CHAPTER 56. Lotteries. AN ACT to Suppress Lotteries and Schemes of Chance. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SECTION 1. That if any person shall in this Territory Lotteries Proopen, set on foot, carry on, or promote, make or draw hibited. publicly or privately, any lottery, or scheme of chance, of any kind or description, by whatever name, style, or title the same may be known; or if any person shall, by such ways and means, expose or set for sale any house or houses, mine or mining property, lands or real estate, or any goods or chattels, cash, or written or printed evidences of debt, or certificates of claims, or any thing or things of value whatever, every person so offending shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, fined in any sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding three months. But nothing in this section shall be construed as applying to games of chance known as raffles or other honest games, and the tickets of such games shall be sold only in this Territory. Selling of lot SEC. 2. If any person or persons shall vend, sell, barter, or dispose of any lottery ticket or tickets, order tery tickets or orders, device or devices of any kind, for, or represent- prohibitec. ing any number of shares, or any interest in any lottery, or scheme of chance, or shall open or establish as owner or otherwise, any lottery or scheme of chance, by acting as owner, manager or agent in this Territory for, or in behalf [of] any lottery, or scheme of chance, to be drawn paid, or carried on either out of the Territory or within it, every such person shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, fined in any sum not exceed prohibited. ing one thousand dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail not exceeding three months. SEC. 3. If any person shall by printing, writing, or in Advertising for any way publishing in this Territory, an account of any any lottery lottery or scheme of chance, of any kind or description whatever, to be carried on, held or drawn in this Territory, by whatever name, style or title, the same may be denominated or known, stating where and when the same is to be drawn, or the prizes therein, or any of them, or the price of any ticket, or share or chance therein, or where any ticket may be obtained, or by such printing, writing or publishing, or in anyway aiding or assisting in the same, or in otherwise giving publicity to such lottery or scheme, such person shall, on conviction, be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars. SEC. 4. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the provisions of this act, are hereby repealed. SEC. 5. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved December 8, 1879. CHAPTER 57. Mining Districts-Laws Relating Thereto. AN ACT to Provide for the Preservation of the Records, Laws and Proceedings of Mining Districts, and their Use as Evidence. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: ords and laws SECTION 1. That a copy of all the records, laws and Copies of recproceedings of each mining district, so far as they relate to be med. to lode claims, shall be filed in the office of the register of deeds of the county in which the district is situated, within the boundaries attached to the same, which shall be taken as evidence in any court having jurisdiction in the matters concerned in such record or proceeding; and all such records of deeds and conveyances, laws and proceedings of any mining district heretofore filed in the register's office of the proper county, and transcripts thereof duly certified, whether such record relate to gulch claims, lode claims, building lots, or other real estate, shall have the like effect in evidence. SEC. 2. It shall be the duty of the recorder of each Duties of remining district to file copies as above provided, and rea-corders, sonable fees therefor may be provided by the several mining districts. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after its passage. Approved November 26, 1879. What are nuisances, and the CHAPTER 58: Nuisance-Penalty for Committing. AN ACT Relating to Certain Nuisances, and Providing a Penalty for the Committing and Maintaining the Same. `Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SECTION 1. That if any person or persons in this penalty for Territory shall put the carcass of any dead animal, or committi'g and maintaining the offals from any slaughter house, or butcher's establishment, packing house, or fish house, or any spoiled meats, or spoiled fish, or any putrid animal, or vegetable substance, or the contents of any privy vault, upon or into any rivers, bay, creek, pond, canal, ditch, lake, railroad, road, street, alley, lot, field, meadow, public ground, market place, or common, or if the owner or owners, occupant or occupants thereof shall knowingly permlt the same to remain in any of the aforesaid situations, to the annoyance of the citizens of the Territory, or of any of them, or shall neglect, or refuse to remove or abate the nuisance occasioned thereby within twentyfour hours after knowledge of the existence of such nuisance upon any of the above described premises or places, owned or occupied by him, her or them, or after notice thereof in writing from the street commissioner, supervisor, sheriff, constable, mayor, or any trustee or health officer of any city, village or precinct in which such nuisance shall exist, every such persons so offending, shall, upon conviction, be fined in any sum not less than fifty dollars nor more than one hundred dollars; and if such nuisance is not abated within forty-eight hours thereafter, it shail be deemed a second offence against the provisions of this act, and every like neglect of each twenty-four hours thereafter, shall be so considered an additional offense, and subject to a like penalty. Owner saw dust into any SEC. 2. That if any person or persons who may own, forbidden run, or have charge of any saw-mill in this Territory, to throw Saw shall throw or permit the sawdust therefrom to be thrown creek in this or fall into any river, creek, bay, pond, lake, canal, ditch Territory or other water course in this Territory, or if the owner or person in charge of such saw-mill shall knowingly permit the same to remain in any of the aforesaid waters, having been thrown or fallen in from said saw-mill, or shall refuse or neglect to remove, or abate the nuisance occasioned thereby, after notice, as provided in the first section of this act, such person or persons shall be liable to a like penalty as is therein provided. SEC. 3. This act shall be in force from and after its passage. Approved November 26, 1879. |