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CHAPTER FL.
Corporate Acts Confirmation or.

AN ACT to confirm the organization and proceedings Of the Napa Consolidated
quicksilver Mining Company. the Kansas Mining Company. and the Htna
Quicksilver Mining Company.
B. it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the
Territory OF Wyoming:
SECTION 1. The corporate acts and proceedings of
the Napa Consolidated Quicksilver Mining Company,
and of the Kansas Mining Company, and of the Etna
Quicksilver Mining Company, each being corporations
organized under the laws of the Territory of Wyoming,
especially so far as the same may appear defective in
consequence of failure to legally notify the stockholders
of each of the said corporations of the time and place of
holding the annual meetings of the stockholders of the
said corporations, and also in consequence of the failure
of the said corporations to hold the annual meetings of
the stockholders of said corporations within the Terri
tory of Wyoming, and all acts and doings dependent
thereon, are hereby ratified and confirmed; and the said
Napa Consolidated Quicksilver Mining Company, and
the Kansas Mining Company, and the Ktna Quicksilver
Mining Company are, and each of them is, hereby
established as an existing corporation, with all the rights
and privileges, and subject to all the duties and liabilities
and restrictions contained in any general law of this
Territory applicable to such corporations: Provided,
That nothing in this act shall be construed as a privilege
to the corporations herein mentioned, or to either of
them, or to any other corporation or corporations created
and acting under the laws of this Territory, to hold the
meeting of the stockholders of such corporation or cor
porations outside of the Territory of Wyoming, but all
such meetings shall be held within the Territory of
Wyoming.
SEC. 9. This act shall be in force from and after its
passage.
Approved February 9th, 1884.
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CHAPTER 81.
Courts Terms of.

AN ACT to amend al act entitled " An Act to reorganEze and establish te tudI-
cal districts of Wyoming Territory. to assign judges thereto, to provide
for holding terms of the supreme and district courts In said Territory, and
for other purposes approved March 9th, 1882.
TSe following act o san subject1
BE il enacted by the Council aud House of Representatives of the
Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION 1. That section four of said act shall be
stricken out and the following inserted as section four of
said act, to wit:
That from and after July 1st, 1884, the terms of the
courts in this Territory shall be as follows, to wit: The
supreme court shall meet annually, at the capital, on the
first Monday of January in each year. The terms of the
district courts in the several counties of the respective
judicial districts of this Territory, shall be held as fol-
lows, to wit: In the First Judicial District, at the county
beginning on the first Monday of March and the first
Monday of September in each year; in the Second Judi
cial District, two general terms in each year, beginning
on the third Monday of March of each year and the third
Monday of October in each year, at the county seat of
Albany county; at the county seat of johnson county,
two general terms in each year, beginning on the third
Monday in June and the second Monday in December:
county, two general terms in each year, beginning on the
first Monday of April and the first Monday of Septem-
Der IN each year; at the county seat of Sweetwater county,
two general terms i'll each year, beginning on the fourth
Monday of April and the fourth Monday of September
in each year, and at the county seat of Carbon county,
two general terms in each year, beginning on the second
Monday of May and the second Monday of October in
commenced shall be adjourned in consequence of this
act, but shall continue and transact business, and all its
acts shall be and are hereby declared valid.
SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here
with are hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect from and after July
first, 1884 eighteen hundred and eighty-four.
Approved March 9TH, 1884.
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shall file one OF the said certificates in the office of the
county clerk OF each county wherein the business of the
company is to be carried on, and one thereof in the Office
of the secretary of the Territory. The county clerk shall
record said certificate in a book kept by him in his office
for that purpose: Promded, nevertheless, that any three or
more persons who may desire to form a company, the
object of which shall be to aid the industrial or produc-
tive interests of the country, but without any purpose of
direct gain to itself, then and in such case, such company
shall not have q capital stock, and the certificate of its
incorporation shall not contain any of the statements
appertaining to capital stock as above required, or it's
division into shares; but in lieu thereof, they shall state
and show in such certificate that such company is not
organized for direct gain, and has no capital stock; and
the members and officers of such company shall be fixed
and provided for by the bylaws of such company.
SEC. 2. All companies heretofore organized in accord
ance with the preceding section of this act may execute
and file with the secretary of the Territory and the county
clerk, a supplemental certificate, in pursuance of section
one of this act, and on the filing thereof, such company
shall thereafter be a legal corporation to all intents and
purposes, and its incorporation is hereby ratified and
confirmed.
SEC. g.. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved March 8, 1884.
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CHAPTER 23.
Corporations -Kniuhts OF PythIas.

AN ACT to amend an Act entitled " An Act to Create and Regulate
Corporations" approved December 10. A. L. 1869.
Be i enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the
Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION 1. That article three () of an act entitled
can Act to create and regulate corporations, y approved
December 10, A.D. 1863, be amended by adding thereto
a section, to be known as section ten (16), to read as fol-
lows; This act shall be deemed to apply to the order of
knights of Pythias, and to. all other secret benevolent or
benevolent orders or societies, and any subordinate or
grand lodge of Knights of Pythas, or of any other secret
benevolent or benevolent order or society in this Terri
tory, may organize and become a body corporate under
the provisions of this act, in the same manner as Masonic
bodies, and may also take, hold and convey property, and
do all other acts and have all the privileges conferred by
this act on Masonic bodies"
SEC. 2. That section three of article three of said act
be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
"That any Masonic or other body incorporated under
this act may take, by purchase, grant, devise, gift
or otherwise, any town lot or tract of land, may sell and
dispose of the same, and execute deeds of CONVEYANCE,
signed by the presiding officer, secretary and treasurer,
or by such officers or persons as may be prescribed by the
bylaws or rules and regulations of such body, whenever
authorized by such body, and all such deeds of convey
ance shall have attached thereto the seal of such body.iI
SEC. 3. This act shall be in force and take effect from
and after its passage.
Approved February 9th, 1884.
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CHAPTER 81.
Courts-Terms Of.

AN ACT to provide for holding terms of the Supreme court. and of the District
courts in the First and Second Judicial Districts of the Territory Of wyom.
ing, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Council and House Of Representatives Of the
Territory of Wyoming:
SECTION l. The terms of the district courts in the
counties of Laramie, Albany and Johnson, i'll this Terri
tory, shall be held as follows, to wit: In the First Judicial
District at the county seat of Laramie county, two gen
eral terms in each year, beginning on the fourth Monday
of May and the second Monday of November, in each
year. In the Second Judicial District two general terms
in each year, beginning on the second Monday of March
of each year, and the second Monday of October in each
year, at the county seat of Albany county; at the county
seat of johnson county two general terms in each year,
beginning on the fourth Monday in June and the second
Monday in December.
SEC. 2. The supreme court shall meet annually at the
capital on the third Monday of January in each year.
SEC. 3. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent here
with are hereby repealed, and a certain act passed by the
present legislative assembly providing for holding terms
of the supreme and district courts, approved March 7th,
1884, is hereby amended and modified to conform to this
act.
SEC. 4. This act shall take effect from and after July
first, 1884, except as to said johnson county, and as to
said Johnson county it shall take efect. from and after its
passage.
Approved March It'll, 1884.
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CHAPTER &C..
Corporations. Amendment.

AN ACT to amend an vet entitled An Act to create and regulate corporations"
Be it enacted by the Council and House Of Representatives of the
Territory Of #yoHing:
SECTION /. That section 80 of chapter "a, title 1, of
the Compiled laws of Wyoming, be and the same is
hereby amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 80. Any company formed under the provis-
ions of this act for the purpose of constructing any road,
ditch, fume, bridge, ferry or telegraph line shall, within
six months from the date of their certificate, commence
work on such road, ditch, fume, bridge, ferry or tele-
graph line, as shall be named in the certificate, and shall
prosecute the work with due diligence until the same is
completed; and the time of completion of any such road,
bridge, ferry or telegraph line shall not be extended
beyond a period of two years, and of any such ditch
beyond the period of five years, and of any such fume
beyond the period of four years from the time work was
commenced as aforesaid; and any company failing to
commence work within six months from the date of GER
titicate, or failing to complete the same within the time
above stated, shall forfeit their claim to that portion of
the route upon which they have failed to do the specified
work: Prouided, That this section shall not apply to any
ditch or fume for mining purposes constructed through
any ground owned by the corporation"
SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with
the above are hereby repealed.
SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved March 7, 1884.
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CHAPTER 20.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of Stock.

AN ACT defining the interest of the pedgee in the shares of stock # ipcorpor-
aed companies. pledged as collateral security.
BE IL enacted by the Council and House of REPRESENTATIVES of the
Territory of Wyoming
SECTION 1. That in all cases where the share or shares
of the capital stock of any corporation shall have been
pledged in good faith, or hypothetical as collateral secu-
rity, to any loan or debt, and the certificate thereof shall
have been delivered upon such pledge or debt, such share
or shares shall not be liable to be taken on execution
over and above the sum for which the same NAV have
been pledged, and the certificate thereof delivered.
SEC. 2. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with
this act are hereby repealed.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force on
and after its passage.
Approved March 7, 1884.
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CHAPTER 80.
Courts -plstrlot Judges Holding Terms Of

AN ACT authorizing a judge. duly assigned by law to any judicial district, under
certain circumstances, to hold court in any other judicial district
Be it enacted by The Council and House Of Representatives of the
Territory Of Wyoming;
SECTION 1. If any judge, duly assigned by law to any
judicial district in this Territory, shall be unable from
any cause to attend any term of any court in his judicial
district, or be prevented for any reason from holding
such term, or any part thereof, or be SO situated in respect
to any cause pending in such court as in his opinion to
make it improper for him to try, or in any manner dis
pose of it, the judge of any other judicial district in this
Territory may hold such court, either for the whole term
or any part thereof
SEC. 2. This act to take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved March 3, 1884.
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Be it enacted by the Council and Houss of Representatives of the
Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION 1. That whenever the stockholders of any
corporation formed under the laws of Wyoming Terri
tory desire to dissolve the corporation, prior to the time
limited by law, or by the terms of its articles of incor-
poration, they may do so upon the vote of two-thirds of
the entire stock of the corporation lat q meeting of the
stockholders of said corporation which shall have been
called for the stated purpose of considering a proposition
to dissolve such corporation, and not until its debts shall
have been fully paid, notice of such meeting to be given
in the manner now or at the time provided by law for
calling stockholders meetings for the purpose of increas-
ing or diminishing the capital stock of corporations, and
when a dissolution has been so ordered, the president
and secretary of such corporation shall make and sign
notices OF dissolution, one copy of which shall be filed
In the office of the secretary of the Territory, and one
copy shall also be filed in the office of the county clerk
in every county in which the articles of incorporation of
such corporation were filed, and a copy of such notice
shall be published in some newspaper printed in each
OF SAID counties Tor the period Of at least six weeks, and
upon the filing and publication of such notices as afore-
said, such corporation shall be deemed to have been dis
solved forever.
SEC. 2. That whenever any corporation, formed under
the laws of Wyoming Territory, shall expire by limita-
ton of law, or by the terms of its articles of incorpora-
ton, notices of such expiration shall be made and filed
and publication made in the same manner as is provided
in section one of this act.
SEC. 3. That whenever any foreign corporation, which
is doing business according to law in this Territory, shall
expire by Limitation, or otherwise, it shaR be the duty of
the agent or representative of such corporation to file
ner as is provided in section one of this act.
SEC. 4. That this act shall in no wise be construed as
limiting, or impairing, or repeating any of the provisions
contained IN sections one ~, two ~, three (3), four az,
"a of the Compiled laws of Wyoming.
SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved March 7, 1884.
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CHAPTER 20.
Civil Procedure.

AN ACT to provide special plea of set-on and equitable defense.
RI il enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of n,
Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION 1. In any action on a contract, the defend
ant may file a plea, alleging any such failure in the con-
sideration of the contract, or fraud in its procurement,
or any such breach of any warranty to him of the title
or the soundness of personal property, for the price
or value whereof he entered into the contract. or any
other matter as would entitle him either to recover dam
ages at law from the plaintiff, or the person under whom
the plaintiff claims, or to relief in equity, in whole or in
mart, against the obligation of the contract; or if the
contract be by deed, alleging any such matter arising
under the contract existing before its execution, or any
such mistake therein, or in the execution thereof, or any
such other matter as would entitle him to such relief in
equity and in either case alleging the amount to which
he is entitled, by reason of the matters contained in the
plea.
SEC. 2. If a defendant entitled to such plea as is men
toned in the preceding section, shall not tender it, or
though he tender it, if it be rejected for not being offered
in due time, he shall not be precluded from such relief
in equity as he would have been entitled to if the pre-
ceding section had not been enacted. IF any such plea
be rejected by the court as bad, or adjudged insufficient
on demurrer, or if when issue in fact is Joined thereon,
such issue be found against the defendant, he shall be
barred of relief in equity upon the matters alleged in the
plea, unless upon such ground as would entitle a party
to relief against a judgment in other cases. Every such
issue in fact shall be upon a general replication that the
plea is not true; and the plaintiff may give in evidence
dence under a special replication, if such replication were
allowed.
SIC. 3. Nothing in this act shall impair or affect the
obligation of any bond or other deed deemed voluntary
in law, upon any party thereto, or his representatives.
SIC. 4. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after it's passage.
Approved March Sd, 1884.
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cation and the proceedings hereunder from the time the
same is received by the secretary or other person, as
aforesaid, for filing, without other notice than the notice
by publication as aforesaid.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage and approval: Provided, That no
proceedings now or heretofore taken under said section
twenty (20) shall be in any manner affected by this act,
but shall be carried to a conclusion the same as though
this act had not been passed.
Approved January 25, 1884.
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CHAPTER 20.
Court Commissions.

AN ACT o alow an court commissioner appointed by or under the authority II
the laws of the United States, to take Acknowledgements and % administer
oaths, by amending section OF chapter one, and section o chapter
seventy-four, Of the session laws of 1889.
Be It enacted by the Council and House of Representatives. of the
Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION 1. Section eight of an act entitled can Act
concerning alienation by deed, of the proof and recording
of conveyances, the cancelling of mortgages, and for other
purposes" approved March 10, 1882, being chapter one
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CHAPTER Fl.
OF.

AN ACT to provide for the manner II dhsoying corporations.
BE it enacted by the Council and HOUSE of Representatives of the
Territory Of Wyoming:
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& historical Dept; Cheyenne, Wyo.
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AN ACT to amend al Act entitled An Act to Create and Rerlate
Corporations" approved December io. A. L. 1869.
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CHAPTER "a.
Corporations

AN ACT to amend m Act entitled " An Act to Create and Regulate
Corporations :" Compiled Laws. pages 2s4, 2a5.
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AN ACT to provide special plea of seton and equitable defense.
Be il enacted by the Council and House Of Representatives of u
Territory Of Wyoming:
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16
South and West.

VIOLENT storms have DESTROYED much prop
elty in portions of Iowa, Illinois and Arkan.
sas. At Lit le Rock, Ark, shed fell on
number of Convicts employed in brick max
ing, killing one and S ,rious injuring an
other.
JOSEPH f. MURRELL, Jr., died ut Mobile,
Ala, the other day, of n strange malady.
He was sub EFT to terrible ConvuIsions when
asleep only. His father or some Other at
tendant was, tn ,refore, always present at
night to prevent his falling asleep, and the
on y rest obtained for a dozen years was
state of doing.
NJ. V. WAGNER, a prominent business man
of Marshall, Mich. has just been reelected
mayor of that lively city by largely in.
creased majority.
STRONG feeling against the British govern
ment exists among the people of England N
account of the Abandonment of General Cor
don to his fate.
CHARLIE FORD, one of the brothers who
killed Jesse James, the notorious Missouri
bandit, committed sui ,ide at Richmond, No,
with pistol shot
n PASSENGER car and two sleepers belong
ing to a train were thrown into ditch by
broken rail near Decatur, Ill. Tire persons
were fatally and twenty seriously injured.
THE twenty ninth annual reunion OF the
Southern Bapi-t convention was held in
Ba tmore, Rev. Patrick Ii. Nell, of Georgia
being e.e ted president.
AT the General Conference of the colored
Methodists. in Baltimore the Quadrennial
address was delivered by Bishop Dickerson,
of North Carolina.
JUDAH J. RENJAMIN, the noted lawyer and
advo ate, and eX official OF the Southern
Conft deracy, died in arts few days o
lie was III on the island of st Crox, o.
Jewish parents in 1871, WI S admitted TO ths
bar at New Orleans, be, ame Unit, ID tatas
Sena er In 80, and was returned in 1858: lie
came at orne general in Jefferson Davis
cabi ret in l'6l, and was appoin ed Confede9-
at secretary of war 1>6., and aferward
secretary of stat went to Enylanl at the
close of he war, where h Tracts3d law until
his he irem mt last year. He was hen con
sidered one o the foremost awyes in Eng
land, and had amassed larg fortune.
DURING the p 'ogress of a game of ba;eblll
in an en- losed pai k at Chillicothe, Ohil the
grand stand sldd My fell with a terri C
cia'h, burying many people in the ruins.
Al out forty lie sons we've injured, i5ht Of
them with serious if not fatil eject.
ABE RUSSELL was hangel at Jonesville
Va, for the murder of his br lther-in-law, al y
on the same day James 5. Coleman (cllorcd,
was hanged a Columbia, 5. c., for the muir
der of his 5 ster in-law.
LIGHTNING destroyed a mill at Keysar, N
C., kille1 the engine er ana injured two othC-
persons.
The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1884-05-16
LATER NEWS.

BUTLER i. STRANG, prominent Pennsyl
Vania politician, ex-sp ,aker of the house and
ex president of tie Stlte senate in which
position he acted as lieut. nant-governor.
committed suic d. hy shooting himself at his
home in West1 Id. He had long been in
poor health.
JOHN BoULTREE, prominent barrister Of
Portage La Prairir, Manitoba. now in Port
land, Oregon, has absconded with $4,000 of
other peoples money.
THE Northwestern Car company, of Still.
Sab.n is pre- ,ident, has failed and receiver
be n appoint d The liabilities are cstima cd
at 81 10000, and the asses largely in excess
ct that sum. Mis- management is said t. lie
the cause of the company's downfall.
LAWRENCE SPGLLEg. n farmer living near
Petersburg, w. Va, vowed vengeance against
his stepdaughter and hire man named
Taylor, who had eloped and got married.
Sp:ler followed the pair, found tn m to-
gether, kil,e Taylor with a revolver shot,
and then beat the newly made bride, in
fiicting fatal injuries After his ret lrn home
Spiller was arrC stel.
REPRESENTATIVE COLLINS was directed
10y the COMMITTEE to favorably re port a icin
resolution proposing an amendment to Ar l.
cle IL of the Constitution. The amendm mt
consists Of the insertion o. the word "nativ-
ity and makes the first ction read as fol-
lows: The right of citizens of the United
States to vote shall not be denied or abridged
by tie United States, CT 10y any State on &C
count of nativity, race or color, or previous
con1ition of servitule."
3HE British government has decided upoL
sending an eXpedit on for IN, relief of Gen
eral Gordon 10 khartour IN July.
MIDHAT PAsHA, tb' great Turkish states
man who deposed he Sultan Abdul Aiz
and was afterward convicted of his murder
and sentences 20 imprisonment for life, is
dead in his sixty third year.
The Norwe gian bark Theresa, having on
board the remainder of the survivors of the
collision between the ste m hip State Of
Florida and the bark Ponema, arrived at
Que