certificates or bonds shall be drawn accordingly, but the rate of interest shall in no case exceed four and one half per cent per annum, payable annually or semi-annually. The county auditor shall extend the tax so levied by the county board in sufficient amounts from year to year to cover the interest and principal as they mature. The credit of the county shall be pledged to the payment of the principal and interest of such certificates or bonds. Certificates or bonds not exceeding in principal amount one-fifth_of_one per cent of the assessed valuation of the taxable property of the county, not including the valuation of moneys and credits, may be issued and sold without submission to the vote of the people.

Any corporation maintaining a bridge under this section may charge and receive the following rates of toll from all persons using the same: For each foot passenger or bicycle rider, five cents; for each hog, sheep or calf, two cents; for each head of cattle, five cents; for each vehicle or sleigh drawn by one animal, twenty cents; for each additional animal used, five cents; for each automobile, twenty cents; for any other vehicle or animal, a reasonable rate of toll. Such rates of toll may be changed by law whenever the net annual income from such bridge shall exceed a reasonable percentage of the cost thereof.

Approved March 1, 1917.

CHAPTER 44–S. F. No. 161.

An act to locate and establish an asylum for the insane, to be located at Willmar, in the County of Kandiyohi, State of Minnesota, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Asylum for insane at Willmar.-There is hereby located and established at the city of Willmar, county of Kandiyohi, State of Minnesota, an asylum for the insane."

Sec. 2. Hospital farm for inebriates transferred to said asylum.—All lands, buildings, property and funds heretofore acquired and held for the foundation and maintenance of a hospital farm for inebriates at Willmar, Minnesota, are hereby transferred and set apart and appropriated to the establishment, support and maintenance of said asylum for the insane hereby provided for, and shall be subject to the same control and management as the property and funds now set apart for and used for the support and maintenance of an asylum for the insane.

Sec. 3. Under supervision of Board of Control.-Said hospital shall be under the control and management of the State Board of Control and all laws, rules and regulations now applicable to other insane asylums in the State of Minnesota, are hereby made to apply insofar as they may be necessary, to the insane asylum at Willmar.

Sec. 4. Treatment of inebriates to continue.-The State Board of Control is hereby authorized to continue the treatment of inebriates at the said State Hospital Farm for inebriates as now provided by law, but no inebriate shall be committed. for treatment except as may be authorized and permitted by the State Board of Control.

Sec. 5. Inconsistent acts repealed.-All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed.

Sec. 6. Effective August 1, 1917. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after August 1, 1917.

Approved March 1, 1917.

CHAPTER 45-S. F. No. 428.

An act to amend Chapter 500, Laws of 1913, entitled, "An act to enable a county or counties to establish and maintain tuberculosis sanatoria" and providing for a refundment to counties of amounts erroneously transmitted to the State Treasurer.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Money erroneously paid to State to be refunded to County. That Chapter 500, Laws of 1913, hereby is amended by adding thereto one new and additional section, to be known as Section 13A, which section shall read as follows:

Section 13A. When any sum shall have been in whole or in part erroneously transmitted under the provisions of said chapter by any county to the State Treasurer, the county paying or transmitting the same shall be entitled to a refundment of the amount so crroneously paid and transmitted, and the Auditor of the State shall, upon proper certificate furnished him by the advisory commission of the Minnesota Sanatorium for Consumptives, draw his warrant upon the State Treasurer for the amount so certified as having been overpaid and in favor of the county entitled thereto.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 1, 1917.

CHAPTER 46-H. F. No. 793.

An act to legalize the proceedings of city councils of cities of the fourth class in this state operating under home rule charters and the vote of the people had and taken in connection with the issuing of bonds of such cities for the purpose of paving streets therein.

- Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Proceeding of city council and vote of people on bond issue legalized.—That in all cases in which during the twelve months immediately preceding the adoption of this act, the city council of any city of the fourth class in this state operating under a charter adopted in accordance with Section 36 of Article 4 of the Constitution of Minnesota, has taken proceedings to hold an election in such city for the purpose of approving of or rejecting the question or proposition whether or not the city should issue its bonds for the purpose of paying the expenses of paving any of its streets and wherein at such election such proposition to issue such bonds was duly approved of by the requisite majority of the voters voting at such election, but wherein the notice of election calling such election and submitting such question to the voters thereof failed to clearly state whether or not such question would be submitted to the voters thereof for approval or rejection, and failed to state the purpose for which the money so voted would be used, such proceedings of said city council and such election, and the bonds of said city when issued in accordance with said proceedings and election, are hereby legalized and made valid and effectual for all purposes.

Sec. 2. Application. This act shall not apply to or affect any action now pending involving the validity of any such resolution or proceedings of any such city council or the validity of any such election.

Sec. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 1, 1917.

CHAPTER 47-S. F. No. 207.

An act authorizing County Boards under certain circumstances to transfer funds from the Sanatorium Fund to the Road and Bridge Fund.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Transferring from sanatorium to road and bridge fund legalized. That where two or more counties in the State have heretofore begun proceedings for the establishment and maintenance of a county tuberculosis sanatorium for said counties, and have adopted resolutions therefor, and one or more of said counties has by resolution as provided by law, levied the tax as said board is by law authorized to do for such purpose, and thereafter the establishment of said sanatorium has been wholly abandoned, any such county having by reason of such levy any moneys, in the sanatorium fund may by a resolution adopted by an unanimous vote of its county board, transfer such moneys from the tuberculosis sanatorium fund to the

road and bridge fund of said county, at any time, and such moneys shall thereafter become a part of said road and bridge fund, and become available after such transfer for use as a part of said road and bridge fund.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 2, 1917.

CHAPTER 48-S. F. No. 261.

An act authorizing villages incorporated under Special Laws of the State of Minnesota to sprinkle streets in the manner provided by Sections 1284, 1285 and 1286, General Statutes 1913, and making the provisions of said sections applicable to such villages.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Villages incorporated under Special Laws given authority to sprinkle or oil streets. The provisions of Sections 1284, 1285 and 1286, General Statutes 1913, relating to the sprinkling or oiling of streets in villages organized or re-organized under the provisions of Chapter 9 of said General Statutes and the assessment of the cost of such sprinkling and the levy of taxes to pay the whole or a portion of such cost and the payment and collection of such assessments, all as provided for in said sections, shall extend to and be applicable in all villages incorporated under any special law or laws of the state. If the village council of any such village shall cause any street or part of street therein to be sprinkled, it shall proceed in accordance with the provisions of said sections, anything in the charter of such village, or any special law of the state to the contrary notwithstanding.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect on and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1917.

CHAPTER 49—H. F. No. 439.

An act to amend Section 6206 of the General Statutes of Minnesota for 1913, relating to foreign corporations. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Affidavit to state street number address of agent -provision for change of agent-service on Secretary of State. -That Section 6206, General Statutes of Minnesota for 1913, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Every foreign corporation for pecuniary profit, before it shall be authorized or permitted to transact any business in this state, or to continue business herein if already established, or to ac

quire, hold or dispose of property within this state, or to sue or maintain any action at law or otherwise in any courts in this state, shall, in writing, appoint an agent duly authorized to accept service of process and upon whom service of process may be had in any action to which such corporation shall be a party, and service upon such agent shall be due and personal service upon such corporation. Such agent shall reside in this state and, maintain an office or place of business therein, and such appointment shall set forth the residence of said agent and the street number address of the office or place of business of said agent. An authenticated copy of the appointment of such agent shall be filed with the Secretary of State and a certified copy thereof shall be prima facie evidence of the appointment and authority of such agent.

In case the place of residence or the office or place of business of said agent shall be changed after the filing of said appointment, an affidavit of such agent, setting forth his' place of residence and street number address of his office or place of business, shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State.

Provided that if said agent cannot be found in the county of his residence, as shown by the return of the sheriff of such county upon such process, then the same may be served by leaving with the Secretary of State two copies thereof, and thereupon the Secretary of State shall immediately mail one such copy to the corporation at its address as stated in the records of the Secretary of State, and one copy to the agent of such corporation at his address as set forth in the appointment of such agent or the affidavit herein provided.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 3, 1917.

CHAPTER 50-H. F. No. 857.

An act to legalize the proceedings for the incorporation of certain societies under Title 3 of Chapter 34 of the General Statutes of Minnesota for 1878.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota :

Section 1. Proceedings for incorporation and acts, etc., of officials of Minneapolis Lodge of Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks legalized. That where proceedings for incorporation under Title 3 of Chapter 34 of the General Statutes of Minnesota for 1878 have heretofore been had or taken by any persons and the corporation so formed; or attempted to be formed, has entered upon the transaction of business without having filed its articles of incorporation in the office of the Secretary of State but has filed said articles in the office of the Register of