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CHAPTER 52.

Carrying weapons within city, town or village limits, prohibited.

Nonresident

tified.

AN ACT to Prevent the Carrying of Fire Arms and Other Deadly Weapons.

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

SECTION. 1. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any resi-
dent of
any city, town or village, or for any one not a resident of
any city, town or village, in said Territory, but a sojourner
therein, to bear upon his person, concealed or openly, any fire
arm or other deadly weapon, within the limits of any city, town or
village.

SEC. 2. That if any person not a resident of any town, city or to be first no- village of Wyoming Territory, shall, after being notified of the existence of this act by a proper peace officer, continue to carry or bear upon his person any fire arm or other deadly weapon, he or she, shall be deemed to be guilty of a violation of the provisions of this act and shall be punished accordingly.

Violation

demeanor.

Penalty.

of

SEC. 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act this act a mis- shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars nor more than fifty dollars, and, in the default of the payment of any fine which may be assessed against him, shall be imprisoned in the county jail for not less than five days nor more than twenty days. SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

In force.

Approved, December 2nd, 1875.

CHAPTER 53.

PREVENTION OF FIRE.

AN ACT to Prevent the Firing of Woods and Marshes.

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

woods. etc.

SECTION 1. If any person shall wilfully set on fire any woods, Person firing marshes or prairies, so as thereby to occasion any damage to any fined and imother person, such person shall, upon conviction thereof, pay a sum prisoned. not exceeding five hundred dollars, nor less than fifty dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail not more than three months, nor less than fifteen days, and said fine shall go to the school fund of the county in which said offense is committed, and in case of the neglect or refusal of any person so convicted to pay the fine above specified, he shall be confined in the county jail one day for every three dollars thereof, until said fine be discharged.

party injured.

SEC. 2. If any person shall set on fire any woods, marshes or Satisfaction to prairies so as thereby to occasion damage to any other person, such person shall make satisfaction for such damages to the party injured, to be recovered in an action.

SEC. 3. Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to any May fire on person who may in the months of March and April, set fire to the his own lands. grass upon his own land, or upon public lands unclaimed or unoccupied, which fire he shall keep within proper control, and prevent it from doing injury or doing damage to the property of others.

SEC. 4. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to Firing against prevent any persons from firing against fire, so as to protect his or

her property from being destroyed.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved, November 23, 1869.

fire.

CHAPTER 54.

Sheriff

appoint

may

FIRE-WARDENS.

AN ACT to provide Fire-Wardens for Unincorporated Cities aud Villages.

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

SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the sheriff of any county in ficemen, when the Territory of Wyoming, to appoint one or more policemen for any city, town or village which is unincorporate, when requested to do so by the county commissioners of the county in which such Appointed po- town or city be located. The policemen so appointed shall be, officio, fre- ex officio, fire-wardens of the unincorporated cities, towns, or vilwardens. lages for which they [are] acting as policemen.

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Duty of fire-
Wardens.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the said fire-wardens to go, in the day time, and examine all houses, buildings or superstructures within the city, town or village where they are acting as said firewardens and policemen, and ascertain from personal examination the condition of all chimneys, stove-pipes, stove-flues, ranges, grates, furnaces, or other articles, or anything used in said houses, buildings, or superstructures in which to hold fire, or to conduct the smoke from any fire, and when any such articles, or the fixtures thereto, are found to be defective in make or material, or so situated as to endanger any of the property of any of the inhabitants thereof, to loss from fire by, or on account of, any of said defects, then the said fire-wardens shall in writing notify the owner or occupant of said house, building or superstructure where such defective chimney, flue, or stove-pipe, or other article, is situated, to repair the same so as to prevent danger from fire to the property in said city, town, or village; and said fire-wardens shall, also, direct the manner in which said repairs shall be made. Said firewardens shall, also, under the direction of the chief engineer of the fire department, when there is one, and when there is no chief engineer of a fire department in a city, town or village, then, under the direction of the sheriff, [shall] examine streets, alleys, out-lots, and the surrounding of houses and buildings in such town, city, or village where he is acting as such fire-warden, and Fire warden direct the removal, by the owner of the premises, of any inflamshall direct re- mable matter or material found thereon, and generally to perform flamable ma- such duties as directed by the sheriff of the county, or the chief of the fire department in the city, town, or village, to fully protect the property of such city, town or village, from loss by conflagration.

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SEC. 3. Any person who shall, after being notified by the fire- Failure or rewarden to repair any defective chimney, flue, furnace, range, oven, ply with writstove-pipe, or fixture therewith connected, so as to prevent the ident same from endangering the property of said city, town or village, from destruction or loss by fire, [who shall] neglect or refuse, for a longer time than twenty-four hours after notice in writing to repair the same, to comply with the order and direction of said fire-warden, and shall fail or refuse to make the required repairs, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be fined in any sum not less than twenty-five dollars, and not Penalty. to exceed one hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution in the case.

comply with

demeanor.

SEC. 4. When said fire-warden shall order the removal of any Failure to dangerous or inflammable material from the premises of any person, order of firea failure to comply or remove the same upon the part of the warden, a mis. owner, occupant, [or] agent of the premises where said dangerous or inflammable material is situated, for the period of forty-eight hours after notice in writing from said fire-warden, to remove the same from the limits of the city, town, or village, so as to prevent danger therefrom, shall be guilty of [constitute] a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, [the person so failing] shall be fined Penalty. in any sum not less than ten dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars, together with the costs of prosecution, and shall also be directed to remove said dangerous or inflamable article or articles, or that the same shall be removed by the said fire-warden at the expense of said defendant, in case the defendant neglects to remove the same for one day after being notified by the justice of the peace, or other officer, so to do.

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SEC. 5. The fire-warden shall be allowed a fee of five dollars in Fees of fireeach conviction, in addition to other costs, to be collected from the warden. defendant; in addition to the other duties herein required of fire- Addition'l duwardens, they, or either of them, shall, upon view or information, wardens. give the board of county commissioners of their county notice of any nuisance existing under the laws of this Territory in the respective cities, towns or villages, as well as any other matter injurious to the health or dangerous to the life or limbs of any person or persons in such city, town or village, including all cellars and other excavations, as may be dangerous to persons as aforesaid.

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SEC. 6. Said board of county commissioners, upon receiving County comnotice as aforesaid, or upon personal knowledge, shall have power powered to ato, and are hereby authorized to, abate any such nuisances at the bate expense of the person or persons, either by causing the same to be removed, or by filling up or boarding around such excavations, as the case may be; Provided, That said commissioners shall first Proviso. notify the person, or persons aforesaid, to abate such nuisances.

SEC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from and In force. after its passage.

Approved, December 11th, 1875.

CHAPTER 55.

Fiscal year

commences October 1.

Officers shall

FISCAL YEAR.

AN ACT to Establish the Date of the Commencement of the Fiscal Year of Wyoming
Territory.

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

SECTION 1. That the fiscal year for all departments of the Territorial government of Wyoming shall commence on the first day of October in each year, and the several officers of the Territory, required by law to make reports of the condition and operations of their respective departments, shall commence their reports on that day, and close them on the next day preceding.

SEC. 2. That all Territorial officers required by law to report make report. the condition of their respective departments, shall hereafter make a report between the first and fifteenth day of October in each year, up to and including the thirtieth day of June next preceding, to the Governor of the Territory, which said reports the Governor shall cause to be published in at least one newspaper in each county of the Territory in which a newspaper may be published, and that said publication shall be made by at least three insertions in each paper as aforesaid.

In force.

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

Approved, December 11th, 1873.

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