SUPREME COURT.

CHAPTER 77.

AN ACT FIXING THE TIME AND PLACE OF HOLDING THE FIRST AND SUBSE
QUENT TERMS OF THE SUPREME COURT, AND DEFINING ITS DUTIES.

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

SEC. 1. There shall be a term of the supreme court held at the capitol of this territory on the first Monday of May, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy, and thereafter there shall be annually held at the capitol a general term of the supreme court on the first Monday of July.

SEC. 2. If there shall not be a quorum of the justices of the supreme court present on the first day of any term, the court shall stand adjourned from day to day, until a quorum - shall attend; and said court may, there being a quorum present, adjourn to any time deemed proper by the justices. thereof, giving notice of the time to which said court stands adjourned, in a newspaper published at the capitol, the expense of such notice to be paid out of the territorial treasury, like other territorial expenses.

SEC. 3. It shall be competent to notice causes for argument at said adjourned term, the same as though it were. a general term, and the causes thus noticed shall stand for argunment at said adjourned term, the same as though they were on the calendar of the general term.

SEC. 4. It shall be the duty of the supreme court at its first session to prescribe rules of practice for said court, and for the district courts of this territory not inconsistent

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with the organic act or laws of this territory, and when the said rules are promulgated they shall be as binding upon the several courts and the parties practicing and having business therein, as though the same were enactments of the legislative authority of this territory. The supreme court may prescribe forms of process to be used and the regula tions for the keeping of the records and proceedings of the

court.

SEC. 5. All process issued out of the supreme court shall bear test in the name of the chief justice, and be signed by the clerk of the court, sealed with its seal and made returnable according to law or the rules and orders of the court, and shall be executed by the officer to whom the same is directed.

SEC. 6. The opinion of the justices of the supreme court on any matter pending before it, shall be given in writing and filed with the papers in the case, and when the justices are divided in opinion in any case, the fact of division shall be stated in the final order, and the dissenting justice may file his dissenting opinion if he so wish.

SEC. 7. It shall be the duty of the clerk of the supreme court under the supervision of the chief justice or one of the associate justices, in case of the absence of the chief justice, to make a synopsis or syllabus of the different decisions at the end of each term, whether general or adjourned, and cause the same to be published in some newspaper published at the capitol.

SEC. 8. When the number of cases decided in said court shall reach one hundred, it shall be competent for the supreme court to appoint a reporter of its decisions, who shall receive such compensation as shall therefor be prescribed by law.

SEO. 9. All matters, suits and causes undisposed of at any term of the supreme court, shall stand continued to the next succeeding adjourned or regular term.

SEC. 10. No justice of the supreme court shall practice as an attorney in any of the courts of this territory, nor give

advice touching any cause pending, or to be brought therein.

SEC. 11. The seal of the supreme court shall be that of seat. the territory of Wyoming, substituting the words supreme court, Wyoming territory around the vignette of said seal.

SEC. 12. The supreme court shall appoint a clerk thereof, who shall take an oath before one of the justices of said court to support the constitution of the United States, the organic act of the territory of Wyoming, and faithfully discharge the dutics pertaining to the office, and shall give a bond to the territory of Wyoming in such sum as shall be prescribed by the court, which bond shall be for the faithful accounting for all moneys that shall come into his hands as clerk, and for the faithful discharge of his duty, and shall be approved by the chief justice, and filed with the auditor of the territory.

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

Approved, November 29, 1869.

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DISTRIBUTION OF THE LAWS.

CHAPTER 78.

AN ACT TO REGULATE THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LAWS OF WYOMING

TERRITORY.

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

SEC. 1. That the secretary of the territory be, and hereby is authorized to distribute the laws of the territory, as hereinafter prescribed.

SEC. 2. The county clerk of each organized county shall make a requisition on the secretary of the territory for as many copies of the laws as said county may be entitled to, and he shall name the conveyance or means of transportation, and also specify to whom they shall be directed, and

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to whose care, and upon the receipt of such requisition, the secretary shall at once forward the required number of laws as specified in the requisition of such county clerk, and the county clerk shall receipt for the same to the secretary, which receipt shall be filed in the office of the secretary of the territory; Provided, That the county so obtaining laws be at the cost of the carriage of the same.

SEC. 3. The county clerk shall distribute one copy of the laws to each officer of the county or precinct, and one copy to each notary public.

SEC. 4. Each county officer shall deliver up to his successor in office all statutes which shall have come into his possession under the provisions of this act, as soon as his successor shall have qualified.

SEC. 5. The members of each legislative assembly shall be furnished by the secretary at the commencement of each session for which they were elected, with one copy each of the laws of the preceding sessions.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of the secretary upon receiving the laws aforesaid, to notify the county clerk of each and every organized county, that said laws are ready for distribution, and that he can receive the number of copies to which his county is entitled, upon making a requisition for the same.

SEC. 7.

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

Approved, December 10, 1869.

TIME OF TAKING EFFECT OF CERTAIN ACTS.

CHAPTER 79.

ANAOT FIXING THE TIME OF THE TAKING EFFECT OF CERTAIN ACTS
NAMED THEREIN, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatves
of the Territory of Wyoming.

SEC. 1. That all acts passed at the present session of the legislative assembly of the territory of Wyoming which do not provide in the act itself for the taking effect thereof, shall take effect and be in force on and after the eleventh day of December inst., except as provided in the next succeeding section.

SEC. 2. That an act entitled "An act to establish the courts of, and define the jurisdiction of justices of the peace," an act entitled, "An act defining crime and providing for the punishment thereof," An act entitled, "An act to establish a code of civil procedure for the territory of Wyoming," An act entitled, "An act to establish a code of criminal procedure for the territory of Wyoming," shall take effect and be in force on and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy.

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

Approved, 10th December 1869.

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