each person whose name shall appear on such docket shall file with the Secretary of State a complete statement verifying all the expenses paid or incurred by such person in connection with the employment of legislative counsel or agent, or in connection with promoting or opposing in any manner the passage by the Legislature of any legislation coming within the terms of this act, and the penalty for the violation of any provision herein is a fine of not more than $5,000 and disbarment from acting in the capacity of a legislative counsel or agent for a period of three years from the date of disbarment.

WYOMING.

I. CONSTITUTION.

The Legislature shall provide for the organization of corporations of general law, and the right and duty of the State to control and regulate corporations is hereby declared.

No corporation shall have power to engage in more than one general line or department of business, which line of business shall be definitely specified in its charter.

No municipality shall loan or give its credit or make donations to or in aid of any individual, association or company, except for necessary support of the poor, nor subscribe to or become the owner of the capital stock of any company.

All telegraph and telephone companies are declared to be common carriers.

No foreign telegraph or telephone company shall do business in the State without having an agent in each county through which such line shall be constructed, upon whom process may be served, nor shall any such company's line be constructed within the limits of any municipality without the consent of its local authorities. Private property shall not be taken or damaged for public or private use without just compensation.

Perpetuities and monopolies are contrary to the genius of a free State and shall not be allowed. Corporations being creatures of the State, endowed for the public good with a portion of its sovereign powers, must be subject to its control.

There shall be no consolidation or combination of corporations of any kind whatever preventing competition, to control or influence productions or prices thereof, or in any manner to interfere with the public good and general welfare.

II. CORPORATIONS.

Three or more persons may form a company and may sign and acknowledge in duplicate a certificate showing the amount of stock, term of existence, not exceeding fifty years, shares, trustees, and the location of the principal office, and shall file one of such

certificates in the office of the county clerk of each county wherein the business of the company is to be carried on, and one copy in the office of the Secretary of State.

The trustees who shall manage the company shall be not less than three and must be stockholders, and who shall be annually elected at the time and place directed by the by-laws of the

company.

The certificate of incorporation of a telegraph company shall contain a statement of the termini of its lines, the counties through which they shall pass, and such companies are authorized to construct such telegraph lines along and upon any of the public roads by the erection of the necessary fixtures, provided that the same shall not incommode the public use of such road and such telegraph company shall within six months from the date of their certificate commence work on their line, and shall prosecute the work with due diligence until the same is completed, and the time for the completion of such line shall not be extended beyond a period of two years from the time the work was commenced as aforesaid. Any person who shall wilfully or maliciously damage or interfere with any 'telegraph line or any of the fixtures or appurtenances of such company shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and punishable by imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding $500 or both, and such offender shall also pay all damages that any such company may sustain.

Any summons, writ or order in any civil action, and all papers requiring service, may be transmitted by telegraph or telephone for service in any place, and the telegraphic or telephonic copy of such writ or order or paper so transmitted may be served by such officer to whom it is sent and returned by him if a return is requisite, in the same manner and with the same force and effect as the original might be if delivered to him. The original writ or orders must be filed in the court from which it was issued, and a certified copy thereof must be preserved in the telegraph or telephone office from which it was sent.

Every domestic corporation organized under the laws of the State shall within ninety days file with the Secretary of State a certificate designating the location of its principal office and the name of the agent in charge thereof and upon whom process against such company may be served.

Foreign corporations shall within thirty days after commencing to do business file in the office of the Secretary of State and of the register of deeds of the county within which its business is conducted a copy of its charter of incorporation, and failure to do so shall render every officer, agent and stockholder thereof, jointly and severally personally liable to any and all contracts of such company made or verified within the State.

III. TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE COMPANIES.

Domestic or foreign corporations organized for the purpose of constructing and maintaining telegraph or telephone lines are authorized to set their poles, wires, fixtures along or under any of the public roads, streets or waters of the State in such manner as not to incommode the public use thereof, and provided that any such company desiring to place their wires and fixtures underground in any city shall first obtain consent from such city through municipal authorities thereof.

All telegraph, telephone, electric or other wires constructed over the line of any steam railroad shall be put on good, substantial poles of a size not less than twelve inches in diameter at bottom and not less than six inches in diameter at top, and to be set in the earth not less than one-sixth of their length and well tamped, and double cross arms, and all wires shall be insulated with glass and porcelain insulators, and all wires must be clear of the top of the railroad at least 25 feet, except in case of trolley wire crossings where such height as may be agreed upon shall be submitted for approval to the Board of County Commissioners or City Counsel in which the crossing is to be made.

The said Board of Land Commissioners may grant the right of way across any portion of the public lands for telegraph lines or other public conveyances, but no such right of way shall be granted as a permanent right unless the same shall be granted in procedure the same as that required for the sale of said lands.

IV. TAXATION.

The board of county commissioners of each county shall constitute a board of equalization at meetings of which assessors shall be present, and if the assessment be raised or increased the

clerk of the board shall notify each person or corporation of such raise or increase.

The accounting officer of any telegraph or telephone company, domestic or foreign, shall annually list for assessment and taxation the franchises and all other property belonging to and used in the operation of such line within the State. Shall show the actual cash value of the property, the number of miles of line in the State and the number of miles in each county, and the State Board of Equalization shall value and assess the property of such companies for each mile of the line, the value of each mile to be determined by dividing the valuation by the number of miles of such line, but such board shall not assess the value of any property of such company which is not used in connection with the operation of such telegraph or telephone line, and after the making and determination of such assessment the State Auditor shall certify to the county clerk of the counties in which property of any company may be situate, the assessment per mile to be made on the property of such company, specifying the number of miles and the amount in the county, and the county commissioners shall thereupon divide and adjust the number of miles and the amount falling within each school district in their respective counties and cause such accounting to be entered and placed on the list of the taxable property returned by the several assessors, provided that this section shall not be construed to apply to the assessment and acquisition of the property of telegraph and telephone companies in any incorporated town, city or village, and the taxes assessed and levied upon the property by any such company shall be collected at the time and in the manner provided by law for the collection of other taxes. No contract shall be entered into by a city with any individual or company, whereby any exclusive right shal! be given to any such person or company for any purpose whatever except for supplying such city with water or light.

Cities shall have power by ordinance to raise by levy and collect the license tax on any company or business within the limits of the city and regulate the same by ordinance, and may prevent and remove all encroachments upon its streets and public places, and regulate and prevent the use thereof for telegraph or telephone poles and require the wire to be placed underground.