cutting or manufacturing any railroad cross ties, wood, poles, Jumber, &c., 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 of 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 act. against an in chaser, unless SEC. 16. No lien upon personal property shall be valid as Lies not valid against an innocent and bona fide purchaser, unless the person noe en purhaving the right of such lien shall notify said purchaser etc. 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. 17. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved December 13, 1878. CHAPTER XLIV. An Act to allow the School Boards of Districts Nos. 1 and 3 of Carbon County, to transfer a portion of the Teachers' Fund to the School House Fund of said Districts. Be it Enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: teachers fond. SECTION 1. That the school board of district number one, May transfer a of Carbon county, may transfer a portion of the teachers' f fund of said district to the school house fund, the amount not to exceed seven hundred dollars in the aggregate; Provided, They use the sum within one year, for the purpose of erecting and furnishing a school house at Carbon, in Carbon county. etc. SEC. 2. That the school board of district number three, May of Carbon county, may transfer a portion of the teachers' fund of said district to the school house fund. The amount transfer. In force. of teachers' fund so transferred shall not exceed one thousand dollars; Procided, That the school board of district number three shall apply the same within one year, to the erection and furnishing of a school house at Rawlins, in Carbon county. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved November 22, 1873. CHAPTER XLV. Board of inureigration. Board shall meet first Mon The first meet before the first ruary.. An Act to establish a Board of Immigration, and for other Be it Enacted by the Council and House of Representatives SECTION 1. That the Governor be and is hereby authorized to appoint, by and with the consent of the Council, a commissioner of immigration, who, together with the Governor and the president of the board of county commissioners of each county, shall constitute a board of immigration, any four of whom shall constitute a quorum to transact business. SEC. 2. That said board of immigration shall meet on the day of October. first Monday of October of each year, at the office of the com-missioner of immigration, or elsewhere, as called by the Governor, to make rules and regulations for the government of the commissioners of immigration, and to do all other acts; which they may deem best to promote the object of this act. in shail be Provided, That the first meeting of said board of immigration. Monday of Feb- shall be called by the Governor, to meet at the capital or some other town or city of the Territory, on or before the first Monday of February, 1874, and Provided further, That the commissioner of immigration shall be secretary of said board of immigration and the members of said board shall elect one of their number president of said board, who shall preside at all meetings of the board, and who shall be authorized to call special meetings of the board when the interests of the Territory shall demand it; Provided further, That said board of Special sessions. debts. immigration shall not under any consideration involve the Ter- shall not create ritory in any indebtedness or expense, in amount exceeding the sum appropriated by this act. commissioner Sec. 3. That the commissioner of immigration shall devote Duties of the at least one half of his time to the duties of his office. He of immigration shall, as secretary of said board of immigration keep a record of all the proceedings of such board. He shall keep a book or books, in which shall be entered all moneys expended, and for what purposes expended. He shall for the purpose of encouraging and directing immigration to the Territory, from time to time, under the direction of said board, publish and disseminate such useful information as he can obtain concerning the developed and undeveloped resources of the Territory, and in pamphlets or circulars for distribution he shall set forth the opportunities for agriculture and grazing in the Territory, and the estimated profits of such branches of business, the situation of the iron and coal lands, the opportunities for coal mining and the manufacturing of iron, and he shall call attention to the regions in which oil has been discovered, and the sections of the Territory where the precious metals have been discovered, and to what extent they are mined, and with what profit; and he shall give such other information as shall tend to promote the objects of this act. He shall correspond with all persons seeking information concerning the Territory, with persons organizing colonies to settle in the west, and with persons engaged in Europe in inducing immigration to the United States, with a view to induce settlements within the Territory. He shall make arrangements with railroad, packet and stage companies, to obtain a low rate of fares for those desiring to settle within the Territory, and do all other acts not inconsistent with this act which may tend to increase the population and wealth of the Territory, and develop the resources of the Territory. That the commissioner of immigration shall solicit contributions of specimens of minerals, ores, fossils, petrifactions and other curiosities found within the Territory for the Centennial Exhibition, to be held in the city of Philadelphia, during the year 1876, and the said commissioner shall preserve all articles so contributed, in is office, until needed for such exhibition, and such other acts as He shall collect and compile etc. may be directed by said board of immigration not inconsistent with this act. SEC. 4. The commissioner of immigration shall collect and for publicat a, compile for publication in a biennial report to the Legislature in such form as the board of immigration shall judge best, and necessary to aid the objects of the board, all statistics and facts relating to the character and resources of the Territory, the amount of money received and expended, and an abstract of the proceedings of the said board for the preceding two years, and all other information which may be of interest to the Territory, and calculated to subserve the designs of this County Commissners may tary. act. SEC. 5. The board of county commissioners of each county appoint secre may appoint a corresponding secretary, when they deem it to the interest of their county, whose duty it shall be to inform the commissioner of immigration as to the resources of his county, Provided, The compensation of such a secretary shall not exceed fifty, (50) dollars per annum, which shall be paid out of the county treasury on order of the board of county commissioners. County inimi- SEC. 6. That the said board of immigration shall, as much as possible, encourage and try to effect the organization of county immigration societies, to co-operate with the board in aid of immigration. SEC. 7. That the said commissioner of immigration shall hold his office for the term of two years, Provided, That the commissioners of immigration who shall be appointed during this session of the Legislative Assembly, shall enter upon his Term of office. duties on the first day of January, A. D. 1874, and his term of office shall expire on the first Monday of November, 1875, or as soon thereafter as his successor is duly appointed and qualified; Provided further, That the commissioner of immigration shall before entering upon the duties of his office, take the oath required of Territorial officers, and shall execute a bond to the Territory in the penal sum of five thousand. ($5,000) dollars, conditioned to faithfully perform the duties required by his appointment and this act, which said bond shall be approved by one of the judges of the supreme court, and filed with the Territorial treasurer. SEC. 8. The presidents of the boards of county commis- Salaries. sioners shall receive for their services the sum of five ($5.00) dollars per day for each day actually engaged in meetings of the board of immigration, and all moneys actually and necessarily expended in traveling to and from such meetings. SEC. 9. The commissioner of immigration shall receive a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, which shall be paid quarterly out of the Territorial treasury. dollars appro SEC. 10. That the sum of two thousand dollars be, and Two thousand the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys not other- priated. wise appropriated for the purpose of paying the salary of the commissioner of immigration for the term of two years, and that the sum of two thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated for defraying the expenses incidental to the operations. of said board, Provided, That said board shall not expend exceeding one-half of said appropriation during the first year. That the auditor of the Territory is hereby directed to draw his warrant or warrants on the Territorial treasury to pay the vouchers which may be certified as correct by said board of immigration, which warrants shall be marked "immigration fund,” Provided, that the amount of such warrants shall not exceed in any one year the amount specified by this section. of this act. SEC. 11. This act shall take effect on and after its pass- In force. age. Approved December 9, 1873. CHAPTER XLVI. An Act to Incorporate Laramie City. Be it Enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SECTION 1. That all that portion of the Territory of Wyoming situate on the Big Laramie river, in the county of Albany, near where the Union Pacific railroad crosses the same, laid out and platted as a town site by the Union Pacific |