Repealing section fifteen. fied. CHAPTER 32. County Officers-Duties of. AN ACT to Amend an Act Creating the Several County Offices, and Defining the Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives SECTION 1. That section fifteen of an act entitled "an act creating the several county offices, and defining the duties thereof," approved December 10, 1869, be and the same is hereby amended as follows: That section fifteen of the act to which this act is amendatory, is hereby repealed and the following inserted in lieu thereof, viz. No account shall be allowed by the board Accounts veri- of county commissioners unless the same shall be made. out in separate items, properly dated and the value of each item specifically described, and when no specified fees are allowed by law the date that such services were rendered and the time actually and necessarily devoted to the performance of any service charged in such account shall be specified, which account so made out shall be verified by affidavit, setting forth that said account is just and correct, and that the whole or no part of the same has been May disallow. paid by the county or any individual. Provided, Nothing in this section shall be construed to prevent the board of county commissioners from disallowing any account in whole or in part, when so rendered and verified, nor from requiring any other or further evidence of the truth and propriety thereof, as they may think proper. County com liable. SEC. 2. That for any violation of section one of this missioners act the board of county commissioners shall be held responsible on their official bonds to the full amount of any account so allowed, to be recovered in an action of debt for the use of the proper county, should the evi enforced. dence show that the whole or any part of any account Liability, how has been allowed by any board of county commissioners contrary to the provisions of section one (1) of this act. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved December 13, 1879. CHAPTER 33. Delinquent Taxes. AN ACT to Provide for the Collection of Delinquent Taxes. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SECTION 1. That in all cases where any taxes due from any person or corporation have become delinquent in any of the counties in this Territory, and such taxes have not been fully paid, and in all cases where any taxes may hereafter become due from any person or corporation in any of the counties in this Territory and shall become delinquent, it shall be lawful and it is hereby made the duty of the officer whose dûty it now is by law to collect delinquent taxes, to proceed and collect all such taxes as have already become delinquent and Within what remain unpaid, and all such taxes as may hereafter time collected. become delinquent at any time within one year after such taxes become or may become due and payable. Collector to of personal SEC. 2. In the collection of such delinquent taxes as collect by dis- are mentioned in the preceding section, it shall be lawful tress and sale for the officer whose duty it is or may be to collect the property. same, to make the same by distress and sale of the personal property of the party owing such tax or liable for the same, notwithstanding such party may have real estate in the county where such tax is due, and the delinlist to be war- quent tax list alone shall be a sufficient warrant for such distress. Delinquent tax rant. Duties of collector. SEC. 3. In the collection of all taxes provided for in this act, if the collector shall proceed to collect the same by distraint and sale of personal property, he shall proceed in all respects according to the provisions of section thirty-nine of chapter one hundred and nine (109) of the compiled laws of Wyoming, being "An act to provide a Territorial and county revenue," and if the punishable. collector be resisted or impeded in the execution of his duties under this act he may require any suitable person or persons, to aid him therein, and if such person or persons refuse to give such aid, he or each of them shall Resistance to forfeit a sum not exceeding ten dollars, to be recovered collector, how in a civil action in the name of and to the use of the county, before any justice of the peace, on the complaint of said collector, or any other person, and the person or persons resisting shall be liable, as in case of resisting the sheriff in the execution of civil process. lector. SEC. 4. In all cases where it may be necessary to sell Powers of colany real property for the collection of taxes, which are now delinquent or which may hereafter become delinquent in any of the counties of this Territory, the officer whose duty it now is or may hereafter be to collect such delinquent taxes, shall have all the powers and shall perform all the duties in relation thereto which are conferred or imposed upon the county treasurers of the several counties of the Territory by an act of the legislative assembly of Wyoming Territory, approved December 10, 1869, entitled "An act to provide a Territorial and county revenue," and the officer whose duty it now is or may hereafter be to collect delinquent taxes in any of the counties in this Territory by the sale of real property therefor, shall, in the performance of said duty, be subject to all the provisions of said last named act, except as herein otherwise provided. evidence. SEC. 5. When any deed shall be given by the person Tax title deeds whose duty it now is or may hereafter be to collect prima facie delinquent taxes, upon any sale of real estate therefor such deed if executed substantially according to the form now prescribed by law, shall be prima facie evidence of the validity and regularity of all the proceedings anterior to the giving of such deed, and upon which it is based. SEC. 6. All acts or parts of acts inconsistent with Repeal. the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect from and after passage. Approved December 13, 1879. When and where held. What officers CHAPTER 34. AN ACT to Provide for Elections, the Manner of Conducting the Same, and for Other Purposes. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: TITLE I. SECTION. 1. That hereafter there shall be held in the several voting precincts of this Territory, on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and eighty (1880) and every two years thereafter, a general election, at which the following officers shall be elected, chosen, that is to say: Members of the council and house of Representatives, delegate to congress, sheriff, county clerk, probate judge, county treasurer, county and prosecuting attorney, county commissioners, superintendent of schools, coroner, surveyor, assessor, justices of the peace and constables. SEC. 2. That all county officers elected at any general election, shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of their respective duties upon the first Monday in January immediately following such general election. SEC. 3. Special elections shall be held in the following cases, and for the election of the following officers: First-When there has been no choice at the general election of a delegate to congress, members of the council or house of representatives, or any county officers who should properly have been chosen at such general elec tion. Second-When the rights of a person elected to the office of member of the council, member of the house of representatives, or either of the said county offices shall cease, by death or otherwise, before the commencement of the term or service for which he shall have been elected. |