CHAPTER XIX. An Act to Prevent Gambling on Railroad Trains. Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory af Wyoming: ble on railroad any trains. SECTION 1. That hereafter it shall be unlawful for any shall not gam person to deal, play or open, or cause to be opened on railroad train of cars carrying passengers, any game ofcards, lice or other gambling device, to be played for money, checks or any other representatives of value whatever. SEC. 2. That any person found dealing, playing or opening the game commonly known as "three card monte," on any railroad er passenger train in this Territory shall be adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and when convicted shall be punished by a fine not to exceed one hundred dollars, and penaltyimprisonment not less than ten nor more than ninety days, in the county jail. SEG. 3. That all violations of section one of this act shall be adjudged misdemeanors, and may be punished by a fine Misdementior not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed three months, or by both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the magistrate. the arrest. SEC. 4. And the conductor or any person in charge of any such train is hereby authorized and empowered to arrest any who may make person found engaged in playing any of the aforesaid games on such train and to deliver any such person to any civil officer within this Territory. SEC. 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this Repealed. act are hereby repealed. SEC. 6. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage. Approved December 13, 1873, CHAPTER XX. An Act to Provide for a Special Term of the District Court for Sweetwater County. Be it Enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming. SECTION 1. That there shall be held in Sweetwater county. at the county seat thereof, a term of the district court, commencing on the fourth Monday of December, 1873, provided that grand and petit jurors for said term of court, may be summoned from the body of said county, by the proper officers, on order of the district judge. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force on an! after its passage. Approved December 11, 1873. CHAPTER XXI. Amended, etc. In force. An Act to amend an Act, entitled an Act fixing the time and Be it Enacted by the Council and House of Representatives SECTION 1. That the first section of the act, entitled "an act fixing the time and place of holding the first and subsequent terms of the supreme court, and defining its duties." approved November 29th, 1869, be amended by inserting in lieu of the word "July" in the sixth line thereof, the word "March." SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after the first day of Febuary, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-four. Approved November 22, 1873. CHAPTER XXII. An Act establishing the Judicial Districts within the Territory of Wyoming, and to provide for the holding of Courts therein. Be it Enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: SECTION 1. That the Territory of Wyoming is hereby divided into three judicial districts: district. The county of Laramie, as it now is, or may hereafter be Laramie, first bounded or organized, shall compose the first judicial district. The counties of Albany and Carbon, as they now are, or Albany and anay hereafter he bounded or organized, shall compose the district. second judicial district. Carbon, second and Uinta, The counties of Sweetwater and Uinta, as they now are, or sweetwater anay hereafter be bounded or organized, shall compose the third third district. judicial district. SECTION 2. There shall be held during each year, at the county seats of the several counties composing each district. two general terms of court, commencing on the day following in each and every year; that is to say, in the first district, at Terms of court, the county seat of Laramie county, on the fourth Monday of when held. May and first Monday of November. In the second district, at the county seat of Albany county, on the first Monday of February and August. At the county seat of Carbon county, on the first Monday of April, and second Monday in September. In the third district, at the county seat of Sweetwater county, on the first Monday of May and October. At the county seat of Linta county, on the first Monday in January and July. SECTION 3. It shall be competeut for the district court. ape the written request of a ma,ority of the board of county commissioners, of the proper county, at any regular term thereof, or any judge thereof in vacation, to order a special special terms, term of the district court by giring thirty days' notice in some newspaper published in the county, if there be one, if not, in De newspaper having a general circulation in such county, Other judge may hold court. If judge fails to reach, etc. and where such notice shall be given in pursuance of this act, the court shall have the same powers as the court at a general term. SEC. 4. In case the judge of any district shall be unable. from any cause, to dispatch the business of his district, it shall be lawful for the Governor to assign the judge of any other district to act in his stead until such disability is removed, and the judge so assigned shall have the same powers and shall discharge the same duties, while acting as the judge, duly assigned by law; Provided, That unless specially assigned for that purpose by the Governor, as above provided, no judge shall have power to act in any district except the one to which he shall have been assigned by the act of the Legislature of this Territory, except on applications for the writ of habeas corpus," or applications for the writ of "proceedings in error." Clerk shan appoint deputies.. Sec. 5. If from any cause the judge of any district shall fail to reach the place appointed for holding any term of the district court by two o'clock in the afternoon of that day, it shall be lawful for the clerk of said court to adjourn said court from day to day for three days, and on the third day to adjourn the term, unless he shall have reasonable cause to believe that by further adjournment, not later than the following Monday, the justice assigned to hold said term will be present. In all such cases the said clerk shall enter such continuances in the records of the court, and all jurors and witnesses and recognized persons in attendance, or who should have been in attendance, shall take notice of all adjournments and in no wise be released from liability that they may be under at the time of such adjournments, and all proceedings, actions, motions and orders shall be deemed adjourned from day to day, or for the term, and no adjournment shall work a release or discharge of any recognized persons. SEC. 6. The clerk of the district court in each district in which there are two or more counties, shall appoint a deputy in each county in his district wherein a court is required by law to be held, the judge of the district approving such appointment, and every such deputy shall have power to execute the duties of the clerk within the county for which he is appointed; but all his official acts shall be in the name of the clerk, by his appointee as deputy, and the clerk shall be liable for all the acts of such deputy done under color of his appointment, and in no case shall the clerk or his deputy remove the records from the county seat of the county in which the court is held, or permit the same to be done. etc. SEC. 7. All suits, actions, causes and proceedings, civil rending suits, and criminal, now pending in the district courts of the several counties in this Territory, shall proceed to final adjudgment the same as though this act had not been passed. SEC. 8. That an act entitled "an act establishing the Repealed, judicial districts within the Territory of Wyoming, and to provide for the holding of courts therein," being chapter thirtynine of the laws of Wyoming, 1869, and all other acts and parts of acts inconsistent with this act be and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 9. This act shall take effect and be in force from In free. and after the first day of February, A. D. 1874. Approved November 19, 1878. CHAPTER XXIIL An Act to Repeal an Act, entitled "An Act for the Regulation of Towns and Cities, and for other Purposes. Beit Enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming: cities. SECTION 1. That an act, passed by the second legislative Towns assembly, of the Territory of Wyoming, entitled "an act for the regulation of towns and cities, and for other purposes," be sepealed. and the same is hereby repealed, except as herein otherwise provided. SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from I force. and after the first day of Febuary, A. D. 1874. Approved December 5, 1873. and |