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Refractory persons.

Juvenile pris

oners.

Jail register.

Name a'd date

Manner of dis

charge.

Sickness in fail.

Cleaning cells.

Cleanliness.

Method of procedure when a built.

custody, shall not be liable to arrest on any civil process while passing through such county or counties.

SEC. 13. If any person confined in any jail, shall be refractory or disorderly, or shall wilfully or wantonly destroy, or injure any article of bedding or other furniture, or any part of the prison, the sheriff may, after due inquiry, cause such person to be kept in solitary confinement, not more than five days for any one offense; and during such confinement, such prisoner shall be fed with bread and water only, unless other food be absolutely necessary for the preservation of his health.

SEC. 14. Juvenile prisoners shall, whenever practicable, be kept in apartments separate from elder prisoners; and the visits of parents and friends who desire to exert a moral influence over them, shall, at all reasonable times, be permitted.

SEC. 15. The sheriff or other officer performing the duties of sheriff, of each county in this Territory, shall procure at the expense of the county, a suitable book, to be called a jail register, in which the sheriff, by himself or his jailor, shall enter:

First, The name of each prisoner, with the date and cause of his or her commitment;

Second, The date and manner of his or her discharge;

Third, What sickness, if any, has prevailed in the jail during the year;

Fourth, The practice observed during the year, of whitewashing and cleansing the cells or apartments, and the times and seasons for doing so;

Fifth, The habits of the prisoners as to cleanliness, diet and order, and such other matters as may be directed by the grand jury, or as may in the discretion of the sheriff' be deemed proper. The register so directed to be kept, shall be delivered by the sheriff to his successor in office.

SEC. 16. Whenever the board of county commissioners of any jail is to be organized county in this Territory, shall deem it for the interest of such county to have a jail constructed therein, they shall cause plans and specifications therefor to be prepared by some competent architect, for a jail, to cost not more in any case than five thous and dollars; and after such plans and specifications are prepared, and adopted by the board of commissioners, they shall deposit the same in the office of the register of deeds for the county, where such plans and specifications shall be open and free to the inspection of any and all persons; and such board of county commissioners shall give notice that they will receive sealed proposals for the building of such jail, according to such plans and specifications, by publication in a newspaper once each week for four consecutive weeks, in any newspaper published within the county, if there be one, if not, then they shall cause at least five such notices to be posted in as many of the most public places of the county; such notices shall be to the effect that the commissioners will, until a day specified therein, not less than thirty days from publication of said notice, receive sealed proposals for the building of such jail, in whole or in parts, as to them shall seem to be for the best interests of the county; Provided, That the time occupied in build

ing and completing such jail, shall in no case exceed six months from date of commencement of work on the same, which date shall be specified in the bids offered for such contract. Proposals shall be handed to the register of deeds for the county, in and for which such work is to be performed.

and awarded

SEC. 17. On the day appointed for the opening of such bids, Bids opened the county commissioners shall meet and open and declare the in public to same in public, and shall award the contract or contracts to the lowest bidder. lowest bidder, who shall furnish security in double the amount of his contract, to the satisfaction of the board of commissioners, for the execution and completion of such contract.

SEC. 18. The bids above provided for, shall be accompanied by Guarantee. the guarantee of two or more responsible persons, that if the contract be awarded to the bidder, he will enter into the requisite bonds for the faithful performance of such contract.

paid.

SEC. 19. One-half of the cost and expense of building such When a'd how jail shall be paid in U. S. currency, six months from the date of the contract for such work; the remaining half of the cost and expense of building such jail, shall be paid within one year from the completion of said jail.

SEC. 20. For the purpose of constructing and paying for jails Special tax. as provided in this act, the board of county commissioners of the organized counties of this Territory, are hereby authorized and empowered to levy a special tax or taxes for that purpose, in additien to the tax authorized by the "act to provide a Territorial and county revenue; "Provided, That no special tax as provided in Proviso. this act, shall be levied until after the return of the assessment roll to the county commmissioners for the regular assessment for the year 1870.

SEC. 21. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, 9th December 1869.

CHAPTER 67.

Laramie, first district.

JUDICIAL DISTRICTS.

AN ACT establishing the Judicial Districts within the Territory of Wyoming, and to pro vide for the holding of Courts therein.

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

SECTION 1. That the Territory of Wyoming is hereby divided into three judicial districts:

The county of Laramie, as it now is, or may hereafter be, bounded or organized, shall compose the first judicial district. The counties of Albany and Carbon, as they now are, or may Carbon, see hereafter be, bounded or organized, shall compose the second judicial district.

Albany and

ond district.

Sweetwater

The counties of Sweetwater and Uinta, as they now are, or may third district. hereafter be, bounded or organized, shall compose the third judi

and Uinta,

Terms of court when held.

Second dist.,
Albany and

cial district.

SEC. 2. There shall be held during each year, at the county seats of the several counties composing each district, two general terms of court, commencing on the day following in each and every year; that is to say, in the first district, at the county seat of Laramie county, on the fourth Monday of May and first Monday of November;

In the second district, at the county seat of Albany county, on Carbon coun- the first Monday of February and August;

ties.

Third district,

At the county seat of Carbon county, on the first Monday of April, and second Monday in September;

In the third district, at the county seat of Sweetwater county, and Uinta on the first Monday of May and October;

Sweetwater

counttes.

Provisions for

terms.

At the county seat of Uinta county, on the first Monday in January and July.

SEC. 3. It shall be competent for the district court, upon the holding spec- written request of a majority of the board of county commissioners, of the proper county, at any regular term thereof, or any judge thereof in vacation, to order a special term of the district court, by giving thirty days' notice in some newspaper published in the county, if there be one, if not, in some newspaper having a general circulation in such county; and where such notice shall be given in pursuance of this act, the court shall have the same powers as the court at a general term.

court.

SEC. 4. In case the judge of any district shall be unable, from other judge any cause, to dispatch the business of his district, it shall be lawful may for the governor to assign the judge of any other district to act in his stead, until such disability is removed, and the judge so assigned shall have the same powers and shall discharge the same duties while acting, as the judge duly assigned by law: Provided, Proviso, That unless specially assigned for that purpose by the governor, as above provided, no judge shall have power to act in any district except the one to which he shall have been assigned by the act of the legislature of this Territory, except on applications for the writ of habeas corpus, or applications for the writ of "proceedings in error."

to reach, etc.

continuances.

SEC. 5. If from any cause the judge of any district shall fail to If judge falls reach the place appointed for holding any term of the district court, by two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, it shall be lawful for the clerk of said court, to adjourn said court from day to day for three days, and on the third day to adjourn the term, unless he shall have reasonable cause to believe that by further adjournment, not later than the following Monday, the justice assigned to hold said term will be present. In all such cases the said clerk shall Clerk to enter enter such continuances in the records of the court, and all jurors and witnesses, and recognized persons in attendance, or who should have been in attendance, shall take notice of all adjournments, and in nowise be released from liability that they may be under at the time of such adjournments, and all proceedings, actions, motions and orders, shall be deemed adjourned from day to day, or for the term, and no adjournment shall work a release or discharge of any recognized persons.

SEC. 6. The clerk of the district court in each district in which Clerk shallapthere are two or more counties, shall appoint a deputy in each point deputies county in his district wherein a court is required by law to be held, the judge of the district approving such appointment; and every such deputy shall have power to execute the duties of the clerk within the county for which he is appointed, but all his official acts shall be in the name of the clerk, by his appointee as deputy, and the clerk shall be liable for all the acts of such deputy done under color of his appointment, and in no case shall the clerk or his deputy remove the records from the county seat of the county in which the court is held, or permit the same to be

done.

etc.

SEC. 7. All suits, actions, causes and proceedings, civil and Pending suits. criminal, now pending in the district courts of the several counties in this Territory, shall proceed to final judgment the same as though this act had not been passed.

SEC. 8. That an act entitled "An act establishing the judicial Repealed. districts within the Territory of Wyoming, and to provide for the holding of courts therein," being chapter thirty-nine of the laws of Wyoming, 1869, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be, and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after In force. the first day of February, A. D., 1874.

Approved, November 19, 1873.

Crook county

AN ACT to Amend "An Act Establishing the Judicial Districts within the Territory
of Wyoming, and to Provide for the Holding of Courts Therein," Approved
Nov. 19th, 1873.

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

SECTION 1. That Crook county, when organized as provided part of first ju by law, shall constitute and compose part of the first judicial dis

to compose

dicial district.

trict.

Pease county SEC. 2. That Pease county, when organized as provided by to compost law, shall constitute and compose part of the second judicial disJudicial dis't. trict.

part of second

Two terms of

district court

county seats

SEC. 3. There shall be held during each year, at the county to be held at seat of each of said counties, two general terms of the district of each of said court, at such times as may be determined by the judge of each counties. of said districts, respectively, upon the petition of the board of Clerk to give county commissioners. Notice of such terms shall be given by notice of terms the clerk of each district respectively in some newspaper published in said counties, or in one of the adjoining counties.

of court.

When to take effect.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after the organization of said counties.

Approved, December 10th, 1875.

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