AN ACT to Legalize the Assessment, Equalization and Levy of Taxes in and for the County of Albany, Wyoming Territory, for the Year Eighteen Hundred and Sixty-Nine. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming : etc., SECTION 1. That the assessment, equalization and levy of taxes Assessment made in and for the county of Albany, by the officers of said te declared county, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, be, and the same is hereby legalized, notwithstanding any irregularities that may have been made in the assessment, equalization and levy of the same. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, November 23, 1869. AN ACT Legalizing the Assessment, Equalization and Other Irregularities in Levying the Taxes for Carter County, for the Year A. D. 1869. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming : SECTION 1. That the assessment and valuation of property in Legal and Carter county, for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty- binding. nine, the equalization and levy of taxes in said county, by the county commissioners thereof, for said year, and the extension of the time for the assessment or collection of taxes, are hereby declared legal and binding upon the people and property in said county, notwithstanding any irregularities that may have intervened in any stage of assessing, levying or collecting said taxes, either in the appointment or qualification of the board of county commissioners, or their acts, or the acts of assessor or collector; and the collector of taxes is hereby required to make the same return of delinquent taxes in pursuance of law, as though all preceding acts of different officers had been regular, and when returned, shall be binding upon the property returned, and a valid and subsisting claim against the owners thereof. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, November 26, 1869. AM ACT Legalizing certain Records in Shoshone and California Mining Districts in Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Ter- SECTION 1. That all the records of deeds and other instruments Records legal. in writing, made with the intention to convey mines, mining grounds, lots, or other property, or to create a lien thereon, and the manner of the execution thereof, which deeds or other instruments have been recorded in the records of either Shoshone or California mining districts, now in the county of Carter, are hereby declared legal and binding upon all parties interested therein, not withstanding defective acknowledgments of records of such instruments. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, November 26, 1869. Acts to be legal. AN ACT Legalizing certain Acts of the Board of County Commissioners and the Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the SECTION 1. That the acts of the board of county commissioners of Carter county, during the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in crediting the general fund of the county of Carter with certain moneys collected out of licenses, belonging to the "school fund," under the laws of Dakota, is hereby declared regular, any law to the contrary notwithstanding, and the paying over of said moneys by the county treasurer upon warrants drawn by the county commissioners upon the general fund, either by special warrant or otherwise, is hereby legalized, and the said board of county commissioners, or their successors or representatives, and treasurer of Carter county, or his legal representatives, This act plead are hereby authorized to plead this act in bar of any suit or proceedings which may hereafter be brought or instituted by any party, person, or body corporate or politic, in order to transfer said moneys back to the "school fund," or any prosecution in any form, instituted against any or all of their persons or parties, their successors or legal representatives, because of the using said school fund by said county commissioners and said treasurer. ed in bar. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, December 10, 1869. Board of trus money to se. lands. AN ACT Legalizing the Action of the Board of Trustees of the City of Cheyenne, and for Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the SECTION 1. It appearing that the board of trustees of the city tees borrowed of Cheyenne, in said Territory, in order to secure the entry of cure town-site certain town-site lands, to which the said city was entitled, under the laws of Congress, were obliged to borrow money to make the cash deposit in the land office of the United States, and that said board of trustees did borrow the said money, amounting to about eight hundred dollars, and became personally responsible therefor. and that the said sum, with interest, has not been paid, and the personal liability of said trustees still exists; therefore, all of the proceedings of said board are hereby legalized, and the said indebtedness is declared to be a lawful debt of the city of Cheyenne, and the board of trustees of said city are hereby authorized to provide for the payment of said indebtedness, with the accrued interest thereon, in such manner as the said board may determine, by resolution, consistent with the laws of the United States, and of this Territory, concerning the entry of town-sites upon the public domain. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and In force. AN ACT to. Legalize certain Acts of the Board of County Commissioners of Albany County. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the board of legal SECTION 1. The action of the board of county commissioners Action of Albany county, assembled on the 15th and 16th days of Sep-ized. tember, A. D. 1874, in contracting, granting and issuing certain county warrants, and all subsequent acts relating thereto, and also the action of the board of county commissioners of Albany county, assembled on the 25th day of October, A. D. 1875, in ordering and disposing of certain county warrants, or subsequently in abatement of any taxes to aid the construction and laying of any water pipes, or to aid in the construction and building any rolling mills, are hereby ratified and declared valid, legal and Ratified and binding for the interests [intents] and purposes designed by any and all of said acts, and the same shall be so held in all courts of this Territory. declared legal. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and In force. after its passage. Approved, December 10th, 1875. CHAPTER 75. HOW tioned. appor Who shall ap portion. HOW ized. a trict. organ LEGISLATURE. AN ACT Apportioning the Territory of Wyoming into Council and Representative Districts, and for Other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SECTION 1. [Repealed by succeeding act, approved December 2nd, 1873.] SEC. 2. The members of the council and house of representatives shall be apportioned among the several counties according to the population thereof, as shall appear by the census of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, as taken by the United States. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the members of the present legislature, in their respective council and representative districts, between the first and fifteenth days of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to select one member of the council, or house of representatives, from each council district, who, when so selected, shall meet at the capital of the Territory between the fifteenth and thirtieth days of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and proceed to apportion the members of the council and house of representatives, as provided by this act. SEC. 4. At the meeting of the persons herein provided for, they shall organize as a "board of apportionment" by selecting one of their members chairman, and some outside person secretary, and shall proceed to apportion, among the several counties, the members of the council and house of representatives to be elected at the general election following. What shall be SEC. 5. In making such apportionment, the said board shall Council dis- recognize each county as a council district, and shall divide the whole population of the Territory by nine, and give to each county as many members of the council as such county shall contain ninths of the population; and in case of any fraction less than one-ninth, the counties having the largest fractions respectively, shall be entitled to the remaining members, the highest fraction being entitled first, and the second next, and so on.* See sections 1 and 2 of next succeeding act. tive district. SEC. 6. The same course shall be taken by the "board," in Representaapportioning members to the house of representatives, as in the council apportionment, except the whole number of the population shall be divided by thirteen, and each county, as representative district, shall be entitled to as many members of the house as such county shall contain thirteenths of the population, and the highest fractions of a thirteenth shall draw after it a member; and should it transpire that one or more counties, because of the fractions, shall get both a member of the council and house, it shall then be the duty of the "board" to take, from the county having the lowest fraction of one-thirteenth, a member of the house, and such thirteenth man shall be a representative at large for the whole Territory. When such appointment shall be made, the original paper showing the same, signed by the members of the "board," and attested by the clerk, shall be filed in the office of the Territorial auditor, and a copy thereof, certified by the chairman and clerk to be such, shall be sent by some safe conveyance to the county recorder of such county, who shall file the same in his office, and the county board of commissioners, at their first meeting, shall order the same spread upon the records of their "board."* shall, etc. SEC. 7. The secretary, in his notices to the sheriff's concerning The secretary elections, shall recognize the council and representative districts hereby created, and the number of members of both council and house as apportioned by the "board" hereby created, and shall notify sheriffs accordingly. SEC. 8. The members of the "board" hereby created, shall be Payor"board” entitled to fifteen dollars per day for three days, and ten cents per mile travel each way, to attend the meetings of such "board," to be audited and paid like other accounts against the Territory of Wyoming. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, December 10th, 1869. NOTE.-Section I was repealed by next succeeding act, approved December 2d, 1878,- COMPILERS. *See sections 1 and 2 of next succeeding act. AN ACT entitled an Act to Increase the Number of Members of the Territorial Comfeil and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming : SECTION 1. That hereafter the Council of the Territory of Council, thirWyoming shall consist of thirteen (13) members, and the House teen. of Representatives of said Territory shall consist of twenty-seven House, twen(27) members. ty-seven. SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act are Repealed. hereby repealed. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after In force. the 1st day of January, A. D. 1874. Approved, December 2, 1873. |