be provided by law, and shall have been pronounced by said court capable of enjoying the rights of citizenship within the State. To be submitted to next general eleo SEC. 2. This proposed amendment shall be submitted to the people of the several districts of this the voters at the State, for their approval or rejection at the next gene- tion. ral election for the year eighteen hundred and sixtyfive. read. SEC. 3. The ballots used at said election shall be How ballots to written or printed as follows: "For amendment to section one, article seven," or, Against amendment 66 to section one, article seven," as the case may be. Approved February 24, 1865. CHAPTER LVIII. An Act to amend an Act relating to the revision of the Statutes of Minnesota, approved February seventeenth, February 21, 1885. eighteen hundred and sixty-three, as amended by chapter forty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four. SECTION 1. Commissioners appointed to revise statutes. 2. Who to prepare at his own expense a copy for the printer-compensation. 3. Number of copies to be printed-when to be delivered to the Legislature. 4. State Librarian to furnish each Commissioner with copies of Public Statutes and 5. Authorized to expend money for stationery, etc. 5. Necessary expenses incurred, how paid. 7. Repeal of former acts. 8. When act to take effect. Beit enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. Thomas Wilson, S. J. R. McMillan, Commissioners appointed to revise statues. Who to prepare compensation. Gordon E. Cole and E. C. Palmer, are hereby appointed commissioners to complete the revision of the statutes of this State. SEC. 2. The said commissioner last named in the preceding section shall give his whole time and attencopy for printer- tion to the said work, he shall prepare or cause to be prepared at his own expense, a copy of the statutes when revised for the printer and supervise the printing of the same; for which services he shall receive the sum of two thousand dollars, payable quarterly. The compensation of commissioner Cole shall be fixed by the remaining members of the commission, and it shall be paid by the State Auditor as other expenses of the commission are paid. Number of copies when to be deliv to be printed ered to the Legislature. SEC. 3. Said commissioners or any three of them shall prepare or sanction said revision, and one hundred copies thereof shall be printed and bound in pamphlet form by the State Printer, and delivered to the Legislature on or before the tenth day of January A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-six. SEC. 4. Each of said commissioners shall be entiDuty of State Li- tled to receive from the State Librarian such number brarian. Authorized to expend money for stationery, etc. ses incurred, how paid. of the copies of the public statutes and of the session laws, not exceeding five, including those heretofore furnished, as may be necessary to the convenient prosecution of said work. SEC. 5. Said commissioners or any three of them are hereby authorized to expend such moneys for stationery, postage and other objects necessary for the purpose of the commission and for personal expenses of the commissioners incurred while absent from their usual places of abode in and about the business of such commission as they may deem reasonable: Provided, That the whole amount shall not exceed the sum of fifteen hundred dollars. SEC. 6. Upon the presentation of a certificate signed by any three of said commissioners certifying Necessary expen- the amount due to any person for either of the items mentioned in the last section, the State Auditor is hereby authorized and required to draw warrants upon the State Treasurer for the same, the whole amount of said warrants not to exceed the said sum of fifteen hundred dollars. acts. SEC. 7. Chapter twenty-five of the laws of eighteen Repeal of former hundred and sixty-three, and chapter forty-four of the laws of eighteen hundred and sixty-four, are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 21, 1865. CHAPTER LIX. An Act relating to the confusion of property as respects March 1, 1885. logs and timber. SECTION 1. What law to govern the wrongful and fraudulent confusion of logs and timber. 2. Proceedings in case logs bearing the same mark and owned by different individuals. 3. Provisions of this act to extend to previous causes. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : and fraudulent SECTION 1. In all cases of a wrongful or unlawful taking, detention or conversion of logs or timber and what law to gov intermingling of the same with other logs or timber so ern the wrongful that they cannot be identified nor separated therefrom confusion of loge by the owner, the rule of the common law applicable to the case of a wrongful and fraudulent confusion of goods, shall govern in determining the right of property in respect to both and all said logs and timber. SEC. 2. In cases where logs or timber bearing the same mark, but belonging to different owners in severalty have without the fault of any of them become so intermingled that the particular or identical logs or timber belonging to each cannot be designated, either of such owners may upon a failure of any one of them having the possession, to make a just division thereof after demand, bring and maintain against such one in possession an action to recover his proportionate share and timber. Logs bearing the same mark owned by different peron how to pro sons cee:1. of said logs or timber, and in such action he may claim. and have the immediate delivery of such quantity of said mark of logs or timber as shall equal his said share, in like manner and with like force and effect as though such quantity embraced his identical logs and timber and no other. SEC. 3. The provisions of this act shall apply to causes of action which have heretofore accrued as well as hereafter to accrue. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. The salary of the Governor shall be two thousand dollars per annum. The salary of Secretary and Auditor of State shall be twelve hundred dollars each, per annum. The salary of the Treasurer and Attorney General shall be one thousand dollars each, per annum. The salary of the Adjutant General shall be twelve hundred dollars per annum. The salary of the Clerk of the Supreme Court shall be six hundred dollars per annum. The salary of the State Librarian shall be four hundred dollars per annum. Salaries of State The salary of the Governor's Private Secretary shall officers and clerks be six hundred dollars per annum. The salary of the State Land Commissioner shall be three hundred dollars per annum. The salary of the Assistant Secretary of State shall be eight hundred dollars per annum. The salary of the clerk in the State Treasurer's office shall be eight hundred dollars per annum. The clerk hire in the Adjutant General's office shall not exceed the sum of sixteen hundred dollars per annum. The clerk in the State Auditor's office shall receive a salary of nine hund. ed dollars per annum. The clerk in the State Land Office shall receive a salary of eight hundred dollars per annum. The clerk of the Allotment Agent shall receive a salary of two hundred dollars per annum. The Janitor of the Capitol shall receive a salary of six hundred and twenty [five] dollars [per an]num. The Warden of the State Prison shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per annum. The Deputy Warden of the State Prison shall receive a salary of six hundred dollars per annum. The Night Watchman of the Capitol shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars per annum. The Arsenal Keeper shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars per annum. The Reporter of the Supreme Court shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars. of the several departments. Repeal of former SEC. 2. Chapter sixty-eight of the general laws of one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four, is hereby act. repealed. |