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CHAPTER 10.

BONDS.

AN ACT authorizing the building of a Court House and Jail at Green River City, the county seat of Sweetwater county, and to Bond the county therefor.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming :

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SECTION 1. The board of county commissioners, of the county County comof Sweetwater, Wyoming Territory, are hereby required to pur- quired to purchase a site or sites, or receive the same by donation or otherwise, chase site. Provided, The said site or sites is on the north side of the Union Proviso. Pacific railroad track, and within the limits of the town of Green River City, in said county, for a court house and jail; and the said board are hereby authorized to issue bonds of the said county Bonds to issue to defray the expenses incurred and to be incurred in the building and completion of said court house and jail, not exceeding the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars, and not less than twenty Amount limthousand dollars, and said buildings shall be built of brick or stone and of good material.

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SEC. 2. Said board of county commissioners is hereby vested County comwith full power to make all necessary arrangements and contracts for the building of said court house and jail, in such manner as said board may deem for the interest of said county, and it shall be the duty of the said county commissioners to proceed at once to settle upon plans and specifications for the erection of said buildings, and to let the contract for the construction of the same, on or before the fifteenth day of May, A. D., 1876, and to provide in Time of consuch contract for the completion of said buildings on or before the thirty-first day of December, A. D., 1876, and shall exact a bond Contractor's from the contractor in double the amount of the contract, with good and sufficient sureties, for the faithful execution of such contract.

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SEC. 3. Said board of county commissioners shall issue court Description of house bonds for the amount mentioned in section (1) of this act, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient for the purpose contemplated by this act; said bonds shall be issued in sums of not less than twenty-five (25) dollars each, and shall be redeemed by said county within a period not exceeding five (5) years, and not less than one (1) year from date of issue, and shall bear interest at the rate of twelve (12) per centum per annum on each dollar of their

face. Said bonds shall be regularly numbered from one upwards, Bonds to be and, before being issued, shall be registered in the county treas- registered and

countersign- urer's office of said county, and countersigned by the treasurer.

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Registry of bonds, open to inspection.

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SEC. 4. The county treasurer of said county shall keep a book in which shall be registered all of such bonds, showing the num ber of the bond, the date of issue, to whom issued, amount, numbers of coupons, date of redemption, date of registry and payment of interest, which book shall, during business hours, be open to inspection.

SEC. 5. All bonds issued by virtue of this act shall be signed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners of said required to be county, and attested by the county clerk, with the seal thereof attached, and no bonds shall be sold for a less sum than ninety (90) cents on the dollar, and shall not be sold until thirty days' notice shall have been given in some newspaper of general circulation in the Territory of Wyoming.

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SEC. 6. Said bonds shall have coupons attached, representing the interest to be paid each year, and the coupon representing the interest shall be detached from the bond before presentation for payment of the interest for the year corresponding, and shall be forthwith canceled by the treasurer by writing the word "canceled" across the face thereof, and the interest on all bonds shall be payable at the county treasurer's office of said county, on the first and ten succeeding days of December in each year (Sundays excepted); Provided, That said county treasurer may anticipate said interest and pay the same at any time during the month of November of each year, if he should have funds in his hands for such purpose, and if, after the payment of interest on said bonds, any surplus remain in the "court house and jail bond fund" hereinafter mentioned, it shall be applied to the redemption of the bonds in the order of their number, commencing with the lowest

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SEC. 7. There shall annually be levied by the board of county and jail bond commissioners of said county, on all taxable property therein, a tax not to exceed five (5) mills on the dollar of valuation, which tax shall be known as the "court house and jail bond fund;" and said tax shall be payable in gold or silver coin, or in United States treasury notes, or national bank notes, and shall be used to pay interest and principal of said bonds, and for no other purpose; and said tax shall be collected in the same manner as other county taxes, and paid into the county treasury by the collector of taxes.

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SEC. 8. Whenever there is five hundred (500) dollars in the notified as to hands of the county treasurer, belonging to the "court house and time of pay- jail bond fund," over and above the amount necessary to pay the interest on said bonds for the current year, said treasurer shall notify the holders of the lowest numbered bonds outstanding, by advertisement in some newspaper published in the Territory of Wyoming, for ten (10) consecutive days (Sundays excepted), or by personal notice, at his option, that the bonds (numbering them, giving the amount and to whom issued), will be paid on presentation to said treasurer, and that if said bonds are not presented within thirty days from such personal notice, or the completion of the Interest to advertisement, they will fail to draw interest thereafter. Should bonds not any bond or bonds mentioned in such notice or advertisement not

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be presented as above specified, such bonds shall fail to draw presented for
interest thereafter, and the surplus fund intended for the payment within time
of said bonds, shall be used in the payment of the next lowest specified in
numbered bonds not included in said notice or advertisement.
and the bonds not presented need not be paid until the following

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SEC. 9. The board of county commissioners shall, each year Bonds to be after the first, retire as many of said bonds as can be redeemed ly. with the amount of "court house and jail bond fund" at the time in the hands of the country treasurer. In all cases, said bonds shall be redeemed by the payment of number one, and proceeding consecutively upwards with those outstanding. All bonds, when redeemed, shall immediately be canceled by the county treasurer in such manner as said board of county commissioners may direct; and whenever there is a surplus of five lun- Surplus in dred dollars and over in the "general county fund," said commis- county fund" sioners may direct and transfer the same to the "court house and to be transjail bond fund," and apply the amount to the redemption of "court house bonds in the manner hereinbefore specified, or may purchase fund." bonds in the open market with the same; Provided, That no Proviso. money belonging to the "general county fund" shall be so diverted or transferred whilst any county warrants of said county are outstanding.

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SEC. 10. All the taxable property of said Sweetwater county Pledge for the is hereby pledged to the payment of the principal and interest of redemption of said bonds in the manner herein prescribed, and it shall not be lawful to use or divert any portion of said "court house and jail [bond] fund" for any purpose whatever, except the payment of said principal and interest.

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SEC. 11. The county treasurer shall have the custody of all the county treafunds realized from the sale of said bonds, and shall pay the same out on the written order of said board of county commissioners, funds. or a majority thereof, taking the receipt in every case of the person in whose favor said order is drawn, which receipt and order shall be his voucher for money so paid out; and said board of county commissioners shall exact of said county treasurer a sep- Separate bond arate bond in such sum as they may deem proper, on behalf of said Sweetwater county, with two or more sufficient sureties, conditioning for the faithful performance of the duties required of him by this act, and the faithful accounting for the money deposited with him and realized from the sale of bonds as herein provided

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SEC. 12. The county clerk and county treasurer shall be allowed County clerk such compensation for all services rendered by them, under the and treasurer, requirements of this act, as said board of county commissioners pensation of may deem just and equitable; Provided, That said officers' services, Proviso. in the collection and disbursement of money for the redemption of bonds and the payment of interest thereon, is not to be included by said commissioners in their estimate for the above compensation, but said officer sshall be allowed the same fees, compensation or percentage in the collection and disbursement of the money above mentioned, as may be allowed them respectively in the collection and disbursement of other funds under any law of this Territory. SEC. 13. All expenses incurred by said board of county com- Expenses of

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County Commissioners in carrying out the provisions and intention of this act, shall be paid out of the "general county fund," on the order of said commissioners.

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SEC. 14. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, December 11th, 1875.

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CHAPTER 11.

COUNTY REVENUES.

AN ACT to provide for Official Bonds for County Officers, and for the better security of
County Revenues.

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

ritory of Wyoming:

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SECTION 1. That the several boards of county commissioners County comof this Territory, at any regular or special meeting, shall have shall have power, by an order entered of record, to require any county power. officer, whose duty it is to receive any of the revenues of the county, to give bonds with sufficient sureties to the people of the omeers to Territory of Wyoming, conditioned as now required by law, in give bonds, the penal sum of one and one-fourth times the amount of taxes collected, or revenues of any kind, coming into his hands as such

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SEC. 2. That if at any time the sureties, or any of them, upon Death or reany official bond shall die, remove from this Territory, become moval lor surinsolvent, or from any other cause cease to possess the qualifica- bond. tions required by this act, the board of county commissioners shall require the officer giving such bond, to give a new bond, with such sureties as are required by this act.

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SEC. 3. That sureties upon an official bond, hereafter given in what is rethis Territory, must be residents of this Territory, and worth, in ired of surthe aggregate, double the amount to be secured by the bond, over and above all exemptions, debts and liabilities, and each surety shall make an affidavit as to what he is worth, over and above all of his debts, liabilities and exemptions, which affidavit shall be indorsed on the bond.

SEC. 4. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any county shall require any new or additional bond to be given, as A new or adrequired by this act, it shall be the duty of the county clerk to ditional bond. immediately give personal notice thereof to the person required to give such bond, and if the bond so required be not given within twenty days after the receipt of such notice, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners to declare the office for

which such bond is required to be given, vacant, and to appoint New appoinsome suitable person to fill such vacant office, which appointee, tee.

upon qualifying as required by law, shall hold his office until the qualification. next general election in the county, and until his successor is duly chosen and qualified.

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