The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-12-31
ELECTION LAWS.

Tor Ofher Purposes
Be it enacted By the Council and House of Representatives. of
the Territory Of Wyoming:
TITLE L.
SECTION l.. That hereafter there shall be held in the
several voting precincts of this Territory, on the Tuesday
next after the first Monday in November, eighteen hun
general election, at which the following officers shall be
chosen, that is to say: Members of the Council and House
of Representatives, delegate to congress, sheriff, county
clerk, probate judge, county treasurer, county and prose
cutting attorney, county commissioners, superintendent
of schools, coroner, surveyor, assessor, justices of the
Sec. 2. That all county officers elected at any general
election, shall qualify and enter upon the discharge of
their respective duties upon the first Monday in January
Immediately following such general election.
Sec. 3. Special elections shall be held in the following
cases, and for the election of the following officers:
Frst-When there has been no choice at the general
election of a delegate to congress, members of the council
or house of representatives, or any county officers who
should properly have been chosen at such general cleo
the rights of a person elected to the
Office of member of the council, member of the house of
representatives, or either of the said county offices shall
cease, by death or otherwise, before the commencement
of the term or service for which he shall have been
elected.
IHird-When a vacancy shall occur in either of said
county offices, after the commencement of the term of
service, and more than four 4) months before the next
general election.
Fomh-Whena vacancy occurs in the office of men,
bers of the council, or members of the house of repre-
sentatives, after the general election and before the
meeting of the legislative assembly.
Sec. 4. A vacancy in either of the offices named in
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supplied by an election, before the general election next
succeeding the happening thereof, may be supplied at
such election.
SEC. 5. Special elections shall be conducted, and the
results thereof canvassed and certified, in all respects, as
near as practicable, in the manner as general elections, ex.
cept as otherwise directed; and no special election shall
be held within ninety (9) days preceding a general cleo
ton, except as hereinafter provided.
Sec. 6. All general and special elections shall be held
at the place in each precinct or district where the last
election was held, or at such other place therein as shall
have been ordered by the board of county commission
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this act shall prevent the holding of two or more polls in
one precinct or district where the same shall be ordered
by the commissioners.
SEC. Z. Whenever it shall become impossible or in
convenient to hold an election at the place designated
therefor, the judges OF election, after having assembled at
or as near as practicable to such place, and before receiv-
ing any vote, may adjourn to the nearest convenient place
for holding the election, and at such adjourned place,
forthwith proceed with the election.
SEC. 8. Upon adjourning any election, as provided in
the preceding section, the judges shall cause proclamation
thereofto be made, and shall station a constable, or some
other proper person, at the place where the adjournment
was made, to notify all electors arriving at such place, of
the adjournment and the place to which it was made.
Sec. 8. The secretary of the Territory shall, between
the first day of September and the fifteenth day of the
same month in each year, in which a delegate to congress,
or any other territorial officer is to be elected for a full
term, make out and cause to be delivered to the board
of county commissioners of each county, a notice in
writing, stating that at the next general election the
before mentioned territorial or county officers are to be-
elected, or so many of such officers as are then to be
chosen.
SEC. 10. If any vacancy shall exist in the office of
delegate to congress, or any other territorial office, proper
to be supplied at the ensuing general election, one month
before such election the secretary of the Territory shall
give notice in writing to the board of county commission
ers of each county, specifying the cause of such vacancy,
the name of the officer in whose office it occurred, and
the time when his term of office would have expired.
SEC. IL. The secretary of the Territory shall, between
the first day of September and the fifteenth day of the
same month in each year, in which the official term of
any member of the council or member of the house of
representatives shall expire, make out and cause to be
delivered to the board of county commissioners of each
county comprising such district, or to the board of county
commissioners of each county which shall form a part
thereof, a notice in writing, specifying the number OF
the district, and the name of the member or members,
whose term of office will SO expire.
SEC. IL. All special elections for county and precinct
officers, and the filling of all vacancies at a general cleo
order shall be countersigned by the clerk of the board of
county commissioners. In all other cases of special cleo
tions they shall be called by the governor.
Sec. ID. Every order or writ issued for a special
election, shall specify the county or district in which such
election is to be- held, how the vacancy occurred, the
name of the officer in whose office it occurred, the time
when his term of office would have expired, and the day
on which such election is to be held, which shall not be
less than twenty (20) nor more than forty (40) days from
the date of the order or writ, except as hereinafter pro-
vided, and the same shall be forthwith delivered to the
sheriff of the proper county, or in case of a vacancy in a
district comprised of more than one county, then to the
sheriff of each county in such district.
SEC. IA. County commissioners of the several counties
in this Territory, are hereby authorized to divide their
respective counties into as many election precincts, for all
general and special elections, as they may think e%xpedient
for the convenience of the voters of said county, and to
appoint as many sets of judges of election to receive votes
at the county seats as they may think necessary, and shall
designate the house or place In such precinct, and in the
precinct including the county seat, the house or houses,