Exempt from paying poll tax

cers.

CHAPTER 44.

Fire Companies.

AN ACT to Encourage the Organization of Fire Companies.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming:

SECTION 1. Hereafter there shall be exempt from the payment of poll tax any person who has been an active member of any organized fire, or hook and ladder company in any incorporated city or town within this Territory, for one year, and who is not in arrears to his company for dues, fines or assessments, at the time the Duties of off-assessment is made. Provided. The chief officers of the fire department of such city or town shall report to the county assessor of the county in which the same is located, that such person has complied with all the duties imposed upon him by the rules and regulations of such fire department, aud is justly entitled to the henefits of this act, and provided further, that the wife of such person shall also be exempt from the payment of poll tax, the empt not to same as her husband. Provided, That the number exceed 35 in exempt from the payment of poll tax shall not exceed thirty-five members to each company.

Number ex

any one company

Chief officer to furnish list of

empt.

SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the chief officer of the members ex-fire department of any such city or town, to make out, under oath, a complete list of all persons exempt from the payment of poll tax under this act, and within the jurisdiction of such chief officer, and file the same with the county assessor of his county, on the day on which such county assessor shall be required by law to commence the county assessment, whose duty it shall be to mark opposite to the name of such person on the assessment list the words "exempt from poll tax" and such person shall not be required to pay any poll tax during that year. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

Approved December 10, 1879.

CHAPTER 45.

Geologist-Territorial, and Mining Engineer.

AN ACT to Establish the Office of Territoriai Geologist and Mining Engineer.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming:

Authorizing

of.

SECTION 1. There shall be established the office of Territorial geologist and mining engineer. The person establish meni appointed to such office in pursuance of this act shall be a citizen of Wyoming and he shall live and keep his office within this Territory.

Appropriation

SEC. 2. There is hereby appropriated by the Territory of Wyoming the sum of fifteen hundred dollars per to pay salary. annum, payable quarterly, out of the Territorial treasury, each quarterly payment to be made at the end of the quarter for which it is due, and the Territorial auditor is hereby authorized to draw a warrant upon the treasury for the said payments, in favor of the geologist and mining engineer, upon his application accompanied by a certificate from the secretary of the Territory, and upon satisfactory proof to the auditor that such payment is due, said sum to include traveling expenses, office rent, printing of general reports and all incidental expenses incurred by the Territorial geologist.

governor.

SEC. 8. That the Territorial geologist and mining Appointed and engineer shall be appointed by the governor, by and with removed by the consent of the council, and shall hold his office during his good behavior and until removed for misconduct or neglect of duty, and in case said Territorial geologist and mining engineer shall fail to perform his duties he may be removed by the governor, and his successor appointed.

SEO. 4. It shall be the duty of said Territorial geolo-Duties of geolgist and mining engineer to make reports on mining

Shall keep

&c.

property where a proper certificate has been presented showing sufficient development, and that such reports shall be such that they may be presented to the New York and San Francisco, or other stock boards, for the purpose of obtaining a working capital. Provided, That such property shall be deemed by the Territorial geologist of sufficient value to warrant a favorable report, and that the Territorial geologist and mining engineer shall charge fifty dollars for every report (going on the stock boards), said sum to be turned into the Territorial treasury and placed to the credit of the Territory.

SEC. 5. It shall be the duty of the Territorial geolorecord book, gist and mining engineer to keep a book, with proper index alphabetically arranged, in which he shall record all reports made by him, giving the name of the mine owner, name of the mine, where situated, kind of mine, whether gold, silver, copper, &c.

Shall report to governor.

SEC. 6. It shall be the duty of said geologist and mining engineer to make a report annually, under his hand, of all reports and examinations made during the year, to the governor of the Territory, who shall report the same to the legislature of the Territory.

SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force on and after its passage and approval.

Approved December 13, 1879.

CHAPTER 46.

Hawks and Eagles-Bounty For.

AN ACT for the Destruction of Hawks and Eagles.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming :

com.

pay bounty.

Method

of

and obtaining

SECTION 1. The county commissioners of the various county counties in this Territory are hereby authorized and missioners to required to encourage the destruction of hawks and eagles by making payment out of the county fund to any person who shall engage in the destruction of hawks or eagles, the sum of twenty-five cents for each hawk or eagle killed by such person. The person so engaged who may desire the compensation above named shall present making proof to the chairman of the board of connty commissioners of bounty. the county, in which the hawks or eagles were killed, the heads of such hawks and eagles claimed to have been killed, together with an affidavit, that the hawk or eagle from which said head was taken, was killed in the county by the person presenting said head, which head and affidavit, shall be evidence that the hawk or eagle was killed by the person so producing it. It shall thereupon be the duty of the chairman of the board Duties of comto mark or destroy such heads that they can not be again county clerk. used as evidence, and give the person so producing them a certificate stating the number of heads so presented, and to what sum the person is entitled under this act, which certificate may be filed with the county clerk as a claim against the county, to be by him presented to the board at its next meeting thereafter, at which time the board of county commissioners shall allow the claim and order a warrant drawn upon the treasury of the county as in other cases. Provided, This section shall not be Proviso. construed to prevent the board from disallowing such

missioners and

Legal holidays

claim should it appear in any way to have been fraudulently made or obtained.

Sho. 2. This act shall be in force from and after January 1, 1880.

Approved December 8, 1879.

CHAPTER 47.

Holidays-Legal.

AN ACT to Create Certain Legal Holidays.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming:

SECTION 1. The first day of January, the twentysecond day of February, the fourth day of July, the day that may be appointed by the president of the United States as the annual thanksgiving day, and the twentyfifth day of December, are hereby declared legal holidays in and for the Territory of Wyoming.

SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after passage.

Approved December 4, 1879.