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CHAPTER 107.

SWEETWATER COUNTY.

AN ACT to Re-locate the County Seat of Sweetwater County.

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

SECTION 1. That the county seat of Sweetwater county be, and the same is, hereby located at Green River, in said county, to which place the county commissioners shall cause all records of the county to be removed as soon as practicable after the passage of this act.

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SEC. 2. That Green River shall be, and remain, the county seat At Green rivof said county, unless it be removed by vote of the people of the county at the next general election.

SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and In force. after its passage.

Approved, December 9, 1873.

AN ACT to Provide for a Special Term of the District Court for Sweetwater County.

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

etc.

SECTION 1. That there shall be held in Sweetwater county, at Special term, the county seat thereof, a term of the district court, commencing on the fourth Monday of December, 1873; Provided, That grand and petit jurors for said term of court, may be summoned from the body of said county, by the proper officers, on order of the district judge.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after In force. its passage.

Approved, December 11, 1873.

CHAPTER 108.

Penalties for injuring telegraph lines.

In force.

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES.

AN ACT to Protect the Property of Telegraph Companies.

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

SECTION 1. That any person, who shall wilfully cut down or burn, or otherwise materially injure, any telegraph pole, or shall shoot so as to materially injure any insulator, or knock said insulator loose from the pole to which it is attached, or otherwise materially injure such insulator, or who shall shoot any telegraph wire, thereby breaking said wire, or who shall otherwise wilfully cut, break, or injure such wire, shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hundred dollars, and, in case of failure to pay such fine, shall be imprisoned in the county jail one day for every two dollars of such fine.

SEC. 13. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, December 2, 1869.

CHAPTER 109.

TERRITORIAL AND COUNTY REVENUE.

AN ACT to Provide a Territorial and County Revenue.

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

upon

SECTION 1. There shall be levied and assessed the taxable Purpose real and personal property within this Territory in each year, the which following taxes:

assessed.

for taxes

mills on the

First, For territorial revenue, two mills on the dollar, when no Territor'l revrate is directed by the Territorial board of equalization in time for enue tax, two the purposes of this act as hereinafter provided; but in no case dollar. shall the tax for Territorial purposes exceed three mills on the dollar;

Second, For county revenue, for ordinary county expenses, more than five mills on the dollar;

not

Third, For county revenue, for support of the poor and lunatic purposes, not more than two mills on the dollar;

Fourth, For repairing and constructing roads and bridges, under direction of the county commissioners, not more than two mills on the dollar;

Fifth, The county commissioners of each county shall levy a tax sufficient to defray the expenses of the district courts for their respective counties during each year;

nue not more

County revethan five mills on the dollar.

Support of

poor and lunatics, not more than two mills

on the dollar. Repairing and

constructing roads, etc.,two mills.

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schools,

two

Sixth, And, in addition to the above, they shall levy a poll tax Poll tax, $2. of two dollars for county school purposes, and they may also levy For common a tax for the support of common schools, not to exceed two mills mills. on the dollar; Provided, That the aggregate tax for Territorial and Proviso. county purposes, shall, in no case, exceed fifteen mills on the dollar per annum.

SEC. 2. The following described property is hereby exempt what exempt

from taxation:

of

this Territory,

First, The property of the United States and of this Territory, Property the property of any county, townships, incorporated towns and United States, school districts, when devoted entirely to public use; public county, etc. grounds, by whomsoever donated to the public, including all places for the burial of the dead;

Second, Fire engines, and all implements used for extinguishing Fire engines. fires, with the grounds used exclusively for the buildings of a fire company or companies;

Property of Third, All grounds and buildings of literary or scientific institutific, benevo- tions incorporated under the laws of this Territory. Also the lent, etc., in- grounds and buildings of benevolent, agricultural and religious

literary, scien

stitutions.

Househ'ld furniture, wear

institutions or societies, devoted solely to the appropriate objects of these institutions, not exceeding three acres in extent, and not leased or otherwise used with a view to pecuniary profit;

Fourth, The books, papers, furniture and apparatus belonging to the above institutions, and used solely for the purposes above contemplated, and the like property of students in any such institutions, used for their education. Moneys and credits belonging exclusively to said institutions, and devcted solely to sustaining them, but not exceeding in amount or income the sum prescribed by their charter;

Fifth, Household and kitchen furniture, beds and bedding, ing apparel, wearing apparel of every person, wool, flax and tow, intended to etc., not to ex be manufactured, and the food provided for each family, not to exceed in all, the value of one hundred dollars;

ceed $100.

What taxable.

perty subject to taxation.

Sixth, The polls of all persons who have arrived at the age of fifty years.

SEC. 3. All other property, real and personal, within this Territory, is subject to taxation in the manner herein directed, and this section is intended to embrace lands and lots in towns including lands bought from the United States, whether bought on a All other pro- credit or otherwise; buildings or improvements erected upon lands, the title to which still remains in the United States, or in any incorporated company. Ferries, franchises and toll-bridges, all of which, for the purposes of this act, shall be considered real property. Horses and neat cattle, mules and asses, sheep, swine, goats, and all dogs, and other animals, money in bank bills, coin or gold dust, whether in possession or on deposit; property, money or labor, due from solvent debtors on contract, or on judgment, and whether within this Territory or not; mortgages and other like securities, stock or shares in any bank or company, incorporated or otherwise, and whether incorporated by this or any other Territory or State, and whether situated in this Territory or not; public stocks or loans, household furniture not otherwise exempt, including gold and silver plate, musical instruments, watches and jewelry, pleasure carriages, stages, hacks, omnibusses and other vehicles for transporting passengers, wagons, carts, drays, sleds, and every other description of vehicle or carriage, all real and personal property within this Territory, of every kind and description not heretofore enumerated, belonging to or claimed hy any incorporated company, whether incorporated in this Territory or not, annuities-but not including pensions from the United Pensions and States, or any State, nor salaries, nor payment expected for services to be rendered, and all other property not above exempted, although not herein specified.

salaries ex

empied.

What includ

"credits."

SEC. 4. The term "credits," as used in this act, includes every ed in the term claim and demand for money, labor or other valuable things; and every annuity or sum of money receivable at stated periods, and all money in property of any kind, and secured by deed, mortgage or otherwise; but pensions from the United States, or any State, and salaries or payments expected for servies to be rendered, are not included in the above term.

SEC. 5. Every inhabitant of this Territory, of full age and Who to list. sound mind, shall list or assist the assessor in listing all property subject to taxation in this Territory, of which he is hereinafter directed. The property of a ward is to be listed by the person having the property in charge; if a married woman, by herself or husband; if a beneficiary for whom property is held in trust, by the trustee, and the personal property of a decedent, by the executor; of a body corporate, company, society or partnership, whether incorporated or formed in this Territory, or not, by its principal accounting officer, local agent or partner in the county where the property is located; property under mortgage or lease, is to be listed by, and taxed to, the mortgagor or lessor, unless it. be listed by the mortgagee or lessee; Provided, That in all cases Proviso. where a railroad is located, and is being, or has, been constructed in, or through, any county of this Territory, either the president, secretary, general superintendent, division superintendent, general or local agent of any kind of the corporation, company or associations of persons owning or using the same within the county, shall, on demand made by the county assessor of any county of this Territory, in or through which said road is being, or has been, or may hereafter be, constructed, be compelled to furnish such assessor with a statement in writing, under oath or affirmation, duly subscribed and sworn to, before some officer authorized by law to administer oaths, setting forth the length of said road in such county, and the value thereof, with a list of the property real and personal pertaining thereto, also the whole length of said road within this Territory, and the number of, and value of, all locomotives and cars commonly known as "rolling stock," used on said road within this Territory, an apportionment of value of such rolling stock shall be listed and assessed to such county, the same to be estimated according to the proportion which the portion in said county bears to the length of said railroad within this Territory. The assessor receiving such statement may avail himself of other evidence under oath, and is hereby authorized, for such purposes, to administer oaths relating to the matter of such assossment; Provided, Reasonable notice of the time and place of tak- Proviso. ing such evidence shall be served upon the person making such statement, or on some officer or agent of any kind, of the corporation or company, or upon the owners of said railroad.

notice, how

SEC. 6. The demand and notice, mentioned in the preceding Demand and section, and elsewhere in this act, may be made by personal ser- made. vice on any of the officers, agents or other persons specified in said section, or by depositing in the post office such written demand or notice, properly inclosed in a letter, postage prepaid, and duly directed to such corporation, company or association of persons at the place of the principal office, or at any place of business of such railroad company, or at any place where the owners of such road may be engaged in business, and the word "railroad" and "road," when applied to railroads in this act, shall be held to include, in addition to the track of said railroad, the land owned [covered] by the right of way of such railroad, and all improvements of any kind, of said corporation, company or owners, thereon, and all personal property owned and used

therewith.

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