ed for the purchase of lands for sites or experimental farms, whenever authorized by the Legislature. SEC. 4. No portion of said fund, nor the interest Funds not to be ap- thereon, shall be applied directly or indirectly, under shase or repair of any pretence whatever, to the purchase, erection, preservation or repair of any building or buildings. plied to the pur any building. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 24, 1865. March 2, 1865. Amendment to section four. CHAPTER X. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act relating to the University of Minnesota," approved March four, eighteen hundred and sixty-four. 2. Power of Board of Regents to confirm any settlement heretofore made, and arrange Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. Section four of said act entitled “An act relating to the University of Minnesota," approved March four, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, is hereby amended by striking out the word "supervisors,' in the thirtieth line of said section and inserting in the place thereof the words "county commissioners." SEC. 2. The following section is hereby added to said act at the end thereof: Section 12. The said regents are hereby fully authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to ratify and confirm any settlements heretofore made, of, and to settle and arrange any and all claims and demands, Power of Board against the University of Minnesota, or the regents thereof, which have been attempted to be settled by prior regents, or in settlement of which prior regents of the University of Minnesota have conveyed or at- of Regents. tempted or promised or agreed to convey any of the lands mentioned in section four of said act, and to sell and convey such lands in like manner as provided in said section four: Provided, however, That the lands hereby authorized to be conveyed, in settlement of such claims and demands shall not constitute any part of and shall be exclusive of the twelve thousand acres mentioned in said section four. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, March 2, 1865. CHAPTER XI. An Act to provide for the collection of debts against SECTION 1. Proceedings when judgments against town are not satisfied. 2. Duty of Supervisors. 3. When Treasurer of the town must upon demand pay the amount. 4. When act to take effect. Beit enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : March 2, 1865 judgments against isfied. SECTION 1. If judgment for the recovery of money be rendered against any town or school district, and the Proceedings when judgment be not satisfied or proceedings thereon stayed towns are not satby appeal or otherwise, before the next annual meeting of said town or school district, a certified copy of the docket of the judgment may be presented to said town or district at its annual meeting as aforesaid. Duty of Supervi SON. mand must pay amount-when. SEC. 2. The supervisors of the town or the trustees of the district must thereupon cause the amount due on the judgment with interest from the date of its recovery to be added, to the tax of said town or district, and the same shall be certified to the county auditor and collected as other town or district taxes are collected. SEC. 3. The treasurer of the town or district against which a judgment has been recovered, the execution of Treasurer upon de- which has not been stayed by appeal, must upon demand and the delivery to him of the certified copy of the docket of the judgment pay the amount due thereon if there be sufficient money of such town or district in his hands not otherwise appropriated. If he fail to do so, he shall be personally liable for the amount unless the collection thereof be afterwards stayed upon appeal. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1865. March 3, 1865. CHAPTER XII. An Act to continue in force Chapter eighty-one of the 6 Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That the provisions of chapter eighty for the establishment of Normal one of the session laws of eighteen hundred and sixty, Extension of time being an act entitled "An act to suspend an act entitled An act for the establishment of State Normal Schools. Schools,"" be and the same are hereby continued in force for the further term of five years from the passage of this act. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved March 3, 1865. CHAPTER XIII. An Act for the Organization and Regulation of Independent School Districts. 1. Duty of Clerk-to make report to County Auditor-what to contain-penalty for non- 3. Records to be considered prima facie evidence of facts therein stated 14. Duty of Treasurer. 15. Time and place of holding stated meetings-may call special meetings. 13. A meeting of legal voters may be called when deemed necessary to purchase or erset 17. Power of Board of Education. 18. Time for which school to be kept in operation-when to make known amount of tax 19. Admission to be gratuitous. 20. School Examiners-how appointed-term of office-power of Examiners. 21. Taxes-how levied and collected. 22. Repeal of inconsistent acts. 23. Not to be repealed or affected by any subsequent act 24. When act to take effect. Beilenacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota: SECTION 1. That any city, town, village, township, March 3, 1865. independent school districts. Establishment of school district, or sub-school district, now or hereafter to be organized, may be organized into and established as an independent school district, in the manner and with the powers hereinafter specified: Provided, however, That this act shall not apply to any township, school district, or sub-school district, containing less than five hundred inhabitants, unless said school district consists in whole or in part of an incorporated city, town or village: Provided, further, That the provisions of this act shall not apply to any city, town or village, or any part thereof, which is now governed as to schools by any special law. How organized Who to be judges of election. SEC. 2. That in order to such organization, written notices shall be posted up in three of the most public places in said contemplated district, signed by at least six resident freeholders of the same, requesting the qualified electors in said district to assemble upon a day, and at some suitable place in said district, to be named in said notices, then and there to vote, by ballot, for or against the adoption of this act, which notices shall be so posted up at least ten days next prior to said meeting. SEC. 3. That the electors assembled at said time and place shall proceed to appoint a chairman, assistant chairman and clerk, who shall be judges of said election. That the electors in favor of the adoption of this act for said district, shall write upon their ballots "School Law," and those opposed thereto "No School Law," the adoption or rejection of this act to be determined by a majority of votes to be cast in manner aforesaid. SEC. 4. That in case a majority of votes shall have been cast for said law, the electors of said district School directors shall assemble at the place last aforesaid, within twenty days from the time of the adoption of said act, of which at least ten days previous notice shall be given by said chairman and clerk, in the manner aforesaid, and shall then and there choose, by ballot, six directors of the public schools of said district, two of whom shall serve for one year, two for two years, and two for three years, the time that each shall serve to be designated on the ballots, and annually thereafter, on the last Saturday of March, there shall be chosen, in the same manner, two directors, each of whom shall serve for three years, how chosen-term of office. |
