OF THE

STATE OF MINNESOTA,

PASSED DURING THE

Eighth Session
Session of the State Legislature,

COMMENCING JANUARY SECOND, ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX, AND TERMINATING MARCH SECOND, ONE

THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND SIXTY-SIX,

Saint Paul:

DAVIDSON & HALL, STATE PRINTERS, PIONEER OFFICE,
1866,

STATE OF MINNESOTA, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE,

SAINT PAUL, June 1, 1866.

I hereby certify that the following Laws and Resolutions have been carefully compared with the originals on file in this office, and that the same are true and correct copies thereof.

H. C. ROGERS, Secretary of State.

GENERAL INDEX.

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I-To provide for the assessment and collection of a tax for State purposes,

II. To appropriate money for the erection of a building
for the State Normal School at Winona, -

III. To relieve certain soldiers from paying bounty tax,
IV. To prescribe the number of members who shall

compose the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the State of Minnesota, and to appor-
tion the representation in both Houses through-
out the different sections of the State

V. For the equitable adjustment of the State railroad
bonds,

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VI. For the establishment and location of a hospital for
the insane in the State of Minnesota, and to pro-
vide rules for the regulation of the same,
VII.-To incorporate a House of Refuge for the State of

Minnesota,

VIII. To provide for the erection of a building for the accommodation and education of the deaf, dumb and blind,

IX.-Relating to orphan asylums

X. To authorize the Inspectors and Warden of the State Prison to lease the prison shops and labor of convicts for a term of years,

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XI. To amend an act entitled "An act relating to the University of Minnesota," approved March 4, 1864,

XII. To provide for the erection of cells in the State
Prison, at Stillwater,

XIII. To provide for the execution and supervision of the
State printing and binding,

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XIV.—To amend an act entitled "an act to provide for the execution and supervision of the State printing and binding," passed February 26th,

1866.

XV. To provide for the purchase of paper for the public printing. XVI.—Providing for the printing and binding of the General Statutes of Minnesota,

XVII.—Relating to editing and superintending the printing and publication of the General Statutes, XVIII.-Relating to the filing and effects of certain affidavits,

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XIX. To amend an act entitled "an act fixing the time
of holding terms of the District Courts in the
Third Judicial District," approved February 23,
1865, being chapter 73 of the Session Laws of
1865,

XX. To amend an "act to fix the times of holding the
District Court in the Sixth Judicial District,"
XXI.-Fixing the time of holding terms of the District
Court in Chisago oounty,
XXII.-Providing salaries for clerks of the District Court

in certain cases,

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XXIII. Relative to the records in the offices of Register of Deeds,

XXIV. To authorize the Governor of Minnesota to make

conveyances in certain cases,

XXV. To amend an act entitled "an act prescribing rules
and regulations for the execution of the trust
arising under the act of Congress, entitled “an
act for the relief of citizens of towns upon lands
of the United States, under certain circum-
stances, approved March 3, 1855,"

XXVI. To authorize the Trustees of the several organized
School Districts of this State, or those that may
be hereafter organized, to issue School District
Bonds,
XXVII. To provide for the draining of swamp, bog, mead-
ow and other lands,

XXVIII.—Providing for the payment of bounties for the destruction of wolves,

XXIX. To prevent the concealment or carrying away of public arms, equipments, accoutrements, military stores and munitions of war,

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XXX. To prevent the sale, transfer or concealment of

personal property under mortgage,

XXXI. To prohibit persons or companies from taking

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ice from the Mississippi, St. Croix and Minnesota rivers, without erecting suitable safeguards around the place from which the ice is taken, XXXII.-Punishing the depositing or casting of the dead bodies of animals, or the offal of such animals, in the Mississippi river, or Lake Pepin, or in any other lake, creek or river in the State of Minnesota,

XXXIII. To restrain stallions, bulls, boars, rams, or breachy animals from running at large,

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XXXIV. To prohibit smoking in mills, machine shops,
stables, or other buildings where notice pro-
hibiting the same is kept posted,
XXXV. In relation to the driving of logs, timber and
lumber,
XXXVI. To regulate mining upon the public lands of the
United States, within the State of Minnesota.
XXXVII. To amend an act entitled "An act to provide

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for the organization of Agricultural Societies," 81 XXXVIII-To legalize deeds acknowledged before Judges of Probate of the Territory of Minnesota, XXXIX. Providing for the service of notices in civil actions in certain cases,

XL-To prohibit the sale or giving away intoxicating

liquors within the Capitol buildings, or upon
the grounds of the same, during the sessions
of the Legislature,

XLI. To authorize municipal corporations to sell or lease public grounds to railroad corporations, XLII. To amend an act entitled "an act to preventimportation, running at large, and sale of diseassheep," approved March 4, 1864,

XLIII. To define the boundaries of Renville county, and to provide for its organization,

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XLIV. To define the boundary line of Pope county, and

to provide for its organization,

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Lincoln county,

XLV. An act to change the name of Rock county to

XLVI. To establish the county of Beltrami,

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