SEC. 8. The said Surveyors or their deputies shall in surveying or measuring logs or lumber make such allowances, for hollow, rotten, and crooked logs as would reduce and make them equal to good sound and straight, merchantable logs, and in surveying lumber, shall throw off all rotten, shakey or waney stuff and make the same equal to good merchantable lumber SEC. 9. The Surveyor General shall keep posted in his office a written rule or scale amount of logs of all sizes and lengths which shall govern him in his surveys, and whenever such rule is altered he shall give public notice to that effect; and the rule known as the St. Croix Scale shall be the rule by which all logs shall be surveyed until some other rule is adopted by the Legislature. SEC. 10. And the Surveyor General or his deputies shall survey all logs running out of any boom now chartered or which may be hereafter chartered by law in their Districts when requested so to do, and the said boom owners shall collect their fees according to his Scale; and whenever any logs are sent from any boom to the owner thereof, the Surveyor shall send therewith and by the person having charge of such logs, two tickets or Lills containing the number of logs, the number of the raft and the marks; and the person to whom such logs are sent or his agent, shall acknowledge thereon the receipt of the whole or such part thereof as he may receive, and one of said tickets or bills so receipted he shall return to the Surveyor General by the person delivering said logs; and such ticket. or bill so receipted shall be evidence of the delivery of said logs. SEC. 11. The Surveyor General shall be entitled to receive and may sue for and collect the sum of five cents per thousand feet for Surveying, scale marking, and making survey bills for logs; and the sum of ten cents per thousand feet for lumber. Provided, That in all cases where said Surveyor shall require assistance to handle logs or lumber, it shall be furnished by the owner of such logs or lumber, or at his expense; and for all services performed by said Surveyors by virtue of their office at a greater distance than thirty miles from the Surveyor General's office, there shall be allowed the sum of ten cents per mile travelling fees. SEC. 12. The Surveyor General may appoint such number of deputies as may be necessary for the business of his district, and for their doings, he shall be responsible upon his bond. SEC. 13. The Books of the Surveyor General's office shall be subject to the inspection of any person wishing to examine the same; and for furnishing duplicate scale bills or certificates, he shall be entitled to fifteen cents per folio. SEC. 14. The Surveyor General shall report to the Legislative Assembly at the beginning of each regular session thereof, the total number of feet of logs or lumber which has been surveyed in his District for the year ending on the 31st of December last past. SEC. 15 And each Surveyor General when surveying logs coming through chartered booms, shall render to such booms, scale bills for all rafts of logs delivered by said booms to owners, stating the number of the raft, the number of logs, the mark or marks, and the amount of lumber in the raft: and no log shall be scaled as one log that is twenty-four feet or more in length. SEC. 16. In all cases of sale of logs and lumber where scale bills are required, the party purchasing shall pay for surveying; and it shall be the duty of the Surveyor General to record all marks used for the purpose of marking logs, belonging to different individuals within their respective districts, in a book kept for the pur pose, said book to be open for inspection at all business hours: and the Surveyor General be entitled to receive and collect the sum of fifty cents for each and every mark, so recorded, to be paid by the owner or owners of said maps as heretofore provided for. SEC. 17. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-March first, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. W. A. GORMAN. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, St. Paul, April 30th, 1854. } I hereby certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of the original act on file in this office. J. TRAVIS ROSSER, Secretary of Minnesota Territory. CHAPTER 17. An Act granting to Franklin Steele the right to construct and maintain a Lumber Sluice at Feb. 10, 1854. the Falls of St. Anthony, in the Mississippi River. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota, That Franklin Steele, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, shall have the exclusive right and privilege for the period of twenty years, of constructing and maintaining a sluice or sluices, for the transmission of boards, hewn and sawn timber, piquets, shingle and lath, over and by the falls of St. Anthony, in the Mississippi river, eastward from the centre of said river. SEC. 2. That the upper terminus of said sluice, shall be at some convenient point near the lower end of Nicollet Island, and that the lower terminus shall be at sucht a point on the eastern shore of said river and below the said Falls, as shall be convenient for the delivery and removal of the lumber that may be transmitted through said sluice or sluices. Right to construct sluice. Terminus. To commence SEC. 3. That the said Franklin Steele shall cause the construction of said sluice or sluices to be commenced within one year, and within one year. to be finished within two years from the passage of this act, that he shall cause the said sluice or sluices, to be kept in sufficient order and repair, and to be supplied with sufficient water for the conveyance of lumber from the tenth day of April, to the first day of November in each year. SEC. 4. That any person or persons shall have free access to the head of said sluice, for the purpose of delivery thereat, of lumber in cribs, whenever the same shall not be occupied by any other person or persons for the same purpose, and may transmit through the whole or any part of said sluice or sluices, boards, hewn and sawn timber, piquets, shingles and lath, at any time between the tenth day of April and the first day of November in each year, and deliver on the land, and remove the same at the lower terminus of the said sluice: Provided, That the person or persons thus occupying the said sluice shall use due and proper diligence in passing the lumber to be transmitted, and shall remove the same from the land near the lower terminus of said sluice within three days after it shall have reached said terminus, and as soon as, and in such a manner as not to obstruct, hinder, or interfere with the constant passage of lumber through the said sluice. SEC. 5. That the said Franklin Steele, shall demand and receive, and is hereby authorised by law, to collect as compensation for the use of said sluice or sluices, the sum of twenty-five cents for every thousand feet board measure, of all lumber and timber, and the sum of ten cents for every thousand of piquets, shingle, and lath conveyed in said sluice or sluices, before the removal from the lower terminus of the sluice aforesaid of any such timber, lumber, shingles, piquets, and lath, exclusive of all charges for surveying, which charges shall be paid by the owner and owners of said lumber. SEC. 6. That the said Franklin Steele shall have a lien upon all boards, timber, piquets, shingles and lath, transmitted from the head of said sluice or sluices, to the point of delivery below the Falls for the amount due on said lumber, and for the surveyor's charges. SEC. 7. No other sluice or sluices for the conveyance of lumber over the said Falls, shall be established on or near the eastern shore of the Mississippi river, or Hennepin Island during the existence of this charter. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. B. OLMSTEAD, President of the Council. APPROVED-February tenth, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. W. A. GORMAN. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, St. Paul, April 4th, 1854. I hereby certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of the original act on file in this office. J. TRAVIS ROSSER, Secretary of Minnesota Territory. CHAPTER 18. An Act to amend Chapter 8th, Article 1st, and Chapters 5th and 11th of Article 10th of the Feb. 10, 1854. 57 SECTION 1. Amendment-Compensation of Conn ty Commissioners. SECTION 3. One day's work on road-how surplus work arranged, Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Min nesota, That the Revised Statutes of said Territory, be and the same Amendment. are hereby amended as follows: SEC. 2. Section 8, of Article 1, Chapter 8, page 59, is hereby amended, so as to read as follows: SECTION 8. The Commissioners shall receive two and a half dollars per day, excepting in counties with a less number than one of County Com thousand inhabitants, and in such counties one dollar and fifty cents missioners, Compensation per day, for each and every day they may be necessarily employed in transacting the County business, and ten cents per mile, for every mile travelled, in going to and returning from the meeting of said board, or in the discharge of any official duty, to be computed by the most usually travelled route. SEC. 3. Sections 5 and 11 of Article 10, pages 79 and 80, is hereby amended so as to read as follows; SECTION 5. Every male person between the age of twenty-one and the age of fifty years, who is able to perform manual labor, shall be subject to labor or furnish some person to labor one day in each year, under the direction of the Supervisor of roads, on the roads within his road district, and when practicable and convenient, each person shall be allowed to labor on the road or roads passing nearest to his place of residence. SECTION 11. When any person shall, under the direction of his Supervisor perform more than one day's labor on the public road in any one year, the said supervisor shall give such person a certificate, specifying the amount of extra labor so performed, which certificate may be transferred and received in discharge of the labor of any other person within the same road district, to the amount of labor contained in the said certificate, or may be received from the holder in satisfaction of labor on the roads in any subsequent year to the amount contained in said certificate; Provided, that no person shall be required to perform more than one day's extra labor in any one year, and extra labor shall be required only in conformity to the provisions of the preceding section. N. C. D. TAYLOR, S. B, OLMSTEAD, APPROVED-February seventh, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-four. W. A. GORMAN, on road. work arranged, How surplus SECRETARY'S OFFICE, St. Paul, March 29, 1854. I hereby certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of the original act on file in this office. J. TRAVIS ROSSER, Secretary of Minnesota Territory. March 3, 1854. CHAPTER 19. An Act to Incorporate a Chapter of Royal Arch Masons in St. Paul. Incorporation. May contract &c. How any chap. ter may be incorporated. Fees of clerk. SECTION 1. Incorporation. 2. May contract, &c. SECTION 3. How any Chapter may be incorporated -fees of clerk. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota: That A. T. C. Pierson, the present High Priest, Andrew G. Chatfield, King, George L. Becker, Scribe, Wm. H. Newton, Henry Morris, George W. Biddle and James Y. Caldwell, trustees, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of "Minnesota Royal Arch Chapter, No. 1,❞—may have and keep a common seal, and the same alter, change, or renew at pleasure. And by their corporate name, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in all courts, either of law or equity, and shall have perpetual succession. SEC. 2. Said Chapter shall be established in St. Paul, and in their corporate name, may contract and be contracted with, may receive by gift or purchase, and may hold and convey real and personal estate to the amount of fifty thousand dollars, and may make such by-laws, rules, and regulations as they may deem best; PROVIDED, that such by-laws, rules, and regulations be not contrary to the Constitution of the United States, or of the Organic Act of this territory. SEC. 3. That whenever any Chapter of Royal Arch Masons may be masonically organized, in any part of Minnesota, the High Priest, King, and Scribe of said Chapter, upon filing with the clerk of any court of record in the county where such Chapter is established, or in the county to which the same is attached for judicial purposes, a certificate signed by the High Priest, King, and Scribe of such Chapter, setting forth therein the name of the Chapter, the county and place where the Chapter is to meet, shall have and possess all the rights and privileges given Minnesota Royal Arch Chapter, No. 1, in the first and second sections of this act, in the name specified in said certificate. And that the said clerk shall have a fee of one dollar for filing and recording every such certificate, which he is hereby required to do upon payment of such fee. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect, and be in force from and after its passage. N. C. D. TAYLOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. B. OLMSTEAD, APPROVED-March third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. W. A. GORMAN. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, St. Paul, April 3d, 1854. I hereby certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of the original act on file in this office. |