Proviso. Repealed. "Running brand" unlawful. etc., without sale, unlawful neat cattle,&c. next annual assessment of taxes, it shall be the duty of the county commissioner, to remit such tax, or such amount of tax, as they deem just. SEC. 6. That the first proviso of the second section of an act of the second Legislative Assembly, entitled "an act for the protection of stock in Wyoming Territory, and to punish certain offenses concerning the same," be amended so as to read, "That no stock grower shall adopt a mark or brand of another, neither shall the county clerk record the same brand to more than one person, Provided, That nothing in this proviso shall prevent one person from adopting the brand of another, and causing the same to be recorded after purchase of such brand and record of bill of sale of such purchaser.” SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent and repugnant to this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. That it shall be unlawful for any person in branding any neat cattle, horses, mules, asses, sheep, [or] goats, to use what is known among stock-growers as a "running brand.” Sale of neat SEC. 9. That it shall be unlawful after the passage of this act, eattle, horses; for any person in this Territory to sell any neat cattle, horse, mare giving bill of or gelding, goat, sheep, mule or ass, without giving a written bill of sale therefor; and it shall be unlawful for any person in this Purchase of Territory to purchase any neat cattle, horse, inare or gelding, goat, without bill or sheep, mule, or ass, without receiving a bill of sale therefor; Prosale, unlawful rided further, That if, at the time of sale of any of the foregoing Proviso. enumerated stock, such stock is marked and branded, or either, with the brand and mark of the owner, the bill of sale shall contain a full description of such brands or marks, or either, as the case may be. Purchase or unbranded prohibited. kept. sible to stock es. SEC. 10. No person shall purchase or kill in this Territory any slaughter of head of neat cattle until the same is distinctly marked or branded, cattle, or both; and every person engaged in slaughtering neat cattle in Record to be this Territory shall keep a record of all cattle so slaughtered, naming the person or persons of whom purchased, and his or their place of residence, the age, sex and brand and marks of neat catRecord acces- tle slaughtered, which record shall at all times be open for the growers and inspection of stock-growers or their employes. It shall be unlawtheir employ- ful to sell any hide of any head of neat cattle without giving the Sale of hide purchaser a bill of sale of such hide, and it shall be unlawful for Ing bill or any person to purchase any such hide in this Territory without sale, unlawful receiving a bill of sale therefor, and such bill of sale shall contain a full description of the owner's mark and brand and other marks and brands on such hide; Provided, further, That all first purchasers of hides in this Territory shall keep a record of all hides of neat cattle purchased by them, which record shall state the name or names of the person or persons from whom purchased, and his, or their, place of residence, and all brands and marks on said hides, which record shall, at all times, be open for the inspection of stock-growers, their agents and employes. without giv Proviso. slaughtered eattle The hides of SEC. 11. Every butcher slaughtering neat cattle, shall keep tee the hides of such cattle at his place of slaughtering for a period kept seven of not less than seven days after such slaughtering, and such days. hides shall be subject to inspection by stock-growers and their agents and employes. All persons, other than butchers, who Subject to inoccasionally slaughter neat cattle for beef, shall exhibit the hide, spection. or hides, of such beef at the time and place the beef is offered for sale. of carcass, un sioners may SEC. 12. It shall be unlawful for any person, other than the Skinning owner, or his agent, or employe, to skin or remove from the car- lawful for oth cass, the skin, hide, or pelt, of any neat cattle or sheep found dead. er than owner. SEC. 13. The county commissioners of any county in this Ter- co. commisritory, on the recommendation of the stock growers' association appoint detec of such county, may appoint one or more detectives, to discover tives. and detect violations of the stock laws within said county; such Compensation detectives shall be paid such compensation as shall be directed by how paid. the county commissioners, from the county treasury. The county Rewards commissioners of the several counties may offer and pay rewards detection. for the detection of those violating this act. of detectives, ting for provis SEC. 14. Any person who shall wilfully do any act prohibited Person violaby this act, or who shall wilfully neglect, or refuse, to do any act ions of this herein required, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on convic- act. tion, shall be punished by imprisonment in the county jail for a How punishperiod not exceeding two years, or pay a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or both, in the discretion of the court. ed. SEC. 15. This act shall be in force from and after [the] first In force. day of February, 1876. Approved, December 5th, 1873. [NOTE.-Sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15, were 'added' by act of legislative assembly, approved December 11th, 1875, and numbered by the compilers to correspond with the preceding sections.-COMPILERS.] AN ACT to Protect Sheep. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: of SECTION 1. The county commissioners of the various counties Bounty for in this Territory are hereby authorized and required to encourage killing wolves the destruction of wolves by making payment out of the county fund to any person who shall engage in the destruction of wolves, the sum of fifty cents for each wolf killed by such person. The person so engaged who may desire the compensation above named, shall present to the chairman of the board of county commissioners of the county, in which the wolves were killed, the scalp of such wolves, together with an affidavit, that the wolf from which said scalp was taken was killed by the person presenting said scalp scalps which scalp and affidavit shall be evidence that the wolves were dence. killed by the person so producing it. It shall thereupon be the duty of the chairman of the board to so mark or destroy such scalp that it cannot be again used as evidence, and give the person so producing it a certificate stating the number of scalps so presented, and to what sum the person is entitled under this act, which certificate may be filed with the county clerk as a claim against the county, to be by him presented to the board at its next meeting thereafter, at which time the board of county commissioners shall allow the claim and order a warrant drawn upon the treasury of the wolves in evi Proviso. In force. county, as in other cases; Provided, This section shall not be construed to prevent the board from disallowing such claim, should it appear in any way to have been fraudulently made or obtained. SEC. 2. This act shall be in force from and after January 1st. 1876. Approved, December 11th, 1875. Railroad companies liable AN ACT to Provide for Payment for Live Stock Killed by Rallroads or Raliway Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Ter- SECTION 1. That any corporation operating a railway, or rasto owner for road, within this Territory, which shall injure or kill any live killing or in stock, by running any engine or engines, car or cars, over or against any such live stock, shall be liable to the owner or owners of such live stock, for the damage sustained by such owner or owners, by reason of such injuring or killing of such live stock. Railroad company shall no days. Proviso. SEC. 2. That any said corporation injuring or killing any live tify the owner stock, by running any engine or engines, car or cars, over or within ten against any such live stock, shall, within ten days thereafter, notify the owner or owners of such live stock, so killed or injured, of the fact; Provided, That if the ownership of such stock so killed or injured, is unknown, such corporation shall file in the office of the recorder of the county in which such live stock was so killed or injured, a full description, including the number, classes and brands, of such live stock, naming the locality, where such stock was so killed or injured. And any corporation failing to comply with the requirements of this section, shall be liable to the owner or owners of such live stock, so killed or injured, in double the amount of the damages sustained by the owner or owners of such stock, by reason of the said killing or injuring. Sworn evi ue of live furnished to pany by own er. SEC. 3. Any person or persons owning any live stock which dence of val shall be killed or injured, in the manner set forth in the first secstock to be tion of this act, within six months after the said person or perrailroad com- sons is, or are, notified of the said killing or injuring, as provided in the second section of this act, shall furnish the corporation having so killed or injured live stock, through its nearest agent, sworn evidence of the value of said live stock, and upon the payment by said corporation, to the owner or owners of said live stock, of two thirds of the value of said stock, so ascertained, the said corporation shall be released from all liability under this act. Definition live tock of SEC. 4. That for the purposes of this act the terms "live and "stock." stock" and "stock," shall include all classes of horses, asses, mules, neat cattle, sheep and swine. In force. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, December 9, 1875. CHAPTER 106. SUPREME COURT. AN ACT Fixing the Time and Place of Holding the First and Subsequent Terms of the Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Ter- SECTION 1. There shall be a term of the supreme court held at Terms of court the capital of this Territory, on the first Monday of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and thereafter there shall be annually held at the capital a general term of the supreme court on the first Monday of March. SEC. 2. If there shall not be a quorum of the justices of the quorum. supreme court present on the first day of any term, the court shall stand adjourned from day to day, until a quorum shall attend; and said court may, there being a quorum present, adjourn to any time deemed proper, by the justices thereof giving notice of the time to which said court stands adjourned, in a newspaper published at the capital, the expense of such notice to be paid out of the Territorial treasury, like other Territorial expenses. term, SEC. 3. It shall be competent to notice causes for argument at Adjourned said adjourned term, the same as though it were a general term, and the causes thus noticed shall stand for argument at said adjourned term, the same as though they were on the calendar of the general term. SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the supreme court, at its first Rules of prac session, to prescribe rules of practice for said court, and for the tice. district courts of this Territory not inconsistent with the organic act or laws of this Territory, and when the said rules are promulgated, they shall be as binding upon the several courts, and the parties practicing and having business therein, as though the same were enactments of the legislative authority of this Territory. The supreme court may prescribe forms of process to be used, and the regulations for the keeping of the records and proceedings of the court. SEC. 5. All process issued out of the supreme court shall bear Tests. test in the name of the chief justice, and be signed by the clerk of the court, sealed with its seal and made returnable according to law, or the rules and orders of the court, and shall be executed by the officer to whom the same is directed. SEC. 6. The opinion of the justices of the supreme court on any matter pending before it, shall be given in writing and filed with the papers in the case, and when the justices are divided in opinion in any case, the fact of division shall be stated in the final order, and the dissenting justice may file his dissenting opinion, if he so wish. SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the supreme court, under the supervision of the chief justice, or one of the associate justices, in case of the absence of the chief justice, to make a synopsis or syllabus of the different decisions at the end of each term, whether general or adjourned, and cause the same to be published in some newspaper published at the capital. SEC. 8. When the number of cases decided in said court shall reach one hundred, it shall be competent for the supreme court to appoint a reporter of its decisions, who shall receive such compensation as shall therefor be prescribed by law. SEC. 9. All matters, suits and causes undisposed of at any term of the supreme court, shall stand continued to the next sueceeding adjourned or regular term. SEC. 10. No justice of the supreme court shall practice as an attorney in any of the courts of this Territory, nor give advice touching any cause pending, or to be brought therein. SEC. 11. The seal of the supreme court shall be that of the Territory of Wyoming, substituting the words supreme court, Wyoming Territory, around the vignette of said seal. SEC. 12. The supreme court shall appoint a clerk thereof, who shall take an oath, before one of the justices of said court, to support the constitution of the United States, the organic act of the Territory of Wyoming, and faithfully discharge the duties pertaining to the office, and shall give a bond to the Territory of Wyoming in such sum as shall be prescribed by the court, which bond shall be for the faithful accounting for all moneys that shall come into his hands as clerk, and for the faithful discharge of his duty, and shall be approved by the chief justice, and filed with the auditor of the Territory. SEC. 13. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, November 29, 1869. [NOTE.-Section one was amended to read as above by act approved November 22nd, 1573.-COMPILERS.] |