CHAPTER 30. S. F. No. 205. spection at An act to establish state weighing and inspection of Grain ingrain at the City of Little Falls in the County of Mor- Little Falls. rison, and making said City of Little Falls a terminal point, and making all laws of this state that are applicable to the weighing and inspection of grain at the terminal points of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Duluth and St. Cloud applicable to Little Falls. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: point. SECTION 1. The city of Little Falls, in the county of Aterminal Morrison, is hereby made and established a terminal point for the weighing and inspection of grain. govern. SEC. 2. All laws of this state applying, governing Laws to and regulating the weighing and inspection of grain at St. Paul, Minneapolis, Duluth and St. Cloud shall apply, regulate and govern the weighing and inspection of grain at the city of Little Falls. SEC. 3. passage. This act shall be in force from and after its Approved March 2, 1897. CHAPTER 31. H. F. No. 183. measures. An act to amend section nine (9) of chapter twenty- Weights and one (21) of the general statutes of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (1878), as amended by chapter twenty-two (22) of the general laws of eighteen hundred and eighty-seven (1887) and by chapter one hundred and nine (109) of the general laws of eighteen hundred and ninety-three (1893), relating to weights and measures. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That section nine (9) of chapter twenty- Amendment. one (21) of the general statutes of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight (1878), as amended by chapter twenty-two (22) of the general laws of one thousand eight hundred and eighty seven (1887) and by chapter one hundred and nine (109) of the general laws of one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three (1893) be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Weights specified. Penalty for violation. Sec. 9. Whenever any of the following articles shall be contracted for or sold or delivered, and no special contract or agreement shall be made to the contrary, the weight avordupois per bushel shall be as follows, to-wit: Apples, green, fifty (50) pounds; apples, dried, twenty-eight (28) pounds; beans, sixty (60) pounds; barley, forty-eight (48) pounds; buckwheat, fifty (50) pounds; beets, fifty (50) pounds; blue grass seed, fourteen (14) pounds; blueberries, forty-two (42) pounds; broom corn seed, fifty-seven (57) pounds; corn, shelled, fifty-six (56) pounds; corn, in ear, seventy (70) pounds; clover seed, sixty (60) pounds; carrots, forty-five (45) pounds; charcoal, twenty (20) pounds; cranberries, thirty-six (36) pounds; currants, forty (40) pounds; gooseberries, forty (40) pounds; hemp seed, fifty (50) pounds; Hungarian grass seed, forty-eight (48) pounds; millet, forty-eight (48) pounds; oats, thirty-two (32) pounds; onions, fifty-two (52) pounds; orchard grass seed, fourteen (14) pounds; peas, sixty (60) pounds; Irish potatoes, sixty (60) pounds; sweet potatoes, fiftyfive (55) pounds; parsnips, forty-two (42) pounds; peaches, dried, twenty-eight (28) pounds; plastering hair, washed, four (4) pounds; plastering hair, unwashed, eight (8) pounds; rape seed, fifty (50) pounds; red top seed, fourteen (14) pounds; rutabagas, fiftytwo (52) pounds; rye, fifty-six (56) pounds; sorghum seed, fifty-seven (57) pounds; timothy seed, forty-five (45) pounds; wheat, sixty (60) pounds; coal, eighty (80) pounds; provided, that if coal be sold by the ton the weight thereof shall be two thousand (2,000) pounds. Whenever any wood shall be contracted for or sold or delivered, and no special contract or agreement shall be made to the contrary, the measurement per cord shall be one hundred and twenty-eight (128) cubic feet. And whoever in buying any of said articles shall take any greater number of pounds or cubic feet thereof to the bushel, ton or cord, as the case may be, or in selling any of said articles shall give any less number of pounds or cubic feet thereof to the bushel, ton or cord, as the case may be, than is herein allowed and specified, except when expressly authorized so to do by special contract or agreement to that effect, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten (10) dollars, nor more than one hundred (100) dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than ninety (90) days. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1897. CHAPTER 32. H. F. No. 11. plevin. An act providing for return of property to defendant Action in reupon giving bond in replevin actions in justice court. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: How to SECTION 1. In any action commenced in justice court to recover the possession of personal property the defendant, or, in case there are more than one defendant, then either or all of them may, within two (2) days af ter service of the writ of replevin, require a return of the property, upon executing to the plaintiff a bond or undertaking in the same amount as the bond of plaintiff, with two (2) sufficient sureties, to be approved by the justice, conditioned that the property shall be delivered to plaintiff if delivery be adjudged, and for the payment to him by the defendant as damages or costs. SEC. 2. The officer shall retain possession of the prop- Der erty taken under writs of replevin two (2) days, and upon notice from the justice that such bond has been given shall deliver the same to defendant. If the bond is not given the property at the expiration of the two (2) days shall be delivered to the plaintiff. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1897. Duty of officer. CHAPTER 33. S. F. No. 342. tion of the Protest An act to amend section two hundred thirty-six (236) Incorporaof chapter thirty-four (34) of general statutes of one parishes in thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, being the ant Episcopal same as section four (4) of chapter eighty-one (81) of church. the general laws of one thousand eight hundred seventy-seven, entitled "An act to provide for the incorporation of parishes in the Protestant Episcopal church.” Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That section two hundred thirty-six (236) of chapter thirty-four (34) of general statutes of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight, being the same as section four (4) of chapter eighty-one (81) of Amendment. Election of vestrymen. the general laws of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-seven, be amended so as to read as follows, to wit: Annual Meetings-Election of vestry: The annual meeting of said corporation shall be holden at the parish church or parish house, if there be either, on Easter Monday of each year, or at such other time as the parish may designate in its articles of incorporation, at which annual meeting church wardens and vestrymen shall be elected, in such manner as shall be determined upon by the parish, by electors having the qualifications which are or may be prescribed by the canons of the Protestant Episcopal church for the diocese or missionary district in which said corporation is located, in the state of Minnesota; but any parish organized under this law may at any annual meeting adopt a by-law providing for the election of one-third of the vestrymen of said parish for one year, one-third for two years and one-third for three years, and at said meeting may elect vestrymen in accordance with such by-law; and at each succeeding annual meeting one-third of said vestrymen shall be elected for a term of three years, and said bylaw may also provide that no vestryman shall at the expiration of his term of office be eligible for re-election as vestryman until the next annual meeting; said church wardens and vestrymen shall hold their respective offices until their successors are elected. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1897. S. F. No. 223. Railroads On or before April 1, 1897. CHAPTER 34. An act to require all railroad companies in this state to whom lands in this state have been granted by the State or Territory of Minnesota, or the United States of America, to file a list of said lands with the state auditor of this state. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That all railroad or railway companies in this state to whom lands in this state have been heretofore granted by the state of Minnesota, the territory of Minnesota or the United States of America, are hereby required to file in the office of the state auditor on or before the 1st day of April, A. D. 1897, a true and correct list of all of said lands in this state so le list, mandamus Failure to to issue. granted to them, which are now owned or controlled by them, or in which they have any interest except such Exception. portion of such lands as are held, used or occupied for a right of way, gravel pits, side tracks, depots or buildings and structures which are necessarily used in the actual management and operation of their railroad. SEC. 2. If any railroad or railway company required by section one of this act to file a list of its lands in the office of the state auditor shall have failed to file such list within the time therein provided, the state auditor shall thereupon immediately certify such fact to the attorney general, who shall at once upon receipt of such certification, apply to the district court of Ramsey county for the issuance of a writ of mandamus against such company to compel it to file its list of lands as provided in said section one. Enter for taxation for year 1897. may examine SEC. 3. Within twenty days after thefiling of the list of lands in his office as in this act provided, the state auditor shall certify to each county auditor of the state a list of such lands situate within his county, and such county auditor shall thereupon enter the same on the assessment and tax books for the year 1897, and the same shall be assessed in the manner provided by law. SEC. 4. The state auditor shall not be concluded by State auditor the list of said lands so filed in his office by any company, company's but if he has reason to believe that the same does not contain all granted lands of such company, subject to taxation, he may visit the offices of such company and examine the books and records thereof, and require any officer, agent, clerk or representative of such company to answer under oath such questions as he may put to him touching the lands owned by such company subject to taxation. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 5, 1897. books. 07 97 c 35 CHAPTER 35. An act to legalize conveyances of real property made by husband directly to wife, and the records of such con veyances. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: 1860 and SECTION 1. That all conveyances of real property Between within this state made between the first day of January, 1869. eighteen hundred sixty (1860), and the fifth day of |