License to be recorded. wares as a fish or milk dealer or butcher, either by himself or employe. SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the town clerk issuing a license under this act to make a record of the same, including the date when issued, the name of the person receiving the license, the purpose for which it was issued, and the amount received therefor. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after June first (1st), eighteen hundred and ninety-seven (1897). Approved April 9, 1897. S. F. No. 294. CHAPTER 108. Disorderly conduct. An act to prohibit and punish riotous, obscene or disorderly conduct, keeping a place resorted to for immoral purposes and keeping disorderly houses. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minne sota: Misdemean or Penalty Division of fines. SECTION 1. Any person who is riotous, disorderly or obscene, or who keeps a place resorted to for immoral or disorderly purposes, or who keeps a disorderly house, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. SEC. 2. Any person convicted of violating the provisions of section one of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars ($5) nor more than fifty dollars ($50). One-half of such fine when paid shall be by the justice, judge or officer collecting it paid into the treasury of the town where the prosecution is held, to be credited to the general town fund. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 9, 1897. 97 c 109 103 CHAPTER 109. 03 S. F. No. 641. Pay of Co. ers, An act to amend section 665, title 3, chapter 8, general statutes of 1894, being section 100 of chapter commission8, general statutes of 1878, and amendments thereof, relating to the pay of county commissioners. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That section six hundred sixty-five (665) title three (3), chapter eight (8), of the general statutes of eighteen hundred and ninety-four (1894), be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following proviso: Amendment. For actual Provided, further, that in any county in which the duty of building and keeping in repair the public bridges services. of such county is imposed by special law upon the county commissioners of such county, such commissioners may severally draw pay for all services actually performed as such commissioners for not exceeding fifty (50) days in any one (1) year. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 10, 1897. CHAPTER 110. An act to provide for the incorporation of lodges of the Independent Order of B'nai B'rith. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: H. F. No. 897. Order of B'nai tion. SECTION 1. That any lodge of the Independent Order Incorporaof B'nai B'rith instituted under the authority of any grand lodge or the constitution grand lodge of said order, or instituted under any supreme authority of said Independent Order of B'nai B'rith, may become incorporated in the manner provided herein. SEC. 2. Such lodge shall cause to be prepared a certifi- Certificate, cate which shall contain: 1-The charter name and number of such lodge. 2-The time when and the authority by which such lodge was instituted. 3-The name of the present members of such lodge. 4-The location of such lodge. contents of. 5-The names of the elective officers of such lodge To be record ed. May acquire erty. who hold said offices at the time of incorporation. Such certificate shall be under the seal of such lodge and shall be signed by said elective officers, and shall be recorded in the office of the register of deeds of the county where such lodge is located and meeting at the time of such incorporation. SEC. 3. Upon filing such certificate in the office of and sell prop- such register of deeds, such lodge shall become a body corporate, under its charter name and number, and shall have power to sue and be sued, by its corporate name, and in such name to acquire or receive by purchase, gift, grant or bequest, any property, real, personal or mixed, and the same to hold, transfer, sell, mortgage, convey, loan, let or otherwise use in accordance with the laws and usages of such order and the laws of this state. Seal of lodge. SEC. 4. The seal of such lodge shall be its corporate seal, and shall be attached to all conveyances of real property. Such conveyances shall be signed by the chief officer of such lodge and by the secretary or recording officer thereof. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 12, 1897. H. F. No.398. Destruction of weeds. Amendment. Fines to go to maintenance of roads and bridges. CHAPTER 111. An act to amend chapter two hundred and seventythree (273) of the general laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five (1895), entitled "An act to declare certain weeds common nuisances, and to provide for their destruction." Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That section seven (7) of chapter two hundred and seventy-three (273) of the general laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-five (1895) be and the same is hereby amended so as to read when amended as follows: Sec. 7. All fines collected under the provisions of this act shall be paid into the fund for the maintenance of roads and bridges in the town or municipal corporation in which the offense is committed. When such noxious weeds are so numerous upon any particular tract of land, not a public highway, street or alley, and upon which there is a growing crop of grain, hay or SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 12, 1897. not CHAPTER 112. H. F. No. 521. An act to amend section four (4) of chapter 204, Forfeiture of general laws of 1887, as amended by chapter 113, lands. general laws of 1889, being section 5878, general statutes 1894, relating to the forfeiture of lands illegally held. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That section 4 of chapter 204 of the Amendment. general laws of the state of Minnesota for the year 1887, as amended by chapter 113 of the general laws of the state of Minnesota for the year 1889, being section 5878, general statutes of Minnesota of 1894, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 4. That all property acquired, held or owned in Forfeited to violation of the provisions of this act shall be forfeited state. to this state, and it shall be the duty of the attorney general of the state to enforce every such forfeiture by due process of law; provided, however, that no such Provisions. forfeiture shall be made unless the action to enforce such forfeiture shall be brought within three (3) years after such real estate has been acquired by such alien or corporation; and provided, further, that no title to real estate standing in the name of a citizen of the United States, or any one who has declared his intention of becoming such a citizen, shall be liable to forfeiture by reason of the alienage of any former owner or person interested therein. Provided, further, that none of the provisions of this act shall be construed to apply to lands acquired, held or obtained by process of law in the collection of debts, or by any procured for the enforcement of any lien or claim thereon, whether created by mortgage or otherwise. Provided, further, that none of the provisions of this act shall apply to any person or corporation actually engaged in the business of selling land to actual settlers, provided they shall dispose of all such lands within ten (10) years from the time of acquiring title thereto, or the same shall be forfeited and the forfeiture enforced as provided in this section. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved April 12, 1897. H. F.No. 640. Fort Ridgely. Appropriation. Commission ers. CHAPTER 113. An act appropriating money for the improvement, protection and preservation of the grounds of the state comprising the former site of Fort Ridgely, and the monument on said grounds. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That the sum of four hundred (400) dollars, or so much of that sum as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated out of any unappropriated funds in the state treasury, for the improvement, protection and preservation of the grounds of the state comprising the former site of Fort Ridgely, in Nicollet county, in this state, including the structure thereon known as the Fort Ridgely monument. SEC. 2. Charles E. Flandrau and Timothy J. Sheehan of Ramsey county; A. A. Stone and Albert Anderson of Nicollet county; Benjamin H. Randall of Winona county; M. E. Powell of Redwood county, and Charles H. Hopkins of Renville county, constituting the Fort Ridgely monument commission under the provisions of chapter 375 of the general laws of Minnesota for 1895, are hereby continued in service as members of said commission and constituted and appointed the agents of |