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Proposed AMENDMENT NO. IV. THE CALL IS EVERWHERE. Sec. 2. The term "the gross the corporate limits, or expiration investments in the intern.ivn!:ir' vtment earnings derived from the operation of term of office, shall be filled by land fund, or that May li^ivafter of such line oi iaiway within Newspapers in all parts of the appointment in the same manner as iCommission Form of Municipal in this_ state," as used in Section accrue to said fund, mvk! shall the original board was created, and country are commenting upon the 1 of this act is hereby declared and said board shall always contain its also include all funds accruing to Government. Vk shall be construed to mean, all full complement of members. growing demand for land. The increasing any state road and bridge fund, earnings on business beginning Any such charter or any amendment Hy this Amendment It Is proposed to however and ending within the state, and a demand for farm and dairying provided. or revision thereof may provide Amendments amend Section 84 of Article 4 of the proportion, based upon the proportion for the commission form of "The legislature Is authorized to lands is due to the increase of of the mileage within the Constitution, whloh now reads as follows: government having legislative and add to such fund, for the purpose state to the entire mileage over administrative powers, or it may population, but there is no increase of constructing or improving roads which such business is done, of provide for a mayor or chief magistrate, "Any city or village in this state of the amount of land. With commodities earnings on all interstate business and a legislative body of and bridges of this state, by providing, may trame a charter for its own passing through, Into or out of the either one or two houses and, if in general there is an increase government as a city consistent in its discretion, for any annual etate. of two houses, at least one of them with and subject to the laws of this tax levy upon the property of shall be elected by a general vote Sec. 3. All acts and parts of aete of production to meet growing state as follows: The legislature of the electors, or it may provide this state of not to exceed In any not inconsistent herewith, regulating shall provide, under such restrictions demands, but this is not true with for any other plan or system of the payment, collection, time as it deems proper, for a year one mill on all the taxable municipal government provided -TO THE- of payment, enforcement,or reports board of fifteen freeholders, who reference to land, says the Superior property within the state. Provided, that the plan or form of government Involving the amount of taxes upon shall shall be and for the past five so adopted shall not violate Telegram. that no county shall receive in any the gross earnings of railroad years shall have been qualified voters the constitution of the state as companies within this state or providing Constitution thereof, to be appointed by the year more than three (3) per cent The result is the great increase of hereby amended. penalties for the non-payment district judges of the judicial district or less than one-half (uj) of one In submitting any such charter of such taxes, are hereby in which the city or village price which has come lately, and or amendment thereto, or revision (1) per cent of the total fund thus made applicable to this act so far is situated, as the legislature may thereof to the qualified voters of which will continue in the future, as may be, and all acts and parts determine for a term in no event to provided and expended during such such city or village, any alternative exceed six years, which board shall, or acts inconsistent with the provisions fhe logic of the situation is plain. year." section or article may be presented within six months after its appointment, of this act are hereby repealed. PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The appro* for the choice of the voters and may return to the chief magistrate There is no better investment today be voted on separately without val of this amendment will authorise of said city or village a Sec. 4. Upon failure to pay the prejudice to other articles or sections than in the soil, especially in those draft of said charter, signed by the the Legislature to levy, in Its discretion, amount of such taxes legally due, of the charter, or any amendments members of said board, or a majority upon the respective dates hereinbefore districts where the prices are still -OF- a one mill tax upon nil the property thereto or revision thereof. thereof. Such charter shall set forth, collection thereof The legislature may provide general of this state for the benefit of the be submitted to the qualified voters low, as in northern Wisconsin and may be enforced in addition to existing laws relative to affairs of of such city or village at the road.* and bridgeN therein and will remedies in a civil action cities, the application of which may Minnesota northern Minnesota, where growing next election thereafter, and if brought in the name of the State repeal certain limitations as to the be limited to cities of over fifty four-sevenths of the qualified voters of Minnesota in the district court markets are near and all of the natural thousand inhabitants, or to cities of amount -which may lie paid by the state voting at such election shall of any county. fifty thousand and not less than ratify the same it shall, at the conditions are favorable. for such roads and bridges. twenty thousand inhabitants, or to Sec. 5. Before any railroad company end of thirty days thereafter, become The present constitution authorizes cities of twenty thousand and not shall be heard to contest or One writer in another state notes the charter of such city or less than ten thousand inhabitants, continue to contest the validity of the Legislature to ndd to the road and village as a city, and supersede or to cities of ten thousand inhabitants that notwithstanding the rapid rate any existiag charter and amendments this act or any part thereof, such bridge fund by providing, in it« discretion or less, which shall apply railroad company shall as a condition thereof Provided, that in at which the unimproved lands in for an annual tax levy upon the equally to all cities of either precedent thereto, pay into cities having patrol limits now class, or if so specified in the law, every part of the United States are established, sucn charter shall require the treasury of the State of Minnesota property of this state not to exceed onefourth -BY- to all cities in either such class not a three-fourths majority vote the amount of taxes due or of one (1) mill, -while the having charters adopted pursuant being appropriated, it seems difficult of the qualified voters voting at payable from such railroad company to this amendment, but no general amendment permits the Legislature, In such election to change the patrol under the existing tax laws for men and women to comprehend law limited to one or more of said limits now established. Before any of this state. its discretion, to provide for an annnal The Legislature classes of cities shall apply to any city shall incorporate under this the full meaning of this universal call tax levy of one (1^ mill on all taxable city existing under a charter framed act the legislature shall prescribe Sec. I. This act shall bo submitted and to appreciate the importance of property within the stnte. under this section of the constitution by law the general limits within to the people of this atato unless such general law shall which such charter shall be framed. The present constitution provides that securing homes for themselves and be made applicable to such city by Duplicate certificates shall be 'or their approval or rejeetlon at in no case shall more than one-half A declaration, therein, naming the made setting forth the oharter proposed their children while the prices of land the next general election for the (y2) of the cost of constructing or city. Such laws shall be paramount and its ratification, which while in force to the provisions relating year 1919. are yet within the reach of persons in shall be signed by the chief magistrate improving any road or bridpe be paid to the same matter Included General Session of said city or village and by the state from such fund. The ordinary circumstances. in the local charter herein provided The secretary of state shall authenticated by its corporate seal. amendment proposes to remove the limitation for. cause to be printed in bold type One of said certificates shall be deposited It was not long ago that men were The legislature shall enact any upon the ballot used in voting for in the office of the secretary which now exists in the constitution and all laws necessary or proper state officers or upon a separate of state, and the other, after in many instances called "land poor," as to the amount wlileh the state to carry into effect the provisions ballot, if so provided by law at being recorded in the oiflce of the 1911 when nothing seemed quite so certain may pay for such fund towards the of this amendment, and shall prescribe register of deeds for the county in the said election, in manner conformable by law the general limits which such city or village lies, with the requirements of cost of constructing or repairing any about the farm as the mortgage within which such charter be shall be deposited among the archives the general election law, the shall road or bridge and leaves the whole framed. No local charter, provision of such city or village, and words. "For Increasing the gross and the taxes. The home-seeker daring management of such fund to be provided or ordinance passed thereunder all courts shall take judicial notice earnings tax of railroad companies enough to push his way into the shall supersede any general law of thereof. Such charter so deposited from four to Ave per cent, aad providing for by law, as the Legislature shall the state defining1 or punishing may be amended by proposal therefor for the payment of the gross A'ilds could get his pick for practi­ deem wis#. made by a board of fifteen commissioners crimes or misdemeanors." earnings tax semi-annually. aforesaid, published for PI1 POSE AND EFFECT. The purpose cally nothing. But steadily the tide And a Ratification of the at least thirty days in three newspapers Tes. AMENDMENT NO. II. and object of this amendment in of westward immigration filled up the of general circulation in to permit cities already Incorporated such city or village, and accepted No. vacant places and pushed its way toward by three-fifths of the qualified voters Tax On Gross Earnings mid villages desiring to be Incorporated Insurance of Crops. of such city or village voting -And each voter voting at such the Pacific until now there is no ss cities to Include In their charters, at the next election and not otherwise election shall designate his vote by or by amendment or revision thereof, but such charter shall always part of all this immense dominain in a cross mark made opposite one or be in harmony with and subject to a oonuiilnmlon form of government having the other of the words "Yes" or By this amendment It is proposed to which the farmer does not grow crops the constitution and laws of the Of Railroads "No" and the said election shall in legislative and administrative powrw. add an entirely new section to Article State of Minnesota. The legislature all respects, conform, as far as and the manufacturer's whistle is not The amendment sought enlarges may prescribe the duties of the 9 of the Constitution, to be known as may be, to the requirements of the commission relative to submitting heard and the busy city is not found. the power of such In general election law, and the returns Section IT, and which sliull read as municlpalltiCN amendments of charter to the vote of said election shall be framing their own charters, reserving Land has been brought into cultivation follows I of the people, and shall provide made, canvassed and certified, and to the legislature, however, the authority that upon application of five per in sections which were thought the results thereof declared In the cent of the legal voters of any "The legislature may provide for to prescribe the general limits manner provided by law for returning, such city or village, by written to be unfit for farming and the price the payment by the State of Minnesota within which the said charters shall be certifying and canvassing petition, such commission shall damages to growing crops of votes cast for state officers. of land has grown steadily until in submit to the vote of the people framed. by hail and wind, or either, and proposed amendments to such charter to provide a fund for that purpose. A commission form of city government Approved June 15, 1912. PROPOSED many parts of the west a farm costs set forth in said petition. The Including the necessary expenses of 1s generally understood to include board of freeholders above provided as much as $100 or more an acre, giving effect to this act. may impose PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The law for shall be permanent, and all the following characteristic features: a specific tax upon lands the sow In force relating to the taxation of and even much more than that in the vacancies by death, disability to owners of which, at their option, 1. A small governing board 2. The perform duties, resignation or removal railroad properties Is Chapter 953, Laws have listed the same with county txerclse of both legislative and administrative some parts. Immigration is continuing from the corporate limits, or auditors for that purpose, and no »f 1903, ratified by the people at the —BY THE- expiration of term of office, shall duties by this board 3. The to pour into this part of the country payment shall be made of any such general election of 1#04. The only language be filled by appointment in the same damages except from the fund so division among the members of the and the land still increases in value, manner as the original board was of the proposed law of 1919 provided." hoard of the administrative work of he created, and said board shall always which differs from the old law of 1903 Extra Session PURPOSE AND EFFECT. This amendment, and the time is not far away when contain its full complement city by departments which a single over {s set forth above In bold-faced type. If adopted, will authorise the of members. It shall be a feature member its cost will be prohibitive except to of the governing board of the of all such charters that there shall (Jnder the present law, the taxes upon state to act in the collection and disbursements city has control 4. Tlie election of the be iprovided, among other things, the well-to-do. What has been witnessed railroad property are computed at the of a fund for the payment members of the governing board by all for a mayor, or chief magistrate yate of four per cent upon the gross in the past is but an earnest Of of damages to growing crops by hail and a legislative body of either one of the voters of tlie city and not by 1912. or two houses if of two houses, at earnings of the company owning or operating or wind, or either. This fund la to be of what is to come, and the persons wards, precincts or districts. 5. The least one of them shall be elected created and maintnlned by a specific the same. Tlie purpose of adoption of methods of direct popular by general vote of the electors. In who fail to take advantage of the tax Imposed by the lenislatnre upon the submitting any such charter or Ibis new law Is to change that rate control over the action and the continuance opportunity which the present offers amendment thereto to the qualified lands of snch persons only as shall from four per eent to Ave per cent Wnd in office of the members of the voters of such City or village any voluntarily list the snme with their will run a risk of dying homeless. to make the taxes payable seml-aupually alternate section or article maty be governing board. respective county auditors for that purpose. presented for the choice of the on March 1st and September 1st AMENDMENT NO. V. voters, and may be voted on separately Under It, there could be no tax each year, Instead of annually, as Of without prejudice to other for such purpose imposed on the lands OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY under the existing law. UNCLE SAM JAILS SUSPECT. articles or sections of the charter of any owner -who does not consent County Superintendents of or any amendments thereto. The AMENDMENT NO. III. GENERAL. thereto. The legislature Is also authorized legislature may provide general Duluth, Oct. 26.—Oscar Goetzenberger, Schools. laws relating to affairs of cities, the to Include In the fund to be raised St. Paul, Minn., July 3, 1911. application of which may be limited Mortgage Loans to State. 25 years old, a cook and supposedly by taxation of such listed lands the to cities of over fifty thousand Hon. Julius A. Schmahl, 4 I By this Amendment it Is sought to necessary expenses of admlnlstration. of inhabitants, or to cities of fifty a resident of Ashland, Wis., and not less than twenty thousand Secretary of State, enlarge the provisions of Section 7, of the law. The adoption of the amendment was arrested in Superior yesterday inhabitants, or to cities of twenty Article 7, of the Constitution, which will authorize the Wvinilature to This amendment. If adopted, will perplt and not less than ten thousand Capitol. about 11 a. m., by Detective Meade of Section now reads as follows inhabitants, or to cities of ten direct that the taxing machinery of the the permanent school aad unlveralty thousand inhabitants or less, which that city and turned over to United "Section 7. Every person who by state be used to levy and collect the tax fund of the state to be Invested In SIR: shall apply equally to all such cities the provisions of this article shall States Postoffice Inspector Stedman first mortgage loans upon Improved necessary to raise such fund, and to of either class, and which shall be be entitled to vote at any election paramount while in force to the shall be eligible.to any office which and cultivated farm lands of the State. As required by Section 25 of the provide for the disbursement of same by of St. Paul. provisions relating to the same now is, or hereafter shall be, elective Revised Laws, and Amendment, I This amendment would change Section the officers of the states but any payments matter included in the local charter you by the people in the district The prisoner was brought to Duluth have the honor to furnish 6, Article 8, of the Constitution which herein provided for. But no to be made by the state by reason wherein he shall have resided herewith a statement of the purposes now reads as follows and taken to the county jail local charter, provision or ordinance and effects of the respective thirty days previous to such election, $$$ of damage by hall or wind will have to passed thereunder shall supersede except as otherwise provided amendments to the Constitution where he will be held until he has a be made from such fund, and from no any general law of the state "The permanent school and university in this constitution, or the constitution of the State of Minnesota, other. In the settlement of any such defining or punishing crimes or and laws of the United fund of this state may be hearing this morning before Court proposed by the Legislature of misdemeanors." damages, the state would assume no invested in the bonds of any county, 1911, which are to be submitted to States." Commissioner Pressnell on a charge So that said Section 36 of Article 4 school district. city, town or of So that It will read as follows the electors this State at the liability beyond the amount of such "Section 7. Every person who by village of this state, but no such general election in 1912. •f the State Constitution shall read as of being implicated in postoffice robberies fund and could not further be rendered investment shall be made until the provisions of this article shall I have also furnished a statement follows* liable. approved by the board of commissioners be entitled to vote at any election which have been committed in of the purposes and effect of "Section 36. Any city or village designated by law to regulate shall be eligible to any office which the law proposed by the Legislature St. Louis county during the past in this state may frame a charter the investment of the permanent now is, or hereafter shall be, elective at the extra session of 1912, PROPOSED LAW RELATING for its own government as a city, school fund and the permanent by the people in the district known as Chapter 9, Laws of 1912, three months. consistent with aiul subject to the university fund of this state wherein he shall nave resided thirty relating to the taxation of railroad laws of this states, as follows: nor shall such loan or investment days previous to such election, except It is believed by the inspectors that companies, which, under the Constitution TO THE TAXATION The legislature shall provide, under be made when the bonds to be issued county superintendents of of the State, must be submitted Goetzenberger and Louis Williams, such restrictions as it deems or purchased would make the schools who shall be required to to a vote of the people of proper for a charter board of not entire bonded Indebtedness exceed have educational and professional the State, and be adopted and now in jail at International Falls, are OF RAILROAD to exceed fifteen freeholders, who fifteen per cent of the assessed .qualifications to be determined by ratified by a majority of the electors shall be and for the past five years valuation of the taxable real property the legislature, and except as otherwise the men who burglarized the postoffice of the State voting at the shall have been qualified voters of the county, school district, provided in the constitution, election, before sncli Chapter 9 PROPERTIES. thereof, to be appointed by the city, town or village issuing such at Orr, a small station on the or the constitution and laws of the •hall take effect or be in force. judges of the district court of the bonds nor shall such loans or indebtedness United States." Canadian Northern road, about six Judicial district in which the city or be made at a lower rate AMENDMENT NO. I. CHAPTER 9, LAWS OF 1919. PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The purpose village is situated as the legislature of interest than three per cent per weeks ago Williams is being held may determine for a term in no and effect of this amendment Is to annum, nor for a shorter period AN ACT providing for the taxation of event to exceed six years, which than live years, nor for a longer on a charge of having forged some luthorlce the legislature to require educational Increased Road Fund. railroad properties, the collection board shall within six months after period tlmn twenty years, and no and professional qualifications, government money orders. its appointment return to the change of the town, school district, and times of payment of such tax |n addition to all the other qualifications chief magistrate of said city or city, village or of county and repealing acts inconsistent Chapter 390 of the General Laws of village a draft of a proposed charter, lines shall relieve the real property now required by law, for any therewith. signed by the members of said in such town, school district, Minnesota for 1911, proposes to the people person seeking the office of Connty a board, or majority thereof, and, county, village or city in this state Be It Enacted by the Legislature of of this state, for their approval THE CANDIDATES. if the same be not ratified may Superintendent of Schools. As the Constitution at the time of the Issuing of such the State of Minnesota. or rejection, an amendment to Section thereafter In like manner return bonds from any liability for taxation now stands, any legal voter la other draft or drafts of a proposed to pay such bonds." 10 of Article 9, of the Constitution. Section 1. Every railroad company eligible to the office of County Superintendent Oh, William and Woodrow and Ted! charter until one thereof shall be owning or operating any line Thin .Section now re mis as follow*) ratified as herein provided. of Schools. So as to read as follows of railroad situated within, or How tired they must be of the noise, "Section 16. For the purpose of Such charter shall be submitted partly within this state, shall, during AMENnWl?"^ to the qualified voters of such city "Section 6. The permanent school lending aid In the construction and the year 1913, and annually of painting geography red, and handing or village at the next general or State Senate. and university fund of this state Improvement of public highways thereafter, pay into the treasury a special election thereafter, and If may be invested in the bonds of of this state, in lieu of all taxes and bridges, there is hereby created out Facts to the beys! How tired majority of the qualified voters voting any county, school district, city, and assessments, upon all property Section 9 of Article 4 of the Constitution at such election shall ratify a fund, to be known as the 'state town or village of this state, and within this state, owned or operated they must be of suspense, of rumors the same, it shall, at the end of In first mortgage loans secured upon now rends as follows for railway purposes, by such road and bridge fund,' said fund thirty days thereafter, or at such improved and cultivated farm "Section 2. The number of members company, including equipment, appurtenances, and roorbacks and rot, debating the shall include all moneys accruing other time, If any, as shall be specified lands of this state. But no such who compose the senate and appendages and franchises therein, become the charter of improvement shall be made until from the Income derived from house of representatives shall he thereof, a sum of money whichness of whence, and also the such city or village as a city and approved by the board of commissioners prescribed by law, but the representation equal to five per cent of the gross Investments in the internal Improvement supersede any existing charter and designated by law to regulate In the senate shall never earnings derived from the operation thingness of what! How weary and land fund, or that may hereafter amendments thereof provided that the Investment of the permanent exceed one member for every five of such line of railway within in cities having patrol limits now school fund and the permanent accrue to said fund, and shall thousand Inhabitants, and in the this state. established, such charter shall require ick are they all, expounding to thickheaded university fund of this house of representatives one member to also Include all funds accruing a three-fourths majority vote On or before August 15, 1919. state nor shall such loan or investment for every two thousand Inhabitants. goats why they're for or forninst of the qualified voters voting at any state road and bridge fund, and annually thereafter, each snch The representation in both be made when the bonds to bs such election to change the patrol railroad company shall make, according houses shall be apportioned equally issued or purchased would make the recall and why they are rustling however provided. limits now established. the entire bonded Indebtedness exceed to law, a true and just return throughout the different sections of "The legislature is authorized to Duplicate certificates shall be for votes Oh, Willie and Teddy of all sueh gross earnings for the state, in proportion to the population IB per cent of the assessed made setting forth the charter proposed add to such fund, for the purpose of the six months ending June 80th, thereof, exclusive of Indians valuation of the taxable real and Wood, whose colors are nailed to and its ratification, which next preceding, and the said tax of property of the county, school district, constructing or Improving roada not taxable under the provisions of shall be signed by the chief magistrate five per centum thereon shall become city, town or village issuing the mast! No matter which one's to and bridges of this state, by providing, of said cltv or village and such bonds nor shall any farm due and be payable to the It la proposed te substitute therefor in its discretion, for an authenticated by its corporate seal. the good when votes have been counted loan or Investment be made when State of Minnesota in manner proTided (he following One of said certificates shall be annual tax levy upon the property t. such Investment or loan would exceed by law, on September 1st, "Section Number of members. at last, there's nothing but trouble deposited In the office of the secretary 30 per cent of the actual cash The senate shall be composed of of this state of not to exceed in next thereafter. of state and the other, after value of the farm land mortgaged sixty-three (.63) members, and the in store, there's nothing but grief and any year one-fourth of one On or before February 15, 1914, being recorded In the office of the to secure said Investment nor shall house of representatives shall be register of deeds for the county in and annually thereafter, each such such loans or Indebtedness be made despair, there's nothing but walking mill on all the taxable property composed of such number of members which such city or village lies, railroad company shall make, according at a lower rate of interest than as may be prescribed by law. Within the state. the floor and thinking up words fit shall be deposited among the archives to law. a true and just return 8 per cent per annum, nor for a The representation in both houses "Provided, that no county shall of such city or village, and of all such gross earnings for shorter period than Ave years, nor shall be apportioned as nearly equal to swear! I wonder why people will all courts shall take judicial notice the six months ending December for a longer period than twenty receive In any year more than as practicable, throughout the different thereof. years, and no change of the town, 9lat next preceding, and said tax strain and break their suspenders to sections of the. state In three (3) per cent or less than onehalf Such charter so deposited may be of Ave per centOm thereon shall school district, city, village or proportion to the population thereof, of one (1) per cent of amended, or revised, by proposal get a job that will drive them insane become due and payable to the county lines shall relieve the real exclusive of Indians not taxable therefor made by said board and the total fund thus provided and State of Minnesota in manner provided under the provisions of law. property In such town, school district, with worry and woe and regret. The accepted by'a majority of the qualified county, village or city In by law, on March 1st next Provided, however, that a county expended during such year and voters of such city or village this state at th« time of issuing of thereafter and the payment of honors don't pay for the grief! I'd may be divided into several legislative voting at the next general or special provided, farther, that in no case such bonds from any liability for such sums at the times hereinbefore districts, but no county or election thereafter but such rather go fishing, I swow, than live in taxation to pay such bonds." •hall more than one-half of the set forth shall be-in 'full and any of the parts thereof shall ever charter shall always be in harmony In lieu of all other taxes and assessments constitute or be a part of more cost of constructing or improving the White House as chief, with with and subject to the constitution upon the property and than seven (7) senatorial districts PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The prea and laws of the State of Minnesota. any road or bridge be paid by the franchises so taxed provided nothing and not more than seven senators trouble enthroned on my brow. Oh, The legislature may prescribe ent constitution authorises the Invest, state from such fund." shall ever be apportioned to any In this act shall be construed the duties of said board relative ment of the permanent school and nnl. Woody and Teddy and Bill! When the This Section, if amended, will read as modifying any- agreement entered one county." to submitting amendments of into between any municipality verslty fnnds of this state In the bond* such charter to the vote of the people PURPOSE AND EFFECT. The purpose sounds of the conflict subside and the m» follows! within the state and any railroad and shall provide that upon application of any eounty, school district, elty, "Section 1®. For the purpose of and object of this amendment Is company relating to the payment ... roar of the captains is still, an'd the of ten per cent of the town or village of this state. Thlt & lending aid in the construction and of local taxes or assessments. to limit the State senate to sixty-three legal voters of any such city or village tail is thrown in with the hide, then amendment. If adopted, will permit, la Improvement of public highways by written petition, such board («S members and to prevent any one The lands acquired by public addition to the foregoing Investment* I bridges, there is hereby created from shall submit to the vote of the people cut out political strife, the uproar, county having more than seven (7) senators. and rant shall be. and remain exempt proposed amendments to such said school and university fuada to b« a fund, to be known as the 'state taxation until sold or contraeted confusion and noise, retire from the charter set forth in said petition. to be sold' or*conveyed as Invested also in ftrst mortgage loan* road and bridge fund,' said fund The board above provided for. Tours respectfully, provided In the respective aeta strenuous life, and live like the rest of. shall be permanent and all vacancies secured upon improved and ontttvated shall Include all moneys accruing LTIDON A. SMITH. whereby euch grants were made perform by death, disability to farm lands ol 4MB sista the boys.—Walt Mason.. 'fro* the Istoae derived Irea wmaliit 4uUa* rMlrjMtlm «r removal freai ma