from and after the determination of such results, shall be separated for all purposes from the towns or townships in which it is situated. edness. SEC. 3. In case any village, city or town, and the Joint indebttown or towns in which any village, city or town is located shall heretofore jointly or together have contracted any bonded or other indebtedness, then and in every such case, it shall be the duty of the county auditor in the county in which such village, city or town and towns are located, to apportion the amount of the taxes necessary to be levied in each year to pay the interest and principal of such indebtedness, as the same may become due and payable, upon the taxable property of such village, city and town or towns pro rata, according to the valuation of such town, towns and village or city until such joint indebtedness with the interest thereon is fully paid. Where such indebtedness is to be provided for by tax levied upon the property of such village, city and town, or towns jointly, it shall be the duty of the board of supervisors in each of the towns thereby affected to file with the county auditor a statement showing the amount of taxes to be raised for such purpose. SEC. 4. If, by a majority vote, the proposition carries, then within ten days after the election the village, city or town recorder shall notify the county auditor of the county in which said village, city or town is located; and the county auditor shall after that time keep the records and tax list separate and distinct from the town or towns in which such village, city or town is located in the same manner as the town records and tax lists are kept. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 15, 1897. Separate rec ords and tax lists. CHAPTER 53. H. F.No. 175. An act to provide for attaching territory to indepen- School dent or special school districts. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: districts. territory. SECTION 1. That whenever the principal part of the To attach territory in any incorporated town or city in this state is organized as an independent school district or a special school district, and any portion of the territory On petition. Notice and hearing. Order to be final. included within the incorporated limits of said town or city is not connected with said independent or special school district, it shall be lawful to attach the said territory to said independent or special district in the manner hereinafter set forth. SEC. 2. A petition signed by a majority of the resident freeholders who are entitled to vote at school meetings in the territory so to be attached, stating that said petitioners desire to have said territory attached to said independent or special district, shall be presented to the board of trustees or board of education of said independent or special school district, at any regular or special meeting thereof. The territory to be so attached shall be accurately described in said petition. SEC. 3. Upon the coming in of such a petition, the said board shall fix a time for the hearing of said petition and shall cause notice of said hearing to be served upon the clerk of each district affected by said proposed change and also to be posted in three conspicuous places in the said territory so to be attached, which notice shall be so served and posted at least ten days before the date fixed for said hearing. SEC. 4. At the time fixed for said hearing the said board shall hear all parties interested in the said matter and consider the said petition, and shall enter their order relating to the same, and said order so entered shall be final. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 18, 1897. H. F. No. 26 Assessment and collection of taxes. 97 C 54 01 315 Amendment. CHAPTER 54. An act to amend section fifteen (15) of chapter two (2) of the general laws of eighteen hundred and eightyfive (1885), the same being an amendment of section sixty-nine (69) of chapter eleven (11) of the general statutes of eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (1878), relating to the assessment and collection of taxes. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That section fifteen (15) of chapter two (2) of the general laws of Minnesota for the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five (1885), be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: Sec. 15. On the first day of June of each year a after June 1. Provision for one-half pay Remaining half payment before Nov. 1. penalty of ten (10) per cent shall immediately accrue 10 % penalty and thereafter be charged upon all unpaid taxes on real estate on the lists in the hands of the county treasurer, and any treasurer who shall make out and deliver any receipt for such taxes without including such penalty therein, and who shall receive payment of such tax without including such penalty therein, shall be liable to the county for the amount of such penalty; provided, that if one-half (2) of the amount of the tax on any ment of taxes. real estate shall be paid before the first day of June of each year, then no penalty shall be charged or collected on the one-half (2) remaining unpaid, provided, such one-half (1⁄2) remaining unpaid shall be paid before the first day of November of each year, but if said remaining one-half (2) of said tax shall not be paid before said first day of November, then a penalty of ten (10) per cent shall immediately accrue, and thereafter be charged upon the one-half (2) of any such real estate tax remaining unpaid. On the first Monday in January of each year, the county treasurer shall return to the county auditor the several tax lists in his hands, haying compared the same with his duplicate receipts on file in the auditor's office, and written opposite the amount of each tax so receipted for, the words "paid in full" or "one-half paid" as the case may be, and the number of the treasurer's receipt or receipts given in discharge of such tax, and each tract or lot of real property against which the taxes or any part thereof remain unpaid shall be deemed delinquent, and thereupon an additional penalty of five (5) per cent on the amount of the original tax remaining unpaid shall immediately accrue, and thereafter be charged upon all such delinquent taxes; and any auditor who shall make out and deliver any statement of delinquent taxes without including the penalties imposed by this section therein, and any treasurer who shall receive payment of such taxes without including such penalties, shall be liable to the county for the amount of such penalties omitted. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after January first (1), eighteen hundred and ninetyeight, (1898). Approved March 18, 1897. Delinquent after 1st Mon day in Jan., al penalty. 5% addition S. F. No. 300. Pensions by fire depart ment relief associations. Authorizing a service pen sion. Not exceed ing $40 a An act relating to fire departments relief associations, and authorizing the payment of pensions by such associations to retired members thereof. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That every fire department relief association now existing, or which may hereafter be organized pursuant to any statute of this state, is hereby authorized and empowered, whenever its articles of incorporation and its constitution or by-laws shall so provide or permit, to pay out of and from any funds it may have received from the state of Minnesota, or from any other source, a service pension, in such amount as its articles or by-laws shall designate, not exceeding the sum of forty dollars per month, to each of its retired month. Con- members who shall have arrived at the age of fifty years or more, and shall have done active duty for a period of twenty years or more, as a member of a paid fire department of the city, village, town or other municipal corporation in which such relief association shall exist, and continuously for two years immediately preceding his retirement therefrom, and who shall have been a member of such relief association for a period of ten years or more prior to such retirement, and who shall conform also to such other and additional conditions as to age, service and membership as such association shall by its articles or by-laws prescribe. ditions. Provided, however, that all pensions which shall be given pursuant to the terms of this act shall be uniform in amount, and that every such association shall at all times have and retain the right to increase or reduce the amount of such pension, whenever, because of the amount of funds on hand, or for other good reasons, such increase or reduction may seem advisable or proper. Provided, further, that no pension authorized by this act shall be paid to any person while he remains or is a member of such fire department, and that no person receiving the pension herein mentioned shall receive, or be entitled to receive, any other or further pension or relief from such association. And provided, also, that when in any city, town, village, or other municipality, there shall exist a volunteer fire department, or a partially paid and partially volunteer fire department, and there shall exist any such relief association, such relief association may avail itself of the benefit of this act. authority to SEC. 2. That the authority and power conferred Additional hereby upon such relief associations is in addition and that heretosupplemental to the power and authority heretofore fore granted. conferred thereon to expend their moneys for the support and relief of sick, injured and disabled firemen, their widows and orphans. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 19, 1897. CHAPTER 56. S. F. No. 44. tion for Owa An act to appropriate the sum of three thousand five Appropriahundred ($3,500) dollars, for the purpose of purchas- tonna public ing additional land for the state public school of school." Owatonna. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Minnesota: tion. SECTION 1. That the sum of three thousand five hun- Appropriadred dollars ($3,500), or so much thereof as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing additional land for the state public school at Owatonna. pended. SEC. 2. Said money so appropriated shall be expended How exunder the direction of the board of trustees of the said state public school. SEC. 3. The state auditor is hereby authorized to draw his warrants for said sum, or so much thereof as shall be expended for said purpose, in favor of such persons as shall be designated by the said board of trustees of said public school. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 20, 1897. |