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CHAPTER 60.

AN ACT Il prevent and punisht the circulation of obscene md immoral unnure
in the Territory Of wyoming
BE ii enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the
Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION 1. That section number one hundred and
fifteen Q15) of chapter thirty-fve (35), of the Compiled
Laws, be and the same is hereby repealed and reenacted
to read as follows, to wit:
Sec. lis. If any person shall hereafter bring or
cause to be brought or imported into the Territory of
Wyoming for sale, or. shall sell or offer to sell, any
obscene, immoral, indecent or lascivious book, pamphlet,
print, paper, drawing, Autograph, engraving, picture,
daguereotype, Hstereoscopic picture, model, cast, instrument
or article of indecent or immoral use, or book, paper or
print of immoral or pernicious tendencies, it shall be
the duty of any sheriff or deputy sheriff of any county,
constable of any precinct or marshal or policeman of any
city, town or village to at once, on any such matter COM
ing to his notice, by complaint or otherwise, to arrest any
such person as shall have the same in his possession, or
shall have imported, sold or offered the same for sale, and
to seize any and all such articles as above mentioned
found in the possession or under the control of the per-
son SO arrested, and to deliver the same to the magistrate
before whom the person so arrested is required to be
taken. The magistrate to whom any such obscene,
immoral, indecent or lascivious book, pamphlet, print,
paper, drawing, Autograph, engraving, picture, daguereo-
type, photograph, stereoscopic picture, model, cast, instru-
ment or article of indecent or immoral use, or book,
paper or print of immoral or pernicious tendencies, is
delivered as above provided, must, upon the examination
of the accused, or if the examination is delayed or pre-
vented, without awaiting such examination, determine
the character of such matter SO brought before him, and
if he finds it to be, or if in his judgment it is obscene,
immoral, indecent or lascivous, or of immoral or per-
nicious tendencies, he must deliver one copy of each of
such articles SO brought before him to the prosecuting
attorney of the county in which the person 50 arrested is
liable to complaint or trial, and must at once destroy all
other copies. Upon the conviction of the accused of a
violation of any of the provisions of this section, he shall
be punished by a fined of not more than two hundred
dollars. one half of said fine to 90 to the complainant or
to the officer making the arrest without complaint, or
Imprisonment in the countyia jail not more than six months,
or by both such fine and Imprisonment. When in his
judgment it is no longer necessary to keep the same to be
used as evidence, the prosecuting attorney shall also
destroy all copies left with him, as above provided.
SEC. 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved March Z, 1884.
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under the provisions of section one of this act, by the
person or persons violating the same, one-half thereof
plant such prosecution under said section was commene-
ed, and the residue of said fine shall be paid into the
county treasury in the same manner as now governs the
disposition of fines assessed and collected by law.
SEC. 8. 1t shall be the duty of the officer mentioned
in the first section of this act, who shall receive notice or
who shall have knowledge of any such nuisance as is
therein defined and mentioned, to cause the same to be
nbated and removed forthwith, if the owner or owners,
occupant or occupants of said premises neglect or fail so
to do, and all of the expenses of abating and removing the
same shall be chargeable to the party or parties Great
ing, causing or permitting the continuance of such nuis-
ance, aud in favor of the officer causing the same to be
abated and removed, and such expenses shall be recover
able by the person entitled thereto in a civil action in any
court of competent Jurisdiction; and for the satisfactio on
of any judgment recovered under this section, no prop
erty of the Judgment debtor shall be exempt from seizure
and sale by virtue OF an execution issued thereon.
SEC. a. That if any person or persons who may own,
run or have charge OF any saw-mlll In this Territory shall
throw or permit the saw-dust therefrom to be thrown or
placed in any manner into any river, stream, creek, bay,
Territory, such person or persons shall be liable to a like
penalty as is provided in section one of this act.
SEC. 5. Nothing in this act contained shall be SO con-
strued as to prevent any city, town or village, incor-
corporate authority thereof, from passing or enforcing
any ordinance, bylaw, regulation or rule, regulating,
restraining, or prohibiting nuisances of any kind or
character, or from enforcing any ordinance, bylaw, rule,
or regulation thereupon, already passed and in force at
the time of the passage of this act.
SEC. 6. That an act entitled 90 An Act relating to GER
tain nuisances, and providing a penalty for the commit
ting and maintaining of the same,'' approved November &c,
1879, and also an act entitled " An Act to amend an act
entitled An Act relating to certain nuisances and pro-
viding a penalty for the committing and maintaining of
the same," approved March 10, 1882, be and the same are
hereby repealed.
SEC. Z. That this act shall take effect and be in force
from and after its passage and approval.
Approved February 9th, 1884.
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CHAPTER 81.
Notaries Public. Amendment.

AN ACT to amend section of an act entitled " An Act respecting notaries pub.
lie" approved 10th December, 1900 being chapter IS of the Compiled Laws
of Wyoming and for other purposes.
BE it enacted Jy the Council and House of Representatives. of the
Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION 1. That section three of an act entitled {" An
Act respecting notaries public approved 10th Deem
Der, 1869, being chapter SO of the Compiled Laws of
Wyoming, be and the same is hereby amended and re-en-
acted so as to read as follows
Sec. ). Each person so appointed to the office of notary
public shall, within thirty days from the time he shall
receive notification that his commission has been received
by the register of deeds of the county in which the
appointee resides, file with said register of deeds in whose
office his commission is filed for record, IL bond executed
by himself and two sureties, to be approved by said reg
lister of deeds, which bond shall run to the Territory of
Wyoming, in the sum of five hundred dollars, condi-
toned for the faithful performance of the duties of his
office, and shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation
before some officer in the county in which the said
appointee resides, authorized to administer oaths or affir-
nations, that lie will support the constitution of the
United States and the organic act of this Territory, and
that he will faithfully and impartially discharge and per-
form all the duties of his Office as notary public, and
shall Immediately transmit said oath to the said register
of deeds, who shall preserve the bond in his office and
record the commission and oath in a book to be by him
kept for that purpose, and shall send to the secretary of
the Territory n written notice that the requirements of
the law are complied with, which notice shall be pre-
served by the secretary in his office.
SEC. 2. That every notary public who may have
qualified or taken his oath of Office before any officer duly
authorized by law to administer oaths, prior to the pas
sage of this act, shall be deemed to have qualified accord
ing to law, the same as if said oath had been taken before
the register of deeds of his county.
SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved March Z, 1884.
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CHAPTER 81.


NtodHSNo
AN ACT relating to certain nuisanco and providing penalty for committing and
maintaining the same,
BE it enacted by The Council and House Of Representatives Of the
Territory of WyOming
SECTION l. That if any person or persons, company
or corporation, in this Territory, shall put or place, or
cause to be put or placed, the carcass of any dead animal
or the offal or refuse matter from any slaughter house,
butchers establishment, meat market, packing house or
fish house, hog pen or stable, or any spoiled meats, spoiled
fish, or any animal or vegetable matter in a putrid state,
or liable to become decayed, or the contents of any privy
vault, or any offensive matter or substance whatever, upon
or into any river, bay, creek, pond, canal, ditch, lake,
stream, railroad, road, street, alley, lot, field, meadow,
public ground, common or market place, or if the owner
or owners, occupant or occupants thereof, shall knowingly
permit the same to remain in any of the aforesaid places
or situations to the annoyance of the citizens of this Ter
ritory, or of any of them, or shall neglect or refuse to
remov or abate the nuisance occasioned thereby within
twenty-four hours after knowledge of the existence of
such nuisance upon any of the above described premises
or places owned or occupied by him, her, it or them, or
after notice thereof in writing from the sheriff or deputy
sheriff of any county, or the constable of any precinct, or
the marshal of any city, town or village in which such
nuisance shall exist, every such person so offending, shall,
upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine of not less
than ten dollars nor more than fifty dollars; and if such
nuisance is not abated within forty-cight hours thereafter,
it shall be deemed a second ofense against the provisions
of this act, aud every like neglect of each twenty-four
hours thereafter, shall be so considered an additional
offense and subject to a like penalty.
Sec. 2. That upon the payment of any fine assessed
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AN ACT concerning the occupation of the public domain Within the limits of
Be it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives of the
Territory Of Wyoming;
SECTION L. Conceding to the United States of America
the primary and paramount right to dispose of the soil
of this Territory according to the laws existing or to be
enacted by congress, and full and complete exemption
from every form of taxation of their property, it is hereby
declared, as between all persons now residing, or who
shall hereafter come to reside, in this Territory, and as
between them, or any of them, and others, having or
claiming, or now or hereafter pretending to have or claim,
any right to occupy, possess and enjoy any portion of the
public domain situate within the boundaries of this Ter
ritory, and as between each and every of them, and all
other persons, except the government of the United States
of America, the right, TO the same extent as though the
paramount title was in them or any of them, to occupy,
possess and enjoy any tract or portion of the public
domain, not exceeding one hundred and sixty acres, shall
be respected in law and equity in all the courts and
tribunals in this Territory: Provided, That the claimant
thereof shall be the owner of improvements thereon,
occupied or possessed by him, and used in the course of
his business.
Sec. 2. The owner and possessor of every such claim,
when held by virtue of any improvements thereon and
in the course of his business, shall have a transferable
interest therein, which may be sold on execution or other
wise; and any sale of such improvements shall be held
to be a sufficient consideration on which to sustain n
promise: Provided, That hereafter all such sales shall be
in writing, and shall be signed by the vendor thereof.
SEC. 3. Any person thus settled upon any of the
lands of the United States, may maintain trespass quare
ctausua frcgd, trespass, ejectment, forcible entry and
detainer, unlawful detainer, or any proper action under
the procedure of this Territory for possession, when
wrongtully deprived thereof, or for the recovery of dam
ages when the same have been suffered to such possession,
occupation or e~Injoyment; and in any such action, no
plea or defense that the paramount title to such claim is
in the United States shall be received or considered as a
bar to the plaintiffs right of recovery.
SEC. 4. On the trial of any such cause, the possession
or the possessory right of the plaintiff shall be considered
as extending to the tract whereon his improvements have
been made and erected but no single claim shall exceed
in any case an area of one hundred and sixty acres, and
shall not be subdivided into smaller tracts than. quarter
sections.
Sec. 5. Nothing herein contained shall be construed
into denying, to any extent, the right of the United States
to dispose OF any OF the public domain IN this TERRITORY.
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CHAPTER g..
Physicians Prescribing PoIsons.

AN ACrt punish the prescribing Of poisonous and other dangerous drugs by
physicians while IN a state of ntoxlcauon.
BE it enacted by the Council and House Of Representatives of the
Territory OF Wyoming: hi
SECTION 1. That if any physician or other person while
in a state of intoxication shall prescribe any poison, drug
or other medicine to another person which shall endanger
the life of such other person, he shall, upon conviction, be
adjudged guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined not
exceeding one hundred dollars, or shall be imprisoned in
the county Jail not exceeding three months, or shall suffer
both a fine and Imprisonment, subject to the discretion
of the court.
SEC. 2. In the event of death ensuing from the effects
of any such prescriptions so prescribed while in a state of
intoxication, as is mentioned in section one of this act,
the physician or other person SO prescribing shall, upon
conviction thereof, be ~adjudged guilty of manslaughter,
and shall be punished accordingly.
SEC. 3. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved February 81, 1884.
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CHAPTER Is.
Protection of Minors and HabituaI Druukards

AN ACT to punish certain persons for selling OF otherwise dhpOdng of spthtuous.
vno1s fernented or malt Liquors to minors N habtual drunkards in this
Territory.
BE it enacted by the Council and House of Representatives Of the
Territory Of Wyoming:
SECTION 1. No tavern keeper, saloon keeper or other
dealer in spirituous liquors in the Territory, shall sell,
barter, give away or otherwise dispose Of, either in per-
son or by agent, or permit to be sold, battered, given
away or otherwise disposed of, to any person under the
age of twenty-one years, or to any well known habitual
drunkard, any spirituous, vinous, fermented or malt
violate the provisions of this act shall, on conviction, be
fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned
in the county Jail for q period not exceeding thirty days;
exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisoned in the
county jail for a period not exceeding ninety days. For
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any such offense thereafter such person shall be punished
ofense. .H0lEHtf 0f Gfi
Sec 2. This act shall take effect and be in force from
and after its passage.
Approved February 9th, 1884.
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Local Newspapers Geo p lowell & Co. 10
Spruce street, New York
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Ito take nice. light and pleasant work at
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Disruption,

IhAvo n positive remedy for tho above diseasoi BY ia
uso thousands OF cases OF tho worst kind and Of lang
standing have been cured. Indeed. 30 strong Is my fnlth
In Its ondcacy, that 1 win send TWO BOTTLES FREE,
together With n VALUABLE TREATISE on This disease,
% any Sufferer. Give Express and 4. o. address,
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New Advertisements.

81 FULL ASSORTMENT OF
Garden, Field and Flower
Seeds, carefully selected from choicest stock
grown. PRICES LOW. Write Tor what you
want. DISCOUNT TO Guns. Onion seed n
spa cialtv. Mention this paper.
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CHAPTER GO.
Public Domain-OccupatIon Of.

AN ACT concerning the occupation Of the public domain within the limit,
Wyoming. i.ttt H
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY.
STEPHEN w. DOWNEY

w afTehs NOW bIork at Cheyenne, Wyoming,
Wyoming. Business in all the District Courts
Territory carefully and promptly prosecuted;
Homestead, Pre-Emption, Desert Land and I
agement of land contests in the local land offic
at Washington. Locations of choice Mineral,
and patents secured cheaply and speedily. ]
Land, Mining and Water Companies carefully
matters and the investment of capital solicited
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AN ACT TO punish the prescribing of poisonous and other dangerous drugs by
physicians while in a state of ntoxcatOn.
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Be il enacted by The Council and House of Representatives of N,
Territory Of Wyoming:
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courtesy of Nyo. Archives
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FUTURES.

Cotton-At New York futures went OF points
from opening ti-dHy closng points under
close yesterday Tor January aud declining 4
points between close yesterday aud close io.day
on all other mouths. Liverpool shows a slight
adj vaNce Ia utures on firm market Al New
Orleans the tendency of tho future make. Is
down aud the ton0 quiet
PfOdu o Cnlcag1 February wheat BEGAN
the day with sales at % l-s aud mended 3-S ~
close. For MAY. wheat on first call sold a. %
and gained 10 at close Cora for February de.
livery opened ut 10 and mended Ia at close
May corn hogan at 81 SIS and at close improved
i-2 cent. Grain rectipm arc, wheat $685.. corn
1873 800; oats lG,53s Grain shipments IRE,
wheat 1918; cora az; Oas 3l,7OI
st. Lous-Febfulty wheat opened W III
Los IL bid and closed with o47-s, gain since
last call yesterday of 1873 cents. May
wheat on first call brought los rs
and gained % ut close which is Il
gain OF $ on close the d.y before Corn for
Februars gained 3-s from fret cal and from
close yesterday. Corn for May gained Ia from
frst call. closing to-day at % ID, gain q 3 s
On yesterdays last call. oats for February
gained is from first call, closing at 80 IL hid.
FOR May eats tegan at "a, hut lost Is At close
Today. whit Is II gain Of LIS on lat close
Provisions-Chicago February pors gained
as cents clio ing tod ut ga so May pork
opened nj S5,5 and advanced at close 10
1882 Ia n gain OF IS cents on close Yesterday.
Lard for Februarv began IA" ia Ht az IL
AID closed ut So again Of IL ms on closo
yesterday May lard opened ~ $50 and men,
cd IL cents Ut close,
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FINANCE AND COTTON
FINANCIAL.

The Chicago Inter Ocean. IN It's aSnnal review
OF the trade Of Cue go, gives = more complete
stat ment u the banking business OF that city
than Anything hCrat,iuI q published From this
statement Il IL ga hpfci that the u gtegsti
banklog capital OF Chi $50 Is S2a 5000, al.
though Is sttitld that this does not Include all
the capital Of the two Ga adam banks having
Offices In that d which arc at Liberty 10 Us,
ten times the am unt II capltt they return 10
the clearing house the later being the amount
with which the ar emerged a. d ted O. lit,l 10y
the banks th'y rcprcs 'nt' Tho depollls ~ tie
Chicago Dants nsgftgt about gIcO1 VOO, the
banks represented the clearinghouse report.
Ing on 0cio1,r 2 1853 ss1 6i2 0lD, and the de.
poslts ~ the Gus 10 btuks being eslimaloi NJ
sllO.0tO0 The Coafing'l oufe Is made up NJ
elc zen nsdonal hnnks, nVc stale banks. ono mi.
vata bsnking panY AID tgo large Canadian
banks that have olllces T. the cit. The capital
aud surplus uf hcse min teen banks Rggr gated
st he time OF tho sat m mt be ore 70 erred in,
Hs,hif 900 while six Htsiic banks report can.
ita Of a "a 600, aud II - estimated that the prl
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ploy capital OF ~ i01t0I, The olear,ngs iur
1881 aggregat q 2 52j 62i 0il an increase over
1852 OF Si69, OSj l3l.
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MEDICAL.

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has made ~ his af5nik fof fl ia, IsxAs 1,
sell his neVer-failing remedy Sstur : lsafs
blal Restorative or vitaiitsr' Al affs:ef VIII
nervous debility, loss of manno0d and hin
bred difeasra should AZ once p ocufs his ir1skhf
from which N learn the osusa OF the La A.,
shove q enuoued Thea 90 oace 10 pOonre TON
a. of through as BY your tnisxsfor Vexp ssss
the neyef'failing remedy
CROwOUS 4 BALDWIN
Wholesale Druggists, nallan, Tsgas
BY retail AZ Howell Bro's AZ -. l., wiiilas.
nlu l,raied Marriage dude, $50 pages. 60
and Kilt binding N cent?, same In paper osv~l.
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cents pamphlet, 8 cents, securely sealed. b.
mail soud money or postage stamps. On.
WHITTIER. tho Great Specialist az 81
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an the Head The yilsl nuiI psadng unlbssfb,I
ll thI ufl 10. p q many Ser diseases that lcAa
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decorative, tl.hf r. bIulr. nr four tines III
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THs Gl.EAP ENGLlS Il REMEDY

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tho E'aofrr4 ofr'# 3cglt ana 10 there
flg1n luo isiriV0f gud c0fTcriirG
On cases ofull chroH ir .ItHtadirs which
are a4aoclatcd with 90 i'lpOyEnIhlED
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n cnmpousaics foriho loss ~ riMN'Ny
induced by ConsiiHr' iOu. tdfartit or
bronchial and Ihroui affections. nc
tp;i rem dy Feminine DrbUHD and
reimburse tho Female physique for
those fJsses Of riiU'fy uccomiHny-
inc rom pidiits peculiar 10 he soI-
Mothers nursing their own children
nnd d.iirdfo rODicH who expect TO
become mothers ems. bring up riJor-
Gus children should BY all means uso
n. ~ ,rW gesi0r' sufferers Prom
IIsnfnF or NcrrO 49, I'rOsiyG ton ari1-
ing from Orer-ir0sL, Iyccsscs or
girotrdrieR Disr'fSc. 10 icW cure
Drunkenness ami tho Opium Habit
--lpr ~ tho appetite grows henllhlor
aud digestion moro vigorous through
tho use Of this Tonic, tho unnatural
craving dies Rw!y until totally OK
tlnct. MS high'g b"HfIicidi Ia Liver
Coupfdiatg, .HriO rid' Tcror, and
ALI. .NoIariGl Disr0sc; mud for tho
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