CHAPTER 107—–S. F. No. 179.

An act to authorize corporations composed of several parishes, congregations or churches to unite or consolidate with other societies for ecclesiastical or religious purposes, to transfer their property to such united or consolidated societies when incorporated, and to provide for the incorporation of such united or consolidated societies.

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

Section 1. Consolidation of parishes, congregations or churches authorized. Any diocesan council, synod, presbytery, conference, association, consociation, or other general organization for ecclesiastical or religious purposes composed of or representing several parishes, congregations, or particular churches, and incorporated under the laws of this state, may unite or consolidate with one or more other diocesan councils, synods, presbyteries, conferences, associations, consociations, or other general organizations for ecclesiastical or religious purposes, or may with one or more such other societies form one new society for ecclesiastical or religious purposes, and when any such united or consolidated society, or any such new society, shall have been incorporated, may convey and transfer its property to such corporation according to law.

Sec. 2. Procedure for incorporation.-Any two or more societies of the classes named in the preceding section may form a corporation by adopting a canon or resolution and having a copy thereof certified, verified, approved by the attorney general and recorded as provided by sections 3152 and 3153, Revised Laws of Minnesota, 1905. The canon or resolution may be adopted in joint session by representatives, delegates and others entitled to vote at the regular meetings of such societies, respectively, for the year in which such canon or resolution is adopted or may be adopted in joint session by committees of such societies, elected or appointed by them respectively for that purpose.

Sec. 3. Privileges permitted.-Every corporation formed as in this act provided, shall have the same franchises, powers, privileges and immunities as corporations organized and existing under sections 3152 to 3153 inclusive of Revised Laws of Minnesota, 1905.

Sec. 4. Right to hold property.-Every corporation organized under this act shall hold all property conveyed or transferred to it for such use, and subject to such trusts and conditions as such property is held by the corporation conveying or transferring the same.

Sec. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 23, 1917.

CHAPTER 108-S. F. No. 126.

An act to provide for the teaching in all the common, graded and high schools of this state of exercises tending to promote and inculcate patriotism.

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

Section 1. Half hour daily to be given for patriotic exercises in all public schools. That in all of the common, graded and high schools of this state it shall be the duty of the superintendent or teachers in charge of such schools to teach and require the teaching therein, on at least one day out of each week, of subjects and exercises tending and calculated to encourage and inculcate a spirit of patriotism in the pupils and students. Such exercises shall consist of the singing of patriotic songs, readings from American history and from the biographies of American statesmen and patriots and such other patriotic exercises as the superintendent or teachers of such schools may de

termine.

The time to be spent thereon on each of said days shall not exceed one-half hour.

Sec. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 26, 1917.

CHAPTER 109-S. F. No. 167.

An act fixing and regulating the salaries, compensation, duties, and help of certain county officials in counties having or which may hereafter have, a population of 300,000 inhabitants or over, and repealing all acts or parts of acts inconsistent herewith.

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

Section 1. Salaries of Hennepin county sheriff, deputies and other employees.-The salary of the sheriff of each county of this state having, or which may hereafter have a population of 300,000 inhabitants or over, shall be forty-five hundred dollars

per annum.

Sec. 2. The sheriff shall perform all the duties and services now, or which may hereafter be required by law to be performed by him, and in addition shall serve all papers, post all notices named by law to be served or posted in behalf of the state or of the county for which he is elected, including all papers to be served or notices to be posted by the board of county commissioners, the county auditor, or by any other county officer.

Sec. 3. The sheriff shall appoint and employ one chief

deputy, who shall be paid the sum of two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) per annum; one bookkeeper, who shall be paid fifteen hundred dollars ($1,500.00) per annum; one stenographer, who shall also act as deputy sheriff, and who shall be paid twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per annum; one deputy for tax collections, who shall be paid twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per annum; two outside deputies, who shall each be paid eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800.00) per annum, and each of whom shall pay his own traveling expenses within said county, except conveyance or livery hire, while in the performance of his official duties assigned to him as such; one deputy for the care of the insane, who shall be paid thirteen hundred dollars ($1,300.00) per annum; one outside deputy to attend to the service of criminal and other process, who shall be paid thirteen hundred dollars ($1,300.00) per annum; one jailor, who shall be paid twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per annum; one assistant jailor, who shall be paid twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per annum; one matron, who shall be paid seven hundred and eighty dollars ($780.00) per annum; two night watchmen, who shall each be paid eleven hundred dollars ($1,100.00) per annum; one cook, who shall be paid eight hundred forty dollars ($840.00) per annum; two deputies in charge of juries, who shall each be paid the sum of twelve hundred ($1,200.00) dollars per annum; six general deputies, who shall each be paid twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per annum; two outside patrol deputies, who shall each be paid twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per annum; and the sheriff shall also appoint and employ as many court room deputies as there are district court judges in and for said county who shall attend to the court of said judges and perform such duties pertaining to the sheriff's office as the sheriff may require and the compensation of each of said deputies shall be twelve hundred dollars ($1,200.00) per annum.

That an expense fund of one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) be set aside out of the first one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) received as fees from and after the passage of this act to be used by the sheriff to meet the current monthly expenses of the of fice, the money so used to be replaced in said fund at the end of each month when such expense is allowed.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 26, 1917.

CHAPTER 110-S. F. No. 298.

An act to empower the governor, attorney general and state auditor, to enter into agreements with persons, co-partnerships and corporations for the purpose of mining and disposing of iron ore situate under the waters of any public lake or river within the state of Minnesota, and providing for the disposal of all funds arising from such sale and for other

purposes.

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

Section 1. Contracts for removing ore from under lake beds authorized at minimum royalty of 50 cents per ton.-The governor, attorney general and state auditor are hereby empowered to enter into contracts or agreements with persons, co-partnerships or corporations for the mining and disposing of the iron ore situate under any waters of any public lake or river in the state of Minnesota. The minimum royalty for each gross ton of iron ore disposed of under such contract, shall be not less than fifty cents per ton upon the ore in its natural condition as mined. Such contracts or agreements for the mining, removing and disposing of such iron ore may provide for the drainage of such lake or river, or the diversion of the waters thereof to a new bed or channel. The contracting parties herein provided for on the part of the state of Minnesota, shall have power to institute condemnation proceedings to pay for the interests of private persons or corporations who may be injured or whose rights may be destroyed by the carrying on of such operations, and such contracts or agreements for mining, removing or disposing of such iron ore may contain a covenant on the part of the second party to return the waters of such lake or river to their former beds as nearly as possible after the ore shall have been removed.

Sec. 2, Royalty derived to be added to permanent school fund. The principal of all funds arising from the disposal of such iron ore shall forever be preserved inviolate and undiminished and shall be added to the permanent school fund of the state to be invested and re-invested as provided by law for the investment of said permanent school fund, and the interest thereon shall be distributed in the same manner as the income from the present school fund is now, by law, distributed.

Sec. 3. Bids to be received and highest bidder to receive awards. All contracts or agreements for the mining, removing and disposing of iron ore provided for in section 1 of this act shall be sold at public sale to the highest bidder on the basis of the royalty to be paid to the state, after such sale shall have been advertised for three weeks in such a manner and in such

legal publications as the above named state officers shall determine, but no bids shall be entertained that shall not equal or exceed the minimum price specified in this act.

Sec. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved March 26, 1917.

CHAPTER 111-S. F. No. 402.

An act authorizing any county in this state having not less than 300,000 inhabitants to issue bonds to enlarge, equip and improve, and to provide new buildings and additional grounds for, its county sanatorium established and maintained for the treatment and care of persons affected with tuberculosis.

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

Section 1. $300,000 Hennepin county sanatorium bonds authorized. The board of county commissioners of each and every county in this state now or hereafter having not less than 300,000 inhabitants wherein a county sanatorium is, or shall be established under or by virtue of chapter 500, General Laws of 1913, and all acts amendatory thereof, for the care and treatment of persons affected with tuberculosis, is hereby authorized by resolutions duly passed by a majority vote to issue and sell the negotiable bonds of such county in such amount as it shall deem necessary not to exceed, however, three hundred thousand ($300,000) dollars, par value, for the purpose of enlarging, equipping and improving, and providing additional buildings and grounds for, such sanatorium.

Sec. 2. To run 15 years at interest not to exceed five per cent-how signed. Such county board may issue and sell the bonds of the county for the purposes hereinbefore specified not exceeding three hundred thousand ($300,000) dollars par value of such bonds, the principal of which bonds shall mature and be payable in not more than 15 annual installments as nearly equal as practical, the first annual installment whereof shall mature not more than 5 years from the issuance of such bonds. Such bonds shall be sold in the manner provided for in section 1856, General Statutes of 1913, but the rate of interest shall in no case exceed 5 per cent per annum, payable annually or semiannually. The board of county commissioners of any such county shall have power to levy under the authority of this act a tax on all the taxable property of the county sufficient to pay said bonds in annual installments corresponding to the amounts of interest and principal thereof as herein provided falling due from year to year.