The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1878-11-17
HAVE WE arHtsp JUDICIAL DISTRICT

Section nine of the organic act of
Wyoming provides that "the territory
shall be divided into three Judicial dis
triets." Our last legislative assembly
attempted to re-organize the judicial
districts of this territory by attaching
Sweetwater and Uinta counties to the
second district, and by making a new
district composed of the unorganized
counties of Crook and Pease. The leg
islature also attempted to bring about
the organization of those counties by
enacting a law which says: SIT shall be
the duty of the governor of Wyoming
territory at once to organize the coun-
ties Of Crook and Pease, by appointing
and commissioning for such counties
respectively the officers now provided
by law for the several counties of the
territory, who shall qualify as required
by law and shall enter upon the duties
Of their respective Offices" etc.
This attempt to force the organiza-
ton Of these counties proved abortiye,
for the reason that a law enacted In
1875, and which has not been repealed,
provides the manner In which the gov
ernor shall proceed In the organization
Of these new counties. Section three Of
San act defining the boundaries of GER
tain counties, and providing for the or
ganization thereof" tpage 100, CON-.
piled laws Of Wyoming) reads as fol-
lows:
whenever five hundred electors re-
siding within the limits of either of said
counties may desire to have the same
organized, they shall petition the gov
ernor of the territory for that purpose,
to appoint three electors or residents of
such county to act as commissioners in
organizing the same in the manner
hereinafter provided, each of whom
shall be named in said petition, and the
governor shall upon the presentation OF
said petition, appoint the persons
named therein as such commissioners,
and notify them of such appointment
Gov. Thayer, who was our executive
when this law was enacted, exerted
himself to carry it into effect He put
himself IN communication with several
parties VINO we're supposed to be resi-
dents oil the counties OF Crook and
Pease; but the few people who lived
there did moi seem to realize the i'm
portance Of the occasion and did not
obey the or our Legislative So
-. 1T.
Ions TO al c organize their counties.
10 say nothing Oh the hve hundred
electors VINO we're required to petition
inc governor Tor the appointment OF
county ofhcers, we douDtif n requisite
number OF lectors could have been
found In these two n to fill the
ofnces under the county organizations.
Inc attempt, therefore, to organize a
community by legislative enactment,
proved futile, as a more recently the
scheme Of Tho greenbackers, who wanted
to stamp a piece OF paper This Is a
dollar, ana thus make 1t a dollar. Our
legislators tried to organize counties
and a Judicial district by enacting:
"This Is Tease and Crook county and
u Third Judicial District;" but failed,
because IL required something besides
a legislative enactment to form a CON-
munity OF people Tor whose benefit these
county organizations and the judicial
district were intended.
We think we have proved to the sat
isfaction Of our readers that the coun-
ties OF Crook and Pease are still only
territorial subdivisions, which may in
the future, when inhabited by the req
uisite number of electors, be formed
into communities that require organi-
zation for governmental purposes.
Crook m Pease counties not being
in existence except on paper, that por-
ion Of the territory which comes within
the limits of the geographical lines de-
scribed by the law which provides for
the organization OF these two counties,
cannot possibly be Il judicial district.
In this assertion we are supported by
the Fact that Chief Justice Fisher, who
has charge OF the First Judicial District,
has never recognized the existence of a
Third judicial District composed Of
the counties OF Crook and Pease, which