SEC. 34. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees herein provided for, to settle with the present officers of the city of Cheyenne, and receive from them all moneys, accounts, books or other evidence of value, together with all property of every kind belonging to said city, and to make a statement for publication of the financial condition of the city from its earliest organization to the present time, and for this purpose the board of trustees shall have the right to employ two or more competent accountants, who shall be allowed for their services such sum or sums of money as the board of trustees shall deem reasonable, to be paid out of the city treasury. SEC. 35. The board of trustees shall also have power, if in their opinion necessary, to employ three competent persons to prepare for said city a collection of ordinances, which shall be styled, "Ordinances of the city of Cheyenne,” and which collection shall contain all the ordinances then in force in said city; but before any ordinance in said collection shall become a law, it shall have been read before said board and referred to an appropriate committee, who shall report thereon at the next regular meeting of the board, when it shall he read again, considered and approved by a majority of the board and recorded by the clerk in a book kept for that purpose, approved by the president of the board, attested by the clerk, and advertised in a newspaper published in said city for at least one week; Provided however, That all ordinances now in force in said city shall be and remain in force until repealed by said board of trustees. SEC. 36. It shall be the duty of the board of trustees, to levy and collect annually at such times and in such manner as they shall determine, a special tax on all taxable property within said city, sufficient to pay [of] the interest [on the] debt of said city for the current year, which tax shall be collected in lawful money or interest bearing coupons then due detached from the bonds of said city. SEC. 37. In order that the rights of all parties in said city shall be protected and injustice done to no person, the city government hereby created, is declared to be the legal Settlement. Accountants. Ordinances. Proviso. Special tax. Legal successor, successor of the city governments heretofore in existence in said city of Cheyenne, with all the rights, liabilities, and immunities, that of right now or did appertain to its predecessors. SEC. 38. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage and approval by the governor. Approved, December 10, 1869. INTERMARRIAGE. Miscogenation. Polony. Misdemeanor. CHAPTER 83. AN ACT TO PREVENT INTERMARRIAGE BETWEEN WHITE PERSONS AND THƠEX Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SEC. 1. That any person belonging to the caucasian or white race, who shall hereafter knowingly intermarry with a person of one-eighth, or more negro, asiatic, or mongolian blood, shall be deemed guilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than three, nor more than seven years. SEC. 2. That any person of one-eighth or more negro blood, or one eighth or more mongolian blood, who shall hereafter intermarry with a white person shall be deemed quilty of a felony, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment in the penitentiary for not less than one or more than five years. SEC. 3. That any minister of the gospel, justice of the peace, or other person, authorized by law to solemnize s marriage, who shall knowingly perform a marriage ceremony, marrying persons punished by the provisions of the preceding sections of this act for intermarrying with each other, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by imprisonment not less than three months nor more than one year, or by fine not less than one hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars, or both imprisonment and fine, in the discretion of the court. den. SEC. 4. That any person authorized by law to grant a License forbidlicense to marry, who shall knowingly grant a marriage license to any of the persons referred to in sections one and two of this act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall suffer like penalty as provided in the next preceding section. SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. REPEAL. CHAPTER 84. AN ACT TO REPEAL THE LAWS OF DAKOTA NOW IN FORCE IN THE Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SEC. 1. All laws enacted by the legislature of the territory of Dakota, and continued in force in the territory of Wyoming by the organic act thereof, be and the same are hereby repealed. Provided, That all rights acquired, and all liabilities incurred under said laws shall remain unimpaired by this act; Provided, also, that all suits, actions and proceedings commenced under said laws, shall be prosecuted and conducted to final conclusion as though this act had not passed. SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force on and after the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seventy. Approved, 10th December, 1869. Repeal. Proviso. ESTRAYS. Fatrays. Description. How reclaimed. CHAPTER 85. AN ACT CONCERNING ESTRAYS FOR WYOMING TERRITORY. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SEC. 1. It shall be lawful for any person occupying and possessing land in this territory and being in possession thereof, to take up any estray horse, mule or ass, neat cattle, sheep or swine, found within his inclosed premises at any season of the year, and any estray found around his premises between the first of December and the first of March may be taken up by such person, and any horse, mule or ass, with any portion of harness attached to them, and any oxen, with yoke, that are believed to have strayed away from their owners, may be taken up by any person at any time. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of any person taking up an estray, to send a description of the same to the county clerk, within fifteen days after taking it up, and the county clerk shall immediately record the same, in a book kept for that purpose, for which he shall receive the sum of one dollar. The person taking up the estray shall, within twenty days thereafter, procure the publication of the description of such animal in any paper published in the county for at least two consecutive weeks. SEC. 3. The owner of an estray may, at any time previous to its sale, reclaim the same on proving said property by oath or otherwise, and paying for the advertisement, and a reasonable compensation for any other necessary expense incurred by the person taking up said estray. SEC. 4. In case the parties cannot agree upon the Arbitratore. amount of expenses, incurred, they may each choose a disinterested person to act as arbitrators, and the two chosen may choose a third; the decision of the arbitrators shall be final. SEC. 5. When an estray, if it be a sheep, hog or calf, Limitation. under the age of one year, has not been reclaimed within six months after advertising the same, it shall become the property of the person taking it up without further proceedings. If the estray be a horse, mule, ass or bull, cow or steer, over the age of one year, it must be reclaimed within six months from the time it was first advertised. If any estray shall not be reclaimed within the time specified, the person taking up the estray shall notify a justice of the peace of the county, who shall appoint two disinterested persons, and administer to them an oath or affirmation, to faithfully and truly appraise said estray, and said appraisers shall make due return thereof, in writing, to said justice of the peace, who shall appoint a day of sale, and cause notice of the time and place of sale to be published at least two weeks consecutively, before the day of sale, in a newspaper printed in the county, and in case there is no newspaper printed in said county, there shall be written or printed notices posted up at the county seat, and such other places as said justice of the peace shall order, and on the day of sale appointed, said estray shall be sold by such justice to the highest bidder, in cash, and the proceeds thereof, after deducting the costs of the proceedings, and the expense of keeping said estray, shall be paid to the county treasurer within five days after the sale, subject to the order of the owner, provided the owner of the said estray shall establish his ownership to the same, to the satisfaction of the county treasurer of said county within one year from the day of sale, and if said balance is not so claimed within the time so specified, it shall be placed by |