, 1884-03-26

LrlClS, NUMBERING edcn, INC SDall, q I SQcl meeting, elect
a foreman for each of such roundup districts, and who
shall, when thus elected, be the foreman of the two general
round-ups to be had in such district, as hereinafter pro-
vided, for the ensuing work season and if, in the iudg-
ment of such meeting, it shall be deemed necessary to
elect an assistant foreman for any of said districts, then
they shall elect such assistants for such districts as may
seem meet and judicious to them and in each roundup
district thus created and formed, there shall be two gen
eral round-ups each year, the one to be known as the
general spring roundup and the other to be known as
the general fall roundup: and at such meeting it shall
decide and fix the time when and the place where each
roundup shall begin its work, and how each shall be
worked, and that each cattle range, in each roundup dis
trict, shall be worked in its order and if, for any reason
it shall not be worked by the roundup, then the owners
thereof may proceed and work the same and each of said
round-ups shall begin at the time and place thus desig-
mated, and shall work in the manner thus decided upon,
and in no other.
SEC. 3. 1t shall be the duty of said foremen to take
charge OF the round-ups for which he has been elected,
pursuant to the preceding section, and to control the
same and it is hereby made the duty of all persons
working in either of said round-ups, to obey all orders
of the foreman thereof, in so far as the same shall apper-
tain to the working thereof, and if any foreman or assist
ant foreman shall be unable to peform his duties as such,
by reason of sickness, accident or refusal to serve, then,
and in that event, the owners of neat cattle whose home
range is in said roundup district, and who shall be work
ing In such roundup mt the time, and, in the event of
their absence, then the person having charge of and rep
resentlng their interests in said roundup, shall elect
some hit and competent person, one acquainted with the
country to be worked, to fill such vacancy and to per-
form the duties of such forman until the said foreman
shall appear at his post and report for duty and at such
election the person receiving a majority of all the votes
cast shall be declared elected; and the person thus
elected shall have like authority and the same duties as
though elected by said association in the first instance.
SEC. i. 1t is hereby made the further duty of said
foreman to give especial heed to the care of all branded
neat cattle, the ownership of which is unknown, and said
foreman shall brand, or cause to be branded, the calves of
all COWS found in such roundup with the same brand
that Is upon Its mother, provided the ownership of such
COW is unknown, and to that end shall have full author
lty to instruct any person or persons working in said
roundup to thus brand such calves, and the person or
persons thus instructed to brand any of such calves shall
at once do SO. Any person violating the provisions of
this section shall be deemed and %adjudged guilty of a
m1SUpmeannr and IN OnVIptIp fharanf Gho1l M Hpnl
in a sum not less than double the value of each calf not
thus branded, or by imprisonment in the county Jail for
a term not less than ten days for each calf they fail thus
to brand, or by both fine and Imprisonment.
SEC. o. In the trial of all criminal cases concerning
neat cattle, whatsoever the crime charged may be, the
cattle thus involved in such charge, in absence of proof
to the contrary, shall be presumed, at the time of the
otfense, to have been upon the range of the owner
thereof, and if such range shall extend into more than
one county,, then the prosecutor shall elect in which of
such counties to lay venue and unless the evidence shall
show afirmatively that the otfense was not committed in
either of said counties, the act complained of shall be
presumed to have been committed in the county where
the crime is laid in the indictment presenting the crime.
Sec. 6. All mavericks as defined by this act shall be
taken up by the foreman of the roundup where found,
and shall be by him or under his direction branded with
the brand of the purchaser thereof, as hereinafter pro-
vlded for, and shall also be branded on the left side of
the neck with the brand of said association, namely: nm
Said brand, when used on the left side of the neck of
any animal, is hereby declared to be the brand of said
association, and no person or persons, company or cor
poration, other than said association, shall have the right
to use the same on the left side of the neck. and such
foreman shall keep an accurate statement, In writing, OF
each maverick, showing each one thus branded, its age,
as near as may be, sex, color and grade; which state
ment shall be made at the time of such branding, upon
blanks furnished him by said association for such pur-
pose and at the close of each of said round-ups, he
shall return such written statement to said association,
together with his verifcation thereto, duly verified before
some officer authorized to administer oaths, and which
shall be in substance as follows:
being first duly sworn, on his oath
says that the above and foregoing statement of NAV
ericks, by hin subscribed, is just, full and true; that the
same truly represents and shows the exact number
branded by him in the brand f-thus-upon
the general--round-up, and also truly shows the
ages of each thereof, as nearly as he could judge, and
the sex and color of each, and that afiant branded or
caused to be branded in the brand of said-al NAV
ericks found on said roundup; and that each thereof
was branded on the left side of the neck with the brand
of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association pursuant
to law, thereby showing such animals had been sold as
mavericks. A. B.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this--day of
---A. d. 18S-.
SEC. 7. That all mavericks that may be found in any
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