County treasurer annually to such agent as the said board may direct or shall remit an money for pay etc. payment and nually to agent may be designated by law, the amount of money collected ment of interest, for the payment of interest of such bonds or such portion thereof as the said board may direct; and such agent shall Agent to report report the payments made, together with the cancelled couand bonds paid, pons or bonds so paid, to the county treasurer, who shall thereupon report to the county commissioners and return to the county clerk all such bonds and coupons for cancellation. return coupons County clerk shall publish report of outstanding bonds, est, and number of bonds cancelled. 109. SEC. 7. The county commissioners shall annually cause to be published, and it shall be the duty of the amount of inter-county clerk, annually to publish in some newspaper published in said county, a full report of the amount of the bonds outstanding, the amount of interest paid and due thereon, and the amount and number of the bonds that shall have been purchased and cancelled. County commissioners to cancel bonds and coupons paid. 110. SEC. 8. Whenever any county bonds that have been heretofore issued, or that shall be hereafter issued for any purpose shall be paid, or whenever the interest coupons of said bonds shall be paid, it shall be the duty of the board of county commissioners of the county issuing such bonds, to cancel said bonds and coupons, in the manner provided in section two (2) of this act, for the cancellation of bonds. Approved March 9, 1877. Width of doorways. CHAPTER X. BUILDINGS. AN ACT RELATING TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF BUILDINGS USED FOR Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: within such building in the part thereof intended for public assemblage, and with proper and sufficient ways and passages leading to and from every such doorway, so that in case of fire or other sudden alarm those who may be within such building may speedily and safely escape therefrom. 112. SEC. 2. No room or building intended for use as shall not be a theatre, opera house, music hall, concert hall, public occupied for school or church, or other place of public assemblage, here- blies, unless tofore constructed and not in conformity with the provis- this act. ions of this act, shall be rented, leased or occupied for any purpose until the same shall be altered to conform to this act. such rented, leased or public assem conforming to Penalty for building or leas ing any building blies not in conformity with 113. SEC. 3. Every proprietor who shall hereafter build or procure to be built, or shall lease or procure or permit to be used as a theatre, opera house, concert hall, music hall, for public assem public school or church, or for any other like public assem- this act. blage, any building not in conformity to this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars. Action for recov not lie. 114. SEC. 4. No action shall lie to recover the rent on any lease or contract made after this act shall take effect for ery of rent shall the use or occupation of any room or building used as a theatre, opera house, concert hall, music hall, public school or church, or other like place of public assemblage, unless such room or building was at the time of such renting, use or occupation, provided with doorways and passages and means of safe escape therefrom in case of fire, in conformity. with this act. Doors shall be stairways and free from 115. SEC. 5. All doors provided for the doorways of unfastened, and every such room or building shall open outwards, and every passages kept person using or occupying any such room or building as a obstructions. theatre, opera house, concert hall, music hall, public school or church, or for other like public assemblage, shall during the whole of every exhibition, performance or assemblage therein cause all the doors thereof to be left unfastened or latched or barred upon the inner side only, and so that any person may readily and speedily open the same from the inner side of such room or building; and shall cause all the stairways and other ways and passages leading to every such door to be kept open and free from persons seated or Penalty. Dimensions of stairways. Penalty if loss of life occurs. standing therein from other obstructions; and any person failing to observe this section shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. 116. SEC. 6. Whenever any building or buildings, shall be hereafter erected, for the purpose of accommodating public assemblages, and the rooms intended for such purpose shall not be on the first floor of such building, it shall be the duty of the persons erecting the same to provide and erect, at least two fire-proof stairways of ample dimensions sufficient for the sudden egress of the assemblies of the same. 117. SEC. 7. If any lives shall be lost by reason of the wilful negligence and failure to observe the provisions of this act, the person through whose default such loss of life was occasioned shall be deemed guilty of manslaughter and punished by a fine not less than one thousand nor more than five thousand dollars, or imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than six months nor more than ten years, or by both such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court. Approved February 20, 1877. CHAPTER XI. BUTCHERS. [Revised Statutes, Chapter XI.] Butcher to give bond conditioned 118. SECTION 1. Every person, before he shall set up to keep record of and carry on the trade or business of a butcher or slaugh cattle purchased or slaughtered, terer of horned cattle in this state, shall file a bond, with description, date of and from approved by the county commissioners, with the clerk of whom purchased and to keep hide the county in which he desires to carry on the business, in and horns for inspection. a sum not less than one thousand dollars nor more than five thousand dollars, running to the people of the state of Colorado, conditioned that he shall keep a true and faithful record, in a book kept for the purpose, of all cattle purchased or slaughtered by him, with a description of the animal, including marks, brands, age, weight, and from whom purchased, and the date thereof, and to keep the hide and horns of such animal free to the inspection of all persons, for the period of thirty days after it is slaughtered. business without 119. SEC. 2. Every person who shall be found carrying penalty for on the business of butcher or slaughterer in this state, with- carrying on out having filed the bond provided in the first section of this giving bond. act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and be fined in a sum not less than fifty nor more than one hundred dollars, for every day he shall carry on such business, to be recovered before any justice of the peace of the proper county, or by indictment in the district court. Penalty for fail record and preserve hide and horns. 120. SEC. 3. Every person who shall carry on the business of butcher or slaughterer of horned cattle, and ing to keep shall fail to keep a true and faithful record in a book kept for the purpose, of all cattle purchased or slaughtered by him, together with a description of each animal, including marks, brands, age, weight, and from whom purchased, and the date thereof, or fail to keep the hide and horns of such animal or animals for thirty days after such animal is slaughtered, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and for each offense fined in a sum not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, to be recovered as provided in the second section of this act. Penalty for re inspection or record or hide 121. SEC. 4. The record provided for in this act shall be open to the inspection of all persons, and also the hide, fusing to permit and horns, for the period of thirty days, and any butcher or examination of slaughterer refusing to permit such inspection or examina- and horns. tion, shall be subject to a fine of not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars for each offense, to be recovered as provided in section two of this act. Disposition of sureties on bond 122. SEC. 5. All fines and penalties so recovered under this act shall be paid into the county treasury of the fines recovered proper county, and the offender and his sureties shall be liable for fines. liable on the bond provided for in the first section of this act, for all fines, penalties and costs adjudged against him under the provisions of this act. Said bond may be sued on, in the name of the people, in any court of competent jurisdiction. 123. SEC. 6. Appeals shall be allowed in cases arising under this act, as in other cases. Appeals allowed Chattel mortgage not valid third person, CHAPTER XII. CHATTLE MORTGAGES. AN ACT TO REPEAL ALL EXISTING LAWS CONCERNING CHATTLE MORT- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado: 124. SECTION 1. No mortgage on personal property against rights of shall be valid as against the rights and interests of any unless property third person or persons, unless possession of such personal property shall be delivered to and remain with the mortgagee, or the said mortgage be acknowledged and recorded, as hereinafter directed. delivered or mortgage recorded. Acknowledgement of chattel and before whom taken. 125. SEC. 2. Any mortgagor of personal property shall mortgage, where acknowledge such mortgage before any justice of the peace or notary public in the precinct in which he may reside, or where such property, or the greater portion thereof, may at any time be situate; when there be no justice of the peace or notary public in the precinct, then the next nearest justice of the peace or notary public shall take the acknowledgement: and said justice of the peace or notary public shall certify the same as follows: "This mortgage was acknowledged before me by AB————, thisday of—, A. D. 18—," and such justice or notary public shall make on his docket or record a memorandum thereof, in substance as follows: "A——— B—, to C———— Dmortgage of (here describe the property), acknowledged this day of, 187-," inserting the name of the mortgagor in place of A. B., in each instance, and the Fees for taking name of the mortgagee in place of C. D.; and the justice Certificate of acknowledge ment. acknowledge ment. When acknowledgement may be taken by County clerk. or notary public shall be entitled to a fee therefor, of fifty cents, and fifteen cents per folio for recording such memorandum; provided, however, that if any such mortgage is entitled to be acknowledged as aforesaid in any justice's precinct, in which is located the county seat of any county, the same may be acknowledged before any justice of the peace, notary public or county clerk, of such county or precinct, and the said notary public or county clerk shall certify the same in substance as above provided; and when |