Duties of Di SEC. 8. The board of directors shall meet at such times and places as they shall regulate by their by-laws they shall fix the rectors. compensation of all officers of the company, and define their duties; shall, by their by-laws, regulate the government of all meetings of their own board, and of the stockholders; and generally, shall have power to do all acts for the benefit and purposes of the said company. SEC. 9. The secretary shall attend all meetings of the board of directors and of the stockholders, and shall keep a just and true record of all the proceedings of such meetings, and as treasurer and secretary, shall perform such di ties as the board of directors, shall, by their by-laws prescribe. Of the Secretary. Company may construct SEC. 10. Every share shall be entitled to one vote, and at any Votes. meeting for the choice of directors, the five stockholders having the highest number of votes, shall be elected directors, and at every meeting of the board of directors, for choice of president, the director having the highest number of votes shall be elected president : Provided, that at any meeting of the stockholders, a majority in value shall constitute a quorum, with power to transact business, and Quorum. at any meeting of the board of directors, any three of the board of directors shall constitute a quorum, with power to transact business. SEC, 11. The said company shall be, and are hereby authorised and empowered to construct, maintain and keep a boom upon the river St. Croix, at such point between Osceola Mills, so called, and Rock Island, so called, as they may select; in which boom all logs and hewn timber coming or running down the said river, shall bə gathered by the said company; and such logs or timber shall be sorted, rafted in rigging, and delivered as hereinafter provided, by said company within a period of twenty days, unless otherwise agreed by and between the owner or owners of such logs or timber and the said Boom Company, and the said company shall be held accountable for all neglect to keep said boom in good order and repair, and pay all damages which may occur on failure of the same: Provided, That, if any logs which come into said boom, shall not be delivered within a period of twenty days, as before provided, the said boom company shall be liable to pay the owner or owners thereof, such damage as the said owner or owners may suffer in consequence of such failure so to deliver said logs or timber. and maintain a Boom Provided also, That rafts of sawed lumber, or timber of any kind Proviso. which may by accident float into said boom, shall only be charged such reasonable compensation as will indemnify the owners of said boom for the safe delivery thereof. SEC. 12. The said company shall sort out the said logs and timber, according to their several marks; shall raft the same in rigging out of the said boom, sufficiently secured to run to the head of Lake St. Croix, so called, and shall deliver the same to the owner or owners thereof, at such points between the said boom and the head of Lake St. Croix, as the said owner or owners of any particular mark or marks of logs or timber shall direct such logs or timber so marked, to be delivered: Frovided, That the said boom company shall not be obliged to retain any logs or timber at the foot of said boom, for a longer period than three days. Logs, how sort ed and delivered, SEC. 13. The said company shall demand and receive, and are Compensation. hereby authorised by law to collect the sum of fifty cents per thousand feet for every thousand feet of logs or timber, so sorted out and rafted, and made ready for delivery as aforesaid, at the foot of said boom; and fifty-five cents per thousand feet as aforesaid, for all logs sorted out, rafied as aforesaid, and delivered in the Cedar Bend Sloughs; and sixty-five cents per thousand feet as aforesaid, for all logs or timber, sorted out and rafted as aforesaid, and delivered at any point between Cedar Bend Sloughs and Arcola; and seventy cents per thousand feet, as aferesaid, for all logs sorted out rafted as aforesaid, and delivered at any point between Arcola and the head of Lake St. Croix. Provided, That if any logs or timber shall not be taken away from the foot of the boom within the three days, in the preceding section mentioned, and the owner or owners of such logs or timber, shall not direct the said boom company within the said three days, at what point the same are to be delivered, then the said boom company are authorised to secure such logs or timber at any point between the foot of said boom and the head of Lake St. Croix, and to demand, receive and collect therefor the same compensation as is hereinbefore provided, for the delivery of logs or timber at any point between the foot of said boom and the head of Lake St. Croix. Provided, That in all cases the rigging used in rafting and securing logs and timber as aforesaid, shall be and remain the property of the said boom company. SEC. 14. All the aforesaid charges for booming, sorting out, rafting and delivering logs or timber as aforesaid, shall be deemed due, and shall be paid to the said company, when the said logs or timber are ready for delivery as aforesaid. And it is hereby further privided, that the said boom company shall have a complete lien upon and special property in said logs and timber so boomed and sorted out of each of the respective marks, for all boomage and charges that may be due to said company for logs of such several marks from the several owners thereof. Provided, That whenever any sum or sums of money shall have accrued or become due to said company for the boomage of logs or timber as hereinbefore provided, which shall not be paid to said company, on demand from the owner or owners, after the same becomes due, the said company shall be, and are hereby authorised, to scale, or cause to be scaled, a sufficient quantity and amount of logs or timber of such particular mark or marks of logs for which such boomage is due, and take, and retain a sufficient amount and quan. tity of such mark or marks of logs so scaled, as the maximum, or highest market price at said boom, to pay such sum or sums so due. SEC. 15. The said boom company shall always give passage, by or through their said boom, at all times, to any raft running down the said river St. Croix, and to all steamboats, flat boats, or other water crafts running up or down the said river, without any let, hindrance or delay, by reason or on account of said boom, SEC. 16. The legislature of this Territory shall have the right to alter or amend this act at any time. SEC. 17. That any owner or owners of logs or timber shall have the same turned through said boom by giving thirty days' previous notice, paying ten cents per thousand feet as compensation for handling, catching, marking and turning through said logs, to be collected as herein before provided. SEC. 18. The Treasurer of said Company shall on or before the first day of January annually, make a correct report of the financial condition of said company to the Governor of this Territory. SEC. 19. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. N. C. D. TAYLOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. President of the Council. APPROVED-March third one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. W. A. GORMAN. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, St. Paul, April 1st, 1854. } I hereby certify the foregoing to be a correct copy of the original act on file in this office. Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota That when any person or persons shall desire to establish a ferry across any stream in this Territory, the same being in two counties, said person or persons shall make application to the board of County Commissioners of the county in which he or they may reside, and the County Commissioners may grant a license upon being satisfied that a ferry is necessary at the point applied for. SEC. 2. And when any license is granted as aforesaid, the person or persons to whom the same shall be issued, shall within ten days file a certified copy of said license with the clerk of the board of County Commissioners of the county in which said ferry may be, other than the county granting said license, and from and after the filing of said certified copy of license as aforesaid, the County Commissioners of said county shall not license any ferry within one half mile of the point designated in said copy of license as the ferry landing. Annual tax. SEC. 3. In addition to the tax now provided by law, the person or persons to whom any license shall issue as aforesaid, shall pay into the county treasury of the county in which said copy of license is filed, on the first day of January next, succeeding the filing thereof, and annually thereafter the sum of five dollars; Provided, that if the person or persons shall neglect or refuse for the period of thirty days after the same shall have become due, the County Commis Proviso, sioners may declare said license forfeited, and proceed to license, on application, another in lieu thereof. Term of License. SEC. 4. The County Commissioners may grant license under the provisions of this act for any period not exceeding ten years, at the discretion of the Board. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts, relating to ferries not contravened by the provisions of this act, are hereby continuod in force. N. C. D. TAYLOR, Speaker of the House of Representatives. APPROVED-March third, one thousand eight hundred and fifty four. W. A. GORMAN. SECRETARY'S OFFICE, Feb. 23, 1854. St. Paul, April 1st, 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 5. An Act to Incorporate the German Reading Society of St. Paul. Corporators. SECTION. 1. Corporators-Object-May hold Pro- SECTION, 2, Powers and Liabilities, Be it enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesola: That Peters, the present President, F. Guiner, Treas urer, Karcher, Secretary, Charles Rauch, W. Schwie, Henry Stachle, Domonwich Trayer, Peter Keohlen, Philip Constans, John Goez, Aignes Boetinigere, Jul. Broelser, C. A. Dussler, H. Esele, Paul Faber, C. Fuehs, Jul. George Guerringer, Julius Gross, C. A. Renz, William Noot, and their successors in office, and such Trustees as may be hereafter elected, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby created a body politic, and corporate, by the name and style of The German Reading Society of St. Paul, in the County of Ramsey and Territory of Minnesota, and by that name are hereby invested with full power and authority to purchase, acquire, hold, possess, use, occupy and enjoy, real and personal estate, to the amount of Five Thousand Dollars, and to sell and convey, or otherwise dispose of the same, in such manner as may be Adopt Bye Laws, prescribed by the constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations of said society. Provided, such constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations, be not contrary to the organic act of this Terrttory, and constitution and laws of the United States. Object. May hold Prop. erty. &c, SEC. 2. The said corporation, by its name aforesaid, shall be competent to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, defend and be defended, in all courts having competent jurisdiction, keep, have, and use a common seal, and alter the same at the pleasure of the Society. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. President of the Council. APPROVED-February twenty-third, one thousand eight hundred Powers and li. abilities. and fifty-four. W. A. GORMAN. SRCRETARY'S OFFICC, St. Paul, March 30, 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 6. To Incorporate the City of Saint Paul, Ramsey County, Territory of Minnesota. March 4, 1854 10. Miscellaneous Provisions. Be it Enacted by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Minnesota: CHAPTER 1. City and Ward Boundaries, SEC. 1. All the country in the County of Ramsey contained within the limits and boundaries hereinafter described, shall be a city by the name of "Saint Paul," and the people now inhabiting, Name. and those who shall hereafter inhabit within the district of country herein described, shall be a municipal corporation by the name of the "City of Saint Paul," and shall have the general powers póssessed by municipal corporations at common law, and in addition, thereto, shall possess the powers hereinafter specifically granted, and the authorities thereof shall have perpetual succession, shall be capable of contracting and being contracted with, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, in all Courts of law and equi- Powers granted. ty; and shall have a common seal, and may change and alter the same at pleasure. SEC. 2. That territory included within the following boundaries |