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I, FRANK HALL, Secretary of Colorado Territory, do hereby certify that I have delivered to DAVID C. COLLIER, Public Printer, true and correct copies of all LAWS, JOINT RESOLUTIONS and MEMORIALS, now on file in my office, passed at the Sixth Session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Colorado, begun and held at Golden City, on the 3d day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and

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affixed the great seal of the Territory of Colorado. Done at Golden City, this 20th day of January, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-seven.

FRANK HALL,

Secretary of Colorado Territory.

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AN ACT

RELATING TO APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE PRESENT SESSION, AND CURRENT EXPENSES OF THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING JAN**UARY 1ST, A. D. 1868."

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of Colorado Territory

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SECTION 1. That for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the fiscal year ending January 1st, A. D. 1868, the following sums of money shall be, and the same are hereby appropriated to the several funds named, that is to say: For the purpose of paying the expenses of the legis lative assembly and per diem of members, seven islature thousand five hundred dollars; for the purpose of $7,500. paying contingent expenses, three thousand ($3,000) Contingent dollars; for officers' contingent fund, three hundred expenses, ($300) dollars; for paying salaries of officers, three Oficers thousand ($3,000) dollars; for the payment of the services of Charles G. Cox, in preparing and collect- officers, ing the statement of territorial indebtedness on ac- C. G. Cox alcount of certain Colorado militia, called into the lowed $700. service of the years and the United States in 1865, seven hundred dollars; for contingent expenses of the adjutant general's office, incurred in the preparation of the aforesaid statement, three hundred ($300) dollars; for printing the governor's message in Span- messages, ish, three hundred ($300) dollars; for insane and insane and idiotic persons, four thousand ($4,000) dollars; for salaries of judges of the supreme court, six thousand of supreme ($6,000) dollars; for printing the laws in the Spanish Printing language, twɔ thousand five hundred ($2,500) dollars, Spanish, to pay for newspapers ordered by the house, three Newspa hundred and eighty ($380) dollars.

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AN ACT

TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL COMPENSATION TO THE JUSTICES OF
THE SUPREME COURT Of Colorado TERRITORY.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representa-
tives of Colorado Territory:

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 treas urer, 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 six 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.

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shall distri bute 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.

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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 of two thousand dollars to defray the expense of and binding printing and binding the same.

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translating.

SEC. 4. That the secretary of the territory be and Contract for 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.

SEC. 5. That the auditor of the territory be and is hereby authorized and directed, on the completion of the 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.

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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 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
TERRITORY, TO FURNISH PROOFS OF THEIR INCORPORATION.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representa-
tives of Colorado Territory:

porations

SECTION 1. That every incorporated company incor- Foreign cor porated under the laws of any foreign state or king

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 filling.

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 herein, jointly and severally personally liable on any and all contracts of such company made within this ter ritory.

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.

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AN ACT

TO REGULATE PRIVATE CORPORATIONS IN JEFFERSON AND
CLEAR CREEK COUNTIES.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representa-
tives of Colorado Territory:

SECTION 1. That the county commissioners of the several counties of this territory, upon the complaint of not less than' twenty-five citizens of either of said counties to the said commissioners of such county that any road or bridge, or any part thereof, of any

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