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Such regular meetings shall be held on the second Mondays of January, April, July and October of each year. All meetings of the said board shall be held in the executive chamber at the state capitol, or in such other place as may be ordered by said board.

for pardon,

SEC. 5. Every application for a pardon, reprieve, or Application commutation of sentence shall be in writing, addressed how made. to the board of pardons, and shall be signed by the convict or some person in his behalf. It shall concisely state the grounds upon which the pardon, reprieve or commutation is sought, and in addition shall contain the following facts: 1. The name under which the convict was indicted, and every alias by which he has been known. 2. The date and terms of sentence and the names of the offense for which it was imposed. 3. Record of applicant and The name of the trial judge and of the county attorney history of who participated at the trial of the convict, together case. with that of the county in which he was tried. 4. A succinct statement of the evidence adduced at the trial with the endorsement of the judge or county attorney who tried the case, that the same is substantially correct. If such statement and endorsement are not furnished, the reason thereof shall be stated. 5. The age, birth place, parentage, occupation, residence, during five years immediately preceding conviction, of convict. 6. A statement of other arrests, indictments and convictions, if any, of the convict.

The board of pardons may adopt other such rules and regulations not inconsistent with the provisions of this act, as may appear to them proper and necessary to carry out the provisions thereof.

upon ap

SEC. 6. All applications for pardons, reprieves or com- Action mutations of sentence shall be filed with the clerk of the plication. board of pardons. The said clerk shall, immediately upon receipt of such application, mail notice thereof, and of the time and place of hearing thereof to the judge of the court wherein the applicant was tried and sentenced, and to the prosecuting attorney who prosecuted the applicant, or his successor in office, provided that a reprieve in capital cases may be granted as provided in section two (2) without such notice, and provided further that pardons or commutations of sentence of persons committed to a county jail or to a workhouse may be granted by said board without notice.

board.

SEC. 7. The governor's private secretary, or in his Clerk of absence the executive clerk, shall be and act as the clerk of the board of pardons and shall perform the duties herein required of such clerk, and such other duties as may be prescribed by said board of pardons without other or further compensation. The board shall be sup

Secretary of state furnish

plied by the secretary of state with such books, blanks books, blanks and stationery as shall be necessary. Said board shall preserve a record of every petition received for a pardon, reprieve or commutation of sentence, and of every pardon, reprieve or commutation of sentence granted or refused and the reasons assigned therefor.

stationery.

Records to be kept.

Seal.

May issue process.

Compen

sation for travel and attendance.

Appropriation.

The clerk shall keep such records and perform such duties in relation thereto as shall be prescribed by the board, and all such records and files shall be kept and preserved in the office of the governor at the state capitol, and shall be open to the inspection of the public at all reasonable times.

SEC. 8. The board of pardons shall supply itself with a seal, with which every pardon, reprieve, or commutation of sentence shall be attested. It may issue process requiring the presence of any person before it, or the presence of any officer before it, with or without books and papers, in any matter pending before said board, and may take whatever reasonable steps in such matter as it may deem necessary to a proper determination thereof.

Whenever a person is summoned before the board by its authority, he may be allowed such compensation for travel and attendance as the board, in its discretion, may deem reasonable.

SEC. 9. The sum of three hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby annually appropriated, out of any moneys of the state not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of carrying out and enforcing the provisions of this act.

SEC. 10. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved February 26, 1897.

S. F. No. 77.

Cemetery associations.

Reconvey

ance in trust.

CHAPTER 24.

An act to amend gen. statutes 1894, chapter 34, title 5, relating to cemetery associations.

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

SECTION 1. Any cemetery association incorporated under title 5, ch. 34, of the general statutes of this state shall have the power to accept a reconveyance, from the owner, of any lot or lots in such cemetery in perpetual trust for such uses and trusts as the grantor shall designate not inconsistent with cemetery pur

poses or the provisions of statute relating to cemeteries; and to execute to such grantor an agreement to hold such lot or lots in trust for such uses.

trust.

SEC. 2. Such association shall also have power to Bequests in accept and hold any bequest or donation of money or other personal property in trust for such cemetery purposes as the testator or donor may designate, not inconsistent with the provisions of statute relating to such associations; and to execute to him an agreement to hold and use such money or property for the purposes designated.

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

Approved February 26, 1897.

CHAPTER 25.

S. F. No. 102.

councils.

An act to amend subdivision seventeen (17) of section Village twelve hundred and twenty-four (1224) of chapter ten (10) of the general statutes of Minnesota for the year eighteen hundred and ninety-four (1894), relating to the powers of village councils.

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

SECTION 1. That the seventeenth (17th) subdivision of section twelve hundred and twenty-four (1224) of chapter ten (10) of the general statutes of Minnesota for the year one thousand eight hundred and ninetyfour (1894) be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows, to wit:

lations.

Seventeenth-To restrain and prohibit gift enterprises, Amendment, all description of gaming, and all playing of cards, dice, police reguand other games of chance, for the purpose of gaming; to restrain and punish vagrants, tramps, mendicants, street beggars, prostitutes and persons guilty of lewd conduct; and to license and regulate, or restrain and prohibit, any person from selling, bartering, disposing of or dealing in spirituous, malt, fermented, vinous, or mixed intoxicating liquors of any kind, and to punish any violation of law, or of the village ordinances relating thereto, and to revoke, for any cause, any license for the sale of intoxicating liquors granted by the village council, whenever the council, after a hearing of the case, shall deem proper.

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

Approved February 26, 1897.

CHAPTER 26.

S. F. No. 162.

Bonds for
public build-
ings.

An act to amend section 307, chapter 10, general statutes 1878, being section 1435, general statutes 1894, relating to the issuance of bonds for the erection

1901 Ch, 188 of public buildings by cities, boroughs and villages.

97 C 26 01

288

City, borough

or village not
10,000 popu-

exceeding

lation.

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

SECTION 1. That section 307 of chapter 10, gen. statutes 1878, being sec. 1435, gen. statutes 1894, be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows:

Sec. 1435. Whenever the council of any city,borough, or village in this state, having a population not exceeding ten thousand inhabitants, and who are authorized to erect buildings therefor, and levy taxes to pay for the same, shall determine that it is for the interest of such city, borough, or village to erect a building for the purpose of a city hall, market house, engine house, city offices, public library, or city prison, or one building for all or several of these purposes combined, it shall be lawful for them, and they are hereby authorized and empowered, to issue for that purpose, at any time, the Bonds not to bonds of such city, borough or village, as hereinafter

exceed 2%

assessed

valuation.

Majority of
legal voters.

stated, with interest coupons attached, to an amount not exceeding per cent of the total assessed valuation thereof, as the same appears by the assessment of the preceding year, and with the proceeds of such bonds to erect such hall, market house, engine house, city offices, public library, city prison, or one building for all or several of these purposes combined; provided, that whenever the council of any city, borough or village in this state contemplate the erection of such building, the proposition shall first be submitted to the legal voters within the limits of such city, borough, or village for their approval or rejection; and if a majority of the electors present and voting is in favor of such proposition, then such council shall proceed as herein provided; but if such majority is opposed, then it shall be illegal for such council to issue any bonds or other evidences of indebtedness for any such purposes..

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval. Approved February 26, 1897.

CHAPTER 27.

S. F. No. 340.

An act to amend section 76, chapter 11, general stat- Taxes. utes 1878, the same being section 1,585, general statutes 1894, relating to taxes.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minne

sota:

time.

SECTION 1. That section 76, chapter 11. general Change of statutes 1878, the same being section 1,585, general statutes 1894, be and the same hereby is amended by striking out of the first line thereof the words "on the 21st day of March" and inserting in lieu thereof the words "on the first secular day after the 20th day of March."

SEC. 2.

This act shall take effect and be in force from

and after its passage.

Approved February 26, 1897.

CHAPTER 28.

S. F. No. 209.

or neglected

An act to empower towns, cities, villages and bor- Abandoned oughs in this state to cause bodies to be disinterred cemeteries. from abandoned, unused and neglected public cemeteries and reburied in proper and convenient cemeteries, and the tombstones removed and reset in the cemetery to which the bodies are removed, and providing that said cemetery, after being so vacated, may be dedicated and improved for a public park, if the electors of said town, city, village or borough so determine.

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

burial, aban

SECTION 1. Whenever any public cemetery in any when not town, city, village or borough in this state shall cease used for to be further used as a place of burial of the dead, and doned or shall have become unsightly, abandoned and neglected, neglected. it shall be lawful for the legal voters of said town, city, village or borough, in the manner provided in this act, to authorize and direct that the bodies buried in such cemetery be, at the expense of said town, city, village or borough, disinterred and removed from said cemetery to another convenient cemetery, and there decently and properly reburied on lots to be provided by said

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