such real estate is situate, in force at the date of such acknowledgment, attestation or proof, may be read in evidence, without in the first instance additional proof of the execution thereof, and the record of any such deed, bond, agreement or power of attorney, whether an original record of any mining district, or a copy thereof deposited in the register's office of any county, in accordance with the laws of this Territory (as a part of the records of such mining district) or a record of such recorder's office when the same appears by such record to be properly acknowledged, attested or proved in accordance with the laws of this Territory, or of the proper mining district in force at the date of such acknowledgement, attestation or proof, or a transcript from any such record, certified by the register of the proper county, where such deed, bond, agreement or power of attorney ought by law to be of record, may, upon affidavit of the party desiring to use the same, that the original thereof is not in his possession or power to produce, be read in evidence with like effect as the original of such deed, bond, or power of attorney properly acknowledged, attested or proved as aforesaid. Approved December 12, 1879. CHAPTER 24. Corporations Amendments to Act to Create. AN ACT to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Create and Regulate Corporations," being Chapter Thirty-four of the Compiled Laws of Wyoming, Approved December 10, 1869. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: red. SECTION 1. Add to title of article two to which said Additional bill [act] is an amendment, as follows: Theatres, parks, powers confœgrounds for race courses, stock, agricultural and other exhibitions; and that section one of article two, of the act to which this is an amendment, be amended by adding thereto after twelfth subdivision the following subdivisions: Thirteenth To establish and maintain parks, boulevards, and other pleasure and sanitary resorts. Fourteenth: To establish and maintain parks, grounds or race courses, for thetrial of speed, development or training of horses, with the right to offer and award premiums. Fifteenth To establish and maintain parks or grounds for the exhibition of all kinds of live stock, agricultural, mechanical and mineral products, whether the products of this Territory or not, with the right to offer and award premiums. Sixteenth: To establish and maintain theatres, public halls, gardens, and other places of amusements not prohibited by the organic act or the laws of Wyoming Territory. The same persons may unite in one association, for one or more, or all purposes mentioned in this act. SEC. 2. That section eight, of article two, of the act to which this is an amendment, be amended by adding thereto the following: "Excepting associations incorporated under subdivisions, 13, 14, 15 and 16, of section one of this act." Duties and powers of officers. Lice. SEC. 3. That said article two be amended by adding thereto, after section thirteen, the following: "The principal officers of such society or societies, incorporated under subdivisions 13, 14 and 15 of section one of this act, shall have full jurisdiction and control of the grounds on which the society or societies may exhibit, and all streets and alleys, and other grounds adjacent to the same, during all exhibitions, so far as may be necessary to preserve and keep good order, and to exclude therefrom all other exhibitions, booths, stands, or other temporary places for the retail or sale of any kind of spirituous or fermented liquors, or other articles, President that they may deem objectionable or offensive to said to appoint po- exhibition. The president of any such society shall have the power to appoint and employ any necessary police to assist in preserving the peace or arresting offenders. Duties and And all such policemen thus appointed shall be vested, powers of such during the continuance of such exhibition, with the ordinary powers and authority of constables. Any person who wilfully and without leave, enters any fair grounds, parks or premises, during exhibition, or by fraudulently receiving and using the tickets or badge of another, without the proper payment and compliance with the rules of any such organization or society, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court shall be liable to a fine of not less than of one hundred dollars; and in case of non-payment of the fine, to imprisonment in the county jail not less than one nor more than thirty days. And such offender may be tried before any justice of the peace most convenient in the county. police. Penalty for Approved December 13, 1879. CHAPTER 25. Criminal Code-Amendments to. AN ACT to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act Defining Certain Misdemeanors, and Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of What may be sault. SECTION. 1. That section three of said act be and the same hereby is stricken out, and the following enacted in deemed aŭ aslieu thereof: "Every person who shall use words, signs or gestures toward another, which are of a nature adapted to provoke, or who by such words, signs or gestures, shall provoke or attempt to provoke another to commit an assault, or assault and battery, or other breach of the peace, such person shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding ten days." Approved December 8, 1879. CHAPTER 26. Criminal Code-Amendments to. AN ACT to Amend an Act Entitled "An Act to Amend the Criminal Laws of the Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Minimum pun pealed. SECTION 1. That section one of the above entitled act be, and the same is hereby repealed, the following sub-ishment restituted in place thereof: "That in all cases of conviction for crimes and misdemeanors in this Territory, the laws and parts of laws of this Territory affixing a minimum punishment, so far as said laws and parts of laws relate Defendant not nesses. CHAPTER 27. Criminal Code-Amendments to. AN ACT to Amend the Criminal Code and prevent the Abuse of the Writ of Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of SECTION 1. That section one hundred and thirty of to have more the criminal procedure act, approved December 10, 1869, than two wit-be and the same hereby is amended, by adding to said section, as follows: "But no defendant shall have more than two witnesses, as of course, at the expense of the county, and to obtain such witnesses an affidavit must be filed with the clerk, magistrate or justice of the peace, as the case may be, showing that such defendant so requiring said witnesses is without the means of procuring them at his own expense, whereupon the clerk shall issue such subpoena, and after indictment found, should any such defendant require more witnesses than the two as above referred to, an affidavit of such defendant or his counsel, must be filed with the clerk addressed to the court, stating that he is without the necessary means to procure them, and what other witness or witnesses are required, together with the facts expected to be proved by him or them, and should the court deem the expected evidence material to the defense, a suphæna for such as are deemed necessary by the court shall issue at public |