Settlement. Power of probate court. Puriously mad. Who may make order of confinment. Who to pay expensos. Amount recovered by the Conaty. mismanagement, or disobedience to any lawful order, and appoint others. SEC. 39. Whenever any such guardian shall be removed from his trust, he shall immediately settle his accounts, and render to his succes or the estate and effects of his ward. SEC. 40. The probate court shall have full power to control the guardian of any such insane person or habitual drunkard, in the management of the person and estate, and the settlement of his accounts, and may enforce and carry into execution their orders, sentences and decrees in the same manner as a court of chancery. SEC. 41. If any person, by lunacy or otherwise, shall be furiously mad, or so far disordered in his mind as to endanger his own person or the person or property of others. it shall be the duty of his or her guardian, or other person under whose care he or she may be, and who is bound to provide for his or her support, to confine him or her in some suitable place, until the next sitting of the probate court of the county, who shall make such order for the restraint, support and safe keeping of such person as the circumstances of the case shall require. SEC. 42. If any person, as in the last preceding section is specified, shall not be confined by the person having charge of him, or there be no person having such charge, any judge of a court of record, or any two justices of the peace may cause such insane person to be apprehended, and may employ any person to confine him or her, in some suitable place until the probate court shall make further order therein, as in the preceding section specified. SEC. 43. The expenses attending such confinement shall be paid by the guardian out of his estate, or by the person bound to provide for and support such insane person, or the same shall be paid out of the county treasury. SEC. 44. In all cases of appropriations out of the county treasury, for the support and maintenance, or confinement of any insane person, the amount thereof may be recovered by the county from any person who, by law, is bound to provide for the support and maintenance of such person, if there be any of sufficient ability to pay the same. This act shall take effect and be in force from SBC. 45. and after its passage. Approved, December 9th, 1869. FEMALE SUFFRAGE. CHAPTER 31. AN ACT TO GRANT TO THE WOMEN OF WYOMING TERRITORY THE RIGHT OF Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives Women's SEC. 1. That every woman of the age of twenty-one rights. years, residing in this territory, may, at every election to be holden under the laws thereof, cast her vote. And her rights to the elective franchise and to hold office shall be the same under the election laws of the territory, as those of electors. SRC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, December 10th 1869. COUNCIL AND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. CHAPTER 32. AK ACT APPORTIONING THE TERRITORY OF WYOMING INTO COUNCIL AND Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: legislature. SEC. 1. That hereafter the council of the territory of Number in Wyoming shall consist of nine members, and the house of representatives of thirteen members. SEC. 2. The members of the council and house of tioned. 372 COUNCIL AND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. [CHAP. 32. How appor representatives shall be apportioned among the several counties according to the population thereof, as shall appear by the census of the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, as taken by the Unite 1 States. SEC. 3. It shall be the duty of the members of the present legislature in their respective council and representative districts, between the first and fifteenth days of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, to select one member of the council or house of representatives from each council district, who, when so selected, shall meet at the capitol of the territory between the fifteenth and thirtieth days of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-one, and proceed to apportion the members of the council and house of representatives, as provided by this act. SEC. 4. At the meeting of the persons herein provided for, they shall organize as a "board of apportionment" by selecting one of their members chairman, and some outside person secretary, and shall proceed to apportion among the several counties, the members of the council and house of representatives to be elected at the general election following. SEC. 5. In making such apportionment, the said board shall recognize each county as a council district, and shall divide the whole population of the territory by nine, and give to each county as many members of the council as such county shall contain ninths of the population, and in case of any fraction less than one ninth, the counties having the largest fractions respectively, shall be entitled to the remaining members, the highest fraction being entitled first, and the second next, and so on. SEC. 6. The same course shall be taken by the "board” in apportioning members to the house of representatives as in the council apportionment, except the whole number of the population shall be divided by thirteen, and each county, as representative district, shall be entitled to as many members of the house as such county shall contain thirteenths of the population, and the highest fractions of a thirteenth shall draw after it a member, and should it transpire that one or more counties, because of the fractions, shall get both CHAP. 32.] COUNCIL AND REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICTS. 373 a member of the council and house, it shall then be the duty of the "board" to take from the county having the lowest fraction of one-thirteenth, a member of the house, and such thirteenth man shall be a representative at large for the whole territory. When such appointment shall be made, the original paper showing the same, signed by the members of the "board," and attested by the clerk, shall be filed in the office of the territorial auditor, and a copy thereof certified by the chairman and clerk to be such, shall be sent by some safe conveyance to the county recorder of such county, who shall file the same in his office, and the county board of commissioners, at their first meeting, shall order the same spread upon the records of their "board." SEC. 7. The secretary, in his notices to the sheriffs concerning elections, shall recognize the council and representative districts hereby created, and the number of members of both council and house as apportioned by the "board" hereby created, and shall notify sheriffs accordingly. SEC. 8. The members of the "board" hereby created, shall be entitled to fifteen dollars per day for three days, and ten cents per mile travel each way to attend the meetings. of such "board, to be audited and paid like other accounts against the territory of Wyoming. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, December 10th, 1869. FEES OF OFFICERS. The secretar shali, &c. Pay of "board" CHAPTER 33. AN ACT REGULATING THE FEES OF OFFICERS. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SEC. 1. That the persons and officers herein mentioned shall be entitled to receive for their services the fees herein Clark's fees in district court. Sheriff's fees. allowed, and none others, except as otherwise provided by law. Every writ or process seventy-five cents; indorsing on writ of error, or summons under writ of error that is to operate as a supercedeas, ten cents; filing each paper in a case, ten cents; copy of a record or other paper, per sheet of one hundred words, or if the whole number of words in such copy be less than one hundred. fifteen cents; discontinuance or retraxit, twenty-five cents; bringing a particular record into court, fifty cents; entering satisfaction of record, twenty-five cents; receiving and entering verdict, twentyfive cents; entering defendant's appearance, fifteen cents; entering on docket, twenty-five cents; entering judgmen fifty cents; swearing each witness, constable or baliff, ten cents; making up or entering up a complete record after judgment, per sheet of one hundred words, fifteen cents; searching the record within one year, twenty-five cents; every year back, fifteen cents; continuing cause, fifty cents; every issue joined, fifty cents; entering any principal motion, twenty-five cents; certificate and seal, one dollar; taking and approving every bond, one dollar; making out advertisement for non-resident defendant, one dollar; every hundred words contained in every writing required by law to be done by him, and for which there is no specific allowance, fifteen cents; for recording deed or other writing, where required, per hundred words, fifteen cents; indorsing on supercedeas or writ of error, direction to the clerk of the superior court, twenty-five cents; docketing judgment, fifty cents; issuing fee bills for fees not his own, fifty cents; entering the panel and swearing the jury, fifty cents; entering defendant's confession fifty cents. SEC. 2. For serving a writ and taking into custody, one dollar and twenty-five cents; for every mile traveled in going and returning to serve process, fifteen cents; taking bail, one dollar; returning every writ, twenty-five cents; summoning a jury (with mileage as above), five dollars; executing writ of possession, three dollars; calling a jury in each cause, twenty-five cents; for each person committed to jail, one dollar and twenty-five cents; discharging every |
