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MINNESOTA. 



property, 115 ; forgery and counterfeiting, 12; 

 perjury, 3 ; riot, 1 ; jail-breaking, 2. 



The net earnings for the year were $6,329.98 ; 

 the net expenditures, $89,257.70. 



Iron. The amount of iron-ore shipped from 

 Lake Superior mines in 3883 was 2,351,372 

 tons; the approximate value of which was 

 $13,677,919. The Lake Superior charcoal-fur- 

 naces in 1883 produced 57,384 tons of iron, 

 the approximate value of which was $1,291,- 

 140. The product of the Lake Superior iron- 

 mines since 1863 is 23,126,078 tons. 



Salt. The following table shows the amount 

 of salt inspected in Michigan in 1883 : 



The above table shows a decrease in the 

 amount inspected during the fiscal year from 

 that of 1882 of 142,645 barrels. 



Lumber. The aggregate lumber-cut of 1883 

 was 938,675,078 feet, which was about 73,000,- 

 000 feet less than that of 1882. 



MINNESOTA. State Government The follow- 

 ing were the State officers during the year: 

 Governor, Lucius F. Hubbard, Republican ; 

 Lieutenant-Governor, Charles A. Gilman ; Sec- 

 retary of State, Frederick von Baumbach ; 

 Treasurer, Charles Kittelson ; Auditor, W. W. 

 Braden; Attorney-General, W. J. Hahn; Super- 

 intendent of Public Instruction, D. L. Kiehle ; 

 Adjutant-General, A. C. Hawley; Public Ex- 

 aminer, H. M. Knox ; Insurance Commission- 

 er, A. B. McGill ; Commissioner of Statistics, 

 Oscar Malmros; Railroad Commissioner, James 

 H. Baker. Judiciary, Supreme Court : Chief- 

 Justice, Charles E. Vanderburg ; Associates, 

 William Mitchell and D. A. Dickinson. 



Legislative Session. The Legislature convened 

 on the 2d of January, and adjourned early in 

 March. On the 1st of February, and on the thir- 

 tieth ballot, Dwight M. Sabin, Republican, was 

 elected United States Senator by a vote of 81 

 against 30 for William Windom, 15 for Gordon 

 E. Cole, and 9 for Lucius F. Hubbard. 



Upward of 1,000 bills were introduced, of 

 which about half became laws. Of those passed 

 the larger number are special acts. The gen- 

 eral laws outside of general appropriations 

 number 150. Fifty-odd bridge appropriations 

 were ordered, and a score of bills passed for 

 general appropriations. Thirty-one bills re- 

 lating to St. Paul and Ramsey county passed, 



* Includes 16,735 barrels of solar salt. 



while Hennepin county and Minneapolis asked 

 legislation to the extent of 25 bills. 



Among the number of valuable additions to 

 the statute-books is the act creating a Board of 

 Public Charities and Corrections ; the bill mak- 

 ing murder punishable with the death-penalty ; 

 and the law regulating the practice of medi- 

 cine and providing for the examination and 

 licensing of all physicians who shall come to 

 Minnesota, for five years. The savings-bank 

 law was amended to permit the savings-banks 

 to loan money in Dakota, and State banks 

 were put upon the same platform as national 

 banks in the matter of making their reports. 

 A law likely to be fraught with some good and 

 possibly some evil was the one making void 

 bills, notes, and other negotiable paper obtained 

 by fraud or artifice in the hands of any third 

 person. A codification of the laws stringent 

 and comprehensive for the prevention of the 

 spread of infectious diseases became a law, 

 while the companion bills, to prohibit the pollu- 

 tion of waters and to regulate slaughter-houses, 

 failed. The date of beginning the fiscal year 

 in the State was changed from November 1 to 

 July 1. The chief appropriation was $306,000 

 for improving the State Prison, the sum to be 

 distributed over about ten years. Among the 

 acts passed were also the following: 



To prevent setting fire to woods, prairies, or other 

 grounds. 



To provide for borrowing money to defray the ex- 

 traordinary expenditures of the State government. 



To punish willful violation and omission of duty and 

 gross negligence of duty on the part of railway em- 

 ploye's. 



Amendments were proposed to the Consti- 

 tution, to be voted upon at the November elec- 

 tion, viz. : 



The official term of the Secretary of State, Treas- 

 urerj and Attorney- General shall be two years. The 

 official term of the State Auditor shall he four years, 

 and each shall continue in office until his successor 

 shall have been elected and qualified. 



The official year for the State of Minnesota shall 

 commence on the first Monday in January in each 

 year, and all terms of office shall terminate at that 

 time ; and the general election shall be held on the 

 first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. 

 The first general election for State and county officers, 

 except judicial officers, alter the adoption of this amend- 

 ment, shall be held in the year 1884, and thereafter 

 the general election shall he held biannually. All 

 State, county, or other officers elected at any general 

 election, whose terms of office would otherwise expire 

 on the first Monday of January, A. D. 1886, shall hold 

 and continue in such office, respectively, until the 

 first Monday in January, 1887. 



Increasing the term of office of the Clerk of the Su- 

 preme Court from three to four years, and reducing 

 the official term of the judges of the supreme and dis- 

 trict courts from seven 'to six years. 



The proposed prohibitory amendment failed. 



The appropriations made by this session, in- 

 cluding standing appropriations of former Le- 

 gislatures, for public institutions, current ex- 

 penses,, bridges and miscellaneous purposes, for 

 the thirty-one months ending July 31, 1885, 

 amounted to $2,682,937.25. 



Finances. The report of the Treasurer for the 



