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CHAPTER XVII.

OF PAYMENT OF JURORS.

AN ACT providing for the Payment of Jurors.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That hereafter and until the first day of April, A. D. 1886, jurors summoned to attend the district courts of this Territory shall be paid the sum of two dollars per day for each day's actual attendance, and twelve cents per mile one way for the distance necessarily traveled from the place of summons to the place of holding court.

Pay of jurors.

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SEC. 2. The clerk of the district court shall whenever a juror is discharged, issue to him a certificate under Certificate to be the seal of the court stating the name of the juror, and when and where he was summoned, the number of miles necessarily traveled from the place where service of the summons was made to the place of holding court, and the number of days said juror was in actual attendance.

Auditor must issue warrant for

SEC. 3. Upon presentation of said certificate to the auditor of public accounts he shall forthwith audit the same by comparing it with the statement of the clerk, provided payment for in Section 5 of this act, and if found correct and an appropriation has been made for that purpose and is not exhausted, the auditor shall issue his warrant for the proper amount; such warrant shall be redeemed whenever presented for payment at the Territorial treasury out of any money appropriated for that purpose.

Jury fund pro

SEC. 4. The plaintiff in each civil action and the appellant in each civil case appealed to the district court, vided for. shall respectively before his complaint is filed or his appeal is docketed deposit with the clerk of said court the sum of three dollars, which shall be known and designated as the jury fund.

statement of

SEC. 5. The said clerk shall within ten days after the close of each term of the district court, furnish the Clerk to furnish Territorial auditor of public accounts a statement, showing jurors' services. the name of each juror in attendance during the said term of court, when and where he was summoned, the number

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of miles necessarily traveled from the place where service of the summons was made to the place of holding court, and the number of days said juror was in actual attendance. SEC. 6. The said clerk shall, on or before the first Monday of June, 1884, and quarterly thereafter pay into the Territorial treasury all sums of money deposited with him under the provisions of this act, less his fees as hereinafter provided, and shall at the same time furnish the Territorial auditor of public accounts a statement showing the number of cases filed, and appeals docketed since making his last statement, and the title of each case; Provided, That his first statement shall show the cases filed and appeals docketed after the approval of this act.

SEC. 7. The clerk shall receive for his services hire ten per cent. of all sums deposited with him under the provisions of this act, which amount shall be in lieu of all fees for the same service.

SEC. 8. Jurors' certificates for services rendered since
January 1, 1884, and prior to the approval of this act,
shall be redeemed as provided in Section 2, Chapter
XLIX., of the Session Laws of 1882.
Approved March 12, 1884.

CHAPTER XVIII.

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collected.

OF PUBLIC HOUSES.

AN ACT amending "An Act for the Protection of Keepers of Inns, Hotels and Boarding Houses, approved February 15, 1876."

Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That an act entitled "An Act for the protection of the Keepers of Inns, Hotels, and Boarding Houses," approved February 15, 1876, be and is hereby amended by adding thereto the following section:

SEC. 4. Whenever a special agreement shall have been made between the owner of a storage warehouse and parties storing any description of property therein regarding the price for such storage, said property shall be sub

ject to the lien of such storage warehouse owner for charges for freight, storage, insurance, etc., and such storage warehouse owner shall have the right to detain such property until charges are paid, and in case of non-payment of such charges for the period of six months, such storage warehouse owner shall have the right to sell said property so stored, or such part thereof as may be necessary to pay charges. All such sales to be in accordance with the terms and conditions as provided for in Section 3 of this Chapter.

Approved March 12, 1884.

CHAPTER XIX.

OF RICHMOND CITY.

AN ACT amending "An Act incorparating Richmond City in Cache County," approved February 6, 1868.

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Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That Section 1 of an act entitled An Act incorporating Richmond City in Cache County," approved February 6, 1868, be amended so as to read as follows:

Defining

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That all that district of country embraced in the following boundaries in boundaries of. Cache County, to-wit: commencing at the center of Section thirteen (13) Township (14) North, range one East, and running thence due west to Cub River, thence down the main channel of said river to the center line of Section six (6) in Township thirteen (13) North Range one East, thence east on said line to the center of Section one (1), thence due north to the place of beginning, shall be known and designated under the name of Richmond City; and the inhabitants thereof are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic, by the name aforesaid, and shall have perpetual succession, and may have and use a common seal, which they may changerl and alter at pleasure.

Approved March 12, 1884.

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animals to run
at large.

CHAPTER XX.

OF DISEASED ANIMALS.

AN ACT to prevent the importation, selling or running at large of any domestic animal, affected with any infectious or contagious disease.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That it shall not be lawful for the owner of any domestic animal, or any person having the same in charge, knowingly to import or drive into this Territory any animal having any contagious or infectious disease; and any person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

SEC. 2. Any person being the owner of any domestic Penalty for per- animal or having the same in charge who shall turn out or suffer any such domestic animal having any contagious or infectious disease, knowing the same to be so diseased, to run at large upon any uninclosed land, common or highway, or shall sell or dispose of any domestic animal, knowing the same to be so diseased, without fully disclosing the fact to the purchaser, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

Additional

SEC. 3. Any person violating any of the provisions of this act, in addition to the penalties herein provided, penalty for per- shall be liable for all damages that may accrue to the party damaged by reason of said diseased animal imparting disease.

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Approved March. 12, 1884.

CHAPTER XXI.

OF MORTGAGES.

AN ACT in relation to Mortgages of Personal Property.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Governor and Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah: That no mortgage of personal property shall be valid as against the

rights and interests of any person, (other than the parties thereto), unless the possession of such personal property be delivered to, and retained by the mortgagee, or unless the mortgage provide that the property may remain in the possession of the mortgagor, and be accompanied by an affidavit of the parties thereto, or in case any party is absent, an affidavit of the parties present, and of the agent or attorney of such absent party, that the same is made in good faith to secure the amount named therein, and without any design to hinder or delay the creditors of the mortgagor.

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SEC. 2. Every mortgage of personal property shall be witnessed; acknowledged by the mortgagor, or person Acknowledg executing the same, and when the mortgage debt is satisfied shall be released by the mortgagee, in the same manner as is provided for mortgages of real property.

SEC. 3. Every mortgage of personal property, together with the affidavit and acknowledgment thereto, shall, to constitute notice to third parties, be filed for record in the office of the recorder of the county where the mortgagor resides, or, in case he is a non-resident of this Territory, then in the respective offices of the recorders of each and every county where the personal property may be at the time of the execution of the mortgage; and each of such recorders shall, on receipt of such mortgage, endorse thereon the time of filing the same with him, and shall promptly record the same, together with said affidavit and acknowledgment, in a book to be kept in his office, properly indexed and specially provided for the record of chattel mortgages, and when so recorded deliver the same to the mortgagee.

SEC. 4. For his services as provided herein, the recorder shall be entitled to receive the same fees as are provided for like services in case of conveyances of real property.

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corded, to be notice to third

parties, how.

SEC. 5. Any mortgage of personal property ackowledged and filed as hereinbefore provided, shall thereupon, Valid against if made in good faith, be good and valid as against the creditors. creditors of the mortgagor, and subsequent purchasers and mortgagees, from the time it is so filed for record until the maturity of the entire debt or obligation for the security of which the same was given, and for a period of ninety days thereafter; Provided, The entire time shall not exceed one

year.

SEC. 6. Personal property mortgaged may be taken on attachment, if any legal cause for attachment exist, or

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