tions of one, two, three, four and five hundred dollars, which said bonds shall be payable in ten years from the date of their issue, and shall bear an annual interest of ten per cent. per annum, with annual interest coupons attached, payable at such time and place as said board of trustees shall, by ordinance direct.

SEC. 22. That all of such indebtedness of said city of Cheyenne, Limitation. to entitle the same to be redeemed in the manner provided for in the last preceding section, must be presented to the said board of trustees for conversion into bonds of said city, as herein before provided, on or before the 1st of May, A. D. 1870. All bonds so issued in payment of the indebtedness of the city of Cheyenne, shall be duly numbered and registered by the clerk of the board of trustees, (city clerk), and shall be [as]signed by the mayor, attested by said city clerk, under the seal of said city, and countersigned by the city treasurer before being issued, and shall, after becoming due, be paid in the order of their issue.

SEC. 23. No money shall be paid out of the said general fund warrants, except by order of the board of trustees. All warrants on said how drawn. general fund shall be drawn by the president of said board of trustees, on the treasurer of said city, and shall be attested by the clerk of said board, under the seal of said city. Warrants thus drawn shall be paid by the treasurer, in the order of their issue, and not otherwise. When not paid for the want of funds, the treasurer shall indorse the date of presentation across the face of the warrant, and the reason why not paid, and the holder will be entitled to receive interest thereon until paid, at the rate of twelve per cent. per annum.

SEC. 24. All bonds of every kind and matter whatever, all Attest. contracts and ordinances must be signed by the president of the board of trustees, and attested by the city clerk, under the seal of

said city.

SEC. 25. The board of trustees shall fix the time within which supplemental the general and special assessments of taxes shall be made, and assessment. all such taxes shall be collectible any time after the assessor makes his assessment, except as otherwise provided in sections sixteen, seventeen, eighteen and nineteen of this act, and said board shall have power to order a supplemental assessment and collection of taxes at any time after the first, on property that has not been assessed, and the owner of which has not paid taxes thereon within the year.

evidence.

SEC. 26. Real and personal property may be sold by the city Prima facie marshal for taxes or assessments due said city. The manner of assessing and collecting taxes shall be prescribed by ordinance, and the title shall vest in the purchaser, in such sale by the marshal, for taxes, as may be provided in the general revenue law of this Territory, or as prescribed by ordinance. Upon the sale of real property by the marshal, he shall deliver to the purchaser a deed of such property; which shall be prima facie evidence in any and all courts of the Territory that the grantee or grantees named therein, or his or their successors in interest, have a good and legal title to the premises described in the deed. Any possession of such property may be obtained in the manner and form provided by law, when the relation of landlord and tenant exists.

Publication.

Accountabili

ty.

Disbursem 'ts.

Clerk's duties.

Marshal's duties.

Style of ordinances.

Fines.

SEC. 27. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to make out and publish in a newspaper printed in Cheyenne, at least once every three months, to-wit: In January, April, July and October of each year, a full and detailed statement of the receipts and disbursements, from what sources received, and for what purposes paid out of the treasury during the three months next preceding such report.

SEC. 28. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees to provide for the accountability of all officers and other persons elected or appointed under this charter, to whom the receipt or expenditure of any of the funds is intrusted, by requiring of them sufficient security for the faithful performance of their duties; and, in case of neglect or refusal on the part of any such officers, to furnish the required security within one week after the demand, to declare such office vacant.

SEC. 29. It shall be the duty of the treasurer to receive all moneys derived for the benefit of said city from any and every source, and disburse the same only on proper warrants by order of said trustees. He shall keep an accurate and full account of all receipts and expenditures in such manner as the board of trustees shall direct, and he shall, at all times, keep his books and accounts open for the inspection of the trustees, and shall furnish them, when required, with a full statement of all receipts and expenditures. All warrants on the treasury shall have specified therein the services or indebtedness for which the same are drawn, and shall be redeemed in regular order of registration on the treasurer's books.

SEC. 30. It shall be the duty of the city clerk to keep the corporate seal, papers and books belonging to said city; to attend the sittings of the board of trustees, and to keep a journal of all their proceedings; also to keep a record of all ordinances passed by the board of trustees, which journal and record, after the approval of each sitting of the board, shall be signed by the president, and attested by the clerk. The clerk shall attest all warrants, bonds and licenses issued in pursuance of the orders and ordinances of the trustees; affix the corporate seal thereto; to keep an account in a suitable book, under appropriate heads, of all warrants drawn on the treasury; an account of all licenses issued, date of issue and amount; and shall perform such other duties as may be required of him by the board of trustees.

SEC. 31. It shall be the duty of the marshal to collect all taxes, fines and licenses, and to turn them over to the treasurer, taking his receipt for the same, and see that the ordinances of the city are duly enforced, and to perform such other duties as the board of trustees may require of him.

SEC. 32. The style of the ordinances shall be, "The board of trustees of the city of Cheyenne, do ordain." All ordinances before taking effect, shall be published in a newspaper in Cheyenne, for at least one week.

SEC. 33. All fines imposed for the violation of city ordinances, may be enforced by imprisonment, at the rate of one day for every two dollars of the fine and costs; or by execution against the property of the delinquent; and it shall be lawful, to enforce the

payment of the fine and costs imposed on the defendant, to adjudge that the offender shall work upon the public streets or other public works of said city, at the rate of one day for every two dollars of the fine and costs imposed.

SEC. 34. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees herein Settlement. provided for, to settle with the present officers of the city of Cheyenne, and receive from them all moneys, accounts, books or other evidence of value, together with all property of every kind belonging to said city, and to make a statement for publication of the financial condition of the city from its earliest organization to the present time, and for this purpose the board of trustees shall have the right to employ two or more competent accountants, who Accountants. shall be allowed for their services such sum or sums of money as the board of trustees shall deem reasonable, to be paid out of the

city treasury.

SEC. 35. The board of trustees shall also have power, if in their Ordinances. opinion necessary, to employ three competent persons to prepare for said city a collection of ordinances, which shall be styled, "Ordinances of the city of Cheyenne," and which collection shall contain all the ordinances then in force in said city; but before any ordinance in said collection shall become a law, it shall have been read before said board and referred to an appropriate committee, who shall report thereon at the next regular meeting of the board, when it shall be read again, considered, and approved by a majority of the board and recorded by the clerk in a book kept for that purpose, approved by the president of the board, attested by the clerk, and advertised in a newspaper published in said city, for at least one week; Provided, however, That all ordinances now in force Proviso. in said city shall be and remain in force until repealed by said board of trustees.

SEC. 36. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees, to levy special tax. and collect, annually, at such times and in such manner as they shall determine, a special tax on all taxable property within said city, sufficient to pay [of] the interest [on the] debt of said city for the current year, which tax shall be collected in lawful money or interest-bearing coupons then due, detached from the bonds of said city.

or.

SEC. 37. In order that the rights of all parties in said city shall Legal successbe protected and injustice done to no person, the city government hereby created, is declared to be the legal successor of the city governments heretofore in existence in said city of Cheyenne, with all the rights, liabilities, and immunities, that of right now, or did appertain to its predecessors.

All city ordi

resolutions

subject to juby courts of

dicial notice

SEC. 38. All the courts of this Territory shall take judicial notice of all ordinances and resolutions of said city of Cheyenne, nances and upon exhibition of the written copy thereof, recorded in the ordinance book of said city, certified by the city clerk, and certified by the city clerk to have been published according to law, and no other, and further proof of the passage and publication of any ordinance or resolution of said city shall be required.

this Territory.

In force.

SEC. 39. This act to take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage and approval by the Governor.

Approved, December 10, 1869.

[NOTE. Sec. 14 was amended to read as above by act of Dec. 16th, 1871. In that act it is designated section 7; but is evidently a mistake; the description clearly applies to section 14 only. Section 3 and subdivision eighth, of sec. 15, were amended to read as above by act of Dec. 13, 1873. Sec. 9, as above, was substituted for corresponding section and sec tion 15 and the fourth and eleventh subdivisions of section 15 were amended, and the 18th subdivision of section 15 was interposed by act of Dec. 2nd, 1875, and section 38, as above, was interposed, and "Sec. 38," of act of 1869, changed to "See. 39," by act of Dec. 10th 1875.-COMPILERS.]

CHAPTER 22.

CHEYENNE FIRE DEPARTMENT.

AN ACT to Authorize the Board of Trustees of the City of Cheyenne to Levy and Collect a Special Tax to pay off the Mortgage on the Steam Fire Engine "T. C. Durant."

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the

Territory of Wyoming:

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees of the Durant Encity of Cheyenne to levy and collect a special tax upon all taxa- gine, special ble property in said city, for the purpose of raising a sum of money sufficient to pay off the balance of the indebtedness of the said city for, and on account of, the payment of the mortgage upon

the steam fire engine, "T. C. Durant," for the purchase money; Provided, That the amount so raised shall not exceed the sum of Proviso. two thousand dollars.

levy.

SEC. 2. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions Manner of of section one of this act, said board of trustees shall, at their first meeting after the passage of this act, order an assessment of all the taxable property of said city, to be made in the manner provided by chapter eighty-two of the session laws of 1869, entitled "an act to incorporate the city of Cheyenne," and within one week after said assessment is returned to said board of trustees, the said board of trustees shall make a special levy of taxes, for the purpose contemplated by this act.

shall collect

SEC. 3. After such levy is made, it shall be the duty of the The collector collector to at one proceed and collect said tax in the manner t provided by chapter eighty-two, of the laws of Wyoming.

duty.

SEC. 4. After said tax is collected, the [same] shall be paid over Treasurer's to the treasurer of said city, who shall pay to the collector one per centum of the amount so collected, for his services in so collecting the same, and the balance shall be applied to the payment of the said indebtedness upon the the said "fire engine," under the direction of the said board of trustees.

cers to do their

SEC. 5. If any person or persons entrusted with the perform- Refusal of offiance of any of the duties enjoined by this act, shall neglect or duty. refuse to perform the same, or shall divert the funds raised by this, from the purpose for which the same were raised, or in any way misapply the same, such person or persons so offending shall be guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be Penalty. imprisoned in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding three

years.

SEC. 6. This act shall take effect, and be in force, from and after its passage.

Approved, 16th December 1871.