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SEC. 4. The compiled laws shall be bound and published in one and workm'n eight-vo: volume: The text in small pica type; the marginal notes and index, in nonpareil, all new. They shall be printed on a good quality of book paper, and substantially bound in law sheep, The volume when finished shall be equal in quality, material and workmanship to a specimen to be selected by the committee and left with the secretary of the Territory, and the words, "Property of Wyoming" shall be stamped on the back of each book, under the title.

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per page.

SEC. 5. The secretary of the Territory shall, immediately after printing the passage of this act, advertise in at least three newspapers, giv ing not less than ten days' notice of [for] sealed proposals for printing, per page, and delivering to the said secretary two thous and copies of said compiled statutes, as provided in section four Awarded to in this act. The secretary, together with the superintendent, shall the lowest and award the work to the person or persons whose propositions shall be by them considered the lowest and best, and the secretary of the Territory shall enter into a contract with such person or persons for performing the work in accordance with the terms proposed in this act; Provided, That the aforesaid compiled statutes shall be printed in this Territory.

besi bidder.

Proviso.

Where and when to be delivered.

SEC. 6. The said compiled statutes shall be delivered at the seat of government of this Territory within three months after the contract is entered into, and proposals for furnishing said statutes shall guarantee the time in which it shall be completed, and the secretary and superintendent shall consider the shortest time as well as the lowest price in awarding the contract. The secretary is hereby authorized to receive said statutes and deliver Canceling the to said contractor a receipt for the same, and cancel his bond, upon contractor. the completion and delivery of the entire two thousand copies, as before provided, upon the presentation of the receipt of the superintendent that they are so delivered, and shall immediately deliver a sworn statement of the entire account, in accordance with the contract price, to the auditor of the Territory, who shall audit the same, and draw his warrant upon the treasurer of the Territory therefor.

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to furnish the

Copy to contractor.

The Secretary SEC. 7. The secretary of the Territory is hereby authorized and the directed to furnish to the contractor the copy for the same as rapidly as it can be prepared, from day to day, as the saine is deposited in his office, together with the constitution of the United States, the organic act of this Territory, the Declaration of Independence, and such United States laws as shall be thought best by the aforesaid judiciary committee.

Appropriat'n.

Take effect.

SEC. 8. There is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Territorial treasury a sum of money sufficient to pay all warrants drawn in accordance with the provisions of the preceding sections of this act.

SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, December 11, 1875.

CHAPTER 33.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

AN ACT to Prevent the Spread of Contagious Diseases.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Terri.

tory of Wyoming :

eases.

SECTION 1. Any person who shall knowingly have or use about Infectious or his premises, or, who shall convey or cause to be conveyed into contagio's disany neighborhood, any clothing, bedding or other substance, used by, or in taking care of, any person afflicted with the small pox or other infectious or contagious disease, or infected thereby, or shall do any other act with intent to, or necessarily tending to, the spread of such disease, into any neighborhood or locality, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction, shall be fined in any sum not more than five hundred dollars, or impris- Punishment. oned in the county jail not exceeding six months, or by both fine and imprisonment; and the court trying any such offender, may also include in any judgment rendered, an order to the effect that the clothing or other property infected be burned or otherwise destroyed, and shall have power to carry such order into effect.

SEC. 2. Any person guilty of violating the provisions of section Liable in civil one of this act, in addition to the penalties herein prescribed, shall action. be liable in a civil action in damages to any and all persons, who may, from that cause, become infected with such contagious disease; said damages shall be so assessed as to include, in addition to other damages, all expenses incurred by reason of such sickness, loss of time and burial expenses; and such action may also be maintained by the representative of any deceased person. Approved, November 26, 1869.

CHAPTER 34.

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CORPORATIONS.

AN ACT to Create and Regulate Corporations.

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

TITLE I.

SECTION 1. At any time hereafter, any three or more persons who may desire to form a company for the purpose of carrying on any kind of manufacturing, mining, chemical, merchandising or mechanical business; construct wagon roads, railroads, telegraph lines, dig ditches, build flumes, run tunnels, or carry on any branch of business designed to aid in the industrial or productive interests of the country, may make, sign, and acknowledge before some officer competent to take the acknowledgment of deeds, duCertificate, plicate certificates in writing, in which shall be stated the corpowhat it must rate name of said company, and the object for which the company shall be formed, the amount of capital stock of the said company, the term of its existence, not to exceed fifty years, the number of shares of which the said stock shall consist, the number of trus tees, and their names, who shall manage the concerns of the said company for the first year, and the name of the town and county in which the operations of the said company shall be carried on, and shall file one of said certificates in the office of the county clerk of each county wherein the business of the company is to be carried on, and one thereof in the office of the secretary of the Territory. The county clerk shall record said certificate in a book kept by him in his office for that purpose.

Certificate to be evidence.

SEC. 2. When the certificate shall have been filed as aforesaid, with the secretary of the Territory, he shall record and carefully preserve the same in his office, and a copy thereof duly certified by the secretary of the Territory, under the great seal of the Territory of Wyoming, shall be evidence of the existence of such company; and the persons who shall have signed and acknowledged the same, and their successors shall be a body politic and corporate, in fact and in name, by the name stated in such certificate, and by that name have succession, and shall be capable of sueing and be ing sued in any court of law or equity in this Territory, and they and their successors may have a common seal, and may make or alter the same at pleasure, and they shall, by their corporate name, be capable in law of acquiring by purchase, pre-emption,

donation or otherwise, and holding or conveying by deed or otherwise, any real or personal estate whatever, which may be necessary to enable the said company to carry on their operations named in the certificate.

SEC. 3. Any certificate hereafter filed and recorded under the one or more provisions of this article, may designate one or more places where places to carry the company may carry on its business.

on business.

of business.

SEC. 4. If any company shall be formed under this article for Princip'l pl'ee the purpose of carrying on any part of its business in any place outside of this Territory, the certificate shall so state, and shall also state the name of the town and county in which the principal part of the business of said company, within this Territory, is to be transacted, and said town and county shall be deemed the town, place and county in which the operations and business of the company are to be carried on, and its principal place of business, within the meaning and provisions of this article.

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SEC. 5. The stock, property and concerns of such company Trustees, who shall be managed by not less than three, nor more than nine and how chotrustees, who shall respectively be stockholders in said company, and who shall (except the first year) be annually elected by the stockholders, at such time and place as shall be directed by the by-laws of the company; and public notice of the time and place of holding such elections shall be published not less than ten days previous thereto, in the newspaper printed nearest to the place where the operations of the said company shall be carried on, and the election shall be made by such of the stockholders as shall attend for that purpose, either in person or by proxy, provided one-half the stock is represented; all elections shall be by ballot, and each stockholder shall be entitled to as many votes as he owns shares of stock in the said company, and the persons receiving the greatest number of votes shall be trustees; and when any vacancy shall happen among the trustees, by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be filled for the remainder of the year, in such manner as shall be provided by the by-laws of the said company. SEC. 6. In case it should happen at any time that an election Failure to el'ct of trustees shall not be made on the day designated by the by-laws nated." of said company, when it ought to have been made, the company for that reason shall not be dissolved, but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold an election for trustees, in such manner as shall be provided for by the said by-laws, and all acts of trustees shall be valid and binding as against such company, until their successors shall be elected.

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SEC. 7. There shall be a president of the company, who shall omcers. be designated from the number of trustees, and also such subordinate officers as the company, by its by-laws, may designate, who may be elected or appointed, and required to give such security for the faithful performance of the duties of their offices as the company, by its by-laws, may require.

SEC. 8. It shall be lawful for the trustees to call in and demand Payments. from the stockholders respectively, all such sums of money by them subscribed, at such time, and in such payments or instalments as the trustees shall deem proper, not to exceed ten per cent. in any one month, under the penalty of forfeiting the shares

By-laws, by whom made.

Stock, personal estate.

of stock subscribed for, and for all previous payments made. thereon, if payment shall not be made by the stockholders within sixty days after a personal demand, or notice requiring such payment, shall have been published for six successive weeks in the newspaper nearest the place where the business of the company shall be carried on as aforesaid.

SEC. 9. The stockholders of such corporation, or the trustees, if the certificate of incorporation so provide, shall have power to make by-laws as they shall deem proper for the management and disposition of the stock and business affairs of such company, not inconsistent with the laws of this Territory, and prescribing the duties of officers, artificers and servants that may be employed, for the appointment of all officers, and for carrying on all kinds of business within the objects and purposes of such company.

SEC. 10. The stock of such company shall be deemed personal estate, and shall be transferable in such manner as shall be prescribed by the by-laws of the company, but no shares shall be transferable until all previous calls thereon shall have been fully paid in, or shall have been declared forfeited for the non-payment Company not of calls thereon, and it shall not be lawful for such company to use any of their funds for the purchase of any stock in any other corporation, nor for the purchase of stock in their own company or corporation, in the corporate name, nor shall such company or corporation acquire or hold any stock or share therein, except such as may be forfeited for the non-payment of assessment thereon.

to purchase stock.

Copy of any certificate, evidence.

Stockholders

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SEC. 11. The copy of any certificate of incorporation filed and recorded in pursuance of this article, certified by the secretary of the Territory, under the great seal of the Territory of Wyoming, to be a true copy, and the whole of such certificate shall be received in all courts and places as prima facie evidence of the facts therein stated.

SEC. 12. All the stockholders of every company incorporated under the provisions of this article, shall be severally, individually liable to the creditors of the company in which they are stockholders, to the amount of unpaid assessments on capital stock held by them respectively, and to no other or further amount, for all debts and contracts made by such company, until the whole amount of assessments on capital stock, fixed and limited by the trustees, shall be paid in, and the assessment on capital stock as fixed and limited by the trustees shall all be paid in, ten per cent. thereof within one year, and the balance shall be payable in instalments, as shall be required by the trustees, who shall give six weeks notice, by publication, of the time and place for the payment of the same.

SEC. 13. The trustees of such company may purchase mines, manufactories and other property necessary for their business, and issue stock to the amount of the value thereof in payment therefor, and the stock so issued shall be declared and taken to be full stock, and not liable to any further calls, neither shall the holders thereof be liable to any further payments under the provisions of the tenth section of this article, but in all statements and reports of the company, this stock shall not be stated or reported

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