The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1881-03-12

pOOplO IL LILLE flClnltg WHO NOulu Ike 10
go to the far west, l would ask you to
inform us how to properly organize, in
order to secure all the advantages that
under the law a be obtained for such
colonies. If convenient, please answer
through the LEADER, and send me
twenty-five copies, for which l enclose
one dollar.
Yours, HENRY ROSE.
In answer to the foregoing we sug-
gest the following plan of organization
and bylaws for the colony, which may
settle on any part of the public lands of
this territory:
The title of the association shall be
the colony associa-
ton; its object is to settle colonies on
government or railroad lands, at desir-
able mineral and agricultural points in
Wyoming territory.
Bylaws.
ARTICLE /. The preliminary organ
ization shall consist of a president, two
vice presidents, treasurer, secretary and
executive committee of seven, includ-
ing these officers as ex-oficio members.
The executive committee shall examine
lands and choose locations tor colonies.
These officers shall be superseded by
others to be cdosen by the colonists,
when a majority of them, enrolled be-
fore the first day of June, 1881, shall
have settled upon the tract selected for
the colony.
Article 2. The treasurer shall re-
ceive all the funds of the colonists, and
he shall expend no money except upon
vouchers approved by two members of
the executive committee.
Article B. The officers, after the
first election by the colonists, shall be
chosen annually, but removals may be
made for cause by the executive COM
mittee, and thereupon a meeting of the
colonists shall be called to supply the
vacancy.
Areicle a. The executive committee
shall have power to make such rules
and regulations, and inaugurate such
measures as shall conduce to the pros
perity of the colony, and to use a por-
tion of the lands and land fund to con-
struct such main irrigating canals as
they may think necessary.
Article 8. Persons becoming men,
bers of a colony shall assent to this
plan of organization: Each member
shall pay an initiation fee of five dol
lars 1857, Oh enrolling his name. to be
used in ~defraying the expenses of the
preliminary organization and locating
the colony, and the further sum of one
hundred and fifty dollars (S150), on or
before the 18th day of April, 1881, and
which payment shall entitle him to all
the rights and privileges of member
| ship.
Article 6. One person shall not be
entitled to take more than n member
ship in the colony, and each member
ship shall have a single vote, But par
ents, who are bonafide colonists, may
take an additional membership, flor
which the parent shall be the trustee)
for n child, and another membership
in addition if there are two or more
children, to be represented in the same
way; the membership may also be
owned by two or three persons, to be
represented by a trustee, in whom the
powers and privileges belonging to the
membership shall be vested. The num-
Der of memberships shall be limited to
one thousand, unless extended by the
executive committee.
Article 7. When a suitable location
shall be found for a colony, a charter
shall be secured under the laws of the
territory. Such an amount of land as
the executive committee shall select
shall then be secured, to be conveyed in
trust to trustees, to be appointed by the
executive committee.
Article s. OF the lands so obtained
the executive committee shall select
four manifestations, or six hundred
and forty (640) acres, centrally located,
to be laid out into business and resi-
dence lots for a town or village. These
lots shall be sold to members of the
colony, provided that only n business
and one residence lot shall be sold to q
single person. at prices varying from
twenty-five 1920 to fifty $500 dollars
each, selections to be made in the same
manner As provided for farm lots in
article 0. The proceeds shall be devoted
to the making of streets, the laying out
of parks, the building of a school house
and a town hall, the founding of a free
library and reading room, and to such
other uses as, in the opinion of the
executive committee, will conduce to
the welfare of the colony. Lands and
lots may be set apart for public build
ings and uses, and six lots shall be
reserved to be given to such denomi-
nations of Christians as may erect
churches thereon. Lots may be held in
reserve to be sold at advanced prices to
those who may join the colony after the
subdivision of lands.
Article 0. The lands adjoining the
town plot shall be divided into lots OF
from five to forty acres, according to
\ their distance from the town center,
and all to belafd under water from the
irrigating bitches, and to be distributed
among the members by right Of selec-
ton, in the order of their application,