AN ACT TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION TO THE JUSTICES OF Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representa- SECTION 1. There shall be paid to the justices of the supreme court of this territory the sum of two thousand dollars per annum, as additional compensation to the salary now provided by law, and the same shall be paid quarter-yearly by the territorial treasurer, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 2. The clerks of the respective district courts of the territory are authorized and required to collect the sum of five dollars as a tax on each original suit sued out of the district courts, in the commencement of any suit or proceeding at law, or in chancery, and said sum shall be taxed and collected as other costs are now taxed and collected by law, and the clerks of said courts are hereby required to pay quarterly into the territorial treasury, all such moneys received by them as provided in this section. SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of January, 1867. Approved January 8th, A. D. 1867. Secretary of the territory to have copies of the laws printed in Spanish. AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR THE PRINTING OF THE LAWS IN THE SPANISH LANGUAGE. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory: SECTION 1. That the secretary of the territory, after said laws have been revised and codified in ac hundred cordance with the provisions of any act that may be passed at this term of the legislature, for the revising and codifying of the laws of Colorado Territory, and to have six hundred copies of said laws printed and bound for the use of those citizens of Colorado Territory, who speak the Spanish language. Secretary shall distribute laws. SEC. 2. That the laws so printed and bound, shall be distributed by the territorial secretary as follows, viz.: to Costilla county, one hundred and fifty copies; to Conejos county, one hundred and fifty copies; to Saguache county, fifty copies; to Las Animas county, seventy-five copies; to Huerfano county, fifty copies; and to Pueblo county, twenty-five copies; and the aforesaid copies of the laws so distributed shall be under the direction of the board of county commissioners of said counties respectively. SEC. 3. That there be and is hereby appropriated $1,000 appropriated for from the territorial treasury, out of any moneys not translating. otherwise appropriated, the sum of one thousand dollars to defray the expenses of translating the said laws into the Spanish language; and the further sum $2,000 for printing of two thousand dollars to defray the expense of and binding printing and binding the same. SEC. 4. That the secretary of the territory be and is hereby authorized and directed to secure the services of a competent person to translate the laws as aforesaid, on such terms as he may deem expedient and for the best interests of the territory. Contract for translating. SEC. 5. That the auditor of the territory be and is Auditor to hereby authorized and directed, on the completion of allow acthe said work, to audit and allow such accounts for such service, as shall have been approved by the secretary of the territory, and not exceeding the amount herein appropriated, and draw his warrants therefor upon the treasurer. shall adver SEC. 6. That to secure the printing and binding of Secretary six hundred copies of the laws as aforesaid, the sec- tise for proretary of the territory is hereby authorized and posals. directed to advertise in at least two of the newspapers published in this territory, for at least fifty days, for proposals for the execution of the said work, and shall award the contract for the execution thereof to the lowest responsible bidder. SEC. 7. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved January 11th, A. D. 1867. AN ACT REQUIRING FOREIGN CORPORATIONS DOING BUSINESS IN THIS SECTION 1. That every incorporated company incorporated under the laws of any foreign state or king Foreign corporations Must file copy of charter within dom, or of any state or territory of the United States, beyond the limits of this territory, and now or hereafter doing business within this territory, shall, within six months after the passage of this act, or in the thirty days. case of such corporation not now doing business in this territory, within thirty days after commencing so to do business, file in the office of the clerk of the county within which their business is conducted, a copy of their charter of incorporation; or in case such company is incorporated by certificate under any general incorporation law, a copy of such certificate and of such general incorporation law, duly certified and authenticated by the proper authority of such foreign state, kingdom or territory. Penalty of failure to comply. Fees of county clerk for filing. SEC. 2. A failure to comply with the provisions of this act, shall render each and every officer, agent and stockholder of any such corporation so failing hereand in, jointly and severally personally liable on any all contracts of such company made within this territory. SEC. 3. The several certificates, statutes and charters mentioned in section first of this act, shall be by the county clerk filed and preserved in his office, as a part of the records thereof; and he shall be entitled to receive a fee of fifty cents for receiving and filing every such certificate and statute. Copies of such charters, statutes and certificates, duly certified by such county clerk, under his seal of office, shall be received in all courts of this territory as sufficient evidence of the corporate charters of such incorporation. Approved January 10th, A. D. 1867. If bridge is out of re pair twenty AN ACT TO REGULATE PRIVATE CORPORATIONS IN JEFFERSON AND Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representa- SECTION 1. That the county commissioners of the several counties of this territory, upon the complaint five citizens of not less than twenty-five citizens of either of said counties to the said commissioners of such county county com- that any road or bridge, or any part thereof, of any may com plain to missioners. Commis ine. If out of repair, comto notify missioners company. incorporated company, situated in, or through either of which said counties the same may pass, representing to the said commissioners that the said incorporation or company are neglecting or refusing to keep such road or bridge in good and proper repair and condition, it shall be the duty of the county commissioners in the county in which such road or bridge is situated, to proceed forthwith, or within five days, to examine the road or bridge concerning which com- sioners plaint shall have been made, and ascertain the truth shall examof the facts therein set forth, and if they shall find the matters and things complained of in said petition or complaint to be true, and that said road or bridge is not in proper condition, according to the nature of the ground and the season of the year in which such examination is made, then it shall become the duty of the said county commissioners to give notice in writing to said corporation or company to repair or put said road or bridge in good order or condition in five days, or a reasonable time, and if in five days the repairs shall not have been commenced, and in a reasonable time completed, then it shall become the duty of the said county commissioners, and they are If company neglect to hereby authorized to either take the possession of make rethe said road or bridge in the name and for the use missioners of the county in which the same is situated, or they may prohibit the said company or corporation from demanding, collecting or receiving any toll for the use of or passage over the same, until the said road or bridge shall be put in proper order or condition, and they authorized to do so in writing. SEC. 2. After any road or bridge in either of the aforesaid counties shall be taken as aforesaid into the possession of either of said counties, it may and shall be the duty of the said county to immediately proceed to put the said road or bridge into proper repair and condition for travel or use, and it may and is hereby authorized to keep such possession thereof, and keep it in good and proper repair, and receive the tolls thereof until the said company or corporation shall fully repay the said county for the repairs so done as aforesaid, after deducting the said tolls so received, together with interest on the money so expended for said repairs, at the rate of two per cent. per month. SEC. 3. The said county commissioners shall be entitled to receive from the proper counties for their pairs com may take possession. May prohib from receiving toll. it company keep poscollect tolls. County may session and missioners to receive $5 per day. County com- services, five dollars per day, for the time actually and necessarily employed in the discharge of said duties, which said sum shall be charged as the expense of the corporation or company whose property has been taken into custody. Failing to redeem within two years coun at auction. SEC. 4. If the company or corporation whose property has been so taken into the custody or possession of the county as aforesaid, shall not within two years iy may sell reimburse the said county for the said repairs, then the said county may sell the said property at public auction, to the highest bidder, after giving sixty days notice of such sale, in some newspaper, as sheriffs are required to give notice of sales on execution, and pay any excess of the moneys received from such sales over the said expenditure, to the said corporation. Surplus to be paid to company. Company Appeal bond. SEC. 5. If said company or corporation feel agmay appeal. grieved at the decision of said county commissioners, they shall have the right to appeal from such decision to the district court, upon filing a good and sufficient bond to be approved by the clerk of the district court, conditioned in like manner as provided in cases of appeals from justices of the peace, and conConditions. ditioned further for keeping such road in good repair, and for all damages that may accrue to any person or persons for a neglect to keep such road in good repair during the renderence of such appeal, and said clerk Clerk of dis- shall thereupon issue a summons as in other cases, directed to said county commissioners, and such appeal shall stand for trial before such court de novo in missioners. the same manner as if such suit had been appealed from a justice of the peace. trict court to issue summons to county com SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of April, A. D. 1867. Approved January 11th, A. D. 1867. |