SALARIES OF JUDGES. CHAPTER 53. An Act Increasing the Salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming, as follows: SEC. 1. That there shall be appropriated out of any Balaries moneys not otherwise appropriated the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, as salaries of the judges of the supreme court. esch. SEC. 2. There shall be paid in the manner and at the How much te times hereinafter provided to the judges of the supreme court the sum of three thousand and five hundred dollars; to the chief justice of the supreme court the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, and to each of the associate justices the sum of one thousand dollars. SEC. 3. The first payment under the provisions of this Act shall be made upon the warrant of the auditor on the first Monday of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and shall be one half of one year's salary, and thereafter the payments shall be quarterly; Provided, that a pro rata amount for an absence from their duties by any of the julges of more than thirty days shall be deducted from the amount of their salary, unless such absence shall be caused by sickness of such judge. SEC. 4. The foregoing provisions of this Act shall not be deemed to apply to the current year, but shall commence on the first day of May next. SEC. 5. This Act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, December 10, 1869. First payment, When to com mence. CONVENING OF THE LEGISLATURE. CHAPTER 54, AN ACT FIXING THE TIME FOR THE CONVENING OF THE COUNCIL AND HOUSA Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives SEC. 1. That the legislature of the territory of Wyoming shall convene at the capitol of the territory, on the first Tuesday of November in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy one, and on the first Tuesday of November every second year thereafter. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passege. Approved, December 10, 1869. COLLECTION OF TAXES. In eases taxes have not been paid. CHAPTER 55. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR THE COLLECTION OF TAXES HERETOFORE ASSESSED Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SEC. 1. In all cases in which the taxes have not been already paid, which were assessed and levied by the board of county commissioners for the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-nine, in the several counties of Laramie, Albany, Carbon and Carter, as heretofore constituted and bounded, the collectors of taxes of said counties in whose. hands the respective warrants for the collection thereof have been delivered for collection, or their successors in office, shall severally proceed to collect the same in the manner pointed out in the act entitled "an act to provide a territorial and county revenue," passed by the legislative assembly of Wyoming territory; Provided, That in all cases in which the franchises, privileges, right of way, road bed, real estate, personal property, or any and all property of any corporation heretofore or now doing business within this territory, shall have been assessed or levied for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, and the same has not been paid, the collector of taxes, after having made demand for the payment of the saine of any agent of said corporation residing in the county in which the assessment or levy of the taxes was made, where no demand of payment has already been made, shall proceed to levy upon, seize, and take into his possession any movable or personal property of said corporation whatsoever to be found in his county, and sell and dispose of the same in the same manner and with the like effect as shall be or is now provided by law for the sale of personal property on execution. Proviso. Collector to sieze property. disposed of. SEC. 2. The said collectors respectively are hereby Property how authorized and empowered to levy upon, seize and take into their possession by repeated levies and seizures, any movable or personal property of such delinquent corporations, wheresoever the same may be found within their county, whether there shall be a subsisting lien of any sort upon said movable or personal property or not, and shall sell and dispose of the same in the manner and with the like effect. to the purchaser or purchasers thereof, as is herein above set forth and provided., The said collectors respectively shall continue to levy upon, seize and take into their possession, the movable or personal property of such delinquent corporation from time to time until the whole amount of all the taxes levied or assessed upon such corporation, its franchises, privileges, right of way, real estate, road bed, Discharged from liens. No ujunction. Posse mitatus. Taxes hereafter levied. personal property, or property of any sort, shall be fully satisfied and paid, together with all costs. SEC. 3. The purchaser or purchasers of said property shall hold or dispose of the same discharged from any and every lien thereon, of every kind and character; and the board of county commissioners of the respective counties wherein the property of such delinquent corporation may be sold, may, in their discretion, purchase said property, or any part thereof, at such sale, and thereafter sell and dispose of the same in such manner as they may deem proper, and shall apply the proceeds of such sale or sales to the purposes for which the levy and assessment severally made. SEC. 4. It shall not be lawful for any judge or court of this territory to grant any order of restraint or order, or writ of injunction to restrain the collection of said taxes by the sale of any property as hereinabove provided, but the officer collecting said taxes shall be liable in damages for any excessive levy to the corporation aggrieved, beyond the amount of the taxes to be collected and the costs of proceeding. SEC. 5. It shall be lawful for the collector seizing upon any property as is above provided, in case resistance shall be made, to summon the posse comitatus or power of the county, to assist him in the execution of his duty, in the same manner as sheriffs of counties as are now, or may be empowered to do in the lawful execution of any process authorized by law. Any person or persons who shall be guilty of resisting the collector in the execution of his duty in the levy or seizure of property, shall upon indictment and conviction, pay a fine not less than one hundred dollars or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding five years, or by both such fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the court. SEC. 6. The provisions of this act as near as may be, shall apply to the collection of taxes hereafter assessed and levied upon the property of any corporation doing business within this territory, except corporations organized for mining or milling purposes. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, December 10, 1869. LEGALIZATION. CHAPTER 56. An Act to Legalize the acts of Leavitt C. Barry in taking Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SEC. 1. That all the acts of Leavitt C. Barry, either in taking acknowledgments of, or recording instruments as deputy notary public or deputy recorder, in what is now Carter county, are hereby declared as binding upon all parties in interest as though the said supposed offices of deputy notary public or deputy recorder had existed in law, and said Barry shall be estopped in law in any proceedings against him growing out of his acts as deputy recorder or deputy notary public, from setting up the non-existence of said office. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved, November 24, 1869. Acts binding, |
