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AUTHENTICATION OF RECORDS.

(United States Revised Statutes, 1873-4. Title 13, Chap. 17.)

SEC. 905. The acts of the legislature of any State or Territory, or of any country subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, shall be authenticated by having the seals of such State, Territory or country affixed thereto. The records and judicial proceedings of the courts of any State or Territory, or of any such country, shall be proved or admitted in any other court within the United States, by the attestation of the clerk, and the seal of the court annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the judge, chief justice, or presiding magistrate, that the said attestation is in due form. And the said records and judicial proceedings, so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from which they are taken.

SEC. 906. All records and exemplifications of books, which may be kept in any public office of any State or Territory, or of any country subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, not appertaining to a court, shall be proved or admitted in any court or office in any other State or Territory, or in any such country, by the attestation of the keeper of the said records or books, and the seal of his office annexed, if there be a seal, together with a certificate of the presiding justice of the court of the county, parish, or district in which such office may be kept, or of the governor, or secretary of state, the chancellor or keeper of the great seal of the State, or Territory, or country, that the said attestation is in due form, and by the proper officers. If the said certificate is given by the presiding justice of a court, it shall be further authenticated by the clerk or prothonotary of the said court, who shall certify, under his hand and the seal of his office, that the said presiding justice is duly commissioned and qualified; or, if given by such governor, secretary, chancellor, or keeper of the great seal, it shall be under the great seal of the State, Territory, or country aforesaid, in which it is made. And the said records and exemplifications, so authenticated, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court and office within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts or offices of the State, Territory, or country, as aforesaid, from which they are taken.

AUTHENTICATIONS.

I, G. W. French, Secretary of Wyoming Territory, do hereby certify that I have delivered to J. R. Whitehead, Superintendent of the printing of the Compiled Laws of Wyoming, true and correct copies of all Laws, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials of the first, second, third, and fourth Legislative Assemblies of Wyoming Territory, on file in this office, and in force at the end of the Fourth Legislative Assembly of this Territory, in accordance with the law passed by said Fourth Legislative Assembly, entitled "An act to compile and publish the Laws of Wyoming in one volume," approved, Dec. 11, 1875.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed [SEAL.] the seal of the Territory, this 28th day of March, A. D., 1876. G. W. FRENCH, Secretary of Wyoming Territory.

TERRITORY OF WYOMING.

I, J. R. Whitehead, Superintendent of the work of compiling all the laws of Wyoming Territory in force up to and including the acts of the fourth session of said territorial assembly, hereby certify that the following pages contain a correct compilation of said laws, and that the various acts of congress and extracts therefrom published herein, are correctly copied from the original texts in the revised statutes of the United States, and that the Declaration of Independence, Constitution of the United States, Indian Treaties, and other preliminary matters herein found are correctly copied from equally authentic sources and will be found in exact accordance with the original text.

In witness whereof, I have hereto subscribed my name, at the city of Cheyenne, this third day of April, 1876.

J. R. WHITEHEAD,

Superintendent of the Compilation of the Laws.

LAWS OF WYOMING.

THE COMPILED

LAWS & WYOMING.

1876.

CHAPTER 1.

ABSTRACTS.

A BILL for an Act Authorizing and Requiring County Clerks to keep Abstract Books.

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

ritory of Wyoming :

kept.

SECTION 1. That in each county in the Territory there shall Abstr'et books be abstract books kept, in which all transfers and mortgages of required to be real property, and all liens upon real estate shall be briefly entered. The board of county commissioners [of] each county shall pro- County Comvide proper abstract books.

missioners to provide.

enter all trans

tate in abstr'et

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the county clerk of each county, County Clerk to enter in dark colored ink in such abstract book in the order of required to time, all transfers of real estate heretofore recorded in their fers of real esrespective offices; and all mortgages, mechanics' liens, and judg- books. ment liens, shall also be entered in said books in the order of time, in red ink. The clerk shall receive therefor reasonable Clerk's comcompensation for each entry where it is properly abstracted, the Pensation. same to be paid out of the county funds.

to be abstract

SEC. 3. Hereafter all instruments affecting real estate in this Instruments Territory, left for record in the county clerk's office, shall be ed. abstracted as soon as it is practicable to enter the same, in the order of time; and it shall be lawful for the county clerk to charge Clerk's “rabcach person, having such an instrument recorded, the sum of twenty-five cents, to be known as the abstract fee.

stract fee."

what to con

SEC. 4. All abstract entries of lands shall be made in a book, Abstr'etbooks well bound and properly ruled, and at the head lines shall describe tain. the legal division of land, or sub-division, naming section, township and range, according to the United States surveys, when the

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