ties after accept appointment, who shall neglect or refuse to perform Penalty for refusthe duties required by them in taking or returning the ing to perform census as herein directed, shall forfeit and pay the sum ance. of two hundred and fifty dollars, to be recovered in the manner provided by law for the collection of fines and forfeitures. priation. SEC. 10. The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropri- Amount of approated out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of this act. SEC. 11. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Beit enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : this act. SECTION 1. That every person who shall, by himself, or in combination with others, threaten or use any means to intimidate any workman in the employ or Penalty for violat desirous of entering into the employ of any person, ing provisions of persons or corporation in this State, with intent there by to cause such workman to leave such employ or to prevent him from entering therein, shall, upon conviction of such offense, be punished by a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court CHAPTER XXIX. February 13, 1885. An Act to preserve and protect the growth of Ginseng. SECTION 1. Penalty upon conviction of persons digging or exposing for sale green ginseng root Penalty for digging or exposing seng root-when. Beit enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That if any person or persons shall dig, or have in his, her or their possession, or expose for for sale green gin- sale, or purchase, within the State of Minnesota, any green ginseng root, between the first day of May, and the first day of August, in each year, such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court. When prosecutions to be commenced -disposition of fine so collected. SEC. 2. That all prosecutions under the provisions of this act shall be commenced within three months from the time such offense shall have been committed, and not afterwards, and the same shall be on complaint under oath, before any justice of the peace in the county where the offense shall have been committed, and all fines imposed and collected under this act, shall be paid one-half to the complainant, and one-half into the treasury of the county, where such conviction shall take place, for the use of common schools within such county. Duty of Supervi bles. SEC. 3. It shall be and is hereby made the duty of the supervisors and constables of the town having knowledge of the violation of any of the provisions of this act, to make complaint thereof to any justice of sors and Constathe peace of the proper county, and any other person having such knowledge, may make complaint before such justice, and the said justice shall issue his warrant for the arrest of the offender, and proceed to hear and determine the matter in issue in the same manner as provided in other cases, and that each and every person convicted under any of the provisions of this act, shall stand committed to the common jail of the county wherein the offense was committed, until such fine be paid. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 13, 1865. CHAPTER XXX. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the opening, establishing, changing and vacating of county roads," approved March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two. SECTION 1. County Commissioners to have general supervision of county roads-power of Commissioners. 2. When act to take effect. Beit enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. That section nine of said act approved March first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, be amended so as to read as follows: March 2, 1865. sioners to have general supervis er of Commissioners. Section 9. The county commissioners shall have a County Commis- general supervision of county roads, and they shall have power to appropriate such sums of money from ion of roads-pow- the county treasury as they may think advisable for opening and working such roads, not exceeding, in any one year the sum or ratio of one thousand dollars to each five hundred thousand dollars of assessed valuation of real estate in such county. Provided, That additional sums may be appropriated but shall not be expended except upon a ratification thereof by a vote of the people, to assist in building bridges and in opening and repairing county roads; to be expended under their direction. Provided further, That the towns through which any county road may pass, shall keep such road in repair, the same as other roads in their towns. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved March 2, 1865. February 28, 1865. CHAPTER XXXI. An Act to prevent the running at large of horses diseased with glanders, or driving the same on public highways and stabling the same without apprising hotel keepers thereof. SECTION 1. Penalty for permitting horses with glanders running at large-disposition of fine so collected. 2. Penalty for driving knowingly any such diseased animal on the highways and stopping at any hotel or tavern-when hotel or tavern keepers may be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 3. When act to take effect. Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota : SECTION 1. Any person being the owner of a horse, with glanders run position of fines. mare, colt, or mule, or who has charge of the same Penalty for rerhaving any contagious disease and especially the mitting horses glanders, in this State, who shall turn them out on any ning at large-dispublic highway, or shall suffer or permit them to run out at large on any common or enclosed land in this State, and knowing the same to be diseased, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars or over one hundred dollars, the same to be recovered before any justice of the peace, one half of the fine so imposed shall go to the complainant, the other half to be paid over to the county treasurer for the benefit of common schools in said county. highways or stop when hotel keepers deemed guilty SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That any person the owner of, or who has in charge a horse, mare, mule, or colt, so diseased as aforesaid, and shall knowingly team Penalty for driving with, or drive the same on the public highways of this diseased horses on State and stopping at any hotel or tavern in this State ping at hotelsshall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to the same penalty, as in section one of this act, un- of misdemeanor. less he shall first notify the landlord, hotel or tavern keeper, that his horse, mare, colt, or mule, is so diseased, and request a private and separate stable or place for the accommodation of his said diseased animals, and the landlord, tavern and innkeeper, after being so informed who shall permit the same or suffer them to be put in the stable, or stalls, in or about his premises kept for the public use, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be subject to the same fine or penalty as set forth in section one of this act. This act shall also extend to and embrace all sale stables, and boarding stables, the same as those of hotel or innkeepers. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved February 28, 1865. |