) 4 317
•
(8) 4 317
5 323
5 324
•
5 324
1 311
•
•
•
(12) 4 322
Restricted to provisions of act...
1 312
Authority to obtain title to lands..
3 314
PRESIDENT OF BOARD--
To be designated by Board..
1 312
To be a Commissioner..
1 312
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INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SEC. PAGE
PRESIDENT OF BOARD--CONTINUED-
Vacancy, how filed....
To certify to descriptions of land acquired, for record.
To sign warrants...
To execute deed, as directed by Board..
PROCEEDINGS--
Rules for government of.
Record to be kept....
•
· • +
•
•
Annual report to be published……..
PROCEDURE—
Method to condemn land……….
PROPERTY OWNERS--
•
To be notified of meeting to appoint Appraiser..
To appoint one-half of the Appraisers...
To be notified of vacancy to be filled by District Court.
To be heard by Appraisers
Damage to be paid to, how ascertained..
May elect as to removal of building..
Separate damages for building.
Proceedings, if legally disabled.
•
•
•
•
•
1 312
(12) 4 322
7 327
13 329
• •
•
·
•
•
1 312
1 313
1 313
4 314
•
(1) 4 315
•
(1) 4 315
(1) 4 315
(4) 4 316
і
•
•
(4) 4 316
•
(5) 4 316
(5) 4 316
•
(11) 4 318
If claiming irregularity in proceedings of Board or Appraisers,
may object to confirmation..
Same, if dissatisfied with award..
Objections to be specified, etc..
•
· •
If Board confirms award, may appeal to District Court...(12) 4 319
Appeal, when and how, bond, etc..
To have transcript of record, etc.
Proceedings on appeal, rights of appellant...
•
.(12) 4 319
•
(12) 4 319
•
•
(12) 4 319
• •
(12) 4 319
(12) 4 320
•
(12) 4 320
•
•
(12) 4 321
•
•
(12) 4 321
• •
(12) 4 321
May be heard in event of appointment of new Appraisers.(12) 4 320
Double costs if appeal frivolous or vexatious.....
Abandonment within thirty days of determination of appeal.(12) 4 321
Attorney's fees and expenses to be paid..
Same, how arrived at..
PROOF See EVIDENCE-
PROSECUTIONS-
•
For violation of ordinances in Municipal Court.....
PROVISIONAL BOARD-See BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS--
PUBLIC PLACE--See STREETS-
Made a parkway, how....
QUALIFICATION-
Appraiser
QUORUM-
Majority of members.
RAILROAD-See STREETS-
14 329
1 331
(1) 4 315
1 312
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SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
(12) 4 320
(12) 4 320
(12) 4 320
•
•
(12) 4 320
•
(12) 4 320
(12) 4 320
·
•
(12) 4 321
(12) 4 321
(12) 4 321
(12) 4 321
(12) 4 321
REAL ESTATE--See PROPERTY OWNERS, etc.---
RE-APPRAISEMENT
Court may appoint in case of appeal.
•
•
•
·
Shall be free-holders and residents...
Appellant may be heard as to appointments.
Appraisers shall be sworn.
Shall view premises and hear parties..
•
Shall be governed by same rules as former Appraisers
To report appraisal of damages.
Award final unless set aside for cause
Re-committal of award
•
•
Appointment of new Appraisers, when.
Compensation of Appraisers
RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES-
Statement of, in annual report....
REGISTER OF DEEDS-
•
•
To file and record plats of lands acquired..
To record certified descriptions of land.
Record prima facie evidence of title....
REGULATIONS-See RULES, etc.—
Of Parkways
REMOVAL--
•
From office for malfeasance
From office for non-attendance at meetings.
REPEAL-
Of acts inconsistent with Park System act
Of acts inconsistent with Parkway act
Of charter provision relative to City Forester
•
• •
1 313
•
•
(12) 4 322
(12) 4 322
(12) 4 322
1 331
10 328
11 328
.. 17 330
•
5 332
1 333
ROADS-See STREETS-
Board may vacate, when
8 327
Not to be constructed without consent
8 327
RULES, ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS-
For agents, servants and employes.
1 312
For Parks and Parkways...
1 312
RULES OF PROCEDURE –
Board shall make..
1 312
•
•
SALE OF ABANDONED LANDS-
May be authorized by District Court .
13 329
SALE OF BONDS-
How sold, etc...
6 326
SALE OF LANDS—
Unavailable for park system..
13 329
Terms, deed, price, etc...
13 329
•
District Court to authorize.
13 329
•
170
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SCHEDULE-See APPRAISERS--
Of Appraisers, to accompany report..
SEAL--
Board shall adopt.....
SECRETARY—
To be appointed by Board
Vacancy, how filled.
To notify Appraisers of appointment, etc.
Appraisers to file report with....
• •
SEC. PAGE
•
(7) 4 317
•
. 1 312
1 312
1 312
•
(1) 4 315
•
(7) 4 317
To notify in person, interested parties of filing of Appraisers'
report, etc..
Details of notice [note]..
Objection to award to be filed with.
Notice of Appeal to be filed with.
• •
•
•
Bond of Appellant to be filed with..
To make certified copy of award, etc..
Same to be sent to Clerk of District Court.
· •
•
To certify to description of land acquired, for record..
To keep record of lands exempt from assessment.
To sign warrants
•
To execute deeds as directed by Board.
SERVANTS—
Rules and regulations for..
SERVICE-See PERSONAL NOTICE-
SEWERS--See STREETS-
• •
•
.(8) 4 317
•
•
•
(8) 4 317
•
(12) 4 319
•
•
(12) 4 319
•
(12) 4 319
•
(12) 4 319
•
·
(12) 4 319
(12) 4 322
5 323
7 327
•
•
11 329
1 312
Powers same as City Council....
2 331
SHADE TREES-See TREES AND SHRUBBERY--
SHORE--See WATER-
SHRUBS See TREES AND SHRUBBERY--
SIDEWALKS-See STREETS--
Powers same as City Council....
2 331
SPECIAL ASSESSMENTS-See STREETS-
Powers same as City Council....
2 331
STREAMS-See WATER-
STREETS-
Vacation and closing of...
Made on Parkway, Council to consent...
Use, travel and traffic...
Power and jurisdiction of Board.
Opening, vacation, etc.....
Grading, paving and curbing.
Sidewalks and sewers.
Special assessments for costs.
• • •
+
8 327
1 331
1 331
• •
2 331
2 331
2 331
•
2 331
2 331
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
171
SUBJECT.
SEC.
PAGE
TREETS-CONTINUED
3 331
3 331
•
·
•
•
•
4 331
1
333
Power and jurisdiction of City Council.
Water mains and special assessments.
Extension of streets beyond corporate limits.
Planting and culture of trees in highways..
SUCCESSORS--
Of Board to have same powers
JURETIES-
Appellant to furnish.
Conditions, etc....
SURVEYS AND PLATS---
Parks and parkways to be surveyed.
Plat to be filed with City Engineer.
SURVEYORS-See EMPLOYES-
May be employed or dismissed..
SYSTEM-See PARK SYSTEM-
TAX-See ASSESSMENTS —
•
•
2 314
(12) 4 319
.(12) 4 319
2 314
•
•
• •
2 314
1 313
Tax for interest, purchase, improvements, expenses, etc..
Same not to exceed one mill on dollar……….
County Auditor to determine percentage
Same to be entered on general tax list..
7 327
•
7 327
7 327
7 327
Tax to be collected same as other taxes.
Proceeds to be placed by Treasurer to credit of Board....
TERM OF OFFICE-See ELECTION AND TERMS-
7 327
•
•
•
7 327
TIME AND PLACE-
Of meeting to appoint Appraisers..
TITLE TO LANDS—
Authority to obtain.
To vest in fee simple..
TRAFFIC-
Regulations in Parkways.
TRANSCRIPTS-
• • • •
•
Secretary to make, of record in appeal cases.
Certify same and send to Clerk of Court.
If more than one appeal
·
•
(1) 4 315
•
3 314
4 314
1 331
Description of land, certified and filed in Registry of Deeds..(12) 4 322
Same to show damage awarded, etc..
TRAVEL-
Regulations in Parkways..
TREES AND SHRUBBERY-
In streets, alleys and public grounds
Board may regulate planting and preservation .
City Forester to inspect those offered for sale
•
(12) 4 319
•
(12) 4 319
•
(12) 4 320
•
(12) 4 322
1 331
2 333
2 333
•
2 333
172
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SEC PAC
TREES AND SHRUBBERY--CONTINUED
To superintend planting and culture..
Board may enact ordinances
TRIAL-See MISDEMEANOR-
VACANCIES IN OFFICE--
• • •
•
•
President, Vice President or Secretary, how filled
Member of Board, ten members to consent to fill.
Same, how filled.....
2 33
2 33
•
•
A
•
•
1 312
1 312
1 313
Commissioner, by absence
11 328
•
•
VACANT LAND-
Proof of same at time when service should be made...... . . .
VACATION OF STREETS--See STREETS--
5 324
Board may vacate highways, except railways passing through
parks..
8 327
Powers same as of City Council.
VALID SALE-
Of real estate...
VIADUCTS AND BRIDGES--
Construction of……..
VICE PRESIDENT-
To be designated by Board...
To be a Commissioner
Vacancy, how filled....
VIEW AND HEARING-See APPRAISERS--
VOTERS-See ACT-
To vote on acceptance of act.
WARD-
One Appraiser from each....
WARRANTS
(ORDERS)-
To be countersigned by City Comptroller...
WATER-
Control of shores, when and how..
Control of entire water of lake, etc…….
Penalty for violation of rules, when.
Boats not to be prohibited..
WATER MAINS-See STREETS-
City Council may lay
WELLES, HENRY T.-
Provisional Park Commissioner..
WRIT OF ERROR--
Not from order of District Court
•
2 331
·
13 329
9 327
•
1 312
1 312
•
•
• •
1 312
15 330
•
•
(1) 4 315
1 313
9 328
• •
9 328
9 328
9 328
3 331
1 311
(12) 4 321
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
173
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL.
SEC
PAGE
.CCESS-
To building...
CCOUNTING-
Auditor and Comptroller.
City and County....
CQUISITION—
...
Of block seventy-seven....
Terms of sale...
ADJUSTMENT OF INTEREST--
Board of Commissioners.
AGENTS---
Board may appoint....
Compensation...
APPEAL-
Damages not to be paid, until.
•
10 344
11 345
12 346
• ·
• • •
•
•
·
4 337
5 338
12 346
3 337
3 337
7 340
Manner of making..
8 341
Bond to be filed...
8 342
Certified copy of award and objection.
8 342
•
APPRAISEMENT-
Board may confirm, raise, revise or annul..
Objection of parties..
7 340
7 340
•
APPRAISERS-
To award damages..
Shall give notice of meetings..
6 338
6 338
To view premises, hear evidence, etc.
6 338
To file award
6 339
•
ARCHITECTURE-
Of Public Building
10 343
AUTHORITY-
To issue bonds...
11 344
BLOCK SEVENTY-SEVEN
Site for Court House and City Hall...
Acquisition of.......
To be conveyed to each, county and city..
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS-
Names of first members, etc..
•
Term of office, vacancies, etc...
1 335
4 337
4 337
•
2 336
2 336
Make conditions of Treasurer's bond.
Rules and by-laws.
3 337
4 337
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INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SEC. PAL
4 33
•
•
•
·
•
·
•
5 23
6 33
•
7 34
7
34
•
7 34
9 34
9 34
•
•
• •
•
•
•
•
9 34
10 34
10 34
•
10 34
•
10 34
10 34
11 34
•
•
12 340
12 34
BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS-CONTINUED-
Government of agents and employes....
Enter into agreement with Board of Education
To appoint Appraisers...
May appoint new Appraisers, when.
•
May confirm, revise, or annul appraisement.
If owners fail to remove buildings.
• •
Make detailed description of property, etc..
Recorded by Register of Deeds....
•
Records prima facie evidence.
Erection of public buildings.
Not to employ prison labor..
Court house to be erected first
·
To advise with Council Committee
Complete and furnish building.
To issue bonds....
Adjustment of interest.
Final accounting, etc..
•
BONDS-See COURT HOUSE--
CHOWEN, W. S.—
Member of Commission..
CITY-
Final accounting with County.
Payment of bonds, City series.
CITY COMPTROLLER—
•
• • .
•
• ·
· "
2 336
•
12 340
13 347
Sign and keep record of bonds....
11 345
CITY COUNCIL-
Tax for sinking fund……….
14 347
CITY SINKING FUND-See SINKING FUND-
CITY TAX--
Payment of bonds, City series.
14 347
CLOUGH, DAVID M.—
Member of Commission.
2 336
COMPENSATION—
Board of Commissioners..
2 336
Secretary of Board..
Agents of Board...
CONTRACTOR-
Dishonest practice or cheating....
COSTS-
In appraisement proceedings..
Of land divided....
COUNCIL COMMITTEE—
3 337
•
3 337
·
3 336
6 339
12 346
•
On Public Grounds and Buildings, to advise Commission....
10 341
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SUBJECT.
COUNTERSIGNING BONDS –
Evidence of legality.
COUNTY AUDITOR--
•
Sign and keep record of bonds .
COUNTY OF HENNEPIN-
Final accounting with city.
SEC. PAGE
15 348
11 345
12 346
Payment of principal and interest of bonds, County series..... 13 347
COUNTY SINKING FUND--See SINKING FUND--
COUNTY TAX--
Payment of County series..
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL-
Designation of site.....
Public Buildings to be erected thereon
Board of Commissioners designated..
Term, vacancies, compensation, etc.
President and Treasurer
Secretary and agents
Treasurers' bond..
•
Acquisition of block seventy-seven.
Purchase of site, condemnation.
Conveyance to County and City..
Rules and By-Laws...
•
•
•
•
Sale of block seventy-seven, by Board of Education.
Bonds for purchase money
School house property may be condemned.
Appointment of Appraisers, duties, etc.
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1 335
1 336
2 336
2 336
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3 337
3 337
3 337
4
337
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•
•
•
+
·
•
· •
4 337
4 337
4 337
5 337
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5 337
5 337
6 338
6 339
8 342
8 342
9 343
9 343
•
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• •
· •
9 343
10 343
Character of building..
Board to advise with Council Committee.
No prison labor product....
Erection of Court House first, City Hall delayed.
Deeds, when completed.
• •
Access to building..
Issue of bonds....
Interest payable semi-annually
10 344
10 344
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•
•
10 344
10 344
10 344
10 344
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•
•
11 344
•
11 345
11 345
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11 345
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•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
•
11 345
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Hearing, award, confirmation, etc..
Appeal case to District Court
Judgment of Court, final..
•
•
Award, etc., to be recorded……..
Receipts and certificates.
Evidence of title to land..
Building to be erected
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Limitation of amount of interest.
Sale of bonds, etc ...
Bonds, "County series" and "City series".
Bonds a lien, when
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11 345
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INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL-CONTINUED.-
Bonds, how issued and signed, record..
Not obliged to issue equal amounts.
Bonds, each series limited.
•
Bond proceeds, how applied.
Accounting between city and county
•
Sale of bonds from time to time, adjustment of interest..
Final accounting, books of account...
Tax for county series, County Sinking Fund.
Investment of County Sinking Fund..
Tax for city series, City Sinking Fund.
City debt limited...
Countersigning evidence of legality.
DAMAGES--
To be appraised
Not to be paid, when.
To be paid owners
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11 345
•
11 345
12 345
12 346
12 346
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12 346
12 346
13 347
13 347
14 347
15 347
15 348
6 338
6 339
6 339
6 339
6 339
7
340
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• •
•
•
•
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7
340
7 340
8 342
10 344
10 344
•
10 344
Building and land to be separate.
When more than one owner..
Paid by Board....
May be deposited with Court.
In case of appeal..
To be determined by jury, when..
DEEDS--
To site....
For Court House, to County
For City Hall, to City
DELAY--
In erection of City Hall....
DENOMINATION--
Of bonds..
•
DESCRIPTION-
Of lands to be taken...
DESIGNATION OF SITE-
Court House and City Hall.
DISHONEST PRACTICE--
Commissioners not to allow...
DISPUTED OWNERSHIP--
Amount to be deposited...
ERICKSON, OLIVER T.--
Member of Commission.
EXECUTION OF DEEDS--
By President and Secretary..
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•
•
10 344
.. 11 345
6 336
1 335
+
3 336
7 340
... 2 336
•
10 344
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
177
SUBJECT.
FINAL ACCOUNTING-
Between County and City..
FRAUD-
Commissioners not to allow
•
•
FURNISH--
Public Building
·
• •
GUARDIAN-
District Judge may appoint.
Notices to be served on
GOVERNMENT---
•
Of Board of Commissioners.
Of Agents and Employes…….
HENNEPIN COUNTY-
Deed for Court House site
INTEREST-
On bonds....
Adjusted.
INVESTMENT-
•
•
County Sinking Fund.
LEGALITY-
•
Countersigning of bonds evidence of..
LIEN-
Bonds, when...
LIMITATION--
Delay in erecting City Hall.
Time bonds are to run.
Interest on bonds..
Amount of bonds.
City debt....
LORING, CHARLES M.-
Member of Commission
MARECK, TITUS—
Member of Commission
MORTGAGES--
On land to be taken.
OBJECTIONS—
Manner of making`.
Certified copy
OSWALD, JOHN C.-
Member of Commission..
OWNERS
•
To be awarded damages
SEC. PAGE
12 346
3 337
10 344
7 341
7 341
4 337
•
•
4 327
10 344
11 345
12 346
13 347
... 15 348
•
11 345
10 344
•
•
•
11 344
• ·
•
•
11 344
•
•
1
11 345
• +
15 347
•
•
2 336
2 336
6 339
8 341
8 342
2 336
6 338
6 338
•
•
To be heard by Appraisers...
178
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
SUBJECT.
SEO. PAGE
OWNERS-CONTINUED
To be paid for buildings..
6 339
Names to be given in schedule
6 339
•
When not found....
7 340
To give notice of removal of buildings
7 340
Manner of making objections..
8 241
•
OWNERSHIP IN DISPUTE-
Amount to be deposited..
7 340
PAR VALUE-
Sale of bonds.....
11 345
POSSESSION-
Not taken until payment is made..
7 340
PRIMA FACIE EVIDENCE-
Records ..
9 343
PRISON LABOR-
Not to be employed..
PROCEEDS OF BONDS--
How applied....
PUBLIC GROUNDS AND BUILDINGS--
Council Committee to advise Commission.
RECORDS
Register of Deeds, to make in detail.
Of bonds issued..
REMOVAL OF BUILDINGS—
To be accomplished in thirty days..
In case of failure to remove...
SALE OF BONDS--
Not less than par value
Proportionate shares..
SALE OF BUILDINGS-
Appropriation of proceeds..
SCHOOL PROPERTY—
Condemnation of.
SCHEDULE—
Of appraisement.
SECRETARY-
•
...
Board may appoint, compensation....
Give notice of proposed confirmation .
Make certified copy in case of appeal..
In case of additional appeals...
SERVICES-
Board to receive no compensation..
10 344
... 12 345
10 344
9 343
11
345
7 340
•
7 341
11 345
12 346
7 341
5 338
. 6 336
3 337
6 339
•
8 342
8 342
2 336
INDEX TO BOARD ACTS.
179
SUBJECT.
SINKING FUND--(CITY)—
Payment of principal of bonds.
Investment.
SINKING FUND--(COUNTY)——
Payment of principal of bonds..
Investment of fund..
STATEMENT OF COSTS--
In appraisement proceedings....
SWENSEN, LARS-
Member of Commission
SWIFT, JOHN--
Member of Commission ....
TAXES-
Payment of bonds, County Series.
Payment of bonds, City Series....
TERM OF OFFICE-
Board of Commissioners
TREASURER-
Election, term, bond, etc.
VACANCIES-
Board of Commissioners
How filled...
WASHBURN, WILLIAM D.—
Member of Commission
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SEC. PAGE
12 347
12 347
13 347
•
13 347
6 339
2 336
2 336
13 347
14 347
•
2 336
3 337
2 336
2 336
*
2 336
ACT, PROVISIONS OF-
Composition of Board.
President and Secretary
Meetings and quorum.
•
TAX LEVY.
•
Majority vote to decide questions.
Fix maximum rate of taxation..
General City Tax rate....
•
School Tax, Park Tax and Library Tax rate.
Reduce maximum....
Record of proceedings..
•
Transcripts prima facie evidence.
1 349
1 349
2 349
2 350
2 350
2 350
2 350
•
+
2 350
2 350
2 350
County Auditor to certify results.
3 351
To be transmitted to County Commissioners.
Also, to Council and City Boards....
3 351
3 351
•
No tax levied in excess of limitation, excess of levy void.
3 351
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INDEX--SPECIAL ACTS.
CENTRAL MARKET-
Relative to Market Ordinance (Harlow A. Gale) approved Jan-
uary 21, 1887....
SEO. PAGE
1
409
Contract and ordinance legalized and confirmed
Same as to former contract and ordinance
Conditions made operative and binding.
1 410
•
1 410
1 410
BONDS, CITY PURPOSES-
City Council to issue..
Denominations, time and place of payment.
Semi-annual interest coupons
Sale of bonds..
Proceedings by resolution...
Issue restricted to five per cent. limit.
Issue limited to $1,100,000..
Not to affect other issues.
•
Authority to issue, evidence of...
Proceeds deposited in City Treasury.
Used only for purpose authorized.
•
1 403
1 403
1 403
1 403
1 403
2 403
• •
•
•
2 404
2 404
2 404
3 404
3
404
3
404
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3
404
3 404
·
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•
3 404
3 404
3 404
•
3
405
•
3
405
1
• •
•
•
•
•
•
North Minneapolis sewer tunnel ($100,000)
Northeast Minneapolis sewer tunnel ($100,000)
Second Ward main sewer tunnel ($25,000)..
Seventh Ward main sewer tunnel ($25,000).
Board of Education ($50,000)..
Pump house and site ($325,000).
Water mains $175,000).
Work-house ($30,000)..
►
· • •
Engine Houses, Fire Department, ($50,000).
Lock-up and site ($30,000)....
• •
• • •
Permanent Improvement Bonds, payment of ($200,000)
Permanent Improvement Fund, proceeds paid into.
Exceptions.
•
Issue and sale restricted to amount necessary.
BRIDGE BONDS - FRANKLIN AVENUE-
3 405
3 405
•
3 405
•
• •
3 405
3 405
4 405
•
1 406
1 406
.
1 406
2 406
2 106
•
Issue, denomination, time and place of payment....
Interest coupons, and sale of bonds..
Proceedings by resolution..
Issue restricted to five per cent. limit
Issne limited to $110,000.
•
INDEX TO SPECIAL ACTS.
181
SUBJECT.
BRIDGE BONDS (FRANKLIN AVENUE)-CONTINUED-
•
Not to affect other issues...
Authority to issue evidence of
• + •
SEO.
PAGE
2 407
• •
2 407
•
•
•
3 407
3 407
4 407
•
Permanent Improvement Fund, proceeds placed in
Same to be used for iron-truss bridge at foot of Franklin avenue
Issue and sale restricted to amount necessary.
BRIDGE BONDS--TWENTIETH AVENUE NORTH-
Issue, denomination, timeand place of payment
Interest coupons and sale of bonds
Proceedings by resolution....
Issue restricted to five per cent. limit.
Issue limited to $100,000.
Not toaffect other issues..
•
Authority to issue, evidence of ...
•
•
•
•
1 407
1 408
•
1 408
2 408
2 408
2 408
2 408
•
3 408
3 408
•
4 409
Permanent Improvement Fund, proceeds placed in...
Same to be used for iron-truss bridge at foot of Twentieth
Avenue North
Issue and sale restricted to amount necessary.
LAYMAN CEMETERY--
Location of Cemetery..
•
Width of Lake Street.
1
401
-
402
402
402
402
•
1 402
1 402
2 402
3 402
•
City desires to widen same.
•
Portion of Cemetery needed...
No interments in portion needed
•
•
City Council may purchase or condemn.
Strip of land to be taken..
Condemnation proceedings..
Inconsistent acts, in charter or otherwise, repealed..
STONE-ARCH BRIDGE—
Act authorizing bonds for, amended.
•
Words "steel arch" in section three struck out.
Words "iron or steel arch" inserted....
SUMMARY OF LEGISLATIVE ACTS AND AMENDMENTS--
City Charter
Municipal Court.
Free Schools
•
Park and Parkways.
•
•
St. Anthony, former city...
Minneapolis, former town and city
City of Minneapolis..
Miscellaneous
I
1
1 409
1 409
1 409
165
226
309
322
411
411
412
414
INDEX-RULES, ETC.
CITY COUNCIL.
RULE. PAGE
RULES OF ORDER--
President or Vice President to preside.
Roll-call and quorum...
•
•
•
Reading of Minutes, approval, etc.
President to decide questions of order.
Decision final unless appeal taken....
Members declining to vote, how recorded..
Three members may demand yeas and nays.
Motions to be in writing, exceptions..
Motions withdrawn, when and how...
Members to be recognized by chair, when.
Debate, how limited......
• •
• •
Interruptions, when and how permitted.
Violation of rules, calls to order
Entitled to floor, President to decide..
Adjournment, motion in order, when..
Committees to report facts and opinions..
Reception, acceptance and adoption, effect of..
Motions permitted, pending debate, precedence
To lay question on table, not debatable.....
Committee of the Whole-Chairman, how selected.
Same-Rules to apply, exception.
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1 451
1
451
1 451
1 451
1 451
2 41
2 451
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3 452
4 452
5 452
6
452
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7
452
8
452
9 452
10 452
•
11 452
11 452
12 452
13 453
14 453
•
15 453
Same-May rise at any time
16 453
• ·
Same-Record and report ..
17 453
Previous question, how put and effect.
18 453
Amendments, how not disposed of..
19 453
Subsidiary motions governed by main question .
19 453
Ordinances, how introduced...
20 453
Same-Two readings at different sessions
21 453
Same-If urgency, two-thirds may permit at same session
21 453
Same-Reading by sections for amendments
22 453
Same- Final passage.....
22 453
Same-Clerk to transmit copy to Mayor..
23 454
Aldermen, name of entered on Journal, when....
24 454
Reconsideration, motion by whom and how.
25 454
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Notice may be given, effect of same.
25 454
Clerk to retain matter pending reconsideration.
25 454
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INDEX TO RULES, ETC.
183
SUBJECT.
CITY COUNCIL-CONTINUED-
Motion not in order a second time..
Who may make motions at subsequent session.
Petitions, etc., how presented..
•
Clerk to keep correct record..
Notify Committees, Aldermen and city officers...
Keep papers, etc., intact and report loss of documents.
Standing Committees....
Order of Business..
•
Jefferson's Manual, the guide when no rule.
Rules, how suspended, altered or amended.
•
BY-LAWS-
BOARD OF EDUCATION.
RULE.
PAGE
25 454
25 454
26 454
27 454
•
•
27 454
27 454
28 455
•
29 455
30 455
31 455
SEC. PAGE
Annual meeting for organization.
Election of President and Secretary.
President pro tem., when and how.
Standing Committees, President ex-officio a member.
Regular and special meetings....
Roll call and reading of Minutes.
Order of Business....
1 456
1 456
• •
1 456
2 456
•
3 456
•
4 456
5 457
General duties of President.
6 457
Annual Report
6 457
•
•
•
Yeas and nays.
General duties of Secretary, assistants, etc.
Committee meetings, powers and reports.
Committee on Rules and Regulations...
Rules for Board, Schools, etc., amendments.
Committee on Finance and Claims....
Estimates, expenses, vouchers, claims, etc.
Committee on Buildings and Repairs...
•
6 457
•
• •
•
7 457
•
8 457
9 457
•
•
·
•
•
9 457
10 457
10 457
11 458
•
Buildings, furniture, improvements, repairs, etc..
Committee on Teachers, Janitors and Salaries..
Lists of teachers, janitors and employes, compensation, etc.... 12 458
Appointments and vacancies..
11 458
12 458
12 458
Janitor rules, to be enforced and kept posted.
12 458
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·
•
•
Committee on Printing and Insurance.
13 458
•
Estimates, register of policies, etc.
13 458
Committee on Fuel and Supplies.
14 458
Estimates, proposals, etc...
14 458
184
INDEX TO RULES, ETC.
SUBJECT.
SEO.
PAGE
1
BOARD OF EDUCATION-CONTINUed
•
Distribution of fuel, requisitions for supplies, etc..
Committee on Text Books, Course of Study and Library
Music, drawing and penmanship.
•
Purchase and classification of books……..
Erection and alteration of school buildings, etc....
Contracts, when cost over two hundred dollars.
Specifications, bids, bonds, etc..
General duties of Directors..
•
RULES FOR GOVERNMENT OF SCHOOLS—
Classification of grades....
Primary Schools, control and definition..
•
14 459
15.459
• •
•
•
15 459
•
15 459
16 459
16 459
•
16 459
17
459
1 460
2 460
Pupils must be six years old, vaccination, etc..
3 461
Intermediate, Grammar and High School, grades and control..
4 461
Branch High Schools may be established ....
4 461
Requirement of High-School pupils, when reduced in grade.. 5 461
Examination to pass from lower to higher grade...
5 461
High School course of study, diploma, etc....
6 461
Public exhibition by graduating class...
No presents save diplomas allowed at same
Superintendent to act under immediate direction of Board..
Rules and regulations, how enforced....
Classification and general arrangement of schools...
Superintendent to visit schools, observe teachers, etc..
To hold Principals and teachers accountable, etc..
To attend to cases of refractory pupils reported...
To suspend pupil and report to Board, when..
To examine teachers as to fitness....
To report teachers recommended to Committee on Teachers.. 12 462
To make and enforce regulations for examinations.
To see that teachers are prompt....
To procure substitutes and report same, when..
13 462
14 462
•
14 462
To see that teachers are furnished with necessary blanks, etc.. 15 462
To classify teachers and call them together for instructions... 16 462
To submit monthly report to Board..
7 461
7 461
!
8 461
•
8 461
9 461
•
10 462
10 462
11 462
11 462
•
• • •
12 562
17 462
•
To submit abstract of teachers' report, etc., when.
To attend sessions of Board, etc...
17 462
18 462
Principals to have charge of departments of schools.
To see that teachers discharge duties, etc.....
19 463
19 463
To admit, examine and assign pupils to class, how.
To see that teachers are advised as to rules, etc...
To hold meeting of teachers in school, when.
To be in attendance before opening school
To furnish programme of exercises, etc., when
To furnish monthly report..
20 463
21 463
21 463
22 463
23 463
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23 463
INDEX TO RULES, ETC.
185
SUBJECT.
BOARD OF EDUCATION-CONTINUED-
SEC. PAGE
Teachers to observe and enforce rules, etc...
To be at post prior to opening schools.
Tardy teachers to be reported…….
•
24 463
25 463
•
25 463
One teacher to remain in building during intermission, when.. 26 463
Teachers to prepare themselves in studies pursued..
To admonish children to be orderly.... . .
To inform Principal when unable to perform duties.
27 463
27 463
28 463
To notify parents, etc., daily, of tardiness or absence of pupil.. 29 464
Respect of teachers, obedience, discipline, etc....
Unruly pupils, reprimand of ……….
30 464
• •
30 464
Agents not to exhibit books, or other articles without permit. 31 466
Contributions not to be taken up in schools..
•
31 444
Presents to teacher from pupils, prohibited...
Medals and prizes, how awarded.
Rules to be read to school...
Copies of same to be kept in schools
Enrolling pupils, marking absentees, etc.
31 464
31
464
•
•
32 464
32 464
33 464
Notice to Superintendent of suspension.
Monthly report to Principal, vaccination register, etc.
Care and responsibility of schoolroom, furniture, etc.
Discharge or suspension of teachers .
Improper conduct, unfaithfulness, want of success, etc..
Teacher to give exclusive attention to duties....
Special teachers of music, penmanship, and drawing.
Regular teacher to co-operate with special teachers.
Monthly reports of special teachers..
Pupil first entering shool, rule governing.
Application to enter school, when made..
4
Removal to another district, certificate of transfer.
Admission to district where he does not live
Tuition-fee of non-resident pupils....
Same to be paid in advance for year
Beginning and division of terms.
Legal holidays, etc...
•
Pupils to be punctual, conformity to rules, etc.
Obedience, cleanliness, improper language, etc..
Tardiness, absence, restoration, etc..
Pupil to forfeit seat, when....
Permission of Superintendent for return of pupil..
Truant-playing, leaving without permission, etc..
Penalty for injuring furniture, etc.
•
33 464
•
34 464
35 '464
35 464
•
36 464
37 464
37 465
•
•
37 465
38 465
39 465
39 465
• •
•
40 465
41 465
41 465
41 465
41 465
42 465
•
42 465
43 466
44 466
44 466
• •
44 466
45 466
•
46 466
Absence from regular examinations..
47 466
•
•
Assembling about buildings at unreasonable hours.
Pupils sent home for untidiness..
47 466
•
47 466
186
INDEX TO RULES, ETC.
SUBJECT.
•
•
BOARD OF EDUCATION-CONTINUED—
Pupils afflicted with contagious disease.
Time for opening school buildings.
Exposure of health at recess, etc....
Examination on passing to another grade..
Average necessary for same.
.. •
Average necessary to promotion in High School.
High School written examinations..
Pupils with low percentage to be reported.
Evening schools, terms, vacations, etc...
Same-May be discontinued, when..
Same-Sessions of prescribed...
•
• • •
•
•
•
Same-Age, rules and discipline of pupils.
Same-Courses of study, how designated.
Same- Special teachers to be employed...
Same-Compensation of teachers fixed by Board..
Same-Principals to make monthly reports
Same-Duty of janitors..
• •
Examination of applicants for teachers, appointment....
General average for same.
Duties of janitors..
·
•
Temperature to be kept even...
Buildings to be kept closed during vacation..
SEO. PAGE
47 466
•
•
•
•
•
48 466
48 466
49 466
49
467
• •
50
457
51 467
51 467
•
52 467
52 467
53 467
•
•
54 467
•
•
54 467
•
54 467
•
54 467
54 467
55 467
56 468
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D •
·
56 468
•
57 468
57 468
57 468
57 468
•
57 468
58 468
58 468
58 469
•
•
59 469
59 469
59 469
59 469
•
60 469
61 469
•
61 469
• • •
•
• • •
62 469
63 469
64 469
64 469
• •
·
65 469
66 470
67 470
68 470
O
69 470
Responsibility for damage to building, grounds, etc..
Drinking and smoking on premises prohibited..
Duties of Clerk of Board.
Records, pay-rolls, claims..
•
Clerk to visit school buildings regularly, etc.....
Superintendent of Buildings, appointments and duties. .
Construction and repairs, heating apparatus, etc...
Trees, grass-plots, etc...
Superintendent to devote entire time, monthly reports, etc.
Library-Care of books, maps, etc....
Same-Classification, catalogues, etc.
Same--Teachers and pupils only to draw books..
Same--Records of Librarian..
Same-Hours for keeping open.
•
Same-Pupils to present card from Principal.
Same-Dictionaries, maps, etc., not to be taken from.
Same-Limitation of time for retaining books..
Same-Liability for damage or loss of book.
Same-Violation of rules to be reported.
Same-Rules to be kept posted..
•
Same-Annual report of Librarian...
•
•
•
1
1
INDEX TO RULES, ETC.
187
BOARD OF PARK COMMISSIONERS.
SEO. PAGE
RULES AND REGULATIONS-
Regular meetings.
Special meetings, how called.
Hour of meeting...
Quorum and adjournment
Place of meeting.
Notice of special meeting, how given
•
• •
Call for "transaction of general business," effect of
Business permitted at special meeting.
Meetings called to order, how.
•
• •
1 470
2 471
3 471
4
471
5 471
6 471
7
471
•
8
471
9 471
Roll-call and reading of minutes.
10 471
Order of Business...
11 472
•
Reports, motions and resolutions in writing, when
General duties of President....
12 472
13 472
Yeas and nays, parliamentary practice, etc.
President to execute all bonds, contracts, etc
Vice President to serve in absence of President..
Same powers, except signing of park bonds
General duties of Secretary.
13 472
•
13 472
14 472
D •
14 472
15 472
Other committees to have three members.
Records, orders, accounts, vouchers, seal, information, etc
Standing Committees...
Committee on Improvements to have five members.
President to be chairman thereof..
•
President may appoint, Board may increase.
General duties of Chairman and Committees
Committee on Improvements, general supervision of work…..
May act in emergency without instructions.
Monthly reports and recommendations
•
Committee on Finance, examination of claims, etc..
Compensation of employes, tax-levy, auditing books, etc.
Claims to be certified before presented to the Board.
Payment of enployes, pending meeting
Committee on Judiciary, proposed legislation
Rules, regulations and ordinances
Committee on Designation of Grounds.
Purchase or sale of lands, names for parks, etc.
Committee on Employment and Supplies...
Hiring of employes, purchase of supplies, etc
Committee on Police, supervision, etc..
May suspend or discharge at will.
15 473
16 473
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17 473
17 473
17 473
17 473
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18 473
•
19 473
19 473
19 473
• • •
20 474
20 474
20 474
•
20 474
21 474
21 474
22 474
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23 474
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24 474
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SUBJECT.
SEC. PAGE
PARK COMMISSION-CONTINUED-
Committee on Shore Rights and Privileges..
Use of shores for boating purposes, erection of buildings.
Refreshment-stands, bathing-houses, boat-landings, etc.
Committee on Entertainments and Winter Sports.
Picnics, band-performances, fireworks, etc....
Skating-rinks, toboggan-slides, speeding-tracks, etc.....
Committee on Forestry, sale and planting of shade trees.
Supervision of work of City Forester.
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25 474
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25 474
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26 475
26 475
27 475
27 475
28 475
29 475
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31 475
31 475
31 475
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33 475
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35 476
36 476
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37 476
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38 476
Board may increase or diminish duties of Committee.
Special Committees, when and how appointed...
Superintendent, Attorney, Chief of Police, Forester, etc
General duties of Superintendent of Parks..
To act under direct supervision of the Board.
Pay-rolls, time-checks, inventories, etc...
Contingent Labor-Revolving Fund, how used.
Orders for supplies, same to accompany claims.
Trees, etc., if sold or planted, to be paid for in advance.
Warrants for interest, etc....
•
Commissioner or Committee not to bind Board..
Bonds to secure payment for material and labor.
When required, penal sum, approval, etc
Suspension of Rules, amendment or repeal...
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•
BY-LAWS-
LIBRARY BOARD.
Regular meetings....
1 476
•
Quorum and adjournments.
2 477
Order of Business..
3 477
Standing Committees, President to appoint.
4 477
• •
Finance Committee, reports of officers..
5 477
Estimates, collections and disbursements....
5 477
Building Committee, buildings, specimens and works of art...
6 477
Selection of Janitor, Curator, etc..
6 477
Library Committee, reading rooms, etc.
7 477
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Librarian, books, catalogues, etc.
7 477
Reserved powers of Board....
8 477
By-Laws, amendments, etc..
9 477
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COURT HOUSE AND CITY HALL COMMISSION.
BY-LAWS-
SEO.
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Officers
Vice-President, when elected, etc.
President, general duties....
1 478
2 478
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•
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3 478
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3
478
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Member of all Standing Committees.
Special meetings, when and how..
Vice-President, when to act....
•
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Treasurer, receipts and disbursements, bonds, etc.
Secretary, general duties...
Records, accounts, warrants, etc..
Books, documents, papers, reports, etc.
Standing Committees...
• • •
Finance Committee, supervision of finances.
•
Construction Committee, erection of buildings, etc..
Committtee on Site, acquisition of lands, etc...
Auditing Committee, bills and accounts.
Special Committees, when and how.
President to appoint all committees
Order of Business
Quorum and adjournment.
Contracts, bills, etc., majority of Board to order.
Regular and annual meetings....
By-Laws, amendments, etc..
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5 478
6 478
6 479
6 479
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7 479
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7 479
7 479
7 479
7 479
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9 479
10 480
11 480
12 480
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BOARD OF POLICE COMMISSIONERS.
RULES OF ORDER-
Regular and special meetings
1 480
President and Vice President, duties, rules, etc.
2 480
Order of Business
3 480
Standing Committees.
4 480
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Committee on Rules and Regulations.
•
Rules, government of employes, etc.
Committee on Purchases and Supplies.
Purchase and supervision of property, etc.
Committee on Appointments and Discipline.
Applications, conduct of Police, etc..
Committee on Salaries
•
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Schedules for payment of employes, etc.
Committee on Finance
5 481
5 481
6 481
6 481
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8 481
8 481
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SUBJECT.
POLICE COMMISSION-CONTINUED
Claims, accounts, pay rolls, etc
·
Committee on Complaints..
Charges and investigations.
Clerk, duties, records, etc
•
Surgeon, qualifications and duties.
Superintendent, officers, patrolmen, etc.
Reserved powers of Board...
Rules, amendments, etc....
RULES FOR GOVERNMENT OF POLICE-
Qualifications for membership.....
Superintendent, general powers and duties
Orders, how communicated, etc .....
• • ·
Superintendent to make weekly and monthly reports.
Same-Records to be kept by
Assistant Superintendent, duties, etc.'
Chief Inspector, duties, records, reports.
Inspectors, details for secret service, etc
General duties of Inspectors
Delivery of property recovered, etc
•
•
Captains, general duties, records, reports, etc
Condition of streets, sidewalks, nuisances, etc.
Custody of prisoners, arraignments, etc..
Lieutenants and Sergeants, duties, etc.
Patrolmen, general duties, etc..
Remain on beats, constant patrol,
·
•
•
• •
Become acquainted with all parts of beat.
Estray children, sudden deaths, accidents, etc.
Suspicious characters, notes and reports.
Liquor saloons, junk-shops, etc...
• •
·
Gambling, prize-fighting, bawdy-houses, etc.
Obstructions on streets, sidewalks, etc...
Excavations and openings, nuisances, etc..
Store doors, windows, etc., unoccupied buildings..
Dangerous sidewalks, fires, waste of water, etc.
Ashes, garbage, dead animals, etc……
Enforcement of ordinances, reports of violations..
Street beggars, fast driving, cruelty to animals.
Street-cars, hacks, illegal fares, stoppages, etc.
Blockaded streets, passageways for pedestrians.
Assaults, disturbances, etc., arrests for same.
May demand assistance from citizens.
Vigilance precaution against crime, etc.
Arrests on information, when and how.
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Not to visit bawdy-houses, saloons, etc., when..
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10 481
10 481
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10 481
11 481
12 481
13 481
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15 482
482
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483
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483
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483
483
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484
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484
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485
485
485
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INDEX TO RULES, ETC.
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SUBJECT.
PAGE
POLICE COMMISSION--CONTINUED--
To keep watch over the same.
Arrests, self-defense, abuse of prisoners, etc..
Preservation of property, marking same, etc.
Record of work, details, etc..
Daily reports to Captains, etc..
Special Police, rules applicable to.
•
•
Violation of rules, breach of discipline, etc..
•
•
• ·
• •
•
Officers to devote entire time, cleanliness, etc.
Conduct and deportment, language, habits, etc..
Intoxicating liquors, s11oking, etc., where prohibited
Gambling, card-playing, etc...
Signing of petitions, bonds, etc., employment of attorneys..
Disclosure of official matters, compromise with thieves, etc.
Gratuities, rewards, gifts, etc.
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487
488
488
488
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489
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490
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491
491
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Officers not to receive presents from men.
Fairs, exhibitions, voting-schemes, raffles, etc..
Contributions, political assessments, testimonials, etc.
Free passes to theatres, on railroads, etc......
Recovered property to be turned over to Clerk.
Arrest when warrant in hands of another.
How made, use of batons and weapons...
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Not to be made without formal complaint, when.
Officers relieved from duty, when and how.
Political discussions, record of residences
Uniforms, how made and worn
•
• • •
Enforcement of rules, penalty for violations.
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•
FIRE DEPARTMENT.
RULES FOR GOVERNMENT-
Officers, general duties, etc.
Captains, general duties..
Riding on apparatus, violation of ordinances.
Obstructions to hydrants, cisterns and street-ends..
Escort of visitors, when and how
Examination of buildings, combustible goods, etc.
Familiarity with streets, buildings, landings, etc..
Suspension of members by Captains, charges, etc.
Superintendent of City Telegraph....
Construction, operation, repairs, apparatus, etc.
Instruction to officers, interference, etc.
Superintendent of Horses, general duties
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492
492
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492
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492
492
493
493
• •
• •
• •
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493
493
493
193
192
INDEX TO RULES, ETC.
SUBJECT.
PAGE
FIRE DEPARTMENT-CONTINUED-
Responding to fire-alarms, imprudent driving, etc.
Driving over bridges, viaducts, railways, etc.
Racing, accidents, gong-ringing, etc.
•
· •
Wanton conduct of drivers, collisions, penalties, etc.
Assistance to police, when and how...
Rewards, etc., to be paid to Relief Association.
Names entered on "Roll of Merit," and published when.
Death of member, draping house, etc....
Religious and political discussions forbidden
Politics confined to exercise of suffrage....
Soliciting influence, subscriptions, etc.
Officers not to receive presents from men
Public property, preservation of same.
Fire hats and badges, loss, etc....
•
Hydrants, etc., out of order to be reported.
Company fund, for blacking, papers, etc..
Qualifications for membership.
Medical examination and requirements.
Deception, previous dismissal, etc.
Additional qualifications..
•
•
Full membership without probation when.
Trial-service, oath of office, entire time, etc.
Inefficient candidates, dropped, etc....
Uniform, badge, etc., when and how worn
Applications for promotion, renewals, etc.
Resignation, when and how accepted...
Violation of rules, breaches of discipline.
Failure to pay debts, etc...
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493
493
493
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494
494
494
494
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494
494
494
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494
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495
495
495
495
495
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496
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496
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Members not to visit saloons while in uniform.
Nor smoke on street or loaf in front of quarters.
Nor in other company-quarters, saloons, etc..
Intoxicating liquors, gambling, etc., prohibited.
Dancing parties, social gatherings, etc., when permitted
False reports, idle gossip, etc.
•
Members violating rules to be reported.
Penalty if member fails to report.
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Suspension from membership, transfer, etc., when and how.
Notice of suspension to absentee, how given
Officers giving unwarranted order, penalty.
Subordinates protected in obeying same, when.
Members resigning, etc., to turn over property. .
Charges, when to be made....
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Statement, but no formal charge, against substitute, etc.
Necessity of discipline, compliance with rules, etc..


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