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An act to appropriate the income derived from the in- Road and vestments in the internal improvement land fund to the internal improvement or road and bridge fund.

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

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SECTION 1. That the income derived from all investments now in the internal improvement land fund, provement or that may hereafter accrue to said fund from sales of land or otherwise, be and the same is hereby set aside and appropriated to the internal improvement, or road and bridge fund.

SEC. 2. The moneys hereby appropriated shall be How used. used only for making public roads and building bridges on public roads within this state, in such amounts and in the manner as the legislature of the state may direct.

SEC. 3. Nothing in this act contained shall operate Exceptions. to affect or abrogate the right of any person to have his claim or claims adjusted and settled, as provided by chapters one (1) and seventy-one (71), general laws, extra session eighteen hundred and eighty-one (1881), or to revive any claim heretofore barred or extinguished by the provisions of any law of this state; but every valid claim shall, when approved, be paid as now provided by law.

Declared adopted and ratified December 22nd, 1896. 152,765 votes for, and 28,991 against said proposition.

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SECTION 1. Any benevolent, charitable, missionary, hospital, deaconess or religious corporation heretofore or hereafter organized under title three (3), chapter thirty-four (34), general statutes 1878, state of Minnesota, and the acts amendatory thereof, may and is hereby empowered to authorize the election of a portion of its directors, trustees or managers, by any other corporation of corporations heretofore or hereafter organized under the laws of the state of Minnesota, now exercising the functions of a corporation, whenever its articles of incorporation, original, amended or hereafter amended, shall designate the corporation or corporations which shall elect any portion of said directors, trustees or managers, and the number to be so elected. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after January 15, 1897.

Approved January 29, 1897.

H. F. No.179.

CHAPTER 3.

Cities, legal- An act to legalize the floating indebtedness of cities in izing floating indebtedness. certain cases, and to legalize the acts of such cities and of the officers and voters thereof, in reference to the issue of such cities' bonds to fund such floating indebtedness, and to authorize such cities to issue such bonds in pursuance of such acts, and to legalize such bonds when so issued.

Bonds to fund floating indebtedness.

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

SECTION 1. That in all cases where the city council or corresponding body of any city organized under any special or general law of the state of Minnesota, shall have heretofore voted by resolution or ordinance approved by the mayor or corresponding officer of such city, to submit to the voters of such city, at a special or general election in such resolution or ordinance designated, the question of issuing the bonds of such city to an amount in such ordinance or resolution named, for the purpose of funding the floating indebtedness of said city, in whole or in part, and such question shall have been actually submitted to such voters at such election, held during the year A. D. 1896, and as many as two-thirds of the votes cast upon such question at such election shall have been in favor of the issue of. such bonds, the floating indebtedness of such city,

sought to be paid or funded by the issue of such bonds, is hereby in all respects legalized and made a binding obligation of such city.

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SEC. 2. That in all cases where the city council or Legalizing corresponding body of any city organized under any elections herespecial or general law, of the state of Minnesota, shall tofore held. have heretofore voted by resolution or ordinance, approved by the mayor or corresponding officer of such city, to submit to the voters of such city, at a general or special election, in such resolution or ordinance designated, the question of issuing the bonds of such city to an amount in such resolution or ordinance named, for the purpose of funding the floating indebtedness of such city, in whole or in part, and such question shall have been actually submitted to such voters at such election, held during the year A. D. 1896, and as many as two-thirds of the votes cast upon such question at such election shall have been in favor of the issue of such bonds, the action taken by the city council or corresponding body of such city, and the mayor or recorder, or corresponding officer, or other public officers thereof, in causing such question to be submitted to the voters of such city, such election and the result thereof, and any action subsequent to such election, which has heretofore been taken by the city council or corresponding body of such city, or by the mayor or recorder, or corresponding officer, or other public officers of such city, either in reference to the issue of such bonds in compliance with the terms of the original resolution or ordinance submitting such question to such voters, and with the terms of the question submitted to such voters, and approved by them at such election, or in reference to the sale of such bonds, are all in all respects legalized, ratified, confirmed and authorized as being lawful and binding acts of such city, to the same extent and with the same force and effect as though all the proceedings which have been taken preparatory to the execution, issue, delivery and sale of such bonds, or in the execution, issue, delivery and sale of such bonds, had been expressly authorized by law prior to the taking of such proceedings.

SEC. 3. That in all such cases herein before in this act defined, if there shall still remain any acts necessary or desirable to be taken or done by said city, or by the city council or corresponding body thereof, or by the mayor or recorder, or corresponding officer, or any public officer thereof, under the direction of such city council or corresponding body, in order to complete, or otherwise effectuate the issue of such bonds, or in refer

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