them, provided a strike or lockout has not actually occurred or is not then continuing, to submit the matters in dispute to a local board of arbitration and conciliation as herein provided for, or to the state board. Said state board may if it deems advisable investigate the cause or causes of such controversy, ascertain which party thereto is mainly responsible or blameworthy for the existence or continuance of the same, and may make and publish a report finding such cause or causes and assigning such responsibility or blame. SEC. 10. Witnesses subpoenaed by the state board shall be allowed for their attendance and travel the same fees as are allowed to witnesses in the circuit courts of this State. Each witness shall certify in writing the amount of his travel and attendance, and the amount due him upon approval by the board shall be paid out of the state treasury. SEC. 11. The members of the state board shall receive the actual and necessary expenses incurred by them in the performance of their duties under this act, and the further sum of five dollars a day each for the number of days actually and necessarily spent by them, the same to be paid out of the state treasury. WYOMING. CONSTITUTION. ARTICLE 1.-Rights of labor to be protected. SECTION 22. The rights of labor shall have just protection through laws calculated to secure to the laborer proper rewards for his service and to promote the industrial welfare of the State. ARTICLE 9.-Mine regulations and inspection. SEC. 1. There shall be established and maintained the office of inspector of mines, the duties and salary of which shall be prescribed by law. When said office shall be established, the governor shall, with the advice and consent of the senate, appoint thereto a person proven in the manner provided by law to be competent and practical, whose term of office shall be two years. SEC. 2. The legislature shall provide by law for the proper development, ventilation, drainage and operation of all mines in the State. SEC. 3. No boy under the age of fourteen years and no woman or girl of any age shall be employed or permitted to be in or about any coal, iron or other dangerous mines for the purpose of employment therein; Provided, however, This provision shall not affect the employment of a boy or female of suitable age in an office or in the performance of clerical work at such mine or colliery. SEC. 4. For any injury to person or property caused by willful failure to comply with the provisions of this article, or laws passed in pursuance hereof, a right of action shall accrue to the party injured, for the damage sustained thereby, and in all cases in this State, whenever the death of a person shall be caused by wrongful act, neglect or default, such as would, if death had not ensued, have entitled the party injured to maintain an action to recover damages in respect thereof, the person who, or the corporation which would have been liable, if death had not ensued, shall be liable to an action for damages notwithstanding the death of the person injured, and the legislature shall provide by law at its first session for the manner in which the right of action in respect thereto shall be enforced. SEC. 6. There shall be a state geologist, who shall be appointed by the governor of the State, with the advice and consent of the senate. * ; said state geologist shall ex-officio perform the duties of inspector of mines until otherwise provided by law. * * ARTICLE 10.-"Corporations"-Certain contracts of employees waiving right to damages, void. SEC. 4. No law shall be enacted limiting the amount of damages to be recovered for causing the injury or death of any person. Any contractor agreement with any employee waiving any right to recover damages for causing the death or injury of any employee shall be void. ARTICLE 10.-Cooperative associations. SEC. 10. The legislature shall provide by suitable legislation for the organization of mutual and cooperative associations or corporations. ARTICLE 19.—“ Concerning labor”—Hours of labor. SEC. 1. Eight (8) hours actual work shall constitute a lawful day's work in all mines, and on all state and municipal works. ARTICLE 19.-"Labor on public works"-Citizens of the United States only to be employed. SEC. 1. No person not a citizen of the United States or who has not declared his intention to become such, shall be employed upon or in connection with any state, county or municipal works or employment. SEC. 2. The legislature shall by appropriate legislation see that the provisions of the foregoing section are enforced. ARTICLE 19.-" Boards of arbitration.” SEC. 1. The legislature shall establish courts of arbitration, whose duty it shall be to hear, and determine all differences, and controversies between organizations or associations of laborers, and their employers, which shall be submitted to them in such manner as the legislature may provide. ARTICLE 19.-" Police powers"-Importation of men for police duty prohibited. SEC. 1. No armed police force, or detective agency, or armed body, or unarmed body of men, shall ever be brought into this State, for the suppression of domestic violence, except upon the application of the legislature, or executive, when the legislature can not be convened. ARTICLE 19.-"Labor contracts"-Certain contracts of employees waiving right to damages, void. SEC. 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, company or corporation, to require of its servants or employees as a condition of their employment, or otherwise, any contract or agreement, whereby such person, company or corporation shall be released or discharged from liability or responsibility, on account of personal injuries received by such servants or employees, while in the service of such person, company or corporation, by reason of the negligence of such person, company or corporation, or the agents or employees thereof, and such contracts shall be absolutely null and void. ARTICLE 19.—“ Homesteads"-Exemption from execution, etc.—Homesteads. SEC. 1. A homestead as provided by law shall be exempt from forced sale under any process of law, and shall not be alienated without the joint consent of husband and wife, when that relation exists; but no property shall be exempt from sale for taxes, or for the payment of obligations contracted for the purchase of said premises, or for the erection of improvements thereon. ARTICLE 21.-Territorial laws in force in State. SEC. 3. All laws now in force in the Territory of Wyoming, which are not repugnant to this constitution, shall remain in force until they expire by their own limitation, or be altered or repealed by the legislature. REVISED STATUTES OF 1887-TERRITORIAL. TITLE 7.-Incorporation of assemblies of the Knights of Labor. SECTION 589. Any number of persons, not less than seven, may voluntarily associate themselves together * * SEC. 590. Any such * * * * * * body that may wish to become incorporated shall file in the office of the secretary of the Territory and the office of the register of deeds of the county in which such * * body shall be located, * * * * a certificate in writing, setting forth the name of such and the place where the same shall be held, * or association having filed the certificate required, held a body corporate and politic, * * * * * * * * body, and such * * * body * shall be deemed and SEC. 599. [The above sections] shall be deemed to apply to the order of Knights of Labor and to all or any subordinate or grand lodge or assembly of the Knights of Labor in Wyoming, * * * TITLE 10.-Alien contract labor. SEC. 1075. No contract made for labor or services with any alien or foreigner previous to the time that such alien or foreigner may come into the Territory, shall be enforced within this Territory for any period after six months from the date of such contract. SEC. 1076. Any alien or foreigner who shall hereafter perform labor or services for any person or persons, company, or corporation within this Territory shall be entitled to recover from such person or persons, company or corporation, a reasonable compensation for such labor or services, notwithstanding such person or persons, company or corporation, may have paid any other party or parties for the same; and in actions for the price of such labor or services no defense shall be admitted to the effect that the defendant or defendants had contracted with other parties, who had, or pretended to have, power or authority to hire out the labor or services of such party or parties, or to receive the pay or price for such labor or services. SEC. 1077. Any person, whether he or she, acts for himself or herself, or as agent, attorney or employee for another or others, who shall, in pursuance of, or by virtue of, any contract made with any alien or foreigner, made before such alien or foreigner came into the Territory, receive or offer to receive any money, pay or remuneration for the labor or services of any alien or foreigner, excepting the person so performing such labor or services, shall be deemed guilty of a misde. meanor and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not less than five hundred dollars, and not more than five thousand dollars, and imprisoned in the county jail for not less than three nor more than twelve months, for each and every offense. TITLE 27.-Liens on personal property. SEC. 1469. Any mechanic, artisan, or other person who shall make, alter, repair or bestow labor upon any article of personal property, at the request of the owner or party having possession thereof, or who shall furnish materials from which the same is made or repaired, shall have a lien upon all such articles of personal property, for his reasonable charges for the labor performed, or materials furnished and used in such making, alteration, repair or improvement. SEC. 1472 (as amended by chapter 12, acts of 1888). If any such charges for which a lien is given by the preceding sections be not paid within thirty days after the same become due and payable, the mechanic or other person to whom such lien is given may apply to any justice of the peace of the county wherein he resides, to appoint appraisers to appraise the several articles of personal property on which such lien is claimed. Such justice shall thereupon appoint by warrant, under his hand and seal, three disinterested householders of the county, to appraise such personal property. SEC. 1474. After such appraisement is made, the person to whom such lien is given by the foregoing sections, shall give ten days' prior notice of the time, place, and terms of sale, together with a description of the property to be sold. Such notice shall be personally served upon the owner, or the person from whose possession such property was received, if such owner or person reside within the county; if not, by publication in some newspaper published in the county wherein the person attempting to enforce his lien resides, (or if there be no such newspaper, then by posting in three public places within such county for at least four weeks), and shall transmit by mail to the owner, at his usual place of abode, if known, a copy of such notice, the notice being personally served, or the service being complete after four weeks, the party claiming a lien, may proceed to sell all such personal property, or as much thereof as may be necessary to pay his claim, at public auction, for cash in hand, at any public place within such county, named in such notice, between the hours of ten a. m, and four p. m. of the day appointed; and from the proceeds may pay the reasonable costs of such appraisement, notice, and sale, and his reasonable charges for which he hath his lien. The residue of the property unsold, he shall surrender unto the owner. SEC. 1475. No such sale shall be made for less than two-thirds of the appraised value of the article sold, nor except upon due notice, as required by the preceding section. Every such sale made in violation of the provisions of this section, shall be absolutely void. SEC. 1476. At any such sale, the person to whom such lien is given, may become the purchaser. SEC. 1478. Nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to take away the right of action of the party to whom such lien is given for his charges, or for any residue thereof after sale of such property. SEC. 1482. No mortgage on personal property shall be valid as against the rights and interest of any person entitled to a lien under the provisions of this law. SEC. 1483. All lien claims for labor performed in cutting or manufacturing railroad cross ties, wood, poles or lumber, or for doing any labor in reference thereto, shall be concurrent liens upon the same, and shall be paid, pro rata, out of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, if the same shall be sold. SEC. 1484. Persons entitled to a lien for labor performed in cutting or manufacturing any railroad cross ties, wood, poles or lumber, shall not be required to identify any particular tie or ties, or sticks, poles or boards, but may maintain their lien against any or all that class of property owned and held by the person or persons from whom their pay for such labor is due, and may seize and sell the same as provided in this chapter. SEC. 1485. No lien upon personal property shall be valid as against an innocent and bona fide purchaser, unless the person having the right of such lien shall notify said purchaser before he makes payment for such property, of the existence of such lien, in which case, the purchaser shall be responsible to the person having such lien claim against said property, for the full amount of his claim, and all legitimate costs and expenses, and payment made on such lien claim shall apply on payment for such personal property. SEC. 1486. Every miner or other person, who, at the request of the owner of any ledge or lode of quartz-bearing gold, silver, cinnabar or copper, or of any coal bank or mine, shall work in or upon such mine or bank, shall have a lien upon such vein or lode, mine or bank, to the amount due at any time when a demand shall be made upon such owner, or his or their agent for money due for such labor, and payment shall be refused. SEC. 1487. Any person who shall, labor as a mechanic, or otherwise, or who shall furnish timber, lumber, rope, nails, or any other material for timbering shafts or levels for the mine, or who shall furnish any kind of materials for erecting windlass, whim, or other hoisting apparatus upon any vein, mine or coal bank, referred to in the preceding section, shall also have a lien upon the mine or coal bank for which he furnished such materials, or upon which he performed such labor. SEC. 1488. The party seeking a lien shall proceed, so far as the proceedings are applicable, in the same manner, to enforce a lien as by law required in the case of mechanics and other persons seeking to enforce a lien upon dwelling houses and other buildings, except when other provisions are made by this chapter. SEC. 1489. When any sum, exceeding ten dollars, for labor performed by any miner, or other person, upon, or in, any mine or coal bank specified in this chapter, shall be due and unpaid for ten days, it shall be competent for the person or persons to whom such sum of money shall be due, to file a notice in the office of the county clerk in the county where such mine is situated, at any time within thirty days after the last day upon which work was done by him; which said notice shall in substance set forth the fact that the party performed labor (naming the kind), for a party or company (naming the party or company) that such labor was performed under a contract (stating the substance); also, the time when the party commenced and when he ceased to work, the amount still due and unpaid, together with a description of the mine or coal bank upon which such work was performed, which statement shall be verified by the affidavit of the party so filing it, and when filed, the county clerk shall record the same in a lien book," the same as required in the case of mechanics' notices of liens. SEC. 1490. The provisions of the next preceding section shall apply to persons who shall furnish materials or work upon any shaft, whim or other hoisting works, who, by complying with the general provisions of such section, shall have a like lien. SEC. 1491. When notices, as provided in the next two preceding sections, shall be filed, the lien shall hold, not only against the owner of the mine or bank from the time when the miner or other person began work, but against all persons or company who shall have purchased such mine or coal bank while such miner or other person was employed therein, or furnished materials used therein or thereon. SEC. 1492. Suit to enforce such lien may be commenced at any time within one year after filing such notice. SEC. 1493. Any owner of any oil well or spring, who shall employ any person to perform any work of any kind around, or about, any oil well or spring, either in building derricks, buildings, or any kind of machinery, or in boring or drilling, shall be deemed within the provisions of this chapter; and all persons performing labor or furnishing materials, shall have like liens upon oil territory upon which he labored or for which he furnished materials or the improvements thereon, as miners or other laborers upon, or in, mines as provided in this chapter and shall proceed in the same manner to enforce a lien. SEC. 1494. Every miner or other person doing or performing any work or furnishing any material, as specified in this chapter, under a contract or agreement, express or implied, between the owner or owners thereof, or his or their agent, whether such work shall be performed or material furnished as miner, laborer, subcontractor or otherwise, whose demand for work so done or materials so furnished has not been paid, may deliver to the owner or owners of such mine or his or their agent an attested account of the amount and value of the work and labor thus performed or the material thus furnished and remaining unpaid, and thereupon such owner or owners, or his or their agent, shall retain out of his subsequent payments to the contractors the amount of such work and labor or material furnished for the benefit of the person so performing or furnishing the same. SEC. 1495. Whenever any account of labor performed or material furnished, as referred to in the preceding section, shall be placed in the hands of the owner or owners of any mine or his or their agent, as above stated, it shall be the duty of such owner or owners or his or their agent to furnish his or their contractor with a copy of such papers, so that if there be any disagreement between such contractor and his creditor they may by amicable adjustment or by arbitration ascertain the true sum due, and if the contractor shall not, within ten days after the receipt of such papers, give the owner or owners or his or their agent written notice that he intends to dispute the claim, or if for ten days after giving notice he shall refuse or neglect to have the matter adjusted as aforesaid, he shall be considered as assenting to the demand, and the owner or owners or his or their agent shall be justified in paying the same when it becomes due. SEC. 1496. The amount which may be due from any contractor to his creditor may be recovered from said owner or owners or his or their agent by the creditor of said contractor, in an action at law to the extent in value of any balance due by the owner or owners or his or their agent, to his or their contractor, under the contract with him at the time of the notice just given as aforesaid, or subsequently according to such contract or under the same. SEC. 1497. Any person entitled to a lien under this chapter shall make an account in writing of the items of labor, skill, machinery and material furnished, or either of them, as the case may be; and after making oath thereto, shall, within sixty days from the time of completing such labor and skill, or furnishing the last item of such machinery or material, file the same in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the ledge, lead or lode, or bank may be situated, for which such labor, skill, machinery or material shall have been furnished, and shall also file at the same time a correct description of the property to be charged with said lien, which account and description of said property, so made and filed, shall be recorded in a separate book to be provided for that purpose, and shall, for the time of the completion of the work, or furnishing material, and for one year thereafter, operate as a lien on the several descriptions of ledges, leads, lodes, mines or banks named in section fourteen hundred and eighty-six; when any labor has been done, or labor furnished, on a written contract, the same, or a copy thereof, shall be filed with the account herein required to be filed; Provided, That all lien claims for labor performed or material furnished shall be concurrent liens upon the same, and shall be paid pro rata out of the proceeds arising from the sale thereof, if the same shall be sold. SEC. 1498. Every person holding such lien may proceed to obtain a judgment for the amount of his account thereon, by civil action, and when any suit or suits shall be commenced on such accounts within the time of such lien, the lien shall continue until such suit or suits be finally determined and satisfied, and in all actions instituted under this chapter, all persons claiming liens upon the property sought to be affected, shall be made parties to such action or proceeding; and the rights of all parties to such action shall be determined by the court and such order made therein as shall preserve and protect the rights of all such parties under the provisions of this chapter. SEC. 1502. The provisions of this chapter shall apply to iron mines, so far as the same may be applicable, and to all mines not herein specified, within this Territory. SEC. 1503. The suits or actions provided for by this chapter shall be brought in the county in which the lien provided for by this chapter is filed or recorded. SEC. 1504. When the owner or owners of the mine upon which the lien is filed, being a person or persons, shall reside out of the Territory, or being a corporation shall have its place of business outside the Territory and it shall be impossible to |