6.

7.

8.

with improvement of state lands, S. F. No.
82, 1917

For the purpose of purchasing building and
lots at Hibbing, Minnesota, known as the
Longyear building, now occupied in connec-
tion with the care of state mineral lands,
upon which state now holds option of pur-
chase, for year 1917 only.

For the improvement of said building, avail-
able the year ending July 31st, 1917, only
For the purpose of re-scaling state timber
under the system of a top and stump scale,
and examining lands appraised and sold as
agricultural lands as to the value of mer-
chantable timber at the time of sale, and for
other purposes in the investigation of the
sale and care of state lands and timber, and
to be expended by the state auditor, as
authorized and approved by the state board
of timber commissioners, or for the use by
the said board, of any part thereof, not ex-
ceeding one-half, for the work given said
board by statute, and work incidental thereto,
available May 1st, 1917 and May 1st, 1918
Provided that of the amount referred to in
item one, 3,600 dollars is for the annual
salary of the superintendent of timber and
thirty-six hundred dollars for the annual
salary of the chief of accounts, and the
positions of chief land clerk and chief
booker is hereby abolished, effective May
1st, 1917.

2,500.00

35,000.00

10,000.00

25,000.00

Sec. 38. The state auditor and state treasurer are hereby authorized to pay in the county treasuries of the several counties of the state, on or before November 1, 1918 and 1919, the amounts due the respective counties as their share of the state inheritance tax under the provisions of section 21-D, chapter 209, General Laws 1911 and acts amendatory thereof.

Sec. 39. Whenever it becomes necessary in order to meet the current demands upon the revenue fund for the payment of appropriations, the governor, auditor and treasurer may at any time prior to July 31, 1919, make such agreement with banks or other corporations or persons as they may deem advisable or necessary to pay warrants issued against said revenue fund, pursuant to any such appropriation prior to the time when the money to meet such appropriation comes into the

state treasury and whenever any warrants are so issued for the accommodation of the state, and paid, the money necessary to pay interest upon the amount of such warrants from the time when such payment was made until the money to redeem such warrants comes into the state treasury at the rate agreed upon by said governor, auditor and treasurer is hereby appropriated. Approved April 23, 1917.

CHAPTER 439-S. F. No. 1020.

An act to appropriate money for the payment of claims against the state of Minnesota, tax and other refundments, certain expenses of the government and for other purposes, and directing the state auditor to cancel certain land sale certificates and timber sale permits.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Minnesota:

Section 1. Appropriating money for payment of claims against state and for certain other governmental expenses.— The sums hereinafter named, or so much thereof as may be necessary, are hereby appropriated from any moneys in the state treasury not otherwise appropriated for the purposes specified in the following sections of this act to be available for the year ending July 31, 1917, unless otherwise specified.

Sec. 2. For refundment of excess gross earnings taxes as per order of the Minnesota tax commission, as follows: 1. Chicago, St. Paul, Mpls. & Omaha Ry. Co., order dated April 2, 1917.

2. Chicago & Northwestern Ry. Co., order dated April 2, 1917.............................

4. Northern Pacific Ry. Co., order dated March

5. Chicago Great Western R. R. Co., order dated

$ 2,186.92

1,028.14

3,123.57

3. Great Northern Ry. Co., order dated April 9,

1917

34,333.10

20, 1917

July 21, 1916.

189.35

6. Mpls. & Rainy River Ry. Co., order dated May 1, 1916.

114.32

7. Rollingstone Telephone Co., order dated Oc

tober 20, 1915.........

7.16

8. Lismore Co-operative Telephone Co., order

dated May 24, 1915.

15.25

9.

New London Central Telephone Co., order

dated May 27, 1915.

10. Canadian Northern Express Co., order dated

September 8, 1916

92.72

2.418.63

11.

Milwaukee Transit Co., order dated October
20, 1916

12. Mpls., St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie Ry. Co.,
April 9, 1917.......

Sec. 3. To refund Anna Kleinschmidt for overpayment of inheritance taxes in the estate of Amelia Arnold, deceased, of Blue Earth Co., as per statement of the judge of probate dated August 10, 1915

Sec. 4. To refund the St. Albans Club, Mt. St. Albans, for fee which said club paid into the state treasury under the ruling of the attorney general's office April 6, 1912, and which ruling was reversed by decision of the supreme court in the case of Scherping vs. Julius A. Schmahl, secretary of state......

Sec. 5. For refundments to municipalities of the inebriate hospital tax paid on cancelled liquor licenses, as follows:

City of Austin..

Village of Adrian
Village of Adams

Village of Albertville

12.75

15.00

65.50

3.29

16.85

14.84

Village of Beardsley

9.16

Village of Bellingham

19.07

Village of Bovey

Village of Brownsville.

15.77

6.67

7.43

5.00

2.78

Village of Clinton

11.67

Village of Dundee

Village of Chisholm

13.51

164.66

Village of Deerwood

11.05

Sec. 6.

30.00

7.69

17.96

16-116-42

5. Anton Olerud, estate, Dawson, NW NE1⁄4

For reimbursement of excess interest paid on state land purchases as follows:

1. R. R. Wise, Brainerd, on ten 40-acre tracts in section 20-134-28

2. John Anderson, Foley, NE SE1⁄4 16-37-31...... 3. John Munson, Albert Lea, SE, SW 16-10121

4. Rubie M. Arnold, Grey Eagle, W1⁄2 NE 10127-32

49.82

3.40

30.60

9.20

4.38

7. H. McDonald, Granite Falls, NE SE 36142-32

6. Patrick A. Reilly, Austin, NW & SW1⁄4 36105-18

309.40

9.

H. E. Blackmar, Ottumwa, Ia., NW4 36-127-
45

A. R. Voss, St. James, section 36-107-32.
Farmers State Bank, Newfolden, S1⁄2 NW
34-157-44

11. Rose Freer, Onamia, NW1⁄4 36-42-26..
Sec. 7. For reimbursement of Eugene Eiselein,
Buffalo Lake, for incorporation fee of the Se-
curity State Bank of Buffalo Lake which or-
'ganization never received a charter.

Sec. 8. To reimburse Ft. Henry Mining Co. of
Cleveland, Ohio, for overpayment of royalty on
1,239.3 tons of iron ore paid for in 1912 under
state mineral contract No. 370 covering the
NE4 16-58-19 such ore coming from other than
state lands
Sec. 9. For reimbursement, owing to loss suffered
by destruction of certain nursery stock by the
state of Minnesota, during 1916, in an effort to