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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. (MINNESOTA.) 



open season for deer, Nov. 8 to 30; squirrels, 

 Oct. 15 to Nov. 30; partridge, quail, and water- 

 fowl, Oct. 1 to Nov. 30. 



Designating certain lands as a forest reserve. 



Making it a misdemeanor to make and sell 

 imitation butter; a misdemeanor to sell adulter- 

 ated black pepper. 



Permitting appointment of inspector of api- 

 aries. 



Appropriating $1,500 annually to the State 

 Horticultural Society. 



Appropriating $2,000 annually to the Board of 

 Health for leaflets on contagious diseases. 



Providing for city boards to license plumbers. 



For licensing embalmers of bodies dead of con- 

 tagious or infectious diseases. 



Making it a misdemeanor for an employee of 

 a telegraph, telephone, or messenger company to 

 divulge the contents of a message, forge the name 

 of the receiver, or refuse or neglect to transmit 

 and deliver. 



Providing that the holder of a sheriff's certifi- 

 cate of sale may take a deed within ten years of 

 the expiration of the redemption period, or within 

 five years if that period has expired. 



Appropriating $2,800 to the Geological Survey, 

 for printing reports and maps. 



Permitting the State Librarian to loan books 

 to grange libraries and women's clubs. 



Regulating distribution of bodies to medical 

 colleges. 



Providing for the assessment of ^ mill on $1 

 valuation for the State Agricultural College and 

 Experiment Station; maximum, $100,000. 



Providing for establishment of rural high 

 schools on petition of one-third of taxpayers and 

 vote of majority of electors. 



Imposing a penalty of $25 and thirty days in 

 jail for defacing or defiling the United States 

 flag or any representation of it. 



Making veterans of the Philippine war admissi- 

 ble to the State Soldiers' Home. 



Making it a misdemeanor to wear without right 

 a G. A. R. badge or button, or a badge, rosette, 

 or insignia of the Loyal Legion. 



Appropriating $4,000 for bronze medals to sol- 

 diers and sailors of the State who served in the 

 Spanish and Philippine wars. 



Providing for a soldiers' and sailors' monu- 

 ment commission. 



Providing for completion of the military his- 

 tory of soldiers and sailors of the State in the 

 civil war and the Spanish War. 



Appropriating $50,000 for establishing a psy- 

 chopathic ward at the hospital of the State Uni- 

 versity, for accommodation of 40 patients. 



Two constitutional amendments were proposed, 

 to be submitted to voters in November, 1902. One 

 permits the Legislature to provide for indeter- 

 minate sentences. The other is to abolish pay- 

 ment for the publication of general laws in news- 

 papers. 



State Prosecutions. The cases against former 

 State officials and others (see Annual Cyclopaedia 

 for 1900, page 579) were before the courts this 

 year. Charles Pratt was convicted on the charge 

 of bribery in November, and the trial of E. J. 

 Adams for the same offense was to follow. The 

 case against Gov. Pingree for contempt of court 

 was continued to July 30, 1901, on account of his 

 absence in Europe, where he died, June 18. 



Decisions on Laws. Several recent enact- 

 ments of the Legislature have been brought be- 

 fore the Supreme Court and have been pronounced 

 valid the inheritance law, the parole law, the 

 act abolishing the Detroit Park and Boulevard 

 Commission and substituting therefor the office 



of single Commissioner of Parks and Boulevards, 

 and the act extending the term of the city offi- 

 cials of Detroit one year providing that no city 

 election should be held till November, 1902. 



The law of 1897 providing for a bounty on beet- 

 sugar was declared unconstitutional as class leg- 

 islation. It gave 1 cent a pound to manufacturers 

 who paid $4 a ton for beets. 



Political. A State election was held in April 

 for a justice of the Supreme Court and two re- 

 gents of the university, which resulted in the 

 choice of Robert M. Montgomery, Republican, for 

 justice of the Supreme Court, and Frank W. 

 Fletcher and Henry W. Carey, Republicans, for 

 regents of the university. 



Two constitutional amendments were submit- 

 ted, and both were rejected. One, providing that 

 members of the Legislature be paid $1,000 a term 

 instead of $3 a day, was lost by a vote of 112,883 

 in favor to 187,615 opposed. The other was to 

 provide for additional circuit judges in one of the 

 counties, and was lost by 110,885 to 130,108. 



MINNESOTA, a Western State, admitted to 

 the Union May 11, 1858; area, 83,365 square 

 miles. The population, according to each decen- 

 nial census since admission, was 172,023 in 1860; 

 439,706 in 1870; 780,773 in 1880; 1,301,826 in 

 1890; and 1,751,394 in 1900. Capital, St. Paul. 



Government. The following were the State 

 officers in 1901, taking office the first Monday in 

 January of that year: Governor, Samuel R. Van 

 Sant; Lieutenant-Governor, Lyndon A. Smith; 

 Secretary of State, Peter E. Hanson; Auditor, 

 Robert C. Dunn; Treasurer, Julius H. Block; 

 Attorney-General, Wallace B. Douglas; Commis- 

 sioner of Insurance, Elmer H. Dearth; Adjutant- 

 General, Elias D. Libbey; Chief Grain Inspector, 

 E. S. Reishus, until Aug. 1, when he was succeed- 

 ed by L. D. Marshall; Commissioner of Labor, 

 John O'Donnell ; Public Examiner, E. M. Pope ; 

 Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Charles M. 

 Start; Associate Justices, L. W. Collins, John A. 

 Lovely, Calvin L. Brown, Charles L. Lewis; 

 Clerk of the Supreme Court, Darius F. Reese all 

 Republicans. 



The judges of the Supreme and district courts 

 are elected by the people for six years. The clerk 

 of the Supreme Court is elected every four years. 

 The other court officers are appointed by the 

 judges, except the deputy clerk and his assistants, 

 who are appointed by the clerk of the court. State 

 officers are chosen in November of even years. 

 The Legislature convenes in January of odd years, 

 and the session is limited to ninety legislative 

 days. 



Finances. For the fiscal year ending July 31, 

 1901, the receipts of the State treasury were $8,- 

 901,184.54, and the disbursements $6,900,841.30, 

 leaving a balance of $2,000,343.24. 



The State debt was $2,009,000, having been re- 

 duced $285,000 during the year. The permanent 

 school and university funds were respectively $7,- 

 599,218.32 and $931,500. 



The principal classifications of the treasury re- 1 - 

 ceipts for the year were: Revenue fund',* $4,457,- 

 707.93; permanent school fund, $1,258,127.72; 

 general school fund, $1,906,670.77; general uni- 

 versity fund, $429,479.84. The disbursements 

 were: Revenue fund, $3,761,669.96; permanent 

 school fund, $876,686.16; general school fund, $1,- 

 340,015.44; general university fund, $398,939.47. 

 The amount of railroad taxes paid was $1,439,- 

 349.24. The total of insurance taxes paid to the 

 State Insurance Commissioner's office was $233,- 

 767.82. 



Charities and Corrections. Until the begin- 

 ning of the new fiscal year in this department of 



