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they shall be employed by the State or muni- 

 cipality, under the direction of the prison au- 

 thorities, in some form of labor that will avoid 

 competition with the free labor of the State. 



The election law was revised by incorporat- 

 ing many features of the New York statute 

 which tend to facilitate the process of voting 

 and of ascertaining the result. No election dis- 

 trict is to contain more than 400 voters, and 

 separate ballots and ballot-boxes are required 

 for different classes of officers. Another new 

 provision establishes more stringent rules con- 

 cerning registration in cities. 



The following unique enactment is also 

 found : " Whenever the defendant in any ac- 

 tion of garnishment in this State shall make it 

 appear that the sum of money which has been 

 garnished was earned by him or her, as a labor- 

 ing man or woman, by the actual work of his 

 or her hands, and shall make it appear that the 

 said money is actually necessary to his or her 

 support, it shall be the duty of the court to 

 order the discharge of the garnishment." 



Provision was made to re-locate the State 

 Reform School, to create and establish a State 

 Reformatory at St. Cloud, and to create and 

 establish a Soldiers' Home, afterward located 

 at Minnehaha Falls. The sum of $60,000 was 

 appropriated for a new building at the Moor- 

 head Normal School, and $62,500 for additional 

 buildings, land, and improvements at the State 

 Institute for Deaf, Dumb, and Blind. 



Honorably discharged soldiers are to be given 

 the preference for public employment over all 

 candidates. 



A tax-levy of $800,000 in 1888, and $825,- 

 000 in 1889, for State purposes, is provided. 

 The total appropriations for 1887 were $214,- 

 405; for 1888, $1,164,315; for 1889, $984,740, 

 to which should be added deficiency bills 

 amounting to $79,630, and miscellaneous ap- 

 propriations to the amount of $185,892, mak- 

 ing an aggregate of $2,628,982. The following 

 are the sums granted for the regular annual ex- 

 penses of the State institutions : 



INSTITUTIONS. 



State public schools 



Deaf, dumb, and blind 



Mankato Normal School 



Reformatory, St. Cloud 



Reform School 



Hospitals for insane, first and second 



Third hospital for insane 



State prison 



Moorhead Normal School 



University 



8t Cloud Normal School 



Winona Normal School 



1888. 1889. 



47,000 

 90,000 



5,500 

 50,000 

 42.000 

 296.340 

 25,000 

 73,000 



5,000 

 40,000 



5,500 

 10,000 



50,000 

 95,000 



5.500 

 50,000 

 42,000 

 344,840 

 25,000 

 75,000 



6,000 

 40,000 



5.500 



5,000 



Other acts of the session were as follow : 



To appoint a State Board of Medical Examiners, 

 who shall examine and license all practitioners of 

 medicine, and to punish all persons practicing with- 

 out such license. 



To provide for the collection of vital statistics, es- 

 tablishing a Bureau of Labor Statistics, and appro- 

 priating money for the maintenance thereof. 



To provide for the establishment of public-school 



libraries, and appropriating money to assist the vari- 

 ous school districts in the purchase of such. 



Kequiring instruction in the public schools in physi- 

 ology and hygiene, with special reference to the effect 

 of stimulants and narcotics on the human system. 



Exempting from taxation property of agricultural 

 societies and expositions. 



For the relict of persons whose lands have been or 

 may be sold for alleged delinquent taxes, in cases 

 where such taxes have been or may be paid prior to 

 such sale. 



To legalize corporations that have filed articles of 

 incorporation and transacted business under a corpo- 

 rate name, but whose proceedings to secure incorpora- 

 tion were, for any reason, defective. 



To authorize the consolidation of religious corpora- 

 tions. 



Closing barber-shops upon Sunday. 



Kegulating and confirming the formation of real- 

 estate title- insurance companies. 



Providing a penalty to be imposed upon insurance 

 companies that do business without license from the 

 Insurance Commissioner, and authorizing him to sue 

 for and collect such penalties. 



To provide for the taxation of telephone companies. 



To provide for the taxation of telegraph companies. 



To prevent deception in the sale of dairy products, 

 and creating a State Dairy Commissioner to enforce 

 the law. 



To secure the better preservation of game. 



To encourage the raising and propagation of trout, 

 and to protect streams, ponds, and waters used for that 

 purpose. 



To provide a bounty for the destruction of gophers 

 and blackbirds. [Three to five cents for each gopher, 

 and five to ten cents a dozen for blackbirds.] 



Providing for a revision and codification of the pro- 

 bate laws of the State. 



To establish at the State School Farm an experi- 

 mental fruit, forest, and ornamental-tree station. 



To provide for the compiling, revising, and digest- 

 ing of the tax-laws of the State. 



To exclude minors from court-rooms when trials of 

 an obscene character are being conducted. 



To abolish the State Board of Immigration. 



To provide for the establishment of permanent 

 funds for the care, maintenance, and improvement of 

 cemeteries. 



Giving labor the right of a first lien, and material 

 furnished a second lien, on all property. 



To provide for the prosecution, at the expense of 

 the State, of cases in behalf of settlers upon " indem- 

 nity lands" in the State. 



Kequiring landlords and proprietors of eating-estab- 

 lishments using oleomargarine, or any substitute for 

 butter, to print a notice of such fact upon the bill of 

 fare, or to post such notice in their establishments. 



To provide necessary crossings for the passage of 

 farm-stock, and for drains over or under railroad- 

 tracks. 



To compel employers of females to furnish suitable 

 seats for such employe's. 



Forbidding the mortgaging of crops before the seed 

 shall have been sown or planted. 



To reorganize the State Agricultural Society, and to 

 confer police powers upon the board. 



Appropriating $40.000 for the purpose of furnishing 

 seed-grain for distribution in those counties of the 

 State where the crop was destroyed by hail in 1886, 

 and giving the State a lien on the crops of persons so 

 aided till it shall be repaid. 



To prevent the practice of fraud by tree-planters 

 and commission-men in the sale of nursery stock. 



To prevent contractors of prison labor in the State 

 from manufacturing articles in competition with cus- 

 tom-work done by artisan labor. 



To punish false pretenses in obtaining certificates 

 of registration for cattle and other animals, and giving 

 false Information concerning them. 



Providing that duly authorized surety companies 



