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treasurer of the proper district, and take his receipt therefor. Miscellaneous Provisions.

SEC. 56. It shall be the duty of the teacher of every district school, or graded school, to make out and file with the district clerk, at the expiration of each term of the school, a full report of the whole number of scholars admitted to the school during such term, distinguishing between male and female, the names of such scholars, the number of days each scholar attended the same, the aggregate number of days' attendance of said schools, the text books used, the branches taught and the number of pupils engaged in the study of each of said branches. Any teacher who shall neglect or refuse to comply with the requirements of this section, shall forfeit his or her wages for teaching such school, at the discretion of the district board.

SEC. 57. Every school district clerk or treasurer who shall neglect or refuse to deliver to their successors in office all records and books, belonging severally to their offices, shall be subject to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

SEC. 58. In all cases where suits may be instituted by or against any of the school officers contemplated or created by this title, to enforce any of the provisions herein contained. counsel may be employed, if necessary, by the officer instituting the suit, and the expense of the suit shall be borne by the district, county or Territory in whose name, or against whom, the same may be instituted.

SEC. 59. All fines, peneies and forfeitures provided by this act, may be recovered by action in the name of the people of the Territory of Wyoming, for the use of the proper school district or county, and when they accrue, belong to the respective districts or counties in which the same may have accrued; and the district treasurer for their districts, and the county commissioners of their counties, are hereby authorized to receive and apply the proceeds of such forfeitures as the interest of the permanent fund is now, or may hereafter be applied.

SEC. 60. Any officer or person collecting or receiving any fines, forfeitures or other moneys, and refusing and failing to pay over the same, as required by law, shall forfeit double the

amount so withheld, and interest thereon at the rate of five per cent. per month, during the time of so withholding the

same.

SEC. 61. Every county superintendent shall be paid a s salary of one hundred dollars, payable quarter yearly out of the county treasury, in addition to allowance for expense in purchasing books, stationery &c., necessary to said office, an account of which expense shall be made out by him quarterly, and signed and sworn to, and laid before the county commissioners at their meetings, who after examining the same, if found correct, shall issue on the county treasury, warrants for the amount due.

uperintend ent's salary.

ation.

SEC. 62. In the employment of teachers, no discrimination No discriminshall be made in the question of pay on account of sex when the persons are equally qualified.

SEC. 63. That an act entitled "an act providing for the Repealed. organization of school districts, schools, and for other purposes," being chapter seven of the laws of Wyoming, 1869, approved December 10, 1869, also an act to amend an act entitled "an act providing for the organization of school districts, schools, and for other purposes," which became a law December 14, 1871, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

S. 64. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved December 12, 1873.

MEMORIALS AND RESOLUTIONS.

MEMORIAL

To the Honorable Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior,
Washington, D. C:

stumpage law

Your memorialists, the Legislative Assembly of the Terri- Repeal of tory of Wyoming, respectfully represent: That the people of asked. this Territory pray to be relieved from the burdensome tax imposed under instructions relating to the timber law.

The act of Congress of March 2, 1831, provides for the "punishment of offenses committed in cutting, destroying or removing live oaks and other timber, or trees preserved for naval purposes." The supreme court has decided that this law applies to all classes of timber whether fit for naval purposes or not. The general land office acts under this construction of the law and consequently all the timber on public lands in Wyoming Territory comes within the purview of this statute. The condition of the people in this unsettled region, has been so embarrassing that the Honorable Commissioner, Willis Drummond, has extended to them the same leniency that was extended to the timber cutters of Nevada, in 1864. But the burden of tax imposed as stumpage is still exorbitant and by your memorialists believed to be unjust. The timber law imposes restrictions on settlers in these new Territories which your memorialists believe were unseen and unthought of by the law makers at the period of its enactment, upwards of forty years ago. The importance of a supply of timber from the public lands in Wyoming is plainly manifest when it is considered that the building up and development of this Territory so largely depends on the free enjoyment and use of it. The construction and maintenance of railroads with hundreds of miles of snow sheds and fences, the building of towns, establishment of military posts and settlements, with the necessary supply of fuel, could scarcely have

been accomplished had not the law been made subservient to the necessities of the occasion. Under instructions from the general land office the local officers at Cheyenne have enforced the collection of "stumpage" at the rate of one dollar per thousand feet of lumber, fifteen dollars per thousand railroad ties and fifteen dollars per hundred cords of wood manufactured and procured from timber taken from public lands. This high rate of "stumpage" your memorialists deem not only excessive, but unjust, and amounts to more than ten times the price of public lands from which the timber is taken.

We, your memorialists therefore most earnestly pray for the relief of the people in this Territory, in the matter herein recited, by the reduction of the "stumpage" tax to a nominal sum, or the recommendation to Congress the repeal of the law relative thereto, or so much thereof as may apply to or affect the Territory of Wyoming and thus do we ever pray.

Resolved, That an authenticated copy of this memorial be forwarded by the Honorable Secretary of the Territory to the Honorable Secretary of the Interior.

Resolved, That an authenticated copy of this memorial be forwarded to the Honorable William R. Steele. Representative in Congress, who is hereby requested to aid in obtaining the relief herein prayed for.

Approved December 8, 1873.

Sidney John

MEMORIAL

To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States:

Your memorialists, the Legislative Assembly of Wyoming Son reservation Territory, would respectfully represent, that the reservation made by the War Department, under Sydney Johnson, in the county of Uinta and Territory of Wyoming, for coal purposes, is not now, nor ever has been of any value to the Government as a reservation.

That there are large bodies of timber adjoining said reservation on the south, and that the mines of Utah are dependent on this timber for fuel, lumber and building material generally.