may

peace in the limits of said territory duly authorized to administer oaths and affirmations by the laws now in force therein, or before the chief justice, or some associate justice of the supreme court of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective offices, which said oaths when so taken shall be certified by the person by whom the same shall have been taken; and such certificates shall be received and recorded by the secretary among the executive proceedings, and the chief justice, and associate justices, and all other civil officers in said territory, before they act as such, shall take a like oath or affirmation before the said governor or secretary, or some judge or justice of the peace of the territory, who be duly commissioned and qualified, which said oath or affirmation shall be certified and transmitted by the person taking the same to the secretary to be recorded by him as aforesaid, and afterwards the like oath or affirmation shall be taken, certified, and recorded in such manner and form as may be prescribed by law. The governor shall receive an annual salary of two thousand dollars as governor, and one thousand dollars as superintendent of Indian affairs; the chief justice and the associate justices shall each receive an annual salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, and the secretary shall receive an annual salary of eighteen hundred dollars. The said salaries shall be payable quarter-yearly at the treasury of the United States. The members of the legislative assembly shall be entitled to receive four dollars each per day during their attendance at the session thereof, and three dollars for every twenty miles' travel in going to and returning from the said sessions, estimating the distance by the nearest traveled route. There shall be appropriated annually the sum of one thousand dollars, to be expended by the governor, to defray the contingent expenses of the territory. There shall also be appropriated annually a sufficient sum, to be expended by the secretary, and upon an estimate to be made by the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, to defray the expenses of the legislative assembly, the printing of the laws, and other incidental expenses; and the secretary of the territory shall annually account to the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States for the manner in which the aforesaid sum shall have been expended.

SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the legislative assembly of the Territory of Wyoming shall hold its first session at such time and place in said territory as the governor thereof shall appoint and direct; and at said first session, or as soon thereafter as they shall deem expedient, the governor and legislative assembly shall proceed to locate and establish the seat of government for said territory at such place as they may deem eligible; which place, however, shall thereafter be subject to be changed by the said governor and legislative assembly.

SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That a delegate to the House of Representatives of the United States, to serve during each Congress of the United States, may be elected by the voters qualified to elect members of the legislative assembly, who shall be entitled to the same rights

and privileges as are exercised and enjoyed by the delegates from the several other territories of the United States in the said House of Representatives. The first election shall be held at such time and places, and be conducted in such manner, as the governor shall appoint and direct; and at all subsequent elections, the time, place, and manner of holding elections shall be prescribed by law. The person having the greatest number of votes of the qualified electors as hereinbefore provided, shall be declared by the governor elected, and a certificate thereof shall be accordingly given.

SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That sections numbered sixteen and thirty-six in each township in said territory shall be, and the same are hereby, reserved for the purpose of being applied to public schools in the state or states hereafter to be erected out of the same.

SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That temporarily and until otherwise provided by law the governor of said territory may define the judicial districts of said territory, and assign the judges who may be appointed for the said territory to the several districts, and also appoint the times and places for holding courts in the several counties or subdivisions in each of said judicial districts by proclamation to be issued by him; but the legislative assembly, at their first or any subsequent session, may organize, alter, or modify such judicial districts and assign the judges and alter the times and places of holding the courts as to them shall seem proper and convenient.

SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inapplicable, shall have the same force and effect within the said territory of Wyoming as elsewhere within the United States.

SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That this act shall take effect from and after the time when the executive and judicial officers herein provided for shall have been duly appointed and qualified: Provided, That all general territorial laws of the territory of Dakota in force in any portion of said territory of Wyoming at the time this act shall take effect shall be and continue in force throughout the said territory until repealed by the legislative authority of said territory except such laws as relate to the possession or occupation of mines or mining claims.

AUTHENTICATION.

WYOMING TERRITORY,

Secretary's Office, Cheyenne.

I, Herman Glafcke, Secretary of Wyoming Territory, do hereby certify that I have delivered to N. A. Baker, Public Printer, true and correct copies of all Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials, now on file at my office, and passed at the Second session of the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Wyoming, begun and held at Cheyenne, the Capital of said Territory, commencing on the seventh day of November, in the year of our Lord, One thousand Eight hundred and Seventy-one.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the great seal of the Territory of Wyoming.

Done at Cheyenne, this eighteenth day of December, in the L. S. the year of our Lord, one thousaud eight hundred and seventyHERMAN GLAFCKE,

one.

I hereby certify that the general Laws, Joint Resolutions and Memorials, herein contained, are true and correct copies of those delivered to me by the Secretary, as set forth in the foregoing authentication.

N. A. BAKER, PUBLIC PRINTER.

GENERAL LAWS

OF THE

SECOND LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY OF WYOMING.

JUSTICES' CODE.

AN ACT To establish the Courts of and define the jurisdiction of Justices of the Peace.

Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the Territory of Wyoming, as follows:

CIVIL PROCEDURE-JURISDICTION OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

limited to

SECTION 1. The jurisdiction of justices of the peace, in Jurisdiction all cases, shall, unless otherwise directed by law, be limited own counties. to the counties wherein they shall reside.

SEC. 2. Justices of the peace, within and coextensive Authority with their respective counties, shall have jurisdiction and

authority:

First, To administer an oath or affirmation authorized or required by law to be administered.

given.

Oaths, etc.

Second, To take the acknowledgment of deeds, mortgages, edgments.

Acknowl

and other instruments of writing.

Marilages.

Third, To solemnize marriages.

Subpoenas.

Forcible en

try and detainer.

Costs and

bail.

Attachments.

Executions.

Actions on contracts.

Fourth, To issue subpoenas for witnesses and coerce their attendance in causes or matters pending before them, or other cause or matter wherein they may be required to take depositions.

Fifth, To try the action for forcible entry and detention or detention only, of real property.

Sixth, To proceed against sureties for costs and amount of bail, on the stay of execution on their dockets.

Seventh, To issue attachments, and proceed against the goods and effects of debtors in certain cases as provided by law.

Eighth, To issue executions on judgments rendered by them.

Ninth, To try the right of the claimant to property taken in execution or on attachment.

Tenth, Of an action arising on contract expressed or implied for the recovery of money only, if the sum claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars, whether the sum claimed be an original specified amount in a contract, or the balance of unadjusted accounts or claims between the parties.

Eleventh, Of an action for damages for an injury to the Trespass,etc. person, or for a trespass upon real property, or for taking, detaining, or injuring personal property, if the damages claimed do not exceed one hundred dollars.

Recovery of penalties.

Twelfth, Of an action for a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, given by the statutes.

Thirteenth, Of an action upon bonds conditioned for the payment of money where the amount claimed does not exceed one hundred dollars, though the penalty exceed that sum, the judgment to be given for the sum actually due.

Fourteenth, An action may be brought upon any instrument payable in installments, as each installment becomes due, when such instrument and amount shall be within a justice's jurisdiction as herein provided.

Fifteenth, To enter judgment on the confession of a defendant when the amount does not exceed one hundred dollars.

Sixteenth, In all civil actions to be brought against a con